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News Staff ns zer rrize fj I I a TTh ruiu words of congratulations and handshakes. KNIGHT SAID, "I am delighted that the Beacon Journal has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting feel we presented the news in a fair and objective manner. "It is gratifying indeed that a jury of our peers has given recognition to the editors and reporters responsible a masterful presentation of the Pulitzer Directory On Page A-10 Knight Newspapers' 14th Pulitzer Prize. KSU student Filo wins photo award. Other Pulitzer winners.

Other top honors for the Beacon Journal. Beacon Journal staffers key to award. The Beacon Journal's covering of the tragedy at Kent State University a year ago today won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. The news staff of the Beacon Journal was cited for "a distinguished example of spot news reporting" and for "alertness, resourcefulness and high quality of writing" in stories about the shooting deaths of four students by Ohio National Guardsmen. The award, which carries a $1,000 prize, was announced by Columbia University in New York Monday afternoon.

THIS IS THE second Pulitzer Prize in four years to be won by the Beacon Journal. In 1968, John S. Knight, president and editor of the Beacon Journal, was awarded the Pulitzer for editorial writing. Beacon Journal newsmen learned of the prize as it came over the Associated Press wire at 4 p.m. The news was greeted noisily with that my personal philosophy of newspaper publishing, as meticulously followed through the years, may have guided to some extent a young and capable staff dedicated to the best in journalism.

"My congratulations to one and all who persevered in the quest for truth despite the many obstacles that were placed in their way. "The pledge is given that we shall accept our responsibilities and publish the truth as we see it. without fear or favor," Knight said. THE Beacon Journal was nominated for a Pulitzer by Murray Powers, former managing editor and now professor of journalism at Kent State. In his letter of nomination, Powers said; "What distinguishes the Beacon Journal's work is that the nature of its disclosures, all the pressure of deadline, contributed to a common understand-See DISCLOSURE, Page A-10 y.Jal facts and issues.

The staff was untiring in its devotion to professionalism of the highest order. "Although I had no direct hand in this notable accomplishment, I wish to believe of the Kent State tragedy one year ago. "This' highly controversial subject has brought upon our newspaper a torrent of criticism, as well as commendation from those readers who THERE'S a good reason for this happy picture. Beacon Journal President and Editor John Knight holds the newswire story which announced the Beacon Journal had won journalism's most coveted award the Pulitzer Prize, Sharing the joy are (from left) Portage County Reporter Ray Redmond, Managing Editor Robert Giles, State Editor Pat Englehart, Reporters James Herzog and Kathy Lilly. jssn mmm Battle Over Trleia Reception See Page A-14 AKRON BE ACON JOURNAL Ten Cents No.

20, 133rd Year Tuesday, May 4, 1971 56 Pages Ohio's Complete Newspaper 685 More Arrested Troops Leave D. As Protests Fizzle from Washington Circle to DuPont, Circle, two of the four traffic circles targeted for today's disruptions, resulted in arrest of most of the marchers. MOST OF today's arrests came without incident and without the tear gas volleys and club swinging of Monday Charges of disorderly conduct, obstructing traffic, loitering or unlawful assembly were lodged against most of those arrested, although sev- See POLICE, Page A-2 er than moved smoothr Protest organizers, who had promised to send 10,000 into the streets today, talked of a midday march on the Justice But an early morning march Ray Foiled In Escape Attempt PETROS, Tenn. UP) James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to slaying Dr. Martin Luther King almost turned his 99-year prison sentence into death when he tried to escape through a prison steam tunnel.

"He would never have survived the heat if he hadn't gotten out of the tunnel," Warden Robert H. Moore of Brushy Mountain State Prison said Monday after Ray'a unsuccessful escape attempt. Ray was captured in the prison compound as he sought a way over the stone wall of the maximum security prison in the Cumberland Mountains. RAY WAS imprisoned after pleading guilty to the sniper slaying of King outside a Memphis motel room on April 4, 1968. "He was in the tunnel for only about 10 minute Moore said, "and he had a few burns, but they didn't appear to be serious." Moore said it would have been Impossible for Ray to reach the end of the tunnel without being scalded to death in the 400-degree heat.

The tunnel leads to the prison steam plant outside the prison walls. Moore said Ray got help in his escape bid from his cellmate, Roy Morelock, 44, of Greene County. Morelock, worked as a prison maintenance man and had access to the tools Ray used in the escape attempt a hacksaw, crowbar, hammer and chisel. i i jpillllltllllilllll.il 11 con Journal photo by Don Room KSU CO-ED DYAN CARLSON at candlelight vigil KSU Bell Tolls For And Living Jt' WASHINGTON Anti-war protesters' hopes of rekindling guerrilla-style efforts to halt the nation's government disintegrated today and the Pentagon began withdrawing 4,000 federal troops from the streets and bridges of the capital. Wholesale arrests of more than 7,000 Monday appeared to have broken the back of the On Page A-7: Guerrilla type tactics fail for protesters.

planned" three days of disruptions. AS THE Marines, a a-troopers and 'other federal troops began withdrawing from the capital, police reported another 685 arrests as demoralized bands of young people wandered the streets' apparently leaderless and without design. The federal troops, who had moved into the city at the height of Monday's disorders, were pulled back to staging positions in the suburbs. But there was no move to return to their bases the 10,000 troops who had been mobilized during the weekend. Of the total, 6,000 had not been deployed.

