Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 1

How Safe Is State Capitol? Chilling' Spy Plan Caret purpose of the study is to find a way of eco nomically strengthening the building without destroying the architecture and its says William Hancock man ager of the State Planning Board know the building has some inherent weakness as far as seismic stability is A severe quake according to Hancock could shove the walls outward with the roof and floors caving in And the most dangerous place would be the office which is in the center of the oldest section of the original capitol The stone work on the outisde of the capitol is nothing more than veneer Inside are pieces of rock and sand ce mented together best example I can give is the walls are like a piece of peanut brittle You can hit it three or four (See STATE Page 2 Col 5) by CY RYAN CARSON CITY UPI always been rumors and a slight trace of fear that the state Capitol is the most dangerous place in town in case of an earthquake or strong or years stories have circulated the Capitol would collapse when a major earthquake hit And it has been compared to a piece of peanut brittle which could withstand several blows from a hammer and then suddenly crumble But now the state is going to get some answers how safe the century old structure really is and whether it is' worth preserving The 1973 legislature approved $50000 for a study to find the weaknesses and strong points of the building which houses the offices of governor controller treasurer secre tary of state and mines inspector MB NEW YORK (UPI) A White House plan to bug burglarize and blackmail antiwar activists was briefly in 1970 until it was rejected by former BI Director Edgar Hoover according to Newsweek magazi ne In its edition for release Sunday Newsweek reports the sweeping secret police plan would have pooled the services of the BI CIA National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency to spy on militants believed fomenting domestic unrest plan was in operation for only five days in the summer of said News week the administration says it was never implemen President i in his statement on Watergate last week referred to plans for covert activities including and in 1970 which he said were not implemented because of Hoo objections But the magazine noted the potential of the plan was and quotes an unidentified congressional source as saying you read it it will send chills up and down your chilling con tends Newsweek was mounting evidence that the plan had helped spawn Water According to Newsweek the plan developed at a meeting of intelligency agency heads called by the White House to cope with growing domestic unrest The plan Newsweek said the way for bugging burglary perhaps even black mail by government agents against American citizens among them federal employees antiwar activists campus radi cals and militant Black Pan thers well as foreign students and of the proposals would have created a new cadre of CIA for domestic missions operatives who could not be traced to the agency and whose identity and assignments would be concealed from all but the highest agency Newsweek said the plan was approved by President Nixon but withdrawn five days later after Hoover objected to almost every section and refused to go along plan was dead but its spirit apparently lingered said Newsweek Illegal break ins were made against Black Panthers the Harrisburg Eight and the Chicago Seven News week said and one of those connected with the original White House Unit Gordon Liddy on to the White House the Ellsburg burglary and the plot now known as Jteno's Morning and Sunday Newspaper tSebaDa Jbtate journal IO4t Year No 184 Sunday May 27 1973 15c 35c Sunday Ehrlichman Links Mitchell 9k 99 I sBPvJi i fat B9M Mw wMBBbBmhm Skylab Dangerous? XV Coaching Woes The it fiery 'VV' aides refused to answer any Killer Tornado Hits Oklahoma Officer ITIorning ferrying Cay to fell into of here that he told a federal grand jury investigating the Water gate bugging and break in that he attended about three meet ings early in 1972 where bugging was discussed But he said he rejected all eavesdrop ping proposals and did not specify whether he had been present for any discussion of the Watergate planning effort to cover up the June 17 1972 incident down in about 20 feet of water one quarter mile off the island at 10:10 PM EDT Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald Warren said the dead body was recovered by divers at the scene of the crash Identifica tion was withheld pending notification of next of kin Nixon was notified of the crash Warren said The six other agents were and were taken to a hospital at Homestead AB la was an emergency replacement for 1 a main shield against solar heat which tore off during launch May 14 and rendered the then unmanned station uninhabitable Without the sunshield air temperatures inside Sky cabin soared to 125 degrees ahrenheit Conrad who en heavy rain storm that hit him as he approached the communi ty from the south while driving home thought it had passed and sped up but suddenly saw this huge cloud coming from the he said I saw debris flying out of the sides of the storm I took to the Roy Bashaw of Tulsa who reached the town shortly after the twister said the sight was unbelievable looked