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FRIDAY, Murder of Wealthy Rancher In August By GORDON RICE United Press International PRINEVILLE (UPI) Two boys playing along an Irrigation ditch north of picturesque Smith Rooks Aug. II made a discovery that has touched off one of Cen tral Oregon's most bewildering murder cases. The boys came across a man's body, caught on a wire lence that dipped Into the canal. ' Identification came rapidly: Phillip Reinhardt. aged 72, wealthy Powell Butte rancher, missing from his home since the night of Aug. 5. ' But 10 weeks later, county and state law enforcement oiil cers say they are no closer to finding out wno killed mm than - uiey weie mat uav. "We just hit a dead end," says Crook County Sheriff J. T. King. "We don't know where to go." Sgt. Lowell Hertzel, who com mands the State Police office at Bend, is a little more hopeful. "We've been slowed up a lot In our investigation," he admits, "but we're still working on our own ideas, you might say." Police in three counties were looking for Reinhardt before the body was found. Vanished On Monday - He disappeared on a Monday night, and on Wednesday his wife of three years, Hilda, 62, went to the police. Her story was simple. She and her husband had quarreled. Reinhardt, angry, prepared to drive away in one of the family s cars, she said. She blocked his exit with anoth er vnhipln nnri RpinhnrHl van ished on foot across a field. That was the last time anyone admitted seeing him alive. Mrs. Reinhardt, in distress, called a neighbor and her min ister, Rev. D. L. Penhollow, a respected churchman and De schutes County judge. Rev. Pen hollow calmed the woman, say ing her husband undoubtedly would forget his anger and come home. He suggested Rein hardt probably would be even more unhappy if he returned to find police searching for him. But Reinhardt wasn't coming home. His skull had been fractured three ' times and his body had seven broken ribs. Dr. R. C. Henry, head pathologist at Ore' gon's State Crime Laboratory, thought the death weapon might be a hand axe. Furthermore, Dr. Henry told Sheriff King, the body apparent ly had been out of the water some time belore it was tnrown into the canal. Reinhardt was fully clothed except for his trousers and hat. The toes of his shoes were completely worn through, ap parently from scuffing on rocks as he floated down the canal. The body was found 8V4 miles from his 40-acre cattle ranch southwest of the Powell Butte Post Office and store. Investigators descended on the family ranch. "Everything has been search ed," says King. "Wo didn't find any weapon, no blood, nothing. There's nothing to indicate where he was killed." Lawmen turned their attention to anyone who might have want ed the rancher dead. "Not a soul," King snys. "We can't find an enemy. He's loan ed money to quite a number of different people, but he wasn't the kind that pressed anybody." "If he didn't like you, he ig nored vou." His widow told police ne nan $60 dollars in cash and a $100 check in his billfold when he disappeared. The c h e ck has never been cashed. "We interviewed everyone in that area. No one had seen any transients," King recalls. Accident Discounted Could it have been accidental? "We don't see how," Sgt. Hcrtacl says. "We have considered Hint he might have been struck by a car and someone panicked and threw him in the cannl," says King, "but he must of laid somewhere for several hours first and it's a little hard to see anybody doing that." How was Reinhardt killed? By whom? And whore? The canal runs through three coun ties between the ranch and the spot where his body was found. Mrs. Reinhardt last week of fered a $5,000 reward for any one who can provide that infor mationif it leads to the convic tion of the persons responsible. So far there have been no takers. .Bonnar W. Dysart, M.D. John Retzlaff, M.D. Phyiician Physician Diagnosis & Internal Medicine Diagnosis & Interna! 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You can have your heat coming from the ceilings, the floors, the walls or the base boards. You can heat with gas or oil or electricity or coal or, as far as I know, corn shucks. As a result of all this rapid advancement in the home heat' ing field, more and more poo pie are burning logs in fire places. Only an idiot would try to heat his home with a fire place if any other means were available. But central heating systems hove made it possible to view Die fireplace as esthe tic rather than utilitarian. What is more pleasant on a winter's evening than a cheery blaze behind the hearth, the aroma of hickory smoke billow ing through the house, sparks burning holes in the carpet? Trudging out into the snow to bring in more logs. Trudging out Into the snow again to car ry out the ashes. These are a few of my favorite things. In case you have been depriv ing yourself of the joys of an Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE