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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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