L.T .-BUICK, FISHER. TUESDAY, AUGUST
16,
1966
(Dallae Townsend eubet1tut1ng)
lood Evening ~verybody:
The
hoep1tal at Bryn
Nawr,
Penneylvanla, 1ay1 that a
pair or Sia•1e Twine were born here two days ago but they are
lleted a1 belng in poor condition.
The
children -
born to
t•nty-elght-year-old Mr1. Barbara Kroll -- wife or an a11i1tant
prote11or or biology at
Roee■ont
College.
THANT
U.N. Ambasaador Arthur Goldberg eaye that President
Johnson hae written to
U.N.
secretary-General Thant, appealing
to htm to remain at the helm of the United Nations. Goldberg
however declined
to
state the nature of Thant's reeponee. The
Secretary-General
le known
to be strongly considering
a
plan to
quit when h1e five-year term of offlce exptree en November
Third.
WAGES
The
Senate
Labor Committee ha~
approved
a measure that
would boost
the
Federal minimum t:age to one dollar and sixty
cente -- an
inf'rease
of thirty-five cents. Under the bill
1e
provisions, the coverage would
be
extended
to include
more than
seven million additional workers. It would become effective
in Nineteen Sixty-Eight, although a similar measure -- already
approved by the Houee
would make the effective date in
Nineteen Sixty-Nine. The bill le expected to reach the Senate
floor for debate next Tuesday.
PLAYHOUSE
The curtain may be ringing down on the world famous
Pasadena Playhouse in California -- the training ground for
scores of succe
,
ssful actore and actresses. Plagudd by unpaid
taxes and mounting indebtedness, the Playhouse has been seized
by the Internal Revenue Service. Creditors have also filed
suits, seeking the collection of more than one-hund
.
red-seventy-
five thousand dollars .
INTRO. TO L.T.
Within a few months the British protectorate of
aasutoland will become an independent nation, the kingdom of
Losotho. Before leaving for Europe, Lowell Thomas left
ue
this
report on the tiny nation.
BASl
TOLAND
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about /his
- still
on
e
mor
e
11
e11
11alio11
is going
to
emcrxe
Oil
Iha/ co11li11enl
o
f
Africa.
The British Protec/orate of
B a
s
tt
I o l a
11
d -
t
o b
e
c
o
111
e
I
'1 e Ki"
g
do m of L o
s
o ll1 o
.
A
11
o lli
e
r
lin3
1
nation
-
but
wi/11 Ki,ig-size
problems: the
worst
of all
I
guess
may be
geography.
Basutoland is
-
oh - about 1/ze size of lite slate
of Maryland - and
it's occrtpied in a large part by /he
Drakensberg Range
of
mountains: fairly
lofty
peaks too,
some of /Item nrtdging 11,e
clouds
- up
af
ol,, eleven thousand
feel.
Mountain ri
ve
rs l1i111bling down into barr
·
en
valleys
-
ending
;,,
deep gorg
es.
A
visitor
fl·ying over llze ter
·
ritory
with
me on one occasion, lie
was
sitti11g al my side -
remarked as
we
looked down lte said Iha/ "lliis looks
like
/he end of the
world."
BASUTOLAND -
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Th
e
Problt•m
011/
there is heiRhlencd
by
/he fncl
that Basulolnnd
- is
cnlindy
s
urround
e
d
hy
Soulh 4f,•ica:
a
II
d
,
a
b o
tt
I
h a
l
f
ii
s
m a
I
e
pop
II
l a I
i
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11
-
s
o m e
t ,,.
0
lnflt d re
d
t
/,
o
11
s
an
d
in e
ti -
fill
d i
I n
cc
es
s
a
r
y
Io u o
r
k
in
Sou
I h
Africa
's
gold,
dinmo11d
and
coal
mines
-
or th
e_,
,
prefer lo
do so in
order
lo
s11pporl
/heir families.
An
nrra11g
e
ment
/Ital
some
people think is galling --
lo
/he
proud Bnsu/os
.
Tl's
Izard lo believe
nou -
btl/
for cen/11ries -
11,e Basutos
were
among !he most
fearc,I warriors
in all
that
great continent
of Africa.
Un/ii
/he.\
'
were beaten
back
lo
/heir
mountain stronghold -
by
ri,
nl
/rib
es
and
also
by
I h
e e
a
rl
y
Du I c It s
e
/11
e
rs
.
No I b
y
I
It
e
B
r
i
I
i
s h
.
O l d K
;
n
g
Mo s h
e
s
It -
h
e
w
as I h
e
o n
e
t1
It
o
fin
a
l l )'
placed his peopl
e
in
the
care
of Qtteen
Victoria
- 11,al
was
i
,z
E;
g
lite en - Sixty
-
E
i g
h I .
