Recently completed improvement of the Cypress Road Bridge, located approximately 1200 feet north of St. Charles Rock Road on Cypress Road in Bridgeton, are shown above.
In enforcing a quarantine of dogs, Gordon E. Morgan, a rabies control officer in Bridgeton picks up an unconfined animal during a patrol. The dog will be taken to the Bridgeton dog pound, Long road and St. John Lane. Nearly 200 dogs and cats have been caught in the community in the past month. Two of the dogs were rabid.
Image shows Bridgeton MO. Mayor Edwin C. Swan (left) and Police Chief Roy L. Beck accepting titles to a 14-foot Dura-Craft Aluminum Rescue Boat from Robert Pete Branneky (right), owner and manager of Pete's Boat and Motor Company. Bridgeton purchased the boat, complete with a 10-horsepower motor and trailer, for use by the Police Department along the western boundary of the town which is the Missouri River. Bridgeton Police have responsibility for approximately 3 3/4 miles of shoreline, much of it is not accessible by road, and for islands offshore. The boat will be used in any rescue work done in the town or, if requested, in neighboring areas.
Judge Harry S. Stussie (left) former Bridgeton town attorney swore newly elected Bridgeton town councilmen. Image depicts from left to right, George Virgil Meister, Albert Scheffing, Benedict D. Ferro and Edward H. Boenker during ceremonies held Wednesday night at Pattonville High School. The town converted in 1962 from a board of trustees to a mayor-council form of government. One councilman from each ward was elected along with a mayor in 1962. Monday's election added one councilman from each ward.
