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State denies sniper report tENT. Ohift An tPapllav rlnetr-nvarl a 1 KENT, Ohio (AP) An off I cial of the Ohio Highway Patrol today disputed reports from the Ohio National Guard that a er was spotted by police helicopter before Guardsmen shot four Kent State University students to death Monday during an antiwar demonstration. The university, ordered evacuated after the shooting, was virtually deserted this morning and under heavy police and military guard. Attempted bombing revealed "I feel that it's an attempt on his life," Police Chief Harry Kochanek said of the attempted bombing of Sgt. John Sweatt's car early last Saturday.

Kochanek said that Sweatt was approaching his dune buggy parked across from the police station shortly after 1 a.m., Saturday, when he smelled the odor of something burning. He discovered three sticks of dynamite and a fuse that had been burning. Jerking tho materials from the car, Sweatt threw the dynamite and the fuse In opposite directions, averting a possible explosion. This Is the second time a bomb has been planted in Sweatt's car In a year and half, Kochanek said. The first time, the bomb went off when the vehicle was parked and unoccupied.

In both Instances, tho bombs were apparentlydeslgned to explode at the approximate time Sweatt got off work, Kochanek said. City Police are Investigating. Earlier, fire destroyed a barn and several farm tractors In one corner of the campus, and fire officials said they believed the blaze was deliberately set. Sgt. Michael Delaney of the guard public relations staff said after the shootings that, "At the approximate time of the firing on the campus, the Ohio Highway a helicopter- spotted a sniper on a nearby building." Today, a patrol official, D.

Manly, said, "there Is nothing on the log on the sight. Ing." Manly said if patrolmen in the helicopter circling the campus had seen a gunman it would have been recorded. Guard officials claimed Monday and again today that the Guardsmen were returning the fire of a small caliber weapon In defense of their lives. A student crowd had surrounded, some 30 Guardsmen and were throwing rocks and chunks of concrete at them. The Justice Department and officials of the National Guard launched separate Investigations of the gunfire outburst which took the lives of two girls and two young men.

The dead were: Miss Allison Krause, 19, Pittsburgh, Pa.j Miss Sandy Lee Scheuer, 20', Youngstown, Ohio; Jeffrey G. Miller, 20, Plainview, N.Y., and William K.Schroeder, 19, Lorain, Ohio. Portage County Coroner Dr. Robert Sybert said all four had been shot from the side, "left to right." All died of a single bullet wound, he said. Miss Krause was hit in the left shoulder, Miss Scheurer in the neck, Schroeder In the left underside of the chest and er in the head.

Dr. sybert said the final topsy report wouldn't be completed for about a week. Three students remained in critical condition today. One 6f them, Dean Kahler, of. East Canton, Ohio, was paralyzed from the waist down, according to Paul Jacobs, administrator at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna.

Eight other persons, including two guardsmen were hospital, ized. One of the two guardsmen was treated for shock and the other had collapsed from exhaustion. The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tuesday, May 5, 1970 Neuisdl City Council to take up local tax The City Council will con- slder a local sales tax levy at its meeting tonight at 7:30 in the municipal chambers. If passed, the one-half Cent sales tax would probably go Into effect next October.

The council will also consider ordinances dealing with sewage control and truck traf. flc restrictions, and a proposed city college cooperative agreement for development of an ath. letlc field. Other Items under consideration will be a slx.year street improvement program and a letter from the Vancouver, city manager regarding inequities in retirement benefits. 3rd Issue of 55th Year 44 Pages 10 Cents Murder charge reduced to Hatchery for Makah Indians gets support A first degree murder charge was reduced to manslaughter Monday In Clallam County Super, ior Court against John Reece who allegedly slaTSTMn'a'' pfe'griaW times killing her unborn child March 11 In Wenatchee.

Reece's defense attorney argued before Judge Joseph H. Johnston that the death of an unborn child does not constitute first degree murder. Special Douglas County Deputy Prosecutor Lowell D. Sperllne did not contest the motion to re. duce the charge to manslaughter.

Douglas County officials origin, ally Indicated they would ask for the death penalty If Reece was found guilty. Reece, who received a change of venue to a Clallam County courtroom to pre-trial publicity," pleaded innocent by reason of Insanity to the murder charge and three other crimes connected with the March 11 attack. He is charged with first de. greo assault and attempted rape on Mrs. Clifford Bull, EastWen.

atchee, and first degree assault on Mrs. Bull's son, Doug. The boy faked dead after he was slashed twice by the tlpe of a knlfeblade while defending his mother, hurriedly phoned police after the assailant left and per. haps saved the life of his mother and brother. Authorities arrested Reece two hours after the Bull Incident was reported to East Wenatchee police and Douglas County sher.

iff deputies. He is presently in custody at Chelan County jail. Mrs. Bull, who was seven months pregnant, was rushed to a Wenatchee hospital with no fewer than 30 stab wounds In her back, chest and arms. She was hospitalized for 12 days, during which time she bore the still, born child.

