SUBMARINE L. T ~ . tir· // - 'b..3, The tragedy of the subm a rine ' T h r e s h e r ' ~ the kind of tr gedy th th s a sh a ttering effect on us all. ~ .. submarine lost)- her crew.,.. trapped a t the botton of the aee.::J ~~~. A ,..._The men in the rescue ships - desperate td do somethingi *t what can they do - when the stricken sub lies more than a mile down? Tragic, poignant,soul shattertng - you can choose your adjective. They all apply - to the 'Thresher'. The navy says that the neuclear-powered sub - is deftnttely lost. No hope of survivors• 8 ft ,_the one hundred and twenty-nine men aboard. Mercifully - in view ,t the fact that no one could be brought up from a depth of eight thousand feet - tt 1 s unlikely that anyorle survived more than a few minutes after the accident. The only problem now - to find out what caused the "Thresher'' to go down. Navy experts rule out the possibtltty of an explosion - In her naclear reactors. Which le a ves - two theories. Mech nic 1 f a ilure - or human hxx f ilure. The sub m a y h a ve developed a le a k - under the tremendous pressure of her dive . . ltern a t1vely - some"'one may have given th wrong comm nd , or pushed the wrong button. What grain of consol a tion - can we get from this catastrophe? For one thing - 1t reminds us how jood our nuclear ~ subs are. They~ sailed thousands upon thousands of miles - (l ; ~ ~ ~ / o.,.,J ~..., ~-:p~ I 1 entirely submerged. Circling the globe - many tiles. Including - the northwest passage route under the North Polar Ice Cap. They've carried out secret experiments - at grea~ depths. !f.t... 'lne first and only one to be lost - 'k the "Thresher". KENNEDY FOLLOW SUBM INE - - - - The President's mess a ge of condolence points out that " Thresher ' nd her crew, under lomm a nder John Harvey - held a number of record s . Traveling faster ~iving deeper - than any sub in n a v a l history. Pioneering a new er a 1n what Mr. Kennedy c a lls - ' the1f,ternal dr a m a of. the sea' . C, President K e n n e d y ~ - read the navy report'as they came in) '1orgett1ng for the moment - about : yesterday's rise in the price'or steel. f-lnd - his scheduled ' Easter vacat i on 1n Florida. Neither steel nor vacation, of much importance - wh i le the fate of the 11 Thresber" was tn doubt. Rpauuex STEEL -tk As for the steel question/ President,.,_,., 1a ll!'ging the industry to hold the line on prices. The President not reacting to l a Wheeling Steel - as vigorously aa he did to U.S.Steel last year. This time, merely pointing ta the errecta or steel prices - on our national economy. Aaklng both labor and management - not to start another inflationary aplral. SENATE (}.R)i.J,:rne secret session of the Senate today - was conatitutiona1;a-aiso~unuauali ...ao unusual that the Senatol'II consult the recoa.:i-ttlast Senatorial secret se■■ ion - kl'-.:, -..-..,..-~-during ~rld !_ar !wo. ~ figure out for themselves - details that they couldn " t find in the -archives of the Senate. Result - gallery closed. Employees and newsmen, compelled to take - an oath of secrecy. A pledge not to reveal what they heard - during the debate. SubJect - the anti-missile missile. Senator Thurmond of South Carolina, quoting from top-setret docuaen,a - about the Nike -Zeus using classified information to support his contention - that we should spend almost two hundred million dollars for the anti-missile missile. NATO The , merican Secretary of Defense believes that Mato will okay - an inter-allied nuclear force. ~ s De Gaulle hasn't s a t ~ yet. But Secretary McNamara, on the basis of this trip to Paris - thinks..,.... the President or Prance will fall into line> And that the plan will be approved - when the Nato Delegates meet in Ottawa next month. If so, an International forde lased on land, sea and air will be equipped with atomic weapons. l a d . . ~ under the I ■- , - & . - \ Commanding General of Na to . i\ Amer 1ca" General, Lyman Lemn1 tzer. MISSILE The launching of a minute man missile at Vandenberg Poe A ir Force Base - was (lPera t 1011!! . The crew - ready lflJ!II combat . ~ ¢ ~ Plrlng the rocket• as 1~ ~Ae~y out ln the Pacltlc. The minute man, powered by solid fuel- streaking up from 1ta underground 1110. arching into a Californl aky-i&.,- 1 11,'U~lear - -'Mt lta shed.ow tralled a.bong the ground. The mlsslle, thund6r1ng over the ocean - at fifteen thousand miles an hour. Landing bnthe target area - five thousand miles away. A key teat for one or our moat important deterrents - the ml . nuteman. The old a g about the wild man of Borneo ■ aJ be co ■ in& back to judge from this diapatcb. A tribe 0£ Punana baa Juat been discovered - deep in t,he Borneo Jungle. Tb• point ot the announoeaent bein 6 - that the Punana were tbouabt to be extinct. Their atone •&• culture - a thin& of the past. But ao ■e of the ■ are still there. landerin& throu1b the Jun&le with their apeara and blow 1un1. le••r e•en building huta, or even aaking cloth••• Their foo4 - fruit and berriea. Alao, rabbita an4 ■onk•J• tiroa1bt 4own with poiaoned dart,. Aa4 oooaaioaallJ the 4iapatoh ••1• they dine on one another. Sound••• if the Punan la the real wild ■an of Born••· They have couaia• in other areas. Years aao I viaited a siailar jungle people in the Malay foreat, tbe Se■ana• who al10 didn't even bother to build but,, and they too were armed with blow una. SAMARITA . N The role of the good Samaritan , as we know - is not always an easy one. Text for tonight- what happened to a good Samaritan in Cleveland. Unfortunately - he's not identified. But - here's w h a t ~ . ~~ Ethel Butler t o l ~ ~ that her car had been stolen. Whereupon, he offered to drive her am-ound Cleveland - to look for it. And - they found the cab. llaet:lncident - apparently over ..... '- ..... " " ~ \ a l n t i l the police arrested him. The charge? Ethel accused JU!_ or - eteall.ng her car.,;, spent moat or thl bight tn Jail - protesting his innocence. Then - the truth ca• out. Ethel confessing- that she loaned the vehicle to her - boyfriend. And tried to hide the fact - by putting the blame .L'.Ml~ Au ,J ~ on the"man who had helped he~_)lho went to Jail,. Whi'"' ~he (1,, good Samaritan_~,~ . CHECKS Meanwhile , over 1n Pudsey , England , another gal 1a in trouble ~ - because of a boJfriej and a car. Or rather_... ~ c a r s . P l u r a l . Betty Hardaker's boyfriend- wasn't •ntx satisfied with just one. He wouldn't settle for - less than two. That's why Betty took to - frogery. Passing bad checka ~ W', 1n Pudaey,~London and~Liverpool. That's how she accumulated- two thousand pounds sterling. 41' how her boyfr1eld a«r::eub'IN ) two cars. One more set or f1.glmes - due to arrive at an, ■oment. \J'""""~•-o"' s ~ The number ot years in"- . . . fel•pc<,, for - Betty Hardaker. lett1, .,.,J~ytr1end ~ 1 , r l l r O , 1Uke--e11111tinaU...._1n Pud■ey •