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Show rr m ta- - A 19 Friday, January 12, 1973 DESERET NEWS, All Mail Goes Air, But Airmails First By MICHAEL OCONNOR Copley News Service WASHINGTON In an unusual venture into the world of Madison Avenue advertising techniques, the U.S. Postal Service is spending more than $800,000 in a one-vecampaign to persuade businessmen they should send all iheir let- ters by airmail. A major thrust , is the mailing of an oversized copy of the red, white and blue bannered airmail envein the form of a promotional brolope chure. The brochure tells businessmen the use of airmail will insure more reliable delivery because of its priority over regular mail. well-know- n Postal Service, in the promotional material, indicates there may be drawbacks. Unlike many first class letters, that fly standby when space is available, airmail always catches the first plane out, the brochure states. "Airmail letters always get handled and processed first. When you use airmail, you save up to half a day in handling alone' . selected mailings to 1,200,000 . The business establishments began last summer and were carried out in four phased programs. Total cost of the mail operation was $450,000. A Postal Service spokesman said the balance of promotional money will be used to print posters and other publicity material for display in public buildings. The promotional theme centers on spending extra money for airmail under a three-cen- t insurance policy. Most American business mail which totals more than 49 billion pieces annually goes by first class delivery. Although considered the top grade type of service for most correspondence, the Airmail volume now constitutes about 1.5 billion pieces a year. It is estimated by the Postal Service that as many as one billion more pieces of regular first class business mail items are available for conversion for airmail service. The efficiency of airmail is obvious to business the service interests, spokesman said. The purpose of this program is to acquaint them with what we have to offer. Results of the promotional effort are not expected to be known until early this year. The direct mail promotion is expected, according to Postal Service fore- - 25 percent of American businesses, which do an average amount of commercial mail business. a Potentially, the sendee could realize return on every $1 spent, the source $2 said. In the brochure, Postal Sendee rials emphasize the speed and efficiency of airmail while noting that a letter sent now for eight cents would cost three cents more if converted. Airmail insures that cities in the continental United States are only two days away, the brochure states. Airmail hardly ever takes more tnan two days to arrive often only one. Just make sure your letters get to an airmail box by our last pickup of the - President Nixons inaugural. The Secret Service is deeply concerned over the mentality of terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives in a Mr. Anderson fanatical outburst of hatred. From atop a New Orleans hotel, Mark James Robert Essex blasted away at police for almost 12 hours and then laughed as a hail of police bullets finally cut him down. lie reportedly had ties with black fanatics who avow the politics of hatred and violence. Secret Service files are loaded with references to these extremists who might be willing to die in a blaze of against the white establishment. files tell of their secret plottings threatenings against local police Washinton notables alike, including fury The and and the President. Navy veteran for unsuitable character and behavior disorders, reportedly mingled with extremists who have sought to stir up a black hotbed in New Orleans. Essex, a dis- charged parent use of armed robbery extortion as means of raising money, are implicated in assassination olot against local officials and reportedly mentioned the President in their discussions. Another militant black group, which calls itself the New Orleans Urban Guerrilla Group, advocates overthrow of the U.S. and has been government stockpiling weapons. It has set up headquarters, according to the field office, on Jackson Avenue in New Orleans. The Deacons of Defense and Justice, which is described as a small, militant organization to aid in the defense of civil rights workers and Negroes in the South, was founded in the Jonesboro, La., area. Secret Service files say it has been increasingly identified as a group of Negro militants. And the Maitreyan Temple, a pseudoreligious black group in New Orleans, has access to 200 lbs. of 4 (plastic) explosives, reports the field office. C-- The Secret Service has files, of course, on several other fanatical black organizations outside of Louisiana. Their members too, are capable of a suicidal attack upon the inaugural celebrants, say our Secret Service sources. The Black Panther Partys David Hillard, for example, told an antiwar rally in San Francisco: We will kill Richard Nixon. The Justice Department dropped the charges against him, however, rather than reveal wiretap evidence in In Cleveland, the Afro Set preaches hatred of white people and the takeover of all operations in the black community by black people. The Secret Service