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Missionaries to Tanganyika Set for Four Years of Service
Rev Melvin Lofgren and wife depart Wakefield to join the Augustana Lutheran Mission in Tanganyika Africa for four years. They solicit 400 item supply list covering furnishings bedding medical and camping gear, with personal clothing and baby items funded by church friends. They will face tropical disease inoculations and foreign duties after their New Orleans to Havana cruise recommendation.
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Melvin Lofgren
United States
Africa