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Religion Page There is a need for new homes in Richmond. This is one of the reasons given for the the new Meadow Park subdivision, site of Homerama '77. Page 10 Pago Plus weekend business and complete coverage of sports. mm- "Da 'ALLADIU EM Vol. 147, No.

224 Richmond, Friday, Sept. 16, 1977 In 2 Sections 18 Pages 20c -f may dropped I' 0 By Jim Luther WASHINGTON (AP) Two influential senators are warning President Carter that he will have to drastically alter his tax-and-rebate proposal or run the risk of seeing the entire energy plan go down the drain. Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd and Russell B. Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Thursday that any taxes collected under the banner of energy conservation must go toward searching for more energy, and not on rebates.

Long told Carter's energy secretary, James R. Schlesi-nger, that the finance committee will not approve the taxes unless the rebate plan is junked. Schlesinger told the committee he didn't know whether Carter would agree to their demands. Long, whose home state is one of the nation's major energy producers, would like a major share of such tax revenues earmarked for bigger incentives for oil and gas producers to develop energy. Carter's rebate plan barely survived in the House and has never faced rosy prospects in the Senate.

The finance committee will begin writing its own energy tax bill next week with hardly a chance the rebates will be included. As Schlesinger testified Thursday, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, was the only committee member to show any support for the rebates. Most seemed to agree with Sen.

Harry F. Byrd, the Virginia independent, that the proposal would be like throwing money out an airplane window. Emotional blow strikes friends of missing Cambridge woman ip sii were emotionally shattered, physically drained and mentally dulled by the events which ripped into their lives Tuesday morning when Ann's (EMOTIONS STRAINED) (Continued on Page 5) town it's one of our girls." And so it has gone since Tuesday. Feelings of shock Talking to former teachers of Ann's, friends and neighbors, it was the same story one of shock and disbelief. By Friday townspeople Al Reeg, 29 Cumberland Road catches 40 winks while waiting on his ride home.

Reeg was resting in the yard of the First Friends Meeting on East Main Street. (Palladium-Item Photo by Steve Roger) Catching 40 winks Search for Ann Harmeier goes on; no clues yet McBride cites job frustrations in leaving conservancy district By Martha Elliott Day News Editor CAMBRIDGE CITY It's not a pleasant or easy story to write because the subject matter affects a family I have known and respected for many years and it has stabbed the heart of a community I have loved. The strange disappearance sometime Monday of Ann Louise Har-meier, 20, Indiana University junior and Cambridge City resident, has dealt a blow to the common emotions of this Western Wayne County community. Prayers were offered Wednesday night for Ann at the Presbyterian Church, called for by Rev. Rose Taul, her pastor and friend.

The church was packed with concerned friends, neighbors and townspeople and out of those prayers came such comments as: "Citizens are in a state of shock." "The whole town is involved in this." anxiety is devastating the uncertainty is taking its toll in all our lives." "It's something we seem to be bearing together." "In a town this size (about 2,500) we are all close and we hurt together." "It's impossible to think of any harm coming to such a fine young woman and one of our own it's not in Chicago or some other for a $5,000 reward being offered for information which leads to locating the whereabouts of Miss Harmeier are continuing. Canisters will be located on the Downtown Promenade in Richmond during the Wayne County Health Fair Friday and Saturday, and in Cambridge City during Canal Days Saturday and Sunday. Anyone wanting to pledge money for the reward may do so by dropping their pledge in one of those canisters or by contacting David Weston, principal of Dublin Elementary School; Mrs. Garris (Carolyn) Stearns, 612 West Parkway Drive, or Mrs. Jim (Dolly) Sweet 521 West Maple both in Cambridge City.

A benediction and rosary service also is planned at 5:30 p.m. Friday at St. Elizabeth Church in Cambridge City. Father Henry Brown will be leading the service to pray for the safe return of Miss Harmeier. CAMBRIDGE CITY Indiana State Police in Bloomington reported no new clues Friday in their search for Ann Louise Harmeier, 20, who has been missing since Monday.

Miss Harmeier disappeared after leaving her Cambridge City home for a return trip to Indiana University in Bloomington, where she is a junior majoring in theater arts and drama. Her auto was found abandoned Tuesday morning along Indiana 37, two miles north of Martinsville. When contacted Friday morning, state police said simply they are diligently continuing their search for Miss Harmeier in the area in which her auto was found, adding they have received no new clues. The last information police received came Wednesday when a Greyhound bus driver reported seeing a young woman with car trouble in the area where the IU coed's auto was found. Meanwhile, efforts to raise money talked to all five county auditors and had agreed to get lists of freeholders from all but Union County.

