BISENl- . 'JilER (. . T . -D ~LCO. TUESDAY DEC. 2 3 , 19 5 8 Gi ven b y A ll an Jae son, L.T. i n Z anz i bar) Pre si den t E sen h ower•s Chr i stmas message - i s typical of this era of hi story. The President een ' J ueual seasonal greetin g s - to the Amer i can people. Then he turned to - the internat i onal s i tuat on. Adding a pled g e to the world - that th i s country w ill cont i nue ite search for peace. But intende to stay stron g - b ecause of the cold war. The k ey . sentence of Mr. Eisenhower' e message, is this • "The Un i ted States will never use its strength - to break the peace • 11 KHRUSHCHEV Khrushchev is ready to discuss European m security - with the West. But the bose of the Kremlin rules out - German reunification. Tass News Agency repeated in M oe cow - the Ruseiane still regard Eaet Germany - as a permanent political .- \ ss s ~' entity. But apart from G e ~ Khrushchev is prepared to talk about any other aspect - of an international settlement. Which declaration - leaves the situation Juet u it was. The west has always held that the number one international problem - is the continuing partition of Germany. BERLIN ~est Berlin ie facjng - a new kind of harraeement. ,,~ ~.),L .., c ) Today ~were deluged by thousands of Chr1etlllae cards and lettere - coming in the ma11 from Eaet Germany. All of them - addressed to individual We3t Berliners. The contents - not at all like Christmas gree inge. These Christmas carde and letters are threatening. warn1 the West Berliners, to change sides - betore it I e too late. T , lling them - anyone who doesn•t change aides, will sutter the consequences - when the Rede take oftr v,at Berlin. the A poison pen campaign - conducted byA9ecret police or Bast Germany. Communist China ie - "a huge zoo". so says India's Doctors. Chandraeekar - le has just returned from a trip through Nao Tse-tung' s domain. Ht I s now in Hong long. This Indian scientist visited - a number or the new peaeant communes. He round the COBDuniets - busy destroying every trace or traditional Chinese culture. Bach group - like a hive or bees. With every person accounting to Red ott1c1ala - tor every minute or the day. The Chinese people - treated like aniuls. Communist China resembling - "a huge zoo." R ~ The Aeeietant Secretary of State, reported to the White H o uee today. W lliarn Rountree, preeenting President Eisenhower with a ~ummary - of his trip through the Middle East. concentrating on - Iraq. Baghdad crowds, as we know, gave Rountree - an unfriendly reception. But hie opinion is said to be - that Iraq 1 e Premier Kassem wants to be a neutralist. Meaning, he's neither a Communist - nor a Naeser1te. The danger being. that beeem might be overthrown - if he persists in playing off against one another - the Iraqi Rede, and the followers of the etrong man of Egypt. In port Said today - Nasser delivered a blistering attack, on the Communists of Syria. He blamed the Syrian Reda - i1f for trying to break up the United Arab Republic. And promised to fight them - to the end. DISASTER Ton i g ht, Bel gi um i e in mourn i ng for eighteen pereone - trapped underground, when a grotto collapsed. They were hunting for mushrooms. A crowd of a hundred and fifty, in the grotto. Most of them near enough to the entrance, to get out. The unlucky eighteen were too far inside. Hundreds of tone of \:,\ e~i>- J (( .,.;.. f' debris - , .. ,.. collapsed on top of them. • One survivor described what happened, like this - "As we ran, I looked around - and saw the floor cave in. A moment later - the walls came crashing down." Tonight, King Baudouin ia at the scene of the disaster ae rescue teame work frantically to save any or the unfortunate eighteen - who may a , till be alive. FIRE - That fire on the Cumberland River etarted - when a fuel barge wae unloading oil - at Nashville, Tennessee. The barge - caught fire. Its cargo - spilling into the river. The oil floated downstream - in a mass of flames. With firemen, racing along the banks - to prevent the blazing oil from reaching shore. The battle ending - after four miles. The cost, three hundred thousand dollars. - STRIKE American A