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DAILY AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION 12 Monthi Ending March 31. 1970 16,868 ABC Audited TRAVERSE CITY RECORD-EAGLE NORTHERN MICHIGAN'S GREATEST DAILY THE WEATHER Cooler. Rain Likely Detailed Information Page 13 'Tis a Privilege to Live in Michigan" I FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE TWO SECTIONS 36 PAGES TRAVERSE THURSDAY, OCTOBERS, 1970 SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR-24639 PRICE TEN CENTS Sleeping Bear Dunes Park Wins Approval In Senate WOMEN WANT EQUAL RIGHTS With signs hanging around their necks calling for "equal rights under law," a group of women took up a vigil Wednesday on the Capitol steps as the Senate got off to a slow start on consideration of a proposed constitutional amendment on women's rights. In the foreground, from the left, are Orances Kalb, Flora Crater, and Dana Kline. (UPI Telephoto) Cronk Testimony tTo HP i 1 lakeLase Case Goes To Jury BeforeUN A jury panel comprised murder, manslaughter, and in- four men and two women began its deliberations this mom- ing in district court at city hall concerning the circumstances surrounding the Aug.

11 death of John D. Cronk, 26, an Ionia resident who was a patient in Traverse City State Hospital at voluntary manslaughter. He told them that manslaughter was a killing without malice done under provocation. Involuntary manslaughter, he said, was a killing resulting from the commission of an act in a grossly negligent manner. By United Press International Official sources in Cairo said Bombs Rock Three West Coast Cities Courtroom, Armory ROTC Office Hit Bv Blasts By United Press International A trio of bombs up and down the West Coast early today rocked a courtroom, a National Guard armory, and the basement of a university building I which houses Navy and ROTC 'offices.

There were no injuries. The first, blast wrecked the San Rafael, Calif, courtroom of Superior Court Judge Joseph G. Wilson who has been holding some hearings within San Quentin State Prison. Inspector Bowen Bridges of the Marin County Sheriff's Department called it "quite a blast." It occurred at 1:27 a.m. in the Marin County Civic Center, the same location where! another Marin County jurist and three other persons were killed two months ago in an unsuccessful attempt by three convicts and an accomplice to escape from a courtroom.

At 2:44 a.m., a single bomb exploded in the basement of Clark Hall at the University of Washington in Seattle The today a top level Egyptian a a delegation' led bv Foreign sent a shower of Iass 4 the. building. 1. CEASE FIRE 1 cr Mahmouud Riac wil the. building.

who open a new initiative next week A Janitor who was the in New York to bring the building managed to get out; Middle East crisis before therefore the explosion, after so the time he died. If as the result United Nations General Assem- security officers told Testimony in the three-day criminal activity, he jitney hearing was concluded late Wednesday afternoon. hearing had been called by Grand Traverse county prosecutor John R. Blakeslee chiefly because of conflicting autopsy reports by two pathologist following the death of Cronk, described in testimony as a mentally retarded paranoid schizophrenic. Before the retired to deliberate the i Blakeslee told them that they must consider all evidence in the case with great care.

"You must decide," he said, "what caused John Cronk's death and whether his death was or was not the result of criminal activity." He said the most difficult area in the case was to decide whether or not negligent action constituted criminal intent. "If a person is grossly negligent, you have criminal he said. "To find it you must determine that the acts were performed with a total disregard for others. It would involve acts causing an injury to another person but not mere carelessness." Blakeslee instructed the jury that their verdict must be unanimous. Judge Harold Hunsberger.

in his remarks to the jury, told them they must decide whether Cronk's death was from natural causes, from criminal activity, or from causes unknown. He described the various must specify the names of those who participated in the act. If the persons were unknown they should so state. They must decide whether criminal charges should be brought, what the charge should be and against whom. The retired shortly after 10:30 a.m.

An autopsy upon Cronk's body performed by Dr. Robert T. Lossman, pathologist at the hospital, had listed Cronk's death as due to pneumonia arid cardiac arrest. A second autopsy, performed upon Cronk's embalmed body by a down- stele pathologist, Dr. Charles D.

