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Show .. . . THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tnursoay, Page C2 IPriSini M L t novo"" 1Q0A walls may Giimioo Glnisgptegj VvVVV V M . . inmsiC nn III MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) I When Chuck Bergensky looks at the grimy sandstone walls of the Wert Virginia Penitentiary, be sees thousands and thousands of happy shoppers. "I visualize a very successful outlet shopping mall. 1 see things like a parking lot for 1.0UO cars in the prison yard and 35 or 40 hops inside the walls," the city manager said. And not only that. "We would keep some of the ceiiblocks to attract people and maybe put the etectnc chair on display, be said Friday. , Bergensky and a group of and others have proposed turning the Civil War-er- a prison into a mall after it closes in 1992 under court order. 0 The city is spending about for architectural and feasibility studies. If the city and a economic development group decide to go ahead with the idea, the prison will be sold or teased to developers for conversion. The maximum-securit- y penitentiary resembles a medieval fortress, with parapets, gun slots and arches. Its walls were quarried with convict labor. Now blackened by pollution, the walls are 7 feet thick at the base and taper to 28 inches at the top. Stuart Patz, a Vienna, Va., said preliminary figures Af Laser?! indicate the mall could attract busloads of tourists and shoppers MoaadsriQe, W.Va., City Manager Chuck Bergensky ftafids is front ef the West Virginia prison. from Pittsburgh, about 85 miles stem unemployment and provide to the northeast He declined to Nine men died in the prison's tional. In 1982, after millions were estimate what the project would electric chair from 1951 to 19S9. spent on approvements, the state the impetus to reopen a factory and other businesses. ' In 1373, it was the site of a Supreme Court ordered the place cost beoffi"I think it would be a great "AH indications are that the closed, saying conditions bad major riot la 1279, a police for the city of Moundmlle to too come correct killed were inmate cer and an said. thing He is Patz appalling feasible," project to carry on with the prison and The prison has about 550 insaid he expects to complete an when 13 inmates escaped. In 1986, analysis of the project by early three Inmates were killed and mates, down from a peak of make it a place that people want December. more than a dozen prison workers about 1,208 in the 1970s. A new to come to," said Mayor Dorothy ; The prison tends on a taken hostage in a New Year's mdmom-securit- y prison is being Durig. "We could even stage Ueakouts twice a day." built in Fayette County. Day riot plot in a residential area in this Nanette Collins, 45, lives a Moundmlle officials dread the Underfunding and overcrowding .(Mo River town of 11,900. It still time what the prison and its 306 block from the prison and doesn't to bosses the gallows where 85 men prompted a jadge in prison coawiotm wtmstttto" jobs leave. They say a mall could want to see it torn down. hanged from 1899 to 1949. : - . ooo f I N WASHINGTON : - (AP) They believed, be said, ta &e' mtgmimity ef the white race ever. C estored races; of the Eniah over other nationalities, espsdalh: the French; of Protestantisra over' Catholicism; in capital punishment and in "male governance of the' family as necessary for effective social order." And, "they adored the king. The session, for scholars and, journalists, was sponsored by the Gannett Foundation and the American Antiquarian Society to commemorate the appearance of the first American newspaper, "Pub-lic- k Occurrences, Both Forreign To cele- brate the K?tli anniversary ef newspaper journalism historians took a look '' 1m try's first newspeperi , them tobe badrok America, at Cis coun- tad found mocLLs: racist, venomous, tiaaei ad 24, wor- shipful of kings. "Outrageously partisan," if bow David Paul Nord, associate professor of journalism at Indiana Uni- versity, characterized them at a g discussion on the roots of the American press recently. And troublemaking. When the people of this continent looked for day-lon- en "treason, sedition, fragmentation, aid Dwnestk." dissension, aMntegratko, defeneration, disunion, anarchy or chaos," he said, "they usually taw it first in the newspaper." He said the New York Evening Post, forerunner of todays New York Post, was founded in 181 by Alexander Hamilton's faction of tee Federalist Party for a single purpose: to destroy Thomas Jefferson, who won the presidency in the election of 1300, "If that purpose required the editor to vilify his party's opponents as liars and traitors, to attack the president as a moral degenerate with a slave harem, or to shoot a Republican dead is the street in a duel, so be it," said Nord. "Thai was what newspaper work was all abo to MSI." Moreover, said historian Cbarks E. Clark of the