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Shambles at the Farm. Two days later the revolt spread 37 miles north to Rahway State Prison Farm, a converted reformatory holding an overflow of lesser toughs from the Trenton prison. At Rahway the riot was bigger, and wilder. Eighteen guards were on duty in the wing of one dormitory where the trouble started. As the convicts began rioting, tearing bedding and overturning steel bunks, guards on the first floor got out, herding 75 prisoners ahead of them. Nine other guards were grabbed as hostages by 231 convicts, who barricaded themselves on the second floor...
...dormitory was turned to a shambles. The convicts piled huge stacks of bedding on the dormitory floor and set fire to them. The flames soon smoldered out. They hooted and jeered at the heavily armed guards and state troopers quickly assembled in the prison yard below. The Rahway rioters dramatized their grievances by posting them on crudely lettered bedsheets hung from the dormitory windows: "Stop Beating Cons." "We Want a New Parole Board." "Tell the Truth-We Have Radios...
Ronald Charles David Breslow of Rahway, New Jersey, and Lowell House; Peter Schuyler Brown of New York City, and Eliot House; Maurice Benjamin Burg of Newton Center, and Adams House; Paul Cecil Martin of Long Island City, New York and Kirkland House; Richard S. Palais of Brookline, and Kirkland House; Earl Cedric Ravenal of Providence, and Eliot House; Neil Joseph Smelser of Phoenix, Arizona, and Adams House; and Issac Thomas, Jr., of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Lowell House...
...were getting sick & tired of the indignities directed their way. The name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
Gerald Y. Genn '48, of Lowell House and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was reelected President of the Crimson Network last night. Other officers elected were: Lloyd F. Peskoe '48 of Eliot House and Rahway, New Jersey, Business Manager; Charles A. O'Brien '50 of Lowell House and Lawrence, Program Manager;s and John V. Bouyoncos '49 of Lowell House and East Lansing, Michigan, Technical Director...