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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1952
Page
5
Max R Platte has been named rural free delivery route one clerk at the Sumner post office by Postmaster E F Borcherding. Platte, longtime city employee with World War II service, succeeds the late Robert M Lease, who carried mail for 27 years. Lease’s duties were covered by Glen Lease during illness and transition.
Brown, 33, with 20-50 vision, drove 60 mph toward a stop sign, braking late and skidding 90 feet before collision, aided by a passing vehicle. His glasses remained in his breast pocket. In Guthrie Center, Charlene Kay Foglesong died after swallowing cloth, causing fatal obstruction.
Miss Sally Goen attended two showers as honored guest this week. Ann Miller hosted a kitchen shower for twelve on Feb 9 and Mrs Otto Busching hosted for Miss Goen on Thursday. The annual Methodist supper will be held Feb 21 at the church. Mr and Mrs C E Heyer visited Omaha and family, returning by Ames, Sumner. The Kretzschmar family and the Tremaine family were guests in Sumner and Greene. Meadowbrook Country Club elected officers for 1952 with Robert Wells as president and R E Schwerin as vice president. Norma Tremaine visited relatives in Toledo. John and Reinold Bock’s grandson John Gilbert broke his leg in Columbus, Nebraska. Ed Tremaine and daughter dined with the Bocks.
Roger W. Babson from Babson Park Florida reflects on the Korea war, Asia outlook, and the need to defend Japan and Formosa. He warns of graft, inflation causes, and calls for a religious revival, tighter wages tied to production, and a broader view of global tensions impacting the United States.
Glamorous Rhonda Fleming stars in the technicolor film Little Egypt arriving at Tripoli Theatre for two showings on Sunday and Monday Feb 24 25. The picture promises rhythm romance and drama with Fleming in the title role and a glamorous cast.
Mark Stevens stars as an Egyptian dancer at the Streets of Cairo exhibit during the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, praised for an arresting debut. The cast includes Nancy Guild, Charles Drake, Steven Geray, Tom DAndrea, Minor Watson, Kathryn Givney, and Verna Felton in supporting roles. For sale typewriter paper offered at $1.50 per ream in The Tripoli Leader.
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