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THIRD FOURTH FIFTH CD Pots tiogCuteo3 swd odd rfcy mm children yesterday. Company officials said the only undelivered route yesterday was in Northampton and unrelated to the incident. All other carriers delivered as scheduled, they said. In response to the incident, The Morning Call is planning to review safety measures with carriers. Sgt.

Barry George of the Allentown police department's crime prevention unit will be meeting with circulation managers next week, he said. "What we are hoping to do is make them aware of safety measures that can be taken," said Richard E. Forgay a Morning Call spokesman. "They can then pass this knowledge on to carriers," he said. The paper has an ongoing carrier safety program, but tragedy requires reinforcement, he said.

A list of recommendations will be mailed to carriers and meetings are being planned with carriers and parents. The company will recommend against using personal stereos while making deliveries because they can make carriers less alert. Police found Schmoyer's Walkman radio and some newspapers near a Gordon Street home where Schmoyer made her last delivery. Police do not know if she was wearing it when she was attacked. George, who even advises joggers against wearing headphones, said they may increase safety risks.

"With the headphones, someone could come up from behind and you probably wouldn't even hear them," he said. "Not wearing them may not solve all the problems, but it certainly could go a long way in preventing some." Deliveries to the nearly 50 homes on Schmoyer's route yesterday were made by two managers, one of whom was her former supervisor Marty Wieczorek. "There were more people out this morning," he said. "There is a lot of concern for the carriers." Wieczorek said he had received many concerned phone calls from the parents of child carriers he supervises. "They are very sad about what happened and they are very concerned about their own children," he said.

About 70 of the 81 carriers he supervises are under 18, he said. Of 2,200 Morning Call carriers, about 65 percent are under 18. Morning Call officials said no carriers had tenninated their delivery agreements with the paper and none had called to request adult accompanyment on their routes. But many parents did go out with their Wieczorek said some carriers already carry flashlights and whistles for their safety. Others reported carrying pepper spray and mace.

Forgay said The Morning Call will supply all carriers with whistles. And 6th Ward Crime Watch President Ernest Kaiser, hopes to give them a little confidence. Kaiser, who was a carrier himself many years ago, said he and other members of his unit will patrol newspaper drop-off sites starting at 4 a.m. today. "As a youngster in the middle 30s, this was unheard of," he said.

"I suspect that this does create some insecurity with some of the youngsters. "We want to let them know that they can perform their jobs and that there are people looking out for their interests," he said. By KIMBERLY JACKSON Of The Morning Call Dozens of parents walked newspaper routes with young carriers in East Allen-town yesterday, while neighbors kept watch in a community shaken and galvanized by the slaying of a local girL The announcement of 15-year-old Charlotte Schmoyer's death Wednesday drew concern and action from across the city, with adults volunteering to accompany child carriers and Crime Watch leaders planning to join city police on area patrols. At The Call, where the Allen-town girl had a contract to deliver newspapers, employees from several departments volunteered to go with youngsters for deliveries, which begin at 5 a.m. The paper also has offered a $10,000 reward for specific information leading to the conviction of Schmoyer's murderer.

Call carrier death affects many students 1 1 jw-r By SUSAN SNYDER Of The Morning Call Hundreds of students in the Allentown School District struggled to cope with the death of Charlotte Schmoyer yesterday in what one school official termed the "hardest-hitting" tragedy in at least the last dozen years. The schools have had to cope with student deaths from illnesses, suicides, car accidents and other unfortunate mishaps, but Schmoyer's murder has proved to be the most disturbing. "There's a different level of concern," said Ralph Daubert, the district's director of pupil personnel services. "There's a threat here that wasn't there in other tragic "There's a threat here that wasn't there in other tragic deaths. Ralph Daubert pupil personnel services director deaths.

