L.T .-OLDS• THIIRSDAY • IECEIBR 27, 1962 <t•I• on South Sea Ielande Antarctica A~la, Europe, r P• Be. given by Doug idwarde ot CBS.) 00<1> EVEHDll: The govern•nt today revived eoae hope that the "Relay" coaarnun1cations satellite, which was given up for dead after being launched earlier th1e 110nth, may now get into working order after all. The Space Agency eaya that it ran a test on the weak-voiced satellite and there•re 1ndicat1one that 1ta voltage hae recovered e0118what. The agency eaid more tests are being conducted. ICIRUSHCHEV Soviet Premier Khrushchev today eent weat German Chancellor Adenauer a stinging letter. He accused Adenauer ot trying to etart a world war over the Cuban cr1e1e and warned that, if such a conflict should break out, west Ger•ny would be II snuffed out like a candle" in the first tew hours or fighting. He also accused tbe Chancellor or trying t.o torpedo every effort by the United States and Russia toward a settlement or cold war issues, particularly those concerning Berlin. JAKE THE BARBER R epublic a n Hat'-onal Chairman Miller today demanded assur a ncee from President Kennedy that a campaign contribution played no part in the Christmas pardon or John -- Jake the Barber -- Factor. Miller•e demand came after a check of house record s e howed that Factor and his wife g ave political contributions to three Democratic groups in Nineteen Sixty -- alle g edly amounting to twenty-two thoueand dollars. INTRO. TO L.T. When you want to contact Lowell Thomas these daye, you have to go south of the Equator. Lowell, just what part of the Equatorial South are you tn right now? __ S'l' _AL 1 _ 1 am st i ll in Aus t ralia, uo u. H ello every b ody. A s Y o u can i ma g i n e , the p e op 1 e of t hi s continent are much intere s ted in the o - called p opulation explosion about which we hear so much. And so wou l d we, if we lived on a continent inhabited by less t1 an eleven million people, an d w i t n teeming Asia on ly a few .ours away by a1r. T h e A us trali ans wonder now long tney will be able to keep their continent to themselves. ln total area, Australia is about three aillion square miles. While auch of this is in the temperate zone, approximately one million square miles of it is north of the Tropic of ~apricorn. This includes a large part of ~ueensland; the Nortner n f err i t ry, of w n ic D arwin is t e capital; an d ~estern Austral i a. ' T e e xc i tin g n ews n ow is . • ~ h 1 · c est part of the continent; and, t 1 at t nB 1s 1,ue r it ' s 1n abite b y on ly t re e undred a nd fifty t o usa nd p p l e . e r es t of t ne m - - ten m 1 ll1on , tw o l un reJ a nJ fift y t. 1 ou s an Au s trali a ns - - r e side e l o w l1 e ro pi c o f L apr i corn, int 1e T emperate Zo ne. T h e e mpire of Capricornia - Capricorn - Australia's new frontier - is "perilessly empty". Through one part of this region runs t h e limberly Mountains, several hundred miles inland from the coast; with a rainfall of some sixty inches. Part of it, calle tne Ord R iver country, may some day produc e muc a of the worl d 's cot.ton. Also, ~apr ic ornia h as vast mineral wealth; includin g some of tne largest iron ore deposits in t h e world, and i b ~ lar g est boxite deposits. Ever since my first visit to Australia, ! h ave been interested in Capricorn i a, b ecause it is not only the h ome of tne aborigine, w ho are so . . . b t · t also is t h e o me o f b y p r 1m1t1 v e, u 1 ar tn e lar e ran c 1 snoul s a cover~ •elve of l i u in Lh e orl - or "cat le stat i on " , jcLoria Do wns, it ' s calle . W i ch ousand quare miles - larger than all A l o r tne ..... in a nc in Texas, you could almost lose iL no ne of the se ' ap ricorni a c attle stat · 0:1s , a nu b e r of w 11ic1 cover from five thousand to seven taousanu square ,ailes, and w h ere a t h ousand squa~e miles is an average size. Can you imagine what your thoug1ts would be if you were the owner of one of these, and if you were aatching the population explosion in nearby lndonesia l As an Australian remarked tom~ - "Why, from our nortnern coast you can r o w a canoe across t o ndo esia". ln fact, one Australian di it not long a go . Aidt ,ereby angs a tale that 1'11 tell you tomorrow nig t. So long. L As ra real pro em -- a~ o u Eay , LO\ 1 • ut a , le c: t t 1 a r at·o o a h eme , we 1 ve been he ing rec n tly . o pop 1 ion e · 10~10 -- Down Under . I n f C , r e 1 enou h A u s sies to o aro nd . e y ouc: n el 1 r ec: 0 u b· n nv ion c:o e .. h on w i t he ee d c ve s 1 M m t od a n .. e I Cc: f e mo i o n n 0 t e e t i m for , .. p e ma he eri q C o e .. - J o hm :o sa i d h at o r 1.r.: ion e a e m en t c: o ship m ore r .. om goo d s to C u a , - nd po e .. l pr o d t n sp ortat ion o a e many a s four hous a n prisoner 1 l atives i f t hey ge permission o l eave t h e 1c:1a d . I P l m Beach , t he Pr s ent a nd Mr • Kennedy tod y re c e ive :.:i x ra her gra v e - f ced rep e c:e nt a ives o f t h e Cuban Bay of P i s in ders . It w a s nno unced a f t er\ a rd c: th t th Presiden h imse l f w1 1 f l y to M i ami on turd a t o meet with t h e br ade of pr sonerc: i n h e Orange Bo· st a dium . · a r lier in t h e day, M • Kenne dy h d a l ong me t i g w i th Def n e e cret r y McNam r a an he 01 Ch e1 s - o -Staff - c o nsi de r n h e hug e 11 .L t y u d g e 'o o r . o , the a y l d d a o c c r e • N · t T ue s a y , he chl e . e c 11 o .. .. h e c o n h t · 1 _ c id he o penin g i - o f e nnu 1 0 n ge Bo 1 B 0 I m i t h c m Pon t e o f b I a ere- · o la hom ::i . m he b e'"' t ea win . He r 1 ~ w ner , n·c o e 1 , a,{ n for w • nner . ·-:t h ... p~ . e .. r hf.: I l C .0 n r '"pen C oa r< = i or c: 0 :l .. o• · c:o i i 0 I .y 0 , t ' 00 i <: ant t. h ... c r, C m .l . ·er lr por 0 i ed . So ~ 'ntc.. I C: ... in 0 no t h'.l e . \, 0 C (; re po t d l.O . t, " L .. 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