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Show Wednesday, August 18, 1976 Pego5 1 Sun Valley Publisher ft t- I El- ; Truck Found Disappears A.G. Block, editor of the -Ketchum Tomorrow newspaper which serves the ' Sun Valley area in Idaho, told i pie Newspaper Monday that the 1972 Datsun pickup truck ite which missing publisher jjSam Sullivan was last seen jhas been found in Missoula, Montana. Block said the truck, which has been impounded bv Missoula police, was reported to the Ketchum police department last Thursday after being under observation "for a week. The pickup was left one half block from the Missoula bus station and two blocks from the train station. Two credit cards belonging to Mr. Sullivan were found torn on the floor of the truck. Missoula is more than 300 miles due north of Ketchum. The following is the August 12 front page story of the Ketchum Tomorrow. (Reprinted from Ketchum Tomorrow ) the Samuel Sullivan, publisher of Ketchum Tomorrow since July, 1975, disappeared from this community Tuesday, August 3, after cashing a check at First Security Bank. After one week of investigation, in-vestigation, Sullivan has not been located nor has the 1972 Datsun pickup he was seen driving at the time of his disappearance. : . , ' Sullivan, 31, left Ketchum . .Tomorrow offices around 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, taking with him only an attache case that had been converted into ,ca camera case. . The case contained two was on his way to do the weekly feature "Street Walker." Sullivan was last seen in Ketchum at First Security Bank's Drive-in teller window win-dow between 9:45 a.m. and 10 a.m. where' he deposited a small portion of a check in his regular checking account and cashed the balance of the check. Sullivan deposited $5.30 in the accounted took $125 in cash. He was to take $100 in cash to his father, Larry Sullivan who was vacationing at the Sullivan condominium in Elkhorn, accompanied by his grandson David Holbrooke. The younger Sullivan did not appear at Elkhorn. The teller at First Security Bank remembered the transaction with Sullivan because the Ketchum publisher seemed "in a hurry." "He didn't say 'hello or 'goodby'," she told Ketchum Tomorrow. "That's highly unusual for this area." Sullivan was last seen one mile south of Smiley Creek, heading north on U.S. 93, around 11 a.m., Tuesday, by Bob Rosso, owner of Elephant's Perch in Ketchum. Ket-chum. Rosso was bicycling to Ketchum when he recognized the maroon 1972 Datsun owned by Galena Publishing Company, publishers of Ketchum Tommorow. Rosso also recognized Sullivan behind the wheel of the truck but did not notice if Sullivan was alone. The publisher has not been seen nor heard from since the Rosso sighting ' between Tuesday evening. A "missing person attempt to locate" was put out by Drexler on Tuesday evening. Drexler called in Dan Kelley, investigator for the Idaho Bureau of Liquor Law and Criminal Investigation at noon Wednesday, August 4. Sullivan's brother and sister on the East Coast were notified of the disappearance on Wednesday and proceeded to Idaho to be with their father. Larrine Sullivan Holbrooke, a legal consultant to the U.S. State Department in Washington, and Robert Sullivan, branch manager for United Bank of Virginia-National Virginia-National in Alexandria, Virginia, arrived in Ketchum Thursday evening. Sullivan's brother-in-law, Dick Holbrooke, whose son David was visiting at Elkhorn with his grandfather and uncle, was also notified on Wednesday. Holbrooke, former chief aide to Governor Averill Harriman at. the Vietman Peace Talks, in turn notified the former New York Governor and founder of Sun Valley who was vacationing at the Harriman Cottage in Sun Valley. Harriman immediately contacted Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus to see what help the Idaho chief executive could provide in the search for the missing publisher. Also, on Thursday, the Blaine County Search and Rescue combed through parts of Ketchum in an effort to locate the missing truck. The search turned up no clues as to the disappearance or whereabouts of either nses which Sullivan nor- Ketchum Tomorrow Jlally'. tarriodfi ... on ' photographic : assignments for the paper. According to editor A.G. Block, Sullivan Sullivan nor the truck. editor -! Over the weekend. Robert A.G. Blocks notified Blaine 5. ; Sullivan audited the County Sheriff Orville Ketchum Tommorrow Drexler of Sullivan's financial books in a effort to disappearance at 6 p.m. discover potential reasons for his brothers disappearance. Sullivan's examination led him to believe "nothing is wrong with the financial position of the paper. Ketchum Ket-chum Tomorrow is solvent and stronger than ever." Sheriff Drexler, who headed the investigation, told Ketchum Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 10, that 'people go from time-to time and they always turn up." Drexler said the . investigation in-vestigation will continue on a "wait and see' basis. "All we can do now is wait for him or the truck to be spotted," the sheriff said. "We'll also keep an eye out for credit card vouchers." Sam Sullivan was born on April 26, 1945, and received his education at George School, Newtown, ' Penn sylvania, and Hamilton College. He earned a B.A. in History from Hamilton in 1967. Sullivan, who served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam during 1968, worked for various eastern newspapers and edited the Maryland Independent, La ' Plata, Maryland, prior to his first visit to Ketchum in 1974. The missing publisher first edited Ketchum Tomorrow in November 1974, and continued con-tinued in that capacity until former editor Rick Glaub took over the position early in 1975. : Sullivan returned to Ket chum from an eastern trip during the summer of 1975 and purchased controlling ' interest in Ketchum Tomorrow in July of that year. . '. He served as editor-publisher editor-publisher until March, 1976 when A.G. Block was hired to fill the editor's position. Sullivan then ' donated full time to the business affairs of the paper. fifl HAL TAYLOR ASSOCIATES P.O. BOX 804 PARK CITY, UTAH 84060 PHONE (801) 649-81 81 -649-8111 MAIN STREET COMMERCIAL building with apartment, apart-ment, $65,000 with $1 0,000 down. MAIN STREET SHOP restaurant with apartment $75,000, $23,000 down. WOODSDE RESIDENCE 3 bedroom older home. Beautiful condition. $40,000. PARK AVE. 2 bedroom, newly remodeled. Extra nice yard and garage. $38,500. 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