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The Hellsberg Papers ALABAMA JOURNAL (Established 1881) Published Every Week Day By THE ADVERTISER 212 Washington Second Class Postage Paid At Montgomery, Alabama HAROLD MARTIN Editor and Publisher GUYTON PARKS General Manager RAY JENKINS-Editorial Page Editor BEN R. DAVIS-Managing Editor Full Report of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Resolution giving you authority to send in as many troops as possible to put down uprising. With added troops strength and Washington facing a terrible winter at Valley Forge next year, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. FROM Ministry of Defense to Lord North, 1777: Our mathematicians have just concluded on the basis of their calculations, as well as enemy documents, that the Rebels cannot hold on much longer. They took heavy losses at Saratoga and army morale is at a low ebb.

Desertions are running high and there is prostitution in their cities. By sending more troops we should be out of America by 1778. FROM GEN. Cornwallis to Lord North, 1780: Mv search-and-destrov methods have MONTGOMERY, FRIDAY. JULY 7.

1972 PAGE 4 Miami And Beyond French have been supplying the Rebels with equipment, the revolutionaires are still a ragtag army without discipline or initiative. They are no match for our highly trained Redcoats and our sophisticated British equipment. For the first time I have confidence we can do the job. FROM LORD North to George III, Dec. 12, 1781: Just received word that Gen.

Cornwallis was caught with his breeches down at Yorktown. Apparently Washington surprised him, and Cornwallis had no choice but to surrender his entire army on Oct. 19, 1781. This may put a crimp in our pacification plans. Suggest we send a delegation to Paris to discuss peace.

It must, of course, be an honorable peace. If the Rebels refuse to make a peace treaty, then we have no choice but to bombard their cities and blockade their harbors until they agree to our terms. You must not go down in history as the first English king ever to have lost a war. Trying To Pick The Best Man WASHINGTON Amid the confusion which has emerged in the complex process of choosing delegates for the Democratic National Convention, a simple and all-important factor has been overlooked how do you find the best-qualified man in the party and select him as the presidential nominee? Primaries are held in various states under laws which are by no means uniform, but evidently the results can be revised by a party mechanism which can award a majority of delegates to an aspirant who makes a better showing than someone else: WASHINGTON I have just received the top-secret "Hellsberg papers" which contain the secret history of the American Revolution. The papers were found 20 miles outside of London in the wine cellar of the country home of a legendary historical figure named Sir Daniel Hellsberg.

Sir Daniel worked for the Lord Rand Corp. during the reign of George III but became disenchanted with the way the British were conducting the war with the Colonies and resigned. He apparently took a copy of the Whitehall Papers with him and turned over the contents to The Times of London. Here are excerpts from some of the Whitehall Papers: Report to Lord North, prime minister, from Gen. Thomas Gage, 1774: I am happy to inform you that all goes well here in Boston and despite discontent amongst the natives over taxes, I cannot foresee any difficulty in putting down a revolt.

Kindly send me some advisers to train the Loyalists to defend themselves against the Rebels, who are preaching insurrection in the cities and villages. Your Blood Bank Account IF YOU are unfortunate enough to have a serious accident requiring extensive blood transfusions, your total needs could amount to 50-100 pints of blood. If you must pay (as some do) $50 per pint, your cost of blood alone could come to $2,500 to $5,000. If you must use a heart-lung machine in the course of surgery, it will take between 12 and 15 pints of blood just to prime the machine for you. And if you happen to have a very rare blood type, you could pay astronomical sums in need.

Not long ago, a Detroit worker launched a new career selling his rare blood for $1,500 a quart or $750 a pint. AS GOV. Wallace arrives in Miami, the national press is full of speculation once again about his political future after the Democratic Convention. The guessing game over whether he will run as a third party candidate is on again. All signs, it to us, indicate that he will indeed be running again if his physical condition will permit it.

