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This Horse-Watering Trough . . . in Burlington, VT, is an exact replica of the one the Council Bluffs Parks Board hopes to install at Main and Pearl Streets.

Horse drawn hose cart, rescue #3

A group of Neola citizens.
Fire Fighters . . . but not runners, as the well-fed look reveals, are these Neola citizens of the early 1900s. The group and their decorated cart have been incorrectly named in the past as the world champion running outfit.

Expansion Work . . . has begun at Jennie Edmundson Hospital's emergency entrance area. The new construction will extend along this west wall and to the terraced bluffs on the south side of the hospital. A lot attendant and painted signs direct…

Spading The Way . . . for the $2,100,000 addition to Jennie Edmundson Hospital is Mrs. Lenora Steeve, president of the Women's Christian Association. Watching are Floyd Hughes Jr., Robert Owen, and association officers, Miss Dorothy Christensen, Mrs.…

Arriving At Hospital . . . for treatment are G.H. Smith, 1514 S. 6th St., and Ivan Monrad, 214 S. 34th St., in wheelchair. Dick Christensen, the 'Medi-Bus' driver, helps Monrad down the van's ramp while Raymond Uhlhorn, physical therapist, holds the…

This Spacious Lounge . . . is a comfortable area to relax for patients to wait their turn to receive medical attention in one of the outpatient areas.

Collecting And Arranging . . . employee time cards are Marsha Gibb, Jennie Edmundson Hospital payroll clerk, Vickie Petersen and Carole Plummer. After all time cards are collected and accounted for they will be taken to Council Bluffs Savings Bank…

Light And Airy Rooms . . . with vast use of glass, will be featured in the patients' rooms in the proposed new Jennie Edmundson Hospital. This is an architect's sketch.

Talking Shop . . . with charge nurse Kay Kult of Blair, Neb., is John McDonough, Community Memorial Hospital chief executive officer. Although nominally an employee of St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, he runs the Missouri Valley hospital through a new…

Holding A Team Conference . . . at a nursing station at Jennie Edmundson Hosptial are Mrs. Bonnie Green, Mrs. Leslie Darrington, Mrs. Ramona Gittins and Peter Koontz.

Sketch of proposed Health Center - West, a joint venture by Jennie Edmundson and Mercy Hospitals.

Pathologists . . . Dr. Walter Hathaway, left, and Dr. M.H. Kulesh check results of chemical tests made in Jennie Edmundson Hospital laboratory.

Blood Bank . . . includes supply of human blood (left) and equipment for blood typing and testing. Working in lab is Mrs. Robert Ross, co-chief medical technologist.

The former Hotel Chieftain, a landmark in Council Bluffs for more than 40 years, is being converted to a downtown residence for the elderly. In the meantime, the plaster, concrete and other debris comes tumbling down the oversize drainpipe attached…
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