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Pag 22 THE I IAN A POLIS NEWS Friday, Qctob-r 21, 1977 Police Sift Through Tips In Ann Harmeier Death found Oct. 7, in a stream near Cambridge, Ohio. She is believed to have been sexually assaulted and strangled with her own jumpsuit. Indiana State Police have been in telephone communication with FBI Agent Wally Grossmon of El Paso concerning Mazer, who may be returned to Cambridge, Ohio, next week if he waives extradition. It has been reported that Mazer's attorneys have refused to allow police to query him about Miss Harmeier's death.

Indiana State Police have declined to talk of the possible connection of Mazer to the death of Miss Harmeier despite the report that evidence found at the scene may point to him. It has been reported that Mazer was carrying a map of the Martinsville, area when he was arrested. "We have gathered everything available," Sgt. Gastineau said, "and there is still not very much to go on." Funeral services for Miss Harmeier will be tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in the United Presbyterian Church at Cambridge City.

T.Wv1nM;;: KM 7 t' suui 'LrJLsH' messssa-l By BILL POTMAN TM New IMItM-tKofflllvttM tureen BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Indiana State Police continued their check of known sex offenders in a three-county area and sifted through dozens of telephoned tips today in their search for the killer of Ann Harmeier. "Public response has been terrific," said Sgt. Gene Gastineau. "We are getting all kinds of calls from people who travel Ind.

37 and may have seen Miss Harmeier near her car. "Hopefully from them we may get something," he said. Police have returned to the cornfield near Martinsville where Miss Harmeier, 20, an Indiana University theater student, was found strangled last Tuesday- She had disappeared Sept. 12 after her car broke down about 2 miles north of Martinsville on Ind. 37.

Police technicians have sifted the ground for evidence where her body was found. Narrow tire tracks in the sod waterway leading to the death scene had been in place too long to reveal the tread pattern, but other evidence was found which may provide a link to the slayer. Sgt. Gastineau said yesterday that the investigation, for the time being, is being concentrated in Morgan County, zair mm mfcjUL- 11 1 The NfWS Photo, Rower llrcMleM AIRING PLANNED MONDAY James Vinton climbs aboard his bright yellow caboose near Mooresville, Need Place To Rest Your Old Caboose? Try Vinton BENEFIT FOR DEPOT Special te The Newt LEITERS FORD, Ind. A benefit basketball game, starring members of the 1950 Richland Center and Lei-ters Ford high school teams will be tomorrow at 8 p.m.

in the Leiters Ford gymnasium. Proceeds from the game will be used to repair the Leiters Ford depot museum. The Fulton County Historical Society was given the depot last July and has since opened it as a railroad museum. The freight room will become the Aubbeenaubbee Township history room The depot needs exterior paint, a furnace, new roof and paneling in the freight room. The 1950 coaches, Paul Rockwell, Richland Center, and Shyrl Bolan-der, Leiters Ford, will return coach the two teams.

White River Region's Planning Questioned Homilloq I Suburban Henry LHendrick(Morion JHancock IPutnoml I News and that no plans have been laid to travel to El Paso, where a 23-year-old man has been linked to three other slayings in the eastern United States. Sgt. Gastineau said yesterday, however, that the El Paso suspect provides "a reasonable lead" although as far as the Indiana State Police are concerned, he said, it is only hearsay. Being held in El Paso is Joseph Mazer, Portland, who has told police there he killed Debra Ann Mayer, 18, Mechanicsburg, Pa. When arrested in El Paso, Mazer was driving Miss Mayer's car, a light green Pinto.

Miss Mayer was reported missing Sept. 12, the same day, Miss Harmeier disappeared, and her body later was sions according tohe (Johnson County) master plan or are you aiming to use the state statute," McCarty asked. State law which governs county plan commissions includes a provision which would allow accessibility of utility, highway, recreational and educational facilities to be considered when subdivision plans are reviewed. The county master plan makes no such stipulations. Martin Price, chairman of the plan commission, replied that "each plan is handled on its own merits, but we do use the master plan as a guideline." "We're getting in trouble in White River Township," McCarty said, "and if you don't use something other than the master plan, we're just going to get worse.

