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6 The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat, May 12, 1979 6 A Graveyard of girls missm MERCHANT BANKING -THE 1980's Merchant banking must change to survive the 1080': Our ability to provide an integrated package of services to Clients is the key to our survival Our Client, one of the most reputable and substantial merchant banking groups in Australia, believes the market will undergo considerable structural adaptation in the 1 980 s. To prepare for this fundamental change, the Company has decided to throw down the gauntlet to attract the best human resources or desiring toenter the industry. Bridge group has been requested to advise on the aDpointments. Responsibilities encompass leasing (including structured and leverage leasing), corporate banking (both local and international) and all aspectsof corporateadvice (acquisitions, mergers, corporate reconstruction, underwriting, privu'? placements, proiect and resource development finance etc.) The roles are variable rangingfrom traineeshipstoappointmentsat the most senior level of management. Trainees are likely to be MBA or come from the Chartered Accounting profession.

The more senior positions require considerable merchant banking experience. In both cases, a first class track record of performance and achievement will be necessary. The opportunitiesfor satisfaction and rapidadvancement are there but you must be capable of performing The Company is not for those with a sense of trepidation or uncertainty about fheir abil'ties or future career path. Salary and benefits the package is entirely negotiable but will reflect the importance our client attaches to attracting and holding the best in the market In the first instance applications should be directed to The Managing Director Bridge Group. P.O.

Box1600. North Sydney NSW 2060. Telephoned) 922 1600 All replies in strictest confidence Four girls and three 'young women disappeared in Adelaide within 53 days between December 23, 1976, and February 12, 1977. Four of them have been found in paddocks about 16 kilometres east of Truro, South Australian police are certain that the three others have fallen victim to the same killer. Truro riddle for SA police Perth Around $18,000 Car Australia's largest and most efficient shirt manufacturer, located in Perth, has an outstanding opportunity for a person with good supervisory experience in the clothing industry.

The position offers early promotion to senior management and a rewarding career in a progressive company already a leader in this field. The modem air-conditioned factory is equipped with the latest automatic machines and employs advanced production techniques. The person we are looking for must have a proven record as a supervisor or manager in the clothing industry preferably with good experience in modem shirt manufacture. A methods engineering background is important. The company has an excellent industrial relations record and it is important that the new manager should have the right Eersonality and experience to maintain this and to control a irge female staff.

A salary package around $18,000 plus a car will be negotiated with the right person. For more information and an application form please telephone Mr Peter Smith on Sydney 439 3800 (reverse charge calls accepted) or send you resume quoting ref.no. 742 to: BRIDGE GROUP Executive Selection and Human Resource Consultants Ml 504 Pacific Highway, St Leonard. NSW 2065 The suspected seventh victim, Deborah Lamb, was named by police after their search of files of missing people revealed that she disappeared in similar circumstances about the same time. The biggest obstacles to the solution of the case are two years' lost time and a head start for the killer, coupled with public indifference to the slayings.

Outrage at the killings and a hue and cry for the person who deliberately killed and dumped at least two women and two girls are noticeably absent. Adelaide seems to have accepted their deaths as if they were merely additions to the road toll an abnormal willingness to treat them as an inevitable part of modern life. A detective on the case describes the dead and missing women as "victim's of modern society as surely as victims of their He says modern lifestyles and values have created an environment where family life and protection are eroded by pressures on parents to allow their children to compete with their peers. "Young people have no fear they won't see the dangers on the streets around them they think there's good in everybody," he says. A psychiatrist says two reasons for the subdued public reaction to the killings are the length of time since the killer seems to have last struck and the 80 kilometres separating Adelaide from the dumping ground.

