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Cover-Up Job Keeps Lids On
Plans Are Created . . . by company draftsmen for a variety of manhole covers. This sketch is part of a two-inch thick book of cover designs.
Cover-Up Job Keeps Lids On
Pouring Molten Steel . . . into manhole cover forms are M.L. McMiller, Omaha, at the ladle handle and three other Katelman Foundry steelworkers. The liquid reaches 2800 degrees before the men fill their 35 to 40 daily molds. When completed, the rings…
Receives Award
Abe Katelman, owner of Katelman Foundries here, is presented the Herman Krause memorial trophy awarded annually to the most outstanding member of the Irving Cohen Lodge, 688, B'nai B'rith. The award was presented Sunday night by Sam Colick, lodge…
Foundry Casts Almost Anything - It's Made In Council Bluffs . . .
Welding An Iron Railing . . . at Katelman Foundry, is Ray e. Dietzel. Metal fabricating is one of the two major activities of the firm.
Foundry Casts Almost Anything - It's Made In Council Bluffs . . .
A Ladle Of Molten Iron . . . is carefully poured into a mold by James Walker and Lester Goodman. After cooling, the metal will be a man-hole ring.
Trophy Engraved In Kaplan's Name
David J. Kaplan, recipient of the 1976 Ben Gershun Memorial Trophy for his services to the community, and David Gallner, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, discuss the trophy's new engraving. It reads "Giving Of Themselves to the State of…
Kaplan Named For Award
David J. Kaplan
Kaplan Honored At Banquet By City Of Hope Gathering
Honored Guests . . . viewing National Humanitarian Award are Harriet Katelman, funds vice chairman for the Council Bluffs Women's Guild of the City of Hope; Guild President Mrs. Abner Gries; David Kaplan, recipient of the award, and Mrs. Kaplan. More…
Kaplan's Secret: 'Never Let Up' - To Receive Humanitarian Award
Gov. Robert Ray . . . holds a proclamation naming May 12 as David J. Kaplan Day in Iowa. Kaplan is the first Iowan to be awarded the City of Hope's National Humanitarian Award.
Founder Of Blue Star Co. Gets National Honor
David J. Kaplan
Kaplan Named Head Of Christian Home - 2 New Board Members
David J. Kaplan
Americanism Award
Maynard Telpner presents the 12th annual Americanism Award of Irving Cohen Lodge 688, B'nai B'rith, Tuesday night to David Kaplan of Omaha, chairman of the board of directors of Blue Star Foods, Inc. here. Telpner was co-chairman of the event held at…
Kaplans Receive Catholic Honor - Are Knighted By Cardinal Spellman
Catholic Honor . . . is presented by Francis Cardinal Spellman in New York City to Mr. and Mrs. David Kaplan. Watching the informal presentation are John and William Kaplan.
Council Bluffs Saw Decade Of Steady Progress
August , 1959 Marked The Beginning...of the elaborate interstate system which, some 10 y ears later, nearly circled the Bluffs. An aerial view spans the first section of I-80 to be graded in Pottawattamie County near Honey Creek.
Golden Decade of C.B. Progress
One Of Many...recent accomplishments in Council Bluffs, the Narrows Pumping Station, lower right, overlooks one of the top potential areas for future development. Among projects being studied is a municipal dock along the near shore of the Missouri…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
This is the old Wickham Brick Yard at the end of North Eighth Street paving as it appeared in 1904. The brick yard was at one time one of the city's leading industries, turning out millions of bricks for homes and streets. The bricks were stacked in…
Police dog succumbs to heat
Council Bluffs Police Patrolman Mark Alba and Verro, a track dogs, are pictured during a search for an armed-robbery suspect in a field south of Crescent last month. Verro died of stress and heat exhaustion after his paw became caught in a fence at…