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Like pulling teeth
Like pulling teeth . . . this oversized machine called a motor puller just reaches under the hood to extract the car motor in one bite. Operator is "Shorty" Campbell who has jerked thousands of motors. New heavy machinery is currently being installed…
The finished project
The finished project . . . comes down an endless belt in given size bales, ready for loading onto rail cars and shipment to steel mills for reuse.
Up too 800 a day. Hungry monster eats old autos
Junker autos . . . are baled and sheared at the rate of 800 a day in the new giant machine that just went into operation at the Alter Company yard, 2603 Ninth Ave. An auto, minus motor and wheels, is loaded into a hopper. It will hold four cars.
Giant jaws will eat junk cars
Old autos are stacked 10-deep . . . at the Alter Company scrapyard. Manager Jake Barnes surveys the mountains of old junkers that is being added to every day. The company is in the process of installing a new process that will turn 800 junk cars a…
Plant location
Plant location . . . of the Alter Co. is discussed by Mayor Leon Mores. Frank Alter, head of the firm, and W. D. Cairney, Chamber of Commerce president.
Cleaning up junked autos company goal
Hundreds of cars . . . were reduced to these little bits, the finished product of shredding car bodies. Alter Co. plant manager Jake Barnes examines two pieces. -- Nonpareil Photo.
Big crane does the job
A 250-ton Union Pacific Railroad crane lifts the 109-ton sheer head to Alter Co. Friday. When fully assembled the bailer-sheer will consume 800 to 1,000 junk car bodies a day and will weigh 750 tons. Construction of footings for the monster machine…
Modern salvage
(Left-Harold Coyle) and Jerry Katz of the Alter Co. The bundled scrap is now ready for sale to firms who melt and use scrap metal. --Nonpareil Photos.
Modern salvage
Modern salvage : The Alter Co., one of Council Bluffs' newer industries, uses the very latest equipment in its scrap salvage operation. Here an old car body is being put into a press. It will come in bales.
Alter Co. gets big baling shear
Two cranes . . . are needed to set up king-size baling shear at the Alter Co. scrap-metal yard here. --Nonpareil Photo.
Allison, Jordan
Female child sitting with her dog, a chow chow.
Alcatraz still delights the camera bug
Alcatraz features stony features . . . from the Golden Gate bridge in the background, or Fisherman's Wharf. --(AP) Wirephoto
In tight farm money market. Land bank offers an alternative.
Implement dealers . . . like this one in Harlan, are well-stocked with merchandise this time of year, but sales are dragging somewhat. Farmers in Southwest Iowa, like those everywhere, are finding money together to get -- even at today's usurious…
New children's library is gay and bright wonderland
The new children's library . . .provides a new setting for the world of children's books. Note how the shelf areas, reading tables and the circulation department are all designed to fit "little people." - Nonpareil Photo.
Last Of Colorful Past To Go; Interstate Wipes Out Stage Line Marker
Only Remaining Evidence...of former stage coach station at Bartlett is this pile of rocks from the fireplace.
Bartlett Residents As To Lease Unused School For Community; Committee Formed To Meet With Board
Snow Covers Walk...to the front door of the empty Bartlett School building. Residents want to clear the path and reopen the doors as a community building.,
Even Floods Can't Keep Oldtimers From Home
Once A Busy Spot...Bartlett's Burlington Railroad Depot opens only once a day now when a single train stops in the tiny Fremont County town. At the left is the garage, at the right, the grain elevator, two of the communities four businesses.