These barriers of time and distance break down any threat the killer may have posed to people. He says another reason people have not reacted emotionally to the news of the killings is that police have found only the missing women's remains "just bones and rotten material not young girls we can relate to." Truro paddocks hid the remains of another woman and two girls. While police had no reason to suspect that other bodies were in the area around Veronica Knight, it is strange that the search for her bones, spread over an area about 600 metres in diameter, did not reveal the bodies of Vicki Howell and Connie lordanides, 100 metres west across Swamp Road. The skull and some of the bones -of Connie lordanides were clearly visible from Swamp Road when they were found at the foot of a tree last month. It is even stranger that the area was not fully searched in mid-1978 when the disappearances of Veronica Knight, Tania Kenny, Julie Mykyta, Connie lordanides and Sylvia Pittmann were first linked.

Police waited until January this year to publicise Julie Mykyta's disappearance, expressing the same fears and doubts that her parents had held a year before. The friends of Veronica Knight and the parents of Sylvia Pittmann had also not agreed wjth police that the girls had run away. Police made no statement about the five linked disappearances until after Sylvia Pittmann's skeleton was accidentally found by bushwalkers on Easter Sunday. When her remains were found within a kilometre of Veronica Knight's, police did not hesitate to state the obvious and connect the cases. Once the conclusion that they were dealing with a multiple killer was inescapable they began organising thorough searches which quickly uncovered the third and fourth bodies.

Vicki Howell's body was unexpectedly found, taking the police estimation of victims to six. Checks of her file showed that she fitted the same pattern as the others. Although the disappearances wore all reported to the police, a pattern connecting the cases of the five youngest victims was not noticed by staff of the Missing Persons Bureau. Four vanished within one week. The pattern was discovered 18 months later in mid-1978 by Detective Sergeant R.

P. Giles, a widely experienced investigator, when he was inquiring into the disappearance of Maria Dickinson, 20, later found shot dead in Monarto. The chain of disappearances began on December 23, 1976, when Veronica Knight, 18, did not return home after going to the city to find a lost parcel about 9.30 pm. Tanii 15, was reported missing 10 days later when she disappeared in Flinders Street, Adelaide, after getting off a bus about noon on Sunday, January 2, 1977. Less than three weeks later Julie Mykyta, 15, disappeared after getting into a car in King William Street about 10.30 pm on Friday, January 21.

And 16 days later Sylvia Pittmann, 16, went missing near her home in Echunga Street, Taperoo, about 2.30 pm on Sunday, February 6. Police are uncertain about the exact date of Vicki Howell's disappearance but say it was probably about three days later, on February 9. She was last seen waiting for a city-bound bus on Anzac Highway, Kurralta Park, about 7 pm. This was also the time on the same day that Connie lordanides, 16, was last seen in Burbridge Road, Brooklyn Park. On Saturday, February 12, Deborah Lamb disappeared after she left the Windsor Gardens caravan park about 6 pm to go to the city.

Fifteen months later a mushroomer stumbled on to the bones of Veronica Knight to give the first hint that the WAREHOUSE MID DISTRIBUTION1 SUPERUISOR Our client is a very well known Australian company operating nationally. In New South Wales they distribute direct to companies and agents from a central warehouse and it is essential that applicants should have wide experience in the control and direction of high volume deliveries to customers throughout New South Wales. This is a newly created position to cater for expansion and requires a Warehouse and Distribution Supervisor with a sound background in this area who also possesses the necessary qualities required to lead and motivate a small, established team. An innovative and practical approach plus a good knowledge of the metropolitan area are desirable. This is an excellent opportunity which will allow you to exercise your initiative, proven skills and abilities.

Salary will be negotiated in accordance with level of experience gained. Applicants are invited lo make initial enquiries by phoning 233 3533 in conlidence. Alternatively, please write giving briet details to: Oevro Pty. Limited, the Australian food subsidiary of Johnson Johnson International, is nearing completion of its $20 million industrial complex at Bathurst N.S.W. I i PTY.

