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2B I LocalNorthwest The Olympitn Tuesday February 9 1988 Murder suspect fight extradition held on Michigan warrants charging him with first-degree murder armed robbery kidnapping and possession of a gun in the commission of a felony in the May 1987 slaying of a gas station courier at Waterford Township near Pontiac Mich Waterford Township Sgt Don Bailey said Elmer DeBoer 38 was robbed of $10000 kidnapped and shot twice in the back of the head Strickland 26 said he did not know anything about the slaying or why he was being charged with the crimes He said he wanted to return to Michigan after Mary Ann Brady deputy Grant County prosecutor told Superior Court Judge CJ Merritt that Munday had agreed to Ritzville about 40 miles away and spoke by phone to friends in Michigan and in Moses Lake about care of their son before deciding to turn themselves in Strickland said They returned to Moses Lake and were arrested at a home without incident at 5:30 am Saturday Duke said Strickiand said he and Munday initially thought they were featured on the program because she had run away from her home in Maryland Munday is wanted for investigation of homicide He said they left Michigan because they had run out of money and they believed they could make a better living in Washington state voluntarily return to Michigan and would take the 1-year-old son Jamie with her Strickland was being held at the jail on a fugitive warrant and Munday who is about four months pregnant was held in the Ephrata Youth Center Authorities learned of Strickland and whereabouts after receiving calls from people who recognized the couple from pictures aired on a Friday night television program about unsolved crimes Strickland and Munday also saw the program and told officials it was a coincidence they happened to be watching when their photographs were aired said Moses Lake Sgt Dennis Duke The couple fled to a motel in EPHRATA (AP) A man wanted in a Michigan slaying said he has no reason to fight extradition and wants to return with his fiancee to face the murder charge against him want us both to go back Jerry Strickland said in an interview Monday from the Grant County Jail in Ephrata where he was being held on 250 000 bond extradition hearing was continued until today to allow him time to consult with his court-appointed lawyer Luke McKean of Moses Lake His fiancee Melissa Munday 17 waived extradition proceedings at a juvenile hearing Monday Strickland was advised in Superior Court Monday that he was being not EPHRATA (AP) Jerry Strickland says like a bomb dropping on when he and his fiancee learned he was wanted on murder charges in Michigan know what to do We was Strickland 26 said Monday He said he and Melissa Munday 17 fled from their apartment in Moses Lake to a motel in Ritzville because they needed to to arrange for the care of their 1-year-old son before surrendering to police Strickland said he was told by a friend in Michigan that authorities would shoot first and ask questions later if he returned to Michigan pretty scary when suspect says used their real names or taken jobs Tight extradition because he wanted if they were trying to hide from po- to return with Munday lice was trying to hide from her parents not the Strickland said we want in life is a fami- Strickland said he brought his family to Washington state because he had a difficult time making a in and he liked the The Associated Press Cnlla molester: Richard Bateman 47 on his way Into an Oregon courtroom on Monday Official says molester afraid of posting signs official: toxic waste initiative gets certified Bateman a drywall installer found until police received an anonymous tip Saturday Investigators said he was working under an assumed name at a Beaverton condominium construction site and had changed his appearance by growing a goatee mustache and longer hair His probation officer Tom Grinnell said after the Monday hearing that Bateman disappeared because was fearful of posting a Asked whether Bateman was afraid of public reaction or media attention Grinnell said said that he was afraid all he told A spokesman for Baker said she could not comment on the case until hearings conclude on the probation violation charges Baker issued the unusual order after Bateman pleaded no contest last spring to two counts of sex abuse involving a 5 -year-old girl and boy She said die ordered Bateman to post the warning signs because prison had not deterred him and he refused to admit his problem or undergo therapy that kind of got a little he said want my son or Missy or me to get Strickland denied any knowledge of the shooting death of Union 76 gas station courier Elmer DeBoer 38 who worked for Leemon Oil Co in Waterford Township Mich DeBoer was robbed of $10000 kidnapped and shot to death last May know anything about Strickland said not that kind of person We work for a Strickland said he could not recall when they left Michigan but insisted that they have Statehouse