Word: chowchilla
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...kidnapers of the 26 Chowchilla children [July 26] should be imprisoned in a buried moving van in 90° heat just as the children were...
...week the two Schoenfeld boys-James, 24, and Richard, 22-were behind bars in California, along with their pal, Frederick Newhall ("Chip") Woods, 24. All three were accused of taking part in the startling kidnaping on July 15 of 26 children and a bus driver in the town of Chowchilla (pop. 4,550) who were going home after a session of summer school...
...case, which has spurred one of the greatest manhunts in California's history. The first came when a National Audubon Society group, on an outing in the Santa Cruz mountains some 40 miles from the Livermore quarry, stumbled upon notebooks, clothing and shoes belonging to the Chowchilla students, and an ID card owned by the children's bus driver...
...underwrite the ghoulish venture but also planned it in chilling detail. The kidnapers took care to stock the big truck with water, blankets and a small chemical toilet, and to install two air vents before it was buried. They apparently spent a good deal of time in Chowchilla studying the movements of the schoolchildren; when they finally ambushed the school bus, they did so at a place and a time when they knew nobody would be around...
...police tracked down a number of reports at week's end, easygoing Chowchilla was a town transformed. Once, the 4,550 residents left doors unlocked and greeted strangers with home-cooked meals. Now armed guards and unmarked cars accompanied the Chowchilla school district's 14 buses whenever they went out on their routes. An air of frustration and anger hung over the town-people spoke of "revenge" and "lynching"-and few doors remained unlocked...