European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 19,1977 not to be outdone by the exploits of Evel Knievel Canadian stuntman Ken Carter intends to jump the St. Law plans International jump rence River in a rocket powered car. In Ottawa s Sparks Street mall he shows the converted automobile which he will use in the mile Long jump Effort sept. 25 from a ramp at Morrisburg ont., to Ogden Island n. Y. Up photo resort area Man 20, charged 4 children slain of to. Lake Home Camdenton to. A a 20-year old lifelong resident of the resort area near Missouri s Lake of the ozarks was charged saturday with murder in the slaying of four children at their isolated Home. Ray e. Richardson or. Was held without Bond at the Camden county jail for arraignment monday on four charges of Cap ital murder which carries a maximum penalty of death and a minimum penalty of 50 years in prison without possibility of parole for each charge. Police said Richardson lived in a trailer adjacent to his parents Home about a mile and a half from the Home of the victims. They said they did not know if he had a Job. Richardson and a 14-year-old companion were arrested late Friday at the juvenile s citizen rate mail plan is called unfair Washington up the . Postal service s proposed citizen rate for first class mail would discriminate against the handicapped because of a requirement that letters be addressed by hand sen. Harrison a. Williams jr., d-n.j., said sat urday. Williams said the plan also would Lead to slower mail delivery because More people would use hard to read Handwritten addresses to get the lower postal rate. Under the uses plan the first class rate would be increased to 16 cents but hand addressed letters would be carried at the citizen rate of 13 cents. Williams chairman of the Senate human resources committee said the lower rate would be unfairly denied to up to 600,000 victims of cerebral palsy some 750,000 totally paralysed people and up to 1.5 million people with impaired vision. These individuals depend on the mail As one of their few real links with the world at Large Williams said. Increased Post age rates May Force them to curtail their use of the mail which would diminish the Quality of their Home across the Road from Richardson s Home. The teen Ager was not identified be cause of his age. He was in the custody of juvenile authorities on saturday but no decision had been made on How to handle his Case officials said. Authorities gave conflicting statements about they had a motive in the slaying of the children who were shot to death thursday night while their parents were at a Bingo party at the american legion Hall in nearby Sunrise Beach. Authorities declined to reveal what motive for the slayings might have been Learned. The children s bodies were discovered by a girl who sometimes baby sat for them. She had gone to their Home which has no Telephone to deliver a message. The victims children of 41-year-old George Swift a former policeman in a Kansas suburb of Kansas City. Were Steven. 14 Gregory 12 Tanya 3, and Stacy s. Swift works As a Painter and welder at marinas and boat docks. Many of the were heavily damaged by Low water and heavy ice last Winter. The two older children were Swift s sons from a previous marriage. Another child from that marriage a 17-year-old girl was a patient at a Columbia mo., Hospital at the time of the shootings. The younger children were Swift s by his current wife. They All liked the ozarks. That was Why they wanted to go Down there said the children s grandmother Marguerite Swift of Manhattan Kane she said the family moved from the Kansas City area in March to the Small six room House on a dead end Camden county Road near resorts on the Hilly wooded headlands forming the North Shore of the Niangua River. Gregory Swift was shot once at the base of the neck As he apparently approached his Home from the left rear authorities said. Steven and Tanya were found on the living room floor Stacy in her crib in night clothes. All were shot with a Small Caliper weapon. Sheriff Larry Whitten said the children apparently were shot Between 7 and 7 30 . Deputy sheriff skipper Hedges said a .22-caliber pistol and a .357-magnum pistol were missing from the House. He said the Missouri state water patrol recovered a .22-caliber handgun and a .357 magnum revolver from the Niangua Branch of the Lake of the ozarks on Satur Day afternoon. The weapons that were recovered from the Lake by searchers using a Magnet matched the general descriptions of those missing from the Swift Home he said. The weapons were sent to the state crime Laboratory in Jefferson City for ballistics tests. 3rd-nation Park quiz explored Seoul up ton Sun Park s Ameri can lawyer tried sunday to set up a meet ing Between his korean client and . Investigators in a third country. Park and William Hundley the lawyer who flew into Seoul saturday evening remained in seclusion but were believed to be consulting on the third country questioning formula which if successful May ease .-South korean relations strained Over the Issue of alleged payoffs. Park s aides refused to disclose if they got together and where. However upon arrival Hundley was taken to an apparent reunion with the Wheeler dealer. They got together again sunday it was believed. Hundley told an Airport press Confer ence that he hoped to arrange a meeting Between Park Central figure in alleged in fluence buying in the ., and american investigators in a third country. The american lawyer said he had some discussions with . Justice department officials but he could not discuss the conversations with newsmen. Whether the third country formula would stand still appears to be an open queston. It is not yet known if the Seoul government which has refused to extradite Park would agree to it. More Seoul s Basic stand is that South Korea s sovereignty and Park s free will should be respected in any Case. The prevailing mood has been that the government would not agree to american officials question ing Park in a third country if Park did not want it. The american lawyer said he is pre pared to meet korean officials during his stay in Seoul. Park s aides said he May be in town a week or so. Sources said questioning of Park in Seoul by american officials cannot take place without the korean government being represented. Yet korean government officials have made it known that they Hope to Settle the entire dispute soon in a Way satisfactory to the two countries and to Park As Well. It is too Early to Tell whether the third country formula could serve the purpose. 19 die in Burma plane crash Rangoon up Nineteen persons including three infants were killed in the crash of a Burma airways plane in the mountainous Jungles of Western Burma. Temperatures l h 59 76 40 59 63 82 59 67 61 81 66 82 62 79 57 82 j2 81 72 92 78 88 77 90 59 84 58 75 Albany Anchorage Atlanta Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Detroit fort Worth Honolulu Houston Las vegas los Angeles l h 80 88 55 78 72 89 65 78 76 85 70 82 70 95 64 76 48 64 59 69 76 86 50 6565 86 69 83 Miami Beach Minneapolis new Orleans new York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Salt Lake City san Francisco san Juan Seattle St. Louis Washington cops arrest 4 holed up at Kent St. Kent Ohio up four Kent state students buried themselves in holes dug by Power shovels saturday in an attempt to Block construction of a gymnasium on the site of a bloody Antiwar demonstration in 1970. Police arrested All four after a Power shovel operator scooped up a Load of dirt near the the head of a buried woman pro tester and she appeared to faint. Nearly 60 City police sheriff s deputies and University police guarded workers re moving Trees from the area. The trouble began when four members of the May 4 coalition jumped into holes. About 20 Usu officers warned them to get out. Then a Power shovel moved in. Apparently without police authorization the shovel operator dug up a scoop of Earth barely a foot away from the body of Julia Cochrane a member of the Kent student government. Police then dragged out Cochrane who appeared to have fainted and took her to the student health other three protesters walked to waiting police cars. Authorities said the four would be charged with disorderly con duct and resisting saturday another protester Thomas Welch was arrested and jailed in lieu of $1,000 Bond for criminal trespass in connection with a demonstration at the site a week ago. The coalition which wants the site pre served As a memorial to the four Kent state students slain by National guard troops on May 4,1970, has vowed to retake the site next saturday. Construction began july 29 after 40 coalition members were arrested and moved from the site but a . District court judge in Cleveland stopped it the same Day. Since then court actions and protests have delayed the work