like it just blew the whole town he said were blown across the highway One guy was sitting on the side of the road his shirt blown off was so I just believe what I Bashaw said he did not see the funnel but at the time the storm passed he was lying on the floor of his automobile the the the and Awarded the Gold Med al for scholarship at Uni versity of 83rd commencement Saturday was Edward Klatt from Tulelake Calif who had a 399 four year average Names of all graduates are listed on Page 3 and the commencement story with pictures is on Page 18 Journal Photo) KEEETON Okla (UPI) passed Then he drove into the A tornado that swirled out of a large black cloud smashed through this tiny Eastern Oklahoma community Satur day killing or injuring many of its residents and destroying much of the town our persons were killed and at least 15 injured in the twister one of many reported in the area during the day The town of about 300 population 10 miles south of Muskogee was littered with the dead and injured broken propane tanks gas pumps and dead horses never did see a funnel as such just a huge cloud that flipped down on the ground And it was twisting and turning all said John Stone managing editor of the Mus kogee Phoenix Stone said he drove his car into a ditch on US 64 and waited until the storm had the orange and silver umbrella was so wrinkled it had failed to unfold properly and worried it might not provide enough shade But mission control assured them engineers on the ground were satisfied Raising the 22 by 24 foot para soT was the highest priority task assigned to Charles Conrad Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz the first crew to visit the station NASA officials had chosen the device as the primary method for salvaging $26 billion Skylab program Jack Kinzler chief of techni Key Biscayne la (UPI) A US Army helcopter carrying seven Secret Service agents assigned to President Nixon went down in the Atlantic Saturday night off 'Grand Cay the Bahamas One agent was killed according to Secret Service Information Jack Warner The helicopter was the agents to Grand relieve another contingent of agents guarding Nixon and members of his family No member of the first family was aboard when the helcopter went now that got that parasol Conrad and Weitz deployed sources said Saturday the parasol by pushing it out The sources said Ehrlichman through an airlock in testified that he was told the The state will spend $50000 to find out the weaknesses and strong points of Nevada State Capitol parts of which were built 100 years ago (Journal Photo) town were bodies every he said found five bodies around the rear of one service station most of them badly injured is not community but it There is probably building left that tered the cabin for the first time Saturday afternoon said he had to wear special gloves to keep from burning his hands He called must have been 120 (degrees) in there the veteran mission commander said Asked by mission control how he felt about working in the space station today he replied: you can bring it down 20 degrees be win watched their progress through a window in the Apollo command module locked to one end of the space station recording the deployment on video tape The astronauts started their second activities in orbit a bit late because they had been up almost 24 hours riday They awoke feeling chipper and Conrad reported slept pretty good we really Their blastoff went smoothly from Cape Kennedy but several hours later they found they aide Some or all of these four Mitchell has acknowledged persons were said to have been present at the later meetings and Ehrlichman said he was told Mitchell definitely was at the one where the Watergate bugging proposal was discussed ebruary or March of 1972 The sources said they could not positively say who Ehrlich man had identified as the source for his information but free a jammed solar wing on Skylab a long shot (See PARASOL Page 2 Col 5) mer Presidential aide John Ehrlichman has sworn he learned some weeks ago that Haldeman who resigned April John Mitchell and other key 30 as White House chief of officials secretly discussed a specific proposal for bugging the Watergate of fices early in 1972 authoritative (See Sports Page 19) is gone not a is not damaged sure that cloud was about a quarter mile wide and just about the width of Stone said gasoline spewed from wrecked service station pumps ripped off their moo rings Propane tanks lay split open Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers who confirmed death count cordoned off community because of damage to gasoline tanks natural gas lines He said the twister followed a workshop from the sun They reported with initial frustration that the fabric of sometime today before they could tell how much the parasol would cool Skylab But less than two hours after it was erected temperatures in the 118 foot long research station had already begun to drop a Itr la The big lopsided umbrella Capsule communicator Henry Hartsfield told the crew it koked like the temperatures would fall below 100 degrrees in the next several hours The goal was to get it down to 69 or 70 degrees just like to say that you guys did a tremendous Hartsfield said got everybody down here smiling at the Watergate was brought up at the last