Press-Telegram from Long Beach, California • 110

UNSOLVED vVSB? 4 Wjky Indspsndsnt-Prass-Telagrsm Southland Magazine What Happened to Stella NolanP Vanished as if into thin air Stella Darlene Nolan is the object of a continuing widespread police hunt By Vera Williams were made for a re-run for the Nolans Then it petered out how could a child fleetingly caught in a crowd in a picture taken months before possibly be identified? One little blonde girl looks like another little blonde girl in a crowd SAYS CHIEF Gordon Bowers in charge of the sheriff's detective bureau: "We a thing to go on in our search for Stella Darlene Nolan We never did have anything to go on have not found one person who saw Stella get into a car or saw Stella wander off or saw her talk to a suspicious person "No one heard her scream or cry or protest The children ith whom she was playing jacks a short time before she disappeared do not know a thing about her far as we know she just disappeared into thin air" KNOWN SEX degenerates for many miles in every direction were questioned They still are being questioned "When we get one in on a sex charge and he looks at all likely we begin questioning him about says Lawton The Nolans who were devoted to Stella their only child stayed for a long time at the trailer park 16108 Atlantic Ave Compton where they were living when Stella disappeared They wanted to be there so if the little girl ever could get away from whoever had her if anyone had her and could come home she could find thorn Finally last year they moved to Grants Pass IN NORWALK Mrs Nolan sold trailers husband was a handyman Between them they ran the sandwich stand The-pa rents did not quite agree with others about whether Stella would have marie friends with strangers She was shy and retiring they maintained and would not go with strangers Neighbors describ 'd the child ns not so shy and retiring and thought she niight have up" with strangers All agree that the child was of average intelligence When she disappeared Stella was 4 feet tall weighed 50 pounds wore denim fiedal pushers and a white terry cloth sweater with horizontal blue and red stripes INVESTIGATORS THINK the best lead in the case came from Stockton a few days after Stella disappeared A little girl answering her description jumped from a moving car in Stockton crying "I want my Mommy A woman jumped out of the car said are taking you to your mommy" and pulled her back into the cor Police were given good descriptions of child woman and the man driver but the trio was not seen again New Year's Day was birthday If she is alive she is 11 years old tery Tt is Ihe great missing child mystery of Southern California Other children have disappeared: they have been found safe or injured or their bodies have been found Not Stella like when you smoke a cigarette and the smoke goes into the air and is gone Stella disappeared like says Sgt Jack Lawton who has been on the case ever since Stella disappeared and expects to be on it as long as there is any possible chance that the child or her body can be found Lawton says "between 400 and persons have been questioned 120 have been put through the lie detector The lie detector cleared all of them THE LATEST CLUE out" as all others have The Nolans who now live at 700 Fruit-land Dr Grants Pass Ore excitedly wrote Law ton on Dec 11 that the night before they had seen a Matson Steamship Line film on TV In the Hawaii-bound crowd was a blond girl drinking a soda They thought she looked like they thought she might BE Stella Lawton traced the film to station KBES Channel 5 Medford Ore Through Everett A Faber vice president of KBESthe film was identified as "Destination Hawaii" It was traced to the company that filmed it arrangements Editor's Note: This is the third i a series of stones of unsolved mysteries in the Long Beach area Others in the series will follow from time to time in Bouthland) by- in the almost hopeless search for the 8-year-old blonde child who disappeared the evening of June 20 1953 from Norwalk's Auction City The little girl was playing at 7:30 near the sandwich stand Operated by her foster parents Mr and Mrs Owen Nolan Suddenly she was no one ever has been found who knows how or when or where HER DISAPPEARANCE is Norwalk's greatest unsolved mys WKID THE distraught parents of Stella Darlene Nolan last Dec 11 see their long-missing little girl in a happy shipboard scene on a TV travel film? They think perhaps they did one of the hundreds of slim dues slimmer as the years go Mteplod deputies like Sgt Elmer Hallora above using wadkio-talkiee combed area around Norwalk th Mr and OwONolan 01 duappaaranca oi thur loslr daughter TTtFT.