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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 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…

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…

A group of people holding up beer steins.
When In Munich . . . do like the Germans, and this is just what a dozen members of The Nonpareil European Holiday travelers did. Here, in Munich's famed Hofbrauhaus, are (left to right): Covert T. Brown, Mrs. Marie Ross, Genevieve Jacobsen, Mrs.…

Three women photographing an altar in a park.
Taking Pictures Of Round Altar . . . at Munich Park are Miss Alice Buffett of Omaha, Mrs. Blanche O'Brien of Council Bluffs and Mrs. Florence Ritchie, formerly of Iowa School For The Deaf. The World Eucharistic Congress will be held at this park,…

A group of people viewing items in a room.
At Nymphenburg Castle . . . at Munich, Germany, are a group of Nonpareil Holiday travelers. The group was impressed by the thousands of new buildings. This city was severely damaged in World War II.
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