Prisoners on Death Row Cry for Education and Reform
Varderman Shack and Edgar Hatfield, two Black inmates on Indiana State Prison Death Row, express limited schooling and a wish to improve literacy as they face execution. Shack, with a fourth grade background, discusses grammar fears and hopes for education, while Dull and others reflect on delays, stays, and the broader fate of capital punishment in Indiana.
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Varderman Shack
Indiana State Prison
Shack
Edgar Hatfield
Indianapolis
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Branigin
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Matthew E. Welsh
Dull
Muncie
Indiana
Delaware County
Winot case granted new trial in Indianapolis
A Corydon woman wins a new trial after the Indiana Appellate Court raps Floyd County Judge Tegart for telling the jury there was no issue of insurance in the damage suit. Mrs Clarice F Winot sued Harold L Yoho over a Dec 6 1961 three car crash on Interstate 65 in Clarksville and had been awarded 2500.
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Corydon
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Floyd Circuit
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Indiana Supreme Court
Clarice F. Winot
Harold L. Yoho
Clarksville
Lord Norman Brook Dies in London at 65
Lord Norman Brook, famed as "The Man with a Million Secrets," died at his London home at age 65. He chaired the British Broadcasting Corporation governors for three years and spent 37 years as a civil servant. From 1947 to 1962 he was Secretary of the Cabinet and to the Treasury, quietly shaping policy with successive prime ministers.
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London
UPI
Norman Brook
British Broadcasting Corporation
Cabinet
Treasury
Crime seen as nation's severest problem by Sen Bayh
Sen Birch Bayh told Indiana Bankers Association that bank robberies and burglaries rose 200 percent last year from 1961 figures. He heads a Senate subcommittee on crime and said only one in eighteen crimes ends in a conviction. He urged lawmakers to take decisive action.
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French Lick
Ind
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Bloomfield Bank appoints new assistant to president
Robert L. Jackson has accepted the post of assistant to the president at Farmers & Mechanics Federal Savings and Loan Association in Bloomfield. A Bloomfield High School graduate with an electrical engineering degree from California State College at Long Beach, he previously worked as a field engineer for North American Aviation in New London, Connecticut.
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Robert L. Jackson
Farmers & Mechanics Federal Savings and Loan Association
Jackson
J. Albert Jackson
Bloomfield
Bloomfield High School
California State College
Long Beach
Cali
North American Aviation
New London
Britain's oldest man John Mosley Turner marks 111th birthday
London AP reports John Mosley Turner is 111, his stated ambition is to celebrate his 112th birthday next year. He remains Britain's eldest man and hopes to reach 112.
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John Mosley
Turner
Britain
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