files also note that members receive training in use of weapons, karate and guerrilla tactics. It was founded by the radical black supremist, Robert Williams, who has made political pilgrimages to Cuba and China. But a faction, more interested in action than ideology, has made its national headquarters in New Orleans. The field office describes this as the with eight Richard Henry faction, hardcore members and a hangout on Fern Street. Secret Service files charge that RNA in target radicals have participated practiceexplosives training, have are cached weapons and explosives, involved in sabotage and guerrilla warfare activities, have advocated an ap- - These entries are typical of the information in Secret Service files about the growing black militant movement. Some e are already waging guerrilla warfare against the police The Secret Service is worried that they may attempt a spectacular incident in Washington during the inaugural. As a precaution, the Secret Service is bringing in an additional 600 agents to force throughout augment its the inaugural. Some 10,000 local police officials from all over the country will also assist in policing the event, say our sources. But officially, the Secret Service had no comment. space-availabl- 1,200-ma- Dear Dr. Thosteson: My daughter is 5 in the taking 15 mg. of Stelazine a day, for morning, 10 at bedtime. Is it all right her to take a bottle of beer or a highball before dinner? Mrs. R.II. No. Alcohol in any form can intensify the depressant action of any of the sedatives or tranquilizers, so it is best to avoid all alcohol. f V Stanley Sussman's Five Songs' Projects Pure Gold Excitement Stanley Sussman, with a careers already brilliantly launched, is a MUSICAL WHIRL pans, and it takes a soprano with unerring musicianship to sing the vocal part in the final two movements. in five sections to which the Repertory Dance Theatres (RDT) popular dancer and choreographer, Bill Evans, has choreographed his dance of the same name. Mr. Sussman who is an expert pianist began his commissioned work last August when he was here teaching a class of accompanists for RDT. Two of the so I numbers were composed here, could get the feeling of clean air and expanse, he says, into the music. And the other three parts? Five Songs in August is scored for piano and electric piano, played by the composer. The violin part is being played by Barbara Stewart; Glen Garret is the flutist; the bongo and other percussion instruments are played by Don Main, and Glen Anderson and George Souza alternate on electric bass and guitar. half-doze- n composer. This is no small in' accomplishment an era when composers are usually concerned first with what others compos-ers think of their I work rather than what it sounds like to an audience. music-lover-s 1 This attitude and achievement puts him in the circle with such composers as Beethoven and Brahms and Tchaikovsky who wanted Mr. Sussman people to to enjoy and become involved in their music. This isnt to suggest that Stanley Sussman,. who is on the faculty of cant write dissonances and atonal of that group music with the of avant garde composers who are only interested in how their written scores impress each other. Juil-liar- best-wor- titled Mr. Sussmans newest work will Tuesday Five Songs in August be given its world premiere tonight in Kingsbury Hall. chamber work is The Well, I composed them in my New York apartment which has been the Rachhome of many great musicians and I rather maninoff, for example hoped that the ghosts of these immortals would come out of the walls, as it were, and give me ideas and inspiration. Having feard Five Songs in August in rehearsal several times, this department can report that it has to be one of the most exciting new compositions that it has heard in several years, even if its rehearsal performances were far from being as polished as they will be in RDTs concerts tonight and Saturday (13). Mr. Sussman has not written an easy work to perform; it takes polished and professional musicians to play the five The intriguing vocal part is sung alternately by Laura Garff and Lezlee Spillsbury. Five Songs in August depict, as Bill Evans had wanted, five exhilarating emotions, and his choreography is, naturally, in the abstract vein. Though there are some elements of jazz and the blues in given passages of the Five Songs, it is not a work of jazz nor does it attempt to be third stream. But It is lyrical and melodic with tunes that one can whistle going home, and it has all the excitement that Dave Brubecks Take Five generated. In addition to being a composer and composition teacher at Juilliard, Mr. Sussman is also pianist and composer for no less than Martha Graham. And if he has any real first love, it probably is conducting, of which he does a great amount. But my career or careers, he says, seems to run in cycles. For a time all I do is teach, or accompany, or conduct, or compose. And just w hen I think I am comfortably settled in one musical activity, then I seem to orbit into another. D 0 U One of the several anticipated excite- ments of RDTs concerts this weekend and next is the use of a highly accomplished ensemble of five life musicians, a real first for RDT. There