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pi The J4ES Home Newspaper the Calumet Region 71st Year No. 105 Wednesday, October 19, 1977 5 Sections 68 Pages 15e illionaire Kille THE TIMES TODAY omb in fl -in A ri Hi ot debris flying for 150 feet Car 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. In 1964, two men were convicted in the same court on charges of attempting to extort $60,000 from Ryan.

Ryan testified during the trial of Marshall Caifano of Chicago and Charles Delmonico of Miami Beach, they threatened to kidnap him unless he paid them the money annually. The men said the money was a gambling debt. The larger lady had her day at the first national exhibit for fat women in Angeles. Designer Nancy Austin, designs clothes for larger women, models one of her creations. Story.

Page 18. Teachers The Times at a Glance 2 Hammond plagued by lack of renewal bidders 19 German terrorist's lavcyer hints of murder 18 Classified Comics Editorial Family Local 34-41 42-43 16-17 32 19 Obituaries Sargent Sports Theater TV 24 52 45-51 51 22 NEAR PERFECT Pleasant (all weather will continue in the Calumet Region Thursday. Skies will be sunny with an expected high near 68. It will be fair tonight with a low near 37. Showers are expected Friday.

Weather map and national temperatures on Page 18. AIR QUALITY SULPHUR DIOXIDE .020 parts per million. Danger level is .14. OZONE .010 parts per million. Alert level is .10.

Want Ads: WE 2-8200 Hours: 8 a.m.- 7:4.5 p.m. All Other Calls: WE 2-3100 Circulation: 8 a.m.-7:S0 p.m. 3rd Set Fire Hits In Cal City CALUMET CITY Arsonists attempted to burn the office of Calumet Ready-Mix today. It was the third Burnham-Calumet City torching in two days. Fire Chief Julian Swiderski said the invaders broke a window of the company office on Burnham Avenue at the Burnham Avenue Bridge and set fire to papers on a desk.

The fire was discovered by an employe at 7: 15 a.m. The State Lumber 532 State Calumet City, burned Monday night. Swiderski said arsonists are being blamed for that fire, which destroyed all the stored lumber of the business. Damage has been estimated at between $60,000 and $70,000. The Burnham Police Department office was set on fire early Tuesday.

Firemen said the arsonists poured gasoline through basement windows to start the fire that destroyed the communications room and police records. Chief Edward Lawhead said all possible angles are being investigated, but no arrests have been made. His department is handling its own calls, again, after Illinois Bell installed emergency phone lines. Fire department calls are also being At Lake Central contract talks "went well" according to both LCTA President Ron Graham and Superintendent Don Guilford. Graham said, "If things didn't go More Teachers 2, 19 ell we'd have had to take some kind of action.

Everything hinged on last night." And though talks went well, Graham says the Lake Central Teachers Association will begin i AA I i hi' 4 i 'L EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -Millionaire Ray Ryan was killed Tuesday when a bomb ripped apart his luxury automobile. Ryan, 72, apparently was murdered by professionals who rigged a bomb to the car, said Frank Cook, a local officer of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He said there were no suspects. The explosion in the parking lot of a health spa 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 halting electric service three hours to a section of Evansville's east side and a part of neighboring Warrick County. Ryan acquired his wealth in the oil business and later owned a resort at Palm Springs, and a gambling casino in Las Vegas. He also had joint ownership with film actor William Holden in the Mt. Kenya 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 bomb was detonated by remote control or set off when Ryan got into the Lincoln Continental. Two spa members were the first to studying tactics used by Merrillville teachers in negotiating. Merrillville tea.chers reached an impasse in contract talks and have openly boycotted school open houses and manned "informational" picket lines. Graham said, "Last night the board wasn't prepared. We had different union officers due to an election turnover.

We reaffirmed our position on salaries because we didn't think the (Continued Back Page This Section) McCambridge and Eberly proposed several months ago to triple Jacob's salary and for him to assume a position similiar to that of the town manager but ith no more authority than the other two trustees. The proposal was opposed by a group of taxpayers and petitions signed by 350 residents were submitted to county tax authorities objecting to the salary increase. Some residents recommended the board be expanded to five trustees to spread the work load while others said Jacobs was "inexperienced." Jacobs told the Times earlier Monday that he had already reached a decision and had informed the other two trustees he would not accept the position they had offered him. "It was my proposal to begin with I didn't ask for it they asked me Continued Back Page This Section Charll Charming Rebel -fitt4 reach Ryan, found face down with his feet under the car on the driver's side. They pulled him away from the burning wreckage.

