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24 hours a day. As far as security is con cerned, Iowa's prison is one of the tightest in the country. The occasional escapes that take place are "walkaways" from trusty assignments outside the walls. This, or any prison, can best be com pared to a walled-in city. The inmates do the work and reap the benefits of at least a partially normal life by conducting them selves as citizens anywhere would. There are rules, just as there are outside. No man likes being imprisoned, no matter how de cent the surroundings; but most try to make the best of things. The prison for the most part is a huge school, with many workshops and vocational units teaching the prisoner a useful trade while he is paying his debt to society. The vocational-training program directed by J. Roby Hilpert has made great prog ress in the last five years. Hilpert, a former college football star, saw the need for giv ing prisoners something concrete to build their lives on. From a one-room operation in 1949, Hilpert has led the vocational school to proficiency in such trades as automotive repair, body and fender repair, radio and television servicing, sign painting, commer cial art, and welding. The automotive school, probably the most popular, has sent 74 men back to society in the last six years. Of these, only three got into further trouble with the law as compared to an over-all repeater rate of more than 50 percent. The radio-repair school, operating much the same as the automotive school, has re turned an average of 15 men a year to society as competent craftsmen not crim inals. Not one man who completed this course of training has returned to his former life of crime. There are no restrictions on the men who are permitted to attend these schools. If the space is available, anyone in prison is eligible regardless of the crime for which he was sentenced. One man, trained in the automotive school, was a seven-time loser in prison. But after four years' training in auto me chanics this oft-convicted felon returned to society, got a job in a garage, and today has his own auto-repair shop. Cooks and bakers receive training in the li S:VVVVVV u U 3, A row . 4? I 7 fir p SENSATIONAL NEWS FOR DOG LOVERS ! SEE FLEAS DROP OFF WITHIN MINUTES I Now, at last you can get a powder that realty stop "hot weather' scratching, soothes painfully itching skin, and deodorizes all in minutes. You actually Jet the fleas drop off. Sergeant's (new formula) Scratch Powder gives quick relief to pets that often scratch themselves raw in hot, muggy weather. It quickly kills fleas and lice, stops the hery itching of summer eczema. No other powder works as well and yet, it costs much lest only 49ji and 7. Ask for Sergeant's by name at any drug or pet counter. Don't accept substitutes there's only one Sergeant's. While there, get your jrce copy of Sergeant's Dog Book. Ur write WVtUwMltm9 ee Mtolt eireeano' MM to ft care pr.rf.cfl Got a cat? Uw Sergeant't quick-acting Col Flea Powder only 49 Molt Sergeant's product! or available in Canada. e3 ail 4S-4 PERIODIC PAIN While menstruation is natural and necessary menstrual suffering is ''a W not. So just take a Midol tablet, Mary, and go your way in comfort. Midol brings faster relief from men strual pain-it relieves cramps, eases headache and chases the "blues' Keep America Green It you have a Serious Odor Problem Make this FREE TEST! We will lend you one week's supply ' of NULLO free and postpaid. The magical ingredient it contains-extracted from fresh, sweet alfalfa safely neu trallxes the most stubborn odors, internally, BEFORE THEY FORM. 9 Foot odora, under arm odors, breath odors even menstrual and colos tomy odors simply can't exist when N ULLO is used regularly. Try It, FREE! 3 Send your name on the coupon be low. Your Seven Day Trial packet of NULLO will be mailed free, postpaid. THE DE PREE Cfc, Beat. 87, Mbad, Mich. "Tut m mi ct).. . w, n,tm. mtL I PlMwe mail postpaid a Seven lay Supply 1 I ol NULU) with directions lor ue. There I is no chant to me now or at any other time. I NAMK I ADURKSS . I CITY STATU YOU'D NIVH KNOW I HAD Fur 24 years psoriasis sufferers have learned thai Siroil lends to remove unsightly external Jb Qjf (rum and scales. If lesions re u j J cur. liaht applications of y J Siroil help control them. JJ J Siroil won't Main cloth- St . inft or bed linens. Of. . lerra on 2veks-satift faction-or-monry-re. funded basis. Willi t BR flUt M MittM kf rifrlltttf , tmyvtm. N aasMrt Ji (FT ajJlJLJBUJTMJ J lIBrOIL LABO)ATOIIU, INC. " I Dea. rw-H tnto.alnilra.CatH. I I PImm MBdMatourfr booklet i PMrlaalc. I I riaMaTM-'t j State Penitentiary. The publication is a rehabilitative measure to give convicts a forum. family Weekly. July II, 1957 7