news3B the general election ballot in November Approve an alternative to the initiative and forward both of them for the voters to choose from in November This is the most likely scenario The Legislature is in the process of reaffirming the hazardous waste law it passed in October as the alternate to the initiative said Sen Mike Kreidler D-Olympia Police Reports Accidents No Injuries were reported Mondt afternoon during a pileup which li volved an Intercity Traneit bus In tt Intersection of Lacey Boulevard ar Franz Street according to Lacey pi lice reports A 1973 Dodge Dart driven by Che Breding 35 2831-1 Eighth Avi NE received $1500 damage A 191 Volkswagen driven by Richard Blghlll Sr 23 2920 Ruddell Road 15 received $900 damage The bus 1986 Orion driven by Nell Campo Si 55 517 11th Ave No 41 receivt $500 damage According to police reports tt Breding car rearended the Bighill hicle then crossed a lane and hit tt bus A 1982 Mercury driven by 21-yea old Nichole Thode 1818 Giles SI received $1500 damage Monday evi ning during a collision at 625 Blac Lake Blvd according to Olympia lice reports A 1978 Ford pickup true driven by William Porter 32 163 Bigelow SL received $300 damage No serious Injuries were reports Monday at 12:44 pm when a car an buck collided on Plum Street near Fifth Avenue according to Olymol police reports 961 Datsun 200SX driven by Jam le Matson 21 15 Lapsley Drive received $2000 damage Matson com Tacoma Peggy Willlama Rainier and Nancy Amie Olympia one son Jimmie Windham Olympia one stepdaughter Charlene Amie in New Mexico one stepson Dennis Amie in Oregon four sisters Marjorie Wolfe Tenino Betty Bamer Olympia Norean Warren Lacey and Joellen Jones Washougal one brother Kenneth Mayer Beaverton Ore also eight grandchildren also numerous nieces and nephews Visitation hours are noon-8 pm Wednesday Feb 10 in Mills and Mills Funeral chapel The funeral service for Mrs Amie will begin at 1 pm Thursday Feb 11 in Olympic Memorial Gardens The Rev Henry Rahn will officiate Cremation arrangements are by Mills and Mills Funeral Directors Death Notices living Michigan Seattle Seahawks football team He said they settled in Moses Lake because Seattle was too big think that was a nice place to raise my he said adding that he also had run out of money when they reached the central Washington town of 12000 Strickland said he hopes the case is settled quickly so that he can rejoin his family and they can get on with their lives tax on the sale of hazardous materials It raises more money than die state program It provides no exemption for sale of petroleum products outside the state and offers a strict polluter-pays philosophy in a bid to avoid cleanups at public expense The state program uses an 08 percent tax It allows the state Department of Ecology to set flexible cleanup standards in an effort to avoid lawsuits that have hamstrung the federal Superfund program substance (suspected psilocybin) He was transferred to Thurston County Jail where he was held this morning in lieu of $2500 bail according to jail records Burglars at John Rogers Elementary School 2001 26th Ave NE took an amplifier bicycle and 117 balloons according to Monday's Olympia police reports The burglary occurred during the weekend Chris top hereon Anderson 28 transient was arrested Monday evening in investigation of attempted second-degree burglary according to Olympia police He was transferred to Thurston County Jail where he remained this morning in lieu of $2500 ball Dannie pianck 24 8903 Sierra Drive SE was booked Monday night In investigation of driving while under the influence of Intoxicants according to Olympia police Blanck was released on personal recognizance Thurston County Robert Parker 37 5720 Etude Loop SE was arrested Monday by Thurston County sheriff's deputise in Investigation of driving while under the influence of intoxicants He was released on his own recognizance Steven GrabW 33 5021 22nd Ave was arrested Monday by county deputies In Investigation of driving while under the influence of Intoxicants and resisting arrest He was in the county jail this morning In lieu of Births St Peter Hospital cnwl' IM Riek ehali8 flirt LaCey' PaU 0lympia Slrn- Dale Olympia a girl Feb 5 0ymP Madme Nancy Olympia a boy Feb Frha'boyFe? S' Brn1 McCIfy- 0ympi' LUtZg5iF1ebBnd a Teb6 1 nB Dn ympla 1 Zmlboy Febe nd Lacey Strickland said he met Munday in Maryland she had run away from home and the two had been together for the past two years He said his parents were strict and did not allow her to spend time with friends Munday who is pregnant with their second child agreed at a hearing Monday to return to Michigan and Strickland said he would not crystal ball tells me it will sail through the Senate and the Kreidler said Supporters of Initiative 97 have suggested they will lobby hard to block reauthorization of the state program in a bid to leave Initiative 97 as the only choice on the ballot would be very surprised if that Kreidler said the supporters of the initiative