GOOD EVENING EV E RYBODY: In West Berlin today they had a special celebration marking the Tenth Anniversary - of the end of the Berlin . blockade. Tens of thousands of West Berliners, p aying a tribute to the men of the Air Lift - the young airmen who saved their city, including the seventy British and Aaerioan fliers •ho were killed ~en their planes crashed, , in foul weather. Present today- soae of the top figures~ the West, at the time of the Berlin blockade, including General Lucius Cla,, our ~ilitary Govern~r of ~ermany at the ti ■• - larl Attlee, tha British rriae Mini■ ter. And Robert chuaan, who at the tiae was remier of France. Part of today's ceremony - a solean pledge that ~est aerlin will not be conquered by another blockade. The Allies, ointing out that we bea t Stalin last tiae. And p redicting, we'll f ind a way to beat Khrushchey ~ if he tries to strangle the city deep inside Eas t Germany. In Geneva - today's foraal session - g ot nowaere. ecretary of State Herter, later visited uromyko - trying to p ersu a de him to break the deadlock. Gromyko s tymied the formal session - by demanding seats for P oland and Czechoslovakia. The N est - turned that down. And then thre was a deadlock. After the 1 oreign ~inisters session broke up - Herter went to see his Soviet op p osite number. W hen he asked Gromyko - to get on with the discussion of GermanJ, grim Gromyko re p eated his demand for P oland and Czechoslovakia to be re p resented. Around ~eneva, the belief is - tae West may accept the two ~ovi•tjllppets - if Russia will agree to a seat for ltaly. mo ~ 4 - r Today Senator Mike Mansfield said:- ~••~11aat the best f. speech I ever heard, f r M v1.!f l ng foreign dignitary." Referring to - t ~ o ¥ i ~ K ing Baudouin - who addressed a joint session of Congress. A brief speech, witty, to the point. Emphasizing the ties between two democracies - his own, and ours. BUDGET Today President Eisenhower heard some good news - about his budget. Congressional leaders of the GOP, meeting Mr. Eisenhower at the White House - in their weekly get-together. -14_ Telling him j chances that his budget will stay balanced - are better - now that unemployment is declining. heard~t the · o ~ . / ~ / ,,,,, Repu er , e er e. _!Jtf(ce - Prea_wfuE~ 0 -- The trouble in the Tennessee prison - l as ted fourteen hours. Last n ight, about twenty rebels at Fort P illow suddenly seized two guards a s hostages. H olding the other guards off - by t h reatenin to kill the hostage& . The rebels then set u barricades - on the third floor ot the prison. All niaht l ong they could be heard screaming - banging on the bars - smashing windows - and tnrowia1 furniture out into the yard. But it ended withfut bloodshed. The rebels - surrendering. hostages - unharmed. §I!!lll The ' overnor of t orth Carolina o rd ers the Dational u a rd - into enderson, to check violence in the bitter te x tile strike. The first time in some twenty-five years that any ~ ort h Carolin a g overnor h as used the ~ ational Guard for strike duty. Governor h odges is described as "furious• over what ha pp ened last night, workers leaving the cotton mills - stoned, their cars - p e p pered with bullets, and dynamite p lanted under factory gates. The Governor has told the ilational liuard to p ut a sto p to violence at Henderson. Senator T lm se of Georgi tod a y testified in behalf of is own Amendment, re control of p ublic schools. An Amendment that wouldlaave control u o to . local authorities. The Georgia Uemocrat repeated to a ~enate Committee what we have heard before. He said if his amendment is not passed, the Veep South may have to close its p ublic school system. Senator Talmade said that ,) ersonally he would prefer no schools, to integrated schools. TWINING ------ Good news concerning Nate Twining C h irman of the Joint ~hiefs of Staff. His condition "very satisfactory," after an operation today at lalter Reed tlospital, removing - p art of one lung and sending a specimen to the medical 1 boratory - for analysis. now many enliste d men of the armed forces are now •orkiog at the White liouse? The answer, aixty-two - aaya Congressaan frank Kowalski, of Connecticut. Congressman Kowalski - a retired Colonel, with a keen eyt for what he calls wasted man-power, aaya hi1 tabulation shows - fifty soldiers, on duty at the White liouae motor p ool, and twelve sailors - assigned to the White liouae kitchen. The ex-Colonel thinks all thia is wort that ought to be done - by civilian employees. !OLSBQl Wore Russians - on theRew ~ork Stock Exchange. Seems like the thing for ooviet visitors to do - since Uikoyan entered the Wall Street den of the capitalist li@na. This time - a Wall Street invasion by one hundred and thirty Bu1siana. Meabers of - the Bolshoi Ballet. latching, fro ■ tbegalleey. Their priaa ballerina - speaking for the group - Galina Olanova, told newsaen:- •our stock is going up, too.• Meaning the Bolshoi. The ballerina is right. American audiences have been wildly - enthusiastic - at the Met, and now at Madison Square Garden. ~specially then Galina Ulanova is on stage. COD The first man-aade object ever to be recovered tr011 five thousand miles out in apace - going on display, in Wilmington, Delaware. Avco Research, unveiling - the nose cona or a Thor-Able rocket. The rocket, launched by the Air Force - at Cape Canaveral. ZOOlling five thousand miles up - at fifteen thouaancl miles an hour. The nose cone, dropping back - without buming up. Recovered near Ascension Island - 1n the South Atlantic. Britain to enter the Space Age - that is, as an equal ot ~ussia and America. Priae ~ inister M a cmillan - in the Commons today said he hopes f or close coo p eration - with the United States and the nations of the Commonwealth. lie said he would like to have coo p eratioD froa the Russians too - but doesn't consider i t • likely. The first step in the British advan~e into outer space - the launching of an artificial satellite. In Louvain, Bel g ium, J a cqueline esmond is in the hospital - and ha p py t , o b e t here. J a cqueline, a co-ed - at Louvain University. Her hobby - ex loring caves. But she's not too ha pp y about what happened on Sunday. Jacqueline was crawling thru a p assage only about a foot wide in places. Suddenly th9-e was e flash rainstora. Nater pouring into the cave, thru the passage where Jacqueline was, sliding along finally tumbling into a n abyss. Her com p anions from safety, gave the alara. But it was two days before a rescue team - could p uap enough water out of the passage and the pit to rescue her. Jacqueline, stardng for forty-two hours - in mud and icy water, in the darkness of the cave. Today, they finally g ot a rope down to her, and hauled Jacqueline, the spelunker to the surface. Don, do you think the coed Jacqueline, will go on spelunking? A f yin g machine - run by atomic energy. The Goodyear Com p any, of Akron, of course, J ro p oses a blimp three times t h e size of those the Navy now uses. Mength - five hundred md forty feet. Displacing four million cubic feet - inside the vast envelope, ot dacron an4 synthetic rubber. ower? A nuclear reacter. Speed, ninety miles an hour - at ten thousand feet. With a crew of twenty-four. Will Goodyear make this super-blimp? The Defense Depart•t 86.J& - maybe.