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ue invs ofWarden Fired Afterirorsper-is af-e weNevada Prison Breakinteriosed CARSON CITY, Nev. (I PI )— ang Veteran penologist Jack Foglia-will ni was relieved as warden of can- Nevada State Prison Monday, ig 1 two days before his retirement r01ng and during the largest escape \ne attempt at the institution in re-anJcent history.e 10 “It 3 a hell of a wav to wind4kcuts up and quite an introduction to jtect the new' man, said Fogliani, he who served as superintendent hose of the prison farm for eight the years before taking over as indi- warden in 1948.rom The new warden, Carl Hocker. was appointed by Gov. Paul Laxalt earlier this month to ! succeed Fogliani upon his retirement Feb. 1.■ •r,f^ However, I locker relieved l,u Fogliani at Laxalt’s orders Mon-day after seven inmates, in-^ eluding a murderer, overpow-ct a ered their guards and dug out ’•_ of the 100-year-old maximum security institution. They were re-* . m' captured within two hours.I The breakout occurred about 15 hours alter four condemned murderers were caught in an wiii j attempt to hacksaw their way [to freedom from death row at San Quentin Prison in Califor-ector nia. ;fCor', Hocker, stationed at San Quentin during a good part of Tash | nearly 20 years with the Califor-^ nia Department of Corrections,!cay'said the Nevada break was wella mile from the institution.All seven were flushed from open fields south of the city by prison guards. Nevada highway patrolmen and sheriff's deputies.diifthico:boSeveral warnings shots were fired, but there were no injuries as the escapers surrendered without resistance. Six carried knives and the seventh had a piece of metal as a weapon.1plibe11Labor DisputeHolds Up MailtrutheamDelivery HereamUSfItwoMail distribution from Oakland to Northern California post offices has been rerouted because of a labor dispute involving a truck line, according to Eureka Postmaster Alfred R.Houle.Nere(usejaistrDchasfuses!right RobertHe identified the convicts asGrosbeck. 22, Reno;’Darrell Coomes, 28. Reno; Har-udgejen Harmon. 24. Carson City;c f i vpAin Patrick McKenna, 20, I^as Ve-bf* ’ gas; Mark Inza. 18. Las Vegas;XfT'S n inafioni theL tO•nuitout-o asLilOfiityllciybid^Jim Brown, 31, Las Vegas; and Harvev Hunt, 26, Reno.Hocker said 50 other prisoners, including six on death row, refused to join the mass bid for freedom.The new* warden said the seven convicts overpowered twfo guards and a maintenance man took their clothes and locked them in an isolation cell.The inmates, three of them dressed in the newly acquired clothes, then spent three hours digging through a wall of theprison with the maintenanceBut, Houle said, only parcel post service has been affected by the Oakland walkout, with trucking service rerouted through Sacramento tor n o r t h state areas.Houle explained that the PMT trucking line, an affiliate of Southen Pacific Railroad, was involved in a labor dispute with a clerks union, and that loading men in Oakland walked off the job in sympathy.To bypass the difficulty, he continued, the Post Office Department rerouted mail through Sacramento. First class service has not been affected, he said, but parcel post has been subject to a 12-hour delay.Houle said that the walkoutoccurred during the weekend, with the delay in package service felt here on Sunday, lie an-wticipates a settlement and resumption of regular service shortly.littup,Bowasue1takpeitorthti1omsexMeofdll1lliLISlintEtb*r man’s tools. “Considering the lapse of timed nIf for* ♦ th*clockthere eertainlv is somethingVawry there. Hocker said. “There should have been supervisory personnel checkingthis unit.”When the opening was wide enough, the inmates scrambled through, climbed two fencesLe and made their bid for freedom. But. they never got more thanchooi j __cor Ili ei j ■ i, ,... ui .i NOTICE TO CREDITORSt at! No 17357ftV I SN T H Ft IIP-1* V 1 AO i idt Ac*legal notice
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Eureka Humboldt Standard
Eureka, California, US
Tue, Jan 31, 1967
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