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Write Id Jntci diii, The I ml i a id 1 1 Noith Street, Indianapolis, Include your telephone number. Names withheld upon )ciiiesl. Intercom ies Id act en all nneliDtc. but earmof all items in the column. 'I i nstm TIig Readers' Column i if Ohlahomu Homesteaders Hunted Your Medal's Still To Come, 4litwtloii I iik urn ur yvai jf tA flllfl llllu hdll taxes each year without regard to the poor property owner? HL.P.

I'lainiield Answer: Tim County Council is charged with appropriating funds for use by the county officers, boards and commissions, mid has the exclusive power of setting the tax rate for county purposes. The needs of several county agencies, including the school board, also figure into the final figure, which can be adjusted by the county and stale tax boards. 'Thanh You' To 200 Golfers Question: I am one of the people who homesteaded the Oklahoma panhandle territory around the turn of the century. We lived on a 160-aerc place with rattlers, spiders and the air won so pure you could hang a side of beef outside to cure. I wonder if there Is any one left in this area who took a claim In that rea of the country? i uim int nuiiiiiirr I won (lit; Imliiinu Girls Midget Bicycle Race Cliiiiiipliiii-ship held at ltrooksSilc Park.

I was Kiipposi-d to receive a medal ns a pri. but ill haven't got It. David Keeney, the representative for the Bicycle League of America Judged the meet, but I do not know how to contact him. Would you please help me to find out when I will get my medal? Theresa Wells Indianapolis Answer; David Keenoy lives Li Marion, nud his wife said the medals have not arrived from the league's national headquar- Mrs. other rooms, and removed the drapes.

This was before tfi deal was closed. The salesman staled that it was Just a small mistake and that something like this happens every time he sells a house. Is this right? Shouldn't he compensate us lor his mistake? Mrs. J.M. Cam by Answer: Mary Leibold, a member of the Indiana Ileal Estate Commission, said it is not ethical.

She says that the salesman must, have written permission from the seller to allow the buyer to remodel the house. She said the salesman should compensate you for the mistake. You fan complain to the Indiana Real Estate Commission, 1022 State Office Building, Indianapolis. Personal Notes From Intercom Personal Notes: To Mrs. E.

C. Stinett, and Helen L. Phillips, The firm checked its records and says the shoes were lost in the mails. It has sent a refund to Mrs. Stinett to Mrs.

Uhl Tlmmons, Monticello: We suggest that you invest in a call to the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau before you invest in the "free offer" to Mary C. Miller, Indianapolis: The insurance company checked its records and says that your operation was "dental work" even though it was performed in a hospital. If you wish to pursue the matter, contact the State Insurance Commission to Mrs. Harold L. Grcn, Indianapolis: Contact the Better Business Bureau in Mrs.

Kenneth II. McCarthy, Dublin; we suggest Turn to Pa-re 7, Column Lulu Wlnslow Salem Question: Can you help us thank the hardy souls who helped make the M. Robert Atwell Golf Memorial Tournament a huge success? Over 200 golfers bundled up against the wet and cold last weekend and helped us raise about $1,200 for his family. The Friends of Bob Atwell Answer: How about it, readers? If anyone would like to correspond with Mrs. Winslow, they can write her R.R.2, Salem, Indiana.

tors. As soon as they arrive, the Keencys will send you the medal. Indianapolis Compensation Due For Mislahe Question: Recently, my mother sold her home In Bloom-field. The salesman gave the new owners the house key and let them remodel the house without getting my mother's permission. We were shocked to find out that they had moved out some of the furniture, taken the rugs and cut them to fit County Council Sets Tax Rale Question: Cun you clarify something for me about property taxes? Who decides the tax rate and seems to increase the you are.

