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Work Progressing On River Bridge
Closed since the middle of April, the South Omaha Bridge has been undergoing major repairs with new surfacing on the deck plus cleaning and painting. Highways 92 and 275 have been detoured until the work is complete. Job Supt. George Grower of Ely…
Work On I-80 Diagonal Near Neola Beginning
Grading On I-80 . . . has started near Yellow Pole Road. The Mott Construction Company of Centerville is doing the grading work on the section of the interstate diagonal from Highway 6 to near Weston.
When the units...
When the units . . . back into their headquarters at Twenty-seventh Street and Broadway, the first operation is to check and clean up equipment. Danny Jordan wipes up the unit to keep it spotless while Pat Stiles checks the resusitator [resuscitator]…
Traffic a big problem for ambulance unit
Equipment . . . in the Pottawattamie County Ambulance is demonstrated by Matt martin, on stretcher, Keith Harris and Director Wayne McCunn. --Nonpareil Photo.
SWI Courthouses Added To List
Showing The Signs . . . of its sandblasting in the late 1970s, Harrison County Courthouse looks like new. The concrete and steel building is faced with Bedford limestone and topped with a 78-foot dome.
State To Present 'Vice' Information Gleaned By Agent
Safety Commissioner Clinton Moyer (left) . . . confers with R.W. (Doc) Nebergall at hotel headquarters here.
Smooth Moving On 375 Bridge
After being closed to traffic since February, the Highway 375 bridge over Mosquito Creek was recently opened thus avoiding a pair of roundabout detours. The smoothly resurfaced bridge with new aluminum rails and new deck cost $190,000.
Shucks! You Just Can't Find Council Bluffs In Huskerland
Private Enterprise . . . provides the only marking on Nebraska's Interstate, between Lincoln and the Missouri River bridge, that Council Bluffs lies on the western edge of Iowa.
S. Omaha Bridge Gets New Surface
Checking Placement . . . of steel reinforcement before concrete is poured is George Brower, project supervisor.
S. Omaha Bridge Gets New Surface
Iron Workers . . . Conia Halterman, Route 4, and Paul Hodges, Omaha, perform welding chores on expansion channels for the South Omaha Bridge resurfacing project.
S. Omaha Bridge Gets New Surface
Work continues Friday on the South Omaha Bridge where employees of the Eby Construction Company of Omaha have been contracted by the State of Nebraska to resurface and paint the span. Work began six weeks ago and Supervisor George Brower says it will…
Really Groovy
Traffic on the Interstate 80 bridge is narrowed to one lane each way while contractors grind quarter-inch grooves in the bridge deck. The grooves will be covered later with a high density concrete that will last longer. When these two lanes are…
Real Puzzler: How Old Is 'The Brick'? - Answer Sought In Boomer Township
"The Brick" . . . has been serving the people of Boomer Township for many years but no one is certain just how many years.
Ready I-80 Bridge Deck
Workmen for Cramer Brothers Construction Co. of Des Moines work in their undershirts Tuesday as forming for the concrete deck of the new Interstate Highway 80 bridge got under way. Supt. Harold Tompkins said they expect to start pouring concrete in…
Old Boomer Hall Has Its Own Issue
Boomer Township Hall . . . was opened to voters again Tuesday as it has been in every election for more than a century. Located northeast of Honey Creek, it was originally a two-story structure until a tornado took off the top nearly 60 years ago.
Old Boomer Hall Has Its Own Issue
Warming His Feet . . . in front of the old wood-burning stove in Boomer Township Hall during Tuesday's election is Fred George, township clerk, while Chester Driver, voting judge at the hall, stokes the stove with a walnut log.
Neola To Bluffs Route Is Opened
Interstate Highway 80 Is Open . . . from Neola south to Highway 375 in Council Bluffs. Iowa Highway Commission crews remove barricades at the Interstate highway's intersection with Highway 6, northeast of Council Bluffs.
Moving West:
Interstate 80N continues to be pushed west across Pottawattamie County with work on the super-road now under way at Loveland. Thousands of cubic yards of dirt are being moved by Treiber Construction Co. of Danbury from bluffs to the bottomland to…
Mid-May Bridge Opening
The Highway 375 Bridge is slated for reopening in about mid-May, said Leo Rechtenbach, job superintendent for Hobe Construction Co. of Sioux City. Workers have poured most of the new paving and are preparing to place the new aluminum side rails. The…