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8A Uty AnnlHlOtt Thursday, Dec. 25. 1975 Oldster yearns to get out of prison svr magazine showing an American i eagle perched on the bank ot a peaceful stream. As he had explained, the picture takes his mind off the bleakness of his surroundings. MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va.

(AP) Lqnnie Gill hasn't given up hope that at age 71 he can be paroled from prison and find a home and a job. And he didn't mind interrupting an afternoon nap on his bed in the old man's colony at the West Virginia Penitentiary recently to say he doesn't want to die behind the walls. "I'll go anywhere to keep from dying in here," he said. He'll be 72 on Jan. 4 and is among the oldest inmates at the maximum security prison.

But he has no family and nowhere to go. There were no Christmas Records in (he Summers Sunty prosecutor's office show i robbery and murder warrants were issued in July 1964 for Gill following the death of Steve Yancy. Twignanths later, Gill pleaded guiHtoKrst-degree murder and receivW life term with mercy, meaning he was eligible for parole after serving 10 years of it. He said it's no good being in prison, but he adds that he's got one of the best records "I'm no trouble." Gill resumed his afternoon nap on his bed. Above him, pasted on his headboard, is a picture cut out of an outdoors ified lor oenefits.

But they wrote back that he needed to work an additional six months in order to qualify for a monthly check. But he says he cannot work while incarcerated. Even at 71 he believes there are jobs he could do. He recalled with some pride that he worked on the railroad and helped to build the Bluestone Dam. "I'm not going to tell you no lie.

Me and a fellow got into it and I killed him," he said mat-ter-of-factly. He said the man had been shoving him around and he didn't like that kind of treatment. cards on the wooden dresser next to his bed in the dorm-like facility and only a few meager belongings and some letters in the drawers of the dresser. He is serving a life sentence for murder, but he was eligible for parole two years ago when he had completed 10 years of the life sentence. He's been before the parole board twice, but each time, because he has no family or home to go to, Gill has been turned down.

Short, with a stubble of white hair on his head, Gill said he went before the parole board last September. He recalled that members talked to him for a little while but told him since he had no home or job or income "we'll see you next September." Other inmates in the colony say Gill is harmless and no threat to society. They would like to see him find a home. This is his 12th Christmas here. He said it has been a long time since he has had a happy holiday.

He recalled good times in the past when a "bunch of people would come around and we'd eat and talk. There was no fightin' or drinkin'," he added. He recently wrote Social Security officials to see if he qual Tahitian tattoo Tattoo, the indelible marking of the skin; is one of our few words from the Polynesian, coming from the Tahitian "tatau" mark. Tattooing was introduced to England in 1769 by Captain Cook. wA MARY JO RISHER AFTER VERDICT FREE ST0RESIDE PARKING OPEN NIGHTS 'TIL 9:00 jLesbian is loser in custody case filed.

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