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Independent from Long Beach, California • 6

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Independenti
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Long Beach, California
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6
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A 4' Trrrr -vrW'r-w- 6-M)EPN0ENT (AM) PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM) UMRmtcMmoMLiT.iw9 Student missing, town hasvowed to i'T- National Where is Ann? drive Thats when Ernie Alder a 'retired state police sergeant and' another neighbor of the Harmeleri TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY ONLY! SOME QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED! Knitting jnagicin ByLisa Levitt CAMBRIDGE CITY Ind. CAP) -Ana Louise: could considered nothing, more, than a statistic me of thousands of persons re- missing each year. prim ui tami. ries. But Miss Harmeier, a lifelong resident of Cambridge City, is a symbol of Kri aKiiifw Hm 1 ilfe SK ttffUS eastern Indiana com-; munity and adjacent towns to counter frustration and despair with opti- miam and determination.

The people are searching for Min Harmeier. Am they 'wont give up until they find her. rtm Amins of Cm nnng otaept. 12, the Indun Umvemty junior loaded her clothes and boob into a car and headed for the campus in Bloomington, about 105 miles away. She stopped at service stations several times en route because and I decided to put out theposters.

-Thousands of posters bearing a picture and de-. of the scription blonde Misa Harmeier have been distributed, he Weston, Alder and Taui set up the Ann Harmeier Search and Reward Committee, which has collected more than $10,000 in pledges and $5,000 in cash thuslar. Small parties residents and citizens are of area Bloomington helping police Billboards, magazines search parts of the Morgan-Monroe. State Forest and remote areas in southern Indiana and Kentucky. Six billboards displaying Mis 3.

Harmeiers picture have been erected between Cambridge City and Bloomington. Stories for two national maga-zioes, a public broadcast- THOUSANDS OF THESE posters )n of Ann Louise Harmeier, description of Ann Louise Harmeier, bearing, 20, nave been distributed nationwide the of Cambridge City, along with trami stickers and billboards. Ann disappeared entire hometown has vowed to find her. have, says her mother, a music teacher for Western Wayne Schools. She her home.

A drama major and an A student, Miss Harmei-ers gift for singing and acting landed her a supporting role in a university musical. She had sung ing documentary and local with two other girls at psychics. Lets just say at television and radio spots community functions for this point we have an sell years. She always was reader are in the works. Mice, observers and even the citizens to use her talent 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 wouldnt want it said that the state police tive investigation going on, and we still have to look at every possibility nmiDiaimamiammmin where fine DRYCLEANING costs a lot less runaway, amnesia, everything, he said. Leads from psychics- Psychics have supplied leads sent a citizens group to a southern Indiana resort town. At first one uiii Ann was but now they're not so sure. I probably put more SAVE" EXPERT SUEDELEATHER CLEANING UDioiaiDiDiDiBiaiaiBi 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 wouldnt unite to find her. In a larger town, it wouldnt have happened, but here, were like a family. Three state police detectives have been assigned full time to the 'case, but leads are few and far between and evidence ie scarce.

"This incident has all the indications of foul lay, said State Police gt. Donald Gastineau! It's not like she walked ULlDlw ANNOUNCES THE OPENING. OF HIS OFFICE FOR THE PRACTICE OF PODIATRY 2385 PACIFIC AVL LONG BEACH Ph. 213-6S5-87I7 n)LiJ ACCEPTED she was having car trou- hie. She was last spotted standing outside herdiu-- bled car along Indiana ST, two miles north of Mar tinsville, less than 20 miles from eampUs.

The Rev, Rose Tfnd'df' JSi when Miss Harmeier failed to telephone her that night as planned. The nest day, she and Miss Harmeiers mother Marjorie, retraced the routn Miss- Harmeier had- taken. They found the loaded Hi K. flashing. roadside.

abandoned by the 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 8 weuaciu mici njjj Harmeier vanished. was reported missing, I called Mrs. Harmeier and asked if there was anything I could do, said David Weston, Dublin Elementary School principal a TORXANCK Holiday Inn 21833 Hawthorne BL; Wed. OeL 12 2 p.m.

and 7 :80 BEVEKLYRIULS-WESTWOOD Holiday In 10740 Wilahire BL; Km OeL 17 7- p.m. and 7 :30 pjn. 4'k ORANGE COUNTY South Coast Plasa Hotel, Costd Mesa Bristol al 405 Fwy Wad. Oet. tpjto.

And 7:30 p.m ft- -4 HEW aides urge If ioke day Sept 12,1 and faith in these I should, Mrs. says. But Im desperate. Leads have come in from Washington, D.C., and Floridkp Gastineau said, but nothing has panned out Mrs. Harmeier laid she plans to ask her neighbors this week to stop their efforts and leave the investigation police.

They've already invested so modi time and money, she said of her friends and neighbors. They have their own fives to live. But she really doesnt expect them to stop, nor do they plan to. Miss Harmeieri disappearance has drawn people more closely together, Tsui says. They are united in concern.

They have one thing on and thati their minds Ann. mitted as an absolute vacuum-cleaner sweep of anything anybody could thinkof, said one HEW official, adding that the list contained about 35 ideas to discourage smok- offidaTsairCair fano rejected some of the ideas eut-d-handmdud-ing one suggestion that the (verament recommend wsuits against cigarette companki by persons injured from smoking. Califantr checked' the 'no box (next to the lawsuit idea) and wrote in the margin a ftmnmpd times no, the official said. Even the memo said this may not be a very good idea. The HEW secretary checked the.

yes box next to the suggestion for a National Dont Smoke Day, the official said. However, she said the secretarys interest only meant the idea was worth studying. Nothing has been ap-provedIshe said. iiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiti SAVINGS PHONI 7-121 1 1 I 3 themselves are amazed at the intensity of their determination. But all of them agree that the key to the il lies with community zeal Miss Harmeier herself.

Ann Louise Harmeier lives in the hearts and-minds of these people, for her church her devotion to her mother and 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 diilajj COVINA-WEST COVINA St' 4. Uontromery Ward Wendy Ward Boom Eastland Center Bjumuica and to, fwy 2 p.m. and 7:80 pm.V' culveb cmr- MAKINA DEL KEY Howard Johnson Motor Lodxe 405 Fwy and Bepalveda TwOet ll'rv 2 p.m. and 7:30 '4vs ARCADIA Ramada 'iTn ar V-M 130 W.

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