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Coal chips put to new use - filtering our drinking water
Foundation Footings... on the Water Works construction project point their way to a railroad bridge which goes over the Missouri River.
Coal Chips put to new use - filtering our drinking water
Inspecting progress... on the new vehicle storage-maintenance facility is James Peters, general manager of the Water Works. The facility is slated for opening by the end of the summer or early next fall.
Care taken to keep water pure
Making tests... every two hours on water as it emerges from the plant are Rick Rohan, chemist and Jim Wilson, plant operator. The plant has an extensive laboratory to perform many of its own tests.
Care taken to keep water pure
Water samples... showing the various stages through which water passes before it is sent on its way to Council Bluffs consumers are displayed by Peters.
Care taken to keep water pure
The New Water Works Administration Building... in the background is located close to the city's water supply, the Missouri River and to the treatment plant. Jim Peters, manager of the facility, said the move to the new building from former downtown…
Nonpareil Tour - European Holiday 1 - 1959
Beefeaters Of London's Tower . . . promise to strike if weekly rents in casements of this 600-year-old structure are boosted from 70 cents to $3.22 a week.
Building Goes On Display
A Cable Winder...runs through its moves at the new Western Electric Material Management Center at Underwood. The center 11.6 million cubic feet of storage space for components used in a 13-state area by the Bell Telephone system.
W.E. Facility
A material management center is planned by Western Electric on this 140-acre site just south of Underwood. Story on page 1.
Dunlap, Iowa
photo of wax figure of one of the wise men from nativity scene, open box filled with gold sits in front of him
Dunlap, Iowa
Photo of nativity scene made from life-sized wax figures, set in a barn
Auction Barn Goes Moden; New Dunlap Facility
A Large Crowd...fills the new Dunlap Livestock Auction complex as Jim Schaben calls at a cattle sale. Spectators now have individual seats; information regarding cattle weights, n umbers and prices is flashed on electronic "scoreboards"; and gates…
Dunlap Methodists Plan New Unit Consecration; Service Is Sunday.
New Educational Wing...at Dunlap Methodist Church will be consecrated Sunday by Bishop James S. Thomas.
Watershed Project 2-Fold Improvement Program For Dunlap
Recreation Hopes...focus on this six-acre lake at the east edge of Dunlap. Part of the Mill-Picayune Watershed Project, it was recently stocked with fish.
Dunlap Hard-Hit By Dutch Elm Disease
Shade Trees Land...in a special dump, spreading an unpleasant picture before Dunlap Mayor Leonard Jacobsen
Dunlap Hard-Hit By Dutch Elm Disease; 'Fortunately, People Realize It'...
Diseased Elm Trees...are an almost ghastly sight in the midst of other full summer foliage in Dunlap.
Aggressive Merchants Out To Arouse Interest In Their Community
'Dunlap Wants You'...is being placed on his car bumper by Louis Stolz, one of the Dunlap service Station operators distributing the community-boosting stickers.
First In Fifty
Tuesday was moving day and Thursday will mark the opening of Dunlap's first new post office site in 50 years. The brick, aluminum, and stone building, decorated by a planter running most of the front width, is being leased to the government by…
Dunlap finds joy in blend of family, job and union; He sees government role in meeting human needs
Dunlap's activism is part of family life for his 8-year-old daughter, Mandy.
Track makes Dubuque city of believers
Greyhounds round the bend at the Dubuque Greyhound Park. The dogs, which reach speeds up to 45 miles an hour, are muzzled to prevent them from injuring each other. In the foreground is the lure, controlled by an operator in a booth. Photo courtesy…
Fans had to learn to love the dogs
Roy Berger