And the nature of the tragedy is unusual in that it affected a whole neighborhood." And he expects it will get worse today as students learn how Schmoyer died. Authorities disclosed yesterday that the 15-year-old girl was stabbed 22 times, and they are investigating the possibility of sexual assault. Extra counselors and school psychologists were concentrated in four schools: Dieruff High School, Harrison-Morton Middle School and Ritter and Mosser elementary schools. Schmoyer was a ninth-grader at Dieruff, where she was a member of the swim and track teams and band front. She previously attended Harrison-Morton and Ritter, and her 5-year-old sister is a student at Ritter.

Mosser was targeted, Daubert said, because Schmoyer's body was found on a wooded hillside behind the school. In the four schools, staff members were briefed on the death based on newspaper accounts. Teams of professionals went from classroom to classroom at the elementary schools, dispelling rumors and taking children's questions. About 40 of the 475 children required one-on-one counseling at Ritter. At Harrison-Morton, 38 of the school's 860 children required individual counseling and another 100 or so were counseled in groups, said Principal Robert McCrea.

At Dieruff High School, counselors were available to help students as needed. Principal Michael Mei-linger said Schmoyer's parents Witness may have seen suspect Continued From Page A1 reservoir. She was abducted while delivering papers along E. Gordon Street, Steinberg said. An autopsy yesterday revealed 22 stab wounds, most of them to her back, Coroner Wayne Snyder said.

The cause of death was multiple stab wounds. The 5-foot-2, 160-pound girl did not have any defense wounds. "He had complete control over her," Steinberg said. "She never had the opportunity to fight back." Snyder and Steinberg would not discuss whether the teen was sexually assaulted. Although the autopsy gave some indication, they would release nothing pending forensic tests, which could take four to six weeks.

The girl was found with the pants and Harrison-Morton sweatshirt she was wearing when she disappeared, but investigators would not say if she was clothed. "Some of the information I would rather not release prematurely," Snyder said. Monahan urged patience from the public. "We have to develop a good case and a strong case," he said, and the release of specific details can hinder that. "We've interviewed witnesses, and we are looking at particular individuals," Steinberg said.

"It may be somebody who is familiar with her. The nature of the offense requires us to look at people who live in the neighborhood." One of the first things to be checked and ruled out was whether someone had escaped from or did not return from leave to Allentown State Hospital, which is adjacent to Schmoyer's 432 Oswego St. home, Steinberg said. Mayor Joseph Daddona announced yesterday he has authorized police to "take whatever actions are necessary regardless of cost" to track the killer and pro tect the city from further attack. Neighbors along E.

Gordon Street said they saw undercover police keep watch overnight Wednesday. Officers also were up at the crack of dawn to pound on doors of neighbors they might have missed the day of the abduction. It appears Schmoyer was delivering a paper to 1057 E. Gordon when she was abducted. Police found her paper cart in the street out front and her Walkman radio and more papers outside the garage behind the house.

Smeared fingerprints on a garage window have not been identified, but Steinberg said "there's obviously a possibility that she was pulled down." By late morning, police were removing remnants of their search and investigation gear from the secluded slope off S. Halstead Street. Officers gathered yellow police tape and small rea ana orange flags that had marked blood spots and other physical evidence. Police expected the park to reopen late yesterday or today. Anyone with information about the killing should call police at 437-7721 or 437-7751.

Born in Allentown, Schmoyer was a daughter of Gene and Karen (Paules) Schmoyer, with whom she resided. She was a member of Emmanuel United Church of Christ, Allentown, and its youth group. Surviving with her parents are a brother, Bill, and sister, Andrea, both at home, and maternal grandmother, Mary J. (Moon) Paules of Allentown. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Monday in the church. Calling hours will be 7-9 p.m. Sunday in the Sell Funeral Home, 1145 Lehigh Allentown. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking contributions be made to a scholarship fund at Dieruff. Contributions can be sent to the school, in care of Charlotte.

have asked that people donate to a special scholarship fund in lieu of flowers. The school will work to set the fund up, he said. The Morning Call will donate $1,000. Although regular classes are ending for many students, Daubert stressed that school professionals will be available throughout next week to help any student or their parents deal with the tragedy. Anyone who is unsure where to go may call 821-2651.

