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The Times Herald Port Huron, Mich. Monday, November 23, 1 987 Messages from woman to family end abruptly broker Grant Settlemier, is coordinating the search from San Francisco. Stefanie, a student at Reed College in Portland, had just spent nearly two years traveling around the world, her mother said. "This was to be her dream trip. She worked for six months to make money for this trip.

"She was alone. She felt you should travel alone to get to know the people. She landed in New York. I didn't know she was hitchhiking; I thought they had a car," Settlemier said. Stefanie had never disappeared before and "I feel she's been abducted," her mother said.

Stefanie had met up with a friend, Arthur Torrance, 26, of Portland in New Jersey. He later said they hitchhiked together to Salt Lake City, where they split up. Torrance headed to Oregon and Stefanie to California. Stefanie had been calling home from every state, her mother said Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming. "She called from Wells (Nevada) on the 15th (of October)." Her mother followed her travels on a map.

But the calls stopped after that. Witnesses are sure they saw her trying to rent a motel room in Winnemucca on the 16th and she possibly was seen buying a candy bar at a liquor store there. But there the trail ended. When a psychic announced Stefanie was in Virginia City, the Storey County Sheriff's Department combed the town and nearby hills, but without success. Settlemier praised Nevada residents' help.

"Sheriff (James) Bagwell in Humboldt County did aerial observation from Winnemucca to Sacramento in a plane that goes 60 mph and flies at 200 feet. Down one side of 1-80 and back the other," she said. The missing woman's family spread out over Nevada, passing out fliers bearing her picture, asking ministers to pray and newspapers, television and radio stations to alert people. Boy Scouts assisted by passing out fliers in Reno, Sparks and Las Vegas, Settlemier said. San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein announced a reward of $10,000 for Stefanie's safe return.

Her daughter wants to become a writer, perhaps an investigative reporter, Settlemier said. She said Stefanie kept a journal on her trip, possibly for a college thesis. She said her daughter learns things not because she has to for school, but because she has a natural curiosity about the world and its people. By PHIL BARBER Gannett News Service RENO "Hi Mom. I'm in Nevada.

I'll be home late. Leave the key under the mat." That telephone answering-machine message five weeks ago was the last Joni Settlemier of San Francisco heard from her daughter, Stefanie Stroh, 21, who was returning from a "dream trip" around the world. "It's been so long, but we feel she's alive," Settlemier said in Reno. The missing woman's mother and father, Redwood City, construction engineer Marven Stroh, returned home last week. They and other family members and friends are trying to maintain the public's interest in the missing woman.

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6 to 9 p.m. Night Visitors'' Park FREE in Downtown Port Huron Sa20 Watch this space every jg BS gift Associated Press Ryan Groat, 4, left, and brother Kevin, 3, break from raking leaves at the grandparents' home in Richmond, Va. Sex shop at Stanford sign of times on campus 'Most educated people would agree sexually transmitted disease is a major problem and the only way to effectively deal with it is through education. This is part of the Rhio Hiersch By BRUCE ALPERT Gannett News Service PALO ALTO, Calif. Stanford University sophomore David Chang stopped by for a free condom offered at the grand opening of what may be the first campus sex shop in the United States.

"I think it's great," said Chang, 21, an international relations and French language major. Ye Old Sex Shoppe opened this month at the university's outdoor White Plaza, a popular hangout where students can purchase hamburgers, T-shirts, flowers and now condoms. The object isn't to encourage illicit sex; it's simply to prepare people to deal with the hazards of sexually transmitted diseases. The shop consists of several tables covered with protective gadgets. The store, which plans to operate two days and one night a week, sells condoms, rubber gloves, latex dental dams and sperm-killing lubricants.

"We are not encouraging anything," said Rhio Hiersch of the Stanford AIDS Education Program, the shop's sponsor. "We're just making these items available without a profit to those who are sexually active. And we know there are a lot of sexually active people on campus." It's the latest program offered by the group, which last February tried to promote condom use with what it labeled The Great Condom Rating Contest. The two winning brands, the Gold Circle from New Jersey and the Yamabuki from Japan, sell at Ye Old Sex Shoppe for 9 to 13 cents apiece. Not everybody is pleased with what Hiersch says is the first sex shop on a U.S.

campus. "I feel it's a little inappropriate," said Wendy Needy, a freshman who sells subscriptions to the Christian Science Monitor at a stand adjoining Ye Old Sex Shoppe. Hiersch admits that some students, as well as some alumni, aren't pleased, but he said the shop is one way to educate people about the risk of sexually transmitted disease. We can help you figure it out. FIRST: The amount on deposit in your existing IRA will not be affected (including interest earned).

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Balfour MARINE CITY Esther P. Balfour, 87, died Friday, Nov. 20, 1987, in her St. Petersburg, residence. She was born May 6, 1900, in Sheridan, the daughter of James and Annadell Church, and was a longtime area resident.

She married Herbert C. Balfour June 8, 1923, in Detroit. Mrs. Balfour is survived by her husband; son, Herbert of St. Clair Shores; daughter, Janet Haver- ABOUT THE NEW TAX LAW? DEATHS ELSEWHERE James E.

Folsom, former Alabama governor tj) od em! ates converged on this northern Alabama city over the weekend for today's funeral at First Baptist Church of Cullman. Folsom had been blind and bedridden for several years, but remained on the state payroll as the "governor's councilor." Gov. Guy Hunt, who reappointed Folsom to the honorary post In February, praised him as a "populist who was much loved by the people of Alabama." CULLMAN, Ala. Former Alabama Gov. James E.

"Big Jim" Folsom, who died at age 79, was remembered for populist programs like paving roads and preaching racial moderation during an era of segregation. Folsom, a 6-foot-8, hard-drinking politician who served as governor in the 1940s and '50s, died Saturday of a heart attack, with his wife, Jamelle, by his side. Friends, relatives and associ avings FSLLC "Where High Earnings are a Tradition'9 vhwai -mm.