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...darkness and rain, the strapping teenager and the five-year-old boy hitchhiked the 40 miles from Manchester, near the California coast, to Ukiah, a mist-shrouded market town 120 miles north of San Francisco. Arriving at about midnight, Steven Stayner, 14, hesitantly told police the reason for their trip. "I didn't want Timmy to go through what I went through...
...ended one of the most bizarre kidnaping cases in California history. Timothy White, the five-year-old, had been abducted in Ukiah on Valentine's Day, while on his way home from kindergarten. Police charged that he was taken by a drifter named Kenneth Parnell, 48, who cropped the boy's blond hair and dyed it a darker color, then brought him home to his one-room cabin near Manchester. The boy's parents never received a ransom note. Parnell did not want money: he allegedly had stolen Timmy to provide a "brother" for Steve Stayner, whom...
...calling his kidnaper "Dad." They ended up in the cabin without water or electricity on an isolated ranch near Manchester. Stayner attended local schools sporadically but led a solitary life. He later told the police: "It was boring." Parnell worked as a night clerk at the Palace Hotel in Ukiah. "He was a quiet man who seemed a little lonely," says Carol Lee, a coworker. "Kids-that's what we talked about...
...good friend, the Rev. Ross Case, also of the Disciples of Christ, had moved from Indiana to California, and Jones decided to follow him. He eventually brought more than 100 supporters to Redwood Valley in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco. Robert Kauffman, a former bank executive from nearby Ukiah, recalls that Marceline Jones walked into his bank and opened an account of nearly...
...Great Plains, with regional specialties often an exception. But, says he hopefully, "the food is improving all the time. That is why we will have to scrap the books each year and start from scratch." Meanwhile, give or take a few stars, the tired and hungry traveler driving into Ukiah, Calif., with his family after eight hours on the road, can derive immense comfort from the knowledge that the two-starred Ukiah Travelodge offers a suite for $15 a night, with "crib, $1 ; cot, $2; TV free. Pool. Pets. Café adjacent. Self-serv. laundry four blks...