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The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 12

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The Mercuryi
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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12
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12 The Mercury, Pottstown, Pa. Monday, October 17,1977 News Capsules Israeli stance TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said Sunday the U.S.-Israeli working paper for reconvening a Geneva peace conference on the Middle Fast represents final negotiating position "I think that it is a reasonable working paper and I don't think we will be able to change what is in this he told draisers at a meeting in Jerusalem. Dayan noted, however, that slight changes could be made in the working paper, which is now under review by the Arab countries. The Israeli Cabinet unanimously approved the paper last week Treaty boosters WASHINGTON (AP) Business and labor leaders, former military officers and officials from past administrations have formed a blue-ribbon committee to promote ratification of the Panama Canal treaty Members of the group, headed by former New York Gov. Averill Harriman, one-time ambassador to Moscow who has served as a government envoy in many capacities, were scheduled to meet Monday with President Carter Rites set LOS ANGELES (AP) The body of crooner Bing Crosby is expected in Los Angeles Monday night and will be buried after simple religious rites Tuesday, a family spokesman said.

The late press agent, Maury Foladare, said Sunday that the body, accompanied by 19-vear-old son Harry Crosby, would be flown Monday morning from Madrid, Spain. Crosby died there after a round of golf with three Spanish professionals Friday. Simple services, in keeping with the 73-year-old wishes, were scheduled for Tuesday at St. Roman atholic Church in Brentwood. Foladare said.

Limited strike NEW ORLEANS (AP) New Orleans dockworkers began unloading conventional cargo ships and grain barges Sunday, following orders from the International Association. Containerships were still being struck here, as they have been at all other East and Gulf coast ports since the ILA declared a limited strike when the union's contract with shippers expired Oct. 1. Booze ban Cambridge City asks, 'where is CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind. (AP) Ann Louise Hameier, 20, could be considered nothing more than a statistic one of thousands of persons reported missing each year, in time destined to be erased from police coputers and human memories.

But Miss Harmeier. a lifelong resident of Cambridge City, is a symbol of the ability of the 4,000 people who live in this small eastern Indiana community and adjacent towns to counter frustration and despair with optimism and determination. The people are searching for Miss Harmeier. And they give up until they find her. On the mornign of Sept.

12, the Indiana University junior loaded her clothes and books into a car and headed for the campus in Bloomington, about 105 miles away. She stopped at service stations several times en route because she was having car trouble. She was last spotted standing outside her disabled car along Indiana 37, two miles north of Martinsville, less than 20 miles from campus. The Rev. Rose Taul of Cambridge City Presbyterian Church, a family friend, became alarmed when Miss Harmeier failed to telephone her that night as planned.

The next day, she and Miss mother, Marjorie, retraced the route Miss Harmeier had taken. They found the loaded car, emergency lights flashing, abandoned by the roadside. Where is Ann? That question, in bold, black type, is spread throughout the nation on bumper stickers, posters and billboards, all part of a massive campaign that began the weekend after Miss Harmeier vanished. days after Ann was reported missing, I called Mrs. Harmeier and asked if there was anything I could siad David Weston.

Dublin Elementary School principal. when Ernie Alder a retired state police sergeant and another neighbor of the Harmeiers and I decided to put out the Thousands of posters bearing a picture and description of the blue-eyed, blonde Miss Harmeier have been distributed, he said. Weston, Alder and the Rev. Miss Taul set up the Ann Harmeier Search and Reward Committee, which has collected more than $10,000 in pledges and $5,000 in cash thus far. Small search parties of area residents and Bloomington citizens are helping police scour parts of the Morgan-Monroe State Forest and combing remote areas in southern Indiana and Kentucky.

Six billboars displaying Miss picture have been erected between Cambridge City and Bloomington. Storeis for two national magazines, a public broadcasting documentary and local television and radio spots are in the works. Police, observers and even the citizens themselves are amazed at the intensity of their determination. But all of them agree that the key to the community zeal lies with Miss Harmeier herself. Ann Louise Harmeier lives in the hearts and minds of these people, for her church work, her devotion to her mother, her talent.

Her father, Robert, died of a brain tumor when she was 4 years old. Miss Harmeier returned home often while at Indiana University, "probably more than she should says her mother, a music teacher for Western Wayne Schools. "She loved her home." A drama major and an A student. Miss gift for singing and acting landed her a supporting role in a university musical. She had sung with two other girls at community functions for 11 years.

always was ready to use her talent," the Rev. Miss Taul said, "even if it meant changing her schedule. "Ann is very special just the most special person very mature, sensitive and so good to elderly people, even though she has no reason to care about them. She just does. "It would be a horrible, insensitive community that unite to find her.

In a larger town, it have happened here, like a family." Three state police detectives have been assigned full time to the case. "This incident has all the indications of foul play," said state police Sgt. Donald Gastineau. not like she walked away from the dorm or something." Gastineau said police even have followed up leads supplied by psychics who claim to have "certain feelings" about the disappearance. "I want it said that the state police used psychics.

just say at this point we have an active investigation going on, and we still have to look at every possibility runaway, amnesia, he said. NEW DELHI. India (AP) The teetotailing prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, reaffirmed Sunday his plan for nationwide prohibition within four years. Prohibition is essential to social welfare, the 81-vear-old Desai said in a speech to a prohibition group at Ah- medabad, in his home state of Gujarat. Gujarat is already dry under local option system, but Desai acknowledged that drinking has not been eradicated.

Actors arrested LEXINGTON, Kv. (AP) Nine members of the cast of the nude musical Calcutta!" were arrested early Sunday after police sat through two performances. One of the attorneys, Kentucky House Speaker William Kenton, said more than one million people had seen the controversial sexual satire and "this is the first time to my knowledge that members of the cast have ever been Castro trip KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) Cuban President Fidel Castro arrived in Kingston Sunday for his first visit to this Caribbean island and greeted Prime Minister Michael Manley with a warm bear hug. Several thousand persons lined the main thoroughfare in downtown Kingston, some shouting "Viva and "Viva to catch glimpse of Castro as his official entourage whisked by. AT LUCK! We Scooped-Up Worth AIRWAY LUGGAGE Save at least "STARWAY" Rated The Finest "Airway" Makes LUGGAGE SALE Type Rtg SALI 22 Weekender 39 99 22 Companion 39 99 H.M 26 Pullman 54 99 M.M 28 Pullman 64 99 M.H 2-Suiter 59 99 3 Suiter 64 99 Price Break! VOLARE AIRWAY FASHION LUGGAGE the look of Leather Type Flea SALI 21" Weekender 39 99 24.99 Pullman 59 99 34.99 Pullman 64 99 39.99 Family Garment Bag 59 99 34.99 The look of leather in Gfan Com Vinyl thal wipes clean with a damp cloth nylon lining continental handle Tan only PRICE BREAK! SAVE 5-PIECE VINYL SUEDE Separate Pieces LUGGAGE ENSEMBLE Type SALE Tote f.M 21 Case 11.99 24 Case 14.99 26 Case 16.99 28 Case 19.99 129.99 Val.

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