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OBITUARIES MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER tt, 1M MARV STPMRIln Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Steiirud, 81, of 830 Iowa St., Ashland, who died Tuesday, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday m the Ashland Mortuary Chapel, Fourth and C Sts. Everett H. McGee of the Ash land Church of Christ will offi ciate. Entombment will be in Rest Haven Mausoleum. Mrs. Stenrud was born July 14, 1882, in Denmark. She was married in Albert Lea, Minn., to Henry Stenrud who survives. She and her husband moved to Tacoma, Wash., in 1940, from Albert Lea, and lived there five years before moving to Ashland in 1945 to make their home. Survivors, besides her hus band, include a brother, Anton Peterson, Golden, Colo.; and a sister, Mrs. Alma Price, Tor rance, Calif.; and two grand children. A daughter preceded her in death. EVERETT SCHMELZER ' ASHLAND Everett Marion Schmelzer, 37, of Route 1, Box 78, Talent, who died Wednesday afternoon In an industrial acci dent at the McGrew Brothers Mill, was born Aug. 10, 1926. He is survived by his wife, the former Geraldine Kline, and six children, Dennis, Tony, Carrol, Randy, Ronald and Linda; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schmelzer, brothers, Gerald and Dwight Schmelzer, and a sister, Mrs. Lorraine Stanley, .all of Talent; and a sister, Mrs. Ed win Cammack of Vancouver, Wash. , : Mr. Schmelzer was a member of the Methodist Church at Tal ent and of the American Bowling Congress, having played for the College Cleaners team in Ash land. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Litwiller Fu neral Home. ' ,MRS. ETHEL BANTA ASHLAND - Mrs. Ethel Mae Banta, 99, long time resident of Ashland, died Thursday morn ing in a Medford rest home, where she had been a patient for the past year. . ' Mrs. Banta was born in Illi nois April 30, 1864. She has no known survivors. ' Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Litwiller Fu neral Home. PAUL HOFFARD ' Funeral services for P a u 1 Hoffard, 62, of 507 S. Oakdale Ave., Medford, who died Tues day, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Perl Funeral Home. The Rev. Gilbert Lulay, Sa cred Heart Catholic Church will officiate. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial Park. tf Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be at 8 p.m. Friday at Perl Funeral Home. Mr. Hoffard was born May 28, 1901, in Towner, N. D. He lived in Portland for several years where he was a professional baseball player. He moved to Medford in 1924. From 1931 un til his retirement in 1956 he was employed at Medford Corpora tion. i He retained his interest in baseball all of his life and was manager of the Cheney Studs baseball team of Central Point lor five years. ' On Feb. 7. 1928, in Medford he was married to Florence von Der Hellen who survives. Other survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Pauline Smith; four brothers, Bernard Hoffard, Seattle; Andrew, Leo, Anton, all of Portland; three sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Quinn, Mrs. Katherine Hammond, Mrs. Elizabeth Lam bert, all of Portland; one step daughter, Mrs. Joyce Bailey, Medford, and two grandchil dren. Casket bearers will be George Gitzen, Gordon Warner, Harold Irwin, Richard Wooten, Frank Roelandt and William Rose. GOLD1E IMHAUSEN Goldie Imhausen, 66, of Route 4, Griffin Creek Road, died in a local hospital Wednesday eve ning. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Perl Fu neral Home. Debate Scheduled At GOP Meeting A debate of the topic, "Rock efeller or Goldwater in 64," will be held at the Friday night meeting of the Jackson County Republican Club, Lloyd Bishop, chairman of the club, announced today. