Revised plans to convert all 1,385 Audubon Park apartment units into a smaller number of condominium units were announced Monday night by the Jefferson Savings and Loan Association.
Mrs. Donald Feidt, among the first occupants to move into the Mansion House on the St. Louis riverfront, places a chair on her balcony which overlooks the Gateway Arch.
16-STORY APARTMENT BUILDING This 16-story apartment building is being constructed on the southeast corner of Kingshighway and West Pine boulevards. The structure will be fully air conditioned and will cost an estimated $6,000,000.
"Bank employes dress dolls: Boatmen's National Bank employes Miss Sandra Hooper and Mrs. Sandy Peterson view 200 dolls entered in the bank's 22nd annual doll dressing contest. All the dolls were provided by the bank and dressed by members of the bank's staff. Many will be distributed to needy children at a Christmas party."
"Routed by ammonia fumes, occupants of the Boatmen's Bank building crowd the corner at Broadway and Olive street. Some 2500 persons were driven from the 19-story building and its 11-story annex by fumes escaping from a break in a refrigerant pipeline beneath the pavement in the 400 block of Locust street Monday."
Off to a new home with happy, adoptive parents. There are always qualified couples ready to adopt babies, but it is more difficult to place older children.
A man robbed the Chippewa Trust Co., 3803 S. Broadway, of $1998 about 5 p.m. Friday and walked out of the crowded bank lobby unnoticed, except by an automatic camera.
Plenty of reading materialism is available for employees and officers of the bank in the bank's library, which features financial books and records, but also has fiction. From left, Mrs. Theodore van Ravenswaay, assistant librarian, and Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, librarian.
"Houses for Sale at Barracks: Houses on Sherman road in Jefferson Barracks are among 22 residences on "officers' row" which will be offered for sale by the General Services Administration. The houses will be auctioned off as separate units with the date for the sale set tentatively as Oct. 20. Those to be sold have been rented by the government to private individuals in recent years."
Huge girder for new Chain of Rocks bridge is lifted into place as work on the central span gets underway. There will be 32 of the girders manufactured by the Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Company, each 243 feet long, 10 feet high and weighing 162 tons. The bridge will carry Interstate Highway 270 across the Mississippi River near the old Chain of Rocks bridge.
The new toll-free chain of rocks bridge (foreground) will cut deeply into revenues realized by Madison, Ill., from the present span (background), which is only 1800 feet upstream.