A snow-covered Dubuque Greyhound Park, which cost $11 million to construct. Conceived by Durrant Group of Dubuque, the facility was featured in a trade magazine for its design. Capacity is about 6,000, while the Council Bluffs facility will have…
Taking aim at a duck over Lake Manawa Saturday--opening day of the 1957 season--is Tom Hoden of 2630 S. 15th St. He found shooting from shore rather slow, but comfortable. It was shirt-sleeve weather and slightly overcast for the first time in more…
First In Fifty: Tuesday was moving day and Thursday will mark the opening of Dunlap's first new post office site in 50 years. The brick, aluminum and stone building, decorated by a planter running most of the front width, is being leased to the…
Tim Dunlap, President, Local 2991, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Glenwood State Hospital, school resource treatment worker (with son Steve).
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…
Joe Feeney, with Sr. M. Petrine O.S.J. as accompanist, sings at the dedication ceremonies at Little Flower Haven Nursing Home in Earling, Iowa. John Wageman is in the background.
This Illinois Central Coal chute may well have been one of the first high-rise structures in Council Bluffs. Its use discontinued about 1954, a railroad employe[sic] said. The tall building was used to feed coal to hungry steam engines, and a few…