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AND PRESENT PLANS CALL FOR ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS
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By CARL HENN There are broken hearts on N Tacoma Ave. today. In the 3000 block, charred boards and seared, ruined vehicles mark the spot where fire struck a house noted for its happy inhabitants and their carefree laughter. Yesterday, the Cox boys’ Playhouse burned down, Standing in the rear of the back yard at 3056 Tacoma, the miniature building burst ‘into flames about 11:30 a.m. “I can’t imagine what started it,” said Mrs. Ida Cox, mother of Stevie, 9, Eddie, 4, and David, 8. “Stevie was in class at School 69, and the other two had been insifie with me all morning, playing records. All of a sudden, Mrs. Jane Sullivan, my neighbor, came over and said, ‘Your place is on fire!’ While Mrs. Sullivan called firemen, Mrs. Cox grabbed the garden hose and turned the water on. “David kept hanging on to my dress so I could hardly do anything,” said the 31-year-old mother. “He and Eddie kept yelling, ‘Mommy, there's our camp on fire. Mommy, our house is burning down.’ “But I had the fire almost out by the time the firemen got here. One of them ran inside and pulled out the toy tractor and glider.
The wagon is still sitting inside,! ;
all burned up.” Mrs. Cox said the youngsters were at. a loss to know what to do with themselves after the fire. “That playhouse was half their life,” she said. “They spent all their time playing in there. And other boys came in from all over the block.” Mrs. Cox said her husband, Robert, a watchmaker, built the
“He was going to rebuild it as soon as we finish remodeling the house,” she said. “Now, he'll have to get at it sooner than ever.” Stevie and Eddie and Dave will forget the fire, especially if their father gets the new playhouse built in a hurry. New toys can be bought. But today, the boys are mourning the passing of their ranchhouse, their meeting-place, their
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Citizens Push » Search for | Churchman He
Times Staff Wri, FAIRMOUNT, Sept. 27 -- Pri-| vate citizens today carried the bulk of the search for a missing Fairmount churchman and civic: leader as his distraught wife complained of police inactivity in the disappearance.
Mrs. Mary Rautenkraunz, wite| of 35-year-old Ralph Rautenkranz, who disappeared en route to work Saturday, said she has! been able to get ‘very little"| police action in the search. She said appeals to Marion, and Grant County and state law enforce-| ment officers have produced only a semblance of a search.
Police said there is nothing to indicate the case was anything but a “missing persons’’ case and, said. they cannot start a large-| scale investigation without indl-| cations of foul play, the wife said. i However, citizens of this town of 3000 and of nearby Marion have begun searches on their
RALPH RAUTENKRANZ — Missing Fairmount churchman,
own, convinced the non-drinking, non-smoking ‘paragon of virtue” met with foul play. Almost half a hundred citizens have responded to appeals on a local radio broadcast to make “alley-by-alley” searches for the car he drove when he disappeared, a gray Mercury with Mcense NP-3282. Today the Future Farmers of America, of which the missing Sunday School teacher was an
honorary member, joined the| search. Other friends have driven,
as far as northern Indiana,
searching side roads, while others rented a plane to scan gravel pits and stone quarries.
Mr. Rautenkranz disappeared Saturday morning after picking up a friend and driving out of his way to take him to work during a heavy rain. Employers said the missing man had a previous record of never being late or tardy, a record which
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 (UP) | —The Los Angeles Times joined the Examiner today in announc- | ing a price boost from 7 to 10} cents a copy, and other Los An-| geles dailies were reported ready to follow suit.
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