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in the banquet room of Cubby's Drive In. The debate will be by mem bers of the Medford High School debate team, and the public is invited, Bishop stated. The Friday night meeting will be the last regularly scheduled session of the club for 1963, Bish op said. Local Woman Hurt In Talent Accident Mrs. Edith Robb of Medford, office nurse for Dr. Harvey Woods of Ashland, suffered in juries Wednesday when her car was involved in an accident at 8:40 a.m. as she was en route to Ashland. The Robb car and one driven by James E. Hobbs, Route 1, Box 492, Talent, collided at the junction of U.S. 99 and the Old Pacific Highway at Talent, ac cording to Talent Chief of Po lice Charles Roberts. Hobbs was cited for failure to yield the right of way. Both automobiles were dam aged but the Hobbs car was driven from the accident scene and the Robb car had to be towed away. New Traffic Signal Set in Grants Pass GRANTS PASS A new traf-, ommended for this intersection, fie signal will be established at The city had nrevfousiv re- Fourth and G Streets, long quested that a survey be made recognized by the City of Grants Pass as a bottle neck, it was announced at the Wednesday night meeting of the City Council. Since G Street is a secondary state highway, the project has to be done jointly by city and state, it was previously an nounced. A petition carrying in excess of 250 signatures, re ceived by Mayor Robert C. Martin, was presented to the council. Mayor Martin also reported that the city had received noti fication from the State Highway Commission that a full four-way stop and go signal is being rec- Truck, Car Involved In Valley Accident A truck loaded with fuel wood and a car collided on Kirtland Road a half mile west of Black well Road near Central Point yesterday, state police said. A car driven by Wesley Jack Graham, 51, of 100 C St., Jack sonville, started to make a left turn into a driveway in front of the truck when the accident oc curred, police said. Glenn Ivan Higinbotham, 50, of 4957 Ham rick Road, Central Point, was the driver. Graham suffered cuts and bruises. He was cited for failure to drive on the right side of the highway, state police said. Locals Surgery Patients Mrs. Bea trice L. Schrein, Brookings, and Alfred Lingren, 2642 Spring brook Road, Medford, was listed as surgery patients today at Sacred Heart Hospital. ' Baiaar Scheduled Women of First Church of God will have a bazaar and food sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 in the Leonard Electric Company store, 309 E. Main St., Medford. Flue Fire Ashland firemen were called at 4:23 p.m.- Tues day to a flue fire at the home of Mark Smith, 731 Walker St. They stood by and let the fire burn itself out. There was no damage. .! Drive Postponed The dod bottle drive planned for Bliss Heine's Moose Juniors and pre viously announced for Sunday, Nov. 24, nas been postponed to Dec. 1. The change was made, according to members, because most of the truck drivers, who were to furnish transportation will be in Klamath Falls to at tend a meeting Sunday. . . Rummage Sale The local chapter of the National Associa tion of Retired Civil Employes will hold a rummage sale in the Fehl Building, 108 N. Ivy St., Medford, Friday, Nov. 22, spokesmen announced today. Hours of the sale are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and rummage for the sale will be received from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight. Boiler at Meeting Charles A. Boiler, general agent for Mutual of Omaha and United of Omaha in the Medford area, is attending the 30th annual meeting of the general agents and field managers of the in surance company at the home office in Omaha, Neb. More than 250 of the company's field representatives are at the con ference, which began Wednesday. by the State Highway Commis sion ana tne recommendation was an outgrowth of the survey. me cay must enter into an agreement with the state for construction of the sienai and share the cost on a 50-50 basis. The request for the Talent Rural Fire District for member ship in the Jackson County Mu tual Assistance Fire Protective Organization was approved by the Grants Pass council. The organization is composed of 14 members and tne consent of each member is required when an extension is considered. Grants Pass Fire Department is the only member outside of Jackson county. Proposal Received A proposal was received by the council from the Izaak Wal ton League, offering transfer of tne league s club house in the city park to the City of Grants Pass. The council agreed to ac cept the title and to take juris diction