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Standing Guard
Weathered and eroded by the timeless waters of the Missouri River, these old boat pilings south of the Union Pacific railroad bridge, patiently stand guard on the muddy beach waiting the onslaught of the spring thaw. Only the occasional clunk of ice…
Stanton, Griswold Boast Rec Areas
Forty-Acre Conklin Park Outside Griswold On Highway 48 is a miniature evergreen forest in the middle of flat farmland. This bridge, complete with a "Cross At Your Own Risk" sign, leads to a small island in the middle of the lake. Facilities there…
Start on Third Floor
Construction work on the new city hall building is progressing rapidly, Superintendent Pete Tellander said Saturday. Pouring of columns for the south section of the second floor was started last week. Work is also under way for setting the column…
Start Sept. 10 On Steel Work; Broadway Viaduct Work On Schedule
The Broadway Viaduct..stretches from Eighth to Fifteenth Sts. as contractors prepare to set the structural steel of the two-million dollar project. Except for the structural steel work, the west approach ramp (bottom) is the only major part of the…
Tags: Bridges, Broadway Viaduct, construction, Jack Kennedy, viaducts
Starting The Dredge
Mechanics, welders and operators from Pentizien Inc. of Omaha swarmed over the city Parks Department's new dredge at Big Lake getting the equipment ready to operate. Gary Cross of the parks departments will be trained as operator of the huge…
Tags: Big Lake, dredgers, dredging, Gary Cross
State Budget Key In District 41 Race
Iowa Senate District 41
Jack W. Hester, Honey Creek
Republican
Jack W. Hester, Honey Creek
Republican
State Fireman Tournament
17th Annual Tournament, Iowa State Firemen's Association. June 6th to 9th. Held in Council Bluffs
Tags: Fire Department
State News Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Looking At Award...for outstanding leadership earned at a leadership school held by the U.S. Army Reserve are Spec. 4 Larry R. Martin and Capt. William Ballenger, class instructor.
State To Present 'Vice' Information Gleaned By Agent
Safety Commissioner Clinton Moyer (left) . . . confers with R.W. (Doc) Nebergall at hotel headquarters here.
State To Present 'Vice' Information Gleaned By Agent
State Agent Don Hutchinson . . . here six weeks.
State University of Iowa - North Hall
Over the entrance to this building on The State University of Iowa campus in Iowa City is a stone which is engraved, "He That Maketh the Law Becomes Master of the Intent Thereof." This motto is all that remains to remind one that it was here that…
State University of Iowa - North Hall
When the College of Law moved to a new building dedicated in April 1962, it left the building, now called North Hall, ready for a major remodeling job in order to gain badly needed classroom and office space. The most dramatic change occurred here,…
State University of Iowa - North Hall
At the height of the $230,000 conversion, the former library area was gutted, resembling an empty warehouse. As this work was going on, the University Personnel Service, Dormitory and Dining Service, and the Superintendent of Planning and…
State University of Iowa - North Hall
No shade of Blackstone remained in the former law center when the job was completed this fall. A "fourth" floor has been added where bookshelves had been, and the entire new section contains 33 offices and five seminar rooms. The Department of…
State University of Iowa - North Hall
Typical of the offices in the new part of North Hall is this one in the School of Religion. In such surroundings, faculty members counsel their students, meet with colleagues, carry on research and study projects, and keep at hand the books and…
State University of Iowa - North Hall
The metamorphosis of a building was concluded with the transformation of a large classroom on the ground floor into four classrooms like this one. Funds for the work in SUI's North Hall were appropriated by the Iowa legislature. The project was…
Station 2
Council Bluffs Fire Department Station No. 2