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f'. Conservationists Seem To Re Winning Fight To Prevent Dam In Kentucky's lied River Gorge The Enquirer Magazine Taft Museum Displays 17 Contemporary Fountains In Hope Of Awakening Interest In That Art Form 1-E Tired Businessmen, Vacationers, Others Make Quickie Week-End Trips To Northern Michigan In Special, Non-Stop Airlifts Page 1-G 1 THE CINCINNATI EM 129TH YEAR NO. 123 FINAL EDITION I i i mm Readin adeira Are Hardest Hit A tornado ripped across northern and eastern Cincinnati shortly after 7 p. m. Saturday, injuring more than 200 persons, one of them critically, and causing untold property damage.

A funnel-shaped cloud touched down near Reading and Galbraith Rds. at about 7:20 p. m. observers said. This area was the hardest hit.

I. I 44- SUNDAY MORNING, bodies were discovered by a maid, who ran screaming to neighbors. The neighbors called police. Officers said the killings appeared methodic and ritualistic because one victim had a hood over his head, and two were tied together by a white nylon rope. Miss Tate was discovered with one end of the rope around her neck.

She was dressed in a bikini nightgown, police said. The cord was looped around Sebring's neck and pulled across a ceiling beam in the living room. "It seemed kind of ritualistic," said an investigating officer. "It didn't appear as if the two connected to the rope had been hanged because there was blood on them," said Lt. James Shannon.

Investigators said all five victims appeared to have been shot. The word "pig" was scrawled on the front door in what appeared to be blood. Officers said the writer may have used his hand or a rag. "There was ample blood around," a policeman said. Sgt.

Stanley Klorman said there were signs of a struggle in a. large room and in a guest room. "It looked like a battlefield up there," said Sgt. Klorman. Miss Tate and Sebring were found in the living room, two others including Miss Folger were discovered on the lawn, and the fifth victim was in a car.

Telephones and electricity were cut off, police said, and Miss Tate's husband was reported in Europe. Polanski produced "Rosemary's Baby," among other macabre-fantasy films. "IN ALL my years, I have never seen anything like this before," said officer Klorman. All of the beds, including those in the guest house, appear to have been used. But there was no indication of robbery, unless they were very selective." In an interview three years ago, Miss Tate said of Sebring: PRICE 30 CENTS Guardsmen Sent Late Saturday night Gov.

James A. Rhodes ordered units of the Ohio National Guard to duty in the storm-stricken areas. The Guard was requested by the mayors of Reading, Amberley Village, Arlington Heights, Madeira, Sharonville and Evendale. There were reports of lootings in the areas hardest hit. The governor will visit the stricken area this morning.

and needing assistance are asked to call the Red Cross at 731-2665. Paul Ruth, general manager, Famous Recipe Restaurant, 8319 Vine said the roof was blown off. He said a sign at nearby Frisch's, 8383 Vine, fell on three cars on Vine St. A building under construction in the Williamsburg Apartment complex, Galbraith was reported blown down. The roof of the home of Lou Krehnbrink, 7724 Shawnee Run Madeira, was blown into the back yard.

Police reported looting at Compton and Vine. The Drake Motel on Reading Rd. as extensively damaged. The neigh-boring Carrousel Inn was not too badly damaged. Signs all along the stretch of Reading Road were toppled.

The Lakeshore Apartments on Galbraith Rd. were extensively damaged and police were reported evacuating tenants. Gary Firemen Still Strike City GARY, Ind. OJPD Striking firemen had their day in court Saturday, but the day may drag into a week or maybe weeks. The firemen, nearly 300 of them, went on strike last Tuesday seeking a substantial pay increase.

They defied Special Judge Straley Thrope's order prohibiting a walkout by Local 359 of the International Firefighters Union. Thrope opened a hearing in flam-mand Friday to give the firemen a chance to show cause why they should not be cited for contempt. The hearing dragged on and on. Cool Your Heels If you've decided to sell your air-conditioner and cool your heels some other way from now on, place a Gold Chest Ad for it. like Mrs.

Henry Rud did. She didn't have to cool her heels long waiting for responsesthe air conditioner was sold the first day. Call 421-6300. smmmmMTfjsgmmsrmr? Area, AUGUST 10, 1969 -Enquirer (Ro Cochrtn) Photo Sharon Tate "sexy little me." "Before Roman Polanski I guess I was in love with Jay. But the truth I was no good for Jay.

I'm not organized. I'm too flighty. Jay needs a wife. And at 23 I'm not ready for wifehood. I still have to live, and Roman is trying to show me how." Folice reported the male vie tims wore hippie-type clothing.

lliilli comedy on television's "Beverly Hillbillies." Jay Sebring, 26, Miss Tate's former boyfriend and operator of hair stylist salons in Hollywood, San Francisco, New York and London. Abigail Folger, 26, a business associate of Sebring and a member of the Folger Coffee Co. family of San Francisco. A man identified as Voyteck Frykowski, who police said was a friend of Miss Tate's producer-husband, Roman Polanski. The fifth victim was an unidentified man in his 20s.

