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Build Pile Dike To Bolster Levee - Open Bids This Week On New Pump Houses
Top - Clearing Excess Rock . . . from a Missouri River levee near the Water Works intake station is this barge-based Army Engineers drag line. Rock was dumped on foot of levee during last year's flood fight.
Bottom - New Dike Piling . . . being…
Bottom - New Dike Piling . . . being…
Building And Home
"The Dog"...is the most popular dance in the lounge and dance floor on the main level of the building. Tables are formica-topped, chairs are durable plastic in multi-colors. The stone around portions of the exterior and interior is California…
Building At ISD Dedicated To Long
Thompson Rogers (center), great-grandson of J. Schuyler Long, was one of many family members who attended ceremonies Saturday to dedicate ISD's high school building in Long's memory. Long was a pioneer in deaf education and was a member of the…
Building Boom Sets All-time City Record; New construction Value at $5,355,271
Christian Home Chapel...on Avenue E between Seventh and Eighth streets is example of non-residential construction that helped make 1951 a record year.
Building Design Unveiled; Wins Approval From Panel
The proposed Knudson-Morgan downtown office building (center) is triangular and features a plaza area (left) and parking lot (far left). The dark area to the right is the shadow of the building. Cars would exit from the parking lot to the alley…
Building Saved, But Trophies Lost
Firefighters battle a blaze that destroyed the Hong Kong Restaurant east of Council Bluffs Monday.
Building Upturn Helps Griffin Pipe
Still Hot . . . out of the casting machine, this pipe is being marked by a Griffin Pipe employee. The Griffin plant manufactures ductile iron pipe used primarily in the housing industry.
Bumping Up The Wrong Tree
A runaway truck got its "horns" bent Tuesday afternoon as it slammed into a tree in front of 33 Frank St. The vehicle, owned by William Young of Peerless Products Col, of Omaha, jumped the curb before coming to its sudden stop. Young was ticketed…
Bus ministry a booming program
Boarding the Bus...to return home after services at the Church of Christ are Tammy Neff, a teen helper on Bus 1; Tina Swift, partially hidden, Stephanie Schaffner, Jim Seymour, Harold Swift, Randy James, Renae Seymour, Billy Parks on the step, Lori…
Bush, George and Barbara
head-shot of George Bush as he is speaking
Bush, George and Barbara
President Bush standing, smiling, pointing finger off-camera; seated audience at the back of the photo..
Bush: Market expansion will end farm woes
Vice President George Bush gestures while reading from a report during a by-invitation-only session with area Republicans Friday. Nonpareil photo by Steve Glowacki.
Busiest Road Job In Area
Biggest Single Job . . . on the Highway 2-275 construction project is the building of a box culvert to replace a bridge across a ravine south of Sidney.
Busiest Road Job In Area
Among A Dozen . . . small jobs that make the 3.2 mile project a bustling scene is this concrete culvert near the junction with Highway 42.
Business Block Burns; Damage At $200,000 - Early Morning Blaze Destroys Four Places; One Fireman Is Dead
Shortly After Start . . . of early-morning blaze, firemen battle flames from entrance to Nonpareil Court. Fire and smoke billow from the Katelman hardware store (tallest building at right center) while the fire ladder is run to the Morphy Drug…
Business Block Burns; Damage At $200,000 - Early Morning Blaze Destroys Four Places; One Fireman Is Dead
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Top Floor Falls - Here the fourth floor of the L.H. Katelman company building buckles and starts its fall to South Main Street. The third-floor front of the building, for the most part, fell inward. A fireman can barely be seen atop the…
Top Floor Falls - Here the fourth floor of the L.H. Katelman company building buckles and starts its fall to South Main Street. The third-floor front of the building, for the most part, fell inward. A fireman can barely be seen atop the…