GHOST writer for a Commencement, speaker at a Southwestern college had dictated his remarks to a sec retary who typed them in triplicate, then unfortunately, put alt three copies in one binder. When the speaker bumbled to the bottom of Page One, he turned over to the car bon and read it off gravely while the audi ence listened in growing glee. The lid blew off com pletely when he read Page One for a third time! A poll by a big advertis ing agency established the fact that In the eyes of a representative segment of the American public the ten most per-suo-iivo wonts in the English languuRO In the older named are You, Easy, Money, Save, Love, New, Discovery, Results, Proven, and Guarantee. Ann Colonne, Ft. Wayne's favorite TV personality, warns sus ceptlblo young bachelors never seems "sensible." "Any girl who really 13 sensible," explains Ann, "will never let a prospective husband know it until after he has him miiely bugged." O 1WS. by Bennett Cerf, Distributed by Kins; Features Syndttttf) Powell Butte Still Unsolved Time END?. OH, open fire In your living room and are thinking of adding a fireplace to your home this winter, here are some tips that may prove useful: Make certain the fireplace is located close to the thermo stat that controls your furnace. The heat from the fireplace will cause the thermostat to shut off the furnace, thus permitting the rest of the house to become tee cold. You may freeze all night, but what a saving on fuel bills! Learn to operate the damp er. It you leave the damper open, the smoke will escape up the chimney rather than pour into the adjoining rooms. At the price of firewood these days, you can't afford to let smoke go to waste. Pay no attention to your wife. Women don't know a thing about starting fires. Go ahead and use a little gasoline. Alter all, they're your eyebrows. For maximum enjoyment, lie flat on the floor in front of the fireplace. The air is better down there. Make certain your fire in surance premium nas been paid. Inspect the fireplace care fully at the onset of winter to make sure no bears are hiber nating in the chimney. Have all members of the family become proficient in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, A storage battery does actually store electricity. not to marry a girl because aha KUMky WILLGET "VBULLy EVEN GOt ELECTROCUTED. THE GUVj MARRIED FOR FREE I i WIRING THOUGHT AC, DC II PROGRAM-WIN y V IN WASHINGTON U I I IWJ 11 MIMLUIIL, LLUD TUUK Wlf-C . I By Jimmy Hatlo l-KOUT A WALL- Bulk of Products Be Produced By Automation PORTLAND (UPI) -Virtually all manufactured products will be produced by automated ma chinery with in 20 years, a New York industrialist said here Wednesday. The forecast came from E.F. Shelley, vice president of U. S. Industries, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of automated machinery. He spoke at a sym posium on "Labor, Management and the Public Interest" at the University of Portland. Shelley said automation will be an "overnight" affair in comparison to the Industrial Revolution. His talk was one of three scheduled at the two-day sym posium. The other speakers are Leonard P. Aries, vice presi dent of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and Al bert J. Hayes, president of the International Association of Ma chists. Latter Figure Hayes pointed out at a news conference that unemployment has risen from 2.9 per cent in 1953 to 5.7 per cent today "and we think the latter figure is conservative." He said labor must not trv to impede progress, but must work with business and government to find ways to take care of the undesirable by-products of au tomation. Aries said discrimination is costing the nation's taxpayers $30 million a year, most of it in the form of welfare payments and damage caused by delin quency and crime. ' Another, less measurable, loss comes from keeping young workers in menial jobs when they have the mental ability to go to school and learn a more advanced job, he said. 4-H NEWS Milk Pail Wrangler The Milk Pall Wrancler 4-H Dairy Club met at the home of Roger and Leslie Welburn for the October session of the group, all members of which were present. Ways to raise money for the purchase of flags for the club were discussed and members decided to have a cake sale at the Valley Lockers at Talent at 10 a.m. Nov. 23. Members voted to add a ser- gcant-at-arms to the list of offi cers and Donnie Enloe was chosen for this position. Patricia Jones of Medford was welcomed as a new member of the club. Mr. Cahail, leader of the club, showed motion pictures which his wife and he took of the club members at the FFA and 4-H fair in Medford. Refreshments In the Hallo ween theme were served by Mrs. Welburn and Mrs. Cahail. The next meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tony White on Colvcr Road at 8 p.m. Nov. 11. Tony White, Reporter Eight Craiy Stitchers The Eight Craiy Stitchers 4-H Club met to elect new