Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - September 18, 1974, Hutchinson, Kansas A LAST LOOK - State Fair Secretary Wallace White looks at the farm machinery display he contemplates the changes that have taken place in the Kansas State Fair while he has run the While is expected to retire this summer after serving 11 years as manager of the Fair and Fair Board photo by Miff The Hutchinson News 103rd Year No. 77 40 Pages September 18, 1974 11 Kansas 662-3311 A 10c Robbers shoot Burrton banker By Dennis Dumler BURRTON - A State Bank of Burrton cashier wounded in a pre-dawn bank robbery here Tuesday was listed late Tuesday afternoon in fair condition at St. Francis Hospital at Judd 38, underwent surgery about noon Tuesday for buckshot wounds to his face and left Authorities speculated Tuesday afternoon he may have been shot after the two men and a woman who robbed the bank failed to gain entry into the main safe in the bank's During the course of the the robbers also kidnapped stole the and wrecked it south of Shot flies One member of the trio also unleashed a shotgun blast on a man who stopped to help the cashier's wife after she escaped from her captor on a country The search was being concentrated in the area near where the couple's wrecked Oldsmobile was Reports from the robbery scene indicated the robbers also may have been armed with an automatic perhaps a 9 millimeter A St. Francis Hospital spokesman also said Mrs. who was with her husband before he went into surgery for the facial wounds about noon Tuesday was It was speculated that Mrs. Durner narrowly escaped injury during the course of the After the three robbers appeared at the Durner home about 4:30 a.m. and forced the Durners to take them to the about an hour one who was called by took Mrs. Durner in the Durner car to an area between Halstead and Burrton on the Halstead just east of Burrton on Authorities were quoted Tuesday afternoon as saying Mrs. Durner had pretended to be ill. Apparently the robber stopped the car and she jumped out to stop She flagged down a car Weather KANSAS - Clear to occasionally partly cloudy through Thursday with warm days and cool High Wednesday 80s. Low Wednesday low 60s southeast and 50s High Thursday 80s. HUTCHINSON WEATHER Tuesday's high 84 from 1 p.m. to 4:4f) low 55 from 6:45 a.m. to 7:.')0 a.m. Record high 101 in 19:)1; record low in 190.'). Sunset 7:36 p.m. Sunrise 7:17 a.m. driven by LaVern rural Schrag had left his home only minutes earlier to drive to his job at Hesston said her husband told her he saw the Oldsmobile in the middle of the road with both doors As he slowed Mrs. Durner ran up screaming She jumped into his car and to out of here before they kill us Mrs. Schrag Sheriff Gaylon Morford who drives a small import it as fast as it would with the Oldsmobile in hot Mrs. Schrag As the chase led into the robber pulled close enough at one point to open up on the Schrag car with a sawed-off double barrel The buckshot hit the small car just above the driver's ripping an inch and a half hole in the Neither Schrag nor Mrs. Durner was After Schrag and Mrs. Durner arrived in managed to ditch them in an alley and he dropped her off at a house to call the Mrs. Schrag He drove around for a few minutes to be sure he had lost the robber and then called authorities Mrs. Durner was then picked up by Halstead police and later transferred to Harvey County sheriff for the trip back to While she teas in the sheriff's she first learned her husband had been shot from a report the sheriff's In the when Mrs. Durner called the Burrton police and Reno County sheriff's officers were dispatched to the When they arrived at the discovered Durner in the partially locked according to Reno County Sheriff Deputy Steve door was Bayless was latched at the but we could see a lot of blood on the Using large the officers forced the vault door found Durner and called an By 7 a.m. Durner and his wife were reunited and on their way to St. Francis After Mrs. Durner was interviewed by FBI agents in a description of the three The man who took Mrs. Durner to the country was called during the He is described as a white 6-4 to 6-8, 250 to 300 pounds in his early 20s, and with slightly curly light brown He has a round face and or three day's growth of youthful He was wearing a gray faded brown shoes and a medium brown coat with a plaid authorities The man who stayed at the bank while Mrs. Durner was being taken away is described as a white to 5'6", also in his early 20s, slim about 150 with straight medium brown He was wearing black plastic frame a blue gold pants and brown During the robbery he was called and and limped on his left Authorities said the other two robbers commented during the robbery about or having a plastic hip after being injured in an automobile The woman was described as a while female in her early 30s, with stringy S h e i s about 5 90 to 100 wearing beige slacks and a while blouse with red or pink flowered During the robbery she ivas called and it Apparently Burrton police narrowly missed cornering the robbers in the As he was driving to the he saw the Durner car heading out of town about 80 or 90 miles an By the time he had turned and started to chase the it had disappeared in the quarter-mile visibility fog which blanketed the area early Tuesday Apparently there was little or no loss in the according to Sheriff The safe inside the vault was on a time lock and couldn't be opened until the clock released the locking About the only thing that could have been taken was some Bank President Earl Campbell Also included in Tuesday morning's search was a red and white 1951 Chevrolet pickup which had been reported stolen in Burrton