LIMITED EXECUTIVE RECRUITERS PTY LTD. Nintn Floor 44 Hunter Street Sydney NSW 2000 Telephone 233 3533. Packaging and Hygiene Supervisor FOUR DEAD, THREE MISSING On behalf of our client Aveo Financial Services, the Australian subsidiary of a Fortune 500 U.S. corporation, we seek a young Connie, not the department. Commenting on the allegations at the time Connie's body was found, the Minister of Community Welfare, Mr Ab bott, said he had nothing but Financial Accountant paddock as Veronica Knight's remains, it was only 50 metres from the fence running along Swamp Road.

The skeletons were two kilometres apart. Youths rabbit shooting found Sylvia's skeleton. They wrapped the skull in a piece of plastic and handed it to a motorcycle policeman patrolling the Sturt Highway. sympathy for Mr lordanides. but he felt any public comment on the allegations would be in appropriate.

The question puzzling police To $18,000 p.a. benefits Location North Sydney Responsibilities include: in Connie case is whether this slim, tall, brown-eyed, pretty 1 Following the promotion of our former Packaging and Hygiene Supervisor, we now require an experienced man or woman to fill this challenging position. The successful candidate will manage the packaging and warehousing functions of our new sausage casings plant at Kelso and will devise and co- ordinate the hygiene and sanitation programme. Qualifications required are: Extensive industry experience at foreman, supervisor or middle manage- ment level, preferably in food plants with an emphasis on man management. Experience of packaging, food plant sanitation, industrial engineering practice, stock control and materials handling would be valuable.

Devro is a progressive employer offering first class benefits including attractive salary, superannuation and generous relocation allowance for persons having to relocate to Bathurst. Confidential telephone enquiries should be made initially to Merv. Warner on (063) 31 5199. Written applications may be forwarded to the: HI Personnel Manager, 1 Devro Pty. Limited, gj P.O.

Box 659, Bathurst, N.S.W. 2795 3586 girl did what she told her parents she intended to do on the night of Wednesday, February 9. That was to walk about a kilometre to the home of an 18- year-old boyfriend, David Hodges and then go to a drive in with him. Police believe that Connie, supervise the preparation of, and consolidate financial state--; ments. co-ordinate the preparation and presentation of budgets.

carry out interesting and varied work of a project nature. supervise a medium accounting team. Candidate requirements: A.C.A. or its equivalent with a good track record in professional accounting firm or A.A.S.A. with at least 3-4' years experience in commerce.

exposure to E.D.P. and U.S. reporting requirements. good communication and people management skills. the ability to look beyond the figures to produce intelligent well reasoned management reports.

in-Other benefits including non contributory superannuation are because she had declined an offer of a ride to Hodge's home that night, and because her walk ably the one that arouses most sympathy. Julie has been described as a brilliant student. Her natural independence was encouraged and fostered by her parents, making her an alert, vibrant girl. She spent several hours on the day she disappeared, selling jewellery with her best friend, Camilla, on a city footpath. When they packed up about 5.30 pm their share of the take was about $10 each.

A youth casually known to Julie accompanied her to the Central Market, where she returned the jewellery and takings to the stall owner. Julie is thought to have been with the youth until about 9.30 pm, when she called her parents to tell them she wanted to stay out later. Her father agreed, suggesting that she be home about 11 pm. She agreed. Her father did not ask where she was and has described the background noise as "pub hubbub." The youth later told police that he and Julie spent the evening from about 8 pm at a hotel playing pool a game Julie was fond of.

Julie left the hotel and got to a bus stop with the youth about 10.30 pm, intending to catch a bus home. The youth said he walked away, but saw her step towards a white car at the kerb and talk to somebody inside. According to the youth, the only witness in all seven disappearances, a man got out of the car and Julie got in. She has not been seen again. was along a bus route, could have been intending to go to the city instead.

Mr lordanides said his daughter had run away before but he claims interference from the welfare department outstanding. Prospects for tuture advancement are excellent. pressed him into allowing his daughter out on the nisht she ft. interested, please phone Mrs. Jacqui Woodford (02) 233 6966 disappeared.

