Local Students Tell of Horrors at Kent
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Local Students Tell of Horrors at Kent By wmut tmmm ,verilty m in mxoti, k owKJemnfog the aoUon o* ifee Qfeio Mil* Bdmaet, m a&va&te of jxm-vlolence, wasn't par- "mt'» th* most stocking thing," ht tuH, "There ym no reason tor foqn to shoot.,. they Aot National Guard la firing into a crowd of antiwar demon- M$0fig to the HmtmzbraUm, "she was just eomtog out of to the knowledge that one of my friends ivu 4te&" light Into the crowd .. .'• ."^*" strators on that campus two days ago, killing four students h#r dorm to go to class, She Just happened to be around He was taVing midterms "when I heard oereww; .. "I don't think Ml rifles versus rocks ba good example and wounding others, four critically. .,. it's just Jlke she was murdered . .." ; our teacher left to administer first aid . jbe returned ct fighting forco with force . ,. they could have shot over Almost- without exception, the students'said they had "We think Sandy's death was useless. It won't affect shocked th« students' heads ..." Relieved the guardsmen were, armed with blanks. The Nixon or help anything . , .it's just a wasted life ..." Mr. Krumel, an ROTC cadet, said that guardsmen ware "It's ironic, a lot of the National Guard are just draft shots sounded "just like firecrackers" they reported, and "It doesn't give the little old guardsmen any excuse atop a hill and the students on a slope below "and the guard dodgers, and they turn around and fight students saying all said the students were shocked and disbelieving as the now, does it?" Miss Coats asked when told that guard of- are taught to shoot low to disable, not kill. At first I thought 'get out of Vietnam'..." dead and wounded fell, bleeding. ficials had said there wasn't any sniper. "I'm sure they that, not realizing the angle of the hill, hey might have been "The students would have dispersed If the guard shot Bullets whizzed through dorm windows, narrowly miss- wouldn't get killed with the little pebbles you can find near shooting at the ground, but photographs show them kneel- Into the air or used blanks ..." Ing some of their classmates, several students said. Taylor Hall... at least, they could have fired into the ing and taking aim. "The guard had no right to fire point blank into a ; DIDN'T HEAR SNIPER air..." "Emotions were running high .., students were pelting crowd ... I blame the" students, if they had dispersed Students on the scene said they didn't hear any sniper Miss Coats, who quoted a professor as saying prompt the guard with rocks and stones ... I don't think rocks it wouldn't,have happened . , ." fire before the National Guard shot into the crowd. Na- police response to an appeal for help could have prevented versus Ml rifles is a good example of fighting force with "Sandy wasn't even participating... she had just left tional Guard officials who hid claimed their men were re- the fire which destroyed the ROTC building on Saturday and force ... the guard had alternative courses of action her dorm to go to class , , . it's just like she was mur- turning fire from a rooftop sniper, yesterday acknowledged reportedly led to the calling out of the guard, thinks the they could have used blanks, fired above the student's dered ..." there wasn't any sniper. killings strengthened the protest movement. heads, drawn bayonets to force them back. ," "Four young people have been killed ... the faculty is Several of the^students voiced doubt that the demon- "I think the demonstratioas will continue. We have SAYS ACTION NOT NEEDED stunned, dismayed ... the guard never should have had strators were throwing large rocks. They said there aren't no other outlet to let the government know ... I don't He believes the guard was necessary to prevent further rifles loaded with live ammunition on campus . .." many rocks in the area. see how Nixon can ignore what the students are saying if destruction of university property, and hopes that there will CONDEMN GUARD ACTION "I try not to think about it," Linda Coats, a 22-year- this is a democracy ..." be a two-sided dialogue when students return to campus, They may disagree on protest demonstrations, but six old senior from Little Silver said, her voice quivering, Ss KNEW SHOOTING VICTIM "and I hope students will realize more destruction won't Red Bank area students and a former Bed Bank resident she told of the tragedy which took the life of one of her best Richard Krumel, Middletown.'a junior, also knew Miss bring back the four who have died ..." who heads the mathematics department at Kent State Uni- friends, Sandy Lee Scheuer, 20, of Youngstown, Ohio. Scheuer. (See Students, Pg. 3) KCHa^iiaaB^aHWMHianH Sunny and Cool Partly sunny, cool today. THEDAILY Clear and cooler tonight. Sun- ny,' cool tomorrow. Red Bank, Freehold I Long Branch , ««• mum, 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92. Years VOL. 93, NO. 219 RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1970 28 PAGES 10 CENTS • Students at a .growing number Of campuses across Buffalo, N. V., police fired tear gas and battled students America today responded to calls for a nationwide strike on the campus of Buffalo State' University : and nearby against. President Nixon's Cambodian policy and the Kent .streets last night. The incident involving about 500 students State killings.. - .:' " • : ' ': : followed similar encounters during the day. -*.._.. Some universities, shut down, altogether, others held Police also used tear'gas and clubs in the state Capitol rallies, prayer meetings or vigils. There were clashes with . building in Austin, Tex., to break up a demonstration by police on some, campuses. On some others, there were^in- several hundred protesters who had marched frorh the Uni- dications of support for the move into Cambodia. • versity of Texaft campus "six blocks away. National Guardsmen patrolled at the University of EXAMS CANCELED Wisconsin in Madison after police said more than 35 Boston University canceled final examinations and Its persons were arrested in two days of window smashing and scheduled May 17 commencement exercises at, which Sen. firebomb vandalism. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.,, was to have been the prin-, 10,000 ATTEND RALLY cipal speaker. University spokesmen estimated 10,000 persons attend- "The call for a nationwide student strike was made ed a campus rally last night to protest the President's by Charles Gonzales, president of the 110,000-member Stu- deployment of troops in Cambodia and to hear a "people's dent National Education Association. There appeared to petition"'against the Kent deaths. The rally was peaceful be a-wide response. but there was vandalism afterward. President Nixon's daughter Julie, and her husband, The current wave of protests was touched off Monday David Eisenhower, remained at their Northampton, Mass., when National Guardsmen called out by Ohio Gov. James apartment as students at both Smith, where she attends, A. Rhodes to control antiwar demonstrators at Kent State, and Amherst, where David is enrolled, voted to strike. fired into a crowd. Four students were^kiUed. There was also a strike by students at fashionable Finch The Faculty Senate ye^ferd^y, blamqd'Rhodes.and his- College, a girl's school in .New/York-from which Tricia adjutant general, S..T. DeTCorso,.for.the,deaths. Nixon was graduated in 1868; V1 • • . HELD LESS RESPONSIBLE TRIP CANCELED "We hold the guardsmen, acting under orders and In Washington, Mrs,. Nixon canceled her scheduled under severe psychological pressures less ^responsible for trip to Fredericksburg, Va., today because of planned anti- the massacre than our Gov. Rhodes and Gen. Del Corso, war demonstrations at Mary Washington University there. whose Mamatory indoctrination produced Mhose pres- At Haverford College outside of Philadelphia, everyone sures, the 550-me'mber senate said in a resolution. (See Protests, Pg. 3) COLLEGE ON STRIKE — About 1.500 Monmouth College 'students gathered behind the Great Hall yesterday afteTnioti and Jo~udly supported plans for an indefinite student strike to protest the war in bido-China and the 1 MUin»*£-four students at Kent Siaio University. The strike has the support of the coflege administration. •. ..;..' , (Register Staff Photo I 29 Persons, 18 to 26, Are War, Kent Slayings Bring ounts By HALLIE SCHRAEGER suspects were still at large cotics Bureau at the request - Staten, 24, of Seaview, Manor, FREEHOLD — Twenty- late yesterday! * of Col. David B. Kelly, state Long Branch, possession and nine persons, aged 18 to 26, Bails Set police superintendent. Drug sale of heroin* March U in Monmouth College Strike we're arraigned on various Bails were set between ¥250 sales were allegedly made to Long Branch; Charles T. drug charges here -yesterday and $5,000. Judge Crahay state police undercover Those terms emphasize the Wall Jr., 339 Garfield Court, BV RICHARD McMANUS period. College president Dr. faculty-student steering com- before Superior Court Judge scheduled hearings June 5 in agents. Lting Branch, possession and WEST LONG BRANCH — William G. Van Note en- mittee. non-violent character of the. Francis X. Crahay. Monmouth County Court for planned protests. Yesterday's activities were sale of heroin 'April 'l and Monmouth College students dorsed the action. Van Note Cheered : The arraignments followed those charged with.indictable headed by Capt. George Kell possession of darvon, a pre- All.classes are suspended Their greatest • aipplaiise, • Decisions on the .timing of 6 a.m. raids by state and went on strike yesterday and the strike, the resolutions in offenses;. .Dates for municipal and Detective Sgt.