Word: neale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah one day last week, another brave-talking killer named Don Jesse Neal was led out from Utah State Prison at sunrise to take the second best that Utah could give. He was strapped into a wooden office chair that bore 17 notches to signify that 17 other men had been shot in it.* "Do I have to wear this thing? I have nothing to be ashamed of," said Don Jesse Neal as officers fitted a black hood over his head, a 2-in., heart-shaped black target to his white shirt. "I am innocent; I have no malice against...
...erected in 1950, laid aside space that could do equally well for high voltage or for gas. In its 1955 session, the legislature passed a bill to install an electric chair and use it, but somewhere along the line the lawmakers balked at providing the appropriation. So, Don Jesse Neal was given his choice-but he added his own unique contribution to Utah firing-squad lore by firmly declining to choose. "There'll be no execution," he said confidently, protesting his innocence-but there...
...most celebrated of Neal's predecessors was Joe Hillstrom, writer of ballads and doughty organizer of Utah copper unions for the I.W.W. before World War I. Joe Hillstrom was convicted of murdering a grocer in a holdup, but the comrades of his union insisted to the end that he was framed...
...Director Neal Gross of the Harvard School-Executive Studies last week described the sort of crossfire the nation's schoolmen are in. Of 500 school board members questioned, 53% said that citizens had demanded they put more emphasis on the 3 Rs, while 43% received demands for other types of courses; 41% received protests over the opinions of certain teachers, while 12% were confronted with demands that teachers be allowed to speak more freely; 69% received complaints about the amount of school taxes, while 51% received demands that the schools get more money...
...Sunday Jim Graves '47, Ash Hallett '53, John McLane '57, Grog Neal '58, and Mike Ogilvie '58 will participate in the Flopenaufin Ski Club Giant Slalom at Intervale, N.H. This will not be a team meet. The team is currently in preparation for the Winter Carnival to be held at Dartmouth...