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Progress Bulletin from Pomona, California • Page 3

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Progress Bulletini
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Pomona, California
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Progress-Bulletin, Pomona, California, Wednesday, May 15, 1974 A-3 House burglar gets 12 saddles ONTARIO John Arnold of 2080 S. Cucamonga Ave. reported that burglars broke into his home Tuesday and stole 12 western saddles without stirrups valued at $1,047, police said. Arnold said he returned home about 9:30 p.m. and discovered the saddles were missing.

Police determined that the burglars gained entrance to home by breaking a window. Man finds lost wallet--almost Founded 1885. Published 7 days week by Progress-Bulletin Publishing 300 S. Thomas Pomona, Calif 91764. Telephone 622-1201.

Single copy price 10c daily, 25c Sunday. Delivered by carrier. J3.00 monthly; by mall, S4 monthly in the U.S.. Mexico and Canada. S5 monthly foreign.

Second dess mail privileges author ized at Pomona, Calif. Adjudicated June 15, 1945. Decree No. Porno. C-606.

Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations; National advertising representative; Western Dailies. If your delivery service is not satisfactory, please call our CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPARTMENT ot 622-1201 Saturday and Sunday 7:30 10:00 a.m. Monday thru Friday 4:30 7:00 p.m. ONTARIO For a time James M. Duffy of 5443 Palo Verde Montclair, Tuesday thought his 24-year search for a lost wallet containing a $20 bill and other identification had ended.

Duffy received a call Tuesday from Ontario police who notified him that an Ontario girl Maria Garcia, 17, of 910 E. Elma had found a wallet belonging to him. Duffy could hardly believe that the wallet he had lost so long ago had finally turned up. On picking up the wallet, Duffy was a because as it turned out the was a packet of papers, his military discharge papers and a 1950 Florida fishing license. Duffy said he remembered that the papers were once stored in the old Harry Nelson Blacksmith Shop basement on N.

Euclid Avenue. He said that some time ago a number of people, including himself, who were using the basement of the shop for storage, were asked to move their property. He said he may have lest the papers, and possibly his wallet, while moving the items. Although he still found his wallet, Duffy said of Miss Garcia, many people in this world like her. Most people even still looking for his wallet.

Two arrested conflict in kidnaping Runaways arrested and rape case BEFORE YOU FORGET icr ream -ike BETSY ROSS ICE CREAM Three rock groups to offer concert UPLAND Three rock groups will present a concert at the a Recreation Center. 15th Street and San Antonio Avenue, at 8 p.m. Saturday. The program is sponsored by the Upland Recreation Department, the Odyssey Teen Club and Bridgetown Music Corporation of La Puente. Tickets are $1 for teen club members, $1.50 for non-members.

Particioatmg groups are Dooley from Claremont, Sil- verwind from San Gabriel, and Locra Mode from Hacienda Heights. MONTCLAIR Montclair police have arrested two men on suspicion of kidnaping and rape in connection with the April 9 knifepoint abduction of a 17-year-old Chino girl from the Montclair Plaza. Police said that Larry James Allred, 19, of Hacienda Heights and Roy Elmer Pitchford, 19, of Anaheim wire arrested Tuesday on warrants at their jobs. The arrests of the two men concluded a month-long investigation of the kidnaping-rape of the Chino girl. In that incident the girl was forced into a car at knifepoint by two men north of the main entrance of the Montclair Plaza.

The girl was then driven to the Padua Hills area of Claremont in a van truck where she was raped. She sustained minor injuries in the sexual attack. The two suspects later relased the girl, police said. gold The total amount of gold that can still be recovered from the earth is estimated at 31,250 tons, more than half of it in the gold fields of South Africa and 625 tons in the United States. ONTARIO Four runaways from Scottsdale, arrested here Tuesday have only themselves to blame for their capture.

The youths three boys and a girl, ages 15 and 16 are accused of stealing a pickup in Scottsdale early Tuesday then driving it to California. But when the gas gauge registered they pulled off the San Bernardino Freeway near Ontario while they decided how to obtain more fuel. A motorist passed the Optimists plan talk on Prop. 9 POMONA Dr. Peter Dawson, Common Cause coordinator in the 35th Congressional District, will discuss 9, the Election Reform Act, with Optimist Club members Thursday at Cal Poly.

Dawson, also a professor of business management at Cal Poly, will analyze the proposition at 7 a.m. in the main student dining room. The meeting is open to the public at no charge. test track WM Volkswagen has thrown away the book again. The result is Dasher, an amazing new car going to take them years to imitate.

Dasher is both economical (about 25 miles per gallon) powerful (0-50 in 8.5 seconds). It holds five comfortably. It has front-wheel drive that gives you more control and traction than any conventional car ever driven. It has the amazing Skidbreaker. When one side of the car is riding on a slippery surface, Skidbreaker forces Dasher to move in a straight line as you brake.

designed for low maintenance and easy repair. And covered by the VW Security Blanket. The new Volkswagen Dasher. Throw away your old ideas about what to expect from a car. POMONA Catron Motors, Inc.

800 East Ho if Ave. AUtHOMSS stalled truck, saw the juveniles standing there, and decided to be the Good Samaritan by calling the local highway patrol office. Officer Harvey Lane responded. He became suspicious, however, when, one told of having spent the mor- ing at Disneyland. found this hard to believe since Disneyland is not open Tuesday mornings at this time of said Lane.

Upon further interrogation, one youth said they had been in California for several weeks, a second said they arrived several days ago, while the third believed they arrived Monday night. On running a vehicle check, Lane was informed the pickup had been stolen Monday from Scottsdale. He transported the youths to the West End office pending their return to Arizona. Recalling an empty gas tank had led to their capture, Lane said the pickup is equipped with an auxiliary tank which held about 20 gallons of gasoline. they had to do was flip a lever under the he said.

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