Genealogy 101

Six-Year-Old Gets Lost
A Day On Intercity Bus

Temple City, Calif., March 28 [1951] – (AP) – Danny Ellis kissed his mother goodbye and went to a nearby corner to catch the school bus.

Several hours later Mrs. Hilda Ellis answered the telephone to learn that the Portero elementary school wanted to know why 6-year-old Danny wasn’t attending classes.

That was the beginning of fear, the start of a frantic search. Police, neighbors, bus drivers and school-children aided in the hunt.

Late yesterday the telephone rang again. Did Mrs. Ellis have a small son, the voice wanted to know. Did she? For an instant the mother was speechless with fear.

“Yes, oh, yes,” she shouted. “Where is he? Is he all right?”

“Sure ma’am, he’s ok,” reassured the caller.

“This is the Santa Fe Trailways bus station in Ludlow, about 175 miles from Temple City.

Your boy said he missed his school bus and came upon one of our buses when the driver was fixing a flat. Guess he figured one bus was as good as another.

The driver didn’t notice him until he got to Ludlow. We’ll send him back on the next bus.”

Source: Jefferson City Post-Tribune, Jefferson City Missouri, March 28, 1951