aaou EVENING EVERYBODf: Here's good newa, for centuries ■ an has hoped this could be done! When Presi~ent Kennedy flipped a switch in the White House today - a drea■ came true at Freeport, Texas. The ancient drea■ of converting aea water - into drinking water. The President, starting a machine in rreeport - abl!e to purity enough water tor a cit7. A million gallons a day• at just over a dollar tor. a thousand gallons. For centuries, ■ en have been baffled by the strange paradox - ot deaths troa thirst in the middle ot the ocean. As ~oleridge put it in THE ANClEHT MARINI - •tater, Water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.• Now at last, it looks as if anyone near the ocean - will have . Jlenty to drink from now on - that is water. Now that a way has really been found to turn salt water into fresh water. IIIIDI BOUSE Today'• visit by Dwight D. Eiaenho•r to hie old waahington boa - • • not Juat a social call. ~ ~ PrHiclent. at the White Hou■e for lwich - .h long prlnte ~ exchange ot view■ with President Kennedy. No detail■ announced, but White Ho\lle Pre11 Secreta~y Pierre Salinger told new1•n - that the Bi1enhowr-1ennedy ••ting covered the current Japaneee-Allerican negotiationa. And - other world proble■e ae Art~~~rence ~~·tennec1y 1 1 ■tud# - the ,-.. ~ I\ Pre1ident and . . ex-President Joined Prial N1n1eter Ikeda tor . ' lune~ !he Pre11dent, e1cort1ng h11 gue1t1 to the 1tate dining rOOll - without u11ng hie crutchl1. Duri-. the ••l, thl three atate■•n mixed light and 1er1ou1 conversation - atter which ,}. ._ ~ . ~.1\14 Mr. E1eenhower le~·~ikeda and Kennedy, boarding t he /' ,{ pne1dent1al yacht - tor a voyage down the Potoaac. 111s14 The new So•iet hiatory ot lorld lar Two- push•• Stalin down• grade; and u-gradea Ihrushchev - wa7 up. Subject - tho•• aassive lazi victories over the Red Ara, at th• beginning ot the invasion. •• are now told b7 loacow that Stalin••• reaponaible for the ~oviet 1trate11 that led to one defeat alter ano\her. Ibo 1aved the altuatioa? Gue•• who? WhJ a Ukrainian political leader naaed - liklta ~hruahch••· What abo•t larahal Zhukov, who wa1 a top Soviet hero - duriaa the war? ieaeaber how a few 7ear1 ago he aot in 1hru1hobev way, and••• puraed. lo• th• n•• ~ovlet hi1tor7 ■ ak•• Zhukov - one of th• 1cape1oata. lt accuaed the ta■o•• Marshal of not preparing th• led Ara, - tor the lazl attack. Soviet bietorian• - atill up to their old trick1. Be-writing hiator7 - to flatter whoever happen• to be on top in th• Ire ■ lin. ATOMIC The Un i ted tates ought to resume at o mic testin g - accord i n g to Pentagon experts. General te m n i tzet, of the Join Chiefe-of-Staff Mdtng,t-he--witn&e9& before a senate S ub-committ~ll;/the Senators that the teat moratorium may be harming th ie country - by holding up the development of weap o ns. or not. While we don 1 t know - whether the Rueeiane are testing. -t.4.. - "ta-- The advice of the military men , ~ reeume the atomic exper1rnents, unless Khrushchev agrees to a quick, foolproof system of inepection. Ho one expects the Kremlin dictator to do that.- because he apparently doesn I t want an agreement. Hie reasons - for ~talling ? Possibly, fear - that he can't control Red China. Possibly - hie own deeire to build more atomic bombs. WAR -- One wonders whet h er the ravity of the internatiollll itu a tion can be judged by today's warnin from Congressman ~hiperfield of Illinois? He re are h is wcrds 'It's po ssible e will be at war with the ~oviets by the end of the year, over berlin.• The Illinois Congressman does not p redict an atomic holocaust. But he thinks 1hrushchev's belli g erence makes it imperative - that the American people be prepared for any eventuality. Uecide whether we prefer the p ossibility of war to ap easement - and act on that decision. ln fact he thinks this aay be our only chance of making Khrushchev pull back - before he starts a Berlin criaie that will result in a full-scale conflict with America. The general feeling around jashington see ■ s to be that a show-down with Khrushchev will co ■e - in the next few months. That's the reason for so ■ any bi-partisan statements on capitol Hill