of the building. a meeting ot tne Qtv Council with the Josephine County Court ana me scnooi ooard was an nounced for Monday. The meet ing nas oeen scheduled to ex plore the possibility of the con struction or a sewer mterceotor io serve tne josepmne county rairgrounas ana scnooi sites in District 7, specifically t h e South Junior High School and a future school site in the New Hope area. Thompson Trial Moves Toward Lab Evidence Medford Student to Speak to Faculty PORTLAND - Lloyd A. Bendickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bendickson, 785 E; McAndrews Road, Medford, a student of the University of Oregon Dental School in Port land, will speak before the den tal school's Faculty Research Club Nov. 26. He will represent the depart ment of bacteriology and discuss "Analysis of the Rapp Test." A junior at the dental school, Rapp was graduated from Med ford High School in 1954, served in the U.S. Air Force four years and attended Southern Oregon College at Ashland three years before entering the dental school. He is a member of Delta Sig ma Delta national dental fra ternity. His wife, Nancy Kay, is a registered nurse. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. (VPl) A footprint lightly tinging the new white of a feathery pre dawn snow with a suspicious red stain was it the killer's? Or another man's? Were there two men inside the home when Carol Thomp son was slugged and knifed? Just a footprint in the snow that fell after midnight. One of many. But it may be pivotal in the murder trial of T. Eugene Thompson, the criminal lawyer from St. Paul. The case of the husband ac cused of planning the slaying of his church-worker wife moved today from the tale of the ago nized last hours of the dying Carol Thompson to the clean logic of the crime lab. Mrs. Thompson, 34, a devot ed mother ot lour, choir sing er, respected housewife in a fashionable section ot St. Paul, staggered out the side door of her 2-story home last March 6. Just after 9 a.m. she ap perred at 'a neighbor's front door unrecognizable with the thick blood and battered disfig urement that attended her trag edy and weakly pleaded: "Help me I have a knife in ray throat." - Seven minutes after 9, the first policeman arrived. He soon had cardboard covering footprints ot what he deduced was her trail from house to house seeking help and other tootpnnts. At 10:35 a.m., Theodore Rov Eizerman arrived. He is a criminalist in charge of the St. Paul police laboratory. The At 7 P.M. & 10:45 P.M. TOflf f 6 on af 9 P, M. NO EMPIRE COULD STO? THEM... NO MAN COULD CONQUER THEM I THE MOST DIABOLICAL PAWS EVER WRITTEN HIFMMM LOUIS JOUROAN-SYLVIA SYMS i EASTMANCOLOR BdMswi thru UNITED AHT1STS VINCENT PRICE M Mi Hon CMUMt PMTMVU OF EVt diary oifa madman TECHNICOLOR ".'.. state's 75th witness as its case now coasts downhill to a climax expected late this week or ear ly next. His was a major role in today's testimony. Eizerman was just getting started when the first-degree murder trial of the 35-year-old little lawyer and former church elder and trustee he otten sang beside his wife in. the choir and for a time sang a song of Infidelity with a bru nette paramour was recessed for the day. Elievman gav Ms credentials, told of his job. Thompson, a S-foot-6 towhead from the turkey-raising country southwest of here, worked his way through law school and was ' an up-and-coming young criminal attorney until the state charged him with master- minding a plot to do away with his wife. It has presented as motives the fact that he nad purchased $1,055,000 in insur ance on her Jife and early Jast year -had begged an alleged mistress, Jackie Olesea, tor u months to get enough money to support her and his family. Dick W. C. Anderson, heavy-drinking salesman, was reported to have confessed slaying Carol and is listed as Uie state's key witness. Nobody has connected Thompson with the crime so far, and there is no report that Anderson ever saw Thompson. The state con tends that the payoff to him was through ex-boxer Norman J. Mastrian, and a witness tes tified taking $2,300 from Mas trian to Anderson. Carnegie Graduates Plan Meeting Tonight A meeting for Dale Carnegie graduates has been scheduled at 7:30 o'clock wugni at we home of Mrs. Sybol Prescott, 111 Washington St.. Medford All alumni interested in the formation of a Medford Chapter at the Dale Carnegie Alumni Association are invited to the meeting. FR1.