40 years ago: Lawrence bus driver interrupts route to claim his dogs

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 3, 1974:

  • A Lawrence Bus Co. driver, spotting a situation that affected him personally, had made an unexpected stop while on his route. The driver had stopped at 11th and Louisiana to try to prevent a Kansas University patrolman and Raymond Alumbaugh, city dog catcher, from picking up two of his dogs. The driver had returned to the bus with his dogs, followed by the patrolman and Alumbaugh, and a short scuffle had ensued. The two dogs and two others found on the sidewalk had been taken to the Lawrence Humane Society, and the incident was under investigation by KU police.
  • A 23-year-old Lawrence man was being held in the county jail today for investigation of making a terroristic threat. According to Lawrence police, the man had been picked up at 6:30 a.m. after having lost control of his car and driving it into a ditch at 31st and Iowa. Police had offered the man a ride to the home of a friend, but as the man climbed into the cruiser, he asked if the officer minded riding with a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group claiming responsibility in the recent kidnapping of heiress Patricia Hearst. “You have not heard the last of them,” police said the local man had stated. “We will kidnap someone in Lawrence.”