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EE THE AGE AMENTO STOCKS FINAL 10c SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA Monday May 14 1973 3 Sections 44 Page Vol No 38103 Founded 1857 mm a km Sister Makes Futile Try At Resuscitation Felled by a lightning bolt as he wound up to pitch John Wade lies on the mound in the left photo as his sister moves in for a futile attempt to revive him with mouth to mouth resuscitation Right photo players and friends weep openly as an ambulance leaves the field with his body Wade was pitching the season opener for the semipro Lake Ha-vasu City Ariz baseball team when he was struck by lightning LTI Photos 1 if TV' 4r I Wafergafe Cean 87 Lightning Big Skylab Space Station Dean: Nixon Never Ball Hu Earfh 0rbit Authorized Report payer AP and NY TirrtM Service Timn w-orvrtfo tViof DiAri4nnf AP and NY Times News Service Time also that President reported CAPE KENNEDY Fla (AP) Skylab America's first space station rocketed into orbit today but failure of two solar panels to extend threatened to jeopardize the mission The unmanned Skylab was fired into orbit to serve as a "cabin in the sky" for nine astronauts in the next eight months with the first threeman crew scheduled to be launched to the lab tomorrow A Saturn 5 rocket propelled the 85-ton Skvlab into a perfect orbit LAKE HAVASU CITY Ariz (UPI) A bolt of lightning described as a column of fire two feet wide hit a baseball pitcher "like a bomb" yesterday afternoon as he was winding up watched the liftoff of the Saturn 5 from a viewing area three miles away Their smaller Saturn IB rocket stood on another launch pad 8700 feet away The planned launch time is 10 am PDT tomorrow The astronauts riding a modified command ship will be launched at 1 pm Tuesday They will be thrust into orbit by a smaller 22-story Saturn IB rocket Seven hours 40 minutes later they will dock with Skylab After sleeping aboard their command ship the spacemen will board the laboratory Wednesday morning Also watching the space station launch were six men who will conduct 56-day missions the crews of Sky-See Page A3 Col 1 An effort was being made to extend the wing-like panels by radio signal from the ground If the panels do not deploy it is doubtful that astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Dr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weilz will rocket into space to hook up with the station on Tuesday "If the wings arc not completely deployed 1 frankly doubt that we'il send them up" launch director Walter Kapryan said The solar cells are designed to collect the rays of the sun and convert them to electrical energy to run the spacecraft systems Conrad Kerwin and Weitz who are scheduled to spend a record 28 days aboard the orbiting laboratory NEW YORK Former White House counsel John Dean III has told Newsweek magazine that President Nixon never ordered him to produce a report on the Watergate case Dean said in an interview that he was to hear the President state publicly last August that an investigation by Dean showed no current White House employes were involved in the case "Here was the President of the stories on Other Watergate page Alt) Nixon asked Dean to sign two documents last March one a virtual confession that Dean alone in the White House concealed facts in the case and the other his resignation Dialogue Reported Time quoted this dialogue: "What about Ehrlichman and Haldeman?" Dean asked the President "They have given verbal assurance that they were not part of a cover-up" Nixon replied Dean refused to sign and the President told him to draft his own letter of resignation When he still resisted Dean was told by Nixon that the counsel must "shoulder the burden" and that there would be no full "airing" Time continued Infiltration Move According to government sources Dean also tried to set up a system to infiltrate antiwar protest groups before the political conventions last year The sources said Dean summoned an official of the Interior Department to his office in May 1972 and offered him a large sum of cash either to participate in or to direct an undercover network The official Kernith Tapman who handled negotiations for the Interior See Back Page A16 Col 1 for a pilch in his team's season opener The bolt killed pitcher John Wade 19 instantly then forked out knocking down every player in the infield and outfield Seven persons were injured Second baseman Herbert Noye 21 and shortstop Bob' Hormann 33 were reported in critical condition in a hospital Playing Californians Lightning struck in the top half of the sixth inning as Wade of the newly formed Lake Havasu City semipro team was about to deliver a pitch to a batter from the Blythe Calif team "It was like in one of those science fiction films where someone from outer space would shoot a ray of light at someone and he would disintegrate" said Glen Baker a volunteer fireman who was watching the game "A cylinder of light came down and engulfed the pitcher" he said "It looked like his whole body was just one big flash" "It just vaporized the kid's clothing See Back Page A16 Col 6 Stocks Fall Dow Off 18 United States reassuring the American people on the basis of a report that didn't exist" Dean said Associate Quoted Time magazine quoting a close associate of Dean published a similar story Sunday At a news conference August 29 President Nixon said he had previously told Dean to investigate any leads which might implicate White House staff members in the Watergate case "I can say categorically that his investigation indicates that no one in the White House staff no one in this administration presently employed was involved in this very bizarre Incident" Nixon said nearly 271 miles above the earth and all systems seemed to be working well until Mission Control Center reported nearly two hours after the 1:30 am PDT liftoff that the two 30-foot solar panels had not deployed Three Teens Are Killed In Car Crash McClatchv Newspapers Service