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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETT COLORADO STATE MUSEUM DENVER 'COLO Follow the CSU Rams in 70' ticket drive starts By JOE LENT Sports Bditor Colorado State University and the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce will kick off the largest season football ticket drive in the history Monday with a goal of 12500 established The drive designed to the west stands in will find more than 500 persons actively engaged promoting the five-game $25 season tickets Coach Jerry Rams will face one of their toughest seasons in history this fall with three Western Athletic C-i ere ic2 games to be played tne two-year-old Hughes Stadium Wyoming Texas at El Paso and Brigham Young University will apne-r In Fort Collins along independents Utah State and the University of Pacific sue on road Arizona a Iowa ite and Air Force Academy before opening at again Wyoming Vatuora ly rank'd teams uch played post season bowl games and are on the Schedule are West Virginia and Toledo The two week ticket drivs will end May 23 as the Rams implote spring practice with ttie annual Future Bowl in Hughes Stadium Season tickets will be available from most business and community leaders Fort Collins or may be obtained by call-irg the CSU ticket office at 49 The Rams open the fall cam-pa gl a Nav Mexico Sate and FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN A For The Home Sunday Morning May 10 1970 H)Kf COLLINS COUlKAlK) 10 CENTS 96T1I TEAR NO 32 Arson suspected by authorities By DICK BURDETTE Staff Reporter TheCoIorado Bureau of In- dent marshals stood guard at vestigafion Monday will join au-! ad buildings both on the mam thorities here in investigating campus and at the Foothills fa-a late Friday night fire which cilities destroyed Old Mam landmark) It Galen Emcrine said the -classroom and office building 1 vigil will continue on the Colorado State Umver- as long as necessary sity carhpus Meanwhile the search contin- Jerry Harrison fire Inspector ues for leads and possible sus-for the Fort Collins Fire De- pect partment and Wayne Teagar-i Gene Erwin chief investiga-den chief of Campus Police tor lor the Campus Police De-agreed late Saturday afternoon partment said We have mori to request CBI help than one suspeet and more than Harrison said any evidence one led and we re going to of arson "is buncd under five follow cvrythirg tlirough com-feet pi and tlie meticu- pletely lous search for clues will begin only will we work through our own police department but other departments if necessary Monday morning going to guard and preserve the ruins just as they are until a careful search can Harrison said Harrison said James Jordan THIS FAR law enforcement investig ition has been earned CB investigator will arrive on 1 out solely by the Campus Police campus Monday morning to assist fire and law enforcement officials Department One suspect was questioned more than an hour early Saturday morning anti was then SATURDAY night reinforced 3 CoL 1 Old Main fire ljJ i TV moves students to send letters i I I I III I I sfi- Ail A IB) -m i -f i iV i w1' 9 l( 1 11 NOTE: The following letter was the first of several on the Old Main fire received by the Coloradoan It was found taped to the front door of-the Coloradoan about 4 am Saturday mommy Oth-er letters on the fire are on page o) Editor The Coloradoan Would you please print the following here the people of Fort Collins can SEE it? With immense horror I learned of what the sr-ens in the streets Friday night meant Old nearly a century of gone It took probably just a single person to do it perhaps he will glory in his brutish power as he gazes later at the wreckage of the building the ashes of its memones And the not silent of Colorado State University students with their honest desire for a meaningful and totally non-destructive peaceful demonstration against the idea of the lieooming even more involved in Southeast Asm We too must see the rubble and remember the hours manv of us met there remember too the grumbling but g-n-erally good-natured complaints about the old classroom acoustics Our strength lies now in condemnation of the deed in our shared responsibility preventing anything more like this from happening here eJer again have the hole left by the loss of Old Mam to remind us People of Fort Collins please know that we care? Very si merely Peggy Slater CSU Student 501 Remington fJTr yk-J MBIIMWW -i KH A i 1 1 i Lrf Vi on inside pages 1 i-i- (48 pages) page 28 page 23 page 12 page 3 page 2 page 9 page 10 page 4 page page 11 page 12 page 8 page 3 ISectiim I Colorado briefs Dr Thaiteson Markets Outdoor Gardener Servicemen The record Under Western Skies world briefs Weather Section II Dear Abby Heloiie page Section III Comics Cro'oiword puzIe 1 lag notices Letters from readers pages 5 32 Of plas and movies p(ge 31 Sports pages 21 24 Tt lev ision lug page Section IV Classified ads pages 33 Sunday tujijilrmrnt Sunday 5otms pages 4 A3 Spectacular view of a sad sight-Old-Main1 burning page 16 page Coloradoan photographer Ron Miller caught this spectacular view of Colorado State historic engulfed in flames early Saturday morning The water being sprajed from overhead is from the Fort Collins lire Walls of the building which remained standing after the fire were knocked down as a saffv meausre Saturday morning Student helied firemen fight the blae believed to be the work of in arsonist I Home and family pages 13-19 I Students react to fire with" anger dismay sorrow to blame me man against the strike Thus is your bag By DON McMILLEN Staff Reporter Anger dismay frustration and sorrow were expressed by Colorado State University students Friday night as Ola Main burned to the ground A division on campus between moderate and activitist students which began with the debate over whether or not to I Webber had been trying ti tion Thursday but rejected it pus as to the jasible motives 'act as a moderating element bound the fr5 Hetk a 1 he between radicals on campus and WEBBER suffering like answered the sident legisla-those opposing student marches many others from three nights ture telephone nil following a 'demonstrations and rallies I without sleep broke down un- march to city mil Thursday As a result Robert Beck a dcr the stiain of Friday The person cJmg allegedly Westfall Hall representative on fire and wept He refused to said this ling keeps up had no part in the disaster Those who had led strike ac- the student legislature said 15 talk to reporters and was taken the umvprsity i going to burn i Burning thus building down turns to proiest the Cambodian phone threats against Webber home to bed three horns after If you think State was was a total! snselss act It situation and the ki'lmv of four had been made Webber report- the fire began something just zait had no revolutionarv value It Kent Sta'e' Umvcisitv student edly was offeicd police protec-1 Speculation raged on the cam-1 Others said A oral mdn id- was not an establishment build- -NTl Df vrs 3 CoL I uaU at a "rKk fes'ivd" dune mg" sad Ron Heard an un near the Col'ege Avei ue Field- suieo-dul stude-m body pre-M-house the night of the fire hui dent eaiddde who was a di le-stated openly a build ng would ga'e at the Students for a Dero-burn on campus laUr that night oeiatie Soea'y cemvention in Radical students el nvd Uuy Chicago lost summer 1 ti ke classes erupted into fighting and verbal abuse in the emotional state of affairs surrounding the fire Me uient body officers were busy organizing student marshals to patrol the campus and man fire lines an angry student blamed them for the fue no way going Whoever did this was brought here by you people and your said Douglas Curtis a freshman from Fort Collins Similar comments thrown at student body president Don Webber led to a bnef fight Other fights were repoited across the campus 1.