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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1964
Page
4
Phyllis McGinley writes in the Ladies Home Journal that childhood fun is vanishing as youths face heavy parental and social pressure. She argues overregulated play erodes imagination and warns grown adults now treat ulcers as status symbols, urging preservation of unsupervised childhood.
The text posits a 200 year average lifespan for great civilizations and outlines a sequence: bondage to spiritual faith, to courage, to liberty, to abundance, to selfishness, to complacency, to apathy, and finally to fulfillment. It mirrors a cyclical theory of rise and decline.
Washington column notes letters from Juhi Bite Society and Project Prayer urging Congressmen to back school prayer and fight against a supposed liberal, agnostic trend. It details reactions from Reps Emanuel Celler and others, the Becker amendment push, and pressure tactics involving Dem incumbents and younger challengers.
Jim Bishop reflects on a Northwest Airlines flight crew high above Louisville sharing cockpit duties and the safety culture that governs modern commercial aviation. He details the crew roles, ground control coordination, onboard instruments, and ongoing training that keep decades of air travel safe and reliable.
In a week of air strikes the United States navy reports destroying 232 enemy planes in the Carolines and Truk atoll heavy blows as Allied fleets roam the South Pacific. In Italy Allied bombers hit harbors and rail lines while Fifth and Eighth Armies prepare coordinated attacks under Eisenhower.
Seven men from Warren Bradford and Johnsonburg faced state police gambling raids on Saturday. Authorities confiscated a slot machine and numbers slips. Arraignments later that day saw all defendants plead innocent and post $1,000 bonds. Named defendants include Jesse Marino Warren. Joseph Canall bookmaking. Joseph Feronti establishing gambling and lottery. Stanley Kissel bookmaking. Cancill Feronti and Kissel Johnsonburg. Bradford residents John Polucci Pasquale Costanzo Joseph DePaul charged with bookmaking.
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