officers recently. Those elected are Bar bara Wood, president; Karen Hugdahl, secretary, and Sharon Hugdahl, news reporter. Karen Hugdahl gave a report on her trip to State Fair. Marth anne Goodwin also attended State Fair from the club. New record sheets were pass ed out and the meeting was ad journed. The next meeting will be at Margaret Goodwin's. Sharon Hugdahl, Reporter .1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKOHD, School Medford High School Edited .by Elaine .Daven port: staff, Kay Sneed, Varna Fairchild, Dale Hockersmlth Kay Lusk, Roxanne Goucher, Paula Harper, Pat Retier, Dave Smith, Anna Richard son, Craig Savage, Tom Kerr, and Penny Sage. Tickets are now on sale for "Inherit theWind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Thespian Troup's first produc tion of the school year. Reserved seats are $1.50, general admis sion $1, and student general ad mission tickets are 50 cents. Members of the cast and mem bers of the troupe are selling tickets. A ticket booth has also been set up in Room 61, MH5 drama room, which is open dur ing and after eighth period. Season tickets are still on sale for $3 and will be on sale up to opening night of the first per formance. The season ticket gives the bearer a reserved seat at one performance of each Thespian production. Members of the Natural His tory club took a 35-mile bicycle trip through Sam's valley re cently. The 12-member group took the trip in order to ob serve the area to, from, and within the valley. They were led by Eugene Brown, Natural His tory Club adviser. Today marks the end of the first nine weeks at Medford High School. Report cards will be mailed to the students after their arrival at the high school from Medpac processing. Stu dents should receive the cards any time after Thursday, No vember 14. The MHS Snomads are spon soring a "Snow Queen" contest. A girl will be chosen from the club members to represent the MHS Snomads and the Rogue Snowmen at all formal affairs that the clubs will participate in, including public appearances both on television and radio. Ten semi-finalists have been selected. They are Chris Bar- tel-i, Mary Cheny, Cristy Finch, Joan Hearin, Carol Murphy, Trudy Poling, Jeanne Salade, Donna Budge, Nancy Elmgren, and sue Elmgren. i rom the ten girls, five will be selected by the members of the Snomads as princesses. The final voting will be on the part of the Rogue Snowmen who are sponsoring event. A tea in honor of the faculty was held recently in the cafeter ia during and after eighth per iod by Girls League. The teach ers were served refreshments in a Halloween setting by the of ficers of the league. MHS Marching bond will par ticipate Saturday in the South ern Oregon College Homecom ing activities. They will march in the parade Saturday morning have lunch in Ashland, and pre sent the pre-game and partici pate in the half-time activities at the football game that after noon. Tornadia week, Medford High's homecoming event, will begin Nov. 4 with the sale of Tornadia week ribbons. During the week each club will have the responsibility of decorating a downtown store window in or der to bolster community spirit. Thursday the traditional bon fire will take place, and Friday night at the game the homecom ing king and queen will be crowned before the game with Medford s rival Grants Pass. Saturday nighi, the week's fes tivities will be culminated with the Tornadia dance. CP Junior High By Connie Riley Our junior high school wel comed many new students to school this year. New seventh graders are Aub- ry Alexander, steve Andrews, Alvin Beacham, Thomas Binker, Paul Bruce, Karen Erner, Pen-' ny Farster, Margo Finnell, Bon nie Gairson, Kathy Frohreich, Raymond Henshaw, Susan Hen drikson, Linda Cline, Terry Low ells, Jackie McCart, Carol Prill- man, Steve Ray, Chuck Rich mond, Donna Sisson, Linda Snow, Mary Spangcnburg, John Truly, Joyce Watson and Pat Stroh. Now eighth graders are Kent Anderson, Mark Basclcr, Steve Christcnson, Tamara Close, Bar bara Ebcrt, Danny Gairson, Steve Jones, Bob Lipton, Yo landa Meza, William Sparling, Susan Stewart, Marvin Van Wcy, Lana Woody, Pat Robin son, Jan Stroh, Paula Baustian and Tom Cordona. Activities offered during eighth period are art, band, chorus, speech, and crafts. The art classes are making mosaics from magazine advertisements, posters and lettering projects. The junior high band has a membership of 23 eighth grad ers and 47 seventh graders, a total of 70. They are working on "The Syncopated Clock," "Donker Schoen," "A Lot of Loving To Do," "The Enchant ed Lake," and "Consider Your self." The chorus is practicing the scale and learning new Songs as well as singing some old OREGON Mens ones. Vivian Bnttsan, seventh grade, is the accompanist. The speech class began their activities by writing notes of praise. Each student used two assigned words in front of the class and from there progressed to imitations, reports, and