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ANYONE? Clear, not so cold tonight, low in mid-40s. Sunny tomorrow, high near 70. Page SI. INDIANA HOME "Where It Spirit of it Lord Jhr Libtrty." Cor. 3-17 THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1977 cfjZj 108th YEAR I DoUwod by Motor RotMo Mo Pn Wook Thursday Vrtil UlAklT A A ClAA Dr DEPLETION 1 WiMTER'SCOMlM' ALLOWANCE AND DA RUNNIN' THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS 1 1 OM 1 work.

Stoppage i ft Qss-Schools I- Quips The oil companies have made their point. Even the kids are asking for a depletion allowance. 1 Teachers met at a rally at the Hilton U. Brown Theater on the Butler University campus today. At 9 a.m., Wood, Howe and Attucks were the only IPS high schools that had not dismissed their students.

The Day Adult High School also remained open. The dismissal of students at Tech High School created a traffic problem and Indianapolis Police Department motorcycle patrolmen were sent to the area. Police reported large numbers of students milling around the campus. Patrolmen were advised to go the high schools in their sectors to help avoid disturbances. Several students at closed schools remained in the buildings until the regular dismissal time today.

School officials said all students without adult supervision at home were kept in the schools. The remaining stu By DIANE FREDERICK A successful work stoppage by Indianapolis Public Schools teachers, which forced eight high schools and several elementary schools to dismiss students before 9 a.m. today, will not be repeated tomorrow, a teachers association spokesman said. S. Dean Brown, UniServ executive director for the Indianapolis Education Association, said, "There are no further plans for anything to happen tomorrow or in the near future.

We're sending the (School) Board the message through this demonstration to see if we can get a contract resolved." A majority of the Indianapolis teachers took "personal business leave" today in an attempt to force a settlement in the teachers contract dispute between the IEA and the School Board. dents, were supervised by substitute teachers, staff members and regular teachers who did not participate in the work stoppage. According to an unconfirmed report, only one teacher reported at a North eastside elementary school today. The teacher already had used her three allowed personal business leave days. At 9:10 a.m., students at the the following schools had been dismissed: School 21, Junior high and bus riders.

School 33. School 39. School 46, junior high only. School 52, junior high only. School 53, junior high only.

School (0. School (4. School 82, junior high only. Continued On Page 8 ft wyr- ii yy 'Korea Envelopes With Bills' await verdict outside courtroom Kiritsis (right), attorney Richard Kiefer 'Far From (iritsis Jury Says By RICHARD LERNER WASHINGTON (UPI) The first formal testimony and evidence presented to the House Ethics Committee links Korea's diplomats, its CIA agents and its president, Park Chung Hee, to influence-buying efforts on Capitol Hill. But the naming of erring congressmen may be months away.

With special counsel Leon Jaworski directing yesterday's opening session, the panel heard three witnesses de- a covert lobbying operation that included envelopes full of $100 bills, secret letters and strategy meetings and a raft of code names for participants. Kim Sang Keun, a former Korean CIA agent, was asked to testify again today at the second round of hearings after saying his boss in Seoul sent him letters in 1974 with word that "the chief priest" knew of the clandestine ac-' tivities and "the Patriarch has expressed his satisfaction." Kim said he was told those were code names for the South Korean president. In almost four hours of testimony yesterday, a crowd of several hundred persons in the huge hearing room and an audience watching on public television were shown that the investigators By JOE JARVIS The seven men and the five women of the Anthony Kiritsis trial jury went back to the Columbia Club last night after reporting they were "far from a decision" with orders to resume deliberations today. Plans announced by Judge Michael Dugan at 11 p.m. called for the four alternate jurors to remain at the club while the jurors return to the jury room behind Superior Court 5 where the 212-week trial of the 45-year-old defendant was held.