irli nee may be bac k in operation - in time for the Chrietmae rueh. The Company has accepted a compromise proposal - by the Federal Mediation Board. If the Union goee along with the proposal - the strike will be over. And the pilots of American Airlinee, will be back on the job - in the . , I °' (! I I middle or the holiday~ ...... ~ ........... - . ... ... . BCONOMY The Commerce Department in Wash i ngton revea11il - a resurr g ence of our national economy. Income and sales, bouncing bac k - to pre-recees i on levels. Wagee hit a record annual rate of - three hundred and sixty billion dollars. Which le the 111ain reason why - commodities have been moving eo well in the storea. Off-setting these gains - an increase in the cost or living. It wae up one-fifth or one per cent in November -- according to the Labor Department. TRUMAN The truman family will not comment on - Soprano Helen Traubel's new autobio g raphy. Helen Traubel once coached Margaret Truman in sinting. The Traubel book claims that the former President•e daughter ruined her career - by going on a concert tour, before she was ready. In the words of the book - "Margaret had no gift for self criticiem. 11 How do the Trumans feel - about this remark? Well, H.S.T. says simply - ~btwd- "Prima DoMas must have their run. 11 Margaret Truman Daniel says she hasn•t read the book - and doesn't intend to. Her husband, Clifton Daniel or the New York Times, saye the same thing. From all the Trumans - no comment on Helen Traubel. 1 po. To RECORDING Pu I Tonight's report finds Lowell Thomas still on the romantic eland - of Zanzibar. He tell us eomething about .. sport on the island. This particular sport being - one that we ueually associate with Spain. I I . I r ' ~ ~o, ~~•~z••~~BAI »VLL flGHT (Song) Bello Everybody: - That's the aong ot the Zanzibar bullfighter. 1 wish you could have been with us today at out Zanzibar bull fight. lt was a riot. The bullfight sea~on follows the clove harveat, and just before the D101aber abort 1·ains. le were told it would be a ga■ble \o aet one up. But, we wanted to fil ■ thia unuaual event !or our Peraian Gulf to Zanzibar High Adveature aeriea. So•• took a ohanoe. A special one, tor ua. And it took aoae doing. Several hundred ■en aet to work putting up a grandatand, and a atockade. Every tiae they have a bullfight they do this. The grandstand oonaiats of ten foot ~osta, jungle trees about 8 inches ln dia■eter. On top of these a ~latfor■ of oles, two to three inches in diaaeter. •en run around with portable ladders, one ladder to every 100 feet or so of s~ectator platfor■• The bullring, about the aize of a football field. You situ juat high enough so the bull won't crash into 1our dangling legs aa he µ lunges head-on into the area under the grandatand. That often hap v en1. Thousands of Zanzibaris were on hand bJ 2 o'clock. There was aingina and dancina in the bullrina. Group• \17iq to 1te p up the teapo. Beating on drua1, pla7iq on reed flutea. Two tea•• were wandering around the riq - ttie 7ellow shirts troa the town of Ole and the re4 1hirt1 froa Waui; we were rootia& for laui becauae the Sultan had ut ua u p for two da71 in a rather luxuriou1 re1t hou1e at waui, where th• 7ounc Aga 1han and hia fatbtr Ali Ihan had 1ta,ed a few aontha aao. ? icturea of thea huD& on all the wall1. The members of the two tea■• of bullfiilt,er1 wore false whiskers and were ■ ade uO to terrlfy the bull - or the & J ectators! low, here's the story of - •Loneao■e George•. lo, it has nothing to do with the fellow naaed George - army footb~ll. This story comes froa - Hamlin, West Virginia. And it concern, George Lac; - who was buried today. George Lacy went to bed forty-two years ago - and newer got up. nround Ha■lin, they 1a7 he beca■ e ~ ~n1r1 when his father sold hi1 pet calf. That waa back in • Hineteen Sixteen. He stayed there•• the year, pasae4. T•o 1 orld War, went by - also, a depre1aion, and part ot a cold war. In his neighborhood, he beca■ • known aa - •Loneso ■e George.• The neighbor• called it - the longeat case ot the sulks on record, Si~ bJ George Lacy - who stayed in bed for forty-two year• - in Hamlin, West Wirginia.