HERTER / L.T.-DILCO. IIOIDAY, JULY 13, 1959 (Allan Jackson - L.T. in Alaeka) When the Geneva meeting of Foreign Ministers resumed our today - Secretary of State Herter promptly gave Gromyko• price r for a summit conference. The price - a written agreement covering the rights of the Weet in Berlin. Secretary Herter, backed by Selwyn Lloyd and Couve deMurville - told the Soviet Foreign Minister - that words are not enough to destroy the impression of a Moecow ultimatum. The Russians are Just too - f1aflXII fond or - saying one thing one day, and something quite different the next. So this time Gromyko's o_e_pos~t• number• won•t be satisfied •1th - conciliatory •orde. They want his name on a written document - in case he ever tries to deny what he said. Should Gromyko reply with a "da" instead of a "nyet", the last major roadblock would be removed from the path to the summit. Around Geneva the belief is - the three Westerners .. will get enough cooperation from Gromyko - to al~ow tha~much debated get-together of the heads of government. The steel situation 1s tense tonight - even though renewed bargaining ie going on. Labor and . .. tJanagement, both bowed to an appeal from President Eisenhower - and returned to the conference table. But both sides are - pessim1sstic • • And across the country, steel plants are shutting down• in the - I race of a strike scheduled to begin at midnight tomorrow. Thi Companies don't want to be caught napping• it halt a million ot i . " their workers do walk off their jobs. - The steel dispute still circles around the qQe111>n of - a wage increase. The Union wants the hike - which the Companies call - "inflationary." PLANE The plane or the CUban Air Force that was hijacked today was a c-t~7 transport. It had .. ixteen members of the Air orce aboard • when it took orr from Havana. Suddenly four gunmen pulled out pistols - and ordered the pilot to fly to Miami. Tonight, ~ e tour hijackers are asking tor - political asylum. The incident occurred as Admiral Arleigh Burke's opinion or the Cuban situation \'1as being released by the lavy • • Admiral Burke's opinion ie - that the danger or a Communist ta e-over in Cuba i s very great. HONDURAS That uprising in Honduras lasted - fifteen hours. General Armando Valasquez won two initial v1ctor1ee - overruning police headquarters and the military academy in Tegucigalpa. He even seized - the city telephone and telegraph systems. But the army stayed loyal to - President Ramon Villeda. The President rushed tanks and infantry into · the capital - and the battle began. For fifteen hours the rebels held the police station and the military academy. Then they evacuated both - after l starting a fire that destroyed an entire block of downtown Tegucigalpa. The toll of the uprie ing - mom than ninety dead, many injured. IUIA, to %AfS Tonight flnda Lowell Tboaaa outaid• •laata - but not yerJ far. Tbe place - well, let•• let bia tell ua about it. Lowell: L.T. RECORDING Hello E ·er~, ody - hello Allan. I'm in White Horee, the cap i tal of the Yu k on Territory, toni g ht, and what a chan,e since the last time I was in the Yu kon l White Horee is a boom town now. Just as Daws on was in the daye of the Klondike gold rueh. Dawson hae faded. And White Horse has taken its place ae the capital of the Canadian Yukon. Bill McBride, one ot the fe• old-timers who was here in the glamor days of 1 98, has Just been telling me that the present boom is due to t•o things:- The Alcan Highway and Alaskan statehood. As the metropolis at the head of navigation on the Yukon, and as the Canadian border town on the Alcan highway, just before you enter Alaska, White Horse is the distribution center for a large area. As for tourists, they come by auto, over the Alcan, they come by air, and by the White Pase and Yukon Railway. Most of those who come for a l ook at the U.S. 49th state also come across to White Horse for a glimp se of the L.T. RECORDING - 2 headwaters of the mighty Yukon, 'lhe people here by the way, are hurriedly paving some of the streets. nan They are really in a hurry about it. In all ite sixty years White Horse has never had a paved street or anything but the most primitive sidewalks, so why hurry to pave now? Oh, • the Queenie coming in a tew days, the Queen and the Duke, the first time a QUeen will have ever been in White H ree, in the Yukon. The McBrlde Museum, named for my old-time friend is to welcome the Queen. And Bill McBride is scheduled to epend a half hour with Her MaJestJ, telling her about the pictures on the walls. Pictures of Klondike Kate, and also the souvenirs of the poet Robert Service, who once worked here as well ae down river at Dawson. one of Robert Service's unpublished poeme is on the wall. It ie a prophecy. A prophecy of what Service would find if after fifty years he returned to White Horse. 111 tottered along the sidewalks that were made of real cement. A skyscraper loomed above ue, where once I remembered a tent!' Ah, sixty years have passed, et ill no skyscraper in L.T. RECORDING - 3 White Horse. But they are paving a etreet. Because the QUeen is coming in a few days. So long. fOLJ,01 TAf& lell, ~owell, l bet the Queen will fiad lbite bore• - aa roaantio as you do. And Uon, ~ wonder if tbe Sourdough• up tbere in tbe futon - will perauade Ber laJeaty to join tbea in a rouaiag chorua of - •Tb• Trail of '98?• .. SPEED . ; G Here's a question for - speed demons. How long do you suppose it takes - to get from the center or ~ndon, to the center of Paris - and back again? {_fj) Today Scottish Captain Ric k Walker covered the two ' hundreanfourteen miles - in three hours and ten minutee. Here• ■ the way ge did it. Captain Walker r o de a motorcycle from Marble Arch, - in London - to the Thames River. There a helicopter picked hill - up - and took him to an RAF baee - where he caught a Jet tor 1ii) . Paris. At the Paris Airfield, another helicopter was waiting - ... to rueh him into the city. Then he jumi,ed on another ■otorc1cl• - { ~( l<. - and roared up to the Arch deTriomphe. The Scottish Captain downed a glaee or wine - and started bac k for London. He arrived at Marble Arch with hie r ecord - downe d a b eer - • t be in such a h~rry, the next time he vieite Paris. PRISON That rebellion at Tenneeeee•e Brushy.Mountain state Prison - has an odd historical t 1st. One grievance or the rebelr is - wor!ing on the birthday of a Confederate general. Nathan Bedford Forrest - Tenneesee•e hero or the War Between ~ - according to 1•1••4 the states. General Forrest, wh<tmade the immortal remark about winning battles by getting there - "the taatest with the moetest." The convicts were at work in a mine - when they turned ~ o~heir guards, and seized thre3 ae hostages. Tonight, the rebels are holed up - a mile down. The mouth of the mine 1s being patrolled - by armed guards. Even that other rebel - - General Forrest - would have a tough time breaking through. LONG The Governor or Louisiana has fired - all hie doctors and psychiatrists. larl Long claims - he knows ae much as they do. He•e in Fort Worth on vacation - and doesn•t want to hear any more medical advice - about slowing down. Govemor Long today reveled one special ambition. - He says he would like to address - the Texas legislature. What would he say? It ,a,,, Among other things, he would warn the Texans about - the rate that pursued an old 111811 who urriea a young wire. ' KOZLOV Frol Kozlov considers hie visit to America - "useful". The Soviet Deputy Premier said thie in a brief statement at the Moscow Airport - where he landed after a jet flight of nine hours and forty-eight minutee from New York. Kozlov was greeted by Mjkoyan - also a Deputj Prea1er and visitor to the Uni ted--S tates. · ,Kozlov and Mikoyan ought to · have a lot to reminisce about - with regard to America. The important thing, however - 1e what Khrushchev will think ot Kozlov•s report.