The jury foreman notified Dugan in a handwritten note about 10:30 p.m., roughly nine hours after the jury received the case, of its failure to make much progress. It was the -third note sent by the foreman to the judge. The first sought transcripts of pretrial hearings and an opportunity to see again the video tapes of Kiritsis as he marched Richard Hall, president of Meridian Mortgage from his office at 129 E. Market to Senate and West Washington. Decision Dugan denied the request for the transcripts as well as a snowing of the video tapes.

About an hour before asking to be allowed to quit for the evening, the jury foreman requested instructions on reasonable doubt. Court procedure does not permit the judge to single out and read to the jury one instruction but he may read all of the instructions. Anticipating there would be no occasion for the jury to return to the courtroom before reaching a verdicts Dugan had allowed radio and television stations to set up equipment. Dugan conferred for some time with attorneys representing the state and the defense and finally decided to send the instructions into the jury room for the jurors to read themselves. The request to quit for the evening came in before that had been done.

Then Dugan realized it would be necessary to take the jury members into the courtroom to admonish them on the record and in the presence of Kiritsis Continued On Page 8 Presbyterian Church where the coed was to have preached a sermon Sept. 25. Miss Harmeier, a junior at I.U., was a theater and drama major who maintained an A-average in her studies and was characterized as cheerful, cooperative and conscientious by her professors and classmates. "Terrible, terrible," said R. Keith Michael, chairman of the Theater Department, yesterday.

"This is a gloomy place and the students wanted to do something that is not garish, but tells the public they remember Ann. "The trouble is that people think this is over; this is the end of it," Michael said. "But it is not over until they get the man who did it. People may say he is sick, and I am sure he must be, but the issue is that someone is dead," But the odds are slim that Miss Harmeier's killer will be found, although an investigation is being pressed Continued on Page 8 U.S. Jetliner Hijacked I.U.

Students Mourn; Stunned By Murder The meek shall inherit the earth. By that time all the gas and oil will be gone. Junk mail to some congressmen is an envelope from Korea with less than a $100 bill in it. Now that the World Series is over, Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Thur-man Munson and Lou Piniella will open a chain of friendship development clinics across the country. Each New York players will get a $32,000 series check.

And each had a message from his hometown banker yesterday, "Yankee Come Home." Some teachers took a personal leave day today. They couldn't very well say they were sick since they've been in a room full of pills the last six weeks. Wendell Trogdon Remember It? Tomorrow is expected to be reminiscent of summer with sunny skies and warm temperatures gracing the state. The National Weather Service predicts clear skies and not so cold temperatures tonight and sunny and warm conditions tomorrow. Tonight's low should be in the mid-40s with a high tomorrow near 70.

The weekend forecast is for highs Saturday in the 60s to mid-70s and in the 60s on Sunday and Monday. Lows should be in the 40s. There is a chance of rain Sunday, the weather service said. Areas throughout the state reported fog this morning. At Muncie, the weather service, said visibility was zero miles at 7 a.m.

South Bend, Evansville and Terre Haute also reported fog. In Indianapolis, the fog was fairly light on the Eastside and intensified in the downtown area A weather service spokesman said the fog was especially heavy in low-lying areas. It dissipated about mid-morning. Now You Know By Unitttf Prtu InMrtiationil The highest tribute a Tibetan man can pay his dead father is to fashion a trumpet out of his father's thighbone. Gossip A number of Indiana University VIP football supporters found the weather rather miserable last Saturday afternoon.

Their alternative? Refuge in the lounge under the stadium where you can go if you support the athletic program with $1,000 yearly. There they found closed circuit television of the game along with a handy drink. Page 32 IN THE NEWS Pages Pages 28-29 Obituaries 39 23 Pictures 22 38-39 Sports 31-37 30 Suburban 24 1 TV-Radio 25 52 Weather 51 18-21 Want Ads 41-51 The Arts Bridge Business Comics Editorial Herman Living The NEWS Phone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Circulation 633-9211 Wants Ads 633-1212 clearly was carried out "at least in part." The first witnesses, working from a photograph, identified former Ambas- sador Kim Dong Jo as the man who brought an envelope holding "an inch high" stack of $100 bills to Rep. Larry Winn, in 1972 and returned for the money after the apparent bribe was rejected. Kim Dong Jo now is President Park's assistant for foreign affairs.