The district also wants to hold meetings for parents to discuss special safety precautions for children. Daubert said teachers and other staff members tried to combat children's fears by telling them how to keep themselves safe. Don't walk alone, students were told. Don't take shortcuts through the woods or other isolated areas. Report any suspicious individual to the first responsible adult.

Ritter sent a letter home asking parents to drop children off and pick them up if possible. Harrison-Morton will offer bus rides to seventh- and eighth-graders who are dismissed at 11:45 a.m. today and Monday after final exams, McCrea said. "It's tough when something so devastating occurs," said Ritter Principal Dennis Blankowitsch. "It just drains you." At Dieruff High School, where final exams were held in the morning, students and staff observed a moment of silence.

The school's flag was flown at half-mast. Some students passed out black ribbons. "A lot of people were sad," said Dieruff ninth-grader Rosalba Martinez, who wore a black ribbon in one of her sneakers. "A lot of people couldn't concentrate on their final exams because they were so sad." Others said the killing frightened them. "If it happened to her, it could happen to anybody," said Angela Hart, an llth-grader at Dieruff, whose sister, Bridget, was a friend of Schmoyer's.

Bridget Hart said she talked to a counselor and said that she was afraid and angry at the same time. Others, like ninth-grader Amy Buchman, who said she was Schmoyer's best friend, chose not to talk to counselors. "I didn't know what to say," said Buchman, who knew Schmoyer for the last three years. But Buchman, who spent time riding bikes, going swimming and watching movies with Schmoyer, said she could talk to Schmoyer about her problems. She could tell her anything.

"She didn't talk about you behind your back," Buchman said. "She didn't go around telling anybody anything. She would keep them to herself." daughter had many daughter had many friends, mougn in reaniy sne was a loner and let very few people get close. "She was like my best friend," she said. When the teen was not swinging flags in band, swimming or at a church youth group activity at Emmanuel UCC, she was at home with her family.

As a result, mother and daughter spent a great deal of time together. Gene Schmoyer delivers medical supplies long distance. He did not learn of the violent end of his daughter's life until he flew back from Memphis, after midnight yesterday. A police officer met him at the plane and took him to the third floor at the Allentown Bethlehem-Easton Airport to break the news. VA J'" It 1 A r'f ill sister, Andrea, and brother, Bill, "I need the DNA comparisons to see if I'm looking at one murderer or two," Steinberg said.

The FBI has agreed to expedite the tests and results are expected in 4-6 weeks, Steinberg said. Schmoyer's death set off sparks in the neighborhood among residents who fought the housing for the mentally ill where Burghardt was killed. Some think the killings are related and connected to the controversial housing. "We're inclined to believe, but we just don't know," said Ruth Markley of 420 Oswego St. Said a woman from her front porch, "Ever since we had that first murder up here, we've been concerned." After the Burghardt killing, police patrols increased, and neighbors were more cautious.

But the fear died off and the neighborhood again was vulnerable. "I told the detective when Bur- ghardt was killed this is just the beginning," Markley said. "It's just what we knew would happen." Since violence has again flared in the neighborhood, children are watching their backs and parents are stepping up their vigil over their children. Doris Solman, 17, lives at E. Gordon and Maxwell streets and said she's being more cautious walking home from school.

"I'm still scared," she said. "I won't keep my windows open any more." David Schwab carried The Morning Call since he was in seventh grade until Schmoyer took over his route 3's weeks ago. "That state hospital really bothers me, it really does," said Schwab, 18. "They do put a scare on you." "I look at it as this might have been me," he said. The State Hospital was immediately considered in investigations of both murders but Steinberg said no hospital patients are involved.

