L. T. OLDS, FISHER: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1963 (Richard C . Hottelet) SOVIET The Soviet housewife received a surprise today. The sale of one of her staple foods - bread - was unofficially, but effectively, rationed. Stores began allowing one-pound of white bread and four-pounds of black bread to a customer - as one baker put it : "on orders" fr om ups talrs. Flour was unobtalnabl• today in Moscow stores - as the Russia11 people b•gl• to feel the pinch of a poor llarvest. No firm United States decision yet on selling wlleat to the Soviet Union. President Kennedy is reported awaiting Republican approval before ac ti,ag. UNITED NATIONS An affable, smiling Andrei Gromyko was spreading some optimism at U. N. headquarters today. The Soviet Foreign Minister told a group of reporters that his talks with his American and British colleagues had narrowed the gap between their positions a little. 011 011e or t,oo points. One of them is on banni,ag 1111clear ,oeapons from 011ter space. Re told a diplomatic colleague that tlle Ge11eva disarmament conference would ,oork out tlle details. B11I America,a sources were more cautious - agreeme,at i,a pri,aciple, they said, falls short of agreeme11t ill 1>racllce. But at a f>rivate di,uter to,aight Secretary of Slate R•slt and Mr. Gromyko can review their differences. INTRODUCTION TO TAPE Tonight Lowell Thomas reports on the preparations for his trip to the Antarctic. Lowell Later tllis evening, over most of tllese CBS Radio Stations, you will be able to la ear tlaat recorded braodcas t from Lowell Thomas - sent by short •ave from tlae Antarctic. ANTARCTIC PREPARATIOHS HELLO EVERYBODY -- thla la Lowell 'l'homaa, trom Cape Town, South Atrlca. 'l'nnt1 nine or WI, 1n two huge U.S. HaVJ planes, aN about to take ott tor the South Pole. Thll 11 an expedltlon whlch, lt 1ucce11tu1, ma, go down 1n hlatoey, u one ot the ~ t tllghta of all tlme. Por never betore liaa an attempt been mde to tl7 tro■ Atrlca to the Antarctlo Cont lnent, to the Pole. It rou . wlll tum your globe upslde down tor a moment y ou w 111 quickly aee whJ thla la 10. All tlylng to the Antarctic, until now, baa been either from South America and the nearby Palkland Ialands, or trom New zealand. 'l'hla tor the obvlowa reaaon that both South America and New Zealand are 1n much lower latltudea, ln the 40 1 1 or the 50•1. Whll• South Atrloa onlJ extendl a little below latitude 30 -- 300 1011th, Jut a abort dlatanc• below the Tropic or Capricorn. AHTARCTIC PREPARATIOHS. 2 Thla 11 one or the reaaona why a vast area ot the Antarctlo Contlnent, the part dlrectl7 IOllth or SO11th Atrlca, la at111 largel7 unexplored, unknown. Aa tor thla flight here'• how lt all came abolltz Por tour 7eara now, our laYJ and Alr Poree people ' 1n the Antarotlo, have been ua1ng a huge new plane, eq11lpped wi.th ■kl• ~ It'• oalled the Beroulel c-1,0. 'l'hla giant bird hu enabled tbell to mke long range tllghta, and land tar and wlcle 1n that wlllt• Contlnent. Bach rear aclentl1t1 interested ln the atlll little known Antarctic Cantlnent at the Ultimate Sollth, 1clentl1t1 gather troll warloua coantrlea tor R tour or tlve day 11111on. Solentl1t1 tr011 Brltaln, Autralla, Kew Zealand, SO11th Atrlca, Argentlna, Prance, Japan and a tew other countrlea. In- cldentallJ, thb tlme the -ting WI boycotted · b7 the Roalana. beoaue ot the raoe problN here ln Atrlca, no dollbt. At any rate, tbe11re not here. ANTARCTIC PREPARATIONS - 3 Admiral Jamea ReedJ, ot the U.S. Havy, is the present ottlcer 1n command ot our operations ln the Antarctlo. It's known•• Jou have heard aa "Operatlon Deep ll'Nse". How Admlnl RN4J - oomlng to Cape Town to attend the meeting ot the Solentltlo COllllttH tor Ant.-otlo Re~earoh, and lt 1uddenl7 ooollrl'94 to bl• that thll could be the ldeal tlme to attempt llbat ought to be one ot the great tllghta ln the hlator, ot avlatlon •• tour thouand alX hundred 1111••• non- atop, tro■ Cape town, aoro11 the Antarotlc Ocean, an empt7 • ooean. and then all the war acroea the Antarctlo Continent · to tbi Roa• S• to NoMllrelo Sound. 'l'Wo S.rclll•• c-1,0 BL'• are maklng the t11ght. Scheduled departure ts- tour o 1 olook 1n the afternoon Monday, September 29. BJ the-,, I hope to ha•• good nna and report to JOU perhapa by aborha•• •11v•• I hope, trom McMurdo Sound. At any NH, thla _ la LoWll 'l'bomu aa,lng aolong trom the tlp et anua Atrloa, BRITAIN Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan moved back into his official home today - after a three-year absence. While number ten Downing Street - the home of 42 Prime Ministers in 200 years - was renovated. Incidentally, the penny t,inclling BriUsla Treasury ran into tlle trouble every homeowner e,aco,n,t•r• Tlae cost of reftcrbislling ,iumber 10 Downi,ag Street - more tlla,a t.,ice Ille original esttma~e. 2 millio,a BOO tllousafld, instead of l milliofl 200 tllousafld - eve,a tie smaller, origiflal estimate llad dra.,,a m11clt bitter comme,at that the Job wasn't wortlt it. UNDERWORLD Con v icted killer and dope peddler Joseplt Valachi continued his expose of the crime sy•dicate "Cosa Nostra" - telling how in a recruili,ag drive front I 95 4 - 58 it bee am e r,oBBibl e to buy member• It it, ,,. tlte u,sderworld organi%ation - if an applicant laad up to 40 tlaousand dollars, and a Casa Nostra spo,uor. R.EBELS Algeria's President Ahmed Ben Bella ltas received a warning from a leader of the Berber rebels. Ait Ahmed, who once slaared a jail cell with Ben Bella, warned the President to make ti ., te of the "example of Napoleon" - wltose army was crushed in both Rossia and Spain by guerrillas. Said the rebel chieftan - "tliis •ill be guerrilla warfare. BASEBALL 69 thousand cheering fans heard the cry "Pla y ball" in New York's Yankee Stadium this afternoon ... as the first game of the World Series got underwa y . But then, the hometow11 Yankee far,s - settled back in str,nned silence. The New York team was favored to wir, this first champior,s1,if> game from tlie Los Angeles Dodgers, but a young man named Sar,dy Kou/ax got in the way. The slender left-liand Dodger Pitcher had everytltir,g to 1'is likiflg - limitl•g tl,e Yankees to a mere six lilts, and putting a flew record i11to tlte books - l 6 strikeouts. In case you don't already know - tl,e Dodgers wo11 that game - five to two.