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City Council candidates answer questions; Focusing on Council Bluffs issues
Keeping An Eye On Election Day...are the four candidates for two open seats on the Council Bluffs City Council. From left are David Christiansen, Nancy Anderson, Dorothy Strohbehn and Selma W. Adams. The polls will open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Council Is Active
Members Of The Council Bluffs City Council...are Mayor Ben Hoden, seated, John Pogge, Joseph Katelman, Donald Franksen and Kenneth Jensen. The councilmen are elected for overlapping terms and each year select one of the members to serve as mayor,…
New Council Chambers
Councilman Joseph Katelman, right, summarizes the council's accomplishments for 1970 during the final meeting of the year Saturday. The new council chambers included a raised, one-piece desk for the councilmen, and carpeting. Drapes are still to…
Council Bluffs, Ia 1957 Annual Report
1958 City Council...assembles around Mayor Paul Gronstal. They are Noran Davis, Joseph Katelman, Dr. Donald Lash and Gordon Brown.
Hwy. 375 Gap Closed
The concrete deck for the Interstate 80 bridge over Highway 375 near South Avenue will be ready to pour in about two weeks, a spokesman for Cramer Brothers Construction of Des Moines said Friday. Crews are now pouring spacer joints between the…
Neola To Bluffs Route Is Opened
Interstate Highway 80 Is Open . . . from Neola south to Highway 375 in Council Bluffs. Iowa Highway Commission crews remove barricades at the Interstate highway's intersection with Highway 6, northeast of Council Bluffs.
2 Interstate Stretches To Open Soon
The Neola Turnoff Sign . . . marks point near the end of the new I-80, to be completed soon. Neola is at left of highway.
Interstate Diagonal Nears Completion
Paving machinery dots the panorama of the Interstate 80 diagonal intersection with the east-west I-80 route north of Neola as workmen complete the project. Paving between the intersection and Council Bluffs is now complete according to…
Shucks! You Just Can't Find Council Bluffs In Huskerland
Private Enterprise . . . provides the only marking on Nebraska's Interstate, between Lincoln and the Missouri River bridge, that Council Bluffs lies on the western edge of Iowa.
Interstate 80 Progress
Three Levels Of Traffic . . . will use these two bridges and the east-west Interstate 80 route east of the intersection of the Interstate and Highway 64 north of Neola. Top bridge will channel traffic from the westbound Interstate 80 route south over…
Interstate 80 Progress
Three Million Cubic Yards . . . of dirt will be moved in the 20-odd mile diagonal. Cuts through hills, such as this about 1.5 miles south of Weston, will provide fairly level driving. This bridge will carry county road traffic over the four-lane…
Interstate 80 Progress
Construction on Interstate 80 diagonal from northwest of Neola to the proposed intersection with I-29 at the old Council Bluffs airport is on schedule. Two-thirds of the grading work was completed before winter weather halted that phase. Work on the…
I-80 Another Step Forward For State - Twin Dedication Tuesday
Barricade . . . is shoved aside to open Interstate 80 by Robert Walton, Pottawattamie County supervisor, State Treasurer Paul Franzeznburg, Council Bluffs Mayor Joe Katelman, Mayor H.R. (Cy) Watson of Missouri Valley, Highway Commissioner Everett…
Work On I-80 Diagonal Near Neola Beginning
Grading On I-80 . . . has started near Yellow Pole Road. The Mott Construction Company of Centerville is doing the grading work on the section of the interstate diagonal from Highway 6 to near Weston.
Ceremony Marks Openings Of Major SWI Highways - State Officials Present
Cutting Ribbon . . . to officially open Interstate 80 at Avoca is Secretary of State Gary Cameron, assisted by State Representative Burl Scott, Highway Commission Chairman Harry J. Bradley Jr., and Congressman John R. Hansen.
Moving West:
Interstate 80N continues to be pushed west across Pottawattamie County with work on the super-road now under way at Loveland. Thousands of cubic yards of dirt are being moved by Treiber Construction Co. of Danbury from bluffs to the bottomland to…
Grading Begins On Interstate 80; Construction Resumes After 5 Years - 'It's A Barrier' to Farmer . . .
Grading Began . . . last week south of Elk Horn to finally start westward extension of Interstate 80 toward the Missouri River.
Grading Begins On Interstate 80; Construction Resumes After 5 Years - 'It's A Barrier' to Farmer . . .
End Of Line . . . for the moment on westbound Interstate 80 is a quarter mile west of Highway 71, north of Atlantic. Paving reached this point in 1959.
A 'Lift' For SW Iowa Drivers - 40 More Miles Of Interstate To Open Labor Day
Heavy Black Line . . . across center of map indicates segment of Interstate 80 that will be opened to traffic Labor Day from a point east of Dexter to an interchange on Highway 71 northeast of Atlantic.