Dead elm trees have been vanishing from city parking in Council Bluffs as the rate of 1,435 in less than a year. The city contracted last fall with Havelone Construction Company for removal of the diseased or dead trees and a new contract for removal…
Emanuel Church . . . of the Nazarene and its three-bedroom parsonage visible to the right of the church structure, make a spacious and beautiful landmark at 2309 S. 13th St.
Before The Hearing...Ronald Wayne Brewer talks with his mother, Mrs. Darlene Brewer, and Sheriff Roy Wichael. Behind the sheriff is Brewer's win bror, Donald.
Suspects [sic] Car: Sgt. C.E. Moore examines car Ronald Wayne Brewer used to get away from police after the fatal shooting of Lawrence Ray in Council Bluffs Tuesday night. The entire rear window was shattered by officers' bullets. Two of the slugs…
Delta piers for Spring Street Bridge are taking shape as the reinforcing steel fans out on the number 11 pier on the Iowa side of the river. Grading for the Nebraska approach can be seen in upper background. The substructure is scheduled for…
For pier number 9 a cell 90 feet in diameter is being formed with sheet piling. It will be filled with sand before construction of a coffer dam. Thirteen caissons, six feet in diameter, will be augured 99 feet to bed rock, and continue 11 feet into…
With five of the 11 piers for the new Interstate 80 Highway completed, and work on the other six piers well along in varying stages, crews for the Jensen Construction Co. of Des Moines have lost no time from weather this past year. Looking toward…
Work on the Interstate 80 bridge at Spring Street is now centered near the Nebraska end, with less than 400 feet of deck to be paved. This picture shows the section of the bridge between a paving machine and the Nebraska abutment, which is partially…
Symbolic Linking...of the two states is performed by Nebraska Gov. J.J. Exon, William Gray, chairman of the Iowa Highway Commission, and Council Bluffs Mayor Joseph B. Katelman.