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...Greenwater (Calif.) Chuck-Walla warned readers, and the plucky little newspaper more than lived up to its lusty pledge-at least as long as it lived. The Chuck-Walla was one of in numerable fly-by-night newspapers that flourished on the Western frontier. Their exuberant, quarrelsome editors are now a forgotten breed. But, as Author John Myers Myers (The Alamo, San Francisco's Reign of Terror) makes clear, they were as much a fixture of the 19th century Western scene as outlaws and lawmen. Some Westerners were as passionate about putting out a paper as others were about...
...Prize to this first novel, call it "unquestionably the most authentic prison novel ever written." No questions are likely. The author wrote his book while serving 6½ years of a 10-to 80-year robbery sentence in a Minnesota jail. He was also a captive researcher at the Walla Walla State Prison (4½ years, burglary) and at San Quentin (three years, robbery...
Alvin L. Kwiram; B.S.(1953)Walla, Ph.D. (1963) California Institute of Technology...
...counselors are busier than ever aiding other inmates. Texas' Huntsville Prison now has a "writ room," where prisoners can polish up petitions like collegians in the library. Kansas State Penitentiary offers a big law library, partly the gift of beneficent lawyers. At Washington's State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, a special "law wing" provides typewriters as well as texts. Some prisoners are getting so legalistic, complains a Tennessee state prosecutor, that "it's getting a damned sight harder to keep them in than to put them...
...semipro, Feigner pitched a Walla Walla team to a 33-0 victory over Pendleton, Ore. "I'm so good," he said afterwards, "all I need is a catcher to lick you guys." The Pendle ton team took up the challenge. After considerable discussion, it was decided that Feigner would really need three players in addition to himself "in case we ever got the bases loaded." Using a catcher and two infielders, Feigner humiliated Pendleton...