The Cincinnati Post from Cincinnati, Ohio • 11

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Particularly this time for Bill quoits Palmer's note was to alarm the country side He took the short cut down along the Thames through Pomfret Brooklyn (Conn) Norwich to New London At Brooklyn was the old retired warhorse Israel Putnam who saddled up his horse col lected officers and men of the Connecticut militia and arrived in Boston at dawn to take command of the Military state militia Meanwhile Bissel went through Old Lyme at 1 a ferried the Connecticut hit Saybrook at 4 am Guilford at 7 and noon in Branlord just outside of New Haven on the 21st At each stop the time of arrival was noted on Colonel worn message paper Often an urgent message was added by the locals A BIG SHOUTING and reading on the A Melvin job Maybe there any Melvins on your job but there was one trying to paint his name on 1 71 near the Taft road exit "MEVLIN" he wrote not criticizing you sir just that you have to get more emotion into it forget you have submitted the most comprehensive energy policy of any Presi dent of the United States and Congress has just twiddled its thumbs got to get that across to the American people Now we want you to hold up this book as you say months ago I sent the Congress the 167 page draft of detailed like did it that way the last YOU STOPPED talking as you did it It should be one motion with your hands as if doing it not as easy as you think to pick up a book and talk at the same time" you can do it Mr President After that you pick up this calendar and you refer to January Then you tear off January and talk about ebruary and the fact Con gress did nothing in the last time you did it you tore off January ebruary and March at the same time It threw the teleprompter people something Now what comes after March?" Bill the assignment commissioner for county courts had asked how to get a set of quoits (no sporting goods house has them) and I stuck it into the paper irst call Bill had was from a Mrs Loma Stansbury of Oakley who told him have a set Bill didn't even know at that point snitched on his desire Loma told Bill the set of metal doughnuts had been in her family more than 40 years It also has been that long since I tossed one Next Ed Breitenbach of Bond Hill a re tired building and loan fellow found Bill They discovered they had many friends in common and Bill received another set more than 60 years old Next came Ray (Red) Martini retired from Cincinnati Gas Electric who had a set purchased from the Sears Roebuck catalog' for S350 in 1925 Bill Wiggeringloh says this: started out to be a little inquiry has turned into one of the most enjoyable ex periences a person could have Two things are certain The people of Cincinnati never throw anything away and there are genuinely sin cere people who want to help their fellow On behalf of Mrs Stansbury the Breiten bachs and the Martini family Bill sent me a check for the Don Simpson Scholarship und where we start youngsters in college Thanks everybody New face People keep telling me that my new like ness atop this column is a base canard not that bald" they say nose that big" Even the guy who parks my car noticed and said it was bad But Jim Wierzbicki our music critic and a fellow with an artistic eye said what you look like" Joyce Palombo the staff artist who com mitted this atrocity said you're cute and You think going to argue with a gal who talks like that? I guess balding big nosed and adorable Green at New Haven where the fancy looking oot Guards dawdled over reluctance to release powder and gunsBut Benedict Arnold apothecary and tradesman gathered his company together in front of th Meeting Hall scared the good burghers into giving up the keys and Arnold with company marched north following Putnam with some Yale students tagging along Bissel crossed the Hoosatonic near hi own farm at Hinsdale Conn and into air field Additional news caught up with hir there and it was added to Colonel note rom there where the beautiful through way and for that matter the Merrit Parkway go so straight and clear the Post Road was mess because the farmers traveled by the convenient water not by land Greenwich night up at dawn and galloped down to Bowery by Sunday noon to meet a crowd tf fired up New Yorkers THE CITY COUNCIL later complained the royal governor that the inhabitants bur through all restraints on the arrival of tli intelligence from Boston The unloaded supplies for Boston and burned tl two sloops that carried them seized the at City Hall occupied the Custom Hous closed the port and paraded the town wi'': drums and flags The Committee of Sixty at 4 pm urge: Bissel on and by 2 the next morning he at New Brunswick dawn as he rode pa': the Kings College at Princeton Trenton at By morning he was on High Street at Phil delphia and as a nervous Tory wrote to Eng land the city was in the greatest fermeiy multitudes of people animated almost to mac ness But that ride! Paul Revere just wasr't really in it at all Bissel had covered by hor the largest cities of the colonies in little mb' than five days It took six days for the stapT between Boston and New York No wonder John Phillips wrote as I headline: Why Honor Paul Revere? Give Izzy Bissel a Cheer! think I can remember that I have one other question When I say four months have gone by without any action from The how many fingers do I hold Mr President" hard to hold up four fingers and hang on to the calendar" you set the calendar aside when you hold up your four GUESS I COULD if I remember it Could you give me the signal to put down the calendar and hold up four "Yes sir You just watch when I announce raising the tariff on oil a dollar a barrel do I put up one better not It might look obscene" "I sure wish I could just give a speech without all this have to remember sir not just the President of the United States You re a television personality We're sell ing a product called Gerry ord And the only way people are going to buy it is if you come across sincere and believable why we need all the props we can get Now try it from the top Wait a minute Mr President holding the calendar up side down" Now this time watch your step and take the gum out of your mouth oh oh! BY CHARLES TAT Reprinted from the script of Coun cilmember daily broadcast Taft zeros on Radio Station WNOP Listen my children and you shall whistle A tune in honor of Israel Bissel Whoa! that? Well a revolution ary character who really did considerably more than Paul Revere on the 19th of April of '75 but hardly a man