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Pavilion effort aided by U.P. grant
Bluffs Arts Council officials unveiled this color drawing Tuesday of the proposed performing arts pavilion members hope to build on the north side of Bayliss Park in downtown Council Bluffs. The three=phase building project would cost an estimated…
Paving Next For Underpass
Workmen for Dugdale Construction Co. lay steel in preparation for paving of the half-mile link that will complete the Interstate Highway necklace around Council Bluffs. Paving at the Union Pacific Railroad underpass will probably start Thursday.…
Paving On Ramp
Jim Presnell, resident construction engineer for the Iowa Highway Commission, said Friday work on paving Interstate Highways 29 and 80 between Highway 192 and the Missouri River is "progressing very satisfactorily". Paving on the ramp at Highway 192…
PAWS gets hand and a kick, too
Presenting new gloves . . . to Pottawattamie Animal Welfare Society Director Nancy Burton and Fritz Flammang, president of the PAWS board of directors, is Virgil Eades, general manager of Great Plains Beef Co. The gloves made of steel mesh, will…
Pay Green Fees?
A sign on the first tee at the Dodge Park Golf Course offers a reminder Thursday that spring is only 21 days away, but a fresh blanket of snow turns the greens of the course white.
Payday, Of Sorts, Comes To Beefland Plant Workers
Examining His Check . . . from Beefland International is Kenny Rostermundt of Manilla. Other workers crowd the gate at the closed plant to get the remainder of their pay.. There were a lot of disappointed faces.
Peace Church Dedication Sunday
This Modernistically...designed edifice is the house of worship for the Church of the Brethren congregation and is located at 2605 Avenue E.
Peace Church Dedication Sunday; Morning Worship Hour
The Rev. Charles Lunkley...looks over spacious sanctuary of new edifice. It will comfortably seat 250 plus overflow accommodations.
Peace Is Top Issue, Says Nixon - 8,000 Hear Vice President
(top) Crowd At Bayliss Park . . . is estimated at 8,000 by security officers. Part of the huge turnout is shown in this picture, taken from the roof of a building across from the park.
(bottom) Approaching The Speaker's Platform . . . Mrs. Nixon…
(bottom) Approaching The Speaker's Platform . . . Mrs. Nixon…
Peaceful Scene At Botna Bend
Few travelers stop to see them during the winter so the buffalo, elk and deer get to eat their meals in peace these days at Botna Bend Park at Hancock. In this scene, the animals crowd around a pile or [sic] loose hay at the north end of the park. …
Pencils help ex-trucker create American flag
Bob Bensley admires his flag creation. "It took 10 years to find just the right shade of colors," he said. Bensley used 901 pencils to make his creation.
Permit Granted For Interstate 80 Span; $5.5 Million Project
This Is A Drawing...of the Interstate 80 bridge which will carry traffic between the southwest part of Council Bluffs and Spring Street in Omaha. The Omaha side is in the foreground.
Pet Chicken Learns To Walk On Wooden Leg; The Whiligig
Wooden Leg...is worn by hen, pet of John Ege.
Peterson School Has 'California' Motif
Light and Airy: Abandoning the customary monumental design of earlier school construction, the new 13-room Peterson grade school was given a "California" motif. The structure at Twenty-sixth Ave. and Ninth St., photographed from the northeast, is…
Petitions Ask Immediate City Action To Halt Odor
Youngsters On Avenue B . . . were stopping motorists Wednesday and asking them to sign a petition which calls for immediate action on odors in the city's west side.
Phone System At Hancock May Go Dial
This Is It . . . all the wires and gadgets needed to run a telephone company, a small one like the one at Hancock. But soon this tiny, independently-owned operation may be part of the past, if its stockholders vote to put in a direct dial system.
Phone System At Hancock May Go Dial
This House In Downtown Hancock . . . includes a small telephone office at the left and an apartment on the right occupied by the night operator. When the night operator goes to bed, she connects a bell that rings in her apartment when someone wants…
Physics Students Learnin [sic] By Doing
St. Albert Physics Students...construct a geodesic dome which will be used like a dome in a planetarium. Their first attempt, to which they used only metal fasteners, collapsed half-way through construction. The second time around hope string will…
Picket IC Railroad
Henry Watkins, 3437 Eighth Ave., a switchman, and K.J. Buhman, 310 Park Ave., engineer, Friday stand picket duty at Thirteenth Street and Avenue G. About 26 members of United Transportation Union Local 520 have joined some 4,000 workers in 14 states…
Pierce Scool [sic]
Pierce Scool [sic]...long a Council Bluffs landmark, is schedule for demolition sometime in the near future. The 70-year old structure may make way for a modern steel cottage-type school building.