There is every indication that George McGovern is in full control of the convention. He seems almost assured of a first ballot nomination, and if he has that kind of delegate support, then he also has the strength to write the kind of platform he wants. And the kind of platform he wants could never be palatable to Gov. Wallace. It is inconceivable that Wallace could ever work out any kind of deal to support Fill In The Blank IN AN AGE when most people yearn for a little privacy, it seems that questionaires are getting more and more nosy.

But sometimes the answerers have the last laugh on the questioner. For instance, there is a standard Navy form for recruits in the Waves which has a space marked "sex." A confused but candid young lady filled in the blank: "Once, in Oklahoma." Then there was the story of the farmer whose cow was killed by a On With EVERY genius, we suppose, is entitled to his temperamentality, but Bobby Fischer, the American chess expert, has just about used up his share. The hassle over money was understandable. After all, chess is about the only skill Fischer has he has never even been to college. And like all sports, chess demands a skill and agility that comes only with youth.

But his petulant failure to show AKT ItUCHVVALD P.S. Have blockaded the port of Boston which will make the Rebels sue for peace. REPORT to George III from Lord North, July 30, 1775: Gage sends good news from the Colonies. His troops have won critical BatUe of Bunker Hill and the Rebels are in disarray. Gage believes things are going so well that you can safely announce that our boys will be home by Christmas.

MEMORANDUM to George III from Lord Portsmouth, 1776: Gen. Howe reports that Rebel Gen. George Washington surprised our loyal mercenary Hessian troops at Trenton and took 1,000 prisoners. Suggest you go before Parliament and ask for a Bay of Delaware Florida's Gassed WASHINGTON Florida tomato growers have been scheming behind closed doors, under the auspices of the Agriculture Department, to keep vine-ripened Mexican tomatoes out of U.S. supermarkets.

Instead of the juicy red tomatoes from Mexico, the growers want to push off on the housewives low-grade domestic tomatoes that are so green they have to be gassed with ethylene to make them look palatable. These "gassed greens," as they're called, actually cost more than the ripened Mexican tomatoes. The Agriculture Department is conspiring with the tomato growers, therefore, to restrict Mexican imports. Fact-finding committees have been established to study the problem. The hitch is that the Agriculture Department has appointed tomato growers as the fact finders.

The press and public have been barred from these fact-finding sessions. We have obtained the transcript, however, of a typical discussion. "Well," drawled one Florida tomato tycoon, "the thing we're looking at, we're trying to help the Florida growers in eliminating our competition. Let's face it, they're trying to eliminate our mainly eliminating it out of Mexico." Agreed another tomato man: "We're not here to satisfy them. We're here to satisfy ourselves and get a little more money." "They (the Mexicans) want to keep going," growled a third grower.

"We're going to have to keep cutting them out." Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department has reached a "recommended decision" to restrict tomato imports from Mexico. An Agriculture spokesman assured us that the "recommended decision" was based on thousands of pages of testimony and exhibits. Competent sources say, Privy Problem Birmingham Post-Herald -In South Carolina. State Sen. Frank Owens has introduced a bill which would outlaw outhouses.

The senator proposes a $100 fine or a 30-day jail sentence for anyone who "maintains or uses" a privy after July 1, 1973. The 1970 census reported there were 149.300 homes in South Carolina lacking indoor toilet facilities. Owens doubtless has sanitation in mind, a salutary purpose. But his bill raises some questions: To make sure no one illicitly visited an outhouse, around-the-clock surveillance would be necessary. That suggests a force of maybe 500,000 outhouse cops would be needed.

Most people, given a choice, would pay a fine rather than go to jail. But residents who cannot afford indoor plumbing probably couldn't afford the $100 fine either. With all due respect for Owens' good intentions, he may be creating more problems than he would solve. He could be jeopardizing the state's budget and overcrowding its jails. Maybe, before he pushes the bill any farther, the senator should visit one of these venerable American institutions and think it over.

Jy McGovern. And if Wallace runs, it will be bad news indeed for President Nixon. A recent Harris poll showed that if Wallace ran as a third party candidate, he would draw off almost twice as many votes from President Nixon as from McGovern. If Sen. Edward Kennedy were the Democratic standard-bearer, the pattern would be much the same.