Answer: Here Glad to help. I OWI I.I. SMIAI THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR 2 Wives Dumb; Put Up With Men SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2fi, 1972 ONE AREA IN which women's lib hasn't made much headway is in abating the supposedly humorous yarns about wives' shortcomings, such as drmng, weakness for bargains, lack of money sense, Police Car Benefits old eic. One reason there are so l' many more "dumb wife" Take Home' ''JLA jum-a limn uuinu iiuoijuiiu stories is that most alleged humor writers are men. I always felt a bit self-conscious using such stories and (or that reason use very few.

I'll probably use a few of them today, but I Plan Cuts Loss: Chief By MONTE I. TRAMMER The Indianapolis Police Departments pioneering plan of allowing patrolmen to use their noliee cars while off-duty has saved citizens more than $1.5 million in accident losses alone, Chief Winston L. 4 i I 1 -i' -41 -1 yv; .4 THE STRANGEST things happen at Indiana Bell, and some of them reach the ear of Al Lindop of Bell's Highlights staff. F'rinstance, Al says a woman asked Eileen Rutherford, Lebanon (Ind.) service representative: "Have your rates gone up? My bill is higher." Glancing at the bill, Eileen called attention to a long distance call. "Oh, that's been paid," the patron protested.

"The woman who made it paid me." For the next several minutes the service rep patiently explained the details of the situation, ending with: "She paid you and now you owe us." After carefully considering the explanation, the patron agreed. ANOTHER Indiana Bell customer called and told the operator: "I'm trying to get my daughter's number and the phone rings and rings but nobody answers. Can you please dial the number and ask my daughter if she is getting the ring?" A LARGE, PRINTED sign in the doorway of the Hilton's Country Oven restaurant bothers me. It says: 'Tlcase Wait for the Hostess to Be Seated." I know that's the polite thing to do, but no one does it there. The hostesses never sit down, they just keep walking around directing customers where to sit.

THE AVERAGE person loses his temper six times a week, according to studies made at two universities. Those least likely to fly off the handle, reportedly, are doctors, lawyers and other professional people. People with agricultural jobs have shorter fuses, become angry more often mostly at the weather, I would guess. Office workers and laborers are said to lose their tempers even more frequently. Men become angry at inanimate objects, while women tend to become angry with other people.

Anger, according to a note in Excc-u-Scope, is most likely to occur in the 30-min-ute periods before meals. And in case you believe that blowing up helps to clear the air, two thirds of those queried reported irritability and fatigue after losing their tempers. Churchill estimated yester day. Since the "take your car home" system was put into effect in July, 1969, the public aiso nas nccn saved more than $600,000 in losses from burglaries, robberies, 1 a e- hope I can be forgiven after printing a little dissertation I once read. So: "A WIFE IS the girl you married.

She likes flowers, chocolates, smart clothes and going places as much as the day you married her. If you can't give her these, a kiss that says 'I love you' will do. "A wife Is a steam laundry, a house cleaning service, a cook, a commissary and a lavatory attendant to your babies. "She is a mother, nurse, counselor and sock darner. She is a detective and quickly locates the screw driver you left RIGHT THERE three weeks ago and which' the children carried away.

"A wife is a magician. Your favorite shirt appears where she said it was when SHE comes to look for it, and in a flash she can produce order in a house you and the children have run through with a bulldozer. "A wife licks your wounds, bolsters your ego and has faith and persistence that makes you move mountains. She Is a safety valve when you must blow off steam at someone. "She knows you as a small boy at heart who never has grown up, and that when you have a cold, it's much worse than when she has a cold." Come to think of it, if they weren't really dumb, wives wouldn't put up very long with us men.

TWO MEN were sitting at a bar. One appeared very downcast. "My wife doesn't appreciate me," lamented the sad fellow. "Docs yours?" "I wouldn't know," the companion replied. "I've never heard her mention your name." nies and vehicle thefts, the chief said.

