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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS rldoy, March 3, 1978 Pog 18 Police Circulate inpi JI'riMU pin mi I Miiy :.) ZZH CAUTION NEEDED 'War' Gas Kills Many In Homes III LCU 1 1 1 SUBURBAN NEWS TM Ntwi IndlMt-tlMmlitftwi turuu MARTINSVILLE, Ind. Indiana police agencies, armed with a sketch, are seeking a man believed implicated in the murder of Ann Harmeier, the Indiana University coed found slain in a Morgan County cornfield Oct. 18. Morgan County Prosecutor G. Thomas Gray has confirmed that a sketch compiled with the help of a local witness is being circulated by investigators and may be released to the press soon.

The witness said he may have seen the man on Egbert Road the day Miss Harmeier was last seen alive. Her body was found a few yards off that road in the cornfield. She had been strangled. Gray said the witness, whose name he would not reveal, had not come forth with the information, but had been sought out by police. "We have been working with him for some time," Gray said.

"We found him. He didn't think he had any information worthwhile, but as we talked, the things he had to say seemed more important than he had thought." The man depicted in the sketch is white with blond hair, apparently in his 20s, and clean shaven. He is believed to have been driving a compact car at the time he was sighted on Egbert Road. Gray said he wanted to check all police department leads before bringing the public into the hunt. If circulating the sketch to police departments across the state fails to bring forth any concrete leads to the identity of the Hospital Asks Hike In Building Fund Tax IMCM It TO WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.

A poison gas that killed and injured thousands of soldiers on both sides in World War I is still claiming casualties, a Purdue researcher notes, but the battlefield is now the American home instead of the fields of Flanders. Phosgene, explained Professor Roger P. Maickel, is a "sneaky" gas in that it's not Immediately irritating, even in fatal concentrations. It can be produced in borne cleaning chores with basically the same effects it had in the trenches of France. Maickel, bead of the pharmacology and toxicology department in Purdue School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, warned that overzealous homemakers trying to clean a dirty kitchen sink, toilet bowl or bathtub are the most frequent victims of accidental phosgene poisoning.

"They want to do a superjob," Maickel said, "so they add bleach to a household cleaning powder. Put the two together in a bucket and you wind up generating phosgene and you can kill yourself with it." An oxidizing agent in the powdered cleanser combines win calcium hypoch-loride in the bleach to produce a chemical reaction that generates phosgene. Labels Ignored Once inhaled, the gas may cause severe pulmonary edema or pneumonia and may be quickly fatal. There are many common household chemicals that can cause toxic or even fatal effects, Maickel noted. "We tend to associate poisonings with arsenic and old lace, murders and Trail Leads To Arrests Of Theft Suspects Sttclll Tht Ntwi CARMEL, Ind.

A trial of cig-rettes led to the arrest of two men on theft and burglary charges. Trooper Don Shoeff, shift commander at the Pendleton State Police post, heard a report two men were walking College north of 106th about 11 last night. The two were carrying a large amount of cigarettes and were dropping them on the street leaving a trail. Shoeff followed the trail of cigarettes to a house in the 10600 block of N. College where he arrested Arthur Carlisle; 24, of that address, and Richard Russell, 23, 9300 block Barcroft, Indianapolis.

The suspects were taken to the Hamilton County Jail at Noblesville. Shoeff said cigarettes had oeen taken from the Speedway Service Station at 106th and College. He said the station was entered after a window was broken. man, Gray said he would issue the sketch to newspapers across the state. Gray emphasized the subject of the search is not a suspect.

"We just believe he was at the scene. We just want to talk to him." Meanwhile, State Police Det. Jerry Conner will go to Ohio next week to question Joseph Mazur, 23, a vagabond from Oregon, who confessed to the murder of a Pennsylvania woman. Mazur is serving a life sentence in the strangulation slaying that occurred about the time Miss Harmeier died. The Pennsylvania woman's body was found in Ohio, which claimed jurisdiction over Mazur.

State Police have sought to question Mazur since his arrest last fall at a Texas border town. He was driving the compact car belonging to the slain Pennsylvania woman. Miss Harmeier, an honor student at I was reported missing Sept. 13. She was last seen standing beside her car which had broken down on Ind.

37 north of Martinsville. Citizens of her hometown, Cambridge City, mounted an intensive search and have posted rewards for her slayer. David Weston, leader of the Cambridge City group, said he was unaware of the police sketch being circulated, and that there has been no claim to the $10,000 reward. building fund higher than the previous rate. Board President Ivan Dydley said that the hospital has received substantial donations to support expansion and remodeling, but it cannot make long-range plans based on the hopes of donations.

