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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Assistant Purchasing Agents Leonard Brugenhemke tries new Civil Patrol helmet on Police Chief Earl Miller. Helmets were purchased at cost of 70¢

U.S. Rep. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa was hard at work Friday at Iowa Nebraska Xpress truck terminal. He took the job moving freight to learn more about the transportation needs of the Council Bluffs-Omaha area, he said. Harkin gets direction from Terminal…

Adele Berry (center), senior from Fort Dodge, was crowned Iowa State University's 1966 "Queen of Queens" Thursday at Ames in ceremonies opening the annual ISU Veishea festival. Miss Berry's attendants are Janet Longston (left), junior from Memphis,…

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A campus stroll . . . is enjoyed by Queen Margrethe II and Dana College President Earl R. Mezoff. The queen had just received an honorary doctor of letters degree after delivering the college commencement address before 4,000 people in…

Getting ready . . . Queen Karen's going somewhere at last. -Nonpareil Photo.

The old army game had already started at the Armory Saturday morning as three men from the Fairfield detachment, Jack Zierlien, John Hay, and Frank R. Danielson, settle down in a corner to guard some of the medical division's equipment.

Federal Judge William Riley brought a $78,000 damage case to a sudden close when he ordered the jury to bring in a decision favoring Wayne Rhode of Tabor. Rhode's nephew, Lyman H. Elefson, had charged his uncle with maliciously causing his arrest in…

Richard D. Hogan, minister of First Christian Church and president of the Council Bluffs Ministerial Association relaxes in the Quiet Room at Jennie Edmundson Hospital. The Quiet Room is a special parlor sponsored by the Ministerial Association to…

This Sedate . . . little country bank was once the scene of a wild shooting holdup. Principal interest in the bank has now been so9ld by its long-time cashier, R.S. Sassaman.

Looking south on Main Street. In the background is the Town Clock, the unofficial symbol of Dubuque. Relocated in a plaza in 1971, the clock is the hub of a downtown area undergoing redevelopment partially spurred by the track.

Checking Their Cars...prior to a race at Edison School are Dallas Lidgett, Jackie Duncan and Mack Kinnaman. Their activities were part of a World Of Manufacturing program.

Cars Tied Up...by strike at the Council Bluffs yards of Union Pacific total about 1,200. Some are shown here, looking west from the U.P. yard tower. -Nonpareil Photo.

The Ticket Window . . . is no longer a busy spot in many railroad stations. Don Gleason, agent for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, hands a Burlington folder through the window in the station at Malvern to portray a scene once familiar in the days…

Railroad tracks belonging to the Chicago Great Western Railroad Co., are disappearing from the scene in the southeast part of Council Bluffs. Five sets of tracks have already been torn up and trackage pictured in foreground is slated for removal in…

Engine Number 814...gets an admiring glance from Union Pacific roundhouse foreman Earl J. Webb, 3610 Fifth Ave. Webb is in charge of the restoration project on the huge locomotive.

Council Bluffs, Iowa--Railroads and the Union Pacific roundhouse stabilize the economy of the city.

At Flood Victory Dedication . . . are Mrs. Margaret Garrett, Mrs. Martha Dent, Mayor James Mulqueen, Emmet Tinley and Carl Wegner.

By 8:30 Wednesday morning a long line of people, many carrying protest signs, had formed in front of Hilton Coliseum. Many people, who came from long distances, arrived on chartered or school buses.

Photograph of Ralph Frazier
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