Trial for the case begins May 18 in Clallam County. A special 75-man jury venue was called to Insure availability of 12 unprejudiced jurors. A $100,000 salmon hatcher; proposal-lor the, MakahJndlans gleaned probable backing from the State Oceanographlc Commission. The commission agreed to explore and probably support a Pilot program to Permit the Makahs to operate a salmon hatchery Inside the reservation on the Sooes River. Makahs would benefit from fishing In their off-shore area besides continuing a monopoly on fishing In the stream.

Fish from the hatchery would be public property available to sports or commercial fishermen from the time the fish left the stream until they returned. To bulW the hatchery requires local funding, according to Commission Secretary Griffith Evans. Major financing, though, could come from the federal Economic Development Admin- istratlon, which is searching for Projects to decrease chronic unemployment In Clallam Coun. ty. Sealers back on the job in Aberdeen ABERDEEN (AP) Members of the Grays Harbor chap, ter of the Sealers Association returned to work on a curtailed basis Tuesday following settlement of a dispute that had idled an estimated 800 loggers.

Work was expected)to return to normal by next week. Fifteen log sealers struck Friday after contending the Grays Harbor Log Scaling and Grading Bureau had refused to negotiate grievances. Loggers honored the picket lines. Troops move in at Kent State Ohio National Guardtroops moved in on rioting stu- sons were dead and 11 wounded when theGuards- dents at Kent State University Monday. Four per- men opened photo.

orld news roun By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon says he hopes the fatal shooting of four Kent State University students will convince the nation's universities that they must stand against violence while maintaining the right of peaceful protest. Vice President Splro T. Agnew says the shootings prove his attacks on violent demonstrations and revolu. tionary politics have been Justified. SAIGON (AP) Helicopters have ferried an estimated 6,000 U.S.

and South Vietnamese troops into the Jungled hills of northeast Cambodia for a new offensive to destroy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong base camps across the border from South Vietnam's central highlands. Initial reports said heavy ground fire met the first assault wave and it was diverted to another landing zone. Roughly equal num. bers of American and South Vietnamese troops were involved. Alabama and Ohio hold primary elections today.

The Alabama race between George Wallace and Gov. Albert Brewer for governor Is considered significant to thefuture of Wallace's third party movement and the Ohio senatorial battle sets one stage in the Republican party's effort to capture control of the U.S. Senate. TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan has offered Egypt an "unconditional and unlimited" cease-fire but promises that Israel will not be driven from the Banks of the Suez Canal by the Egyptians or the Russians. SEATTLE (AP) A former state assistant attorney general, George Failer, has been ordered to begin submitting depositions In a lawsuit also Involving former state Atty.

Gen. John O'Connell and San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. SEATTLE (AP) Another bench warrant was issued Monday for Silas Trim Blssell, 27, accused of assaulting a Seattle policeman last Nov. 14. Blssell and his wife failed to appear April 27 for trial on charges of trying to bomb a University of Washington building.

Committee is divided after Nixon briefing Committee okays Blackmun WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate, Judiciary. Committee approved by a 17.0 vote today President Nixon's nomination of Judge. Harry A. Blackmun to be a supreme Court justice. Chairman James O.

Eastland, told newsmen that a report recommending confirmation of the 61 -year-old Rochester, judge will be filed In. the Senate Thursday. He said 48 hours had been granted for the filing of Individual views, expected from both Sen. Robert C. Byrd, and Sen.

Birch Bayh, D-Ind. Byrd told newsmen that although he supports Blackmun's nomination, he would not have been his first choice. He, said that, among others, he would have preferred Judge Clement F. Haynsworth of South Carolina. Haynsworth was one of two Southern judges nominated by Nixon for the year-old vacancy on the Supreme Court but rejected by the Senate.

The other was Judge G. Harrold Carswell Grant WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon briefed members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on the In- dochlnese situation Tuesday and their Democratic chairmen emerged with optimistic reports on the action. Some others disagreed. Rep. L.

Mendel Rivers, D- S.C., the House chairman, said: "In my opinion, the American people will find the President has made a very timely decision, and moreover he caught this crowd flatfooted." He obviously referred to the surprise move of U.S. forces Into Cambodia last week to seek out Viet Cong and North Vietnamese headquarters there. Sen. JohnC. told newsmen, "It's going right well," and added: "It is very clear that the movement there is tied to our Vietnamlzatlon.