His past role as an apparent "bagman" in scandal was related by Winn's secretary, Nan Elder, and Jai Hyon Lee, a former information minister at Korea's Washington embassy. Lee recalled a time when the ambassador, carrying about two dozen plain white envelopes loaded with $100 bills, left the embassy saying he was going to the Capitol. And he said he once saw a letter in which President Park told the ambassador not to "quarrel" with Tongsun Park and to "give him good cooperation." Tongsun Park, the wealthy rice dealer now in Seoul and refusing to testify, is under a 36-count indictment on charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering and mail fraud. He is said to be the central figure in the plaa was in trouble when the pilot radioed there was a man in the cockpit and "we're going to Kansas City for fuel." The plane landed in Kansas City about an hour later. Larry Bishop, a Frontier spokesman in Denver, said 30 passengers and five crew members already were aboard the plane at Hall County Airport at Grand Island when the hijacker pushed through a security check and forced his way aboard.

The flight, No. 101, normally originates in Grand Island, then flies east to Lincoln and Omaha before heading west to Denver. There has been only one successful hijacking of a U.S. airliner since Nov. 10, 1972, according to the FAA.

The FAA said there were 24 successful hijackings of foreign air carriers' between November 1972 and April 1977. The most recent major U.S. hijacking involved a TWA jetliner taken over by five Creation nationalists last September while on a flight from Chicago to New York. The plane finally landed in Paris and the nearly 60 hostages were released. The hijackers were sentenced to terms ranging from 30 years to life in prison.

Hamilton out. Hamilton runs so strongly in his district that he was not opposed in 1976, the first time that has happened to any Indiana congressman in 150 years. In 1974, when he last had opposition, he won by 69,767 votes. He was first elected to Congress in 1964. Jacobs, who also was elected in 1964 from his Marion County district, won by 41,066 votes in 1976.

Jacobs missed one term, losing to William H. Hudnut, now mayor of Indianapolis, in 1972, but defeated Hudnut in a 1974 comeback. Hamilton's district, the largest geo-' Continued on Page 8 'A 1 1 v. KANSAS CITY (AP) A man carrying a sawed-off shotgun hijacked a Frontier Airline Boeing 737 jetliner at a Nebraska airport today with about 35 persons aboard and forced it to fly to Kansas City and then take off again for Atlanta, authorities said. FBI spokesman Bill Williams said that while on the ground in Kansas City the hijacker released unharmed all women and children passengers and one male passenger, keeping as hostages two male crewmen, two stewar-deses and 11 male passengers.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane took off from Kansas City and was due to cover the 600 miles distance to Atlanta in about one hour and 20 minutes. The FBI in Kansas City said the hijacker, identified as Thomas Harmon, of Grand Island, demanded $3 million, two parachutes, two machine guns, two pistols and the release of a Federal bank robbery suspect being held in an Atlanta jail. "We tried everything you people can think of to persuade Harmon to give up," Williams said. "We tried everything. He was very calm, very cool, but very determined." The FBI said Alvin Feldman, presi Nan Elder Testifies At Probe had found a highly complicated scheme stretching back to the 1960s.

"the aim evidently was to gain favorable U.S. military and economic policy for Korea, and Jaworski said the plan dent of Frontier Airlines, guaranteed the hijacker that the $3 million would be waiting for him in Atlanta. Williams said a high school friend of Harmon's who was on board the plane by chance tried in vain to get him to give up when he commandeered it at the Hall County Airport in Grand Is- land, Neb. A spokesman for the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta said he had been notified the hijacker sought the release of George David Stewart, 29, of Mobile, who had been held there since he was arrested along with Harmon last month on Federal charges of holding up a Georgia bank. It was not immediately clear why Hannon was not being held on that charge.

