The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 11

Friday, June 17, 1994 0 The Bismarck Tribune 0 Page 11A Murder: Jogger reports seeing car similar to Simpson's FROM PAGE 1A Even as the funerals were under way, investigators continued investigating the killings and interviewed a new witness, who said she saw a car that resembled one owned by 0.J. Simpson parked across the street from the residence of his former wife Sunday at about the time of the murders. The witness, a young woman who said she jogs in the area every night, said she could not be sure whether anyone was in the car when she jogged past, but her description of the vehicle generally matches the car that police seized from Simpson's home two days ago. The woman who met with a homicide detective in a church parking lot to avoid the crush of media descending around the case said she was familiar with the cars in the area and noticed this one because it was parked in an unusual location. "I saw a light colored Ford Bronco or Blazer type car," the woman, who asked not to be identified, said in an interview with the Los' Angeles Times.

She added that she did not see any activity outside the house. Police have not released the exact time of death, but sources have placed it roughly between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m PDT Sunday. The woman spotted the car between 9:45 p.m. and 10:10 p.m., she said.

Monday, police seized a white Ford Bronco from Simpson's home and recovered blood samples from the upholstery in that vehicle. They are testing those samples to determine whether the blood might have come from either of the victims or from Simpson. Other blood samples taken from the scene of the crime match 0.J. Simpson's blood type, sources close to the case have said. Such a match does not prove Simpson was at the murder scene, because many people have the same blood types.

Investigators also are combing clothing, shoes and other items seized from Simpson's home to determine whether any of them con- APPOINTMENT BOOK TODAY I PUBLIC EVENTS: HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA BOOK SALE, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Heritage Center. SPORTS: AUTO RACING, 7:30 Dacotah Speedway, CAPITOL CITY SOCCER TOURNAMENT, through Sunday, Cottonwood Park. CONFERENCES. CONVENTIONS: N.D.

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109 4th St. P.O. Box 1931 Bismarck, ND 58502 (701) 258-4745 tain blood stains and to see whether the treads on any of his shoes match tracks found at the murder scene, sources said. In Chicago, police officers using metal detectors searched Thursday for evidence in an overgrown field near the O'Hare Plaza Hotel, where Simpson stayed Monday. A patron of a nearby gasoline station said he saw a person fitting Simpson's description in that lot Monday, Detective Bert Luper of the Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday evening.

"I can tell you we're here to collect evidence the Chicago Police Department has assisted us in acquiring," said Luper, one of two LAPD officers in Chicago investigating the Simpson slayings. Police have refused to discuss the case but a police source told The Associated Press that the investigation was focusing solely on Simpson. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Simpson would be arrested soon. As investigators continued their review of the physical evidence and their interviews with possible witnesses, families of the two victims gathered separately for a pair of funerals. About 200 close friends and family made their way to Nicole Simpson's funeral at St.

Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Brentwood Thursday, morning, under sunny skies and the buzz of media helicopters. A white hearse carrying the light wood casket of Nicole Simpson, covered with a spray of white roses, arrived followed by family members. 0.J. Simpson Barbieri: limousines ferrying emerged from one and lingered briefly, with other family members outside the side entrance. On both sides, he held the hands of his small children.

After the hourlong service, family and friends paused outside the side entrance, surrounding 0.J. Simpson. Guests embraced, chatting and laughing quietly. At a tiny Westlake Village chapel, roughly 400 of Goldman's friends and relatives overflowed the pews. Some stood in the chapel's aisle and while others huddled by the doorway and listened to loudspeakers placed outside.

Kim Goldman, 22, wept as she said farewell to her brother. "Not in my worst nightmare did I imagine that I would be here in front of our family and friends saying how much I'll miss, you," she said. "I admire everything about you. I don't know if I ever told you how proud I am of the man you have Rabbi Gary Johnson led the brief service, focusing on the need for faith in the face of such a violent and sudden tragedy. "We are all shaken by the injustice of the taking of Ron's life," Johnson said.

"The world may impose upon us violence, but we must respond with a loving After the chapel service, hundreds crossed the lawn at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park to attend the burial. The crowd of friends, most in their 20s, ignored the dozens of television cameras set up across the street as they huddled around the grave site. They stood silently as Goldman's stepbrother and close friends walked the casket from the chapel. Family members and friends sobbed as the final prayers were read in Hebrew, and the casket was lowered into the ground. In other developments: On Saturday, the day before the killings, Simpson attended a party in Beverly Hills with modelactress Paula Barbieri, according to her manager, Tom Hahn.

Hahn denied reports the two are romantically involved, saying they were just friends. Simpson friend Howard Bingham told The Boston Globe that he was with Simpson on the same American Airlines flight to Chicago late Sunday and, "Nothing seemed different about him." "He wasn't bleeding. I shook hands with him in the airport and in Chicago. He seemed like always. This whole thing is Deputy City Attorney Robert Pingel revealed more details of the 1989 New Year's Day wife beating to which Simpson pleaded no contest and received two years' probation.

