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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1975
Page
2
A Polk area column highlights a wedding at the Myers home with Rev. Claude Neal officiating. Other notes mention Illnesses, a dissolution of partnership, travels to Omaha, and upcoming events including a coyote hunt and a township meeting. Historical items recount births, marriages, and local milestones across 38 and 20 years ago, plus community notes from 19 and 18 years past.
The Polk Progress lists advertising rates and subscription prices including poetry by line and card of thanks costs. It notes 3 months at a rate and annual single copy price, with 77¢ per column inch for advertising and 15¢ per poetry line.
The piece argues a Merle Miller book on Truman extols candor and criticizes secrecy in government. It likens CIA growth to cancer, warns democracy suffers under fear, cites Eisenhower and Krushchev events, and urges citizens to seek personal liberty and informed action as the nation nears its bicentennial.
Mrs Laura Bolton visited Sunday afternoon with Mrs Ruth Bills and Mrs Minnie Dittmer. Mrs Dittmer left Tuesday by plane from Grand Island to Las Vegas Ney with her son and family, Mr and Mrs Marvin Dittmer. Mrs Carl Mundt visited Monday afternoon in the Ollie Johnson home. Mr and Mrs Rudolph Gustafser were Tuesday evening visitors there. Mr and Mrs Dick Harless vacationed in Texas last week. Randy and Shari stayed with their grandmother Mrs Vega Ekdahl while their parents were away.
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