Alcatraz to Close as Costly Repairs Loom
The federal government plans to vacate Alcatraz next year due to costly remodeling and maintenance. Prison costs run high with $13 daily per inmate and aging, corroded facilities dating to 1907. The piece lists notable alumni and past escape attempts, noting 12 total escapes since 1934 and current island population and staff.
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Yveny
San Francisco Bay
Robert F. Kennedy
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Rocky Bostille
James V. Bennett
Federal
Prison Island
Angel Island
Alcatraz
San Francisco
Robert Kennedy
Island
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Allen Academy
Allen Military Academy
Bryan
Texas
Allen
Young babysitters face hearing on legal status in HoHoKus
Betsy Beers and Elizabeth Fouts, 17 and 16, confront a zoning board session to determine if their in residential area baby sitting service is lawful after neighbor Albert Gall objects. The girls ran care for seven children ages 2 to 5 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Betsy’s home.
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Hohobrus
N. J
Gupi
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Betsy Beers
Eihnabeth Fouts
Betsy
Albert FL Gal
Gall
Hohokus
Fower
Goll
DONS DISGUISE Wily Escape Artist Can't Fool Guards
John J. Martin serving 7 to 10 years for armed robbery attempted to escape Walpole Prison by disguising as a civilian wearing tan trousers white shirt and hat with tea dyed face and mustache. He was spotted near the yard and recaptured within 200 yards of freedom after guards challenged him three times. Martin has a long prison-escape record dating to 1947 and 1956 but did not escape this time.
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Alvin
Creepy) Karpis
Graau
Ate
Ma Barker
Midwest
Karpis
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Washington State
Basil
the Owl Banghart
Roger (the Terrible
Robert F. Stroud
Alcatraz
Stroud
Leavenworth
Juneau
Alaska
Federal Medical Center
Springfield
Mickey Cohen
Frankie Carbo
Cohen
Los Angeles
Carbo
New York
Clarence
John Anglin
Alabama
Frank Lee Morris
Louisiana
Olin G. Blackwell
Army
Ralph Roe
Theodore Cole
Oklahoma
Dee
San Francisco
George Christopher
Pacific
Golden Gate
Orient
Walpole
Mass
John J. Martin
Martin
John A. Gavin
Charlestown State Prison
Norfolk Prison Colony
Bridgewater Correctional Institution
Women protest bill to restore polygamy in Pakistan
In Rawalpindi hundreds of Pakistani women demonstrated outside the national assembly against a bill to repeal the family laws ordinance that curbed polygamy. Leaders from the All Pakistan Women’s Association warned the move would subjugate women and strip them of rights won under Ayub Khan’s regime.
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John Barton
Rawalpindi
Pakistan
National Assembly
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Ayub Khan
Ayub
All Pakistan Women's Association
National
Polio Drive Unites Harris County With Four Texas Counties
Dr. Thomas L. Royce of the Harris County Medical Society says Galveston Matagorda Brazoria and Montgomery counties will join a synchronized polio immunization effort with Harris County. About one million people are targeted starting Sunday with Sabin oral vaccine at 200 elementary schools from noon to 6 pm. Type 2 and Type 3 vaccines will be distributed later in September and November.
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Houston
Texas
Harris County
Thomas L. Royce
Harris County Medical Society
Galveston
Matagorda
Brazoria
Montgomery
Royce
Diplomat 1 Injured After Wild Duck Strikes Car
Datuk Bagindo a 45 year old special assistant to the Indonesian ambassador to Thailand was injured when a wild duck shattered a windshield on the New Jersey Turnpike. His wife Suwisa Ruslan a 25 year old also injured along with a German merchant Bat angtarris and Paul Pesik 35 of Washington the rented car driver. All treated and released at West Jersey Hospital in Camden.
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Morristown
N. J
UPI
Thailand
New Jersey Turnpike
Datuk Bagindo
Here
Bagindo
Suwisa
Ruslan
Batangtarris
Paul Pesik
Washington
West Jersey
Camden
Bulls Win Five Bouts In Spain
In Madrid and five other cities bulls gored five bullfighters. Curra Romero and Juan Sandino were gored in the abdomen while El Viti Amadeo Dos Anjos and Oswaldo Sarmiento sustained thigh wounds and were hospitalized.
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Madrid
UPI
Curra Romero
Juan Sandino
el Viti
Amadeo Dos Anjos
Oswaldo Sarmiento
Senators seek fair defense contract distribution
Sen. Alexander Wiley said there is too great a concentration of defense production and contracts. He plans to confer with other senators and Defense Secretary McNamara after citing a Defense Department study claiming 10 states received more than two thirds of defense business.
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Washington
UPD
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Wiley
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Defense Department
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Diplomat
ED Hambright
Lubbock
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Leaders Round Table of
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Broadway
Great National Life Insurance Company
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