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Bicycle Riders...gather at Community hall to join their new club.

Making Glass Grapes...is easy when taught by instructor Carlton Beers at Iowa School for the Deaf. Beers is the Iowa Handicapped Employe [sic] of the Year. Watching are Lyle Filkins of Elliott and Stacia Barron of Council Bluffs.

Plans For Beef Packing Plant . . . are discussed by Ronald Kiger, Douglas Peters, Archie Gubbrud and Harry Nelson.

aerial photo of Big Bend Dam on Missouri River, near Fort Thompson, SD.
On back of photo: stamp from US Army Corps of Engineers Photo # BBD 4496
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Major construction is drawing to a close on the last of the six large dams built by the Army…

1966
Big Bend Dam
last of large Pick-Sloan Dam on main stem of Mo. River
Near Fort Thompson, S.D.

aerial photo of Big Bend Dam on Missouri River, near Fort Thompson, SD

A 130-foot-high boom was needed Thursday morning to lift new elevator machinery to the roof of the Hotel Chieftain, which is being remodeled into apartments for the elderly. The big move required the closing of most of Pearl Street between Broadway…

With five of the 11 piers for the new Interstate 80 Highway completed, and work on the other six piers well along in varying stages, crews for the Jensen Construction Co. of Des Moines have lost no time from weather this past year. Looking toward…

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…

Cocktail waitresses serve a capacity crown in the clubhouse area. Each table also has a monitor.

Big Handshake. Gwen Bachman. six-foot eleven-inch center on the Quachita Baptist University women's basketball team is greeted by Larry Anderson of the Council Bluffs Jaycees at a reception held Monday at Holiday Inn for teams and coaches entered in…

Viewing The Gaping Hole . . . near the Jennie Edmundson Hospital driveway entrance is David Holcomb, assistant administrator.

Aerial photograph of Big Lake

Big Lake
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With the 10-inch dredge now operating in its third season, Big Lake has been deepened by a minimum of eight feet over approximately 12 acres. water lilies give the dredge operators toruble by clogging the intake of the suction line.

A Grassy Playground...close to Gilbert's Pond is one of the inviting areas of Big Lake Park in the northern part of Council Bluffs.

Postcard of fishing in Big Lake

The Black Angel . . . may be turning a little green with age but it sure didn't need a coat of paint by vandals.

The Black Angel . . . may be turning a little green with age but it sure didn't need a coat of paint by vandals.

large outdoor statue of an angel splashed with white paint
The Black Angel...may be turning a little green with age but it sure didn't need a coat of paint by vandals.
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