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SIX MZDFORD (ORZGOJf) MAIL TRIBUNE . Monday, May 23, 1955 ji :m u -i&i , Up PURGATOIRE CLAIMS HALF A CHURCH The tiny Sa cred Heart church was cut in half by the flash-flooding Purgatoire River at Trinidad, Colo. Only the section con taining the altar remained intact. . " Man Behind Prison Bars for 48 Years About To Receive Freedom USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS Dead line Sunday ClagRtfic to noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 creviousday. Editor's Note: At Christmas tim. 1952. U.P. Correspondent Tom Farrell of the Lansing. Mich., bureau wrote a story about the "loneliest man" in the Michigan Penitentiary at Jarkson. The man was Tony Duley. a life termer who had been in prison for 45 years and hadn't received a letter or a vis itor in 20 years. Sympathetic readers deluged the convict with Christmas cards and gifts. This story tells how one of those 1952 Christmas greetings may become his deliverance . By TOM FARRELL United Press Correspondent Jackson, Mich. (U.R) A Michigan prison official who says 77-year-old Tony Duley, who has spent the last 48 years behind bars, is "as good as out." Some time later this year hell be paroled and sent home. But home, to a man who has not drawn a free breath since 1907, could be a hard place to find in 1955. Unless, like "Pop" Duley, you have been adopted by a family outside. Duley will end his long im prisonment for murder by being received into the circle of a fam ily he didn't even know until two and a half years ago. Prison authorities are arrang ing for him to live at an old folks home at Muskegon, Mich., not far from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Baron. It is Mrs. Baron, a housewife and Use Tribune Want Ads 'Standard Play' Records Fast Nearing Rate as Horse and Buggy of Music World New York (U.R) Popularity of the 78 RPM phonograph rec ord hai taken its worst nosedive In years. The "standard play" disc is closer than ever to be coming the horse and buggy of the. music world. It has all but vanished from many record cabinets. The rum pus room where teen-agers de cide what kind of music will be heard may be its last refuge. The "extended play" 45-RPM and the "long play" 33 13 RPM records are becoming the staples of the trade. Tin Pan Alley in recent weeks has reported drops up to 50 per cent in sales of 78s compared with sales last winter. What fin ished off the 78 for many record buyers, apparently,, were the deep price cuts in EP and IPs put into effect shortly after the first of the year. "The trend away from 78s has been accelerating something ter rific," said Larry Kanaga, vice president and operations man ager of RCA Victor records. "Four months ago our sales of single records were divided about half and half between 78s and 45s. Now, 78s are down to about 40 per cent and 45s up to 60 per cent." At Columbia Records," a spokesman said the 78 RPM rec ord had faded even more sharp ly. The old type record now ac counts for only 35 per cent of Columbia's total sales. The 78 has been losing popu larity ever since slower-speed records went on the market in 1943. But the shift to EP's and LP's had been more gradual un til early this year when industry wide price cuts made it possible PLUCKY Nancy Jo din ger, 16, of South Bend, Ind., once completely paralyzed by polio, plays piano with her left hand. Her right arm is still paralyzed. Nancy started slaying six years ago as an 3xperiment in physical thera py. She can now cover the antirc keyboard with her left land. A recent recital brought her invitations for repeat performances. to buy a small, light EP record for the same price as a 78. Price Cut "The price cut problem stimu lated a lot of people to buy a slower - speed phonograph where they had hesitated before be cause of the higher price of long playing records," Kanaga said. What about the music-lover who is nursing an old 78 RPM phonograph through its declining years? Will it reach the point where he can't get his kind of records any more? Not for quite a while, if ever, But his choice of tunes is likely to become limited. Already, few companies are putting out classi cal music on 78s. Albums of pop ular music also are vanishing. Sales of . 78s are now confined almost entirely to singles-popular hits, dance music and novel ties. Since teen-agers appear to be the biggest buyers of 78 RPM singles, their tastes will probably have more to do with the cata log than anything else. WON'T LEARN TO ACT New York (U.R) Former middelweight boxing champion Rocky Graziano said Sunday night he will not play himself in a movie about his life because "my TV director said, 'Rocky, if you ever learn to act you lose your job." HONOR COMES LATE ' Arras, France (U.R) Seraph in Provist, 106, received a Com batant's Cross Sunday. 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Loneliest Convict Shortly ' before Christmas in 1952, Mrs. Baron, saw a United Press story describing how Du ley was not only the oldest con vict in Michigan, but also the loneliest. He had no family and hadn't had a letter in 20 years. Mrs. Baron was only one of about 900 persons who sent a Christmas card or a letter to the wiry, gray-haired convict known as "Pop" to other inmates. But when the Christmas se?son had passed, Mrs. Baron unlike all the others kept on writing. A year later she and her hus band, Marion, and the children went to visit Duley at the pen itentiary. They took a liking to the humble old man and decid ed then and there to try to get him released. Duley had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1907 for the fatal shooting of a ticket agent at Tawas, Mich. Duley, then 29, said the agent was shot with his own gun during a scuf fle that started over a careless remark. But Duley had been in prison before for taking $8 from a butcher shop one night and his story that the shooting was an accident didn't impress any one. He drew a life sentence for second degree murder. Lost Touch With Ouiside He worked for years in the prison shoe factory. His only friends were prisoners and guards who came and went as the years slipped by. Gradually, Duley lost touch with the out side world. "My folks are all gone now dead. The last one, a brother, passed on years ago," Duley says. But due to the effort of his new-found "folks," the Baron family, Gov. G. Mennen Wil liams is expected soon to sign a commutation of his sentence. His case must still pass the par ole board but no trouble is an ticipated. Case examiner Don Thurston said the other day, "Duley is as good as out." "God willing," says Mrs. Bar on, "Tony 11 be with us before summer sets in. He can be sure we'll take care of him if he gets sick. 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