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TODAY'S CHUCKLE A broadminded person is one who Is capable of seeing both points of view the wrong one, and his own. POL TAR HTiere the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" II Cor. 3:17 VOLUME 75, No. 138 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1977 UMjL CARRIER DELIVERED 89c PER wX MOTOR DELIVERED 00c PER Sing I Copy 20c DRIFTER ADMITS 4TH SLAYING IN OHIO ink Ainu WEATHER TODAY Mostly Sunny High, 70; Low, 48 Yesterday High, 65; Low 32 The Indiana inspect To 3 Killings because of the jump suit wrapped around her neck. Police also believe she had been sexually assaulted.

Her jaws Were fractured. Her body remained unidentified for several days and for a while it was believed her body was that of Miss Harmeier. A resident of eastern Ohio saw one of the more than 10,000 posters containing Miss Harmeier's picture and physical descriptions distributed by Cambridge City residents. He notified Ohio Miss Mayer's weight, height and hair color closely resembled that of Miss Harmeier, according to Guernsey County (Ohio) Deputy Sheriff Arnold Van Horn. Van Horn said the prosecutor of his county, James Scott, has returned home from El Paso, but has not yet had time to file a murder charge against Mazer.

But he said Mazer confessed the mur- der of Miss Mayer. IT HAS BEEN LEARNED that, when arrested. Mazer had a map of the Martinsville area with him. Police have de-, vania girl whose nude body strangled with her jump suit was found last month near Cambridge, Ohio, 270 miles east of Indianapolis. His attorneys have refused police permission to question him about the murder of Miss Harmeier, 20, Cambridge City, who disappeared Sept.

12. Her body was found Tuesday about 7 miles northeast of Martinsville and about 17 miles south of the south leg of 1-465, a route some motorists use in following 1-70 through Indianapolis. Police involved in the investigation By BRUCE C. SMITH Star I.U.-Bloomington Bureau (C) Th IMIaiMMlil Star A handsome, "smooth talking" man being held at El Paso, is a suspect in the murder of Indiana University student Ann Louise Har-meier and four other young women whose bodies have been found in the vicinity of Interstate 70 in the eastern half of the country. He already has confessed to the sex-slaying of one of the victims, a Pennsyl declined to say Thursday in what states bodies of three other young women have been found in recent weeks, but some are believed to have been in Pennsylvania.

THE MAN BEING HELD is Joseph Mazer, 23, Portland, described by one policeman as a drifter. He is being held at El Paso under $25,000 bond on a federal charge of transporting a stolen car across a state line. He was arrested Sept. 23 at Sierra Blan-ca, 90 miles east of El Paso in a car owned by the woman found slain in Ohio. The car, a 1971 light green Ford Pinto was owned by Debra Ann Mayer, 18, Mechanicsburg, who was last seen Sept.

10 when she left home to visit a friend at Massilon, Ohio. I When Miss Mayer, a waitress, failed to arrive at Massilon, she was reported to be missing on Sept. 12, the same day Miss Harmeier disappeared. Miss Mayer's body was found by a Ohio police helicopter Oct. 7 in a small stream in Salt Fork State Park, 8 miles northeast of Cambridge, Ohio, and about 8 miles north of 1-70.

IT IS BELIEVED she was strangled See SUSPECT Page 4 Hacker Frees 2 Stewardesses At Atlanta vi IT'? 4 -x (AP Photos) Stewart Hannan HANNAN WAS demanding the release of his lover who was in jail here on bank robbery charges. Shortly before 5 p.m., the door to the plane opened. Hannan told officials over a radio hookup: "I need an honorable way out." Talking over the radio, Hannan's father said: "Mike, how are you doing?" He got no reply and went on: "I see the stewardess has a child she's worried about. Can you let her off? Your mother is here. She's downstairs.

She can't talk to you now. We're both pretty worried. Your mother and I both think you ought to hand in that gun and call it quits. Can't, you do that, boy?" An FBI official told Hannan: "They all think the best thing you can do is come out. You'll be able to see your people.

You'll be able to see Stewart." HE REFERRED to George David Stewart, 29, of Mobile, whose release Hannan had demanded. The two were arrested in Alabama last month in. connection with a $7,000 bank but Hannan was released on bond earlier this month. Officials drove Stewart from Fulton See HIJACK Page 8 Atlanta (AP) A hijacker demanding $3 million and a reunion with his imprisoned homosexual lover released the two stewardesses who were among 15 hostages he had held for more than 10 hours Thursday aboard a Frontier Airlines jet. The two emerged from the plane shortly after 5 p.m.

EST and joined two people who had come out on the airfield from a cargo terminal used as an official command post. All four then returned to the terminal. The gunman, identified as Thomas Michael Hannan of Grand Island, had commandeered the plane in Nebraska shortly after 7:30 a.m. EST Thursday. He ordered it to Kansas City, where he released 18 hostages eight women, eight children and two men, all passengers then directed it to Atlanta.