Black, a described Cronk's death as caused by pneumonia following post-traumatic shock. Dr. Black had entered the case at the request of Cronk's parents following their discovery of bruised areas upon their son's body. Prosecutor Blakeslee introduced Dr. Richard E.

Olsen as the final witness Wednesday at the three day was a 1D32 hearing. Olsen graduate of the penalties under Michigan for first and second law Hee Haw The accuracy of recent weather predictions is to make one laugh. So let's try again. It says here there's a chance of occasional showers tonight, (ho, ho, ho). Friday will be cloudy and a bit cooler with rain, off and on, (ha, ha, ha).

The temperatures will remain fairly high, from 62 to 68, (hee, hee, hee). If you aren't too doubled up, we'll slip you another howler: Showers Saturday and late Monday. Wipe away the tears and try to get yourself under control. University of Michigan medical school with a doctor of science degree in pathology. He has published numerous articles in medical journals and for many years has been a forensic pathologist in Oakland county.

Dr. Olsen said that as a forensic pathologist he had performed more than 5,000 autopsies and had testified in more than 100 court cases. "1 have reviewed the slides degree of both pathologisls in this case, heard all the testimony and examined the records. I am in agreement with Dr. Lossman's findings, with one exception, and in disagreement with Dr.

Black's." Olsen said he believed, after studying the slides, that Cronk's pneumonia was stimulated by food particles in the lungs, an item not noted by Lossman. "The overall finding, however, was correct," he said. "Mr. Cronk died from pneumonia and terminal acute right- sided heart failure." Olsen completely disagreed with Dr. Black's finding of posttraumatic shock in Cronk's vital organs.

(This finding implies death by shock following injury.) "In post-traumatic shock there (Continued oil Page 8) The sources said the delegation will seek a debate "corresponding to the importance and gravity of the problem in its present stage." They said Riad will be accompanied by Foreign Undersecretary Sain Ghoar and Mohammed Riad, chief of the Foreign Bureau. Israel meanwhile filed its 22nd complaint with the U.N. saying that more antiaircraft missiles had been moved into Cairo's side of the Suez Canal cease-fire zone. It said both SAM2 and SAMS missiles had been moved to within 19 miles of the Canal. It was the first complaint since the United States announced its withdrawal from deputy level Big Four talks until the Egyptians and Soviets "rectify" the movement of the missiles into the standstill zone in violation of the Aug.

7 truce. minutes before that a bomb was set to go off. The third blast hit a National Guard armory at Santa Barbara, blowing out a door and several windows in the west wing of the building and ripping out chunks of concrete. The 4:15 a.m. explosion rocked the entire downtown area.

Authorities were tipped five minutes in advance of the San Rafael explosion. Inspector Bridges said an anonymous woman caller told a San Francisco telephone operator of the bomb. The operator immediately notified the Marin County sheriff's department. Judge Wilson -had NIXON'S PROPOSAL In a 14-minute address to the nation from the White House, President Nixon proposed Wednesday night, via a national television network, a new peace initiative which calls for an immediate Cease-Fire Is Immediate Aim Nixon Peace Plan Draws Red Criticism WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres- holding some preliminary hear- ident Nixon's call for a ings in San Quentin in an effort standstill cease-fire in Vietnam to foreclose any possibility of an escape attempt similar to the one that killed Superior today viet Cong and North Court Judge Harold Haley in ploy aimed at helping win an election rather than opening the way to peace. Southeast Asia In a relative 'y short re ort to fercnce, using the Geneva dismissed thc nation Wcdnesda ni nt Nixon portrayed his "major new initiative for peace" as the Only Needs Nixon Signature To Become Final WASHINGTON (UPI) Ten years of Congressional haggling ended Wednesday with final approval of controversial plans to create the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in sand-swept Northern Michigan.

The Senate, by voice vote with no dissent, approved a House-passed bill to establish a park of woods and waters at' a minimum federal cost of S38.57 million. The bill now needs only President Nixon's signature to become law. Beaten back on a 39-22 roll call vote prior to passage was an amendment by Sen. Robert P. Griffin, that would have trimmed the size of the new park by half and protected homes recently built in the area from condemnation.

