One Gives Up, Two at Large in Bus Kidnap
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The weather Inside today Cloudy, warm and humid this after noon with chance of showers. High in Ms. Clearing tonight with lows in 50 and Area n ew s............7 Sr. C iU iens..........2 60s. Sunny Sunday with high'75 to 80. Churches .............6 Obituaries....... 14 National weather forecast map on Classified ... .10-12 Sports.............. 84) Page to. Bright Om» C om ics..............13 Week-Review .. 14 FOURTEEN FACES Dear Abby........13 W ings....................S WEEKEND INSIDE MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, JULY 24,1978^ VOL. XCV, No. a t Editorial ............. 4 PRICEi FIFTEEN CENTS One gives up, two at large in bus kidnap CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (UPI) - searched it late Wednesday. They The surrender of a wealthy said he had a brief discussion with a podiatrist’s son left two suspects at reporter. That was the last time he large today in the kidnap of 26 was seen. Chowchilla school children and their , Santa Clara County investigators bus driver. Thursday also found two vans in a big 2 Richard Schoenfeld, 22, sur San Jose garage, which, they said, rendered to Alameda County District were used to transport the children Attorney Lowell Jensen late Friday from Chowchilla to Livermore. The accompanied by his father. Dr. John bus driver, Frank Ray, 55, was taken Schoenfeld of Atherton, Calif., and to the garage and spent several hours Edward Merrill, the family attorney. there. Because of a court gag order, . Chowchilla Justice Court Judge detectives refused to disclose what Howard C. Green set |1 million bail they found. each for the three suspects after The children, ranging in age from 4 signing warrants on 27 counts of kid five to 15, were abducted last nap and 16 counts of robbery. Thursday as they were being driven Green said he signed the warrants by bus to their homes after a day in “based on confidential information” summer school. Tliey remained in in affidavits, the contents of which the buried van for 16 hours before FYlday was a day of fun tinged with a wee bit of sadness for the 80 children were sealed. Ray and the older children dug their w m Manchester and Hartford’s North End as the ninth annual Interfaith Schoenfeld’s arraigment was set way to freedom. Day Camp sponsored by the Manchester Area Conference of Churches at Con for Thursday at 10 a.m before Green. ^ m e police sources have hinted cordia Lutheran Church closed with a carnival of games mixed with the The two missing suspects are Fred other suspects might be involved. saying of farewells. During the games a counselor, Barbara Landolina, looks Woods, 24, whose father owns the One state law enforcement official quarry where the victims were im said there was a delay in the police on as camper Kenneth Dunning makes a hit with his bean bag toss. Games prisoned in a buried van, and APB because the various agencies may be fun, but Patty Grant from Hartford stops playing long enough to give Schoenfeld’s brother, James, also 24. did not want to alert other u^nown te r favorite counselor, Becky Bourret, a farewell hug. (Herald photo by Pin- They were described by police as persons, who might have been part of armed and dangerous. the abduction. At a news briefing afterwards, it Sheriff Tom Houchins said there also was revealed that federal was still a search warrant outstan warrants also had been issued at the ding in the case but declined to request of Madera County Sheriff Ed elaborate. He also said there were camp closes on sad-sweet note Bates, bringing the FBI into the case. reported sightings of the elder Bates said, “It is reasonable for me Schoenfeld and Woods in Illinois,’ to assume that they may have fled Oklahoma and Tennessee. Police The ninth annual Interfaith Day California.’.’ organizations and individuals Sister Drothy Collins, Sister Darleen agencies in those states were placed Camp, which cosed Friday, was truly Wilson, Lou Kalisiak, Kurt on alert. provided the funds for the two weeks Mayo, Sister Carolyn Kinnamon, Merrill said he advised his client to a volunteer effort from its financial Kalbfleisch, Cindy Rothwell, Brent refuse to discuss the case with of camping for 41 local children and Sister Radke, Irene Goss, Vicki Jen- backing to its staff nurses, kitchen Downing, Tracy Knofla, Carolyn authorities. He also said Schoenfeld 39 children from Hartford’s North ziings, Ed Wasilieff, Sister Julia Schoenfeld was held in the crew and teen-age counselors. Frattaroll, Usa Caldwell, Bob was “nervous — understandably End at Concordia Lutheran Church. Ryan, Rick Numrych and Sister Alameda County Jail without bond, Manchester churches, church- Hawkes, Neil Snuffer, Mary Orozco,- tense and nervous.” Serving on the camp staff were the Ellen Murphy. pending the arrival of Madera County related organizations, social Phillip Abele. Earlier sources disclosed that a Rev. David Rinas, Nancy Carr, Nurses who were on hand for any