should want to offer the voters a The initiative places a 07 percent plained of a sore back and neck The second auto a 1988 Mazda pickup truck driven by Brian Jex 30 1410 Alanna Drive No B-5 received $1000 damage according to police A Buick driven by Edna Weed-man 78 Tahuya received $1500 damage Monday during a collision with a 1968 Dodge driven by Jennifer A Du-man 18 108 Pear St according to Olympia police No Injuries were reported Lacey Reed Winters 37 1604 Fones Road was arrested Monday night in investigation of possession of a controlled substance (suspected cocaine) Winters was In Thurston County Jail In lieu of $2500 ball John Bennett 20 and Tammy Butterton IB both of 3800 14th Ave SE No C-121 were arrested Monday night by agents from the Thurston County Joint Drug Enforcement Unit in investigation of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver Agents confiscated five bags of suspected marijuana a cigarette carton with suspected marijuana and $245 cash Lacey police reports said Both suspects were In Thurston County Jail this morning In lieu of $2500 bail according to Jail records Olympia Timothy DeG range 24 1127 Bethel St was arrested Monday afternoon by Olympia police In Investigation of possession of a controlled yro ounaay in home- Mill Mills Funeral Directors Ryi JT- died Sunday Feb 7 ig Black Hills Community Ho Mills and Mills Funeral Direr Ryan Edward Michael Jr 59 pla died Sunday Feb 7 II Evergreen Convalescent Olympia Mills and Mills Fi Directors Seeley Mary Trigg B6 Oly died Monday Feb 8 191 Rest Haven Nursing I Olympia Mills and Mills Fi Directors Funerals Wednesday Feb 10 Lamp Josephine 92 Olympii of Gloria am Garden Room 1W11 Church Mills and Directors Tumwater 2 Presbytr and Mills Fu 92 Lacey 10 Mills Funeral Cti Funeral Dlrec 89 Olyi Garden Memorial Woodlawn Fu winning numt state Triple Choi c( PORTLAND Ore (AP) -The attorney for a man ordered to post signs identifying himself as a child molester said after a court hearing that the signs are unfair Richard Fowlks declined however to comment on whether he would seek to modify the order issued to his client Richard Bateman Bateman appeared briefly Monday before Multnomah County District Judge Dorothy Baker who postponed a formal hearing on probation violation charges until Wednesday Bateman 47 was the object of a three-week search before his arrest Saturday at a suburban construction site He is being held without bail at the Multnomah County Justice Center Baker last year ordered Bateman to post signs on his house and car that read: Sex Offender No Children The judge issued an arrest warrant for Bateman last month after ruling he had violated his probation by trying to camouflage a sign on his house Do Indians own major part of island? COUPEVILLE (AP) Island County commissioners have indefinitely delayed a application after hearing a claim that Indians own the entire central section of Whidbey Island Commissioners on Monday considered a request for a 30-acre development on Penn Cove when they were presented with the claim by descendants of Patka-nim chief of the Snoqualmie Snohomish and about nine other tribes during the mid-1800s The commissioners delayed the application until the county prosecutor can review the claim "This land claim of course has Obituaries Linda McWhorter Linda (Leach) McWhorter 31 Olympia died of natural causes Sunday Feb 7 1988 in her home She was born Sept 18 1956 in Tacoma She grew up in Lacey and attended Timberline High School She worked for Whitecross Home Nursing Care in Olympia caring for invalids who needed help in their homes She was active in softball and bowling in the Olympia area Surviving are her parents James and Joanne McWhorter Olympia one sister Deborah McWhorter Olympia two brothers James Dale and Mark McWhorter both of Olympia and one nephew and one niece Russell James and Jeannette McWhorter both of Olympia A memorial service for Miss McWhorter will begin at 2 pm today Feb 9 in the Forest Funeral Home chapel The Rev Hilton Jarvis of Lacey Baptist Chapel will officiate Arrangements are by Forest Funeral Home Loren Wharton Loren Lee Wharton 48 a 35-year resident of Rochester was killed Monday Feb 8 1988 in a freeway accident in Tumwater He was born May 29 1939 to Lee and Ivy (Whitehead) Wharton in Teni-no He was married to Margaret James Mr Wharton was an engineer with the marine division of the state Department of Transportation He was an Army National Guard member for many years and was in the Army By John Dodge The Olympian A toxic waste initiative to the Legislature has been certified according to Secretary of State Ralph Munro A two-week signature check involving ISO people ended Monday with 153090 valid signatures for Initiative 97 out of 206673 checked The initiative needed 151133 valid signatures' The Legislature which approved its own state Superfund program in a special session in October of 1987 now has several options they are: Adopt Initiative 97 an option that supporters and opponents of the