That is the purpose of it." But Sen. Stuart Symington, told the Senate later the briefing "does little to lessen my apprehension," and added: "Could this invasion be an admission that the policy of Viet- namlzatlon has failed?" Stennls said in talking with newsmen that the Cambodian operation Is designed to provide more time for the Vletnamiza- tion process and added: "I think that the withdrawal schedule would have been In bad trouble if it had not been for that." Stennis said the administration still hopes to conclude the operation in six to eight weeks. Rep. Charles W. Whalen, R- Ohio, referred to what he called "a hard question" from Sen.

ward W. Brooke, R-Mass. SEATTLE (AP) A grant of $59,000 has been awarded by tho National Science Foundation to the University of Washington to continue research in seismic conditions in Washington state, Rep. Thomas Pelly, said Monday. Ohio's largest newspaper, called editorially for "an immediate investigation and prompt steps to prevent a recurrence of the most tragic campus violence ever in the United States.

"Many questions Will have to be answered! Why were these people shot? Who shot first? How could these deaths have been avoided? The campus and the City of Kent were sealed off following the shootings. Collegians pour out in protest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With flower-draped crosses, black arm bands and candlelight vigils, with fire bombs and window smashing, and with peaceful strikes and marches, American college students made plain today their sorrow and rage over the fighting in Cambodia and the death of four students In Ohio. Many thousands more were boycotting classes today than on Monday, with still more thousands preparing to strike -Wednesday, some of them indefinitely, in their protest against President Nixon's war policy. Some college administrators cooperated by suspending classes, like Dartmouth President John Kemeny, who called for conferences on the "constitutional crisis" to replace regular classes. Another state National Guard unit was called up to meet continuing disorder.

Gov. Warren Knowles of Wisconsin gave the order today to send Guardsmen onto the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison after a night of fire setting and window smashing. All parts of the country and all kinds of the old and prestigious to the little teachers' 'colleges were involved in the, mass outpouring of youthful emotion, set off by the President's announcement of American entry into Cambodia, and brought to fever pitch by the Ohio shootings. At, Mary in Fredericksburg, nearly half the 2,200 students rallied Monday night and made plans to hold antiwar demonstrations at historic sites during a visit there Wednesday of Mrs. Richard M.

Nixon. In New York City and upstate New York, some high school pupils were beginning to Join the peace protest. Olympic National Park survey Hurricane Ridge snow depth down THE CLOCKS Cars and school buses held up while road crew painted center line at Tumwater bridge this morning Ray. ofller bowling teams ending' season with dinner, trophies Men working In shirt sleeves on mountain finding overcoat weather on ing to (own Ed and Eileen Sherman proud of the seven large floats they found at Ka- over the weekend. Snow depth on Hurricane Ridge 55 per cent of normal Is lower this May than at any time in the past 15 years except 1963, an Olympic National Park snow survey revealed today.

What this means to local water supply this summer for power, Industrial, and home use no one is able to say. Fortunately, Port Angeles has seldom had to contend with water shortages in the past, except for occasional rationing In the 1950s when leaking wooden water lines, since replaced, required lawn sprinkling controls, re. ported John Warder, city director of public works. Future demands on the area's water supply, however, through industrial and population growth probably make invaluable the presentrecordkeepingbegan 15 years ago by ONP. "We are very interested in the park records." Warder pointed out as he admitted the possibility of facing a water crises some day in the future.

The city itself now monitors water flow at Morse Creek dam. Each winter, park rangers, under the watchful eye of project director Jack Hughes, district ranger, trek the backcountry to trace courses selected to indi. cate snow depth and water con. tent. Courses, for instance, are run on Deer Park and Cox Valley, as well as for Hurricane Ridge.

According to Don Brown, assist, ant chief ranger, these courses are indicators for drainage into Dungeness, the Elwha and Morse Creek, which is the city water supply. An aluminum tube two inches in diameter is thrust into the snow by tour ing rangers until the tube settles gently on the ground. The depth is then read and the tube retrieved with a core of snow which is we'ghed to de. termlne the water content. The courses, in carder to accurately represent existing snow be laid out on a fairly good representative of the drainage, Brown said.

They should also be on a meadow or other opan area for even snowfall and preferably flat to avoid drifts which vary yearly. Hughes says of the snow survey that It is probably too early to derive much value from the statistics collected. How. ever, heavy snowfall and high water content could be an indicator of heavy spring runoff. This could be interpreted by resevoir operators who could prepare for the surge of new water by lowering the existing level According to Hughes, it is better to drain a dam in advance than to put strain on facilities when the rush begins.

Hughes also pointed out that while this year's snow depths are down from normal. They are not a precise indicator of summer conditions. Rainfall could, for Instance, completely out. weigh the lack of snow and offset the shortage. Lack of snow depth and a short, age of summer moisture could combine, however, to create a sarious forest fire danger, Hugh, es continued.

Presently, Hurricane Rlclge has a snow depth of 53 inches and an 18-Inch water content; Deer Park, 50 inches snow, 19 water; and Cox Valley, 95 inches snow, 18 water. Deer Park, usually, reading lower than Hurricane Ridge is only 80 per cent of normal this year, Hughes concluded. Snow depth down Rangers Stu Croll and Eric Burr read a News photo..