' ECONOMIC Two fi g ures - taking a drop. Two numbers - declining. For the week e nding April Ninet ee nth, there were fewer idle workers draw1 . ng unemployment benefits. So reported - by the various states. A decline - of thirty thousand, seven hWldred, as compared with the previous week. Same story - ln the figures for - newly laid ort 119rker1..,-tillng their first claims for jobless benetlta. Show1ni a drop - or twenty-three-thousand,-three•hundred. These two categories are uaually regarded - a■ an accurate index or the trends or employment. Increaa1ng - during the recession. But now - showing a decline. Perhaps - the moat pointed indication that the recession 11 coming to an end. VETO Soviet Russia today vetoed the American proposal - to establish a system of "open skies inspection" for the Arctic. As a safeguard against a surprise attack via the North Pole. The vote in the Security Council of the UN - ten to one. The one Rusaian u vote cast against - amounting to a veto. At the same time, the Security Council voted agalnat a Moscow demand that the flight or American hydrogen bombers 1n the Atlantic should be halted. '!be only vote 1n tavor - that ot Soviet Rus11a. During the proceed1nga, the usual thing, an anti-American a diatribe la from Soviet representative Sobolev. MISSILES Missiles, armed with nuclear warheads - will be fired 1n the current series of atomic tests• 1n the Far Pacific. ,,,... The rockets - to be launched at JohnstOlft'l Island. Which ls - five-hundred-and-forty miles away from the nearest inhabited b1t of land. So that - the atomic explosions will be no danger to anybody. The mlsalles - short range. Leas - than two hundred miles. All of which was announced, today, by Secretary or Detenae Nell Mcilroy and Lewla Strauss, Chairman or the ltoalc Energy Coanlaelon. · AIR FORCE The Air Force announces that the B-47 jet bomber - will be modified. Structural changes made - following a series or accidents. Which indicated - that the Jet bomber was not strong enough to resist the strain in an all-important •neuver. The maneuver used - in delivering atomic weapma. The Air Force has fourteen hundred B-47 Jets - allot ld'llch will be remodeled and strengthened. SPACE The US g overnment - plannin to send rockets to Mars. For a trip of - forty..nlne million miles. So says the space committee of the House of Representatives. The committee - considering President Eisenhower's proposal to set up a c1v111an space agency. Hearing testimony - about the plans of the proposed space agency. One - the launching of rockets m cra11111ed with cameras and scientific 4 instruments. To make the trip to Mrs. Reporting back - by A radio and televlslon. No human passenger~ proposed - tor the first voyages to the Red planet. EISENHOWER TRIP The Eisenhowers to vi~it Canada in July. 'lhe President and the First Lady - to be in Ottawa as guests of Canadian Prime Minister John IJleffenbacher. They'll be accompanied by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles - according to today's announcement at the White House. EISENHOWER Pre s id e nt Eis e nhower ma d e a sug e s tlon, toda y . Proposing an international to rnament o f g olf d uffers. Ar g uing ... ~---- that an internationa l competition for the likes of himself. and you, and me - would promote better understanding between peoples. The Presiden made the statement at a meeting of representatives from twenty seven countries. Who are in Washington - to make plans for the world amateur golf championships, at St. Andrews, Scotland- this October. President Eisenhower conceded - that the contest of the experts would be a good thing. But - that high ranking golfers usually talk about the shots they made. Ill While the conversation of "duffers" would be -more about the people they meet, the beauties of the countryside, and so on. Well. I shouldn't like to differ with the President of the United States, but some of the worst golfers I know - are always talking about the shots they made. Sometimes - not so truthfully. BIIS()tf Secretary of Agriculture Benson - to vla1t Soviet Ruala, thla awnmer. Where - he'll visit Russian farms and