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Arrested In Vice Raid . . .
Arrested In Vice Raid . . . Waiting to be booked at police station following vice raid in Council Bluffs by state agents early Sunday are, left to right: Walter Jenkins, his wife, Patricia, Alvis Brock and Mary Oylar. With back to camera is Police…
Bar Keeps Town On Map - Honey Creek Keeps Identity
The Way It Was . . . is captured in this decades-old photograph of the second Aeroplane Inn, once a fixture on the road from Council Bluffs to Missouri Valley. When the building burned down there was some concern for the post office which was located…
Bluffs gets 2 new ambulances
Ready to go in one of two new Council Bluffs ambulances is Emergency Medical Technician Jack Osborne. The paid cost 45,000, with $20,000 of that coming from a federal grant. These are the first "city" ambulances in recent years. One will be on…
Bridge Facelifting
Progress on the Highway 375 bridge resurfacing project is inspected by Maurice Pearce, Public Works director and Leo Rechtenbach, job superintendent for Hobe Construction Co., of Sioux City. Workmen have removed about three-fourths of the old…
Bridge Moves Along
Drilling into rock about 106 feet below the river, men and machines for Tri-States Drilling Co. are nearing completion of the caissons under pier 9 for the Spring Street Interstate 80 bridge. All other piers with the exception of number 8 in…
Bridge Surface Gets New Face
The South Omaha Bridge will be closed until sometime next spring while major maintenance work progresses. Superintendent George Grower of Eby Construction Co., said the job includes replacement of about 2100 feet of decking, a 1 1/2-inch coat of…
Ceremony Marks Openings Of Major SWI Highways - State Officials Present
Cutting Ribbon . . . to officially open Interstate 80 at Avoca is Secretary of State Gary Cameron, assisted by State Representative Burl Scott, Highway Commission Chairman Harry J. Bradley Jr., and Congressman John R. Hansen.
Change Stop Signs
The Iowa Highway Commission has approved a stop sign arrangement for the intersection of Highways 275, 92 and 375 in southeast Council Bluffs. East-west traffic will not be required to stop while north-south traffic will stop. Construction of the…
Commission Agrees On Hwy. 92 Design
Work Is Progressing . . . on the rebuilding of the Highway 92-375 intersection. Kenneth Mc Donell, job foreman for Dugdale Construction of Omaha, said they are now using a "Clairey," a machine that rolls out the bumps in fresh concrete. Iowa Highway…
Conservation Meet A SWI Economic Boon
Mark Versch
Converting Highway 375 Into 4 Lanes May Be 'Pretty Tough' - State Surveyor Says
Surveying Highway 375 . . . near High St. is a Highway Commission crew led by Leo Rodenburg, left. Robert Cook of Nevada operates the transit.
Courthouses Have Colorful Histories
Concealing Its Age . . . is the Pottawattamie County Sub-Courthouse in Avoca. The brick building's construction predates the county's earliest records of it from 1885.
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.
Gamblers Stepped Over Line And Out Of The County
The Historic Log House . . . south of Council Bluffs between 1907 and 1918 sported a small herd of elk (almost hidden in this photo in clump of trees at left). The house, a left-over from the Trans Mississippi Exposition, has a colorful background.