"I don't know whether you're trying to drive us out of farming or if you're concerned about the growth of White River Township," he said. "It's pretty hard to turn down any subdivision on account of growth We're not trying to stop it. We just want to slow it down some to where it takes like eight years to get it developed," McCarty said. McCarty, a former member of the plan commission who helped write the master plan, told the commission members the plan was made without consideration of future growth patterns. "When I sat on the plan commission," he said, "I did a bad job." iMont- trrz a omen Cj Decatur onroelBrowii IBarrho- I lomew just off Ind.

67 south of Mooresville near Kelly's Airfield. "It's going to deteriorate setting out there in the field," said Vinton. "I don't have room in my own yard for it. It would be great to have it parked next to the house and have a way to walk into it from the family room. There just isn't enough room." Vinton, a member of Rail Fans of Indianapolis, said he acquired the caboose about two years ago.

"I made several trips out of state looking for a caboose. I even went to the railroad yards at Altoona, on a tip, but they did not have exactly what I wanted," he said. cS "Then I heard the 4 yards out on Belmont had a caboose," Vinton said. "In fact they had three wooden cabooses. They were restoring one to put back on the line and I understand they gave one to a Boy Scout camp." "I got the third caboose," he said.

"It had some damage on one end and the railroad decided not to repair it." contacted a local trucking firm and the caboose was moved to its present location on a lowboy," he said. "We had to go around one low bridge on the Shelby Coroner Post To Be Filled Nov. 1 way. After we got around it we had no -trouble." Vinton replaced all the windows, in- stalled an air conditioner and put in carpeting. He also added electric lights heat.

"Nothing was stripped from the caboose and it has been painted inside and outside. Its identification numbers and symbols are still -attached to the outside," he said. "A fellow in Mooresville helped me -get the caboose up on two rails," Vinton said. "After all the work was done we started a gift shop in it. We called it -The Loose Caboose.

My daughter, Vicki, was the manager." During the past six months it has been used as a bait shop. "Other than the signs advertising the bait shop it is still pretty much original," he said. "It -was designed to sleep four and the coal stove is still in it." Looking up at the cupola, Vinton -said, "I like to climb up there to just sit and think. I wonder how many brake- -men and conductors have sat up there." "However, due to circumstances, I have to part with it," said Vinton. "I I would like to trade for aQ antique car.

I can get a car in my garage. The caboose just won't fit." vour favorite store Fall Pooled Greenwood To Fix Intersection Special to The SHELBYVILLE, Ind. The Shelby County Republican Central Committee will meet Nov. 1 to elect a county coroner providing declarations of candidacy for the job are filed in time. Shelby County has been without' a coroner since the Sept.

17 death of Dr. William L. Green. Under provisions of a new Indiana law, the precinct committeemen must elect an individual to fill the vacant office. The law reads that within 30 days following the death of an office holder, the county chairman of "the political party with which the deceased public official was a member must call a meeting of the precinct committeemen HIGHLIGHTS Supreme Court will be asked to name a special judge to decide if Hendricks County must pay a Circuit Court employe a salary higher than approved by the county council.

Judge Richard Groover last week ordered the county to increase the 1978 salary of William Berzenye, the court's probation officer. The council earlier this week voted to fight the mandate. Judge Groover ordered the county to pay Berzenye $14,125. The council had approved $11,140. In adopting the 1978 court budget the council gave Berzenye a 10 percent increase over the amount appropriated for this year, $10,128, Groover issued a mandate last year ordering the county to pay the proba- SoKiil To The New TRAFALGAR, Ind.