of a series of three or four meetings ar ranged to discuss campaign intelligence gathering The first of these meetings was said to have taken place late in December 1971 or early in January 1972 and to have been attended by Mitchell then attorney general White House counsel John Dean Jeb Magruder the deputy manager that both former presidential oi President Mxon re election campaign and Gordon questions about an alleged Liaay a wrmer wmte House cal services at Skylab 1 astronauts successful Johnson Space Center and the inventor of the parasol predict ed the sun would warm the staff was said to have testified separately along the same lines although with less specif ic information Both Haldeman and Ehrlich man who also resigned his White House iob Aoril 30 were sun blackened golden side Ker plan for electronic surveillance "'said Jo have provided Their information making pre trial depositions this week in the $64 million civil damage suit against the Com mittee fop the Re Election of the Presidftit or their part Haldeman and Ehrlichman both denied that they themselves had any advance knowledge of the Watergate conspiracy the sources said adding however Helicopter Crash Kills Agent Assigned fo Guard Nixon Death Plunge MOAB Utah (UPI) A 25 year old Provo Utah man plunged 600 feet to his death Saturday when he rode a motorcycle over the rim of the Colorado River canyon Roger erante was killed instantly when he fell into the narrow gorge five miles northeast ly unfurled a giant parasol over first space station Saturday night in a crucial wrinkled plastic and nylon attempt to shelter the hot dry fabric and allow it to spread out fully Engineers said it would be Sources Say WASHINGTON (UPI) or that they thought he said it had come mainly from Magrruder The sources said Astronauts Unfurl Giant Parasol HOUSTON (UPI) 1 or Wolf Pack I 6 Die in Crash COTTAGE GROVE Ore (UPI) A twin engine Cessna 310 crashed Saturday as it circled to land killing all six persons aboard The victims were Identified as owner pilot John Mieras 56 Pasadena Calif a prominent Southern attorney his 'wife Eunice 56 their daughter Christina Gaglione 22 'and her husband abio 25 mothter Jennie 84 also Pasadena and his brother James Mieras 47 ullerton Calif Holiday Death Toll By United Press International The toll of roadway deaths mounted steadily Saturday as motorists crowded expressways and highways over the three day Memorial Day weekend despite warnings that gasoline shortages might occur in some resort areas A United Press International count at' midnight EDT 149 persons had been killed in traffic accidents unds for Jobs WASHINGTON (UPI) The Labor Department released an additional $33 million for summer jobs for youths Saturday but drew criticism from Rep George Ill for withholding $239 million in Neighborhood Youth Corps funds i jli Icelandic Gunboat's Shells Hit British Boat REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) An Icelandic gunboat Satur day opened fire and hit a British trawler in disputed fishing waters off Iceland Crewmen on the stricken ship were struggling to keep her from sinking The trawler was reported taking on more water than her pumps could handle Other British fishing boats were standing by No casualties were reported The British oreign Office said it viewed the shooting incident with The British Trawler ederation described the shooting as act of Political sources said the incident meant a dangerous escalation of the British Icelandic which already has prompted Britain to send in its navy to protect British trawlers fishing inside the 50 nautical mile limit Tile sources said the incident could endanger further at tempts: to solve the conflict by peaceful negotiations The Ice landic government said earlier there could be no talks on a solution as long as British naval vessels are staying inside the limit The Iceland coast guard said it fired into the hull of the fishing boat only after it repeatedly ignored warning shots and orders to stop A coast guard spokesman said the trawler had her bow slashed open by two shells from the gunboat Aegir and was so badly damaged she faced danger of sinking He said the Aegir chased the trawler but was unable to stop her and left the trawler to be assisted by other British fishing boats British Ambassador to Ice land John McKenzie was instructed to protest the inci dent in the strongest possible terms the British oreign Office said in London The Everton apparently was separated from the main British fishing fleet and away from the protection of the British Royal Navy frigates sent into the area six days ago with orders to take whatever action was necessary to protect the British trawlers Capt Edward Clifton skipper of the trawler mothership the Othello said in a radiotele phone call to the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) in London that the Aegir sneaking out from behind an to attack the trawler The Icelandic coast guard said the gunboat Aegir fired on the trawler Everton while it was reportedly fishing 20 nautical miles off the north coast Iceland claims a 50 mile fishing limit but British fisher men have refused to recognize the Icelandic claim Coast guard sources noted that Icelandic Premier Olafur Johannesson had 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