Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 13

1 Cornfield death still haunts finder his farm Institution On claims economy State Regional Wed Oct 20 improving taster here of drugs is Speed blamed for accidents I LB AP Wirephoto I 1 39 LB CORNER 9TH KOSSUTH ST i IB Ilirts contained woman came aside GALLON PLASTIC Ronald Reagan who narrowly lost the Republican presidential nomi nation to Gerald ord will keyn ote a GOP fund raising dinner tonight at the Indiana Convention it we found her illustrated by with I hope the survey THE! WOMAN who police said was about had gray ing hair rind was about five feet the box found its way into his field it had been right off 1 65 I might not have thought anything about it A car' could have dumped something on a road that close to the highway but a long way from any major he said1 running since the vehicle had out of gas ered to be extreme and we think there are any major problems at that Roger Marsh highway depart ment executive director said both tial nominee Peter Camejo She said want to reverse the priorities of the NO PACKAGE MEAT REAL LIVE BUTCHERS At 9th and Kossuth REEZER 'BEE CALL742 1348 OR THE INEST MEAT AND BEST DEAL IN TOWN drug use studied Indiana gets look at Joan Mondale a decomposing body Also Skoog was shocked to find' that a body could be contained in a box he said was about feet long and two feet wide and just see how they got that woman in he said in credulously pressing his chest to his knees her hands were tied under her WHEN NORMAN Skoog upon the box he rolled it thinking it might have been dropped there by kids and continued on his way Later he enlisted his father in law to help load the box onto a truck to transport it to the Skoog home a white house on stone foundation The Skoog home is located about six miles north of US 52 and is reached only through a series of country twists and turns PLATTER STYLE No 1 SLICED BACON JOAN MONDALE Indiana campaign trail Sen Robert Byrd of West Virginia joined fellow Democrat Vance Hartke in an Indianapolis news confer ence Tuesday Byrd urged re election of his Senate col league because of the clout he would have with 18 years seniority operate under the seniority Byrd said if you send a new man to Washington it will take him 18 years to be where Sen Hartke is Republican challenger Richard Lugar has vowed to vote to eliminate the seniority system as the sole means of gaining power Lugar campaigned in Mishawaka commended economist Milton riedman for his Nobel Prize and put in a plug for view of private enterprise arguing for stronger free enterprise I would like to acknowledge the debt which I have to Milton ried man who has written and lectured many years about the importance of limited BROWN COUNTY SMOKED SAUSAGE INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The National Association for Retarded Citizens (NARC) is invstigating the use or "misuse of medi cation in facilities for the men tally retarded Ronald Neman associate direc tor of the organization said the study will lead to the preparation of two manuals one for par ents and one for professionals The manuals will deal with steps to take in case of overmedication of loved ones parents have indicated when their children come home for a weekend they appear to be overmedicated A very pessimis tic possibility is that patients are being overmedicated to make them easier to deal that is now what finds this misuse criminal responsibility of action lies with parent and advocate groups If these groups suspect problems they may wish to make on site investigations of the residential NARC also is conducting a study of birth difficulties which may lead to mental retardations Neman said example is mothers whose blood is incompatible with their babies and mothers with hyper tension In both cases there is re latively high frequency of abrupt or long I GRADES LARGE EGGS 3 LEAN AS GROUND CHUCK" GROUND BEE 79 DOZ INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Speed is blamed in a series of accidents on a just opened section of interstate highway in downtown Indianapolis State highway officials noting 10 accidents in the first five days the section was in use asked state andfi city police to beef up enforcement otthe speed limit All the crashes were Unithe same area a sharp curvenear the in terchange of Interstate 70 65 with the east leg of the near downtown loop A truck driver was killed in an accident Monday The loop was opened to traffic riday I Excessive speeds not the con struction of the curve was respon sible for three truck accidents at the scene said Gene Hallock chief engi I neer for the State Highway Commis sion He said the curve is consid REALLY think that any body could have carried that box through my cornfield without me being able to notice tame broken places on the he says ada mantly can tell when some body walks through rows of The box was found about nine rows deep into the field Could jt have been dropped there? think he says In the in vestigation reports of a helicopter being in the area that morning have come from neighbors Yes I think it could have been dropped from a he says was tightly How does it feel to live in the eerie shadow of a murder? know until it happens to wife Vandene said quietly Preceding the $100 a couple affair will be a $300 a couple reception for the former California governor Rea gan won the Indiana primary May 4 by about 16000 votes over the Presi dent Donald Cox chairman of the diana announced Tuesday ord and his running mate Sen Robert Dole plan to campaign in the state next week Cox said exact times and places are not yet final but Dole will precede the President Sen Carl Curtis Neb is due in Indianapolis Saturday on behalf of Dr David Crane GOP nominee for 6th District congressman During her Indianapolis stop Mrs Mondale said last televised vice presidential debates helped her husband until this time people were welcoming him as a Democrat Now welcoming him as ritz Mondale someone they have seen in their living She also said she favors passage of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment adding take away any rights that anyone now enjoys Equality hurt By The Associated Press The economy is recovering faster in Indiana than in other states Lt Gov Robert Orr said Tuesday in a government There is no reason we should continue to release from the Deparment of Commerce prop up a defense system to scare the world or destroy Orr who heads the state agency said than 4t at the snap of a 114000 Hoosiers were added to the employment rolls some getting back to work again others getting a job for the first time 'The rate of economic recovery is even exceeding our Meanwhile Democratic opponent in the Nov 2 election State Sen Thomas Teague claimed the In diana economy is worse off than four years ago Tieague