Freeport Journal-Standard from Freeport, Illinois • Page 4

4 Freiport (III.) Journal-Standard. Monday, 28, 1976 Study Footprints In Schrader Murder Case PECATONICA The major piece of evidence to date on the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Schrader are footprints found leading toward the Schradcrs' house along a fence enclosing a cornfield, Winnebago County Sheriff's deputies said this morning. "That's about all we have to go on at the present time," a sheriff's deputy said.

A friend and two relatives found the Schraders shot to death in their Klingcr Road home about 3 p.m. Friday. The friend had tried unsuccessfully to tele-' phone the Schraders and went to their home to investigate, finding a door broken in, Winnebago County Detective Lt. Gene Coots said. The friend summoned the Schraders' son-in-law, Edwin Klinger, who lives nearby, and they went to the home with Klinger's son.

Lloyd, 85, and Anna, 82, died of multiple gunshot wounds-to the head, chest and upper extremities between 6 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday, according to Winnebago County Coroner John P. Seward. The coroner's office declined to release information on the type or caliber of weapon used: The Schraders were found in their bedroom, dressed in night clothes, authorities said.

It was speculated shots were fired through a screen and closed window. Coots said it appeared the house was broken into and ransacked after the couple was shot. Coots said he is not ruling out the possibility that more than one criminal was involved in the double murder. After the bodies were discovered Friday, county deputies and civil defense volunteers covered the 12-acre area surrounding the Schrader home and the footprints were found. The sheriff's department said eight deputies are working "around-the- clock" on the investigation.

Assistance is coming from the state police and Stephenson and Ogle County sheriff's departments. The Schraders farmed in Ridott Township for 43 years before retiring. They operated a restaurant at their son Harry's Dakota Marketing Center every Tuesday. The sale barn will be closed Tuesday. Speculation Friday night prompted rumors in the area that the deaths were somehow related to the disappearance of two Freeport men, Everett Hawley and Clarence Owens.

One rumor was that the two missing men had been located in an abandoned farm building near Pecatonica. "The two men have not been found. That rumor is a lie and they are still missing," Stephenson County Sheriff Don Scofield. said this morning. Scofield said his department has continously been checking out rumors and leads but none has led to a solution of the case.

"We got a strong rumor last week and conducted a large search of another area Thursday, but the only thing we accomplished was to get a squad car stuck in the mud. The two men are still missing," he repeated. Hawley, 72, of 1733 Valley View Drive and Owens, 65, of 1019 S. State Ave were last'seen leaving a relative's home at Pecatonica Feb. 19 after attending a political rally for gubernatorial candidate James Thompson.

Since then the sheriff's department has conducted massive searches and has followed up on clues, tips, phone calls and other information, but without success, Scofield said. Two of Owens' sons, Dennis and James, said Friday they fear their father and Hawley are dead. Obituaries Lloyd S. Schrader was born Sept. 11, 1890, at Dakota, son of George and Elizabeth (Schopmeier) Schrader.

He married Anna M. Smith Nov. 24 1910, in Ridott. Mrs. Lloyd (Anna Schrader was born Dec.

29,1893, in Lancaster County, daughter.of Samuel and Ellen (Stoner) Smith. The couple is survived by a son, Harry of Freeport Route a daughter, Mrs. Edwin (Dorothy) Klinger of rural Pecatonica; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Mrs. Schrader is also survived by a sister, Mrs.

Elizabeth Erb of Frceport. Three brothers and a sister preceded her in death. Two brothers preceded Schrader in death. Double funeTal service will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at St.

John United Church of Christ in Freeport. The Rev. Charles Allen, pastor of Bethany United Church of Christ, Freeport, and the Rev. Gustav Bloom, pastor of Seward Congregational Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Cemetery, Freeport.

Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. today at Burke Tubbs Funeral Home, Freeport. A memorial fund has been established for Bethany UCC, of which the Schraders were members. Police Investigate Schrader Home Shortly After The Bodies Were Found. Fear Follows In Wake Of Murders PECATONICA The shooting deaths of Lloyd and Anna Schrader Thursday in their rural Pecatonica home two miles south of U.S.

20 on Klinger Road have caused fear throughout the surrounding communities. As countless numbers of friends and acquaintances of the elderly couple gathered at homes, local stores and businesses, the talk centered on what many termed the "senseless" slayings and the possibility it could happen again. "People are just wondering why why such a thing has happened," Martin Last, a neighbor of the Schraders, said. "Many people are scared, especially the older people who live out in the country. There are quite a few people living out here just like the Schraders." Last, who said he had known the Schraders for more than 47 years, said he couldn't understand who would kill them and in such a way.

"They were old people who couldn't fight back," he said. He said he had last seen Lloyd Schrader on'Wednosday working in his front lawn. "I'm not Last said. "I've got a gun and a darned good dog," he added pointing to his German shepherd. Reflecting on the deaths, Last said, "Out here in the country you don't think of things like that." Eather Woolbright, owner of Wooley's Cafe in Pecatonica, said Anna Schrader had stopped at the cafe Just last week.

