f..:..J'~_-_Q_f_Q.§.i._f.l§.!!.§ _ f!_ __ F_fi!J2..~.1'..i OCTOBER 9, l 9 6 4 ------------------ LEIF ERIKSON I hope 1 011 have been eel ebrating today - eel ebrating t he di scove1•y of America. That's right Colttmbis Day is next Monday but today is Leif Erikson Day. The first time we have decided as a ,iat ion - - to admit the f,ri ori ty of Leif Eriks on over Christopher Colionbus. Qfli te a f,ri ori ty - five hundred years. Of course, that Viking voyage in the year One Thousand is a matter that is st ill de bat ed. But so have the voyages of Columbus. The Vikings wrote -- nothing. And their feat di d not be com e known outside Scandinavia. Also, they themselves never fol lowed it up. Which was why Col um bus had to ~_!disc over America in Fourteen Ninety-Two. Still, the finding of Viking remains in Greenland - - proves that the Northmen did indeed cross the Atlantic. Andt,rovides evidence for the tradition LEIF ERIKSON - 2 t It a t th e y re a c h e d t It e ma i n l and • W h i c It the y cal led - - Vin el and. If you don't belie v e they got here -- well. Uncle Sam does. And today officially was Leif Eriks on Day. KIDNAP The U.S. Air Force o/Ji er kidnapped at Caracas , Venezuela - had ad , a,ice wa1'1li11g from the kidnappers. Lieu.tenant Colonel Mike Smolen of Cha,zdler, Ari-Zona , recei ed an anonymor,s call yesterday - that he would be seized by terrorists, but ig,zored the warning because he had similar calls - in tile past. This time - it tm-ned out to be the real thing. Colonel Smolen a,ul two other Americans were getting into a command car - when a civilian car stopped beside them. Two men armed with submachine guns - forced the Colonel into their vehicle, and sped off with him. Their car was found later - on a side street. Since then no sign of - Colonel Smolen. POLIT/I Pr e id e nl Johnson hose to lalk about lhe Tenn e ss ee V , tl le y A uthorit _ , - in T nn e ssee . 11 h ic h is - j ust w hat Senator Gold w at e r d i d. E x e t,t - that th e fr nt,ort is not lir e same. The Ref,ublican c andidat e proposed sellin g part of T. V . A. - to pri v ate interest . Tl,e Democrati c candidate , retorting - tllat T. V. A . w ill rema i n t inder th e control of the federal go v ernment. As long as he - i s in the While Rouse . Row does the campaign look - to L y ndon Joh,,son? In Louisville, Ke11lttcky, the President termed his opponent - "desperate, losing, falling behind." To which Sen. Goldwater - doesn't agree at all. Re thinks he's gaining ground with sucli arg,,ments - as the one he has been hilling hard in Cal ifoniia. Namel y - Communism. The G. 0. P. standard bearer, scoffing at the idea - that the Reds are "•el lowing. " And f>romisu,g to sta11d up to K11r,csh c he and Mao more energeticall y - if elected President. Which the Arizonan belie es - he will be. PHOENIX FOLLOW POLITICS Oh, by the way, the campaign trail is leading both candidates -- to the same city 011 the same day. Phoenix, Arizona -- on Sunday. However, with little cl,ance - - of Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater coming face to face. The Senator has scheduled a non-political engagement -- in his home city. An afternoon speech for the benefit of a Phoenix museum. The President will speak at the Phoenix airport -- in the morning, before flying on to California. MILLER -------- Should Goldwater be elected, he would not abolish farm subsidies -- o ernight. So stated b , his ru11ni ng ma, e - - while stumping through the Midwest. Congressman Miller pointing out that a sudden cancellation of federal aid -- "would throw the farm economy into a state of chaos," and promising that a change in the White Ho · use -- would be for the good of American agriculture - - tl,at it would ,n ean - - "sounder farm programs. " h d n th r · m i n h ve be come so \ · / p o - ht h e~ rd' con Q ir b i e n g he ard . T