Mrs. Simpson had called police to the couple's Brentwood mansion. When the officers arrived, a visibly bruised Mrs. Simpson staggered to the gate in front of the house wearing only a pair of sweat pants and a bra and said, "He's going to kill me." An unidentified limousine driver who says he took Simpson to the airport Sunday told the syndicated TV news magazine "Hard Copy" that Simpson wasn't at his estate at 10:45 p.m. but showed up 15 minutes later looking sweaty and agitated.

Forensic scientist Henry Lee, who assisted William Kennedy Smith in his successful defense against a rape charge, left Connecticut for California to help Shapiro. Lee will examine evidence collected in the investigation. a Simpson Robert L. Shapiro also hired Dr. Michael Baden, a former chief pathologist New York City who now works as a forensic scientist for the New York State Police in Albany.

After Mrs. Simpson's funeral, Simpson embraced the priest, greeted friends and got into his car for the 50 mile procession to Ascension Cemetery in Lake Forest. Security was so tight there that even the priest who conducted graveside services was stopped and asked for identification. Before the burial, nine girlhood friends of Mrs. Simpson traded stories of jumping off high-dives and playing pranks as children.

"It's really sad to have a grade school reunion this way," one said. Farm laborers rs fail to win coverage By DALE WETZEL sation coverage Associated Press Writer tional guarantees protection of the "I don't believe Excluding farm laborers from majority can be compulsory workers compensation squared with coverage does not violate their the prior case rights, North Dakota's Supreme law in North Court says in a decision one lawyer Dakota on called "a real tragedy." which we reThe ruling, which produced an lied," Haney's unusual 3-2 split and four separate lawyer, Mark opinions among the justices, con- Schneider of cluded the Supreme Court itself Fargo, said erred in 1979 when it came within Thursday. one vote of declaring the exclusion "That's a real unconstitutional. tragedy, is questionable wisdom from cause it is a the standpoint of the employer to retreat in conexclude agriculture from the scope stitutional of the worker compensation sys- rights for the tem," Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle wrote. "However, that is essentially a legislative matter, not a judicial Farm workers who are injured still may sue their employer, an option that is not open to employees covered by workers compensation, Justice Dale Sandstrom wrote in the majority decision.

VandeWalle and Justice William Neumann agreed with Sandstrom. Justice Herbert Meschke argued the exclusion was unconstitutional, saying it benefited "politically powerful special interests at the expense of. an economically weak class of wage workers." The decision came in a lawsuit by Robert Haney of Fargo, who contested the Workers Compensation Bureau's refusal to provide benefits for a June 1990 back injury. Haney argued that exempting farm labor from workers compen- Some farmers workers Associated Press Although farmers are not required to buy workers compensation coverage for hired labor, a handful do so anyway. The Workers Compensation Bureau now has 377 farm accounts, which is less than 2 percent of its 21,500 accounts.

They fall into two categories farming and ranching, which covers most farm employees, and a separate category that covers people who weed row crops by hand. The latter category mostly affects North Dakota's sugar beet indus- try. Beginning July 1, farmers who buy general farming and ranching coverage must pay a maximum of $1,479.40 per worker each year. Musician dies SEATTLE (AP) The bass player for Courtney Love's band Hole was found dead Thursday in her bathtub with syringes and what appeared to be drug paraphernalia, police said. The cause of the 26- year -old Kristen Pfaff's death was not immediately determined.

An autopsy was scheduled for today. violated constituof equal laws. the opinion of the Vande Walle: Opinion. people of North Dakota." Haney was cleaning crawl spaces beneath grain bins at Grindberg Farms when he was hurt, court documents say. Grindberg, a farming partnership near Page in northwestern Cass County, is now defunct.

Grindberg did not have workers compensation, although its liability insurance paid a small portion of Haney's medical bills, Schneider said. State law requires virtually all North Dakota businesses to buy workers compensation coverage for their employees. It is meant to assure them medical treatment and rehabilitation if they are injured on the job. In return, employers are shielded from lawsuits. Farmers have been exempted from having to buy workers compensation for hands since the system was established in 1919.

During the 1970s, the Legislature considered four separate proposals do buy compensation Coverage for sugar beet weeders costs a maximum of $761.80 annually. The agency collected $699,165 in premiums for the two farming categories for its fiscal year ending June 30, 1993, said Curt Mildenberger, a bureau analyst. It collected $91.5 million in total premiums during the same period. Workers compensation premiums are assessed against each $100 in wages paid; on July 1, the wage maximum against which premiums are charged rises from $12,600 to $13,000. Starting an account costs at least $100, a sum that will rise to $125 on July 1.

STATE DEATHS BINFORD Norman Evers, 92. FARGO Ellen Dougherty, 104; Louis Mische, 86. Francis Hamsmith, 72; May Johnson, 96. HANKINSON Olga Roeder, 100. HILLSBORO Robert Rude, 59.

MARION Paul Anderson, 63. MINOT Klamantz Brunner, 77; O.E. Soltis, 71. NORTHWOOD Waldo Rosset, 77. Thank you for your continued support in my Re-Election as Register Of Deeds Burleigh County MAXINE OLSON-HILL Pd.

