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Show Sticking to the Job Were the average youngster inducted in-ducted into a new job and positively assured that he must remain with the .same institution for 70 years, he would probably look upon the prospect with horror. But August C. Kessinger of Rome, New York, has volutarily stuck to the Sentinel that long, thereby establishing es-tablishing a record that is perhaps unique in the annals of newspaper-dom. newspaper-dom. Eight years as an employee and sixty-two years as a publisher publish-er summarizes his cennecetion with that newspaper. During his regime the Sentinel has chronicled the events of the Civil War, the Spanish American War and the World War, as well as many stiring happenings in between and since. It has seen its home town grow into a thriving manufacturing manu-facturing city and has doubtless contributed more to the advancement advance-ment of its community than any other agency. Yet there are probably a good many readers of the Sentinel who feel that they could give Mr. Kessinger Kess-inger some valuable advice on how to run a newspaper. |