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High Water Table Creates Problems - Flooded streets, rats, gasoline vapors cited
Backyard Lake - George Kabat and his son Bill, found a rowboat was the best method of transportation around their Gifford Road neighborhood Monday. The Missouri River spilled into the area Sunday. Kibat estimated water surrounding his home at 6805…
Higher And Higher
Rising higher and higher is the new Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network tower eight miles northeast of Oakland. Workmen from a Georgia tower-erecting company, perched here at about the 500-foot level, attach electrical conduit for light hookups.
Higher taxes probable. City plans to start sewer line to annexed area soon.
New street signs . . . have been installed by the city and are the first visual signs of annexation in the Manawa community. Wes Clausen, assistant superintendent of traffic, views on such sign marking Navajo Street and a private (Pickard Lane)…
Highway 6-64 Relocation Plan Here Wins Support
Route Of Relocation . . . of Highways 6 and 64 is pointed out by C.B. Anderson to F.W. (Pete) Mann and William Mott, spectators at the public hearing.
Highway 64 Project To Erase 'Cowpath' - Construction Work Begins
'Cowpath' Shoulders . . . are being widened west of Neola as preparation for the new surfacing of "the roughest road between here and Florida."
Highway 64 Project:
Part of the improvement program underway on Highway 64 between Council Bluffs and Neola is the relocation of a short section of the highway at the top of Canning Hill. The curve in the present paving will be eliminated and a new, straight section of…
Highway 92 Is Re-Routed Here - Skips C.B., Crosses South Omaha Bridge
Posting Signs . . . showing the new routing of Highway 92 are Robert Anderson and Frank Aldredge, Iowa Highway Commission employees. This sign is being installed at the junction of Highways 92 and 375.
Highway 92 Widening Plan
The Iowa Highway Commission Tuesday released this drawing of the proposed improvement project on Highway 92 east of Council Bluffs. The plan would reduce from 30 to 4 the number of access points along the stretch of highway. It would also provide…
Highway Is Problem For Council
Public Works Director Maurice Pearce . . . views one of the two bridges on Highway 375 which, according to engineers, is in need of repairs. In the distance is the bridge which carries traffic over several sets of railroad tracks and a portion of…
Highway Office Opens Here - Combines Two Locations
Main Secretarial Office . . . of Iowa Highway Commission building manned by secretaries Mrs. Chris Allen and Mrs. Linda Shank.
Highway Office Opens Here - Combines Two Locations
New Resident Engineers Office . . . for Iowa Highway Commission is located at 3538 So. 4th St., on Highway 192.
Highway Officials Tour 'Critical Areas' Of C.B. - Inspecting Traffic Problems
Facing Highway 192 . . . inspecting group is briefed on southside traffic problems by W.D. Cairney, right. Others, from left, are Howard B. Heischer, Jo S. Stong, Robert Keir, L.M. Clauson, Robert Sutton, Robert Given and Everett Shockey. New state…
Highway Work In Full Swing
Broken Curbing . . . is first step in resumption of work on widening and resurfacing of Highway 275 just east of the South Omaha Bridge Road.