If Wallace carried any states in the November election, it likely will be some of the Southern states. These are states that Nixon almost certainly would take without Wallace in the race. All in all, a Wallace third-party candidacy would be the best thing that happened to George McGovern since a Federal court gave him back the California delegates Humphrey tried to pirate away from him. Department of Agriculture truck. When he filed a claim, he was, needless to say, told to fill out a form.

It included a space for "disposition of the dead cow." The farmer replied "kind and gentle." But nobody can ever top the answer given on the immigration form when Albert Einstein arrived in this country after having been driven from Germany because he was Jewish. In the space for the question asking his race, Einstein wrote: "Human." The Match up for the first match was utterly uncalled for. In so doing he risked losing a chance to win the world chess championship which, from all accounts, he richly can count himself fortunate that his Russian opponent, world champion Boris Spassky, settled for an apology. Now the match is scheduled to get underway Sunday, and it promises to be one of the more exciting sports events of recent events. WORSNOP fditokiai, WONTS communications system comparable to Intelsat's worldwide service." MEANWHILE, a number of American companies have been competing for six years for the right to establish what promises to be a lucrative domestic communications satellite system.

The satellite network would transmit not only television but also telephone, telegraph, and computer data signals. After lengthy consideration of the case, the Federal Communications Commission voted on June 16, 1972, to adopt an "open skies" policy. That is. all financially and technically qualified applicants would be permitted to provide domestic satellite service. The eight pending applicants and any others interested in the field have until Juiy 25 to file new applications.

When the new system or systems finally are launched, possibly within two years, the decade-old dream of less expensive and more efficient telecommunications may finally be realized. Computer Run Louisville Courier-Journal Man meets machine. Machine wins again. Man pulls plug. That's the scenario running through the consciousness of a physics teacher in Washington High School, Denver, Colorado, who told The Denver Post the other day that "infernal machines" are taking over.

Buel C. Robinson, the teacher, cited two business-machine punch cards that had been handed to him by Peter Dach, a student who has a class in computer-assisted mathematics in the period just before Mr. Robinson's physics lecture. An electric typewriter had Inscribed these words across the top of the notched cards: "Dear Mr. Robinson.

Peter has been busy with me and I am sorry that he is late again today. Love, the Computer." As he had expected, Mr. Robinson told his newspaper, "the machines are taking over the world and are now controlling us." He is right. Not only Is there that ominous word "again," to prove that the machine is keeping track of Its tardy notes, but there's the sweet politeness of the tone in the message. Subllmlnally, the machine is saying that it's determined to rule, but that it's prepared to be decent about it.

A Decade Of TV From Space been completely successful, and I can report that the entire 13 Colonies have been pacified. In 12 months we can turn all the fighting over to the Loyalists and start withdrawing our forces. Although the Green Tomatoes fACK ANDIiKSON however, that the department had hoped to appease the tomato growers at the expense of the tomato eaters. Footnote: Senate Consumer Chairman Frank Moss, D-Utah, will conduct an investigation. In a confidential memo to his staff, he claimed it's commonplace for "Agriculture to ignore the interest of consumers in order to serve its agribusinesss clients, but this situation seems on the face of it a more-than-routine outrage." WITH Republican cloth-coat frugality.

President Nixon last year sternly ordered everyone in his Administration to refrain from first-class travel. But the highly publicized order was so ambiguously worded by the White House bureaucracy that not even the President's loyalest cabinet members are paying any attention to it. Every cabinet officer we checked on uses first-class, often taking along various staff members. Even such lesser potentates as assistant agriculture secretaries and the Bureau of Mines director invariably travel up front. President Nixon's order was translated into a regulation by the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

It starts off well enough with a stern decree that "persons who use commercial air carriers for transportation should use less than first class But then comes the fatal qualifying phrase, "with due regard to efficient conduct of government business and the travelers convenience, safety and comfort." These final words, of course, nullify the regulation. It means everyone should travel tourist unless it's inconvenient or uncomfortable. Six-foot-eight-inch Rogers Morton, the Interior secretary, immediately seized upon the comfort loophole to justify riding up front with the rich folks. "He's big," said a sympathizing spokesman. "He doesn't fit in a coach seat." Over at the Commerce Department, aides admit that Secretary Pete Peterson flies first class "most of the time." But a spokesman pointed proudly to the fact that Peterson had flown tourist coming back from Philadelphia the other day.