deputies. search of the 100-acre Woods estate emergency were Annamay Potocki, Also, Alan Girelli, Bill Simon, Brad In Atlanta, Songel Padgett, 24, who Wojcoski, Eileen Bailey, Tina in Portola Valley uncovered ransom had been briefly married to Woods, Linda Haberern and Gloria Kjellson. ' notes demanding $5 million. Exact Girl seriously hurt Providing food for the campers Strand, Kim Champy, Linda said she hoped he would also sur- Peracchio, Debbie Dow, Sue contents of the note were not dis rentfef+ecause “he needs help.” She were Kitty Cataldo, Virginia Briggs, closed. Colbert, Julia Dahn, Mike McCarthy, described him as a “withdrawn per when struck hv car Barbara Greene, Betty Hubert, Alice Police said Schoenfeld had been on Sliea, Irene Bengston, Doreen Rinas, Judy Brown, Paul Maidment, Dan son who wouldn’t talk about his the Woods estate when deputies problems.” Nancy Pelletier, 17, of 2 Lockwood Hospital where she was admitted Day Regan, Lena chubert, Kathy Breer, Becky Bourret, Arthur St. suffered severe injuries Friday at with head, leg and body injuries. She Donahue, Florence Parker. Libbey, Terry Donovan, Sue Patter about 10:15 p.m. on E. Middle Tpke. was being treated in the intensive Teen-age counselors were Mari son, Jennifer Britton, Sharon near EIro St. when she was struck by care unit of MMH and was in serious McMahon, Carol Donovan, Linda Beauregard, Jack Getting, Daye Mo- a car, police said. condition late this morning, a Fraher, Laura Ronzello, Judy dean, Rick Gelting and Barbara Lan P&WA to transfer 600 She had run into the road to aid a hospital spokesman said. dolina. dog which had been struck by another The driver of the car is a young car seconds earlier. man but was not identified by the WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) The firm recently reorganized into She was taken by Manchester Am police. The investigation of the acci Biology gear working — The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft four divisions: Commercial bulance to Manchester Memorial dent is still incomplete.- Group of United Technologies Corp., products, manufacturing, govern the world’s largest producer of jet PASADENA, CaUf. (UPI) - The degrees Fahrenheit to minus 123 ment products and Pratt t i Whitney engines, plans to transfer some 600 Aircraft of Canada. three biology instruments aboard degrees. employes over the next 18 months Viking 1 have passed the first half of The biology instruments were from plants in Hartford, Conn., to The commercial and manufac Archbishop O’Brien dies a critical series of tests leading tested Thursday and Friday and Dr. West Palm Beach. turing divisions are located at Hart toward the search for life on Mars Harold Klein reported analysis of the A few employes have already made ford and employ about 40,000 per HARTFORD (UPI) - The Most next week. The Most Rev. John F. Whealon, data radioed back showed no the move, but not all the transferees sons. ’The spokesman said the 600 Rev. Henry J. O’Brien, first Roman Engineers today prepared to send problems. who assumed O’Brien’s duties as have been named, according to a employes moving to the West Palm Catholic Archbishop of Hartford, new orders to the spacecraft in an archbishop, said of Obrieii, “He kept company spokesman. Beach-based government products died at St. Francis Hospital Friday attempt to fix the jammed digging “We have found everything the faith with unfailing patience. He said those to be transferred are division will not be replaced in Hart following a long illness. He turned 80 whimsical g . ; ^ ^ ; and p r S boom that will gather soil samples working very smoothly and we’re being drawn primarily from ford. Wednesday for the biology instrument. The quite prepared, if they ever get that wisdom. Now the time' of his engineering and product support The Florida operation, employing A priest for 51 years. Archbishop results will be known Sunday. sampler fixed, to accept that sample deliverance has come.’’ departments, with smaller numbers about 4,700 persons, designs and O’Brien was consecrated as a bishop In a new weather report from and get to the serious business of coming from the financial and develops military engines, which are ta 19tt and was made archbishop in Viking’s desert landing site. Dr. analyzing the soil,’’ Klein said. Whealon said "his (O’Brien’s) wish marketing departments. then manufactured at Hartford. 1953. He served in that capacity until is that in place of eulogy we place our Seymour Hess said there were light 1988 when ill health forced him to lives continuously in the fbcus of that easterly winds in the afternoon relinquish his responsibilities. faith, which he himself kept so well changing to southwesterly at night. In 1956, Pope Pius XII appointed and would have us bring into the lives Maximum steady winds were 19 him an assistant at the pontifical of others.’’ miles per hour although he said there I Today’s News Summary throne, which gave him a rank Funeral arrangements were in may have been gusts up to 40 m,p.h.