Mr lordanides waited about or write in confidence to Arthur Young services, OPO Box 2646. Sydney, NSW 2001 quoting reference No. LSI 031. four days before reporting Con nie's disappearance to the oolice, but in between he had VERONICA KNIGHT, 18, unemployed. Last seen about 9.30 pm on December 23, 1976.

Christmas was only two days away, there was night shopping in Rundle Mall for the first time, and two girls from a Salvation Army hostel were out on the town. Veronica Knight and her best friend, Jenny Porter, were making an occasion of the novelty of shopping under lights. After Veronica bought a $40 dress in a boutique, the two friends had their photographs taken in an automatic booth. In King William Street they boarded a bus which would take 'hem to Hutt Street, about 200 metres from the hostel. As the bus moved off Veronica remembered that she had left her dress in the booth.

She hurried back but found her parcel had gone. She told her problem to a passing police sergeant, but he told her there was nothing he could do. Captain D. Reed, the Sutherland Lodge manageress, reported Veronica missing when she did not return or call in by 1 am. Nobody reported having seen or heard from Veronica until her skeleton was found in ragged scrub on Anzac Day last year.

Her black wallet-type purse, containing about $200, has not been found. TANIA iRUTH KENNY, 15, student. Last seen on January 2, 1977. Believed abducted and murdered, body not found. Tania Ruth Kenny, 15, student, of Stonyfell, was reoorted by her family as missing on January 2, 1977.

She left her home on December 31, 1976, planning to spend the New Year with her friends on the south coast, although it was against the wishes of her parents. Police have refused to supply any description or details of the case. It is known that the girl's parents have expressly forbidden the police to seek any publicity on her case. Senior police, while maintaining the ban, have said that publicity about the disappearance could only assist inquired from the welfare de partment and Connies friends concerning her whereabouts. When he read of the finding of 5ylvia Pittmann skeleton at Truro over Easter, something told him Connie would be found there, too.

He did not have to wait long. Her skeleton was found on Thursday, April 26. Accountant I Deborah A subsidiary of a major American company requires a person to undertake an interesting new project In their accounting group. The company, situated in the Parramatta area, manufactures and markets materials handling equipment and has been very successful In the past few A number of Improvements are currently under way In the manufacturing area. In line with this, it has been decided to set up a completely new costing system.

The Accountant will be responsible for Investigating, designing and Implementing the new system The position will appeal to a person who would enjoy the stimulation; -and has the ability to undertake, demanding systems development work. Good costing experience in a manufacturing company Is Important" An attractive salary will be offered to the right person. Conditions of work and career prospects are excellent Please phone Roger Occomore on 2 0542 or apply In writing tot Accountant Ref: (009), V- Pell A Starknv. Vicki VICKI MAY HOWELL, 26, nurses' aide. Last seen about 7 pm on about February 9, 1977.

Mrs Vicki May Howell, 26-year-old mother of three children, was regarded by friends and relatives as an attractive woman. But because of an inherent lack of confidence, Vicki did not see herself as others saw her. Ever since she was a blue-eyed schoolgirl of 11, she regarded herself as fat, and in later life she often remarked "Nobody is going to call me fat." According to her former husband, Deane Howell, of Christie Downs, Vicki ran away from home several times. The Howells were married in 1969 and divorced in 1977. At one time the couple went to work on a fruit block at Waikerie, and there an association sprang up between Vicki and a young local man, Harry Steel.

Vicki later went to live with Harry Steel in a flat at Anzac Highway, Kurralta Park. The couple had a daughter, who was 17 months old when Vicki left the flat about 7 pm on Wednesday, February 9, 1977, while washing the dishes after tea. Several days later Harry rang Vicki's sister, Mrs White, and told her of Vicki's disappearance, saying "she said she was going out to the clothes line." She was finally reported missing by another of her sisters. Mrs Gloria Frith. When her skeleton was found on April 26 a pair of blue denim shorts was found nearby, not the jeans she was reported to have been wearing on her disappearance.

