GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Before taking a ~,.,,f jtS> raJ look at Ille ••••, I 'd like to s al u t e two of my CBS co II ea gu e 8 , Ned C • 1,,. er .,1,0 took my Place when I made a t-ece•t TV-Hi Adve,ll•re trip to Europe; and Dallas To111nse•d J••t b•cl, fro• "'• ai'rcraft - c arri er-Ge,n in.,_ e%t,erte•ce i• mtd-Atlo•llc. Dallas It as been lie re a I Ill is ,,. ic.rot,l,o,ee •"" e •1 •ife ,,,.d I have been willl Lo111ell Jr. a11tl family ill Al••••· In fact, we llave flow,n do•• from llae Nortl, ••••• of sclledule. credit for what so many of •• at,t,e•r lo do ••o•ld 6° to able secretaries. Tllis is tr•e i• gover•,,.•• 1, 1• 1• 4••lry, and in almost every no•-pl,ys _ ical "••a• activity. i ,, In Nineteen TIii rty d•riflg tl,e "Gre•t Det,re•• 0 " T,, New Yori, World Jo••' il••lf "1llen that famous newspa1>er e LEAD-- 2 in trouble, a youn g woman then an assistant t o one of the top editors of The World -- P aul Palmer -- later to becoae one f the S n1or editors of the then fast growing Reader's Digest -- his Mary Davis joined ■y start. And since then , for all these thirty five years that I've been on the air Mary ran my New York Office. Som et h1r t ye r. ago h e an d a hundred other top Hew York and Washington secretaries organized a club that has become famous. Mary Davis was a charter ••ber or 'ftle Seraph1cs. She managed ■Y radlo, TV, C1nera• and book mill so superbly and she had done so •nJ things for 10 1111111 people for somany years that I doubt whether there was• better known or more beloved secretary not onlJ 1n Aaerlcal but 1n all the world. For Mary was known to the ends of the earth, wherever my work took me. LEAD 3 ------- TIie,-, , while we •r• were in Alas/ta sire sudde11ly det,arted on that jottrne y of mystery to tlaat realm of Bigla Ad v ent11re of which we kno,o so little. And now t• the days neaos witla aolticla she l,•d ltet,I in sucla close tor,ch for nearly l,alf a ce•l•r) ' . STEEL Bethlehem Steel -- the nation's second largest producer __ boosting the price of some of its products; has touched 0 f another quarr r l between the Johnson Admln1strat1on and big business. Only a few hours after Bethlehe■ le surprise announcement, the President's Council or Econoa1c Advisers condemned the five-dollar-a-ton boost as "1nflat1onary,and not in the public interest." However the stateaent, 1aaaed in Washington, did not include any reference to po111ble ( sanctions against Bethlehem. ~ IU SOVIETS. The Soviet Union has Joined Communist North Viet Nam in turning a deaf ear wann - p v current American moves to end the fighting in Viet Nam. Soviet p remier Al nu 1 Kosygin, condemning what he called - . ''U .s. aggression" and demaming the immediate withdrawal of AJDer1can troope and arms from south V et Nam. But.J he made NO mention of the present peace-seeking diplomatic efforts the United States is making in several world capitals. In Washington, Administration officials ade it clear that American bombing planes are withboldlng thllr attacks on the communist North while awaiting soa reaponae from Hanoi. Informed sources in Paris say that u.a bbaeaador •·· • Goldberg told French Preaident neaaulle that tbl reason the bombings were halted was to determine wbltblr tbe Communists really want peace negotiations. Tomorrow, Goldberg flies to London for talks with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. HARRIMAN• Roving Ambassador Averell Harriaan will fly to lew Delhi sunday to discuss the Vietnamese peace ■ovea with Indian officials. India, Poland and Canada are ••era or the rnternatlonal Control Cor1111ss1on set up 1n 11neteen•PlftJ• Four to oversee the Indochinese peace. Barrlan waa 1n Yugoslavia today for talks wlth llto. 0 • R WAR. Heavy ground fighting wae reported across south Vitt Nam today--with government troops engaging about six hundred v1et Cong in a running battle near the Cambodian border near Saigon. Fighting, also reported nearly tour-hundred miles farther north near Da Nang and Chu Lai where a regular North Vietnamese Army force has been on a rampage tor a week. At Dalat, Viet Cong terrori1ta slipped through tbl guard around an American Al'ftly barracks•~ exploded tllO bombs. One American killed--ten otblre wounded. HUMPHREY. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey brought hie visit to the Philippines to an end today, calling for immediate Filipino aid to help the allied war effort in Viet Nam. Before leaving on a flight to Formosa, Humphrey invited the new Filipino president--Ferdinand Marcoe--to visit the United states. Formosa wtli---M the third stop on hie current Far Eaetern tour. South Korea)~ the fourth and last. LT - 8 c~TRO. Juanita castro--denounc1ng her brotblr, Plclel, as a traitor--warns that the forthcoming coaun11t contlrence ln Havana means trouble for the Pree world. In a radio broadcast in N1am1, JU.ea ca1tro 1ald that representatives t'rom about etgbtJ Atrlcan, lllan and Latin-American countries are reported 1n Havana to attend the meeting w~h begins in a t•• clay■• Sbe also said that 1!t CUbl. 11 not treed tr• tbl caatro regime 1n M1neteen-slxty-S1x, 11 it •2!11 bl ano,lli, year of hunger, terror and death tor thl CUiien "oplt." SKIERS Three skiers -- who were lost tn the Sierra Blanca region of Southern Hew Mexico -- were round todaJ ... al!l ln general good cond1t1on. But three others are 1tlll •••'-· They failed to coae down off the ski slopes last nlght and presumably spent the night s011911here on a tnlve-tho..-M-' foot mountain about sixteen mlle1 nortblreat ot Raldoao. A root of newly-fallen snow hU covered thelr traca. !bl tnperatures, dropptng to thirty degrees durlilg the nlgbt. At least one-hundred-fifty ak1:era are taktag part lil the IIU'ob, FLOOD Flood waters, sweeping through the Salt Rlver bed ln Phoenix today -- causing destruction the deaert clty hala't seen 1n more than two decades. Unusually heavJ ratu d11rlng the past month -- and or■ rainr■ll, •ltllll ■uh ot tM snow-pack on the watersheds, and causing a ncoN Deo . . . . run-off in the usually dry Salt River bed. llllll• ...,. DI 11W York, warren, right now lt'• a 'bal-, slxtJ-4qr••ln contrast to the fifteen below 1lhen WI lett AnallOl'III, llUlm 1 • buy 1ntemat1onal airport. WEATHER. Rain or snow will greet many Americana on thl r1r 1 t day of the New Year, and the unueually •1ld •inter ••thlr in the Mid-west and East will c0111 to an end. Rain 11 forecast from the southern plains acroaa the N111l111pp1 into Tennessee and Kentucky. Snow, or 1n011 tlurr111, are in expected, the Pacific Norttu.e•~, the Rock111, upper Minnesota and northern He• England. But ano•, rain , or ehlne , a Happy Ill• 11U to