University of New Hampshire, the earheat newspas, pers, written for the elite by , $13,-90- state-appoint- ed 24-fo- ot cm-sutta- It was issued k Boston by print-- , er Benjamin Harris on Sept 23, before. the 1S, eight decades American Revolution. Flibiki Occurrences promised to come out once a month "or, if any glut of occurrences happen, ofte--. oer," but didnt live up to the promise. Issue No. 1 was the last The authorities of Massachusetts, colony suppressed it as unlicensed, printed "without the least privity or countenance of authority. What's more, they said, it contained "sundry doubtful and uncertain reports." No more newspapers were published here until 1704.: For all the early press weak--; nesses, two contemporary Joaraal-ist- s author Patricia O'Brien, former political corresoondent for Knight-Ridd- Newspapers, and er Les Payne, assistant managing edifound some tor at Newsday useful linkages between early and 'Z contemporary journalism. di-tist- shared some assumptions that were far from democratic. 13-ac-re Ul n Make no mistake. de-da- re Historian compares callous gonorootty to compassion WASHKCTOH (AP) - Historian bow : American society took care of its ; wretched poor 196 years ago and t- how it does it now and concludes Jpw$e did it better then. Charity in the l30s, be said, was " not left to the welfare and charitable bartaacrades. Compassion was not dispensed with a checkbook. ; Instead, be said, helping the poor , ksvdv&i ordinary working people not much better off than those they helped. They took Hue needy into their homes or into church base-masts and showed them the door if fhey refused to lift a band on their own behalf. Is a word, charity involved com-a, be said, an element that is when helping the poor is left to : Harris Olasky looked at - issbtuttons. Olasky, a University of Texas professor of yxtmesm history, is on leave as a scholar In residence at an group, the anti-aborti- Americans United for life Legal Defense Fund. He is writing a book on the role of compassion and spent a year at the library of Congress digging into newspapers and magazines, stadnag how paupers were treated afogy," be writes. "It gives the needy bread and teas them to be content with that alone. It gives the rest of us the opportunity to be stingy also, and to salve our consciences even as we scrimp on what many of the destitute need most love, time, and a challenge to be little lower than the angels' rather than one thumb up from a century ago. Then, for contrast, he spent a few days walking around Washington, posing as a homeless person. In shelters, be said, he got plenty . to eat but no one ever suggested that be do anything Ix himself. At one shelter, be said, he asked for a Bible and got a stare instead. In an article in Policy Review, jjsarteriy magazine of the Heritage monkeys." But most significantly, he said, a century ago people 4made moral demands on recipients of aid. ... They did not allow anyone to eat and run." A century' ago, Olasky writes, charitable people, often poor them- Foundation, a conservative research organization, Olasky asks wbe&er society is tetter off now than it was when charity was a function of individual responsibility. He concludes that then was better than now. But Robert BothwelL, executive director of the National Committee selves, provided food, shelter, work, organized excursions and for Responsive Philanthropy, a nonprofit organization that monitors the world of charity, has some summer camps, staffed dispensaries and ran schools, missions and reading rooms. New York Gty alone had U charitable organizations. Many looked after members of their own nationality group. Italians took care of newly arrived immigrants from the homeland; the same was true of Swedes, Irish, Eassians. Some chanties had remarkably names, such as the doubts. Our industrialized society, he said, has eliminated many jobs formerly done by the unskilled poor. Olasky's thesis is that the way the poor are helped now is expedient but ultimately cnhelpfuL "The major Caw of the modern welfare state is not that it is extravagant, but that it is too First-generatio- Erring Woman's Refuge or the Union for Homeless and Friendless Girls. Women volunteer; day, men by night These principles, Olasky said, prevailed: Before someone received a handout, an effort was made to find family members who could care for him. contacts Longtenn, were forged between the volunteer and the needy person. Zzl W. mt I I II mmmmM .mm m m mm. WlyrxXer eco-nomic- , -- aL bigh-ruali- even bigger value. IBM dependability wkh the classic IBM touch. no wonder the Vheshmtrr 10 is making news. So, call or come in and get the Heel of the IBM I'heehvriter WL Its mad? tor the work wu do. and shown the door. Before a man got a meal, be was asked to spend two hours chopping wood; a needy woman was shown to the sewing room. 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