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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, July 21, 2018 East Oregonian Page 5C OUT OF THE VAULT Kidnapper snatches girl from local pool A five-year-old girl swimming at the community pool in Milton-Free- water was kidnapped in July 1985 by an ex-con and transported to Utah, where she was abandoned in a city park playground the following day. Amanda Sargent was swimming with her older sisters at the pool in Yantis Park in downtown Milton-Free- water on July 9, 1985. She was last seen around 3 p.m. talking to an older man, who was reported to be driving a 1960s green Chrysler 2-door car. The girl’s parents, Harvey and Phyllis Sar- gent, and the Milton-Freewater police had no leads in her disappearance. The following day, Amanda approached a truck driver at a Salt Lake City park saying she had been kidnapped. She told police officers that her abductor dropped her at the park and told her to play while he went to get hamburgers. He never returned. She was placed in foster care until her parents could fly to Utah to pick her up. Phyllis Sargent said her daugh- ter had been taught how to deal with strangers. “We’ve taught her not to be rude, but cautious, too,” Phyllis said. But Amanda was lured away by her weakness: chocolate ice cream. Through the description of a wit- ness and a license plate number, Mil- ton-Freewater police were able to identify Patrick Thomas Redmond, 51, who had stayed at a local motel the night before the kidnapping. Red- mond had been released from the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla the previous October after serving time for robbery, and had been wanted on probation violations since February. His home address was located in Ogden, Utah. FBI agents arrested Redmond on a federal fugitive warrant July 11 at his home, and his wife Ruth was arrested on suspicion of police inter- ference. She was later released on her own recognizance, but Redmond was booked into the Weber County Jail on a kidnapping charge, a federal offense. During Redmond’s trial, jurors learned that Amanda had also been molested during the kidnapping, and were further outraged by his defense lawyer’s attempts to intimidate the girl on the witness stand. The jury returned a guilty verdict after just 40 minutes’ deliberation, and Redmond was sentenced to life in federal prison. DEAR ABBY Woman seeks reconciliation after betrayal ends friendship Dear Abby: Five years ago, who is a dreamer. He doesn’t someone I thought was my best really consider reality. At 16, I friend betrayed me. I had devel- am a realist. I love him to death oped a relationship with a mar- and we are very happy, but I ried mutual friend. My best often come off rude when I give friend felt it was her “right and him reality checks when he’s duty” to out us to our spouses. trying to be romantic and sweet. The affair ended and both of I love that he’s romantic, but our marriages survived, but our I’m afraid of his romantic ideas Jeanne friendship did not. Phillips because I know they are too She has now tried to contact good to be true. Then again, I’m Advice me wanting to be friends again. afraid of him not being roman- tic and losing himself. How do I While I do miss her friendship, she did not have the right to do what she learn to accept his love as love and not did, and she has never acknowledged as a threat? How do I not come off rude that what she did was wrong. Should when I feel he’s not being realistic? I step up and be the bigger person and Please help me, because I don’t want to accept her friend request or ignore it? lose him. — Romance Dilemma Dear Dilemma: Because you’re a — At A Loss In The Midwest Dear At A Loss: Being self-protec- realist, allow me to point something tive won’t make you a smaller person, out. There’s a saying, “A fish and a only a safer one. If you would like to zebra may fall in love, but they can’t welcome back into your life a person live together.” You may not want to who betrayed your confidence — by all lose your boyfriend, but the odds of means open the door. I sure wouldn’t, this romance becoming something per- manent aren’t great because you think but then again, I’m not you. Dear Abby: I have a boyfriend (18) so differently. For the time being, when he’s waxing poetic about his dreams for the future, keep your lips firmly sealed instead of shooting him down. Dear Abby: I work in an expensive store that closes at 9 p.m. Clients often walk in here two minutes before we shut the door and spend 20 to 30 min- utes inside before leaving. We employ- ees still have to clean after they leave and, after eight hours of working, we just want to get home to our families. Shouldn’t shoppers be considerate and refrain from coming in if they know they will be here past closing, or does it not matter? — Just Wants To Go Home In Delaware Dear Just: It would be nice if shop- pers were more considerate, but part of being in high-end sales is customer ser- vice, even though not all of the patrons are as thoughtful as you would like them to be. I’m sure your employer feels these individuals should be catered to, and part of your job is to make them feel welcome regardless of the time. It may not seem fair, but busi- ness is business. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 21-22, 1918 Another mysterious fire occurred this morning at the Walter Planting place near Adams when the barn was com- pletely destroyed by fire. There is reason to believe that it was an incendiary fire and the Oregon Military police are now on the trail of a man under suspicion of having set the fire. The barn was a large one, 40 by 60 feet, and had just been filled with about 30 tons of hay. There were also in the barn a lot of tools and harness which were a total loss. Ike Christopher, a neighboring farmer to the Planting place, was one of the first to reach the burning barn, and at his arrival there was a tall man wearing a white hat and cordu- roy trousers standing around. His presence there is unex- plained and shortly after the man was seen running through a wheat field from the fire. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 21-22, 1968 Eastern Oregon and her hometown of Milton-Freewater were so glad Saturday to see Marjean Langley, the 1968 Miss Oregon, back in her own territory again that they for- got to feed her. First food Miss Oregon saw after her 331- mile drive from Seaside and a 7 a.m. breakfast was, appro- priately enough, homemade cookies provided by girls of Milton-Freewater Assembly of Rainbow, a group she’d headed in her high school days. This was at 3:30 p.m. at the community building when a line ended that took almost an hour to pass by, her hometown people telling her their pride and joy on her first visit home since she won the Miss Ore- gon title at Seaside last Saturday. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 21-22, 1993 For the first time in 11 years, there are no defendants in the Umatilla County Jail awaiting arraignment, trial or sen- tencing for murder. Earlier this month the last of the coun- ty’s murderers — David Lynn Selders — was taken by bus from Pendleton to the Oregon Corrections Intake Center in Oregon City. Within 30 days, he will be lodged — proba- bly at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendle- ton — to serve a 20-year sentence for two counts of inten- tional murder. When Selders — one of two men convicted in the Weston Mountain killings of a Brownsville couple — pleaded guilty and was sentenced July 7, Umatilla County District Attorney Dave Gallaher breathed a sigh of relief. After all, it was the first time since he was elected in 1982 that prosecutors weren’t facing a murder case. THIS DAY IN HISTORY On July 21, 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s The- ory of Evolution. (The con- viction was later overturned on a technicality.) In 1861, during the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manas- sas, Virginia, resulting in a Confederate victory. In 1930, President Her- bert Hoover signed an exec- utive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later. The Dem- ocratic national convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president. In 1949, the U.S. Sen- ate ratified the North Atlan- tic Treaty. In 1955, during a sum- mit in Geneva, President Dwight D. Eisenhower pre- sented his “open skies” pro- posal under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other’s military facilities and allow aerial reconnais- sance. (The Soviets rejected AP file photo Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded on July 21, 2000, “with 100 percent certainty” that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian com- pound near Waco, Texas, in 1993. the proposal.) In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module. In 1980, draft registra- tion began in the United States for 19- and 20-year- old men. In 1999, Navy div- ers found and recovered the bodies of John F. Ken- nedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy’s plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard. In 2000, Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded “with 100 percent certainty” that the federal government was innocent of wrongdo- ing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993. In 2011, the 30-year-old space shuttle program ended as Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after the 135th shuttle flight. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Yusuf Islam (also known as Cat Stevens) is 70. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is 70. Comedian Jon Lovitz is 61. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney is 51. Soccer player Brandi Chastain is 50. Christian rock musician Korey Coo- per (Skillet) is 46. Actress Ali Landry is 45. Thought for Today: “We have too many high-sound- ing words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” — Abigail Adams, American first lady (1744-1818). This photo provided by the Cape May N.J. Police Department shows “Bean” a pug dog being photo- graphed at the Cape May Police Dept., in Cape May, N.J. Police posted a photo of Bean on Facebook with the caption: “This is what happens when you run away from home.” ‘Pugshot’ posted of lost dog, bail paid in cookies CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — A dog is home after police in a New Jer- sey shore town posted its mugshot on social media. Cape May Patrolman Michael LeSage found Bean the pug in a yard on Sunday. He tells The Star-Ledger of Newark he tried to get the dog to hop into his police car, but her legs were too short so he had to lift her. Police posted a photo of Bean on Facebook with the caption: “This is what happens when you run away from home.” It took a few hours before Bean’s owners tracked her down. Hadley Hubbard of Baltimore, Mary- land, thanked police and posted that Bean was sound asleep after an exciting run. LeSage posted that Bean paid her bail in cookies. 541-567-0272 2150 N. 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