"My
co
tt
n
I r Y is Yott
r b
lank
e
I
,
''
said he
_
Oh Queen -
m}
'
people are th
e
insects
in
your
blank
e
t.
"
8 AS
U
TO LA ND
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i
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s o o n
re I u r
11
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s r
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rd
ow11ers.
Th
e
B a s u I o s I I,
e
m s
e
l
v
e s
.
B " I
tt
h
e
I
I,
e
1•
l h e Bas u to s
ran
c ,
,
e
r a
c
It
i
er
e
re a I
i
II
depend e
,r
c
e
- a I,
-
Iha I re mains
lo he
seen.
So long,
COMMITTEE
Booe,
cheers and
Jeere
disrupted a hearing of the House
Un-American Activities Committee in Washington and seventeen
persons were taken to
Jail
on charges of disorderly conduct.
The Committee was conducting a hearing on legislation that would
punish Arnarican citizene who actlvely aid the Communist Viet
Cong
with
funds, blood collections and other mear.~
.
. -
Only ten minutes before the session began, a
Federal
appeals court issued a
ruling
which gave the hearing a Judicial
blessing. I) reversed a decision made yesterday by Federal
Judge Howard Corcoran who gra
.
nted an injunction against the
hearings, even though the Committee said it would defy hie
ruling and hold the session anyway. Angry members of the House
today denounced Judge Corcoran and some even demanded his
impeachment.
WAR
Communist Mig fighter planes
roam.tng farther
south
than
ever before
-- ooened
fire
tod11y on a
group of
American
Navy Jet bombers which were attac~ing
;
a North Vietnamese supply
train. But
the
Amer lean planes ~parently
emerged
from
the
skirmish undamaged. The dogfight
broke
out shortly after other
American
planes
completed
a
near-record
day
of
born.bing in
North Viet
Nam,
including an attack
against
an
oil
depot
only
four miles outside the big port of Haiphong.
.
The
North
Vietnamese
Newe
Agency
claimed
four
American
planes
were
shot
down in
the ra ide .
BOBBIES
In London, the Crown today formally char~ed thirty-eix-
year-old John Whitney
with
murder 1.n connecti.or. with last
Friday's slaying of three unarmed pol icemen. And
.
a
wldeapread
hunt is underway for two more suspects who are described ae
being armed, and e"tremely dangerous. No trial date was
announced for Whitney, an unemployed Londoner.
CAPE
Members of a construction workers• union marched
picket lines at an entrance to Cape Kennedy today, and more than
a thousand building tradesmen turned away from their jobe. It
stalled
work
on several key projects in the Apollo Moonpo
.
rt
program.
Meantime, a Delta rocket is being primed for tt•orrow•s
I
laynching of an unmanned Pioneer Sun satellite into a far
reaching solar orbit to explore outer space. The probe will
seek
■ore
knowledge about the solar radiation that could
har■
aetronaute flying to the moon and beyond.
MIDDLE EAST
Syria claims that its Air Force has scored "a smashing
vlctory" over Israeli planes in air battles over the sea of
Galilee. At the same time, a Surian military spokesman said that
hie country is now moving into what he called "offensive action
against Israel", but exactly what he meant le not clear. However,
yet1terday
I
e fighting marked the first time since Nineteen-Forty-
Eight that Syrian planee have raided targets tteide Israeli
territory.
It wae also disclosed in Jerusalem that an Iraqi Air
Force captain has flown hie Mlg jet fighter into Israel and
aeked for asylum. He is being interrogated by Israeli
authorities.
DROWNINGS
More than eighty Moroccans -- mostly women and children
-- are miesing and feared drowned after a trawler capsized and
sank off the coaet of Morocco during a holiday pleasure cruise.
Authorities said the trawler was badly overloaded when it left
the
dock with
■ore
than one hundred persons craaaed
al■oet
1houlder-to-1houlder along the decks.
WEATHER
Tornadoes , ha 1
1
and heavy rains struck parts of the
Midwest from Wisconsin to Ohio today, but no casualties were
reported. Winde of tornado force swept through Prospect, Ohio,
uprooting trees while powerlines were blown down in the City of
Toledo, disrupting electrical service for an hour and a half.
Hail up to t•o inches in diameter ae reported at Baraboo,
W1econe1n, and at the Wisconsin Della.
HOUSING
Demonstratore in Chicago are mobilizing for what they
call the greatest proteet movement in the c
i
ty's history in
their drive against alleged housing discrimination. Doctor
Martin Luther King is the moving spirit of the proteets which
today were aimed at Chicago's Cl ty Hal 1, the Cook county Public
Aid Department, and the First Federal savings and Loan
AS1oc1at1on in the Loop area. Other demonetratlona were directe,
against
the
Housing Authority office on the South Side, and
several realeetate firms in the Jefferson Park Area.
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