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Pride Backs MBR Garbage Collection
Reaching An Arm . . . to pick up trash is the new Mechanical Bag Retriever (MBR), a combination garbage compactor and hydraulic arm. The city is planning to lease the truck for one year to test its effectiveness in collecting bags of trash in the…
City Official Says Don't Can It, Bag It - October Start For MBR
Maps of Four Areas . . . selected for the Mechanical Bag Retriever (MBR) pilot program of garbage collection also show on which days collections will be made. Residents of these areas will be receiving free plastic bags on Sept. 10, enough for three…
Biggest Problem Is MBR Customers
A Pile Of Bags . . . placed on the steps behind a parked car makes the job as Mechanical Bag Retriever (MBR) operator very difficult for Everett Malone.
Biggest Problem Is MBR Customers
Snaring A Portion . . . of the bags, Malone wonders whether they will all make it. Residents have been asked not to place bags close to obstacles.
Trial Run for Compactor
Testing the Maxon Shu-Pak refuse loader Friday at the City Garage are Jack Bowen, Public Works mechanic and Bob Martin, city sanitation director. The city is using the $33,000 machine on a week's trial basis. It is operated from the right side by the…
Lewis 'Researches' Garbage Collection
A Bag Of Garbage . . . is tossed onto the city's Mechanical Bag Retriever (MBR) by City Councilman Dan Lewis. He is researching the garbage collection situation in Council Bluffs.
Council Bluffs Refuse Now Baled, Trucked to W. Omaha
One Of The First . . . loads of refuse from Council Bluffs is dumped at the Omaha baling station Monday by its crew, Harry Ahrens, and Jack McCart. The Council Bluffs landfill closed Sunday night in compliance with a state order.
One Of 12 Princesses Will Be Judith Hall - In Ak-Sar-Ben Court . . .
Judy Hall . . . will be a princess in the Ak-Sar-Ben coronation court and ball.
'Miss Omaha' Title Won By Council Bluffs Girl
Two More Honors For Miss Judy Hall
Judy Hall Advances In Miss Universe Contest - Outshines 19 Other Iowa Beauties . . .
Omaha's Beauty Queen . . . picked from Council Bluffs, is Judy Hall. She will enter the 'Miss Nebraska" contest in June.
Miss Judy Hall . . . wins state title. The 20-year old part-time model in Council Bluffs, was chosen Miss Universe of Iowa at…
Miss Judy Hall . . . wins state title. The 20-year old part-time model in Council Bluffs, was chosen Miss Universe of Iowa at…
Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall)
Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957
Okoboji Lakes, July 1 - Miss Iowa Crowned - Judy Hall, right, part-time model from Council Bluffs, is being crowned Miss Iowa of 1957 by Carol Morris, of Ottumwa, last year's winner who captured the Miss Universe title. The crowning was part of the…
Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall)
Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957
Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, Long Beach, California. 21 July 1957
A good time was had by all at the Grand Coronation Ball ending the "Miss Universe Pageant" in Long Beach, California, last night . . . especially by Naval Aviation Cadet John W.…
A good time was had by all at the Grand Coronation Ball ending the "Miss Universe Pageant" in Long Beach, California, last night . . . especially by Naval Aviation Cadet John W.…
Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall)
Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957
It's June in January . . . for Judy Hall who will reign as Miss Outdoors of 1958 at the all new 1958 Sports, Vacation and Boat Show which will open on Tuesday, March 4th and run for 6 event-packed days through Sunday, March 9th at the Omaha Civic…
Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall)
Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957
Judy Ann Hall, September 1959 (United Air Lines photo)
Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall)
Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957
Mrs. Gordon Geddes (nee Judy Hall) with her family, July 1970
Furniture Company Burns
An aerial ladder is rigged to shoot steady stream of water into the smoldering ruins of the General Wood Works plant at 105 S. 31st St. Firefighters Monday were working to kill fire in stacks of lumber and wood parts. Walls of the building nearest…
Break Ground
Turning the dirt at groundbreaking ceremonies on Tuesday morning for the General Woodworks plant at Twenty-first Street and Ninth Avenue are A.R. Grandsaert, president of the firm; Mayor Joe Katelman; Gayle Tate,m president of the Council Bluffs…
Vietnamese Find Jobs At General Wood Works Co.
Watching The Operation . . . of a panel flow glueing machine are Bin Chinh Dang; Bill Kishpaugh; operator John Hansen and Thang Xuan Nguyen. The Vietnamese are new men on the job.