sometime after 10 p.m. Authorities also were checking a possible connection with an incident at Mt. Hope earlier Tuesday Paul who operates a sand and gravel business at Burrton received a call about 2:30 a.m. from Warner Mt. Hope Harris told Bryant a man identifying himself as Amos Johnson was on his front step with a story that he was Bryant's nephew and was having car They fit don't have any nephews in this so 1 didn't go Bryant By the time the phone conversation was the man had There was speculation the man might be the robber known as Authorities said both men fit t he same general For a it was thought the robbers may have escaped on but a check of the area produced no A Highway Patrol spokesman said the two men and woman apparently escaped in another but no description was today Deaths Crossword Focus Sports 23 7 14-15 25-27 DURNER - Rank c a s h i e r w a s s c r i o u s I v Furloughs to evaders WASHINGTON - Attorney General William B. following up President Ford's offer of conditional Tuesday ordered immediate 30-day furloughs for all persons now in federal prisons for evading the A spokesman called it act of which will give the men an opportunity to follow procedures prescribed by the President for allowing draft evaders and deserters to return to The spokesman said about 95 individuals are believed to be still serving time for draft while another 46 prisoners are free on appeal bonds or various legal order does not effect an estimated 700 deserters confined in armed services since they are within exclusive jurisdiction of the The President announced Monday the details of his plan for letting deserters and draft evaders clear their records by declaring allegiance to the United States and serving up to two years in service IU I'll - her husband rescued Mrs. PA IT BRYANT - Burrton sand and gravel firm owner gol early morning Slash from request for Nixon funds WASHINGTON - A House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday slashed from a funding request to pay for former President Nixon's return to private The subcommittee voted 7-6 to make the massive reduction after defeating proposals to give Nixon only a flat President Ford had requested the special supplemental appropriation to provide for Nixon's transitional expenses - to sort his presidential papers and answer over 350,000 letters to provide an a staff and an annual Subcommittee Chairman Tom said the 13member panel voted to provide Nixon with a total of most of which pay for transitional The will be provided under the Former Presidents Act to set up an office and full time and provide Nixon his Boren grabs lead ripped roof of Schrag just above lop ol door on driver's OKLAHOMA CITY - College professor David 3 3, his h r o o m sweeping up a heavy urban grabbed an early lead over Congressman Clem Rogers McSpadden Tuesday in Oklahoma's Democratic primary for With about of the precincts Boren had 58 per cent of the vote in his bid for the nomination to oppose Republican Jim Inhofe in the general Former congressman Ed parlayed a consumer advocacy campaign against big into an early lead over Corporation o m m i s s i o n C h a i r m a n Charles Nesbitt in the Democratic runoff for U.S. Edmondson led in 31 of the 44 counties reporting and 57 per cent of the vote about a tenth of the precincts The Boren flooded the state with campaign brooms and p d to out the old ( first had with The biggest sum knocked out of the funding request was sought by the General Services Administration to construct a vault and security system to store and protect Nixon's Watergate tapes and other - Steed said the subcommittee was unanimous in its opposition to this amount and will write into its report accompanying the funding a provision prohibiting use of any funds to transfer the tapes to San Clemente until the Watergate special prosecutor and the courts can work out any remaining disagreement over their Steed said any future cost of storing and protecting the tapes could be worked out later in a new supplemental want some additional assurance of how these tapes will be and Steed Rep. Tom said he and other members wanted to appropriate no funds Nixon with the single exception of his which this year would amount to since it covered only 11 months of the fiscal cut it back to and stop right Bevill Steed said opposition to giving Nixon any money was trong in the closed session he expressed surprise I got as much out of the committee as 1 The full Appropriations Committee is expected to act on the request Sen. Joseph plans to reopen hearings before his appropriations subcommittee next week on the funding so that KARL CAM - president of Agree on reforms WASHINGTON - negotiators Tuesday reached tentative agreement on key provisions of a sweeping political campaign reform including a spending limit of million by the Democratic and Republican candidates for They agreed on taxpayer financing of presidential primaries and elections but ruled out public funds for Senate and House The negotiators also settled on campaign contributions by organizations and candidates and on campaign spending The tentative agreement would provide the Republican and Democratic candidates for president with million each for the general election and they could spend no more than Mother taken into custody Kan. - The body of 9-day-old John Edward Fillerman was found late Tuesday in a trash barrel behind his home by a police investigative David Saline County reported at u news lona 24, the was taken into custody at 5 p.m. and was scheduled to he brought before the magistrate court early I Letter GOV. DOCKING Cedar Crest Dear at least when you retire away to Ark City you won't be hurting for cookie Hutch
