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...convicts who tunneled out of Washington's Walla Walla State Penitentiary last week wanted more than mere freedom; by painstaking organization they had prepared to enter society as flawlessly documented citizens...
Last week's example of devilish ingenuity was nothing new at Walla Walla, sections of which boast no plumbing, densely crowded conditions, sullen inmates, and cowed, underpaid guards who seldom stay long. Excerpts from Walla Walla's record...
...ominous quiet prevailed at Walla Walla this autumn as officials longed for the day when new facilities would be built to contain men like the July rioters. When state legislators finally approved funds for desperately needed construction, it seemed the situation might finally be brought under control. But last week Warden Lawrence Delmore received crushing news from the State Supreme Court: the legislature's' prison appropriation was unconstitutional...
...Walla Walla, Wash. (pop. 26,000), there is a familiar phrase that means bad news: "There's trouble on the hill." The hill is the state penitentiary, and trouble has a long history there. In 1926 some 900 convicts broke out of their cells, and threatened the main gate before they were subdued; in 1934 nine convicts and a guard died in the "Lincoln Day break"; two years ago rioters set a $500,000 fire. Last week trouble came to the hill again...
From Montana, the Columbine carried Ike to Walla Walla, where searchlights glared at the President as he stepped down from the plane onto politically apathetic soil. Since Washington elects neither governor nor Senator this year, the state's interest, such as it is, centers on the seven House contests: Democrats are given a fighting chance to pick up one of the six Republican seats...