Kent State

An Ohio district court judge Friday charged three men with contempt and sentenced them to five days in jail for refusing to pay fines stemming from their involvement in demonstration on the Kent State campus last summer.

The men were all members of the May 4 Coalition, a group opposed to a gymnasium now under construction on the hill where four Kent State students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970.

A county judge last July ordered demonstrators occupying the hill to disband, and halted construction plans until a hearing could be arranged.

Seven of the 197 demonstrators arrested for refusing to leave pleaded not guilty in July and were found guilty in a trial Friday. When the three men refused to pay a fine the judge sentenced them to jail for contempt of court.

The coalition wished to see the hill left as a memorial and a reminder, Sarah N. Scheuer, a member of the coalition, said yesterday. Scheuer's daughter Sandra was one of the four students killed in 1970

"All we wanted was for things to be left as they were," Scheuer added.