he Pr ime ini~t r p t ~ - 1 ike hl :: ! · - "They are oreanized n th y are Labo r . ' n n - ad i to si lence Tory { ( ' . ... spea kerQ by hecklin them . I '7-h appen , to Conservatives - from Sr Alec D oug las -Hom e on down)' O'eo g r ph i cally - from London to Glasgow. The La or le a dership denies that its rank and file - are to blame. Harold Wilson deplores the heckling - on the 4-(J ground that he wants the iories to be heard. ,Because he 1 s sure / A the British electorate - w i ll prefer the case for Labor. If that sounds like campai g n oratory - nevertheless Wilson is d oi ng Qomething to h elp h ~ opponent s g et through to the public. The Socia list leader, closi ng Qever a l br anches - of the Socialist Party. The branc he s f ro m whi~h t h e heckler~ - have b een coming. T ho~e our We~te · n diplomat~ who had a brus h wi t h the ov e t ecret Serv·c - a r e b ck in Mo cow . Th l one Bri t is he r , nd he thr ee Am ericans - returning de~ ·t e the Kremlin charge th a t h ey are spie~ . It was thought that Khru shc hev might turn thumbs dow n - on them. B ut today, all four p ass e d through the Soviet C ustom s - with the usua l diplomat ic courtesi es. Including - no inspection of their baggage. Now - it I up to the Boss of the Kremlin p To let the diplomats remain - until their tour of duty ends. ~r - to give / them the boot. At any rate, the four have already been subjected to - an example of Soviet harassment. The ransacking of their hotel room - in Siberia. In - Kha ba rovs k . BO T he Strongman of R ed Ch i na corroborateM - the Am erican S cre t a y of S t a t e . Mo T~e -t ng , repe tin t he statement b y Dean Ru~k - tha Pe king will soon touch off an a tom ic e x plo io n. That'~ th e word that is bein pa~sed - through the Red C hin ese diplomatic a paratu.s. F or de livery to - the neutral nation s . Why - the deliberate leak? Mao is said to be warning the neutralists in advance - to take the sting out of any possible criticism. Many unaligned powers have called for - a complete moratorium on atomic testing. So Mao wants to prepare them psychologically for the first mushroom cloud to over rise 'X'/r the soil of Red China. BOOK I hope y ott read "Not Under Oath." That's the title of an autobiograph y by John Kieran -- "Not Under Oath." And did you read the Poore review of it in the New York Times? I mean the Charles Poore review? It had some nuggets worth noting -- before they disappear forever into the back files of the pat,er. Like this one: "A famous metro-Socratic academy of Mandarins -- on the electronic air." The Poore way of referring to - - Inf or mat ion Please, the radio show that John Kieran made so famous -- sl ong with Oscar Levant, F. P. Q. and Clifton Fadiman. Poore suggests that art critic Kieran has seen-- "at least nineteen more Vermeers than Vermeer ever got around to painting. " As for Jiz.!! watcher Kie ran lie runs "a benign, relentless ornithological police state." John Kieran -- a man who is all things to all women -- I nean to all men -- Dick. CRANES Here's an item in !!!!!.£! of John Kieran: A whoot,i ng crane has arrived at the Wildlife Refuge in Texas. D!>esn' t sotind dramatic? But, i!.~-1~11 of drama -· I.!! all who lo~!. the bizJ.! of ~!!.!.!! ~'!..!!.!£ A decade ago .... it seemed as if the whoot,i r,g crane was or, the way to extinction. Only about taoe,aty -- surv · iving. Then the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servi c e - - launched a cam t, a i g,a Io save I 1, e s /I e c i • s . Guarding -- their nesting t,laces. Provldir,g -- food and first aid. A,ad -- count i,ag the chi ells as they hatched. Result -- thirty-I wo of tlae birds left for Canada in tlae st,ri ng, a11d today, tla e first of tlaem flew back to Texas. Lone Siar bird watclaers •ill be scanning the sky -- over the weekend, hot,ing to st,ol more whooping cranes.