measure label a major longshot Reject the initiative which would automatically forward it to Elliot Treaty ot 183) That treaty gave the land from Freeland to Coupeville on Whidbey Island to the Indians he said Cohn and his mother Dorothy Cohn appeared before the commissioners to object to a proposed residential development at a site about a mile north of Coupeville great-grandmother was Julie Glasgow daughter of Chief Patka-nim who married Thomas Glasgow who had the first farm on she said are about 100 of us who are direct descendants of Patka-nim just heard about the possibility of the burial being disturbed and brought this matter to the attention of the commissioners raised the issue on behalf of the descendants not on behalf of any However she said all tribal members potentially could benefit if the claim is upheld Virginia Curry Olympia also five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren There will be a funeral service for Mrs Webster on Wednesday Feb 10 In Memory Garden Memorial Park In Brea Calif Local arrangements are by Woodlawn Funeral Home Ray Zipperer Ray Zipperer 49 an eight-year resident of Olympia died Thursday Feb 4 1988 In St Peter Hospital He was bom April 11 1938 in Jasper Fla He spent his early years In Jasper and was graduated from high school there He served In the Air Force and lived in many US cities He retired Jan 16 1978 after 20 years service and moved to the Olym-pia-Lacey area in March 1979 Surviving are two brothers Herbert Olympia and Frank Pampa Texas also numerous nieces and nephews A graveside funeral service for Mr Zipperer will begin at 1 pm Thursday Feb 11 in Woodlawn Cemetery Military honors will be by members of the Air Force Arrangements are by Woodlawn Funeral Home Dorothy Amie Dorothy Lou Amie 53 a 34-year resident of Olympia died of natural causes Saturday Feb 6 1988 In St Peter Hospital She was bom July 23 1934 to Joseph and Nellie (Walz) Mayer in Raymond SD where she also attended schools On Sept 3 1966 she was married to Charles Amie in Olympia and was a homemaker Surviving besides her husband are three daughters Linda Windham much more far-reaching implications than a single said Commissioner Dick Caldwell "We were only concerned about the possibility of the developer disturbing some Indian burial grounds on the site when a young man claimed to have found a treaty signed in the mid-1800s that gave the Indians land from Holmes Harbor to Penn Cove which would be a large section of central Whidbey Island stretching from about Greenbank north to he said Reuel Cohn 30 of Everett submitted the documents He said that five years of research at the General Service archives in Seattle indicate that Island County and neighboring San Juan County have dear title to some of their land Cohn a descendant of Chief Patka-nim said the chief was among those who signed the Point Reserves at the time of his death He was a volunteer firefighter for the Rochester Fire Department and a member of Rochester United Methodist Church Surviving besides his wife of Rochester are two sons Gary Coos Bay Ore and Mark Ellensburg one brother Richard Issaquah two sisters Violet Puccio Centralis and Doreen Johnson Snohomish his mother Ivy Rohr Centralis his father Lee Wharton Olympia also two granddaughters and numerous nieces and nephews A private family graveside funeral service for Mr Wharton will begin at 2:15 pm Thursday Feb 11 In Grand Mound Cemetery Rochester A memorial service will follow at 3 pm In Rochester United Methodist Church The Rev Robert Hicks will officiate Arrangements are by Newell-Hoer-ling'e Mortuary Centralia The family suggests memorial donations may be made to the Rochester Fire Department and the Rochester United Methodist Church Garnet Webster Garnet Webster 89 an eight-year resident of Olympia died Friday Feb 5 1988 in her home She was bom Jan 23 1899 in Grove Va and grew up there and in Texas and Michigan She was married to William Webster on Oct li 1926 In Arcadia Calif They made their home in Elmhurst III from 1927 to 1955 and in Arcadia Calif from 1955 to 1979 Mr Webster predeceased her Mrs Webster was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Surviving are one son William Jacksonville Fla one daughter Hansen Clemence 78 Olympia died Sunday Feb 7 1988 in Black Hills Community Hospital Olympic Funeral Home HoWren Elizabeth Marie 214 months Rainier died Thursday Feb 4 1988 in her home Mills and Mills Funeral Directors Klmsey Dora May 78 Olympia died Monday Feb 8 1988 in St Peter -Hospital Mills and Mills Funeral Directors Longfellow Robert 63 Shelton died Monday Feb 8 1988 in Mason General Hospital Woodlawn Fu- -LOttCrV neral Home Martin Archie 78 Olympia died Monday Feb 8 1988 In Rest Haven Nursing Home Olympl Forest Funeral Home Neill Marie Lutheran Funeral Smith Ida 71 Westminster Church Mills Directors Wells Lloyd Mills and Mills and Mills Webster Garnet Memory Brea Calif Home Here Is Monday's in the Washington lottery game waier a gin Feb 6 n4 Randy Rainier girl Feb 6.