PLACERVILLE Three Loomis teen-agers were killed last night when a car driven by Ronald Wain-scott 17 of Sacramento collided with their vehicle on Green Valley Road near Brown's Ravine in Western El Dorado County The highway patrol reported the driver Robert Douglas Arnold 16 Story of other fatalities in Superior California is on page Bl Steven George Visman 16 and Steven Ronald Moore 16 were killed Patrol officers said the accident occurred about 7:45 PM when Wain-scott drove his vehicle across the cen VI Files On Ellsberg Wiretap Found In Ehrlichman Safe (Hi is jr- ed by Judge Matthew Byrne in dismissing the government's case against Ellsberg Prior to the dismissal Byrne had asked to see the logs of the wiretaps but the FBI said it was unable to locate them Ruckelshaus told a news conference that that file and some 16 others concerning wiretaps which ranged from May 1969 to February of 1971 "were located in the White House having been filed in a safe in Mr Ehr-lichman's outer office" Ruckelshaus said all the wiretaps had been placed after President Nix-See Back Page A 16 Col 6 WASHINGTON Acting FBI Director William Ruckelshaus said today that the missing wiretap file in the Daniel Ellsbcrg-Pentagon Papers case has been found in a safe at the office of former presidential aide John Ehrlichman Files on some 16 others involving newsmen and other government officials were also found in the safe he said The recent revelation that Ells-berg's telephone conversations had been tapped by the FBI while he was staying at the house of Morton Hal-perin then an aide to Dr Henry Kissinger was a central element cit Stock market prices plunged sharply today with the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip stocks losing 1829 points The Dow closed at 90969 the lowest since Feb 8 1972 Previous low point this year was 921 The New York Stock Exchange index lost 123 to 5620 It was the fourth straight losing session with analysts blaming the plunge on adverse news about Watergate dollar weakness as gold prices soared abroad and fears of a new credit crunch in the wake of the discount rate increase by the Federal Reserve Details on Pages C19-20 Skylab heads for orbit ITI Photo Superman's Debut Rare Comic Book Sells For $1800 ter line while negotiating a curve a short distance west of Brown's Ravine near the entrance to the Folsom Lake boat launching ramp Wainscott was taken to Twin Lakes Hospital in Folsom where he was treated fur head and arm injuries He later was transferred to Kaiser Foundation Hospital where his condition was listed as satisfactory State Employes Report Pressure To Back Tax Plan By Lee Fremstad Bee Caoitoi Bureau Chief Some stale employes are complaining they are under pressure subtle and otherwise in their agencies to climb aboard the bandwagon to help qualify Gov Ronald Reagan's tax limit initiative for the ballot The loudest complaint came today from Earl Sullaway secretary-treasurer of the 4000-member Union of State Employes Local 411 Because of membership complaints Sullaway wrote Reagan "I have been informed that your appointees are soliciting state employes to gather signatures for your proposed tax initiative "I consider this tactic on the part of an appointed public servant to be a cynical abuse of the power of the employer over the employed" A spokesman for the California State Employes Association (CSEA) added their organization has also had See Back Page A16 Col 1 In Today's Sacramento Bee Amusements A13 World Back Fence Gossip B5 uS envoy to China heads for Pe- Boyd Column A15 king A7 Bridge A15 Irish violence claims three lives Business And Finance C18-20 over weekend A9 Classified Advertising C6-17 Comjcs 12 G0'" soars $100 an ounce dollar Editorials weakens A3 Harris Survey A13 Horoscope A12 Nation Metropolitan News Bl-3 Receding Mississippi River leaves Medical Column A14 farm problems in wake A7 Obituaries B2 Politics By Rodda A4 State And Local Porter Column C19 Legislators will ponder $93 billion fcenf 4-5 state budget A4 Sports Cl-5 Television And Radio A14 Vital Statistics C6 UQlLQP Weather A6 YVedTner In 24-hour period ended at 4 AM Tadav's Chuckle today the maximum was 95 th vuuy 9 WJUtwc minimum 64 The best way to keep children Relatively humidity at 4 PM yes-aware of the value of money Is to terday was 28 borrow some from them Forecast: Variable cloudiness "I'm the King of Comics!" declared an exhultant 18-year-old high school student here today Mitchell Mehdy 18 announced he paid a record $1800 cash for one of nine existing copies of the comic book that introduced Superman to the world in 1938 "I've got the world's most valuable comic!" said Mehdy who bought the copy of Action Comic No 1 from a friend here Theodore Holstein 26 One comic book dealer in the bay area The Berkeley Comic Art Shop confirmed that the price reported would have been the highest ever paid for a copy of the rare comic book "This comic book is priceless" rhapsodized Mehdy a Del Campo High Student who says he has collected 2000 comics during the past decade "It's an artifact of nostalgic value that beckons the heart! Let's put it this way: Action Comic No 1 is the utlimate comic book!" "The thing about Action 1 the book is so monumental so unique it created the rise of comics in this country Thousands of new titles spring up after its success new publishers sprouted up" Mehdy who said he sold some of his collection to purchase the comic called it "priceless" "It's going into a safe deposit box at a bank and -I'm going to insure it with Loyd's of London And I have a nickname now Call me "The King of Comics' Only nine people in the world can be called that those who own Action No I'm the first one to announce it The others keep theirs in safes and stay quiet about it The only way I'd sell it is to a museum I want the world to see it to see what it's really like" "I'd want $10000 before I'd even consider selling it" Game Winners A list of today's "Your Name is the Game" winners is on Page A13.