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Plugging Bicentennial
One of the fun things Council Bluffs might be doing for the Nation's Bicentennial is painting fire hydrants in the form of cute, Revolutionary-era figures. Story and photo on page 3.
Plugging Bicentennial
One of the fun things Council Bluffs might be doing for the Nation's Bicentennial is painting fire hydrants in the form of cute, Revolutionary-era figures. Story and photo on page 3
Pointing The Way
Like so many topless, giant redwood trees, tall steel piles reach skyward at the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. switching center site at Washington and Oakland avenues, pointing the way to a mid-1971 completion date. The view from between the…
Police Department Make 9,731 Arrests; Revenue in Fines Is More Than $28,000!
Crime doesn't pay in Council Bluffs. Breaking and entering dropped of 27% in the last fiscal year.
Police Department Make 9.731 Arrests; Revenue in Fines Is More Than $28,000!
Nerve Center of police system is this switchboard, through which complaints are received and dispatched to cruiser cars.
Police Department Makes 9,731 Arrests; Revenue In Fines Is More Than $28,000!
Identification File contains complete information on 25,000 criminals.
Police Department promotes 3 officers
Timothy Vogel
Police dog succumbs to heat
Council Bluffs Police Patrolman Mark Alba and Verro, a track dogs, are pictured during a search for an armed-robbery suspect in a field south of Crescent last month. Verro died of stress and heat exhaustion after his paw became caught in a fence at…
Police Link Presbyterian Fire With 2 Other Church Breakins
Police Sgt. F.L. Foster . . . examines secretary's desk, which has been ransacked at First Presbyterian church.
Police patrolman and dog
Photograph of CB patrolman Scott Milner and "Apoll II" drug-sniffing dog.
Police patrolman and dog
Photograph of Council Bluffs police patrolman Greg Becker and dog Dux
Police Search For Shoe Clues - Sift Through Ashes From Incinerator
Sifting Through Ashes . . . for remains of shoes are, from left, Detective A.R. Danielsen, Lt. George Jorgensen, Sgt. C.E. (Pat) Moore and Detective F.A. (Mike) Kerns.
Policeman from Sweden investigates U.S. on visit
Soakingin the American sunshine . . . are Annika Ericcson and Tom Knutsson, natives of Sweden. Knutsson recently visited his girlfriend, a foreign exchange student. --Nonpareil Photo.
Policeman, Robber Dead After Morning Shootout
Police And Ambulance Officials...remove the body of Lt. C.E. Moore from a home at 3113 Ave., where a bank robbery suspect shot it out with police, a private citizen and FBI officials. Nonpareil Photos by Joe Cavallaro
Policeman, Robber Dead After Morning Shootout
First National Bank Westside Office...was robbed of an undetermined amount of money by two masked bandits one of whom was still at large in Omaha. The other was wounded and under police guard at Jennie Edmundson Hospital. One policeman was killed,…
Policeman, Robber Dead After Morning Shooutout
Bullet Hole...in the side of police cruiser resulted from a shootout Wednesday forenoon with a bank robbery suspect. One Council Bluffs patrolman was injured by flying glass when a robber's bullet crashed through his police cruiser car.
Pony Creek Picture Postcard
The Pony Creek hills northwest of Glenwood take on picture post card qualities after snow falls. This scene, following an earlier snow, features one of the abandoned bridges familiar in the area.
Portable Substation Is Purchased By IPALCO - Designed For Emergency Use
Awaiting Delivery . . . from a railroad flat car is the Iowa Power and Light Company's portable substation.
Portrait of Addison Cochran
Portrait of Addison Cochran, mayor of Council Bluffs in 1879. Newspaper clipping.
Portrait of C. O. Mynster
Photograph of an engraving of C. O. Mynster