have been live solo and duet performers, but never a real quintet. G S N And one can hopefully anticipate the day when finances will be such that many of RDTs repertory works can be accompanied by live musicians, and when necessary, the music composed especially for the dance itself. The E n Y 'Today D shall share with you the things learned on my recent trip to China. Confucius says, . . ." I I bachelor Stanley Sussman is showing how it can be done, how it will sound, while at the same time setting the highest of musical and artistic stan- dards. Death Of Soviet Defector Kourdakov Blood Clot bleeding. Airmail insures that cities in continental U.S. are two days away, despite weather like this. J By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor By RAY McHUGH Copley News Service WASHINGTON The bizarre death of a young Russian defector has denied the Senate Judiciary Committee a report on increasingly impatient, rebellious youth screened behind the careful facade of the Soviet society. Sergei Kourdakov, 21, a naval, lieutenant who was hailed in 1971 as the outstanding member of the Kosomol or first-han- d Communist Youth, defected in September, 1971. He leaped from a Russian fishing trawler during a storm off Canadas Pacific coast and somehow surswim to land. vived a tortured Last July 25, he entered the United States on a visa under the auspices of the Evangelical Center at Glendale, Calif., an organization dedicated to promote religious liberty inside Communist nations. frequent visitor to Washington. Kourdakov met privately with U.S. intelligence officials, leaders of Voice of A 1 and U.S. Information Agency military officers and members of Congress. At the invitation of Sen. Strom Thurmond, he was to testify late this month at a hearing of the Judiciary Committee. Government figures have been fascinated by Kourdakovs accounts of his own life in a series of state-ruorphanages, his experience at naval academies at Leningrad and Vladivostok and in the Komsomol, and his accounts of the rebellious of the Soviet youth-acco- unts that include narcotics, alcoholism, Mafia-likcrime, hippie colonies and other extremes seldom associated with the regimented Soviet society. America, the high-rankin- g n life-styl- e His own enthusiasm for life in the United States made it difficult for official Washington to accept the news of his death New Years Day in a California shooting accident. trip to Colorado California arranged by friendly churchmen, Kourdakov was killed when a revolver he was holding discharged. On a holiday skiing and I j i Can you help me find out why any time you need towing service in the Bountiful and surrounding area, only one towing service is called by the High- way Patrol? I've been told that the Highway Patrol makes a percentage on the towing done by this serv ice and has given this service a police radio so they can call him from anywhere. Is this true? Concerned Citizen, Bountiful. Postal Service officials hope the promotional effort will break a belief now held by businessmen that all mail, despite the amount of postage paid, eventually is carried by airplane. Essentially, this is the case although first class letters are handled in processe basis. ing on a According to the service, this saving may be costing businessmen lost time. Airmail letters always get handled and processed first, the brochure said. . . . When you use airmail, you save up to a half a day in handling alone. 1257 84.1 10 HP Refutes Tow Favoritism low-grad- YOUR HEALTH Dear Dr. Thosteson: I have had a number of blood clots in the legs and take Coumadin blood thinner. I go every two weeks for a pro time test. Could you explain this test? Mrs. C.G.C. The medication retards the clotting of blood, thus helps to prevent more blood clots from forming. The pro time test is a shortened term for prothrombin time test. Briefly, this is a measurement of how quickly your blood will clot. The tests are required because an excessive dose of Coumadin can cause Soil lake City, Ul oh court. The Secret Service field office in New Orleans has described their activities in secret intelligence summaries. One of the most militant black organizations, according to these intelligence reports, is the Republic of New Africa (RNA) which seeks the establishment of a separate black nation within U.S. Measurement You mar write to Do ll Mon, Bo day. Possibility Of A Presidential Sniper By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON The White House has been warned that the sniper attack on police and firemen in New Orleans last weekend could precipitate a simi-- 1 in lar incident Washington during BXMT casts, to reach He had borrowed the gun from a Denver friend, fearful that Soviet agents one day would make an attempt to seize or kill him. During his early months in Soviet agents Canada, he claimed, threatened him several times that unless he stopped speaking out against the Russian system, he would be taken care of. I understand guns, dont worry, the Russian was said to have replied. I always keep the chamber under the hammer and the next chamber empty so I have to puli the trigger twice before it will fire. The companion said he gestured with ' the gun, said, Spe, pulled the