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Journal and Courier Outside Lafayette West Lafayette Indiana Wed October 191 977 Vol No292 ROST See Page A 2 Inside Our area 50 volunteers and workers present Elsewhere at JK I i Index What's up kids? Believed that of IU coed Body found in cornfield Car bomb kills millionaire I 1 I Coroner James deter was last seen her way to In Cambridge City Sept 12 while on POLICE MERIT Board adopts new rules for conduct and a physical training pro gram Metro PAGE A 4 also said a purse found next to the body contained a paper with Miss name on it and jewelry and other items known to belong to the coed blinking was found along the high way two miles north of here At the scene police found a red shirt jeans and tennis shoes which they said matched the description of what Miss Harmeier was wear Police here doubt three slayings linked Metro Page A 3 I I Reggie's homers win for Yanks DELPHI A hearing will be held next week to deter mine whether a state ordered vaccination program for hogs should be permanently halted Regional State PAGE A HUGE fireball lights up the night sky over five west ern states PAGE 10 Morgan County Summers said he mine whether the young woman was slain because the body found Tuesday so badly decom AULTY METERS mean 79000 Indiana Gas Co cus tomers are incorrectly billed but the margin of error usual ly is less than four per cent Money Matters PAGE 3 A EDERAL survey says there is enough fuel oil to make up for this ex pected natural gas shortages PAGE A 8 MARTINSVILLE Ind (AP) Investigators checked fingerprints and dental records today after a body in a cornfield was tentatively identified as that of a college coed whose disappearance prompted the people of her hometpwn to under diana University taxe a nationwide searcn An autopsy also was being per formed to determine the cause of death Ann Louise Harmeier 20 of WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate today approved a min imum wage bill that would push the minimum wage up in annual stages from the current $230 an hour to $335 an hour by 1981 1 The bill was approved by voice vote in the Senate with no debate The House is ex pected to take it up Thursday The measure would mean pay boosts for nearly five million workers About three million workers now earn the minimum The bill worked out last week by a House Senate con ference committee increases the minimum to $290 an hour win January 1979 $310 in 1980 and finally to $335 an hour in 1981 What is it holding the attention of all these Klondike Elementary See Metro Page A 3 for a picture of what the children are looking at School first graders? A bird? Superman? Hint: It's not the Concorde SST (Staff Photo by Dick Vellinger) State police said they found a shoestring and a hairbrush around the young neck leading them to believe she might have been strangled The remains were found by a ing when last seen State troopers farmer harvesting corn five miles from where Miss Harmeier dis appeared along Ind 37 while she was driving to school in Blooming ton Her car its parking lights By NEIL CHETHIK Staff Writer With' unexpected support from some small local businesses the United Way fund drive has edged over $800000 for 718 per cent of this $113 million goal One of the 13 United Way divi sions Commerce made up of 250 small businesses which have never contributed before soared over its $1000 goal this week It has reached $1280 or 128 per cent of its goal it was announced at the third weekly report meeting Tuesday Mike rampton a volunteer from the Shook Agency who worked to get donations from those business es said he received more cooper MONTICELLO A man who police say confessed to the fatal stabbing of a woman here apparently will never be prosecuted Regional State PAGE NEW YORK (AP) The Con corde SST swooped down through an overcast sky today and landed at Kennedy International Airport marking the end of a year struggle to keep the noisy faster than sound passenger jet out of New York The plane carrying the colors of both its British and rench devel opers touched down at 10:09 am EST It had taken off from Tou louse in southwest rance where it was built at 6:25 am Its maiden entry to New York was a familiarization flight The plane carried technicians and other personnel but no passengers Regular commercial service by the 1350 mile an hour plane is scheduled to begin Nov 22 It cuts in half the normal flying time to New York from Paris and London to 3 hours CRIED a policeman who covered his ears with his hand exclaimed Carol Craft a British Airways publicist Meanwhile in Newark NJ the Port Authority which operates Ken nedy and the other New York jet ports continued hearings on noise standards that it hopes will ultima tely bar the Concorde in its current form In Lawrence one of the commu nities on the JK flightpaths the PTA held a rally outside an ele mentary school show President Carter we are not taking this lying said Anita Cuchel the PTA president flight by Concorde 002 a test craft was piloted by Pierre Dudal of Air rance and Jean ranchi chief test pilot for Ae rospatiale the rench co manufac turer of the plane A HEAVY security force was out to cope with any crowds or unanth cipatedevents butahti SST forces had no protests planned at the air port today Shortly before the takeoff a union of rench aerospace workers appealed to New Yorkers to accept the inevitable and welcome the Concorde as a symbol of transatlan tic amity Under an umbrella of hovering helicopters the jet pointed its beak like nose toward Hangar 17 and taxied to that relatively remote part of the airport which will be its home for the next few days Nearly 100 persons lined the edge of Runway 4 Left as the Concorde settled down Chuckle Some men have such great expectations out of life that if they were married to Raquel Welch still expect her to cook breakfast EVANSVILLE Ind (AP) Millionaire Ray Ryan was killed Tuesday when bomb of large ripped apart his luxury automobile in the parking lot of a health spa here Ryan 72 apparently was murdered by professionals who rigged a bomb to the car said rank Cook a local officer of the federal Bureau of Alco hol Tobacco and irearms He said there were