The Johnson County Plan Commission and the Johnson County Commissioners will meet with a group of White River Township residents at p.m. Monday at Center Grove Eleme-nary School to discuss school and traffic problems caused by rapid growth in the area. The special meeting was scheduled last week after Mark McCarty, president of the Farmers of White River Township, met with the plan commission. McCarty appeared before the plan commission to ask how the commission plans to deal with future subdivision proposals in the township. Are you aiming to pass all subdivi- Hillocks To Mark 50th Anniversary Mr.

and Mrs. Cecil Hillock Special la The Newt WHITESTOWN, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hillock will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.

at their home. Hillock and his wife, Lena, were married Oct. 25, 1927 at Flackville. They are the parents of one daughter, Mrs. Jack Crane, and have two grandchildren.

Queen At ISU Special to The Newt TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Julie Bennett, an Evansville senior, was chosen last night as Indiana State University's 1977 homecoming queen. She will appear Saturday morning in the annual Blue and White homecoming parade' through the streets of Terre Haute. David Mann, a Terre Haute senior, was named bachelor of the year. Budding Royalty By RODGER BIRCHFIELD Staff Reporter MOORESVILLE, Ind.

If you are looking for a conversation piece for the back yard see James Vinton of Mooresville. He can put you on the right track. Vinton has a wooden 1928 Baltimore Ohio Railroad caboose. "I hate to get rid of it but I have no place to keep it." The caboose is now on a tract of land of that party to fill the vacancy. The commiteemen have held one meeting.

At that time it was understood a Shelbyville physician had agreed to take the post. However, no required declaration of candidacy form had been filed with J. Lee McNeely, chairman of the GOP Central Committee. 1 Since the earlier meeting two physicians have indicated they would take the job and candidacy forms were sent to them. McNeely said two non-medical individuals also have picked up declaration forms.

McNeely said he believes the county coroner should be a member of the medical profession. tion officer $13,200 this year. The council did not appeal the mandate last year. The judge told the council that without the latest mandate, Berzenye would be paid less than what he now receives. Resolution OKd The Beech Grove City Council has approved a resolution to repeal the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board's reduction of the city's budget and heard from residents objecting to parking -restrictions on 13th Avenue.

Mayor Elton Geshwiler said the council passed a $1,463,872 budget for 1978, but the adjustment board slashed $38,000. "We shall appeal it," he said. The council has tabled for futher study a proposal from the Beech Grove Traffic Safety Comission to restrict parking to one side of 13th Avenue from Southern to Albany. "We had an overwhelming response from the neighborhood. They asked us not to accept the recommendation," the mayor said.

Forum On Death Special la The Newt DANVILLE, Ind. A forum on death education, sponsored by the Hendricks County Mental Health Association, will be Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Danville High School auditorium. A film, titled "A Time of Death," will be used as a catalyst for discussion groups. Guns, Tools Taken SpWCtol to The Nmvs PLAINFIELD, Ind.

Two guns and tools were reported taken from a trucking firm garage south of Plainfield today. Patrolman Dan Lowery, who was off duty, said he found a door forced open at Carmichael Trucking near 1-70 and County Road 725E at 3 a.m. A tackle box and 12 fishing tackles also were missing along with two 22 caliber pistols and the tools. Lowery said the burglars apparently fled the area in a car that was left parked alongside 1-70. Several tools from the garage were found alongside the highway.

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Plans call for the eventual addition of a traffic signal to the intersection. The project is being undertaken jointly by Greenwood and Indianapolis. New Judge Asked Special to The Newt DANVILLE, Ind. The Indiana We want to be CDCn TOOLS WITH Model ftl416 I '1 IllWIp. BOTH UPRIGHTS IOr.

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1 1 NEW MARKET, Ind. One of these six candidates will be crowned Southmont High School homecoming queen tonight at halftime of the Southmont-Seeger football game. Candidates are, left to right, Audrey Bowman, Rita Surface, Charlesa Gentry, Dru Shake, Donna Hultz and Brenda Barnes. Southmont's football team has a 7-1 record, Seeger is 8-0. Photo by Greg Hess.

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