Show four service stations raided saturday night four vernal service stations we were re broken broker into saturday night station 0 owners suspected that local operators lre rc in evolved as they knew exactly when and where to strike victims were ashley farmers coop on the east cast side and carters Ser vicenter carls phillips 68 66 and the new dons Mobil gas on the west side the coop station was burgled som etinne between 10 p m w avil one man went off duty and I 1 11 I 1 p m when the othar man came callic on ja abplanalp reported that the glass was broken on the front door but two locks were involved led so the thieves had to break in the back way they pried open the cash register drawers with a screwdriver and took 76 70 also some candy and ci garets but not all that were there mr abplanalp said he strongly suspected local persons as they knew exactly when the station would be empty and also which two of the seven dra drawers w ers in the register contained ca cash sh this is the eighth time in two continued on page 8 four stations continued from page 1 years that the coop station has been robbed he be disclosed next stop presumably was carters Ser operated bv by george robbins and son arden mr bobbins robbins recently bought the station from ted williams mr bobbins robbins lost 10 when the culprits broke into the pop machine he lie said they tailed failed a try to open he register which have any money in anyway the station was left empty saturday at 1025 pm and the staff stu iff returned sunday at 6 am carl collett of phillips 6 66 6 reported 40 cash taken from a pop machine and machine the station was left saturday at midnight and mr collett returned sunday at 6 a m mr collett also believed it was as the work of local criminals who had a knowledge of the layout of the premises he ile said that th a t only cash was missing this was the third robbery at this station within the past year final reported call was the new Mobil gas station that only opened july 20 and is operated by don bowden the traveling burglars even get into the station this time but were only able to break into the cashbox on the coke dispenser outside which was empty they even get a free coke mr bowden was only out a new lock |