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photo of wax figure dressed in robes, with box of gold coins
photo of wax figure of one of the wise men from nativity scene, open box filled with gold sits in front of him

photo of nativity scene formed by life-size wax figures
Photo of nativity scene made from life-sized wax figures, set in a barn

people surround a fenced area filled with cattle, with man pointing to cattle
A Large Crowd...fills the new Dunlap Livestock Auction complex as Jim Schaben calls at a cattle sale. Spectators now have individual seats; information regarding cattle weights, n umbers and prices is flashed on electronic "scoreboards"; and gates…

brick building with steps into addition to building
New Educational Wing...at Dunlap Methodist Church will be consecrated Sunday by Bishop James S. Thomas.

photo of lake and shores with trees and grasses
Recreation Hopes...focus on this six-acre lake at the east edge of Dunlap. Part of the Mill-Picayune Watershed Project, it was recently stocked with fish.

man in shirtsleeves standing with cut tree trunks and branches
Shade Trees Land...in a special dump, spreading an unpleasant picture before Dunlap Mayor Leonard Jacobsen

photo of multiple  bare trees next to house
Diseased Elm Trees...are an almost ghastly sight in the midst of other full summer foliage in Dunlap.

Kneeling man holds bumper stick next to a car's bumper
'Dunlap Wants You'...is being placed on his car bumper by Louis Stolz, one of the Dunlap service Station operators distributing the community-boosting stickers.

photo of one-story building of brick stone, and aluminum; "United States Post Office" is on front of stone front.
Tuesday was moving day and Thursday will mark the opening of Dunlap's first new post office site in 50 years. The brick, aluminum, and stone building, decorated by a planter running most of the front width, is being leased to the government by…

Photo of man seated, with young girl seated next to him
Dunlap's activism is part of family life for his 8-year-old daughter, Mandy.

muzzled greyhound dogs racing around a bend at a racetrack
Greyhounds round the bend at the Dubuque Greyhound Park. The dogs, which reach speeds up to 45 miles an hour, are muzzled to prevent them from injuring each other. In the foreground is the lure, controlled by an operator in a booth. Photo courtesy…

Polk's Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) City Directory, 1976.

Contains:
- Buyers' Guide and a complete classified business directory
- Alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens
- Complete street and avenue…

A group of tourist view a castle.
Kronberg Castle at Elsinore, Denmark, is framed here by an arch in the ancient wall, still protected by a moat, that stands on The Sound separating Denmark from Sweden by a short two miles. A group of Nonpareil European Holiday visitors clustered…

Tourists strolling brick street with large buildings in the background.
Inside the Kremlin Walls . . . Nonpareil European Holiday travelers leave the world's largest bell and the Armor museum after viewing one of the world's most priceless collections of ancient armor and trappings, jeweled icons, crowns, and garbs of…

A man and four women on an overlook.
Viewing Vienna . . . from St. Leopold Hill are the guide, Miss Karla Kayser of Council Bluffs, Miss Frances Zimmerman of Council Bluffs, Miss Mary Clare Joyce of Omaha and Mrs. Gladys Wilson of Council Bluffs. The view from the famed Vienna Woods…

A group of people on a sidewalk.
(top) In Front Of Belvedere Palace . . . in Vienna, the Nonpareil European Holiday travelers listen to their guide. This is known as the palace of the "beautiful view."

(bottom) Nonpareil European Holiday Travelers . . . see the real meaning of…
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