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Protestors seek to restore gas service
People's Natural Gas representatives Bill Schaffart (left) and Mike Theisen met Wednesday with 15 demonstrators from Citizens for Community Improvement are protesting new deposits required for customers who have been late in paying bills and have…
CCI seeks drug-program grant
Gene E. Hohertz
Highway Work In Full Swing
Broken Curbing . . . is first step in resumption of work on widening and resurfacing of Highway 275 just east of the South Omaha Bridge Road.
Future Is Bright For 'City On The Move' - Over 500 New Industrial Jobs In Two Years
A Transformation . . . from bare land to industrial complex took place on this site in just a few years. Firms located on the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation plot are, from left, Werner Enterprises, Pure Oil Co. and G & E Transportation Co. The…
Tinley Leads 168th Infantry On March In France
Lt. Col. Mathew A. Tinley, indicated by the arrow, is shown leading the 168th infantry, of which Company L of Council Bluffs was a part, on the march in France. In the foreground is Sgt. Oliver W. Holmes of Council Bluffs, who later was killed in…
First Section Of Interstate 80 Starts 'Nowhere' And Ends There - There's A Reason, But . . .
The West End . . . of the initial Interstate Highway 80 construction in Pottawattamie County will be in Minor Nelson's backyard. Nelson points to the approximate spot the road will terminate.
First Section Of Interstate 80 Starts 'Nowhere' And Ends There - There's A Reason, But . . .
The East End . . . of the Pottawattamie County stretch of the highway will stop somewhere in this general vicinity on the Albert Mc Crickard farm.
Interstate 80 Fill:
An earth fill, towering 30 to 40 feet above the floor of this valley in Rockford Township about three miles east of Loveland, will carry Interstate Highway 80 across the valley and over the concrete drainage chute shown under construction. Looking…
Interstate 80 Fill:
Hills Are Leveled . . . by workmen and equipment of the S.E. Gustafson Construction Co. of Sioux Falls, S.D. The huge dirt movers will move over 2 million cubic yards of earth from the hills in construction of the two-and one-half-mile strip of…
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.
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.
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.