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Show Owners Asked to Identify Items Of Recovered Loot Police Chief H. M. Weight is asking ask-ing the owners of two blankets, one taken from a car in front of the high school and another at the First ward church, to call at the police office and identify them and get them back. The blankets were among the many article recovered by police officers after two youths were apprehended ap-prehended in Colorado and returned return-ed for questioning. Their statements state-ments involved at least two other young fellows from Springville and able loot. The boys remembered from where they had taken the blankets. However, some of the loot was hijacked from hijackers and the double theft makes it next to impossible to find the owners of some of the things, officers state. Officer Ashley Graham surprised surpris-ed two of the boys at Park Ro-She Ro-She last week when he saw their car parked nearby. They fled at the time, but were apprehended later in Colorado. Recovered loot included tire, blankets, a pearl-handled revolver, a 22-automatic. a camera, flashlights, flash-lights, knives, ties, sofa cushions, an automotive jack, numerous tools, groceries, film, farm machinery machin-ery 'parts and the best seller, "From Here to Eternity. In the county jail, the boys indicated in-dicated that an "Oklahoma credit card" (a five-gallon can and a hose siphon) has become almost standard equipment of car-driving youths in Utah County. As far back as last fall, numerous numer-ous youths were stealing so much gas from cars, trucks and farm machinery, it was a serious problem, prob-lem, said officers. S(5me of the youths involved began be-gan to extend their pilfering to car-stripping and shoplifting, and finally to burglary. |