The disengagement of troops still left thousands of police to watch warily over the city. RUSH-HOUR traffic, light- Record Low Of 29 Here; Fruit Hit? Today's record low temperature may have caused frost damage to fruit trees and uncovered ground plants, officials of the Summit County Cooperative Extension Service said. The thermometer dropped to 29 degrees at 5:30 a. m. at Akron-Canton Airport.

It was the coldest temperature for any May 4 on record. LOW temperature records were matched or set in Cleveland, Youngstown and Zanes-ville. The lowest temperature ever reached at this time of year, however, was the 23 degrees recorded on May 3, 1903. The previous. May 4 low here was 30 degrees, recorded in 1961.

Tonight's low was forecast in the upper 30s. noon, thousands of Kent students, faculty and sympathizers gathered quietly and in sober respect for the deaths of four KSU and two Jackson State University students last year. The ceremonies were capped during the noon hour to- KENT The Victory Bell tolled today at Kent State University for the dead of a year ago and the living who will carry their memory of singular tragedy into a tentative future tinged with hope. From minutes past midnight, in the cold chill of a candle-lit campus, to the bright sunlight of Tuesday A WORDLESS COMMENT FROM ARRESTED GIRL D. G-ffl 'We Cheery Protesters ri I in Junes Earl Ray re.a On The Inside Summit Sets Hearings On 'Piggyback' Tax flTM day on the Commons with a series of eulogies and pleas that humanity must somehow profit from the errors of the past, and out of all the conflict and division, people must again find their way to unity.

A TEMPERATURES climbed past 50 a warming sun this morning, a quiet crowd of upward of 7,000 settled in on the Commons shortly before 11 m. for to-d a 's memorial services. Many sat in front of a speaker's platform set up next to the victory bell, which was rung for a minute. KSU President Robert White, the lead-off speaker, said, "If there is any one thing that does unite us, it is the desire that this memorial does just that WHITE SPOKE for about three minutes in a subdued a On Page A-3: Nixon ignored our recommendations Ahem at KSU. manner as the crowd listened silently.

There wag no applause. White was followed by Dennis Carey, a KSU graduate and president of the commit- See CANDLES, Page A-2 Dn ki WASHINGTON (fl The cold, the tear gas, the Army chow, the absence of toilet facilities, high fences they didn't matter. Some called it America's first concentration camp but some called it victory. "Oh, wow, definitely we won," said Craig Taylor, 21, of Annapolis, one of 2,000 anti-war protesters herded inside the 10-foot-high chain-link walls of a football practice field behind Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.

"WHAT HAPPENED today might not stop the war now, it's definitely going to have an effect," declared Taylor, huddling in the middle Al BQB A-h JlE Ml of the compound. "It's going to bring the war a little closer to the end. But you're going to have to wait and see." Temperatures in the open field were in the 50s but a cutting wind whipped off the An-acostia River, flapping the huge green tarpaulin of a makeshift tent and chilling the protesters and the police and National Guardsmen assigned to watch them. AT ONE point the prisoners, most in their late teens or early 20s, massed against the fence, bending back a section precariously. The move provoked another round of tear gas.

Before the demonstrators were moved into the warmth of Washington Coliseum they had ample time to convert the See BANANAS, Page A-2 -v. i The Weather aid S. McFadden said the estimated $4 million a year additional revenue generated by the tax would go to purchase additional office, warehouse and parking space for the county to provide a county nursing home and to restore operating funds to "pre-1969 levels." THIS marks the second time in 2 years that the county tax has been proposed. It was enacted Feb. 28, ,1969, and then rescinded before any taxes were collected.

The tax was abolished after a referendum was threatened by opponents of the tax. McFadden emphasized that See PIGGYBACK, Page A-2 By CHARLES 8. MONTAGUE Summit County Commissioners today took the first step in what could lead to enactment of a one-half of 1 pet. "piggyback" sales tax. Commlsioners scheduled public hearings for 10:30 a.

m. May 21 and 24 at the City. County Safety Building on "the possibility" of levying the county tax starling June 1. County Administrator Ger- Today's Chuckle Modern fable: Once upon a time I son inked for the garage keys and cam out with the linn mower. Ann Landers B-22 Around Ohio A-2 4 Editorials A-6 Betty Jaycox A-14 Mickey Porter A-2 News Briefs A-22 Obituaries A-20 People B-22 Sports B-6 to 10 Stocks, Finances to 5 The Family A-14 to 18 Theaters and Restaurants A-9 TV-Radio A-12 Town Crier B-22 Viewpoint A-7 Washington A-19 TBMPIRATURES LAST 14 HOURS 1:00 (.

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