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Clo^ to lo grow aBuford C.a , March 17 (AP—A croup of Georgia convicts ha* designed and built a million-ino.lar home one of the best of its kind but none of them everwants to live in itRock Quarry Prison was con-stmcted to house 32fi of the states most hardened and lncor-rleible rrlmlnals Eserythlng from the architect's drawing to the last intricate lock and listening device was the work of skilled prisoners The Job was done m nine months Did All The Work Mhen whose crimes range from rape and murder to hog stealing i forged the bars welded the cell blocks and set up the siren system Thev designed and constructed the complicated system of locks put up five watch towers and topped it off by building a pleasant home for Warden Ed Clements Clements values the new penitentiary at a million dollars He savs it actually cast the state onlv $114 838 25 The warden l vs It is as nearly escape-proof is lt;i tall ran be made It already i being called ‘ Georgia s Alca-ti i/'The wav those towers aie plat ed even bribing guardt wnuidn t help a prisoner escape unless he bribed at least three of them * Clemente says, “and his chances of getting away * ouidn t be too good even then.One of the beat brick layer* in Die Cohnlry ww responsible for the prison’s red brick front, if fording to the warden In varl-ou» jails lor much of his life, he ]■ seivine a 20-year term for burglaryAnoMu-r bmglur with 20-i.tr •.entente n cook named Bill, fit l ert Die inliicate locks for thenlimv fonflnement cell* Heo nit them too Any tell tan be Sftkttl ru imlorked from outside Dr tell blfwk bv use of a double h*\ and ek-Gtltallv operated slid-n« doors Bill also constracted Hie cells although he had never done Kim liar work before1 lust Kot interested In it,'* he i xplainer]Ai: the plumbing was Installed bv a llfe-lturner who was a prole sjon il plumbei on the outside Another burglar was the surveyor I'iie tied nr Inn4 who did the cont-plir iieri wning jobs were thieves and rx fjimlnaK Tire man who built all the doors has completed nine vrars of a 25-to-40-ycar sen-tenrc foi receiving stolen good* i A mtirdcrer did such a good v. elding job the warden rewarded him with a tiansfer to a prison Icamp neaier his home A skilled [cabinet maker built all the furniture and a carpenter paneled (he warden's house Real TalentIf is surprising how many talented men there are among Uwbieakers Clemente says Not a thins had to be done over Thrv got everything right the fust time He k pleased that the men who built the igison don t want to bp among the 'hard rocks who will occupy It Tire warden is pround of their work t*nd hopes the expetience they gained will add to Ihelr chances of finding jobs when they are released.The prison Is located on Hog Mountain, just a few miles from Buford on the site of a former ccc camp The mountain got it* name in the day* when farmers rested there on the way to market with their hogs.Sta^e prison officials chose the site because it comprises about II acres of solid granite The tough convicts will dig it out and crush it for use on Georgia s roads There ought to be enough rock to last about a hundred year* Ed Clements figuresSomerset Dairymen Will Meet TuesdaySkowhegan, March 17.—Dairymen of this section will gain much mfonnation from a meeting on Green Pastures to be held at the Municipal Building in Skowhe-ft 1 30 p m TuesdayRichard Talbot will have col-*'de°re^ top pastures* inNew England Somerset County winners in the 1050 Green Pastures contest will receive certifl-#A five-star program for better-fed dairy cows in iflsi win be announced More than ever before, rough-WE lnfluence milk profit* In 1981 The meeting i* announced by County Agent Robert M GroverElliott Hold, Newport, Promoted To CaotainNewport, March IT.—Mr. «nd Mr* Ralph Hold have received wor ™.?f }ht Htomotlon of their son, Elliott E Hold to the rank ofcaptainCaptain Hold enlisted in World War II on Feb 9, 1941 |n the U, 8 Air Forces and was stationed n England from 1943 returning*fe WM 0n thr rcJM’rvc list until he reenlfstcd in 1947 and was assigned to a base in South Carolina before going to the canal zone in Panama for a year and a half He is now at Brooks Air Base, San Antonio Texa*He is married to the former Eugenia Wlthee of Newport and they have two childrenMrs Ethel I PDam*riscotta,\ Scooperation with c Lincoln County C Cross has arrange of lessons to be-glv the county to qc teach classes of w care for the sick The course, to I former Red Cross library building, w 28 and will be givi bina Oanski field of nursing services, tional Red Crow M inson, chairman c services in Lincoln charge of arrangerr tlve and retired mu to become accredit The hour* tor the arranged to suit tl of those taking theIt Take« A Big 1Soist To Atoaken Edmund JamkWoonsocket. R. I„ March 17. 'Ap—When Edmund C. Janfk went to sleep in his apartment over his tailor shop he slept soundly.A* he slept, thieves smashed a glass window below him, They ripped a heavy wire screen from the window, ‘ They sawed through a heavy steel bar.Getting inside, they pulled a 409-pound uia through the room and dumped it Into the driveway. They slammed openthe casji register and took 110 from it.T oy loaded the safe into a car and roared away.Janlk finally awoke—at 8.30 a, m. He opened the shop at 7 and found what had happened while he slept. I didn’t hear a thing.” he told police.PhippsburgFhipptbttrg. Matee# of the Totmi Tuesday evening ! Winslow wa* appoi They voted to havlt; installed at once A special service 7 30 p m Thur* Point Church Next Sunday at Rev H Macy M conduct Easter mi Point Church. Spa be arranged by Whitehead and Mrs Phippsburg Cenuhold a rummai# si Ham next Satui side Hall Home c» will be on sale 3 Perkins is comm 11 and Mrs Frederick publlcUv chairman The Suburb Civic a public card party negance Communi Thursday, April 5 Moree is in charge cPopham BeaPopham Beach.Construction was I on the south aho Mr and Mr* Ri Bath Burt S Osfl contractor.Work wa* compt moving back cottiriver shore In all have been moved Mrs Guy E Cri tlent at Bath Men Mr and Mrs Fr, Cambridge Mass, Mrs Ferrara s pai Mrs Guy E Crowli Mr and Mrs Pei of Lewiston visitedWestall and Captter E, Sprague last
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Portland Press Herald
Portland, Maine, US
Sun, Mar 18, 1951
Page 53
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