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M-PIAYGROUND DAILY NEWS, Thttndiy Morning, Sept. 10. 1970 White-Collar Convict He Lives for Workdays HARTFORD, Conn. (NBA) Most people more or less struggle through their 8-to-5 workday looking forward to their night-hour or weekend leisure. Not Jim Wileox.

It's just the opposite for him. He more or less struggles through his leisure time--looking forward to his 8-to-5 workday. No wonder. On the job is a free man. Off it he's a prisoner in the local jail.

James Wileox, age 35, serving three to eight years for a white-collar crime, is one of several thousand convicts in the nation enrolled in small but significant work-release programs. These men are pull-outs from normal, stifling prison walls who are allowed profitable employment, on their honor and on their own. This means the convicts legally bust out of their jails for eight to 10 hours every day. To shoot grease into automobiles. To stamp sheet metal in factories.

Or to ogle starchy but sexy secretaries in offices from Seattle to Schenectady. Not a man in blue watches them work. Most employers scrupulously treat them as regular workers. They are unrecognizable as the felonious fellows they once were. Take Jim Wileox.

For most of the last two years he has been housed in Connecticut's maximum security penitentiary. Where he had his mail censored and his razor blades counted. Where he ate, slept and agonized only by the regulations. And where he had to get permission to visit the latrine. But now Wileox has the ball by the chain.

He is not only a part-time convict, he's a ranking member of the state corrections agency. He's executive assistant to the corrections commissioner, specializing in public relations. As such, he's probably the only con anywhere people call "Sir." Wileox dresses nicely. Has well-groomed black hair, distinguished with flecks of gray. He's erect, steady, sophisticated.

One would never guess that here's a man whose roommate has been convicted of hammering his father to death. To be sure, Witcox is somewhat atypical even in the atypical lineup of prison work-releasers. He's better educated than most enrolled inmates (three years of college), and he has former executive training (he was a mortgage broker until a jury of his peers found him guilty of a charge of conspiring to defraud). He personifies the encouraging aspects of work-release: under an enlightened system, even time in prison can be spent to some gain. James Wileox Says Wilcox, with feeling: "Two years ago my world as I knew it came to an end.

I was making a substantial salary, had a normal and happy family (two kids). Then I was arrested. I fought with everything I had in court. But I lost--and everything just ended. This is the way it is going to prison.

It seems like going to the end of the earth. "But I was very lucky. Very lucky. I wasn't just a scared kid, not knowing which way to turn. I was 33 at the time, I still had my family responsibilities, and so rather than just give in, I decided to make the best of it.

I plotted and planned every step to get on the work-release program. Like I say, I was very lucky." Wilcox's luck was at least partially due to timing. His sentence began at the same time prison reform began in Connecticut. Intelligent energy and federal money started pouring into the state's reform houses, and Wilcox took advantage. He joined an inmate Jaycee group, he took some college correspondence, he attended prison classes.

At the same time he kept his nose clean, avoided the homosexuals --and wound up with perhaps the highest work-release job the United States. However, prison work-release programs are notoriously controversial for the simple reason that periodically a working con will take off for the office and never return. And the headlines thereafter Convict Escapes; Police Say He May Be cause concern among a citizenry that prefers its convicts incarcerated. Wilcox is also liable to special criticism because of his unique position. Some guards quite openly resent the fact that he makes more money than they do.

Some fellow inmates resent the fact that he is not suffering the same as they. Some of his peers in the state civil service resent the fact that he has been given a job over them. Yet, despite the criticism, Jim Wilcox remains, for progressive penologists and many other human beings, the hope of a new time in America's lockups. A time when men who come out of tbe penitentiaries will be better rather than worse, than when they enter. And Wilcox is well qualified to speak for this hope: "Don't get me wrong.

I'm not a Jesnslike Hag-waver for prisoner's rights. But I've been on both sides of the now, and Ifs pretty clear to me that we must treat convicts as people rather than things. Not everybody in jail today is a murderer, or a violent maniac. They are ordinary people. I venture to say that some of your newspaper readers wUl be in jail sometime.

They may not believe that now. But, then, I never believed I would be here either." Travel-Recreation Montreal Fair Honors Famed as '20s, 30s Sea Speedster A pleasant memory of the past relived at the Montreal Expo, the famed "Bluenose." By JIM CROSSLEY "Bluenose" was the most beloved vessel in Canadian history. She became a favorite in the United States as well, even though she was a rival. Everyone respects a true champion. Her everyday occupation was that of a commercial fishing schooner.

Her speed and her winning habit in racing made her a celebrity. So, in her a clothes, eventually she was on display at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair and sailed overseas two years later to participate in George V's silver jubilee. This year "Bluenose" is being honored again in still another exposition, "Man and His World" in Montreal. Under full sail, "Bluenose" was a sight to implant itself on the observer forever. In fact, the memory of it still lives on Canadian dimes and postage stamps.