STILL HELD after the stewardesses' release were two crewmen and 11 male passengers. Immediately after the stewardesses, identified as Bobbie Karr and Diane Lord, both from the Denver metropolitan i fc area, emerged, the door to the airplane closed again. Hannen's parents had flown to Atlanta from their Nebraska home, and his father urged him to surrender. His lawyer also came to Atlanta. A spokesman for Frontier said the attorney had convinced Hannan to release the stewardesses "as a show of good faith." Earlier, Hannan, who carried a sawed-off shotgun, had given authorities until 5 p.m.

to meet his demands, warning, "If you don't meet my deadline, a lot of people are going to suffer." Negotiations continued after the deadline passed, however. HMInlNM (P Phea) TRUCK WITH SCISSORS LIFT DELIVERS HAMBURGERS, MILKSHAKES TO HIJACKER, CAPTIVES Plane Sits Near Freight Terminal At Atlanta's Airport As Negotiations With Air Pirate Continue Teacher Action Cripples Schools agreeable master contract from the In teachers' bargaining agent, claimed "about 3.200 are out," and Indianapolis Si 4 By THOMAS E. KETCHUM A one-day work stoppage Thursday by about 3,000 of the city's teachers paralyzed nearly half of the public schools and severely crippled instructional efforts in the others. The teachers, using one of three personal business leave days allowed them each year, walked off their jobs in a show of strength for their negotiating team which has been unable to secure an dianapolis Board of School Commissioners. THE BOYCOTT forced eight of the city's 11 high schools to close.

Thirty-two of the system's 101 elementary and junior high schools either closed or were affected severely by the teachers' absence. Reports varied on how many teachers took part in the "teacher action." The Indianapolis Education Association, the Public Schools officials put the figure at 2,818. Schools Superintendent Karl R. Kalp said 995 of the system's 3,813 IEA-eligible classroom teachers, or 26.1 per cent, remained on the job. The IEA, however, said its prediction that 80 per cent of the teachers would remain off the job was correct.

Stanley J. 1 1 V. Judge Polls Kiritsis Jury, Says Will Take 'As Long As Needed' Irwin, an IEA official and a biology teacher at Shortridge High School, said reports he received from IEA "job action captains" revealed that 2,875 teachers were out of the buildings, with 13 schools yet to report. IRWIN MADE the statement at a mass teacher rally at Hilton U. Brown Theater on the Butler University campus, where about 1,000 of the teachers who took part in the work stoppage gathered at 10 a.m.

to protest school board positions in the current contract dispute. Negotiations are in their ninth month. Teachers today are completing their eighth week of the 1977-78 academic year without a contract and about 51 issues including salary remain unresolved. "We are somebody and we will not be walked on," the teachers were told at the rally by Billie Breaux, IEA president. "Your presence here is sending a message, loud and clear, to IPS that teachers care," she told the orderly, but enthusiastic and militant crowd.

"We want a contract NOW," she declared, adding, "It's 'Krunch' time." Several teachers at the meeting wore buttons which read, "Teachers Care" and "Krunch." THE GROUP WAS told that teachers in 84 other school corporations through-See SCHOOLS Page 4 (AP PIMM JASI JELINEK PEEKS AT REPORTERS AFTER RELEASE Waits With Relatives For Word Of Father, Uncle 'PLENTY SCARED' called deputy prosecutors F. Thomas Schornhorst and George Montgomery and defense lawyers Nile Stanton and Richard Kiefer into his chambers. He also asked Criminal Court Judge John W. Tranberg of Division 1 to sit in on the parley. Then Dugan called the jury into the courtroom and had his assistant, Chriss Clemens, pass out pads and pencils to them.

The judge told the jurors he didn't want to inquire about "your feelings, opinions or your vote" but directed them to answer yes or no to this question: "If you continue to deliberate do you think the jury can reach a verdict?" SEVEN JURORS said they could not reach a verdict, while five said they could make a decision. Dugan then advised them: "You have heard all of the evidence, the arguments of counsel and have seen and heard all of the exhibits. You know the evidence better than any other individuals." He read one of his instructions which had urged them to make up their own See KIRITSIS Page 4 Hijacker Puts 2 Pairs' 8 Children Off Jet By R. JOSEPH GELARDEN The jury deliberating the fate of ad- mitted kidnaper Anthony G. (Tony) Kiritsis will be out "as long as necessary," Judge Michael T.

Dugan II said Thursday. The comment was made by the judge in Superior Court, Room 5, shortly after he polled the jury on whether its members felt they could reach a decision. Dugan, who presided over the trial which has lasted almost three weeks, called the jury into the courtroom about 2:30 p.m. after it sent him a note that said: "We have deliberated for 21 hours now and have cast two ballots and have an even split on all three counts." (Kiritsis is charged in a three-count indictment with kidnaping, armed robbery and armed extortion. "FURTHERMORE, we have one juror who has stated unequivocally that hisher vote will not change.

