| Show Aid Rid of Every Publisher Sought by Distraught California Pair December 5 1968 To The Publisher Will you please help us find our daugh daughter r My wife wife Ruth and I are directing this plea to you and to the ten thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand other newspapers in the cities towns and hamlets of this country Our daughter Elizabeth Lurene Liz Ernstein was Just two months short of he her r fifteenth birthday when she vanished without a trace last March 18 18 She was last seen walking home from school along a lonely tree-lined tree s street t r e e t amid the orange groves of suburban Red- Red lands In her arms she carried a blue notebook and a red algebra textbook Since then law enforcement agencies family members and friends have spent countless hours tracking down hundreds of tentative leads But to no avail Not one single slender clue has brightened all our efforts Seemingly Liz has disappeared disappeared dis dis- appeared like a breath of air airon airon airon on a winters winter's day But surely there is a simple explanation Was she abducted Did she run away from home Is she dead Or is she alive and perhaps in your town You can help us Ruth and I Iare Iare Iare are begging you to help us find findan findan findan an answer to our torment torment torment-to to help us end the long nightmare of these past eight months months months-by by releasing our story and Lizs Liz's picture in your paper The Lord willing someone in your area may have seen her With sincere gratitude Norman Norman Ruth Normano Ruth Ernstein Please help us Redlands Mon California day March began asan ordinary thy diy for Ell Elizabeth za beth Lurene Ernstein when she left home for c cia classes l a s s e s at Moore Junior High School in Redlands California But this Monday on the of March was not to be bean bean bean an ordinary day Elizabeths Elizabeth's school day passed without incident She attended her last class then left school at pm p.m. to walk home a two mile route through blossoming blossoming blossoming blos blos- oran orange go ge groves She never arrived home Somewhere Somewhere Somewhere Some Some- where along the lonely street Elizabeth Ernstein vanished There are no clues to her whereabouts or even to what happened to the year old girl other than a report from a Red Red- Redlands Redlands lands business man who was driving through the area He thought he saw a girl resembling Elizabeth walking toward the corner of the street on which she lived To her parents Norman and Ruth Ernst Ernstein in the months of uncertainty and anxiety over their missing daughter are the deepest anguish a person can go through It is a shock so deep you become wooden the mother mether moth moth- er explained The Ernsteins are appealing nationwide for help in locating their daughter Ernstein a chemical engineer at Lockheed in Redlands and his wife a psychiatric social worker have posted a reward for information in information information in- in formation that will solve the dis dis- mystery of their daughters daughter's appearance They have vowed We will not rest until we know Neither parent has rested since that first long night when their young daughter failed to come home They have tracked miles mUGs through orange groves fields foothills and canyons in to and around the Redlands area They have followed every lead no matter how slight inthe In Inthe Inthe the search for Elizabeth I I can face the daytime better better better bet bet- ter than the night the distraught distraught distraught dis dis- dis- dis mother said I At At night I find myself saying Is she safe Is she warm Is she fed and finally is she alive When Elizabeth nicknamed Liz by her friends left for school that March morning she had only 25 with her She was dressed in a blue dress with white flowers tennis shoes and anda a olive dark-olive corduroy coat Around her neck she wore a small gold chain with a pendant gold and blue star home she rath 1 bra book and a blue note note- book Neither has been found J 1 Is five feet five- five Inches tall weighs pounds and had brown hair and brown eyes She is one of five Ernstein Ernstein Ernstein Ern- Ern stein children The family lost one of these a son to polio in 1952 This the second tragedy in our lives is even greater because because be because be- be cause of the uncertainty the desperate father said in his appeal to end the nightmare I can accept anything even the worst which Im I'm resigned to but I must know Any information concerning young Liz Ernstein should be reported promptly to this newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper or to Capt Charles Cal- Cal lahan San Bernardino County Sheriffs Office San Bernardino Bernard Bernard- ino California phone |