The main benefit of the plan is the fact that the ores- ence ot the additional patrol cars on the streets while their drivers are not on duty is a deterrent to traffic accidents and crimes, Churchill said. HE QUOTED figures com-piled recently by the National VAIN SEARCH Indianapolis police and Marion County sheriff't $cuba searched in vain yesterday for a man reported by a motorist to have jumped from the Interstate 65 North, bridge over White River. The search started at 7 a.m. and was ended at 12:15 p.m. after no body was recovered.

(Star Photo) Safety Council which showed that the average fatal accident costs insurance compa- i and individuals more than $38,000 in medical, automobile repair and court costs; an average of $2,300 for per sonal injury accidents, and an average of $300 for accidents Ghastly Triple Murder Is Unsolved Year Later in which only property is damaged. In 1971, there were 31 fewer KIDS lUXONG AT HOMK fatal accidents than in 19158, the last full year before the plan was put into operation. There were also 1,136 fewer in which there were too manv personal injury and 2,244 few possible motives. It was a case for which er property damage accidents, No Orphans Available For Christmas Dinners By WILLIAM E. ANDERSON "I am confident we will make an arrest, or arrests, in this case." Homicide Capt.

Raymond A. Koers Dec. 13, 1971. the chief said. The reduction in crime losses was attributed to a report police did not lack possible suspects, but rather one for which no evidence was found to make any one person a One year, countless man- of findings of a study just completed by Sgt.

Thomas M. ike to use a needy child as an request is valid. They usually hours and endless questions later, the cold-blooded butch example to their own children. arc, Mrs. Lorch said, pointing Jewell.

JEWELL'S FIGURES are er-murders of three Indianap to the mountain of letters. better potential suspect than the others. It was a case without a murder weapon, without known witnesses, without sub olis businessmen the "most based upon FBI statistics which assign estimated dol- THE WRITERS, rather than dramatizing their prcdica ir losses of $94 for each rob stantial clues. The lack of ev mcnt, tend to understate their bery, $136 for a burglary, $71 plight. nc letters generally are scrawled on white, blue-lined school paper and the words often are misspelled but the messages are always the same.

my cr.nuren are ages 13, 12, II, 10, 8, 7, 5 and 2il months" one man wrote "and they need food and clothes and they need blankets to cover for a larceny and $1,110 for a stolen vehicle. Citing a continued decrease in crime since the plan was inaugurated, Churchill said he credits the extra cars on the street with only 20 per cent of the crime decline between 19(58 and last year. Churchill came up with figures for the plan, known nationally as the Indianapolis Fleet Plan, as St. Paul (Minn.) Police Chief Richard Rowan reported the plan Is being abandoned there, effective tomorrow. ROWAN SAID that that i 's 19 month experiment, costing $480,000 "produced no appreciable difference In the crime rate," adding "it was extremely hard to determine Ihe deterrent effect of the take-home cars, the trouble vicious crimes ever committed in Indianapolis" remain a mystery.

At 1318 North La Salle Street, where it all happened, the weather-worn frame house, now a little shabby, stands as silent witness to the ritualistic horror enacted on the night of Tuesday. Nov. 30, 1971. WITH POWERFUL swipes of some sharp instrument, a killer or killers whose motives still remain as secret as their identities, slit from car to ear the throats of Robert A. Ciierse, 35, Robert W.

Ilinson 27, and James Barker, 26. The three men Gierse and Ilinson playboy business partners and residents of the home, Barker a pal who lived elsewhere had been bound and gagged, struck with a blunt object, and, police believe, probably had waited and watched as each was slaughtered. After a year's Investigation, them. Please help us. Thank you." BY WAY of illustration she said one man phoned her and wanted to be referred to an orphan or needy child whom he could take home for Christmas dinner "to show his kids how well off they are." "We are trying to get away from that concept completely," Mrs.

Lorch carefully explained. "The lady bountiful bringing the basket concept is no longer valid cither," she said. If an individual or group has some merchandise to donate, Mrs. Lorch refers it to one of the 34 social agencies that know where the greatest need is and can distribute the good accordingly. MONETARY donations are placed in the general fund and mailed out in check form during the second week of December.