"It's hard to believe and the way it was done," he said. shook his head, saying, "It's scary, scarier than hell." "They wouldn't hurt he said of the Schraders. Woolbright said a number, of his customers have dicussed the murders and many were afraid of it happening again. Woolbright pointed to his teenage daughter, saying normally she wouldn't be with her parents at the cafe but she didn't want to stay alone at home after hearing of the Schraders' deaths. He also brought up the mysterious disappearance of two Freeport men, Everett- Hawley and Clarence Owens, who were last seen in Pecatonica in February and neVer heard of again.

He didn't say if he thought the murders and the disappearance were connected. Bob Aurand, who is postmaster and runs the grocery store at Seward, a few miles woutheast of the Schrader home, said he had known the Schraders for years and characterized them as "exceptionally nice people, very industrious and a highly successful farm family." A woman customer in the store agreed heartily. Administration, House Patch Up Differences Over Peanut Controls Aurand said several of his patrons had talked of the murders and many were apprehensive that it could happen again. Donald Jepsen, co-owner of the Union Dairy Farms store in Freeport, said he didn't know why anyone would kill the Schraders. He said the Schraders were popular and had visited his dairy bar so many times through the years to become "almost a fixture here." He said he last saw the Schraders last week and had talked with Lloyd.

"I just can't understand it," he said. Notice The appearance of Rev. Bobby Lounsberry scheduled for tonight, June 28, has been canceled at the LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH, 12 N. Galena Ave. We apologize for any inconvenience in- Lloyd And Anna Schrader Three Children Die In Mobile Home Blaze OMAHA, 111.

(UPI) Three children ranging in age from 11 months to 3 years died Sunday in a fire that swept their mobile home near Omaha in Gallatin County after their mother smelled smoke and ran to a neighbor's home for aid. Coroner Bill Edwards identified the victims, children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Golden, as Joe, 3, Jennifer 2 and John, 11 months. Edwards said Mrs.

Golden told him she smelled smoke and ran to the home of a neighbor about 100 yards away for help but the neighbor was not home. When she returned, flames were shooting from the mobile home and prevented her from entering it, she told Taxpayers Lobby Wants Tax Limit CHICAGO (UPI) The National Taxpayers Union, a national taxpayers lobby, has called for state laws to limit state taxes and a "sunset law" which would force state regulatory agencies to justify their existence. The lobby held a rally at a Chicago social club Sunday night, where Rep. Philip Crane, was given an award for voting against federal spending. Jim Davidson, executive director of the NTU, praised Crane for voting for 16 of the 21 bills endorsed by the group.

In Illinois, the group's initial goal is passage of a bill similar to the "Sunset Law" recently enacted in Colorado which forces state regulatory agencies to justify their existence every six years or face elimination. Area Hospitals Births Mr. and Mrs. Larry Witt of Savanna are parents of a daughter born Sunday at Savanna City Hospital. Patients Richard Louthain Sr.

of Cedarville is a medical patient at St. Clare Hospital Monroe, Wis. Richard Chapman, Orville Rogers and Ellen Wilkinson, all of Savanna and Warren Lucas and Zella Haas, both of Mount Carroll, are patients at Savanna City Hospital. Otto Renter of Lena is a patient at Swedish American Hospital, Rockford. the coroner.

The victims' father, a truck driver, was away at the time. Edwards saiii the children apparently suffocated. Mrs. Golden suffered shock and was taken to Carmi Township Hospital for treatment but was released later Sunday. Firemen from Omaha and Ridgway fought the blaze for three hours before bringing it under control.

Edwards said a deputy state fire marshal was attempting to determine the cause of the blaze. The family lived, about one mile northeast of Omaha in a rural area. WASHINGTON (UPI) A long and bitter controversy between administration farm officials and lawmakers from southern and southwestern-peanut states apparently will end soon in a compromise which neither side likes but both are willing to accept. House Agriculture Committee members have scheduled a vote Wednesday or Thursday on a compromise plan for easing federal production controls on peanuts and reducing government support rates for the crop. Committee sources said the bill was likely to win approval by a heavy margin.

Prospects for passage in the House next month were considered good, and Senate sources said the legislation would probably move through that body quickly and with little controversy after the House has acted. If the bill becomes law, administration experts estimate it save taxpayers about million next year by reducing the cost of the federal peanut support program. Under the program, which dates back to the 1930s, growers are given an annual planting allotment which cannot be cut below 1.6 million acres. Farmers who might want to exceed the allotment or plant without one are discouraged by stiff cash penalties on excess production. For producers who stick within the allotments, the government guarantees support at not less than 75 per cent of the "fair" parity price for peanuts.

Since the parity price itself escalates automatically as farm costs increase, the support price also goes up automatically each year. Growers in produc- ing states from through Georgia and Alabama have strongly defended the system on grounds it stabilizes markets and protects small growers. But Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz has waged open'political war against it for years on grounds it guarantees qontinuing high govern-, ment costs while protecting "a vicious little monopoly." Butz and his aides say that while the present program does not allow them' to cut acreage allotments below 1.6 million acres, farmers have continually increased per-acre yields. As a result, the total amount of peanuts eligible for price support has been increasing faster than consumer demand for the crop, and government costs have been escalating, they say.

The compromise bill drafted by Rep. Dawson Mathis, would meet many of Butz's complaints while retaining some protection for traditional peanut growers. Armed Forces Yeoman 2.C. Bruce Fox, whose wife, Wanda, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

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