The bodies bore multiple stab wounds and some of the victims had been shot. Cause of death awaited findings by medical examiner Thomas Noguchi who ordered the somewhat Isolated home sealed off and instructed that no one touch the bodies until he arrived. Miss Tate rose to stardom in storybook fashion. The wife of producer Roman' Polanski, she liked to refer to her self among friends as "sexy little me." One of her first roles, to The Dance of the Vampires," had her bath nude Jn a atMub During her early career, she shied away from nude scenes, but leuciiujr iiuiu lie women sue juiig i.i to maKe love on me screen. "Tf jinitlfl fin rinna act a ttitnir she said, "and not embar- rassment, then I would do it with pleasure.

But it cannot be presented rty or pornographic." Exposed to cameras early in life, Miss Tate was selected Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas at age six months. At age 16, she was Miss Richland of Washington and a short time later was chosen Miss Autorama. The arrested youth was named by police as William Garretson. Of- ficers said he apparently had Just awakened when they seized him and was wearing no shirt. He offered no resistance, police said.

investigators said the victims were slain 12 hours before their Destruction Along Galbraith Road Near 1-75 tornado tears through area leveling building and overturning cars. Film Beauty, Heiress Killed In Grim' Bloodbath For LOS ANGELES UP) A Hollywood actress, an internationally known male hairdresser and an heiress to a coffee fortune were found slain along with two other men Saturday in what one policeman described as a "ritulatistic" killing. The scene was a $200,000, tomato-red home in fashionable Bel Air, rented by the actress' husband, a Polish producer of suspenseful and macabre films. He is in London. He cried when he heard of the slayings.

A 19-year-old bare-chested caretaker was arrested in a guest cottage at the mansion and charged with murder. Police identified four of the five The storm then moved east, slashing at Golf Manor, Deer Park, Madeira and Indian Hill. At 10:20 p.m. Madeira was declared a disaster area by Mayor Dan McDonald. Hamilton County Communications Center Superintendent Maurice Wesselmann was attempting to Photos Page 6-A; List of injured Page 10-A reach Gov.

James A. Rhodes to obtain National Guard troops for security duty. Moment after the twister hit, all available police and ambulances were dispatched to the Reading and Galbraith Rd. area. Traffic was restricted to emergency vehicles, which were hampered by trees, poles and live wires blown down.

Damage was heavy in Reading. Amberley Village, Madeira and Silverton. The yardmaster of the Penn-Cen-tral Railroad at the Sharonville Yards said the caboose of a freight train near Vine St. and Galbraith Rds. was blown off the tracks into a field.

Two men inside were reported injured. All mobile homes in the Arlington Trailer Park, 360 Elliot Arlington Heights, were toppled. At least 15 homes on Elliot and Olden Ave. were severly damaged, according to Arlington Fireman Charlie Graff. Widespread damage was reported in Hartwell.

A shopping center on Vine near Compton Road was damaged. Roofs were tcn off and windows smashed. Cincinnati police set up a command post in Dedden's Floral Shop, 8436 Vine with Col. Edward Darmody, assistant chief, in com-mand. Col.

Darmody coordinated the work of Hamilton County sheriff's deputies and fire departments from Cincinnati and neighboring communities. Power was off in many parts of the stricken areas. The Cincinati Gas Electirc Co. and the Cincinnati Telephone Co. called in all available repair crews.

The Upper Krust Restaurant, 172 Reading Reading, just recently reopened after fire damage, was reported demolished. In Madeira, a large tent erected for the annual festival of St. Gertrude's Church, Miami Ave. and Shawne Run blew down, momentarily trapping 100 persons. The Weather Bureau said a tornado watch for the Cincinnati area, extending 60 miles either side of a line running from Covington to Parkersburg, W.

Va originally set from 4 p. m. to 10 p. had been extended to 1 a. m.

today. The Cincinnati Area chapter of the Red Cross opened emergency centers at Mt. Notre Dame Convent, 701 Columbia Ave. At Ridge Rd. in Reading; Mother of Sorrows Church, 1861 Larchmont Pl Roselawn, and the new Hartwell School, Vine and Galbraith, Hartwell.

People affected by the disaster vivtuua no. Sharon Tate, 26, a pregnant hnnev-blond actress who played sexy parts in movies, including "Valley of the Dolls," and slapstick TlW WeatlWr Cloudy and cooler. High near in 80. Ten percent chance of rain. Details, Map, Page 12A h-3 Page Pagf Abby 120 Horse Sense 7-1 Action Line 6A Horoscope Amuse.

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