Kent State reconvenes for graduation
KENT, OHIO (UPI) — Kent State University President Robert T. White interrupted commencement exercises to announce former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton would head a blue ribbon panel to investigate the deaths of four students killed by National Guard gunfire during a campus disturbance.
White said he received a telephone call from the White House and was told the panel would be made public at noon.
Also named to the commission, White said, was Cleveland City Safety Director Benjamin O. Davis, a retired Air Force general.
"At first glance, it's a reassuring list," White said. "Maybe it could have been better, but there are no active politicians on the list."
About 1,200 seniors received degrees during the graduation ceremony attended by about 4,000 parents and friends.
The 19,000 student university has been closed by court injunction since May 4 when a confrontation between National Guard troops and students resulted in the shooting deaths.
White said a peaceful graduation ceremony would give the school a basis "to petition the dismissal of the injunction and
to hold a reasonably complete summer session" scheduled to begin June 25.
With only one small peace symbol to be seen among the graduating seniors, Kent State University reopened briefly Saturday for the first time since May 4.
There were no incidents when the seniors, most of them solemn and reluctant to talk, returned to the campus for the commencement exercise.
The lone peace symbol seen was on the cap of a graduating coed.
Many of those who returned had signed pledges not to disrupt the proceedings.
DES PLAINES, ILL. (Special)
—When discarded and abandoned, an old refrigerator, ice box, or home freezer may easily become a death trap—as lethal as a gas chamber—a national industry association warns.
Industry warns of icebox danger
Old, used refrigerators, often unwittingly abandoned and discarded in basements, on back porches, and in garages and junk yards, have snuffed out the lives of 429 children between the ages of two and twelve in the United States during the past 20 years—an average of 17 children annually.
These death traps and the resultant tragedies could have been eliminated or avoided "if only the doors had been permanently removed when the units were discarded and abandoned," said Willi Stafford, executive manager
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of the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society.
The design of most old-style refrigerators, including many still in current use in homes throughout the country, Stafford explains, is that "an airtight seal results when the door is closed. Hence, a child can suffocate in 15 to 30 minutes."
When a refrigerator or ice box has been discarded and abandoned, it becomes a potential death trap that all too frequently holds a fatal attraction and fascination for children.
Why? Because it offers a perfect hiding place for youngsters when playing hide-and-seek or provides a wonderful "jail" for locking up the "bad guys" when playing cops and robbers. A child can hide or be locked up by his captors and never released until someone opens the door from outside—and then it may be too late.
It is this factor that so easily, so quickly, so innocently transforms the old, discarded refrigerator into a death chamber.
Today, all newly manufactured refrigerators are required by law to be equipped with an inside safety release, according to Stafford. Nevertheless, it is estimated that more than a million old units not equipped with such a safety device are retired from service annually and are potential death traps.
"It's depressing walking around this place," Thomas Pascarella of Girard, Ohio said. "It's just sad."
About 700 others who did not return received their degrees through the mail.
Twenty campus policemen were on plainclothes duty inside Memorial Gymnasium, where the commencement was held.
They can be eliminated only if homeowners and others in every community make certain that such refrigerators are made harmless by removing the door.
About 85 campus policemen and off duty policemen from surrounding communities patrolled the area.
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