trigger and the bullet crashed into his head. One of them said: One day youre going to have an accident and itll be the Kourdalast accident you ever have, kov told friends. Death, however, has not silenced Kourdakov. Joseph Bass, executive director of the Evangelical Center and Kourdakovs legal guardian, said he had prepared copious notes and several tape recordings in anticipation of his session . with the senators and these will now be turned over to Thurmond. The warning proved tragically prophetic, although authorities have ruled his death accidental and with no link to his supposed pursuers. A 'ompanion told sheriffs deputies at Running Springs, Calif., that Kourdakov returned to a motel room there shortly after midnight Monday, and at the companions urging, checked to be sure the revolver was where he had left it. As Kourdakov pulled the gun from a drawer, the companion urged him to be careful. Bass also disclosed plans to publish a book that Kourdakov had written on his life inside the Soviet Union. Kourdakov was orphaned at the age of four. His father, a Stalinist Red army colonel, was killed in a purge after Premier Nikita Khrushchev came into power, and his mother died a few months later. t I ) i : There are several companies having wrecker service in the Bountiful area. A check of the wrecker calls made through the Farmington office for De- cember shows that the calls seem to have been fairly well distributed. BUT the establishment you name has been granted a contract by the Utah State Tax Commission through the Motor Ve- hide Dealers Administration of that de- partment for handling towing and stor- age of motor vehicles impounded for violations of the Motor Vehicle Code. The Highway Patrol has been requested by the tax commission to use their agents whenever they are impounding cars under the Utah Motor Vehicle Code for them. The HP does not make a per- centage on the towing done by this ser- vice or any other agency involved in towing or storing automobiles. The place you name is radio equipped. But is low band type equipment and does not oper- ate on a police channel. It apparently operates on the same frequency as the Davis County Jeep Posse and is apparently licensed through the Davis County Sherriffs Office. , ( ' , : , I 1 . I , j ! ; I f ' Insurance Pays Off was admitted to a hospital. The bill was covered by Mutual of Omaha. I sent them all the bills except for some treatments that came later and were billed as outpatient charges. The insurance company said they won't pay for an charge. But the hospital said they had I have told them it wasnt tried to get the hospital and the insurance people together to iron this out, but no success. Now I am threatened with a collection agency and need some On Aug. 14, 1971 my little girl t. J.A., Salt Lake Citv. help. The carrier has now paid an additional $18.38 to the the hospital. This medical expense, according to a statement sent by you to them indicated it was for services of the attending physician. But, since your policy provides no coverage for medical attention, they denied the claim. Later, a hospital statement was received indicating charges for what service. They seemed to be denied this because you had let your policy lapse on Dec. 1, 1971. Finally, the additional $18.38 was approved when a new billing was received from the hospital which reflecied and included the unpaid amount. . Shed Money Paid Last June I set up some metal buildings for a small southern Utah community resident. He was to pay me $70 to put them up. It took several letters from me to get paid and then he only sent me $35. I have written about the balance, but no reply. Can you help me? I fell off a ladder recently and cant work. E.A., St. George. We understand from you that his wife has now brought you the $35 that her husband owed you. We also got a letter from her saying shed been out of town for several days and found our letter on her return. She implied that the money owed was paid to you before she got our letter. Maybe yes; maybe no. Important thing is you do have the money. Start Tracing Action In June I ordered a stereo from the Stereo Tape Club of America in Gardena, Calif. They called me and asl 21 if I would send $25 for a down payment. I sent them a money order. We waited and w aited but no stereo or our $25. Now we need the money, not the stereo. Mrs. K.M., Tooele. Help. The only record they have of someone with your last name lives in Salt Lake City. You give us no indication that you ever lived here. You say you ordered the stereo when you lived In Martin, S.D. They claim that the stereo was shipped on July 12. If it was sent to the wrong place, they will have to initiate a postal claim on the shipment. And you should start a tracer on the money order you sent with the FO department. If it was cashed by the stereo people they will be glad tc issue a refund. (Editor's Note Wort sorry th number of calls and the volume of moM moke it impossible to onswwf every Question. Please, no medical or leva! question;. Don't send stomps or self address'd envelopes, as answers con only be given in this column. Only questions ot general interest will be answered. 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