centers or agricultural research. Secretary Benson - aoceptlftl an invitation trom the Soviet Minister of Agriculture. The Depart•nt of Agriculture ••P· the Benaon tr,., •111 be part ot an exchange program. :auaalan and Aaerlo• ottlclal■ - •xOhanging v1alta. IUOtf In the Senate - angry criticism of Argentina. Because or the trouble Vice President Nixon had - at the inauguration or Argentinian President Frond1zl, yesterday. The Vlce President and the American Ambassador - caught ln a Jam or people trying to get ln. Jostled · - pushed arowid. Today Senator Hlckenlooper or Iowa charged Argentlni wlth - "groas dlacourteay". Because no Mana were provided tor the Vice Prealdent and the A'lllbaaaador to• get ln. An lndlpllty - to the Vice PNaident or the United Stat••• Naanwhile, 1n Buenoa Aire■ today, 11.xon waa MIi NCtl•lng all due honors. KORBA Election Day 1n Korea, with the oppoa1tlon to President Syngaan Rhee - taking an early lead. P1rat return• trom the Capital City of Seoul give the Democratic Party - a two to one margin. Thia, however, la not considered lndicatlve 1lnoe the retuma troll outlying provinces 1n South Korea are llkelJ to ••lnl the other ay. Synpan Rhee•• J.lberal Party - the ta•orlte 1n those parts. THIRD DIVISION The US Third Infantry Division -- received a message of welcome, today. The soldiers preparing to leave Port Bermlng, Georgia, for service overseas. To be atatloned - in Wea t Germany. The •••age or welcome - fl'Offl the Oeran-ltrlka Korpi Society. Ne11bera or that tol'llldable outfit ot the desert - lihlch campaigned ln North Atrica under the lepncled R0111118l. The polnt la that ln ' the second World Var, the u s Third Infantry Dlvlalon - ~ the North Atl'lcan CUlp&lp. Battling - aplnat Roael 1 1 North Atrlka Korpi. Ro 11 1 a veterans• now halllng the Thlrd DlYl■l• in the tollowlng wol'da: "Ve salute you u a valiant tol'INr opponent - wlth whom we fought 1n North Africa 1n NlnetHn Forty three." Enemies then -- friends, today. CARDINAL In Rome, today, Cardinal Str1tch _ . leam1ng- to write. That is - with his left hand. The Chlcago Cardinal •king a good recovery - after the amputation of hls right arm, because or a blood clo_:J 1MB J t D puap•• - ~ · __,,.,,,,--- ~ )'lb• aeventy year old prelate A.. practicing wrltlng, u he dld wen he waa a child 1n school. • At e B r ssels F air - th e openi ng of Panora•"· The Soviet erslon of 11 Clnerama ' . • Pan " an .. S1n " - now "' ~ • c01DJ)et1t1on. I\ In th e erican pavilion, two C inera• shows have been playing al l along. Our first one " This 1a Cinerama " . 'ffl• • other~ Seven Wonders O! The World. ' The Rualan Panorama" described aa being the•- u 0'11' American "Cinerua" whlch you'd auppoae - the Sovl•t• 1111tated. But they claim - they invented lt! --- It would aeem, however, that they certainly illltated - the nue. Another one ot those worda ending 1n " - " which followed the success or our wide screen ahowa. ILKINS (LT copy) Frank Elkins of the Commerce department • which handles all or our exhibitions abroad - tells me that since the war, we have taken part in some fifty-seven lnternatlonal trade fairs, 1n twenty seven countries, where nearly tlrty million people have v1a1ted our Allerlcan p pavlllona. ~ ,,._~~•Ti:. ..e. ~ab: NCNt N ~ d &.I ... •1' -t, °""' e.-. 'li'"' - -"""-. ~ t:Li, ;.t-~ "" ~ .,.,~ ·---r.tz, .....,_ ------·~--·2... PLANE At New York's Idlewild airport, sixty-three passengers - gazed in amazement, as their big airliner landed. They saw fire engines and ambulances waiting. The airport - ready for a possible crash. Only then were the paaaengera informed - of what had happened. The plane- a Trans-AtlaJ\tlc Israeli ~lrllner. Whloh made a atop in London. Where, at the take off, bound tor••• York - a mishap occ'1rl'ed. The airliner - losing a wheel. One wheel - or ten. The pllot, Captain Zvi Tohar, noticed the loa1 ot the wheel - but kept right on acroaa the Atlantic. He 1tlll ·-"""' A1-c .,,,.., had nlne wheels left, and thought ~ 1 _ b e enough. The passengers - not informed. Ignorant, aa they tlew across the ocean - that their airliner was mlnua a wheel. Approaching Idlewild, the pilot