Dawson, once the crime ''Kingpin of North Alabama'' and leader of the notorious Dawson Gang, died Saturday of a heart attack in Leighton, Ala. He was 58. Dawson was accused of running a crime ring known as the Dawson Gang that began operating in north Alabama, northeast Mississippi and southwest Tennessee during the 1960s. Dawson spent a total of 16 years in prison for bootlegging, bank robbery, income-tax evasion and counterfeiting. He was linked to illegal gambling operations and accused of planning several bank robberies, although he was convicted of only one bank robbery.
WILLIAM R. KELLETT
Kellett, a former president of the Kimberly-Clark Corp. who became an influential consultant to state officials in Wisconsin, died Sunday in Milwaukee of congestive heart failure. He was 98. After Kellett retired in 1964 after 41 years in the pulp and paper industry, he became the volunteer chairman of a succession of committees that examined state government and the state educational system.