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Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1959

Leash on Life. In Kansas City, Mo., after the Star ran a front-page sob story about unclaimed dogs that are gassed at the municipal farm, someone clipped a large hole in the farm fence, freed 40 yelping dogs.

Bold Face. In Stockton, Calif., Teodoro Lopez Herrera held up a bank, was asked by the cashier to sign his name for the money he took, dutifully obeyed, was soon tracked down and arrested.

Distribution Points. In Saint Simeon, Canada, which gets its water supply from a small mountain lake, housewives complained that brook trout were coming...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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