Steinberg, too, said he is fearful that neighbors could overreact if they believe there is a killer roam- car similar to this one in Morning Call carrier Charlotte improving, and her teachers said she was "blossoming." "She wasn't aces at school, but she was trying," her mother said. Charlotte even won a scholarship recently for fundamentals in English for outstanding work on a computer, her mother said proudly. She made the Dieruff swim in a recent photo A NEIGHBORHOOD WORRIES The murder of Charlotte Schmoyer is second resident within a one block area killed in East Allentown, Charlotte Schmoyer's home Joan Burghardt, murdered in home Charlotte Schmoyer's body found LARRY PRINTZThe Morning Call ing their neighborhood. "I don't want somebody to be harmed," Steinberg said. Agonizing with residents of the neighborhood, Burghardt's parents said yesterday that they remain stunned by their daughter's death and were jolted by the news of Schmoyer's abduction and murder so near to the last tragedy in their lives.

Stanley and Gladys Burghardt were busy trying to repair a radio in their Palmerton home yesterday morning to better follow the latest news breaking on Schmoyer's murder. "We would like to extend our sympathies to them but we know they are going through terrific agony. Someday maybe well be able to share with them our feelings," said Stanley Burghardt. Gladys Burghardt said, "We're still undergoing the agony the not knowing who the killer is." Said her husband, "That has haunted us." team as a freshman, and even coached some beginners at Harrison Morton. Her mother said she was disappointed at not earning enough points for her varsity letter this year.

Charlotte Schmoyer did earn a letter through band, and she had planned to switch to majorette next year. When she didn't return to work a second summer at Dorney Park because they changed the age requirements, Charlotte Schmoyer took up her Morning Call paper route, her mother said. "She was really proud to be able to earn some money," Karen Schmoyer said. "She saved almost every cent she made." She planned to buy her varsity jacket next year and go on a trip with the school band. At church, the teen was a greeter and acolyte, or someone who lights candles.

Among her parents' memories will be videos of Charlotte Schmoyer's annual plays with the church youth group. Charlotte Schmoyer, with her NEIGHBORS Continued From Page A1 dence that the women's murders are linked. On the other hand, Steinberg said, police are pursuing leads along those lines. "Obviously, we're now looking at that in comparison to this. We would be foolish if we weren't looking at any connection between the two," Steinberg said.

Burghardt, 29, was found beaten to death in her rented first floor apartment Aug. 9. She was struck in the head more than 30 times with an unknown object. Schmoyer, 15, was a freshman at Dieruff High School and a newspaper carrier Burghardt for The Morning Call. She was abducted from her newspaper route early Wednesday and found dead, stabbed 22 times, under tree stumps and debris off a densely wooded trail at the East Side Reservoir near E.

Union and S. Hal-stead streets. Investigators remain mum on whether or not either woman was sexually assaulted, even though forensic evidence has been collected to determine that. In the case of Burghardt, testing has been completed for months but police will not reveal the results. Several people interviewed in connection with Burghardt's murder said yesterday that police informed them Burghardt was raped.

Steinberg said DNA testing was performed on samples taken from Burghardt and a man suspected in her murder but the suspect was cleared when results returned negative. Now, Steinberg said DNA tests are being performed to determine whether there is one killer in the two murders. Allentown police are seeking a connection with the killing of Schmoyer. He was glad the tragic news was kept from him until his arrival. "I don't think I could have handled it," he said.

In recent years, Charlotte Schmoyer was making headway against a learning disability that affected her hand-eye coordination and her ability to compute information. Her grades in school were rWWPWWIilUj.IW,lll ''''-1T1 ito'fV Mother says slain daughter was like my best friend' wfiimiiii h. Pnntini ipH Fmm Pane A1 Continued From Page A1 well. What more could we have asked for? More time, I guess." Perched on the edge of a sofa inside the door of her home at 432 Oswego Karen Schmoyer found some comfort in the family members and her minister who surrounded her as she recalled her daughter. "It's so hard to sum her whole life up in a few words," she said.

Charlotte was the Schmoyers' only child for 10 years. She leaves behind a sister, Andrea, 5, and a brother, Bill, 3. She was like a second mother and never minded lending a hand in the care of the little ones, her mother said. Karen Schmoyer said her.