We checked with the airline and learned it was an all-tourist flight. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, the former cereal executive who is accustomed to the comforts of life, always flies first ciass. his aides, who usually fly up front with him, invoke the claim that it's necessary "for efficient conduct of government business." All the assistant secretaries fly first class, too. The cost of this luxury travel isn't immense by today's staggering standards of government waste. But this question is raised: If these men can't be trusted to carry out the President's small economies, how can they be trusted with major sums? ITS SYLVIA FOlttT.K Even if you are able to find donors to replace the blood you use, you'll probably have to pay the cost of processing this blood and this can run $20 a pint or more.

To date, the typical blood transfusion involves four pints of blood. Each year our need tor blood is rising 5 to 7 per cent, excluding military needs, which are taken care of separately. To meet our civilian needs we'll have to collect 7,200,000 pints in 1972. How can you protect yourself and your family against the prospect of crippling high costs should you need a large amount of blood for a transfusion? Set up your own or family "blood bank account" through a union, your employer, fraternal club, church or other organized group which has an agreement with a community blood bank or the Red Cross. Simply contribute periodically to this account and the blood "balance" may be used by you and members of your family if and when necessary.

Or set up your own individual blood bank account for yourself and-or your family simply by giving blood to the Red Cross, to your local hospital blood banks or community blood centers. To give blood, you must be at least 18 and not past your fi6th birthday, must weigh at least 1 10 pounds, be reasonably healthy and free of conditions and diseases such as high blood pressure, jaundice, anemia, malaria, diabetes and syphilis. You may give up to a maximum of five times a year and at intervals of at least eight weeks. In some blood banks, you can withdraw all the blood you donate, as long as it has been donated within a period specified by the blood bank typically, one to two years. And a member of your family elsewhere can withdraw from your account with your permission through the American Assn.

of Blood Bank's National Clearinghouse Program, run in collaboration with the Red Cross. Q. What about getting blood via your health insurance? A. Coverage varies from company to company and plan to plan. But many plans cover processing fees only and many hospitals require a "replacement" fee to encourage volunteer "replacement." Q.

What about commercial "blood insurance" plans? A. One such plan charges $5 a year for an individual and $7.50 a year for a family. This may seem welcome protection but most plans draw exclusively on blood from paid donors, who may fail to report such diseases as hepatitis to the collector an obvious risk to you. You also may find important exclusions, and commercial blood plans unfortunately reduce the incentive for voluntary donations. Q.

Is blood covered under Medicare for older people? A. Yes, under "Part Medicare's hospital coverage the full cost is covered after the first three pints used in each "benefit period" (spell of illness). Under "Part which covers doctor bills, 80 per cent of blood costs subject to the yearly $50 deductible are covered. If you are scheduled for elective surgery involving transfusions, ask friends and relatives to donate blood in advance to the bank with which your hospital is associated. If this hospital has a policy requiring blood replacement, find out in advance just what the terms are.

Ask whether friends and relatives in other areas may help you replace blood you use via the Clearinghouse Program. If you are among the one in four of us with a rare blood type, register with the rare donor registries operated by the AABB and the ARC. In the Red Cross rare donor registry, for instance, there are now more than 7,000 donors whose names and blood types have been computerized: these rare donors include only those whose blood types are found less than once in 200 persons. The extremely rare types are collected regularly, are frozen and made available to anyone. Extremely rare types are frequently sent to hospitals for use without charge by specific patients.

