Local labor Officials...met with Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Birch Bayh in Council Bluffs Saturday at the Holiday Inn. Pictured are Robert Leuck of the Central labor Union, Frank Jacobsen of the Amalgamated Meat cutters and Sen. Bayh.
Happy Cabs go anywhere . . . and sometimes after running their course, like other retired autos, end up in the junkpile. Tom Hale, account executive for Alter Co., looks over one of several retired cabs in a pile.
Like pulling teeth . . . this oversized machine called a motor puller just reaches under the hood to extract the car motor in one bite. Operator is "Shorty" Campbell who has jerked thousands of motors. New heavy machinery is currently being installed…
Junker autos . . . are baled and sheared at the rate of 800 a day in the new giant machine that just went into operation at the Alter Company yard, 2603 Ninth Ave. An auto, minus motor and wheels, is loaded into a hopper. It will hold four cars.
Old autos are stacked 10-deep . . . at the Alter Company scrapyard. Manager Jake Barnes surveys the mountains of old junkers that is being added to every day. The company is in the process of installing a new process that will turn 800 junk cars a…
Plant location . . . of the Alter Co. is discussed by Mayor Leon Mores. Frank Alter, head of the firm, and W. D. Cairney, Chamber of Commerce president.
Hundreds of cars . . . were reduced to these little bits, the finished product of shredding car bodies. Alter Co. plant manager Jake Barnes examines two pieces. -- Nonpareil Photo.
A 250-ton Union Pacific Railroad crane lifts the 109-ton sheer head to Alter Co. Friday. When fully assembled the bailer-sheer will consume 800 to 1,000 junk car bodies a day and will weigh 750 tons. Construction of footings for the monster machine…
Modern salvage : The Alter Co., one of Council Bluffs' newer industries, uses the very latest equipment in its scrap salvage operation. Here an old car body is being put into a press. It will come in bales.
Processess various metals. Alter Company leases 10-acre site in Bluffs for a new plant. October 3, 1962
Halt work on Alter Co. Plant. November 23, 1962
Talking business . . . Alter Company in operation. January 20, 1963
Modern salvage. May 5,…