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Easing into a New World. Last May Glenwood got a new superintendent, young (32) Alfred Sasser Jr., who had put through a whirlwind program of reform at Muscatatuck State School in Indiana (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954). Though his budget had been closed, Sasser talked legislators into reopening it, got extra funds for psychologists, trained technicians and essential equipment-an electroencephalograph, an audiometer, etc. Sasser also decided to retest the IQs of his 1,866 charges. In addition to Mayo Buckner, who scored 120, a dozen other patients were found to have IQs over 90 and to be well equipped...
...Mayo Buckner, whose whole life had been spent in the institution, transition to the outside world would be tougher. In the mail came offers of two jobs and a score of places to live. Buck thought he would like to teach music. As soon as he and Superintendent Sasser agree on a place for him to go, he will be free-free, as Buck put it, "just to go out and sit in a park and listen to a good band...
...even worse straits was 23-year-old Mrs. Agnes Dixon, who married William Sasser of La Grange, N.C. on the strength of an official War Department report that her first husband. Pfc. Walter Dixon, had died of wounds in Korea. In January 1952, after the Communists disclosed that Dixon was a prisoner, Mrs. Dixon got her marriage to Sasser annulled. Six months later she gave birth to a son. Though she named the boy William Charles Dixon, Mrs. Dixon is currently living with her second husband's family (Sasser himself lives elsewhere). Pfc. Dixon, who was released a week...
Inevitably, there were a few strange twists to the unfolding story. The Pentagon found that the Red list included 20 names of men previously recorded as killed in action. At Ft. MacArthur, Calif., Private Antonio Apodaca, a Korea veteran, found his name on the list. In Atlanta, Mrs. William Sasser gasped incredulously when she heard the name "Pfc. Walter Dixon." That was the name of her first husband, who was reported killed in action last May. At week's end the Defense Department was still checking into the case...
...week's end Sasser was still plowing ahead with his investigation. He had arrested ten more Klansmen (one of them, a member of the state constabulary, was promptly fired) and he swore he was going to pinch a hundred more. The state governments of North and South Carolina took steps to suppress Klan parades, and many predicted that the Klan, after its cowardly night's work, was through in both states for good...