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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.
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