The jail spokesman said that shortly before the plane took off from Kansas City, Federal marshals picked Stewart up at the jail and drove him to an undisclosed location. The Federal Aviation Administration in Washington said there may have been more than one hijacker when the plane, Flight 101, was commandeered at the Hall County Airport at Grand Island, Neb. An FAA spokesman in Washington said the agency first learned the plane Lugar Jacobs By BILL PITTMAN Ttw Hmt IntfiaiM-MoMiimtM lurvw BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Black crepe drapes the big red banners that mark the Indiana University theater. In this simple way fellow students mourn the death of Ann Louise Har-meier, 20, whose body was found in a cornfield near Martinsville Monday, five weeks to the day since her disappearance.

Positive identification was made in an autopsy yesterday by Dr. Josefinoc Aguilar, an Indianapolis pathologist, at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis. Miss Harmeier had been strangled. Meanwhile, authorities studied files on known sex offenders today in their hunt for Miss Harmeier's killer. A contingent of students and faculty, including the advisory board of the I.U.

Theater Department, will attend services for Miss Harmeier at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Cambridge City United Help Wanted: See Lugar Harmeier Death: New Chapter In Old Story By EDWARD ZIEGNER Political Editor Sen. Richard Lugar, today confirmed he has been "as active as anyone has been" in trying to recruit GOP candidates to run against Democratic Congressmen Lee Hamilton in the 9th District and Andrew Jacobs Jr. in the 11th. But he isn't doing that, Lugar added, because he fears Hamilton or Jacobs as a possible opponent when he runs for re-election in 1982.

And he said reports Republicans are trying to raise $250,000 to try to beat Jacobs and $150,000 to try to beat Hamilton next year are groundless, and that money was not discussed in any recruitment efforts of his. Lugar said last summer he talked with Harry Gonso, Indianapolis attorney and quarterback on the 1967 Indiana University team that went to the Rose Bowl, about opposing Jacobs in 1978 but "he does not have an interest in running for the 11th District this time, although he may be interested in public life in due course Jacobs, in Washington, said he already had taken himself out of any 1982 members of the door-to-door sales team that had driven to Martinsville from Indianapolis. A Martinsville man was questioned in the case, but was later cleared by a polygraph test. Another Morgan County abduction-murder case that remains open is that of Cheryl Ann Bolin, 11. The rural Monrovia girl was last seen Aug.

19, 1975, when she left a girlfriend's house and headed home on her bicycle. The bicycle was found later and, in March, 1976, the girl's skeletal remains were found on a farm in southern Vigo County. In a case similar to that of Miss Harmeier's murder, authorities are still seeking a suspect in the slaying May 5 of Purdue University coed Kristine Kozik. Miss Kozik, 19, Downers Grove, 111., disappeared after she left her sorority house on the Purdue campus to visit a friend. Continued On Page 8 By JOHN FLORA With the discovery and identification this week of the body of missing Indiana University coed Ann Louise Harmeier, State Police seeking her killer are faced-with a type of investigation which could drag on for months or years.

The pattern is a familiar one a young woman, traveling alone, is slain. Her body is often dumped in an isolated rural area to be discovered days later and in a condition which yields few clues. Several similar cases, some dating back nearly a decade, are still unsolved by Indiana lawmen. The 20-year-old I.U. theater student was abducted from her disabled car northeast of Martinsville on Sept.

12 just four days before the ninth anniversary of the still-unsolved slaying of a pretty black encyclopedia salesgirl in Martinsville. Carol Jenkins, 21, Rushville, was stabbed to death on a rainy night as she walked toward a rendezvous with other race for the U.S. Senate. Hamilton couldn't be reached for comment. Jacobs said: "I tend to practice what Sen.

Lugar preaches and I knew that when I opposed and refused the unconscionable congressional pay raise and Sen. Lugar supported and pocketed it, Sen. Lugar was embarrassed, but I didn't realize he was this embarrassed." If Lugar isn't looking toward the 1982 election, Jacobs added, it seems peculiar that he and Hamilton, most mentioned as likely opponents, are singled Ji 1 1.

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