The proposed park area lies along the northeastern shore of Lake Michigan and includes North and South Manitou islands as well as 65 miles of scenic lake shoreline in the heart of lush resort country. The tract, lying in Michigan's Benzie and Leelanau counties, includes 11,000 acres of lakes and submerged lands as well as vast stretches of forest and spectacular sand dunes surrounding the famous Sleeping Bear Dune fonvhich'it is named. The lakeshore proposal, first sought by Sen. Philip A. Hart, 10 years ago, was approved by the Senate in 1963 and 1965 "only to be killed in the House.

This year, the House I prodded by the Michigan Coh' gressional delegation, approved it first. Complaints rom area residents who fear losing their homes and tax revenues should the lakeshore be established, stalled the proposal for years. the bill's floor manager, said that lengthy negotiations have "now resolved most of the controversy." I i Department would be authorized to spend up to $19.8 million to buy up property in the area and $18.77 million to develop it with campsites, roads, beach facilities and other improvements. The state of Michigan has pledged to make up local tax accords of 1954 and 1962 on losses resulting from federal Vietnam and Laos as the "basis takeover of privately held pro- for settlement of problems; nerty. all states in Ule Ind Owners agreeing to certain cease-fire throughout all of Indochina.

Bottom photo (CBS-TV broadcast) shows the five major points at the peace initiative superimposed over a map of Indochina. (CBS via UPI Telephoto) Nixon said these were the other key elements: --An all-Indochina peace con- conditions would be allowed to FLEE TEAR GAS Police lob tear gas on the heels of a group of fleeing Negro youths at the racially troubled Pontiac Central High School. One black youth was shot and wounded and another was hit by a car Wednesday when black and white students fought each other with stones and bottles. (UPI Telephoto) a lor attaimn, chlna area; -the beginning of the end A promise Io out all kcep ltheir rop ert if their war in this century. Ame rjcan ois from Vietnam on homes were built before Dec.

Even before they were "an agreed timetable" as part 1964. Bible said residents formally handed the package at of a settlement based "on, who built after that date had todav's" latest session of the! principles I spelled out pre- "full notice" the area might ari tilto thp Cfimmn which made total; become federal property and Pans peace talks, the cont pgent they werc njst representatives attacked North Vietnamese withdrawal great risk" to go ahead. the Nixon plan. ror South Vietnam. I Should purchase negotiations The chief North Vietnamese xhat the Soulh Vietnamese 1 a ne government could ex- negotiator, Xuan Thuy, said il'people'be assured the right "to its condemnation rights was designed to be "a gift determine for themselves the! tne Proposed park area certificate to the American kind of government they want," rs electorate" less than he said would not meet fully compensated.

I I the "patently unreasonable! weeks before' the U.S. congres-, demand; (hat hfi altributed to sional elections and as "a i the Communists, to "dismantle ASKS Uelav covenip to mislead world! the organized Adoption Of DDT forces and insure the takeover -p Juiciam.es, A ui The immediate public reac-jby one party, and the right tion of the Communist negotia-l to exclude whomever they wish' LANSING (UPI) directors was generally expected by; from government." or the Michigan Department U.S. officials to be negative, 1 and Agriculture said Wednesday and in his speech Nixon tional release of all prisoners of he will recommend delay on acknowledged that the obstacles! war held by both sides i adoption of Michigan's proposed to achieving peace were great. The cornerstone of his plan was a proposal an immediate cease-fire. But he declared: "It has always been easier to make war than to make a truce.

To build an honorable peace, we must accept the challenge of long and difficult negotiations." The proposal for an immediate "cease-fire in all forces in all Indochina stopping the shooting and maintaining their positions- was the major new phase of his new proposal. without exception and without; tolerance for DDT residues in condition." fish pending establishment of federal guidelines. B. Dale Ball said Michigan has proposed a tolerance level of 15 ppm in salmonids and 10 ppm in other fish. What's Inside Ann Landers Page 2 Horoscope Page 6 Heloise a 7 Wealher 13 Calendar of Events Page 14 Theatre Calendar Page 14 Society Pages 14-15 Sports 16-U SECOND SECTION Comics Page 35 TV Log Page 36 Today's Chuckle 1 Nothing can cause more mixed emotions than finally getting to the dentist's office only to find he's been called away..