L. T. OLDS, Fl HEIL M ON DA Y , De c e m be 'I' 2 , 1 9 63 G o o d E L ' en i 11 E er) b o dy : L). ndon Jolznson back the Ketznedy joint-moon project. The p, , oposed cooperation between the United States and /h e o iel Union. President Johnson - repeats I the offe,·, a11nou11ced today b y Adlai Stevenson at the United Natio11 . Will it happen - America11 astronattls and Soviet Cosmonauts? It's now tt/J to Khrushchev. JOHNSON Al o , President Johnson loda tacked that tough /Jr ob I e m - integral ion . Conferring with Whitne Young of the National Urban League - about ,zegro unemployment. The negro leader urging the President to initiate a public works program to ease the situatio,a. The President also conferred with Commerce Secretary Lrtther Hodges - on th b11,dget, the budget for Nineteen sixty five he must submit to Congress in eigltt weeks. Secretary Hodges promises to hold spending down as much a$1,oss ible. MRS KENNEDY Jacqueline Kenned recei ed ome three hundred thousand letters, and 26 thou and telegrams within " week of the Preside11t 's assassination. Today a bill moved qui kly through the House to provide the former First Lad with free mail, office help for six mo11ths, and an office for the same le,rgtlt of time. The lawmakers also agreed to special secret ser ice protection for Mrs. Kennedy and the children. TIPPIT FOLLOW KENNEDY A fo1' the family of l It e Dall a police 111 en l - who was killed by Lee Ost ald, mo1 'e than eight thousand dollars .. o fa1' has poured into the Dallas police department - with sacks of mail - addressed to Mrs. Tippit. OPPENHEIMER There i iron y i ,, llli ye ar's award of the Enrico F er mi P ri ze. Th e it i 11 n e ,, was a c o l le ague of Fermi - al the t i me o f th e fir t nu lear reaction ew ctl y tr ent y- one y ears ago toda y . Later, he was administrator of the laborator y at Loss Alamos, New Mexi c o -- u l,cre the atomic bomb , as developed. Latef' still he was dubbed a securit y risk by a special boaf'd of inquiry - and dropped as consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission. Robert Oppenheimer , ,101 head of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Today President Johnson , in a,i official ceremony at the White House - presented the Fermi award to oppe,iheitner. This the highest citation o f the Atomic Energ , Commissio11 - in whose file of security risks - iron y of i1·onies - oppenheime1' ts still listed. SINO-SOVIET The spli l in the · ranks of the l11 o Communist giants grows more and more complicated. Red China, sa the experts is now demanding that Khrushche and lite Kremlin make a comt,romise with the Clti11ese line of 110-comp, • omise , before they, that is , the Chinese, i ill compromise 1 ith Moscow. Mao Tse Tung dema11ds - a tough line with tlie West. Khrushche'IJ said to be flatly refusing. ENEZUELA /11 Venezuela tonight ii appears virtually ertain that P1'esidenl Romulo Betancourt' line of go ernmenl - will be continued. Raul Leoni - picked b y the President as his succes or - eem to be rolling 11/) a massive ictory wit It m or e th n 11 Ital f of t lz e v o t e already co II n t e d, he I, as a lead o er his rivals of more th . an t, o hundred thousand votes. Most of them from Caracas, which the Government lost in the last election when it swef>t Ille interior. More than ninety per cent of the voters turned out, in sf>ite of the f>ro-Castro terrorists who have been trying to make them sia home. There was one death and six were wor,nded - i,rc/11ding one American Newsf>aperman, in Caracas. S,iif>ers fired 011 lines of voters - and attacked police stalions. In the interior of tile country voting was orderly for the most part. Bu t a b o u t f o" r l111 n •red b a l lots we re s e t on VENEZUELA fire in on e lot n - b y Communi l guerrillas. Howe er, the town people will ote again.. All in all, Castro' follower ha v e no reason to congratulate themselves -- on the Venezuelan elections. SIKKIM There is mourning tonight in Sikkim - that tiny , m ) s t e r i o u l a n d in t lz e fa r - off Him a la)' as , s u r r o u ntl e b)' some of tile tallest mountains in the world. Mourning for tl1 e de a th of l/1 e s e v en t y - o 11 e ear o l d Mah a raj a - who died toda in Calcutta. Only this spring the world rejoiced with Sikkim in th e u n ex fJ e c t e d, r o man t i c m a t ch b e t we en th e Maharaja's son - and a Sarah Lawrence College student - Hor,e Cook of New York. Thousands attended the colorful Himalayan celebration of their marriage, a strange com binatton of age -old eastern customs - witll a few western notes. Sooth-sayers and astrologers - selecting the date of the marriage. Today the former debuta,ite 's husband is the Maharja - a deified mona1-ch with absoli,te power. And she, the American girl, is ,,,e queen, the Mahara11ee. The late Maharaja had been ill for some time, and again occurred that odd adjustme11t between East and West. SJJ(l(JM - 2 The monarch's sooth-sa ers selecting the hour at whic h Dr. William Foley of New York - who liad flou n out to treat the Maharaj a - should be permitted to see him. We don't know if the sooth-sayers - managed to di a gn o s e the i r r tt l er 's c on di ti on . But Dr. Foley did. Modern medical techniques had told him - before he even saw his patient - that the Maharaja was suffering from incurable cane er. Now the astrologers are turning their art once more - to a sad task. That of calculating the best time to take the Maharaja back to Sikkim -- for a royal state funeral. Whe,i we were on our way to Tibet 14 years ago, Lowell Jr. and I spent a night iti a mountain cabin, with /the new ruler of Sikkim. We found him to be a hospitable, attractive young man -- wise beyo,id his years. The wisdom of the Himalavas - and of the West. L. T. I'm b · road ·as ling from a New York hospital tonight - next door to the George Washington Bridge. Aclttall.,, the, ha1 1 e me in the sa,ne room where I visited Arthur Godfrey some years ago al a critical moment in h is c o l o r f tt l l if e . I ' v e tie v e ,.. forgo t t e n A , ,,. th u r 's marvelous spirit, tlie night before his big adventure. What a magnificent comeback he has made. It's enough to inspire anyone who happens to be assigned to that same room. !ti my case I am just in for that routine check up we all should have every year or so. Tomorrow if they give me a little time off I think I'll wander around tile hospital and see if I can uncover anything interesting. I'm sure 1 will. In fact, Dick, I'm sure yott could write an interesting book jusi a b o u t w h a t hap fuJ n s in a g · r ea t m e tr op o l i tan lz o s Pit al in an,, one da . AUSTRIA The Austrian governme,zt is sa y ing tonight that those di ers who ha e been combing the bottom of L a k e To P l it z for the las t s ix u e e ks - f o u n d j tis t what they were expected to find. Instead of any lsidden treasure dumped there bJ the Nazis after World War Two; up came bags and bags of counterfeit English bank notes. The whole lot not wo1"tli tu -pence. BU t th e y C OS t t Ii e Austrian government ninety thousand dollars to thus put an end to rt,mors of treasttre, and stop people who have been rising their lives diving in that lake, because they thought all tltat treasure was tltere.