He was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead. Parts of the car were blown 150 feet. Ryan recently filed suit in U.S. Tax Court in Washington, protesting assessment 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 Ryan's income was derived in part from many foreign sources, including gambling proceeds. In 1970, a California judge sentenced Ryan to three years in prison Plenty Of Material MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) A body found in a cornfield has been tentatively identified as that of a missing Indiana University coed. Well-wishers surrounded Britain's Prince Charles in Chicago.

The charming, witty prince was honored today with the kind of welcome that only Chicago provides. Story, Page 18. f. KA- 1- Coed Ml Los who Dyer Board President Ousted by Trustees Lethal explosion sent By MICHAEL TOMPKINS Times Staff Writer Teacher turbulence continued in south Lake County Tuesday night. While Lake Central teachers and administrators met for crucial contract talks, Lowell teachers and administrators prepared for negotiations tonight.

Merrillville teachers were inactive, although Merrillville Classroom Teachers Association president Doris Baker maintained a "vigil" at the school board meeting. PR1SONSITE BATTLE ENDS SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) Gov. James R. Thompson today selected Centralia and Hillsboro as the sites for two medium security prison.

Two dozen communities had competed for the institutions. Ford Blase Routs 1,800 CHICAGO HEIGHTS A fire at Ford Motor Company's Chicago Heights stamping plant routed about 1,800 employes today. Some 750 employes on the plant's, day shift were sent home after the fire as extinguished. The fire, Ford officials said, started in the plant's basement at about 11:30 a.m. and damaged a scrap conveyor, which affected-the jobs of the 750 persons.

No one was reported hurt. Other parts of the plant were back in operation by early afternoon. Plant officials hoped to have the conveyor operating again in time for the 3:30 p.m. work shift. The fire was contained by the plant's fire department.

yards in South Holland-Dolton running over the Grand Trunk Western Railway lines over a planned interchange at Munster. The ICC describes the proposed shift as having a "minimal impact" on the two Southeast Cook County communties that would get the rail traffic. Clyde G. Coble, an employe and legislative representative of the engineers union, says the ICC report is based on "information that is erroneous and based on information furnished by representatives of the carriers. So.

ake dSl ouri By SHIRLEY CEARING Times Correspondent DYER Thomas Jacobs was ousted Monday night as town board president. The action by Trustees William McCambridge, Glen Eberly and Clerk Treasurer Mary Ann Brown came during a closed door session. McCambridge was elected to succeed Jacobs. Jacobs said the other three officials decided he was "too abrasive" and was causing too much controversy in Dyer. McCambridge acknowledged to the Times Tuesday that was one of the topics discussed.

"We felt it was time for a change. Tom has done a beautiful job for the town and he's a hard worker," McCambridge said. "Because of my job, I'll have about the same amount of time to devote to the job as Jacobs has been putting in," he said. Jacobs has been working three to five hours a day on town business to keep up with the work load and so that an administrative official would be available during regular business hours. Service Coble says this information favors the application.

"This in our opinion is obtaining information from the fox guarding the hen house," Coble said in a formal letter to the ICC. Coble is also a member of Hammond Rail Relocation Steering Committee. He said the has also cut off all rail shipments and pickups from the Simmons Co. plant in Munster on Oct. 10.

Coble described the curtailment of Continued Back Page This Section) i am She was Ann Louise Harmeier, 20, Cambridge City. An autopy was being performed and fingerprints and dental records were being checked. Morgan County Coroner James Summers said he couldn't determine whether the young woman was slain because the body was so badly decomposed. State police said they found a shoe string and a hairbrush around the young woman's neck, leading them to believe she might have been strangled. The body was found by a farmer harvesting corn five miles from where Miss Harmeier disappeared along Ind.

37 Sept. 12. She was driving to school from her home hen her car conked out. The car, its parking lights blinking, was abandoned two miles north of here. Summers said the body was that of a female about 20 years old and appeared to have been in the field five weeks.

At the scene police found a red shirt, jeans and tennis shoes which they said matched the description of what Miss Harmeier was wearing when last seen. State troopers also said a purse found next to the body contained a paper with Miss Harmeier's name on it and jewelry and other items known to belong to the coed. Plant Loses Rail By THOMAS INKLE Times Staff Writer HAMMOND The Louisville and Nashville Railroad "isn't telling it like it is," according to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The has petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon through service on the old Monon Line running through Hammond and Munster. The petition requests closing of the South Hammond yard.

The railroad says the two through trains a day would be shifted to the 1.