about the absolute need to V. AR - 2 -- st a n firm on erlin. lt's taken for g r a nted that any w avering on our p art - will only encoura g e t he dictator of the Kremlin. This feelin g becomes all the more u~derstandable - in view or one dispatch from Moscow that quotes a cou p le of S oviet marshals as declaring that ~ oviet forces captured oerlin during •orld 1 ar Two - and then generously p e rmi tt ed the Allies to enter the city. The , Soviet marshals, arguing that they have a right - to withdraw th& permission. Actually, of course - the Allied armies could have reached lierlin long before the Bussiana. General Eisenhower was forced to make his ■ en •sit down• - b ecause of the Yalta decision to let the 4 ussians in fir s t. Another exam p le of how Yalta weakened us• in the face of the subsequent ~oviet challenge. Bww at Yalta we gave the world away. SfflI ~ In New Yo r k , an official sa id to da y - " This port i s deader than a d o o nail. 11 Meanin g - one of the world's g reatest harbors, immo bi lized by the maritime stri k e. All the sh i ps coming in - unable to get out. The crews, j oining the strike - ae soon ae they drop anchor. The toll - more than fifty ships caught in New York harbor. Close to a hundred and fifty for all of our seaports. The walkout is having an effect - abroad. Today the French liner Liberte - was held up d-LeHavre, pending further developments in New York. PR08P E ~TOR -~------- In th e m ount ins of r a zil - a •t o ur mal ine ru s h• is on. T ou rm ali ne? A semi- p reci o u s st o ne u s ed by je•elers. JJ1scovered in big quantities - dee p in Brazil's back country. For forty years, P ros p ector ~e dro isp irito - has been wanderin g over the hills with his burro and his pick. The gr1zzled old prospector, looking for gold - which his friends said he'd never find. They were righ *hen Pedro finally struck it rich - it was in tourmaline A broad seam of semi-precious stones - in the hills above P residente Valadas. The first seam Pedro uncovered worth a million. World of the strike, filtering back - and to the coast - to Brazilia first, then Bio, San Paulo, Recife. Result - the same as in the days of the gold rush. A headlong stam p ede - to the new tourmaline field. Presidente Valadas, now a roaring boom town - where ,......- they ay for everything in gems. Throwin andfuls of tourmaline around - the way the men of 'Ninety-eight u s ed to h a ndle t ose gold nu gets in the Klondike and at Nome. Lucky edro started it! Alrea y, Brazil has had one familiar tragedy - of the gold rush days. A claim jumper, shot - bu the man who staked the claim. Ludky edro and other miners, guarding their property - with machine guns, instead of old-fashioned carbines. One thing is missing so far - in this stampede to the wilderness; no writer has us~d it - as a the ■ e. ! wonder who'll be the Jack London or Robert Service - of the •tourmaline rush?• Will Bob Ruark head for there? Mebbe 1 will. It's in •1 blood, Vick. Three men mi ht t· 11 b tr µ ed in th r u ins or "the lone iest i hth o use in tho• rld," if it hadn't b e en for t l 1 e inter r • 1 pt i on of r a o contact. The s udden silence, cau ing the Co s t Guard to send an icebreaker - to Stannard Rock in Lake S u erior. Lon before the ship arrived, her ski er knew something was rong on Stannard Bock. From afar off he sa that the tower of the lighthouse was a shambles - smoke billowin into the sky. Then the icebreaker lookout spotted - frantic signals from survivors of the lighthouse crew - fro three, - Oscar ~aniels of Saulte Ste.Marie, alt Scobie of Troy, iohigan, and Vick Horne of ew York ~ity. A fourth man - missing. lt might have been their tomb - except for the Co st uuard worrying about their dead radio. The survivors say a terrific blast - shattered the lighthouse o n Monday, ruinin their food n forcing L lGHT H U E - 2 -------------- them f o t two d a y n d three ni 1 ht t o h ud le t the f o ot of the ruined burnin tower. Fr out in Lake Su p erior - forty-fi v e miles from the mainl nd. There o n what has been call d •the lon i e st l i g hth o u e in the world. LTP.1961.06.21i.pdf LTP.1961.06.21ii.pdf