Board members voted unanimously to authorize Dickey to hire personnel at $4.75 an hour to create the list of Union County freeholders if the auditor decides not to do the work. Heard their budget was not properly advertised and they would probably have to ask for an additional appropriation from the State Board of Tax Commissioners to fund their 1978 operations. Because the district presently has more than $160,000 in the their accounts, it will not need to levy any taxes. The next meeting of the conservancy district will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

13, in the Indiana Football Hall of Fame, Ninth and North A streets, Richmond. and our board," the letter said. "It's been enjoyable associating with my fellow members but the headaches and frustrating situations aren't worth continued efforts." The board agreed to "acknowledge" receipt of McBride's resigna- tion, but would not vote to accept it. All of the members present said they did not want to see him leave. In other business, the board: Learned from Dickey the State Board of Tax Commissioners had approved the board's request for a $15,162 special appropriation from the district's general fund.

Agreed to wait until they have lists of freeholders from Wayne, Union, Franklin, Fayette and Henry counties before certifying them and setting a place for the election to dissolve the district. Dickey said he had By Tim Dunham Don McBride, secretary of the Whitewater Valley Conservancy District for the last 10 years, submitted his resignation to the district's board of directors at their meeting Thursday night. In his letter to chairman Douglas Dickey, McBride said: "I regret to inform you that due to my inadequacy in performing the duties that are expected of me as secretary and my total lack of knowledge of laws pertaining to same, plus the fact that I feel I have spun my heels for some 10 years attempting to accomplish something that it's very apparent the taxpayers don't want, I hereby submit my resignation effective as of this date, Sept. 15, 1977, "I feel that I have caused you and my fellow board members enough embarrassment and although enjoying your association, I have actually contributed nothing but additional headaches for all concerned," he said in the letter. "I wish you the best in your endeavors but actually, I feel that I have been swimming upstream all these years and am somewhat disgusted with the entire lack of communication that there is between those who should keep us informed Brief, furious storm topples trees, causes outages -ft A1 ft al Road West for a time.

Chamness said there were other more isolated cases of power failure. A couple of spans of primary line were downed in Oak Park subdivision, and individual homes reported some power outages. crews were sent out between 8 and 8:15 p.m. By 12:30 or 1 a.m. they had restored power in the South West Street section, and power to the South West Fifteenth Street area was restored by 6 a.m.

In other parts of Wayne County, lightning shorting out fuses was blamed for some minor power outages. A spokesman for the Wayne County REMC said power failures were reported in the Cambridge City area when lightning struck there. A downed tree knocked out lines near Kempton and West Grove roads north of Centerville, cutting power to a four-square-mile area from about 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Richmond and Wayne County police, however, received few reports of damage during the storm.

Officials at Reid Memorial Hospital also reported treating no storm-related injuries. Some of the heaviest storm damage reported occurred on the Ed Zwissler farm behind Earlham Cemetery. Zwissler said the storm hit there about 7:51 p.m. and lasted for only a few minutes. But during that time two large trees were toppled.

By Steve Truitt Heavy winds and driving rains ripped briefly through Richmond and parts of Wayne County Thursday night. Utility crews were kept busy for hours as everything from small limbs to entire trees was felled by the storm. But area residents outside Wayne County escaped the storm's fury. Few incidents were reported as Mother Nature apparently eased her rampage after venting her temper upon Richmond, And despite the intensity of the storm in Richmond, described as striking like a miniature tornado in some areas, no injuries were reported by authorities during the brief assault. Duke Chamness, line department supervisor for Richmond Power Light, said two major power outages were reported during the storm, which began shortly before 8 p.m.

and ended 15 to 20 minutes later. One occurred when trees fell across primary power lines in the 700 block of South West Fifteenth Street. Eight to 10 spans of primary line were downed by trees and limbs on South West Street, between College Avenue and South West Third Street. The outage in the South West Fifteenth Street area not only knocked out power to some homes, but also darkened street lights along Nation 966-7656 is the key number! The next time you pick up your phone, why not dial 966-7656 and let Palladium-Item person-to-person ads work for you. A three-line person-to-person ad in the classified section of your 7-day Palladium-Item will cost you a mere All articles must be priced but no single item may be priced more than $250.

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