The Rev. Charles Proud...looks over his spacious sanctuary which seats comfortably 300 worshippers. Its hanging lights, long windows an light paneling gives it a soft, well lighted effect of richness. The red carpeting in the aisles continues to cover the pulpit area.
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exterior of new Prospect Park Baptist Church
interior of Prospect Park Baptist Church, with Rev. Robert Fry
exterior of Prospect Park Baptist Church
Exterior work of the Educational addition to Prospect Park Baptist Church is now completed, all but hanging one door, its pastor, the Rev. Robert Fry said Saturday. The vertical wood siding matches the church proper. With the new addition, Prospect Church will have doubled its space to 3,200 square feet. It will house 12 classrooms with one large area to serve as four classrooms. The Educational Unit is the second phase of a three-phase building program for the five-year-old congregation. Third phase will be building a new sanctuary area over all the present building. Wall partitions are now in place in the interior of the educational unit and plumbing and heating work is expected to get under way there by the middle of February.
The Rev. Michael Scott...looks over spacious area of the new educational unit's fellowship hall. All of the new area features parchment beige decorations.
Admiring Mountain Scene...behind the baptistry in the pulpit area of his new sanctuary is the Rev. Michael Scott
Arranging pews...in the auditorium of their new South View Baptist Chapel are Mr. and Mrs. Bill Waters. They are one of three couples from Valley View Baptist Church who have been given the outreach responsibility for another gospel preaching church in Council Bluffs.
Trinity Baptist To Dedicate New Education Unit
The Rev. Francis Hitch...places book on altar in Fellowship Hall. Junior workshop services will be conducted in this area each Sunday.
The Second Baptist Church, Avenue B and Twenty-second street, began as a mission in 1889... [Photo retouched]
Trinity has Parsonage For First Time in 67 Years; Hitch Family Will Occupy
Recently-purchased Parsonage...of Trinity Baptist Church is located at 2623 Avenue A. This is the first time since the church was started here in the late 1880s that it has had a parsonage.
Trinity Baptist Hopes To Begin 1959 In New Unit
Education Unit...at Trinity Baptist Church, facing Twenty-second St. and Avenue B, is now half completed.
New Education Unit...at Trinity Baptist Church has been completed and will be dedicated at special services Sunday. The addition will house classrooms and a pastor's study.
Trinity Baptist Church...which was moved to this corner of 22nd Street and Avenue B a few years after 1890, is to be torn down and replaced as off-street parking for its worshippers.
Miss Lola Thompson, 2419 Avenue E. talks about new construction on Trinity Baptist Church with worker Larry Wooley, 912 Cathy Lane. Miss Thompson, a long-time church member, is the former organist for the church. The construction of the new front for the educational wing of the church should be completed by mid-September, Pastor MaynardDe Golier said. The work is being done by Wooley Construction.
This Brick Structure...will always be known by a number of families as Trinity Baptist Church's educational Unit. However, the church's senior members have disbanded, and the denomination has sold the facility to a Council Bluffs couple who plan to convert it into a day care center for children.
The 79-year-old remains of the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge, blasted into the water last Saturday, were being cut up for scrap Wednesday by workmen for Allied Structured Steel of Hammond, Ind. The 100,000 tons of steel will be sliced into smaller sections for barge transportation downstream. The new Interstate-480 span which replaced the iron span, frames the remains. -- Nonpareil photo by Jack Kennedy.
Mark Loizeau with his father, John, set and detonated dynamite charges that dropped the last span of the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge Saturday. He was pleased with the demolition which went off with a loud boom and few hitches. -- Nonpareil photos
Some trusses of the old Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha on the Missouri Rive were cut loose Friday and lowered to barges moored below. On the other side of the bridge a truss was lowered by the crane mounted on one of the barges. The bridge iron work will be floated downstream and cut up later. Demolition of the bridge is expected to be completed in about two and one-half months. -- Nonpareil Photo.
About 8,500 of sand was packed around the six dynamite charges on the bridge as a precaution against destructive concussion. Workmen were hoisted to the top of the west end of the span to complete the packing shortly before the detonation.