told the Terre Haute Rotary Club the next three weeks a factory closing in New Albany will cut more than 500 jobs from the Hoosier economy In January 100 jobs were lost in Washington Ind be cause a factory Willie Mae Reid Socialist Workers party vice presi dential candidate addressed an Indiana Purdue Univer sity audience in Indianapolis saying the United States faces no immediate military threat She urged most de fense money go for social programs The 36 year old former Chicago mayoral candidate will be on the Indiana ballot with the presiden was on our he says feelings Tippecanoe and Benton sheriff de partments Whoever she was she was given a burial Monday at the ow ler Cemetery by Benton authorities1 who took some flowers to the grave There have been few leads police say and almost everything leads to a dead end in the acres of Skoogs farm where the box was deposited by some murderer or murderers I kept asking ourselves why 'it was on our he says of his By SHERRY BROWN two inches tall and is still Regional Reporter unidentified after investigation by OTTERBEIN Death is a grisly the Indiana State Police and thes thing to find in one cornfield And Norman Skoog to whom that happiened still dislikes talking about the afternoon of Oct 8 when he found a curious cardboard box sit ting squarely In front of him 'while opening tip a field on near here The box it turned out the remains of a murdered just kept wondering whose mother she Skoog says now recounting the events that afternoon when he found himself delivering the corpse to the Benton coroner at owler i At this point nearly two weeks later nobody knows whose mother she was Or where she came from Or who killed her GOOD ONLY AT BUDS BRACHS HALLOWEEN CANDIES 1 O' PKG WITH THIS COUPON EXPIRES 103076 THE CORONER the authorities and Skoog all thought the woman had been killed by a shot through her abdomen area But later an au topsy showed the suspected wound' was a surgical scar and that a bul let shot through the back of her head had brought her death was he said stood the thing better than I thought I would but it was awful Her facewas as dark as a bad bruise and her facial features were distorted because the plastic had pressed against Shaking off the remembered opening it any he said trauma Skoog speculated on how immediately called tne state Skoog got the job of taking the body to James Konzelman the Ben ton County coroner we opened like Skoog 1 downtown leg of the loop is 40 miles an hour Authorities say both trucks and cars have been driving mph faster Marsh said highway crews erected city and state police agreed to coop additional speed limit signs Monday erate some extra in placed flashing barricades on the centive to obeying the speed limit shoulders put reflectorized strips on median barriers and checked light Posted limit 'for lhe curve and ing 4 left us a he had said simply to his father in law "I started to! get a little nervous about it when we got back to the Skoog said called the sheriff and they asked me if it was an I quite sure started thinking about it arid by this was getting reallynervous so about a half hour af ter that we called backhand he was ori his way BEORE SHERI Donal Steely arrived Skoog peeled back a section of the box and found a dark mass tightly packed into the space know it was a body Skoog says All he knew was wrapped in sheets of opaque and bound tightly with tape Two things about the packaging of the body remain as curiosities to Skoog The cardboard box was drenched with a cheap heady perfume which kept him from detecting the odor of IDAHO BAKER POTATOES IOlbs 99 YELLOW COOKING ONIONS 3 lbs 49 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) She joked about a malfunction in her airplane and about a potentially new home in Washington Joan Mondale wife of the Demo cratic nominee for vice president Exposition Center in Indianapolis made a campaign swing through In diana Tuesday She was scheduled to address the National Association of Retarded Children conference in Indianapolis but missed it because of the plane trouble think the Republican National President ord Committee in In Committee must have hired a me chanic to work on my she told an airport news conference in the Hoosier capital Asked that if the Carter Mondale ticket wins she planned to move into the as yet unoccupied vice pres mansion she quipped would assume so We exactly the Vice President Nelson A Rocke feller has chosen to live in his pri vate Washington residence rather than move into the government owned mansion Mrs Mondale also campaigned in New Harmony and Evansville She addressed about 120 persons who turned out despite a drizzle in New Harmony In an effort to get out the vote Nov 2 she noted that if Hu bert Humphrey had received one more vote per precinct in 1968 he would have been president instead of Richard Nixon THE PERUME which Skoog says was unfa miliar to him remeriiber it if ever smelled it srnell the body until the sheriff got here and made a slit in the he said could see a dark stain through it made a little slit in it (the plastic) and then we were reason ably sure it was a body without SLICED Deaths ruled i BOLOGNA accidental A Ad KINGMAN ountain County a sheriffs deputies feel no foul play was involved in the deaths of two teenaged youths found in a car narkpd in a rnmfipld Mnndav nioht Ricky Lamb 17 Kingman and Vicki Carpenter 17 Hillsboro were pronounced dead at the scene by ountain County Coroner Walter Kinser Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning was ruled as the cause of the deaths Investigating deputy Ron Morti more said the youths apparently parked in the com field some time Saturday night and fell asleep with the motor running A farmer who spotted the car Sunday morning called deputies to the scene Monday when' he discov ered the vehicle still parked in the field Mortimore said the older model had nn muffler UThon daniitiac arrived on the scene the motor was not run I ILLET 8 oz $099 REE COEE MIGNON WRAP EA TENDER TENDER CHUCK ROAST LB 79 CHUCK STEAK LB 99 BORDEN LITE LINE ICE MILK I BORDEN HOME 2MILK BOX YOUR OWN SMOKED CENTER CUT PORK CHOPS lb I CHAMPION BREAD 3 BORDEN YOGURT 8c4v 1 1 killed as trains collide NEW HAVEN Ind (AP) A I railroad headman was killed Tuesday night when trapped in a flaming caboose after two Norfolk Western locomotives collided head on Police said the victiriTwas Bruce Parker 22 ort Wayne Trainman Don Metzger 53 ort Wayne was hospitalized with sec ond degree burns Two other em ployes were treated and released Police said Parker was in a ca boose behind one of the engines which was hauling about a dozen I boxcars It had passed a switch in an area where a double track nar rows to a single one just east of here i ft I OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK SIL'' i RR i.