-SAT.-SUN. mm , NOW! Box Offic Opens 6:45 Watkdayt MJ Saturday t Sunday STA.Y WARM km corr . FREE IN-CAR HEATERS ZZTriiit 10HH 5?jkfAi!tr mKm WOMAN ImsiK 2. I Starring J JIM 3. MIIT MeUNTOCK... -He likes kit nAMtrtrnf... Hit woniM ult ...JMjMjiwi ill lo kifflilltl rmm iM VIAYIIE 3-l Q'llARA TECHNICOLOR MNMISION' .IATJAC motim - - m mmt mm Co-Starring Patrick Wiynt, Staiania Powers, Jack Kruichan, Cfirtf Willi, Yvonne Da Carta Wrfttan by Samoa Edward Grant Births Eagle Point Man Sentenced in Court Walton Charles Tillman, 46, of Box 176B, Butte Falls Star route, Eagle Point, was sen tenced in Jackson County Cir cuit Court yesterday to three years in the Oregon State Peni tentiary on charges of uttering and publishing a false check. He had pleaded guilty to the charges. Imposition of sentence was suspended for three years, and James Albert Nolin, 22, Forest Grove, was placed on probation after pleading guilty to charges of non-support. He had waived right to a grand jury hearing. Noiin was directed to pay $50 a month in support payments and to make up back payments by paying $25 a month addition al until caught up. The probation was revoked on Keith McBride Troxel, 43, of 363 B St., Ashland, for ob taining property by false pre tenses. He was sentenced to the county jail for one year with provision for transferring him to the Multnomah County Jail. James Clifford Templin, 37, of 75 Dewey St., Ashland, was arraigned on charges of forgery. The case was continued to Nov. 21 to allow him to enter a plea. WALTERS To Mr. and Mrs. Robert, Route 1, Montague, Calif., Nov. 16, 1963, a boy, 74 pounds, at Siskiyou County Hospital, Yreka, Calif. WARREN To Mr. and Mrs. Elmer R. Jr., 1145 Dakota St., Medford, Nov. 19, 1963, a girl, 9 pounds, at Rogue Valley Hospital. GIAMMONA - To Mr. and Mrs. John (Jack), Oakwood Mo tel, Phoenix, Nov. 20, 1963, a boy, 8 pounds, at Rogue Valley Hospital, Weather The Wooden Shoe Invite You To DINE and ... and take your place in the fun! "THE ROYALS TRIO (Bob, Johtinr" and Stan) currantlr playing your fiverlta tunea for smooth dancing or fair listening. Thar can bait out lha beats, loot Alwavt a pleasant atmotphert of toad fellowship and gaiety combined wirh friendly, courteouf larvlca. wmmi m inn Prim Ribs Steaks Chickan You couldn't tpand a bartar evening anywhara. In joy Irv'a fina auliina, your lavoiila bavaraga and Ilia triendly, cautteoui atmoiphara that all your Mends an now enjoying. At The Popular Holland Hotel FORECASTS Medlord and vicinity: Consid erable cloudiness through Friday. Snow showers In mountains and possibility ol a few rain showers in valley tonight and Friday. Low . Wioh Fridav 48-33. Western Oregon: increasing clouds with rain tonight and Fri day, clearing partially late Friday. jyM tomgnt cut" j. ..-,, 48-54. . ,. Nortnern uaniornia: mosiiy ",i snH fHriav hut increasing MmtrtinesK extreme north portion Friday. Slightly warmer Friday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yealer dav 38; below normal 4. Record high this date 67 In 1924. Record low this date 18 in 1829. PRECIPITATION : 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 ',T'olal0nthis month 4.22 Inches, 2.55 Inches above normal. Total since Sept. 1, S.89 Inches, 1.68 Inch above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday m. highest this am. 6. u CITY Vtster- vm. Hr. nay i.uw rmv BTOokinfis Crater .Lake .. .. 2h Grants Pass Howard Prairie .. 2ft Klamath Falls .... W MEDFORD 44 Portland . ' ''f -v.. , j' s . -sap r . fa .... i , 39 10 23 33 38 07 Seattle .. Spokane Yakima . 40 . 32 43 33 20 22 Eureka 52 Red Blull V Sacramento SH San Francisco .... 58 Los A ngeles 62 Phoenix '3 Denver 62 Chicago -J" Miami Beach. ifi New York -13 Washington, D. C. 87 53 53 2 CINEMA 21 Open Tonight 7:00 From Oreeei "ANTIGONE" IRENE PAPAS Wtanu ot 8 fnfernafronaf Festival Awards Showing :05 2ND FILM "IT HAPPENED . IN THE PARK" GEP.AD PHILIPS VITTORIO DESICA Af 7:30 Only! 3 cheers for parties! 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