made a report on what had happened. Then - made a couple of low passes, akimlng over the runway at an altitude of twenty feet. So that ■echanloa on the ground could look up - and estimate the condition or PLAD - 2 the landing gear. They aa1d - okay. So the Israeli airliner came down without incident - except for the astonishment or the pa11engera. Learning - what had happened. MOTHER Michigan, today, selected - its ' Mother of the year" .. Mrs. Mattie Baker McFall - to represent Michigan at the nationwide event in New York. The competition - ror the · · American Mother of the Year. 11 The Michigan Mother, eighty-rive years old - ia a daughter of one-time slaves. Her parents - 1n servitude on a plantation 1n Hamilton county, Florida. Then, when slavery was abolished, they remained on the plantation - as tenant farmers. Their daughter married a tenant ral'll8r - who, later, was able to buy his own farm in Georgia. "'6/1 _, __ . -------- ~catti.- their twelve children, The d~ter or the former slaves n!!!r learned to read and write. But among her children, one ls a phyalc1an, another a a dress designer, another a school teacher. Some or them - living 1n Detroit - where the llllt9• Mother Joined them a couple or year, ago. Now hailed as the Michigan "Mother of the year." THEATRE The management of a movie theatre in Hancock, Michigan says - they've got rid of the bats. Or so they hope - after days of chasing the flying rodents. At the Kerr1dge theater, a horror picture was advertised - with spectacular publicity. Including the statement - that the weird thriller would 11&ke it see■ as it bate were flying around. A group or students at Michigan Tech thought - they'd have a bit of ••t realism:- so at the flrat pertorlllllee _, they turned loose - about a hundred bats. It was weird, all right. The audience ln a pand91110nlum. After which, the manage•nt had the Job - ot getting rid or the bats. Catching - dozens ot them. But, at the performance the next day, things were still - batty. 'Dte picture, this time, a Red Skelton comedy. A. In the middle of which].. bat climbed up the screen, right up Red Skelton's back - which was too batty - even for the Red THEATm\ - 2 Skelton type of humor. So, there was another bat-hunt in the theater. Which, says the management, has now been - de-batted. They hope. PRISON A pandemonium of cheering - at the Concord prison tarln, 1n Ma11achu1etts. A baseball game - between two tea1111 of convlcta. And a dazzling play by Ronald Mules - a veteran ballplayer. llules tlnt broke lnto baseball u a boy - at a couple or retol'IIRtorlea. Then, later, he played 1n the outtleld on other prlaon t e - . Millea - having a stubborn wy ot getting 1n Jall. ~ So, now, at the Concord prlaon tal'II A he - , • llall hawk ln the outtleld),)"'-n - the batter hlt a long drl•~ looked " llke a 8\11'9 hOM run- But llulel llade a q11lok ■tan, running llke a deer and caught . the ball. Cheers - tor the brlll1ant play. The prlaan guarda - Jolnlng 1n the ovation. • Then, suddenly, the guardl wre silent. Gaping at what they saw. Arter o~ttielder Millea made the running catch -V kept on gos.n,,/ Dlaappearlng 1n a patch of woods. The other convlcts1-°liiey kept on cheering louder • • PRISOI - 2 Even the prisoner at the bat whoae prospective home run had been caught - joined in the applauae. To add lnault to injury, Mulea took the baseball along wlth h111. '4.J 11.J- ~ " ~ ...:l;,if '7 ~ MJ.~ fl.2 •~~~ ~ M • · BICYCLE Over in Italy, near Milan, Mrs. Genevieve Casaola - took her three 1111 children tor a bicycle ride. Mama and the youngsters, pedalling along - each on a bike. Then, atter a while - they spied -- a lfOndertul aaooth hlghwa:i ;,'11 paved;- pertect tor bicycling. So Na• Cuaola took the three little Caaaolaa - tor a ride, along the beat road they ever aaw . .. They were pedalling along gayly, when they were A nearly run down - by a U.S. Air Poree Jet tighter, an P-84. The perfect hlgh•y tor a bicycle rlde -- a runway at the • • • • • llalpenaa alr bue. Uaed by Aaerlcan Jet■• ...-i' Hereatter,~uaola and the three llttle Cuaolu will atlck to country roads. 4-,,/ -4.- L - K • . _ ,# I -