Early in the century, the cod banks off Newfoundland were all-important for the supply of fish. Canadian vessels from Lunenburg in Nova i a and their counterparts a i i from Gloucester, worked the waters. First there were friendly canvas-stretching a back to the mainland as holds were filled, impromptu speed between individual i From this came a i of formal races--miniature America's Cup contests--between representatives of the Canadian and U.S. fishing fleets. That is where "Bluenose" gained her reputation as unbeatable.

Her skipper, Angus Walters, had personally peddled 350 shares at $100 apiece to any and all to get her built. The seaman's tradition is that her overwhelming speed came from the captain's consideration for his crew. When the hull was being formed at the shipyard in 1920 he discovered the forecastle was only five feet high. "My crew aren't midgets!" he boomed and the bow was raised an added 18 inches. It gave the schooner a hook- nose appearance which the fishing fleet forecast would be her downfall.

They could not have been more in error. From her first race she was the speed queen of the "20s and '30s. The good ship, rest her, now lies on a coral reef off. Haiti where she sank in 1946. By WW II, diesel fishing trawlers and aging timbers had reduced her to a Caribbean freighter, her glory eclipsed.

So at the Montreal exposition all summer through Sept. 7, "Bluenose" is being honored in absentia. Her triumphant history is relived in photos, diagrams, models of her thrilling clashes with her American rival, the Gertrude L. Thebaud, and cata- tions of her record catches. Actual and other memorabilia from her races are displayed.

one single portion of the famed old ship itself will be present. The fatal reef gave up only the ship's wheel. It is there on i a the wheel at which her doughty skipper, Capt. Walters, anchored himself and drove her through the heavy a she responded to best, drove her into the a of two nations. MONEY CLIPS by Reed Twice in less than a year, the Lombardo Mint has produced an outstanding commemorative work.

Its Eisenhower medal was a classic example of fine art, but the eace medal may just be its est effort. Sculptured by Marchetti, the obverse is a montage of 21 figures whose faces reflect the anguish and frustration brought on by worldwide conflict. Three of the faces are immediately recognizable as the late John F. Kennedy, at the extreme top; Pope John XXIII, to the right, and Martin Luther King, at roughly five o'clock. The centerpiece symbolizes the earth superimposed with the scales of justice and held by the hand of God.

The reverse is quite simple by contrast. It displays the universally recognized unofficial of peace encompassed by a border belt containing the word PEACE in seven different languages. As a courtesy to the read-i ers of this column, officials of the Lombardo Mint have agreed to extend order deadline date from Aug. 22 to Sept. 15,1970, but the limited edition of 3,000 serially numbered pieces in frosted pure silver must remain.

The unusual special collector's edition consists of two peace medals--one in pure silver and one In housed in a custom-made jewel case for $14. An UIK limited number of the bronze pieces will continue to be told at f2 each. Interested a may. i to Lombardo Mint, P.O. Box 525-A, Derby Line, Vermont 15830 or the Lom- bardo Mint, P.O.

Box 203-A, Sherbrooke, Quebec. OPERATION "CRACKDOWN" The United States Secret Service is methodically carrying on what we in the numismatic industry hope' will result in a "blitz" operation against counterfeiting. It can be done in time but with more voluntary assistance from the i at large it will be done much faster. Numismatists are no different than anyone else. Professionals and nonprofessionals alike revel in the that we are all purist.

And for the most part we are--to a point. But, as with any environment, the world of coin collecting is easily contaminated. Once a i a i a our pocketbooks, we scream for help. Then we blandly return to compla- until another time and another culprit, and then we scream again. All of this is quite unnecessary if we accept counterfeiting as the pernicious, spreading evil it really is and fight it openly, regardless of who gets hurt.

Then and only then can we honest- recommend numismatics -as the epitome of cultural 'pastimes. A classic example ot what can happen when tbe purls, ts join forces with legally constituted authority in closing books on a counterfeiting operation is reflected in a case presently awaiting disposition in the Hollywood federal court. 1 A long time member of the numismatic society, respected for his many contributions to the future of the industry and an expert in his own right, has just been convicted on seven counts relating to the violation of various i a laws of the United States. Among the violations were the crimes of conspiracy to counterfeit, the making and possession of dies in the likeness of dies used by the U.S. Mint, and the sale of 2,300 counterfeit one-cent coins.

