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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…

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A snow-covered Dubuque Greyhound Park, which cost $11 million to construct. Conceived by Durrant Group of Dubuque, the facility was featured in a trade magazine for its design. Capacity is about 6,000, while the Council Bluffs facility will have…

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Looking south on Main Street. In the background is the Town Clock, the unofficial symbol of Dubuque. Relocated in a plaza in 1971, the clock is the hub of a downtown area undergoing redevelopment partially spurred by the track.

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Roy Berger - Dubuque Track General Manager
Terry Harrmann - President, Dog Racing Association

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Tim Dunlap, President, Local 2991, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Glenwood State Hospital, school resource treatment worker (with son Steve).

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New Education Wing . . . at Dunlap Methodist Church will be consecrated by Bishop James S. Thomas.

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Diseased Elm Trees . . . are an almost ghastly sight in the midst of other full summer foliage in Dunlap.

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Shade Trees Land . . . in a special dump, spreading an unpleasant picture before Dunlap Mayor Leonard Jacobsen.

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'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.

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First In Fifty: 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…

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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, numbers and prices is flashed on electronic "scoreboards"; and…

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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.

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Wax figure of one of the Three Wise Men from the Nativity display at a rural Dunlap farm

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Life-sized wax figures, part of the Nativity scene at a rural Dunlap farm

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photo of "Two Brothers" statue at Boystown, with one boy carrying another boy on his back. On the pedestal:
"He ain't Heavy Father...He's m' brother."
Boys Town
Dedicated to helping all youth realize their full potential for God, Self, and…

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Mayor Carl VanFossen...stands along Highway 71, where a tornado spent most of its destructive force in the town in Braddyville last March. Few buildings have been rebuilt along main street.

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The Church of the Brethren...at 810 Avenue E was established 40 years ago.

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Viewing Decorations...at the Church of the Brethren sanctuary are the Rev. Roy Richey and Mrs. Grace Raygor, president of the Women's Fellowship.

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This Modernistically...designed edifice is the house of worship for the Church of the Brethren congregation and is located at 2605 Avenue E.

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The Rev. Charles Lunkley...looks over spacious sanctuary of new edifice. It will comfortably seat 250 plus overflow accommodations.
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