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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1977 THE TIMES-MAIL, BEDFORD, INDIANA PAGE NINE vtttI A Question has plagued residents of WflGfG IS Allll Cambridge City since September 6 to 9 P.M. at the cemetery than not to know, she says. Where is Ann? Three state police detectives have been assigned full time to investigate the Harmeier case, but leads are few and far between and evidence is scarce. State Police Sgt. Donald Gas-tineau said the circumstances surrounding the disappearance make the case of special interest.

This incident has all the indications of foul play, he said. It's not like she walked away from the dorm or something. Gastineau admitted police have followed up leads supplied by psychics who claim to have "certain feelings" about Anns location and welfare. "I wouldn't want it said that the state police used psychics. Lets just say at this point we have an active investigation going on, (Continued on Page 13) "Its been a very traumatic experience for all of us, Weston noted.

We cant know what Mrs. Harmeier must be feeling, but we can feel a little of it." Mrs. Harmeier waits for news and continues to work a full week In the Western Wayne Schools, teaching the basics of music to about 800 children who she considers hers as much as anyones. Shes most comforted, she says, by the Rev. Miss Taul, who calls and comes by often.

Ann used to say to me, I know if anything ever happens to me, I wont worry because I know youll take care of Mom. I keep hearing that over and over in my head, the Rev. Miss Taul said. I can't think of anything worse than never knowing. Only after you know can the healing ever begin." That thought is echoed by Mrs.

Harmeier. Id rather find Ann and put her with her daddy ably wouldnt have either, and then she wouldnt have been on that road. An IU drama major and an A student, Anns gift for singing and acting landed her a supporting role in a university musical. She and two other girls performed as a singing trio at community functions for 11 years. She always was ready to use her talent, the Rev.

Miss Taul noted, "even if it meant changing her schedule. That was very Important to her." 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," the Rev. Miss Taul said. It would be a horrible insensitive community that wouldn't unite to find her." "This is a close-knit community that in fact does a lot of things together.

Were doing this because of our feelings for each other and for Ann and Mrs. Harmeier, Weston said, adding, Of course, the community would have come to the aid of someone else. In a larger town, it (the community effort) wouldnt have happened regardless," the Rev. Miss Taul said, but here, were like a family." month-long investigation that so far has led nowhere. Stories for two national magazines, a public broadcasting documentary and local television and radio spots are in the works, scheduled for release this month.

All are being paid for through donations from residents and concerned citizens as far away as California and Florida. Police, observers and even the citizens themselves are amazed at the intensity of their conviction to continue the search for Ann. But all agree the key to 'the community zeal lies with Ann herself. Where is Ann? Ann Harmeier lives in the hearts and minds of these people, for her church work, her devotion to her mother, her talent. Anns father, Robert, died of a brain tumor when she was 4 years old, leaving Mrs.

Harmeier, a high school and elementary music teacher, to raise the couples only child. Ann returned home often while at IU, probably more than she should have, her mother said. She loved her home. "Her father and I went to IU, so Ann just had to go there," Mrs. Harmeier explained.

If we hadnt gone there, she prob By LISA LEVITT Associated Press Writer CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind. (AP) Where is Ann? That question has plagued the people in this small eastern Indiana community since Ann Louise Harmeier disappeared in mid-September. Miss Harmeier, 20, lifelong resident of Cambridge City, could be considered nothing more than a statistic one of the hundreds of persons reported missing in Indiana so far this year, in time destined to be erased from police computers and human memories. But to the more than 4,000 persons who live in Cambridge City and the four adjacent towns, Ann is a symbol of their ability to counter frustration and despair with optimism and determination. These people are searching for Ann Harmeier, and they will not give up.

Even if nothing else good comes of this, it has shown them they can work together. It will help them in the future, Marjorie Harmeier, Anns mother, said. "Theyve worked together before you know, weve had boys in bad wrecks and in comas, more than our share of things like that but never anything like this. On the morning of Sept. 12, the Indiana University junior loaded clothes and books into a car and headed back to campus in Bloomington, about 105 miles away.

She developed car trouble, stemming from what mechanics later described as a faulty thermostat, and stopped at service stations several times en route to refill her radiator. She was last spotted standing outside her disabled car along Indiana 37 about two miles north of Martinsville, less than 20 miles from the IU campus. The Rev. Rose Taul of the Cambridge City Presbyterian Church, a close family friend, became alarmed when Ann failed to phone her that night as planned. The next day, she and Mrs.

Harmeier retraced Anns route and discovered Anns locked car, emergency lights flashing, 1 abandoned by the roadside. Where is Ann? That question, in bold, black type, is spread throughout the state on bumper stickers, posters and billboards, all part of a massive advertising campaign that began the weekend after Ann disappeared. Two days after Ann was reported missing, I called Mrs. Harmeier and asked if there was anything I could do, said David Weston, Dublin Elementary School principal. Thats when Ernie Alder a retired state police sergeant and another, neighbor of the Harmeiers and I decided to put out the posters.

Thousands of those posters, bearing a picture and description of the blue-eyed, blond coed, have been distributed throughout the nation with truckers, Weston said. Weston, Alder and the Rev. Miss Taul were the movers behind the Ann Harmeier Search and Reward Committee, an ad hoc group responsible so far for collecting more than 510,000 in pledges and about $5,000 in cash donations for information leading to the young womans return. The group mobilized small search parties of area residents and Bloomington citizens to help police scour parts of the Morgan-Monroe State Forest and conducted private searches of remote areas in southern Indiana and Kentucky. The committee acquired six billboards between Cambridge City and Bloomington, displaying Anns picture and pleading for information that might provide a break in a 1 con lighten your life! Attend one meeting and learn how to be slimmer tor the rest of your life! No reservation necessary No charge for attending No need for additional meetings DIGNIFIED FUNERAL SERVICE AFFORDABLE BY ALL ifjTSijgpu, FAMILIES! JUbAm learn this unique weight-loss program in I a single meeting for a healthier, happier and slimmer life.

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