The prosecution that the defendent conspired with still another person to mint rare-Mint-errors of extremely high value with a total market value of $1 million dollars. Further evidence showed that the two men purchased a thousand dollars worth of equipment as welt as copper and silver for the purpose of manufacturing counterfeit 10-, 25- and 50- cent coins. All of which were destined to circulate in the numismatic market. Within the next few weeks sentence will be passed. The maximum could amount to 83 years in a federal penitentiary fines total- ling $36,000.

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Travel topics Computer performs magic for travelers By MURRAY J. BROWN UPI Travel Editor NEW -YORK (UPI) Do you know you can hail a cab in New York.from anywhere in the United States? Or confirm hotel reservation and auto rentals in hundreds of cities the country while riding in a New York taxi? Well, thanks to the telephone, two-way radio and computer, it can be done. And the service is available around-the- clock seven days a week and doesn't coet you one cent. One toll-free call to Reservations World ail (hat is necessary, according to Jerry Jordan, president of the company. "In this pilot project, we have arranged with a taxi company for any one of its 200 vehicles in New York City to be available to pick up a traveler within five minutes ot his rival at an.airport, steamship dock or rail Jordan said the taxi service eventually will be expanded to cover other major destination cities throughout the United States.

He said there are other hotel and cur rental reservations companies but Reservations World the first to offer to provide 'taxi services for the business or pleasjre -traveler. Here is how the system worts, Jordan said: "When the traveler calls Reservations World from anywhere in the country, at any time of the day, our reservationist makes whatever hotel arrangements he wishes and asks if he will need a taxi on arrival at, let's gay, LaGuardia airport, i "If he does, he is given a telephone number lo call immediately his plane lands in the time it takes to. claim his luggage, the taxi should be waiting to pick him up." Also when leaving The personal Uxi service also available for travelers leaving 'New York. The traveler in a hurry can make hotel or auto rental reservations while on the way to the airport, railway station or bus depot, Jordan said. "All he has to do is to have the cabbie radio his dispatcher, iwho makes a telephone call to Beservations World, and his hotel room or cur will be confirmed said.

Tlie company's computers have stored in tneir memory banks all the facts and figures The outlook is rosy for men's knitwear NEW YOKK (UPl)-It had tu come--this boom in men's knitwear, because men (more llian women) have always comfort in top priority. The collcctinus this year rc- HIP, expanded perspective if i wools in the male wurdrolie with styles ranging 'from suits in sweater knits, handsomely tailored double knits. Jumpsuits, uouts, slacks, to llic new "shrinks," hotly shirts tmd deep brushed mohair "whisker' sports, sweaters. Hy Ihc him of the century, knits will dominate men's fash- idii.s and may well be the only fabric that survives. 'I bo kni I tnd wool tail suit lias coinc to full practical rmlixulion.

Designers luvr a advantage of wool's resilient rkhnr.ss lo create tailored suite i superb comfort and (fistiiirtimi.Thcsesuilsmove iront formality with a no- sleeve jacket, the "free Si.if i llir "Shirt Suit," and swialrr-nit takes still an- i jslcp Inward casual ease with ils swraler-knil texture. One of these new easygoing suits com times rihbed wool pants with jacket in spaced ribs by i a a a Double-knit wools are giving a new-fashion mmch lo llic separate pants calugors, appearing in an explosion of lively patients, in- finding art drcit, stripings and imaginative in the panls area is Dmitee Slacks who report lhat patterns ore outselling solids 60 to 40 per rout. Sweaters In sweaters, the body-fit is signal, manifested in s'hnnikrn-Uioking styles thai appear like miniatures in the hand, Inil ihr wcordion-Htreteh of llir flovtbh 1 wool ribs give Ilicin a free-motion, body conforming fil. These waist-length "Shrink-b'ite" may be tank-top style, or wi deep U-necks, often with Dsh- tail ribs thut hug the waist. Sleeves are narrowed, with small with deep ribbing from waist to elbow emphasizing the snugness.

Style by Alps comes in a tweedy orange and yellow waffle knit, sleeveless tank-top, and by Robert Bfljce In a Kair Isle javmiard. The trend toward the lean fit in a strong one that also appears in Western sweater shirts, cartoon pullovers, ami original like the links-stitch wool iiy Pendleton. Belts arc part and parcel of sweater-wearing, as knitted self- belts or as individualistic accessories, worn single, dooMe or triple to the short, cloae-t'iltingpnllovcrs. The self- belts bring the Norfolk a into prominence, ami define the Uric of the longer pullovers and vests. on more than 1 million roomi in hotels, motels and resorts and nearly 5,000 auto rental in the United anil Canada.

