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Reading Up . . . on current trends in education is Dr. Leonard Gregory, superintendent of Council Bluffs schools. He notes a trend toward more vocational skills.

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Discussing Plans . . . for elementary education are Ray Newburg, elementary education director, and Dr. Leonard Gregory, new superintendent of the Council Bluffs Schools.

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Making Plans . . . for the 1972-73 city school budget are Dr. Leonard Gregory, incoming superintendent, and Dr. Robert Benton, outgoing superintendent of schools.

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One of the two greenhouse plants operated by Fred L. Lainson is at Ninth Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street. It has 100,000 square feet of glass. A partial view is shown above.

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Specializing in sweet peas and snapdragons, C. E. Hinman operates four greenhouses (above) on McPherson Avenue. The plant has been in operation for four years.

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Eighty-five thousand square feet of glass make up the greenhouses operated by John T. Walton, 500 North Twenty-sixth street. Shown above, the Walton greenhouses were formerly the Reams plant. The transfer of the property by sale was by the Harry C.…

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Frank L. Lainson, wholesale and retail florist, operates two separate plants. The above is a section of the one on Canning street, which has 150,000 square feet of glass.

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The Frank Hecht nursery is one of the beauty spots of Council Bluffs. Twenty years ago the tract on which the nursery is located consisted of brush-covered hills and trash-filled hollows. In the spring the hills about the nursery are covered with…

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One mile east of Council Bluffs on highway No. 7 are to be found the greenhouses of George Wilcox and sons. Principal products of the plant are vegetables. There are five greenhouses.

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This "ocean of glass" at 1132 East Pierce street represents fifty-four of the fifty-six greenhouses operated by J.F. Wilcox and sons. The business was established in 1867.
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