The hospital, he said, needs a 12-year reinstatement of the cumulative building fund for enlargement, construction and equipment. The hospital's previous cumulative building fund tax rate was 10 cents for every $100 of assessed property valuation. The rate yielded about $100,000 a year. The board voted unanimously to seek a 35-cent rate. A rate of 35 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation would put about $375,000 a year into the cumulative building fund.

Board officials said the rate would cost the average individual taxpayer $14.28, compared with about $4 08 on the average tax bill under the 10-cent rate. The board also approved payment of a $3,911 claim for electrical work at the hospital and gave the go-ahead for a $14,153 electrical rewiring program. The program includes modification of the circuits to provide more electrical outlets in patient rooms. The rate also must be approved by the County Council. Turn Wabash Green? TERRE HAUTE, Ind.

(AP) City officials here have granted permission to turn the Wabash River green on St. Patrick's Day. Members of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Terre Haute will dump a harmless green dye into the river as part of the March 17 celebration. Snowball Or Basketball? GREENWOOD, Ind.

Two Johnson County boys play a game of basketball at a Greenwood residence, although it looks like they are almost covered up in snow. Despite the weather and energy when it's tourney time most Hoosiers are thinking basketball. The NEWS Photo, Bob Doeppers. Parking An Issue In Nashville Election Special to Tlw Nw GREENFIELD, Ind. The Hancock County Hospital Board plans to ask the County Commissioners to recommend reinstating the hospital's cumulative Ejks Lodge Fined Over Slot Machines SMCltl to Tht Ntwi NOBLESVILLE, Ind.

The Nobles-ville Elks Lodge was fined $500 and court costs yesterday for possessing slot machine. Special Judge B. William Keithley found the lodge guilty of possession of slot machines after hearing testimony in Hamilton Court. He acquitted the lodge of two other charges of possession of gambling devices. The lodge plans to appeal.

At the trial the prosecution was not allowed to used as evidence any of the confiscated items, including nine working slot machines. Another special judge last July ruled the search warrant used was invalid. Police had to testify from memory about what they had observed. The attorney representing the Elks argued that the mere existence of a roulette wheel, blackjack table, tip boards and other items that were confiscated does not mean they were gambling devices and in violation of the law, as the other two counts alleged. The lodge was acquitted on those charges.

Arvin R. Foland, chief deputy prosecutor, said the slot machines probably will be destroyed by police along with other confiscated items considered to be contraband. rat poisons. What we really ought to think of in terms of poisoning is of anything that can make you sick or kill you," he said. "And.

in any household, there's a whole array of potentially hazardous substances that can have this effect." As prime examples, Maickel offers various cleaning agents, along with such items as paints, solvents and glues and "most all aerosol cans." "People ignore labels. All labels on glues, solvents and paints read, 'Use with adequate Yet, over and over again you see people wind up in the hospital because they painted in a closed room." People should consider what is in the paint they are using before they decide to ignore the warning, Maickel said. "Almost all paints contain volatile solvents things like butyl nitrite, which is becoming a drug of abuse, and toluene, sometimes called toluol, one of the compounds they're worried about concering carcinogenic (cancer-causing) activity in a workplace. They're all easily vaporized." Spray painting, he added, introduces another element of risk. "Take a can of spray paint and paint something small maybe a small shelf.

Then blow your nose with a paper tissue. You'll see little flecks of color on the tissue and that's from your nasal passages en route to your lungs," he said. Spray-on cosmetics also should be eated with respect. Fine Dust Generated "Hair spray, underarm deodorants, athlete's foot preventatives they're all in spray cans and they all generate this fine dust, this aerosol. "And where do we use cosmetics? Usually in a tiny bathroom, very often not or poorly ventilated, and very often it's part of a 10-30-minute procedure during which you're inhaling the stuff continuously What your 're inhaling is a respiratory toxicant," he said.

If it's hair spray, Maickel said, the result can be a coating on the Inside of the lungs. "Used properly quickly, with the ventilating fan on there's probably minimal risk. The key is to use the spray can with caution." There is no question, he said, that the effects of inhaling residual hair spray can be cumulative. "When you expose yourself like this over and over it becomes no different than when the foundry worker is exposed to lead fumes, or(whatever, again and again." it. Use Cash VISA Master Charge Inc.