1 visited the headquarters in New 'York to see how thf system operates. There are scores of machines with flashing lights and whirling colored tapes in the huge air-conditioned street level room. I had a reservationist type out a request for a douhle room with bath at a specific hotel in Vegas for a certain date and within seconds confirmation appeared on a television- like screen with the rate. Then I asked for a similar room within a specified price range in the Los and a listing of more than a dozen hotels offering such accommodations flickered on the screen. LEGAL NOVICES NOTICE OF ELECTION In accordance wllh tbe onttnaaea made and provided, an election will held on Tuesday.

October 6, WO, In Ike Town ol dnco Bayou lo elect a Mayor, Town Clerk, Town Marshal Cor the'term ol one year, and two Council Menken lor the term two years. Such election shall be he Id the permanent Tom Hall located al Kelly Avenue. Bayou, Florida. The voter registration books wUl open from September 22, IO, tluoajfc September 26, 1970, at tbe permanent Town Hall, Kelly Avenue, Unco Bayoa, Florida. All persons desiring to vole la this election most be registered on voter registration books.

Nominating petlllom for desiring lo appear on fbe ballol must tiled wllh the Town Clerk prior lo 12: Of o'clock September 1KO. Taylor Mayor Town of Qnco Bayom 7W9 Sept. 3, Id 17, 24, 1910 LEGAL NOTICE This Is to advise that Mr. Randan Wise has petitioned tbe zoning board ol Ike City ot Wceville, Florida tar a variance on the property listed below. Beginning at CM Northeast corner ot Southeast quarter A ike northeast qur- ter of Section 7, TowasUp 1 SoMft, Ranee Weil running Weil 153:13 Beet, thence South Eight aid one hall Anna east 858 leet, thence East along the Hat erf John G.

Connley feet lersect wllh tat east llne'ol said section 7, at a point SSB teet south ol polat beginning, theact ran north 513 leM. thence ran wtst SO feet, thence nta north 80 fee), thence ran east 50 IreL thence' nit North MS feel to point at beginning. This property Is currently aooed R-l and the petition requests thai a variance be granted to C-l In older for ooft- stnscHon ot a business on the property. A pmoBc heariag wU be keU to alder this request al 7:90 COST on September 15. mo at Ibe Ntevtlle Car Hall.

George J. Kay LEGAL NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC HEARING Stile Protect No. 57010 mm No. 3m NoNce In hereby jlven that Interested penoni loct PUBLIC NOTICE OPfOftlUNtTT FOR PUHJC srA0Kt Nil, 9VM9 turn No. OTTO 7065 Sept.

10. 13. 15. dry ot NkevlUe, Florida IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIHST JUDICIAL CIHCU1T OF FLORIDA, IN AND KOH OKAUXKA COUNTY, FLORIDA Notice ol S6ertfi's Sale Marine Midland Trust Company ot Southern New York George Woodln and Melvina Woodtn Defendants By virtue ol an execution Issued oul of and under Ine seal ot tbe Urcuil Court, Okaloosa CouBly, Florida upon a Judgment rendered la said court, on lha Uth day mf July, mu, wherein I ban levied upon and will otter for sale Ike following described property: 111 1W3 Ford, ID 3F31U191yUb Utkt TOlzn. 43-1W2 The above described property will sold lo tbe highest bidder for cash al public outcry on tbe 28th day of September, 1STO.

Sale lo be held at the Sheriffs Ottlce, located on Okaloosa Island, toe- hind ihe Okaloosa Island Building I Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, between tbe legal hours ot sale, namely lliuu AM. and PM Kay WUsoa SherlU Ukaloosa County 10a2 Aug. XI, Sept. 3, 1U, 17, IKU IN THE C1BCUIT COUaT FOH OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL ACTION NO.

DELJMA A. ZAPPALA. PlalntUf, ALFRED M. ZAPPALA, Defendant NOTICE OF ACTION TO: ALFRED M. ZAPPAKA 1102 Jackson Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Yon are hereby notified lhat an actual for divorce has been filed agalnsl you and you are required lo serve a copy your wrllten defenses, If any, 01 Erwln Fleet, of Estergren, Fleet.

Fortune Anchor, Plalnllff's Attorneys, whose address la P.O. Drawer Fort Walton Beach, Florida on or fcre October i. B70, and file Ihe ortgl- nal with Ibe Cterk of this Court eltktr before service on Plaintiff's attorney or Immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the reUef demanded la the Complaint or Petition. WITNESS my band and the seal of Ihls Court on this 1st day ot September WTO. CECIL L.

ANCHORS, As Uerk ot the Court By: Odessa Hodga ERWIN FLEET OF ESTEHGREN. FLEET, FORTUNE Attorneys Counsellors at Law P.O. Drawer Fort Walton Beach, Florida 32548 Altorneys for plaintiff 7070 Sepl. 3, 10, 17, Jl, 1S70 PERSONALS HAVE ROOM FOR ihare riders to UWF. Septet 11.

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