pan tomimes. Now each student is working on a monologue or dia logue. The class checks critique sheets on each performer. Those presented that show the most possibility may be given before larger groups later on. The crafts class is working with ceramics and copper tool ing. This course is given to a mixed group this year. The eighth grade had a skat ing party in Grants Pass re cently. The seventh grade also went skating. School pictures were taken this year by Edwards Photog raphy Studio. They have not been received as yet but are expected soon. Purchase of the pictures is optional. The PTA held its first meeting recently. At this meeting teach ers were introduced. Dr. Betty Lou Dunlop from Southern Ore gon College was guest speaker. Junior high teachers intro duced were Mrs. Letha Backes, Mrs. Ruth Broomfield, Mrs. Flo rence Bailey, Mrs. Maurine Shore, Mrs. Helen Caster, Mrs. Lorna Meyer, Mrs. Lou Onstad and Mrs. Jackie Holbrook, li brarian assistant, Keith John son, James Owen, Earl Barn hart, Kenneth Brew, Robert Murphy, Lynn Jenkins, Mark Putnam, Scott Philips and La Rue Morris. Jack McCoy is the junior high principal. Several teachers are new to our school this year. Scott Phil ips, choral director, taught in Yoncalla, Ore., last year. This year he har music for grades four through six and junior high chorus. Mrs. Letha Backes is teaching seventh and eighth grade read ing. Last year she had a similar program in California. The band director, Kenneth Brew, was at Rogue River High School last year. He has the junior high band and helps with the sixth grade beginners. Howard School Mrs. Audrey Berry's and Mrs. Huldah Fisher's third grade rooms are studying about plants in science, students have seen some interesting films on how seeds grow into plants, what plants need to stay alive, and how seeds are scattered to make new plants. There are several plant ex periments in the windows. Bev erly Chism, Launa Welch, Mar cia Prince,, and Allan Roberts brought bean seed experiments, and Kathy Bateman brought two carrots to see if they will root and make a plant. Mrs. Jacqueline Rigg's fourth grade has a new student from Jackson School. Her name is Sherri Beatty. in science we are learning the scientific method of performing an experiment. We have started the SRA Reading Laboratory program. Mrs. Nita Birdseye's fifth grade class has created a large mural showing frontier life in the days of Daniel Boone. It includes figures of Boone and family, boats, animals and birds, trees, covered wagons, and stockades. Officers for the next six weeks have been elected. They are Billy Jones, president; Gary Gresham, vice president, Jose- lyn David, secretary; Tom Mad den, representative to student council. The class has been studying the works of French painters including Renoir, Cezanne and Degas. Prints of the paintings have been displayed on the bul letin board. The Howard School chorus now includes 44 boys and girls. Plans are being made for a sixth grade girls ensemble. Jack Bailey's fifth grade elect ed class officers for the second six weeks period recently. They are president, Ann Thames; vice president, Dennis Vosika; secretary, Vicky Bogener; Red Cross representative, Mike Sleight; student body represent tative, Vicky Bogener; messes gcr, Sally Hughes; paper monl tor, June Octinger; room clean er, Shirley Pardee and Judy Jackson. In history geography we are studying about how the country gained the Louisiana Territory and Florida. We are making maps oi tne U.S. in 1803 show. Ing the Indiana Territory, Mis' sisslppi Territory, West Florida East Florida, Louisiana Terri tory, Spanish Territory, and the uregon territory. Ron Singler's sixth grade class has finished a unit on "Our Changing Earth." Toward the latter part of the unit they went on a field trip to the Ore gon Slate Forestry Department. We were taken on a tour of their office, fire fighting facili ties, and given an insight into their farm forestry program. Class olficers were elected for the six weeks period. Terry t ay lor was elected president; Mike m 1 mm Ma&fc. . ' Lsal ifslS'l.a'iff ARRESTED Arrested in Chi cago Thursday by FBI agents and charged with transporting counterfeit bonds in interstate commerce was Erwin B. Arvey, 44. Arvey is the son of Illinois Democratic National Commit teeman Jacob Arvey. Arvey is a former stockbroker and is free on $25,000 bond in connection with a similar indictment re turned against him in Los An geles. (UPI) Trinidad To Be Port for Soviets PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (UPI) Russia plans to make Trinidad a regular port of call for the Soviet "fishing boats" which cruise the Caribbean on what U.S. authorities believe are sdv missions, it was rannrr. ed Thursday. Authoritative sources said 15 or more Russian trawlers con ducting what the Kremlin de scribes as "fisheries research" in the Caribbean Area will make regular stops here to stock up on supplies