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Lost- VoiceSearchCurtailedCHILIL1. N.M. (AP) — State Police Chief Martin Vigil said I Sunday that the search for the t source of a mysterious distress lt;call from a little boy calling 1 himself Larry would be sharply 1reduced. i•“After all the effort, the last, j five days, we haven’t been able to come up with information that the situation is valid,” I Vigil said. “There’s rio informa* ( lion thnl there actually is i somebody out there, and where « this person might be.“We are’curtailing the operation, but certainly not discontinuing it,“Vigil said.Kadio directional finders will he sef up in the Albuquerque middle Rio Grande Valley area to continue trying to pick up Ihe signal. c:“There's nothing definite that lt;I he jk-rson is in New Mexico , anyway Ho could be ‘ anywhere. Vigil said.•He was asked aga in about thepossibility of the affair being a 1hoax. '4“The possibility cxisls. Uut wo can't take lhat chance,” the 2 chief said. 13111 it's only h re.ilislic fo restrict this thing after a reasonable period.” ^EHe said the aerial search and I he organized ground search un its would end their part o( the ,j effort afler sunsfcl Sunday.While Vigil wus holding n 11 briefing on Ihe searelu he ^ received information from one of his officers tliul what hadnheen reported as a continued contact with the voice Friday [] noon had proved false.The report, from a Phoenix, M Ari/.., citizens band operator, apparently was a contact with a p Phoenix youngster with o si walkie talkie, the officer said, d
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Pasadena, California, US
Mon, Aug 13, 1973
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