no suspects The explosion broke windows and knocked pictures off the walls of a nearby apartment building It also knocked out a substation of Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co halting service three hours to a sec tion of east side and a part of neighboring Warrick County RYAN ACQUIRED his wealth in the oil business and later owned a re sort at Palm Springs Calif and a gambling casino in Las Vegas He also had joint ownership with film actor William Holden in the MtKenya Safari Club in Africa Cook said Ryan had just finished a two hour workout at the Olympia Health and Beauty Resort not far from his fashionable two story brick home Cook said investigators were trying to determine whether the tx)mb was detonated by remote control or set off when Ryan got into the Lincoln Continental Two spa members were the first to reach Ryan found face down with his feet under the car on the side They pulled him away from the burning wreckage He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead on arrival Ryan recently filed suit in US Tax Court in Washington protesting as sessment of about $9 million in federal taxes allegedly owed for 1958 through 1965 excluding 1963 The case was set for trial Nov 15 The government charged that income was derived in part from many foreign sources including gambling proceeds In 1970 a judge sentenced Ryan to three years in prison and fined him $3 000 for allegedly altering membership records of his African club but he won acquittal Dec 17 1971 The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled then there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction 1 IN 1964 TWO MEN were convicted in the same court on charges of at tempting to extort $60000 from Ryan Ryan testified during the trial of Marshall Caifano of Chicago and Charles Delmonico of Miami Beach la they threatened to kidnap him unless be paid them the money annually The men said the money was a gambling debt Both men were convicted of conspiracy to committ extortion and rack eteering Caifano was sentence to 10 years in prison and Delmonico to five years' "A Ryan returned to court again in 1972 after he was indicted oh four counts of failure to file foreign investment reports with the Internal Reve nue Service about his business dealings in Jamaica But a federal judge in Washington dismissed the charges because he said federal officials failed to prove any criminal off ensej Hvansvi lift snurcfts sain van im cor ninftn ino wniie in me cnv level nearly achieved the week be fore was the kind of a week where maybe we didn't show sensa tional he said we know there are in plant campaign! and in company campaigns which are still in progress will really be apparent Jn the next couple of A victory celebration is scheduled for Nov Death penalty formally lifted LEBANON Ind (AP) A Boone Superior Court judge today formally vacated the death sentence of an Alexan dria man convicted of mur dering a young woman after a robbery three years ago Judge Paul Johnson Jr changed the sentence of Charles Martin from death to life in prison Martin was to have been electrocuted at the state pris on Aug 15 but the execution was stayed by the Indiana Su preme Court which had pre viously declared death penalty uncon stitutional Martin and Lester rench were convicted in the sex slaying of Kathy Wylie 19 Gaston in 1974 ap wirjboij BLAST SENDS DEBRIS 150 TEST TO APARTMENT STEPS bombed auto acroo Evansville I9L in background if SST jet lands 20 Cents NEW YORK (AP) New York rightfielder Reggie Jackson under the microscope throughout this con troversial 1977 season ended the campaign with three home runs and five runs batted in powering the Yankees to the baseball World Championship with an 8 4 triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers can top said the slugger as the Yankees scored a 4 2 triumph night in the best 2 of seven Series for their 21st world title and their first in 15 years His five home runs in the Series were the most collected by a hitter in one Series It was the first time in Series history that any batter had hit three consecutive homers in a game though the legendary Babe Ruth hero of past Yankee World Champions twice hit three a contest 8 'was the greatest perfor mance ever seen in a World said Los Angeles Manager Tom Lasorda beat us added Dodgers first baseman jz r' 4 (See Series coverage On Page 1) New help lifts UW to 71 ation than he had expected Risk Supply Cd which reported 100 James Shook campaign chalr just' sort of started zwith per cent participation on the part man whose own Shook Agency em these people and stayed with of its employes for a 132 per ployes Increased their contributions them rampton said of increase over last year Contribu by almost 150 per cent over last just bringing them a packet and tions averaged $16273 per employe year said he was pleased with this comingback later to pick it up we UN a'' Rostone Corp employes contrib report which represented tried to be understanding and went uted mbre than $33000 for a 425 an increase from the 60 per cent vv vu 4 14 0 i pc vciiL over lasi year Public Service Indiana contribu Employes of the riendly Ice tions took the biggest jump'1 over Cream Co led the way contrib last week as they climbed from 9 uting $431 this year Last year they per cent to 31 per cent of its goal made no contributions of $42929 Other divisions moved closer to The YWCA one of the agencies their goals which United Way offi at Lafayette Country Club that it receiving money from the United cials hope to reach by the end of had reached 81 per cent of its goal Way this year helped that jump this month The Industry Division total is increasing its contributions by 62 Industry Division reported to the $380585 for a total this year of The division was led bv Kirby $861 oo 1 rw 7 zBHbHIHHhbbBhMHb "di' hl i7 ui ya bl iiMifcr: ve 2 Mr '4 HB 1 I i 1 1a i lf i 1 At fc 2 'a 1 Vs 'ip I vi I II fi I i i 6 sections 60 pages lassif ied E5 1 1 Comics D7 Deaths A4 Editorials Good Eating 16 Living Leisure Dl 6 Markets Cl Metro A3 5 Money Matters Cl 4 News of Record A4 Regional State Bl 2 Sports' 2 El 5 TV Tonight D7 Happening A5 World Datelines A7 Briefs Senate passes wage measure.