and water. One Soviet fishing boat ar rived here Friday, but was un able to purchase as much as its caDtain wanted hepatisp hp didn't have enough West In dian currency. W. W. Sutton ppnpral spprp. tarv of the Amnlpamntprl Wnrlr. ers' Union, charged that Com munists here are trying to pro mote disunity among sugar wnrlfprs and nntnn InnHnrc Sut ton said he doesn't think the Red effort will prove successful. O'Grady, vice president; Tonya Walley, secretary; Tonya Wal ley, treasurer. Last six weeks officers were Jim Pardee, presi dent; Terry Taylor, vice presi dent; Kieth Henderson, secre tary; and Tonya Walley, treas urer. Jim and Terry are presi dent and vice president respec tively of the student body. Tam ara Perry is treasurer, and Dawn Martin Student Body rep resentative. Two new students in our class this year are Jeanie Adams and Danny McKee. Mrs. Flossie Murray's special education class was visited by Mr. Brown and Mr. Marks re cently. Mrs. Ralston visited one day. too. She brought Tommy's baby sister with her. Mrs. Murray's special educa tion class got its room ready for a Halloween party. They made witches and jack-o-lan-terns. Randy made a scar crow. We have three new pupils in the second grade at Howard School. Brook Doty came from Jewett School in Central Point, Dennis Stengel is a transfer from Jefferson School, and Mary Willey came from Ashland. Our room mothers brought us a special treat on Halloween. Mrs. Beardsley's room mothers are Mrs. Jack Wood and Mrs. Paul Rupp; Mrs. Margaret Mann's are Mrs. Art Friesen P 1206 N. K mm m m The Medical Bv Emeritus comultant In Medicine iviayo clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic CReiister snd Tribune Syndicate, 19G3). Retarded Children I rejoice when I read of the efforts President Kennedy is making to help all those retard ed children in our country who could be helped and taught to earn a living. As I write this, I think of a mentally retarded woman who keeps house for two of my dear friends an able physician and his wife. For many years she has taken good care of them; they love her and she loves them. I think also of a slow-witted man who for years in a factory stood watch all day over a ma chine that made bolts. As my friend, the chief engineer of the factory, used to say, the very fact that the man was an easy going plodder made it possible for him to make bolts all day and every day, year in and year out. If he had been brilli ant, in a few days he would have been bored stiff, and he would then have wanted to re design the machine. Today, a former student of mine, Dr. Stafford Warren, who is going to help President Ken nedy with this projr?t, writes that one of the first things that he and his group will do is to make a list of all the simple and routine jobs they can find, and then they will try to train mentally slow young people to take over such work. In Protected Shops As Dr. Warren said, in the average American community of 100,000 people, there are at least 3,000 who are mentally re tarded. Some of them, and es pecially those who have an oc casional seizure, may have to work in protected shops where they won't get fired if occasion ally they black-out and fall. I am told that today in many mental institutions, there are quite a gew persons who could be out in the community and supporting themselves if only for a short time after their dis charge they could be cared for and protected a bit, and fitted into a job. Some day we will probably have a protected shop built alongside of a special boarding house for persons who at times will need some en and Mrs. Cecil Hughes, and Mrs. Cecil Hughes, and Mrs. Joanne Wickman's are Mrs. Virgil Broadwater, Mrs. Robert Kruggel and Mrs. Harold Prince. FREE ADMISSION! WILLIAMS GHOST TOWN SPECIAL CHILDREN i BIRTHDAY PARTIES ' 10 Per Group of Six Children Only For Information Call All You Can Eat Open TONIGHT & SATURDAY November 1st and 2nd S1 XV- YX a Riverside - Phone 773 - "Where Everybody Meets" Roundup FT couragement and help per haps from a psychiatric nurse. Here on my desk is a letter from an unhappy woman who writes me from a state mental institution. She was committed years ago, when she had an. acute episode in which she be came mentally confused. Soon she got over this so well that ever since she has been a wait ress in the hospital dining room. Naturally, she has craved per mission to go back into the world and to a job there, but tne auinornies nave reiusea to let her go because they say that for a while she would need some shelter, some help, and someone who would take re sponsibility for her. But, be cause her parents are dead, and she has no family to take her in, she stays in the mental hos pital. This is bad for her and bad for the taxpayers. It would pay her state to search out all persons like her and then to build a place in which they could live and earn a living. 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