The service, meantime, receives hundreds of letters from needv people who literally plead for a few dollars to buy their children some clothes or food. They rarely ask for toys. Last year the agency received about 1,1500 such letters and so far during the first three weeks of November, .1150 Other letters tell of fathers who can't work because of ill By WILLIAM M. SHAW The director of the United Christmas Service would like to thank the scores of well-intentioned people who call her and offer to take an underprivileged child into their homes on Christmas day. But, said Ellen B.

Lorch, Marion County's needy children are better served at Christmas in their own homes, with a little help from the people of Indianapolis. "As much as I hate to tell people this, the facts are that childrrn are better off in their own environment on Christmas regardless of what that environment may be like," Mrs. Loah explained. As gently as possible, she tells Inquiring orphan seekers that their good will is greatly appreciated but would be better served by donating merchandise or money that then is channeled to the neediest children. Tho Christmas Service gets $30,000 from the United Fund of Greater Indianapolis, and Is administered by the Community Service Council of Greater Indianapolis.

Lilly Endowment Inc. also has donated and the Indianapolis Foundation awarded grant of $5,000. People generally arc well-intentioned In their request, Mrs. Lorch said, but thero are those persons, she admits, who would ness and of mounting medical bills that will prevent their idence indicated the crime was committed by a 1 professionals, cunning a a-tcurs or simply killers lucky in what they did not leave behind. HOMICIDE LT.

Joseph G. McAtce, one of a team of detectives who worked 415 consecutive days after the crime was discovered, probably knows as much about the murders as any policeman, but the sketchiness of what is known only illustrates the amount of facts and details unknown. In a questioning room of the police homicide branch, the results of more than 200 days in which some investigation was done on the case, are contained in piles of notes and reports, more than 300 "progress" reports, and a single large notebook offering necessary continuity. But they are pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. "WE CHECK OUT every lead we get," said McAtce while explaining that hardly a week goes by without something done on the case a random tip, a new question, double-checking some point once again.

Even last week a team of children from having a Christ mas this year. Checks are issued from the United Fund allocation for spe cifio amounts of merchandise The maximum a family of 1 was in measuring what didn't happen." or more could receive would be Churchill said that St. Paul $17. The sums are modest, Mrs was one of at least 20 cities which sent representatives Lorch Is quick lo admit, be the case remains active, tips still are checked out, but po detectives checked a "lead" McAtce declined to identify it which took them out of Indianapolis. In all, hundreds of persons have been questioned, including 180 of the victims' business associates or customers, piles of business correspondence and records examined and audited, and all of the microfilm which Gierse and Ilinson used in their business studied.

NEARLY 50 persons have taken and passed polygraph (lie detector) tests. It was learned that only one princi pal in the case refused to take such a test. Police, of course, have not made public everything turned up in their investigation, but enough has surfaced to reveal a tangled web of 1 and activities surrounding the victims. (.1 1 and Ilinson wer partners in Microfilm Service. 4116 East loth Street, which they had started two months earlier.

Barker, 1535 North Rural Street, was an employe of Bell 4 Howell. KNOWN AS "nice guys who Turn to Page 16, Column 1 cause United Christmas Sorv here before implementing the ice Is designed only to provide lice are asking without an take-home plan themselves, lie a'so said that last Nov. 14 something "extra" for families swers many of the questions aid-seeking letters have he spoke at the FBI Academy poured Into the small office. posed shortly after the bodies at Washington, D.C., on the were discovered. who would be without fond clothing or loys at Christmas LAST YEAR the service dis plan's merits.

After being cross-checked with other social agencies lo Indianapolis was the first IT WAS A CASE for which avoid duplication; the letters tributed more than $71,000 investigators did not lack pos metropolitan area In the Unit Turn to Page Iff, Column 3 are referred to a social worker who checks to verify that the and aided 21,7.10 Individuals. sible motives, but rather one.