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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1970)
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Young said he received his in formation with Kent State stu dents. He added that he was sending an affidavit from one witness to the U. S. attorney. Young made his statement as Life magazine published a copy righted photograph showing one guardsman, apparently an offi cer, aiming a pistol toward a group of students. An Ohio National Guard offi cial in Columbus said there was no indication that any .45 cali ber pistols were fired during the incident. The spokesman added that only officers carried .45 cal iber pistols at Kent State. Two Associated Press report ers examining the scene of the shooting shortly after the inci dent reported finding a spent bullet that appeared to be larger than the .30 caliber slugs fired from Ml rifles. It’s exact diameter could immediately be determined,^ ly because the bullet had in® roomed on impact. Theslugt turned over to a guard offis who pocketed it without t* ment. 61 Meanwhile, Asst. Atty, G> Jerris Leonard, the governn® chief civil rights enforcer, j sumed command of an expatc investigation into the fatal sfe ings. Leonard sent two civil ri{( division lawyers to Ohio tot* with Fill agents and U.S. Atj Robert B. Krupansky of Cfe land. Leonard added that no decia had yet been made on whetli to convene a federal grand jq to seek indictments in connect! with the incident. 3: New evidence revealed on P r exh question of sniper at Kent H y~.^T TTir.tTTr. /-n_ • . ir». mt. o m n 1 si i ... * . . ..... . F7L*U>* COLUMBUS, Ohio <A>i — The Ohio National Guard disclosed Tuesday what it suggested was new evidence of sniper fire in the Kent State University shootings May 4 in which four students died. Guard spokesmen have con tended that troops opened fire, during a confrontation with anti war demonstrators, after a snip er began shooting. Lt. Col. J. E. P. McCann, an administrative aide to Adj. Gen. S. T. Del Corso, reported that construction workers “heard a shot apparently originating from a nearby dormitory” and that a .32-caliber revolver had been fished from a river. McCann, reading a prepared statement, also reported four weapons — two handguns and two rifles — had been taken from persons ar rested in Kent the day of the disturbance. And the Guard statement as serted that a nun in graduate work at the university report a bullet crashed through an dow in her room at an angle! dicating it came from a roi or other elevated position. The guard’s statement said; bullet that crashed through: ) nun’s window stuck in then if “The angle was such thatl bullet had to have been fa from the top of a roof or fa an elevated position,” the Grt! stated. It did not say whetli ( the bullet had been recovered. Lubbock tornado wreaked $200 million in damages continued from page 1) buildings and streets was evacu ated hurriedly. But the swaying building stood and the evacuation order was rescinded with an hour. Auto mobiles on downtown streets were mashed to unrecognizable masses of steel by debrus falling from the downtown skyscrapers. Sliv ers and shrads of plate glass from shattered show windows and glass facings of the First National Bank building hit the streets like shrapnel Many of the injured, especially those from the downtown district, were struck by flying glass frag ments. Rows of warehouses were twisted, torn masses of sheet iron. Frame homes in the Mexi- can-American section of Guada lupe — “Little Mexico” — were shattered by the tornado and then blown away by the hurricane-like winds that followed. Debris from homes in an ex clusive section of Lubbock’s fash ionable country club were scat tered over greens and fairways. The Texas Tech campus was virtually untouched but lights at Jones Stadium suffered from the winds. A wall nearby was blown onto students’ automobiles. Highways and streets were still stacked with debris today. About a third of the 35,000 telephones knocked out had been put into service within 24 hours, but of ficials of Southwest Bell Tele phone Company said the rest of their work would be slower. Bell moved men and equipment into the shattered city to help area repair crews. Power went on and off in the city all day Tuesday, but mostly it remained off. Telephone service was sporadic, and Mayor James Cranberry called for water ration ing, asking citizens to use it only for drinking and cooking. Authorities declared a curfew, enforced by the patrolling Na- j tional Guard and Department of Public Safety personnel, for the downtown section Tuesday night to prevent further looting. A Lubbock policeman said Mon day night that looting started almost before the winds died down. Presence of Texas Rang ers kept many looters honest Tuesday, another policeman said. Hilary Sandoval, Small Busi ness Administration chief, de clared the city a disaster area Tuesday. President Nixon was expected to follow suit today. Although Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes estimated damage to the city as low as $50 million, the Lubbock- Avalanche Journal said it would exceed $200 million. Barnes con ceded that we was being “very conservative.” Tornadoes in the area sent chills through the city’s populace again Tuesday night. One was sighted only 20 miles away, but most of the turbulence moved to the east of the stricken city, and Lubbock had a night to move back toward a far-off normalcy which would be month in coming. Officials sought to make avail able to the homeless, some 500 houses in the city on which the Federal Housing Administration had forecolsed. The houses have no furniture. Both the Red Cross and the Salvation Army helped. The Red Cross sent six disaster teams to Lubbock with 10 mobile disaster vans. 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