is now alive who has the faintest idea who was Izzy Bissel How did I get to this point of wisdom memory and gray hair and never heard of Izzy Bissel? Here it is One John A Phillips a graduate student in history at the University of California at Santa Cruz is a descendant of Bissel and learned about him first from his elderly cous in She always said Paul Revere got in Long poem only because there was nothing in the Longfellow rhyming dictionary that went with Bissel PHILLIPS HEARD this as a child and by chance got the impulse to chase down the story of his ancestor In 1775 Israel Bissel was a post rider He had worked for the British Crown but quit to work for the patriots who organized the post after the British fired Benjamin ranklin as Colonial Postmaster General Why he was at Watertown Mass on April 19 nobody knows but Col Joseph Palmer of Braintree was near there for the meeting of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety Palmer at 10 am of that famous day wrote out a note all riends of American describing what had happened that morning in calm accurate words He said "I have spoken with several who have seen the dead and BISSEL WAS 23 (he lived to be 71) He rode his horse to Worcester 36 miles in two hours about a work for a post rider he was impressed by the significance of his mis sion The local Committee of Correspondence at Worcester copied the note but send him off until the next morning Bissel knew all the roads and his aim expressed in kb The Italians will endure fl! ifty years ago an Italian legis lator had a bright idea for recapturing theH greatness that was Italy should sell hI her art treasures abroad use the money to fl buy weapons use the weapons to conquer fl die world and reclaim the art fl The idea was like many of finest Bl achievements baroque Unfortunately fl baroque government has not been an oma fl ment to modem Italy fl Today Italy has a shortage of coins so fl bills in taxis and restaurants often are Rj rounded up of course Some shops and fl highway toll booths give hard candy or fl chewing gum as change fl In 1974 there were 200 reported fl crimes per hour That is one per year for every seventh Italian family Purse snatch ers on motorcycles are responsible for many of the hundreds ot daily metis trom tourists in Rome The national crime rate is rising 10 per cent a year uninhibited by a court system in which an ordinary case can take 10 years to come to trial SOME COTTON IRMS have quit sup plying gauze bandages to the 1300 government run hospitals which owe the firms $47 million in bills dating back to 1967 The government health insurance program owes the hospitals about $5 billion which when the bureaucracy pays it will help the hospitals pay some of the more than $8 bil lion they owe creditors The rench newspaper Le Monde has said is the only country besides Tibet in which it is impossible to communi Smile you're on Candid Camera jfl Last week I tuned in fl my television set and I saw a man holding fl up a large calendar As he talked he kept ripping the pages off the calendar At first I fl thought it was a commercial for acid indi fl gestion but when I looked closely I realized fl it was the President of the United States fl Apparently the TV advisers fl have told him he can no longer sit in his Oval Office and just talk to the American fl people In order to make the most use out of the medium he has to resort to visual aids Mg THIS MEANS holding up his energy message so that all of us can see it and illustrating with a calendar how Congress 1 has dragged its feet in passing any compre hensive legislation It was a great perform ance but what worries me about it is that in order to do it well it requires tremendous rehearsal time which no President of the i United States can spare i or example it took at least three hburs for the President to rehearse his 14 it minute energy speech "Okay Mr President run through it once again Remember now when you talk about Congress have more of a frown on your face and try to look looked angry the last time not 1 my fault I can't snow anger" and the hero of the game No 44 The boys all have No 44 on their backs This is a ball team playing at Bold ace Park which finally got a sponsor Gay Paint ers One of the youngsters went to Gold Circle and purchased all large size green shirts saying Naturally some of the lads fit the shirts Also they all wear white pants (their own) and each has a white visor as golfers wear not a ball cap Everybody laughs when this team takes the field but they laugh long The boys can play I can see one problem If an umpire in the heat of contest ever orders off the field the place will be deserted The Cincinnati Post riday June 6 1975 Tl ISV! ltl I V'ir i 4 I Other editorial voices Big city problem New York appeal to the federal government to guarantee a $1 billion line of credit to bail the metropolis out of its finan cial crisis dramatically illustrates the plight of some American cities They are virtually broke But as President ord said in denying the request the credit quarantee would provide no solution it would merely post pone the time when the city would be forced to come to grips with the problem And Treasury Secretary Simon in earlier reject ing the plea said New York City had shown no desire to make necessary fiscal changes to shape up no denying that cities wire too long ignored by state legislatures in trying to cope with a changing society that neglect is now manifesting itself in urban decay But the federal government cannot be expected to bail out municipalities on an open end basis It would only invite further slipshod management on the part of those who lack fiscal discipline hot that the federal government is in any position to hand out advice on that score Sapula (Okla) Herald Override the veto How could 36000 persons lose their jobs because of the strip mining bill when as of 1974 only 35200 were employed in strip mining operations? Accowjpg to Rep Teno Roncalio Wyo former Secretary of Interior Morton testified before the commit tee that more jobs actually would result from the strip mining measure Why should a 15 to 35 cent tax on a $15 ton of coal cause consumer prices to soar? What coal operator is going to quit producing because of the 15 or 35 cent charge for reclamation? Many operators already are carrying out reclamation programs on their own The strip mining bill is good legislature It would permit the development of Wyo ming's coal resources while at the same time protecting the environment We hope Congress overrides the veto Eagle.