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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1953
Page
6
The heads had risen through different departments from stenographers to bookkeepers to salesmen and even common laborers at the beach. Some were very poor or crippled and most had no college education. Yet many used the four books daily or their equivalent.
St. Elizabeth church on West Pleasant lists Masses at 10 a.m. and 1 a.m. Saint Paul Lutheran and Emmanuel Parish offer morning services, church school, and youth activities. A dozen denominations including Seventh Day Adventist, Nazarene, Evangelical United Brethren, First Baptist, First Methodist, and First Presbyterian hold worship, Sunday School, youth fellowships, and evening services on various city streets.
A dense catalog of business names appears as advertising sponsors for the page. Included are Bracken Funeral Home, Pauls Men s Wear, House of Flowers, Damon s, Pennzoil Service, Model Dairy Company, Thomas Motors of Corry Inc, E E Guignon, Ajax Iron Works, Olds the Florist, Phillips Schoub Wallpaper and Paint, Crystal Coal Company, Fogle Lumber Company, Corry Jamestown Mfg Co, Hammond Elevator Co, Corry Lakery, Western Auto Store, Rex Theatre, Guy W Bennink Insurance, Brigham Hardware, Martin Motor Sales and Franz Furniture.
Sunday sermons fill city churches with listed hours and topics. St Pauls hosts Rev Himer Ortner at 11 and a 1 a.m. session on By This We Believe. First Methodist offers Rev Howard Stull at 11 and 7 30 p m with a film. Other churches announce topics and film showings for the day.
New York news describes Jean L. Tanburn facing a choice between marriage to Donelson M. Kelly Jr and a $675,000 trust fund plus $6,500 yearly income. A will provision bars inheritance for descendants who marry non Jewish spouses. Kelly, a Princeton senior, is not Jewish and tanburn plans to marry before his Fort Sill Army service. In Morristown New Jersey, Morris County reports polio mortality for 1963 with Elmer Wulf, 26, of Sterling dying after hospital admission.
An MIT graduate argues college degrees are valuable for time and money, but urges industrious readers to daily consult four books the Short Bible, Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, How to Live, and any standard encyclopedia. He praises night schools and correspondence courses and notes encyclopedias offer great long term value when used daily.
The column advises readers to pursue the department best suited to them, noting that all jobs across industries test character, industry, perseverance. It stresses that race, wealth, education, or marital status do not bar opportunity. readers of the column have chances today.
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