GO O D EVENI N EVERYBO D Y: Seems odd to be saying good evening, w hen it's only midday u p here in Alaska. As for the cold s p ell, longest, coldest in memory - even the E skimo says so - it still hasn't broken. How is it where you are? North of us, in the interior of Alaska, it's minus fifty, and in many places down to minus sixty. As for Anchora g e, of~en called the Ca p itol of Alaska's 'banana belt,• even here it was 25 and 30 below this morning; and a bout that right now. But clear, beautiful weather. But have you heard about Florida, where the southern ~ art of the state, below aiami is coated with ice. Down to 17 above at W aldo, ilorida; 20 at Tallahasa Florida f a rmers say, not too serious yet. Some of their truck g arden cro s ruined, but luckily t h e freeze net severe enou gh to ruin the citrus crop - not yet. jDD hat's cold in Florida would be a he a t wave here in Alaska - a nd in m a ny other st a tes of what Alaskans call 'the So.48'. Around zero in the mid- t est ith lots of snow all the ay from Bew England - to the ureat Lakea. Winds of hurricane force over the North Atlantic, utting one vessel the Carthagi1 1 a out of commission. Her captain and crew f orced to take to the lifeboats. Luckil7i . icked up by the alwa1s-on-the-scene-Coast Guard. Have you heard about that Associated P re11. apology !o doubt it as inevitable. The wire service giving a false re p ort about the 1st Lady; the story that the resident's wife sli p ped away from the Kennedy family Friday night to dance the Twist in a Ft. Lau<lerdale night club. On Saturday the White uouse called the story - •completely false• and deaanded a retraction. The A.P. quickly checked and now tells how it all happened. A sim p le case of mistaken identity. Many gals do try to look like Jackie - end why not. The A • • retracted the ' story and a pp ologizes to the 1st Lady. As for the J:'resident - he is due for · a physical check tomorrow. Called p recau ionary. The President says he has no real complaints. He's no longer using his cane. is back is much better. The administration, p ears to be moving b ck to a pol icy of massive aid to Jugoslavia. ln Se)tember, the ro ram was curtailed by order of the President. Reas on - Tito's h ostile remarks about us. The National ecurity Council, giving our relations with hel g rade another close look. Evidently deciding that aid to the Jugoslav• - Tito - is still in our own interest. That aid, now to be ste pp ed up, beginning with a shipment of wheat worth some thirty million dollars. The m a n res onsible f or t h at shockin g bomb ex p losion in Columbia, South A m e rica, m n1 v e been what is termed •an old fashioned terrorist.• Gust a vo B arrabas, a w orker at t h e Columbian army b as e - at Bu g a. ln h ia s p are time, his hobby, makin g crude bombs to blo w u p anti-Communists. Like the one he touched off at the Christmas ~ve celebr a tion, killing 51 p eople, injuring a hundred more. lie had the bombs. he used one. ~ueas there's a moral there somewhere. One of the victims the terrorist who threw the bomb. Another moral there. ow - the eccentric star. Sounds like the theater - or the movies. But this is a •al star - in the heavene, discovered by aoientists at cafach. , ere are aome of the scientific peculiarities that have the astrono ■ers wondering:- This star has the lWDinoaity of a t7pical ■ agnetlo star - but it has no magnetic field. It's ~~7,000 hotter than our sun, and stars that hot have always been toun4 to rotate. This one seems stationary on it• ~ axi1. The only star in which two rare elements ha•e been found, crypton and heliu■ Ill. It has 10,000 ti ■e• ae much galliu■ as it should have. Also a hundred ti••• aa much phosphorus, and five ti ■es as much nitrogen. Then, to right the balance - if that the phrase - this new atar is deficient in oxygen and ordinary heliu■• The astronomers say that this discovery may revolutionizeta~ · •cience. Meanwhile there's a lot ot §%41 - 2 excited s _ eculati~n about this not ao dizzy star, this stationary star that suddenly wandered in front ot that huge telescope in Southern ~alifornia - at Cal-Tech. The other night l told now my wife and 1 had been fortunate enough to . get Leonhard Se pp ala a nd his wite to fly to Alaska with ua; Sep p ala, now in his eightiea, the greatest Arctic dog-team driver ot all time; the man who made the most hazardous an d s ~ ectacular part of the raaoua dash to loae, with the diphtheria seru■ in Nineteen TwentJ fiTe. 4J/l; At that ti ■• tbiaga g o t ~ mixed up, and leppala failed to receive proper credit. But now he is gettin1 a great o~ation fro ■ hie Alaatan trienda. In . Anchora g e they are talking about changing the naae of th• aain street to Sep p ala Trail, for a period of the annual fur rende1Toua; also, call this year's do1iteaa race the Sep p ala race. Sep p ala has just been tellin g •• what isn't exactlJ a Christmas story, but it's a story about life u p here near the orth P ole, about a cha p in •o ■e, who was called the Two-Step lid. Nearly everybody had a nickname in the This chap struck i t rich, a couple days of the goldrush. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 111111111111111 of hundred thousand dollars wort of gold dust. hereupon be decided to take dancing lessons, the two-step and when he got through he was broke. But, he went prospecting again, struck it rich, another couple of hundred thousand in nuggets and gold duat. And he hadn't learned hi1 lesson? Wonder who the girl was? Yes, he took aore dancing lessons, and again the two-step kid wound up flat broke. Later he told Mr1. Seppala it he 1truck it rich again, he'd go right on taking aore dancing lesaon1! But, Lady Luck didn't smile a third time on the Two-Step 114. And now Dick Noel - the Christaas Iid. £JIX If you ant to see how futuristic the 2 th century i S b e CO mi ng - C S id er th e C i t~· 0 f Ar Ct O g rad • /.. C i ty 8 ti in the p l a nning stage - but it's a fantnsy to be realized soon. S o s ay s o s co•. Arcqrad, a£ Jou can gueas, will be in the Soviet Arctic. An entire, brand new Arctic citJ, under a gigantic trana p arent doae. Waan•t that idea tirat developed over here in the U~I.A? Aparta,nt houaea, atorea, re1taa•anta, office buildings, even a park, and a football field - all p rotected fro ■ the polar weather by plastic. lo•eover this future city will sit on a p latfora three feet above the ground - to keep it off the frozen tundra. Maybe in Siberia, on the Lena, where the thermometer someti••• dives to 70 below! A metro p olis that will manufacture it's own weather Always a temperate olimate - way u p north of the Arctic in Soviet Arctograd.