The jury needs direction as to the court's feelings on a course of further deliberations. "This has been requested by several jurors who feel that this makes for a 'hung the note said. After receiving the note. Judge Dugan Sacks' Brother-In-Law Operates Pawnshop Of Convicted Owner Kansas City (AP) "You'll have to be the man of the family for a while now, son," said Donald Jelinek to 14-year-old Randy. "You take care of everybody "til we get back." "Okay, Dad, I will.

I promise." With that the family was separated as the women and children were released from a Frontier Airlines jet here. The hijacker of the plane then forced the craft to fly to Atlanta with the remaining hostages he sought to exchange for his homosexual lover's release from jail. The hijacker, identified as Thomas Hannan, also demanded $3 million, weapons and parachutes. The four children of Donald and Sharon Jelinek, and the four children of David and Sheri Jelinek boarded flight 101 at Grand Island, Thursday morning for a long-awaited vacation to Los Angeles. THE MEN, brothers who operate a hardware store in Grand Island, were headed for a business convention.

The See CHILDREN, Page 8 By BYRON C. WELLS Pawnbroker Jerome S. Sacks, 50, assigned to a work release center here for his conviction on a charge of receiving stolen goods, is working for his brother-in-law's realty firm while the brother-in- law runs Sacks' pawnshop, The Indianapolis Star has learned. Although the brother-in-law has signed an agreement to purchase the pawnshop, he said he has not decided whether to do so. Sacks could be paroled in a few months.

Leonard S. Koplow said he never has tried to keep his relationship with Sacks a secret and claimed Department of Correction officials were well aware of the relationship from the beginning. KOPLOW ALSO complained bitterly about the reaction by correction depart ment officials who have restricted Sacks to the Indianapolis Urban Center, 448 West Norwood Avenue, since disclosure by The Star that Sacks was working for him. Although Sacks' restriction to the center was to occur Tuesday evening, it was delayed because Sacks was working on a large real-estate deal. Officials allowed him to work for Koplow on Wednesday but did restrict him on Thursday.

The restriction was imposed to give officials time to investigate all of the See Sacks Page 8 The Weather Inside Today's Star i Joe Crow Says: It looks like we'll have to set up a detector that will detect a weapon before the regular detector gets a chance to detect anything. Food 14 Sports 33-36 TV-Radio 25 Uncle Ray 21 Want 42-52 Weather 53 Werner 18 1 Women's Pages Amusement Pages 28-32 Billy Graham 24 Bridge 26 Cathy 17 Comics 22 Crossword 26 Editorials 18 Finance 37-39 if Tongsun Park Link To 'High Official' Told Court News And Statistics 61 if I 5 Jimmy Carter Nine Months In Office Jimmy Carter, Outsider, has been Washington's No. 1 Insider nine months now. It's been quite a sea of change. Some squall, a measure of frustration a measure of satisfac-tion and some surprises.

The word for this is from the President himself in an exclusive interview with AP special correspondent Saul Pett. How does the President look at himself? At his experience in office so far? At the difficulties in shaping up an administration? All this is brought out in Pett's story which is more than an interview. If a rich portrait of the President based on his reflective self-assessment and on the observations of others, within and without the inner circle. Head It Sunday Indianapolis Mostly sunny and pleasant today; high 70. Partly cloudy and mild tonight; low 48.

Chance of showers Saturday; high 65. Indiana Mostly sunny and pleasant throughout the state today; highs 65 north to 70 south. Partly cloudy tonight with chance of showers north; lows 45-48. Chance of showers Saturday; highs 62-68. CRIME ALERT If You See A Crime Committed Or Spot Suspicious Activity Call This Number 1 Slar Telephone Numbers Circulation 633-9211 Main Office 633-1240 Want Ads 633-1212 Scores After 4:30 633-1200 Today's Prayer Lord, we pray, forgive unkind words spoken through anger or illness.

Then we ask You to help these persons turn bitterness into kindness and goodness of heart. Amen. Washington (AP) A former South Korean intelligence agent told congressmen Thursday he spent about $1 million supplied by his government in a scheme to buy influence from members of Congress. Kim Sang Kuen, testifying under the guard of United States marshals, told the House Ethics Committee that he understood Washington rice dealer Tongsun Park had links to "a high official of the Congress" and an assistant to then-President Gerald R. Ford.

Kim did not identify the assistant to President Ford with reported links to Tongsun Park. But there was a White House inquiry in 1975 into a trip to the Dominican Republic involving Park and the family of Nancy Howe, who was Betty Ford's personal assistant. Mrs. Howe's husband, James, committed suicide during the inquiry. MRS.

JOHN MYERS, wife of Hoosier Republican Rep. John T. Myers, later See LINK Page 8 In The Indianapolis Star 1 91 1 i.