CONNIE IORDANIDES, 16, unemployed. Last seen about 6 pm on February 9, 1977. Connie was known to 'her friends as Connie Jordan the Anglicised version of her Greek surname. Mr Iordanis lordanides, Connie's 43-year-old father, believes that if the Department for Community Welfare had not interfered with the family's life his daughter would be alive today. On the other hand people at the department are believed to claUn that if anybody wtit at fault it could have been P.O.

Box H216. Australia Souare. Sydney, N.S.W. 2000. Financial (Sontroller- Sylvia SYLVIA MICHELLE PITTMANN, 16, shop assistant.

Last seen about 2.30 pm on February 6, 1977. Sylvia's parents continually ask themselves where they might have gone wrong bringing up their 16-year-old daughter. Because Sylvia had previously run away to Melbourne, Mr Pittmann said he and his wife, Margarethe, had wondered whether she had done the same thing again when she did not return home on Sunday, February 6, 1977. "Margarethe and I had given hef more freedom since her first disappearance," said Mr Pittmann, who migrated with his wife from Austria. "Deep down I knew she hadn't run away, because she had promised me she wouldn't do it again." Their daughter's ambition was to be a model.

Her job in a fashion boutique was, she believed, a stepping-stone to that goal. It seems strange that nobody has reported seeing Sylvia as she walked along the bus route on Military Road, Largs Bay, or travelling on a bus the day she disappeared. When Sylvia's skeleton was found on April 15 in the same DEBORAH ANNE LAMB, 20, unemployed. Last seen about 6 pm on February 12, 1977. Believed abducted and murdered, body not found.

Few people know very much about Deborah Anne Lamb, 20, named by police as a possible victim. Her parents, Ray and Rhonda Lamb, of Elizabeth, last heard from her in September 1976 five months before she disappeared on February 12, 1977, after setting out from the Windsor Gardens Caravan Park for a night in the city. Despite police fears, Deborah's parents believe she is alive. The Lambs' intuitive belief in their daughter's well-being is tested to the limit by the facts of her disappearance. She has not been seen since she left the caravan park.

Facts which have alarmed police include: She has not claimed unemployment benefits -since she vanished. Her bank account has not been touched. Clothes and property left for her at Scots Church, North Terrace, a "drop-in" contact centre, have not foen claimed by Deborah, Socretary CANBERRA The Controller will report to the Chief Executive and will be an Important -member of the management team. The responsibilities are broad and involve ail routine accounting, budgeting and financial reporting, secretarial functions, funding and investments and general office administration. The organisation currently operates a major shopping centre In the Canberra area.

The accounts group is small and the Controller must expect to play an active role in all areas. Applicants should be qualified accountants preferably with some secretarial background. At least six or seven years broad accounting experience is required probably gained in a commercial environment. A starting salary from $18,000 is envisaged but a higher figure can be negotiated for the right person. Assistance will be given with re-location expenses and superannuation la available.

Please phone Roger Occomore on (02) 2 0542, or apply In writing to: their search for her. Tania successfully completed Year 10 at St Peters Girls' School, Stonyfell, in 1976. She was a tall girl of striking beauty one friend describes her as "looking like a film star." Like many people of her age, Tania clashed with her parents according to friends she wanted more freedom than her parents would allow. The final confrontation came at the end of December when Tania wanted to go with friends to a New Year's Eve party. Her parents forbade it but she went, anyway.

She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white shirt with a vertical embossed pattern, a black overshirt tied in a knot in front and black thongs. JULIE MYKYTA, 15, student. Last seen about 10.30 pm on January 21, 1977. Believed abducted and murdered, body not found. The disappearance of Julie Mykyta, 15, is prob DR.TW.

WILSON PRBCHB -BOTH LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD BEBORE. 11 AM THIS SUNDAY LYCEUM THEATRE CONTROLLER-SECRETARY (Ref: 010) Fell Starkey, P.O. Box H216, Australia Square, Sydney. N.S.W. 2000.

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