Council Bluffs Jaycee members promoting the National Women's AAU Basketball Tournament at Abraham Lincoln field house march 30 to April 3 wanted everyone to know about it, and recruited the aid of the Council Bluffs Fire Department and police to hang…
Honoring The War Dead . . . is the World War II Memorial west of Underwood and Happy Hollow Blvd. The names of Omaha war dead are inscribed in plaques set in the pillars. Erected on what was an unkempt empty tract, the Memorial is now in the center…
The fountain in Bayliss park gets a new coat of paint from city park employee Robert Hemmingsen. Plans to replace the landmark with a modern centerpiece have been set aside for this season. [accessed from NewsBank search of Council Bluffs Daily…
Mayor Carl VanFossen...stands along Highway 71, where a tornado spent most of its destructive force in the town in Braddyville last March. Few buildings have been rebuilt along main street.
School Superintendent Raj Chopra and his wife Sue show off a plaque and painting presented to Chopra at Iowa Western Community College Friday. Chopra was named Educator of the Year earlier by the Chamber of Commerce. He was presented the award at a…
Checking Arthroscope . . . readying it for diagnostic purposes are Mrs. Minnie Thornton, operating room supervisor, and Mrs. Linda Bryson, operating room technician at Jennie Edmundson Hospital.
Too much love...from his brother sent Eugene Adkins of Little Sioux, front, to Mercy Hospital with a fractured leg. He joined Brian Jacobsen of 39 Happy Happy Hollow Blvd., who slipped on a rug and fractured his leg.
Today...at the Bryant-Main-Washington intersection is the fire department's Central Station. The old bell has been transplanted to the roof of the new building. The old sign lies in the attic. Indian Creek is underground. The Post Office has…