3 DAYS ONLY Friday, Saturday, Sunday Sofas $20 to $110 Chairs $4 to $30 Sleepers $49 to $118 2-pc. Suites $49 Living Room Tables $5 to $39 SmcIiI Is Tht Ntwt NASHVILLE, Ind. The air in this tourist mecca of Indiana is filled with election-year oratory these days the first time it has been so in 10 years. The community of 600 last elected town officials in 1967. So last November petitions were circulated, and Judge David T.

Woods of Brown Circuit Court decided it was time for an election. The special election will be Tuesday. Candidates from the Citizens Party and the Conservative Party have been conducting "very gentlemanly and ladylike" campaigns for town board seats, according one observer. "It's basically a matter of needing to have an election," said Frank A. "Andy" Rogers, the Conservative Party's candidate for clerk-treasurer.

"We haven't had an election in 10 years. If people are going to have board members represent them, those board members should be elected." Rogers was one of the organizers of the petition drive last year. Nashville was to have had an uncontested election in 1971, but no ballots were cast since only one slate of candi ijrjrmog Gwsg Martinsville Board OKs Teacher Pact dates was presented. Vacancies on the board since then have been filled by appointment. Incumbents are members of the Citizens Party board members Marjorie Tissot, Barbara Zieg and Paul Lehner and clerk-treasurer candidate Becky Bond.

Besides Rogers, the Conservative candidates are Robert M. Simpson, D. Bruce Teggart and John D. Rudd, who are seeking places on the board. The Conservative Party said it is concerned over some actions the town board took last year, such as eliminating parking on one side of Main Street and the making of some alleys into one-way drives, Rogers said.

He also said the party questions the need to form an airport study commission because, they feel "we're just too small a town to maintain an airport." The Citizens Party defended its actions and expressed confidence its candidates will be re-elected. "We're pleased there is an election," said Mrs. Zieg. "The present board has always said it would look forward to one." The contract carries substantia salary raises, is retroactive to Feb. 10, but expires next July 31.

The average increase will range from $301 to $430. "I hope this gets us out of the woods ft least for awhile," Forrest Wildman, administrative aid to Supt. Tracy Dust, said today. Wildman said the vote of the board was unanimous with four of he five members present. John Warden, president of the Martinsville Classroom Teachers Association, had called the contract "a kind of trade-off." The salary scale will range from $9,525 for' a bachelor's degree and no experience to a top of $16,525 for a master's degree and 18 years experience.

Meanwhile, Brown County teachers are expected to ratify a new agreement today, and the school board will vote on it tomorrow. Details of the tentative agreement, reached Wednesday, have not been revealed but negotiator James Gredy said it is a good contract in economic terms. There was a compromise made on the subject of after-school hours which had been a major stumbling block in FURNITURE RENTAL BOUGHT OUT Swingles Furniture a lull i if v. All Sales Final Rental, YOU SAVE this weekend only Must clear the Warehouse You Save on Rental Return Furniture Hurry for best Selection Tht Ntwt lnditFU.lttfnlnflttii BurMu MARTINSVILLE, Ind. In unanimous action, the Martinsville School Board last night approved a contract with teachers in the Metropolitan School District.

The contract earlier had been accepted in a 95-5 vote of the teachers. Animal Shelter 'Dirty, Disgusting' Sptcttl tt Tht Ntwi LEBANON, Ind. The president of the Indiana Federation of Humane Societies has threatened court action against the Boone County Humane Society over alleged unsanitary conditions at the society-ni animal shelter here. Alan Thomas said he inspected the shelter here last week and found it to be "dirty, disgusting and inhumane." He said if officials of the tcounty humane society do not meet with him before Monday to discuss ways of improving conditions at the shelter, he will take the matter to the county prosecutor and ask that the society be charged with violation of Indiana's an-ticruelty laws. No More Siren Wayne Township Fire Department Company 9 has discontinued the use of the station's outside siren from 9 p.m.

to 7 Dr. James Dillon, chief fire officer of Company 9, 7606 W. 10th, said the big Civil Defense siren will not be activated at night for 30 to 60 day trial period except for major fire alarms. D.r. Dillon said the company had used the siren on all runs.

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9 north of the Greenfield's downtown area. She said she likes working at the station and puts in a 13-hour The NEWS Photo, Joe Young. 8205 ZIONSVILLE ROAD In Park 100 (Vi mil south Of SSth St on Zlontvlll Rd.) SHOP Fri. Noon to 9 Sat 10 to 6 Sun. 1 to 5.