Finally and fundamentally, you can save your life (as well as money) by being a voluntary donor of rare or regular blood and keeping the blood banks filled with the safest possible supply. DAVID He may be given the benefit of a "winner take all" rule. The decisions are being made by a "credentials committee," which theoretically can be overruled by the convention itself but probably will not The task of gathering delegates to win nomination has been a challenging one for', many years. All sorts of devices have been tried. But when a system commits the delegates to vote a certain way and denies, them freedom to pick the best man, then a convention is merely a struggle between, two or three individuals whose pre-convention campaigns have managed to, build up delegate strength.

THE COUNTRY knows something about all of the candidates, to be sure, but in the-Democratic race there are four men whose names are most prominent Sens. George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie, and Gov. George Wallace. If the national convention offered an opportunity for each man to make a careful exposition of his views on different aspects of domestic and foreign policy, the delegates, would be better able to determine which of the individuals seeking the nomination is most qualified. Since the people of the country would be watching on television and listening to four major addresses, the convention would become a very significant moment in the whole election process.

But as the news from Miami Beach and the stories about-the battles over control of delegations are being read in the press and heard on the air, it is evident that the voters back home will not learn a great deal about the abilities of the prospective candidates from what they hear during the convention. The presidency of the United States is the biggest and most powerful official post in any free government in the world. Yet election is obtained by methods that could prove harmful to the country. How much experience has the would-be candidate had in the executive departments of the government? What is his knowledge of tha complex problems and issues that affect economic recovery on the one hand and the maintenance of peace on the other? Can the management of the huge office of president, with its numerous departments and agencies, be suddenly turned over to someone who has not had intimate contact with it and not risk ill effects as far as business, labor and other segments of American life are concerned? THE UNITED States Government is the largest business institution in the world! Would the major steel company in the; country put in as its general manager someone without executive The number of departments, bureaus-, agencies and indeed local functions fof which the national government has a responsibility is growing constantly. Can the man at the top be Unfortunately, this has been true in some cases in the past and has been the cause of delays in the operations of important laws that Congress has passed.

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O. Bon fSO, Montgomery, Ale. 34103: Addreu ntwi end editorial -noil to O. Bex 140, Montgomery, Aiobomo 3610. Bv KICHAKD The first transatlantic telecast was relayed by the American Telephone Telegraph Telstar satellite 10 years ago on July 10, 1962.

A DECADE AGO, it seemed a miracle. There was Yves Montand, in Paris, singing 'La Chansonette" on American television screens. So what if the program had been taped beforehand or if the reception was less than ideal. To viewers in Europe and North America, the first transatlantic telecasts relayed by the Telstar satellite were an exciting novelty that heralded revolution in international communications. Telstar, built by the American Telephone Telegraph Co.

and launched on July 10, 1962, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was crude when judged by today's standards. But The New York Times, was not far off the mark when it said the Telstar broadcasts constituted a "feat. in significance the first telegraphed transmission by Samuel F. B. Additional space communications landmarks soon followed.

In August 1962, Congress passed the Communications Satellite Act, which authorized the creation of a private corporation to own and operate an international satellite communications network. The resulting Communications Satellite Corp. 'Comsat) joined the International Telecommunications Satellite consortium (Intelsat) two years later. TODAY, of course, live telecasts in color from any part of the world are relatively commonplace. President Nixon's trips to China and the Soviet Union were seen live on American television screens.

Similar coverage is planned for the 1972 summer Olympic Games in Munich. The most dramatic developments in satellite communication may well come in large, sprawling countries where construction of ground facilities would be too costly and time-consuming. Indonesia, for example, has roughly the same land area as Alaska and consists of 3,000 islands spread over thousands of square miles of the Southwest Pacific. Only a satellite could efficiently link these far-flung fragments. Similarly, Brazil is stymied by thousands of square miles of jungle that are just beginning to undergo development, and India by the twin problems of size and poverty.

"Within a relatively short time," Sig Mickelson asserted in Saturday Review, "regional or distribution satellites should be able to deliver strong enough signals so that inexpensive earth stations in those countries could provide a.