Pol. Adv. to eliminate the exemption. All were rejected in the face of heavy lobbying by farm groups concerned about cost and recordkeeping burdens. Haney's lawsuit was the first constitutional assault on the farm exemption since 1979, when three justices, including former Chief Justice Ralph Erickstad, ruled it was unconstitutional.

The exemption survived because the votes of four justices are needed to invalidate a law. VandeWalle, the court's newest member then, did not participate in the decision. Peter Kottre GLEN ULLIN Peter P. Kottre, 87, 1 Glen Ullin, died June 15, 1994, in a Bismarck hospital. Services will be held at 10 a.m.

MDT Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Glen Ullin, with burial in the church cemetery. He is survived by two brothers, Nickolas and Anton, both of Glen Ullin. (Mischel-Olson Chapel, Dickinson) Burnette Kuzmicki Burnette (Landerholm) Kuzmicki, 68, El Mission, Mexico, died June 2, 1994, in a San Diego, hospice after a long illness. Graveside services were held June 6 at Forcst Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Calif. She is survived by her husband, Al; two sons and one daughter.

Benedict Fredericks Services for Benedict Fredericks, 81, Mandan, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Twin Buttes Community Center. The time has been changed. Mr. Frederick died June 14, 1994, in the Mandan nursing home.

Linda Fimmel ELGIN Linda A. Fimmel, 81, Elgin, died June 16, 1994, in the Elgin nursing home. Services will be held at 2 p.m. MDT Saturday at Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home, Elgin, with burial in Peace Lutheran Cemetery, Heil. Gary Hulm Gary D.

Hulm, 43, 403 W. Interstate Bismarck, died June 15, 1994, at his home of an apparent heart attack. Arrangements are pending at Boelter Funeral Home, Bismarck. FUNERALS TODAY BENEDICT FREDERICK, 81, Mandan, 11 a.m., Twin Buttes Community Center. (Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan) AGNES MESSMER, 90, Richardton, 10 a.m.

MDT, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Richardton. (Mischel-Olson Chapel, Dickinson) EMANUEL SIROSHTON, 81, Dickinson, 11 a.m. MDT, Mischel-Olson Chapel, Dickinson, Sandstrom's opinion repudiates the 1979 "Benson" case, named for a Stark County farm worker, and concludes a more relaxed standard of constitutional review is appropriate in judging the issue. The result pained Erickstad, who sat in for Justice Beryl Levine in the case.

"The result approved today by the majority will prohibit recovery by a worker injured shoveling grain on a farm, while allowing recovery by a worker injured shoveling gravel on a construction site," Erickstad said. "I can discern no valid legislative purpose in this record to justify that DEATHS Thomas Palmer DEVILS LAKE Thomas M. Palmer, 68, Devils Lake, died June 15, 1994, in the Devils Lake hospital. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Devils Lake.

The Rev. Nancy Kapp will officiate, along with Mr. Dick Elefson. A Masonic service will follow the funeral service. Graveside services will be held at Erie Cemetery at 6 p.m.

Saturday. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at Gilbertson Funeral Home, Devils Lake, where an Eastern Star service will begin at 7:30 tonight. Visitation will continue at the church one hour before services.

Thomas M. Palmer was born Aug. 24, 1925, at Ayr, the son of Mason and Aleda Rose Palmer. He was raised and educated near Ayr on a farm his grandfather homesteaded in 1879. He attended the North Dakota State School of Science in Wahpeton.

Thomas and Donna Hobza were married Oct. 29, 1949, at Wahpeton. They established their home on a farm near Ayr where they farmed until 1963. He then returned to college in Devils Lake graduating from Lake Region Junior College. In 1964 they moved to Jamestown where he worked for North Central Engineers.

In 1968 they moved to Devils Lake where he was an instructor for surveying and drafting at Lake Region Community College. He retired from teaching in 1989 and then worked part-time for the City of Devils Lake in the engineering department. He was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and served as an elder. He was a member of Order of Eastern Star, and served on the advisory board of Order of Rainbow for Girls, and was a Past State Rainbow Dad. He was also a member of Masonic Lodge, Shrine, Elks and Coast Guard Auxiliary.

He was a national, state and local member of vocational teacher associations, and served as president of the North Dakota Vocational Association in 1976. He was elected Past Grand Patron of North Dakota Eastern Star, Outstanding Mason of the Year in 1983, and was a member of White Shrine of Jerusalem. He is survived by his wife, Donna; one son and daughter-inlaw, Larry and Shelley, Devils Lake; three daughters and sons-inlaw, Dawana and Gene Jensen, Fargo, Sharon and Greg Eisenzimmer, Munich, and Cheryl and Alan Sirila, Madison, one brother, Fred, Ayr; one sister, Beatrice Reece, Jamestown; and 10 grandchildren, Matthew and Paul Jensen, Chad, Darcy and Jason Palmer, Nichol and Ryan Eisenzimmer, and Andrew, Mason and Abbie Siirila. He was preceded in death by his parents; and one sister, Cherrie Kenimer..