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Chairman says parolee had ‘exemplary’ recordJoseph GaTkin, chairman of the State Parole Board, said today that Steven Robertson of Middletown has been an exemplary prisoner. Robertson was sentenced la life imprisonment in 1967 for murdering two sailors here. He will be paroled next monih.The board Thursday voted torelease Robertson, 36, mi Nov. 10. State law mandates that Life prisoners serve 10 years of their sentences before they can ask for parole.Approval on a first request is rarely granted and Robertson is one of the first lileis known to gel it.Gaik in said that Robertsonhad “a perfect and enviable record'* and had done much for prison reform legislation. He said' that several legislators, judges and two former wardens wrote in favor of the parole.A condition of his parole is that he live at Dismas, a halfway house operated bythe Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence. He will work as a counselor at the Christian Brothers Center in Narragan-sett.4'We reviewed the ease withgreat care/' Galkin said. “He had a perfect record and served wie-ihird of bis life in prison and showed that a man. can do something positive with his life even there.Robertson in August of 1S68 was sentenced to two concurrent life terms. He was convicted of murdering two sailors with a rifle in 1967 at the Quality Lunch on Broadway after an argument. He has been in minimum security since 1973 and most recently worked in the prison’s furlough office.Paper-cut artWASHINGTON lt;UP2J -Those pre-school tefs laboring to create cutout masterpieces for proud parents are following a craft almost as old as paper itself.The ancient art of paper cutting originated in Norlh China after the invention of paper Ihere about 100 AD.Traditionally called “window flowers'' and fashioned from red paper, some of the first cutouts were used to decorate thin paper windows coaled with tung oil to make them partially transparent.
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Sat, Oct 29, 1977
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