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Show Inmates Prirct Monthly Organ Making its appearance for the first time this week, "The Point," an attractive 24-page booklet was distributed this week at the state prison. It will be published monthly "by and for the inmates ol Utah state prison. HAND SET The entire publication is prepared pre-pared by prisoners, and the type is set by hand Despite the handicap, the result is a professional-like magazine. The initial issue contains a greeting from Warden A.lvin O Severson, who thanked the men for their help in cleaning up the Suear House prison and urged them to continue theii work. 1000 LIBRARY BOOKS There also were reports from different sections of the institution. institu-tion. For example, workers in the library announced some 1000 fiction books now are available avail-able for prisoners. License plate shop workers said their production is on schedule and in full swing. The bakery reported they had turned turn-ed out 34,000 loaves of bread during 1949, plus 4000 pieces of pastry and 1950 pieces of sweet-dough sweet-dough morsels. TAILOR SHOP A report from the tailor shot, showed that during the year 1029 pairs of striped prison trousers had been made, 800 shirts, 50 cook jackets, 700 face towels, 30 roller towels and 2411 red flags for state road commission use. A humorous touch was included in-cluded in a column entitled "Funny Side Up.'' The inmate author began: "Having written copy for penal pe-nal pages of first one institution I and then another for nigh on too much time for one mortal . . ." |