THURSDAY. JUNE M. 1962
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Alcatraz Has
San Francisco 4UPI Tour
iits on the waterfront can pay
a dime and peer at Alcatraz
Island in the middle of the San
Francisco harbor.
"But it's so close," they of
ten say.
Close it is, but the mile and
a quarter of chill, fast-moving
water that separates it from
the mainland has been enough
to stifle every escape attempt
in the 28 years the island has
Can't Sit on Boss's Lap
Electronic Computers Hasten Man's
Decline; May
Washington (UPIi Hardly a
week goes by any more that
some company doesn't contri
bute to man's decline by
brinning out a new type of
e l etiron
ic computer.
In fact,
these so-called
"memory"
devices are
coming on
the market so
fast it takes a
t ,eep track
wen the names
and numbers of the other
computers.
This week's model, which
went on display here today,
is called "Cris." A product of
the Information Retrieval
Corp., it is billed as being
"desk-sized.'
It stores more' than half a
million pagen of microfilmed
data in a box no bigger than
a loaf of bread. I assume that
in emergencies it could even
be used as a bread box.
The desk-size computer
comes on the heels of a
computing machine called
the "automated realty ser
vices plan' Its purpose Is
lo replace landlords, which
in some ways could be a
blessing.
It supposedly performs all
of the functions that a land
lord performs, like notifying
you that the rent is overdue.
The literature I have does
n't make clear, however,
whether it puts poor widows
out into the street on snowy
nights.
The electronic landlord ap
parently has one major ad
vantage over the human va
riety. When you complain
that your apartment isn't get
ting enough heat, It merely
Ignores your protest without
giving you a lot of Hp.
Another noto1 lpt of com
puter, fortunately still in the
Ha
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Robert W. Warne and John
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the United States Marine
Corps, have completed recruit
training at the Marine Corps
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been a federal civilian prison.
Before Tuesday, no one had
ever successfully pulled off an
escape from the "Rock" as
far as is known.
What was probably t h e
bloodiest attempt at break
out began May 2, 1946, and
lasted three days. It took U. S.
Marines to stop the attempted
escape.
Bernard Coy and Paul Crel
zer, who had successfully chal-
Replace Secretaries
experimental s t g e , may
eventually replace ihe office
secretary.
If it Dans out, it will take
dictation, translate the pho
netic sounds into writing and
type out the words without
so much as a misplaced com
ma. The only drawback is, It
can't sit on the boss' lap.
In view of the havoc that
computers are creating, you
might be interested in know
ing who started it all.
According to Ine mnn
onian Institution, which
recently did soma research
on the subject, the culprit
is a certain Charles Bab
bags, a professor at Cam
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Calif. Wurne is Ihe son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold W. Wninc,
route 1, Eagle Point, and New
man's parents are Mr. and
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Long
innanH snvpn other nrisons be
fore they were transferred to
Alcatraz, fashioned a wrench
from toi!t fixtures to spread
the bars in their cell.
Kill Guard
They slugged a guard in
the main cell block and, tak
ing his keys, climbed to the
barred cage that protected an
armed guard. They used their
wrench to get into the guard
tower and overpower the
bridge university in Eng
land during the middle of
the last century.
Babbage drew up a de
sign for a computing device
which was too complex for
the technical skills of that
day. Only part of the machine
was built, but it was respon
sible for much thai came la
ter. Any way you look at it,
Babbage was a busy little
man. In addition to designing
the first computer, he is the
genius who Invented the cow
catcher for locomotives.
He likewise left his im
print on history as the first
man to cross a railroad via
duct in a handcar.
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The new marines will next
report to Camp Pendleton,
Calif., for individual combat
training.
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History of Frustrated Escape Attempts
guard, taking his gun. Then
they liberated about 30 pris
oners. The first officer who was
slugged was later killed for
refusing to tell the where
abouts of the keys to the main
cell block. He had tossed them
into an empty cell when the
riot began.
Marines stormed ashore,
while Coast Guard patrol
boats blockaded the island.
The Marines dropped tear gas
shells through a hole in the
roof of cell block D and, after
a gun battle, the riot was over.
Coy, Cretzer and a third
inmate were found dead. Two
guards were killed and two
other inmates, who were in on
the plot, were later executed.
Two Believed Drowned
Two kidnapers Ralph Roe
and Jimmy Cole came close
enough to require an official
asterisk in the list of escape
attempts.
On a December night in
1937 they cut the bars in the
prison shop and slipped into
the bay. They vanished in the
fog-blanketed bay and were
never seen again. Prison offi
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cials said they were presumed
to have drowned, their bodies
swept to sea. But no one
knows for sure.
A year later, three bank
robbers beat a guard to death,
but guards killed one inmate
and captured the other two.
On April 12, 1943, four con
victs tied up two guards and
jumped 30 feet off a cliff into
the bay. As they started to
swim, one was struck by a
guard's bullet. The inmate,
James A. Boarman, sank be
neath the waves. Two of the
others were recaptured within
an hour and the fourth was
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found hiding on the island
three days later.
An Ingenious Try
John K. Giles, SO, made one
of the most ingenious tries.
He acquired an Army staff
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Dwayne Chapman, Prospect,
marshal, Cily of Clark; Rich
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sergeant's uniform in 1945,
complete to the dog tags.
Dressed in his uniform, he
calmly boarded an Army
launch as it pulled away from
the prison headed for Angel
Island. But a head count at
Alcatraz disclosed one missing
man, and another count on the
launch showed one soldier too
many; Giles was greeted by
guards at Angel Island.
The most recent major out
break occurred Sept. 29, 1958.
when Aaron W. Burgctt and
Clyde M. Johnson overpow
ered a guard and tried to swim
for it. Johnson was found
hiding on the island and Bur
gett's body was discovered
two weeks later, floating in
the bay.
The island took its name
from the pelicans that once
inhabited it Alcatraz means
pelicans in Spanish.
But it's a tougher bird that
makes his home there now
and one convict spoke for
them all when he commented:
"The trip to Alcatraz is the
fastest boat ride in the world
10 minutes to get there and
20 years to get back."
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