L.T . - OLD S • 'l'HURSDAY, DECEMBE R 2 0, 19 62 GOOD EVENIRl : (L.T. Q11 south Sea Islande, Antarctica Asia Europe trip. Be. given by Doug Edwards of CBS.) Thank you Dick, and good evening everybody. Starting off - Nassau, the Bahamas. 'l'here•s a repor~ President Kennedy, in conversations with Pri• Minister Macmillan, hae agreed tentatively to supply Polaris ■1se1lee to Britain -- provided an independent British striking torce eventually bec011e1 part of the Borth Atlantic Alliance nuclear deterrent. The Polaris would take the place of the dieputed Skybolt, which the u.s. apparently has decided to stop producing because of its poor record so far. Mr. Macmillan 11 described ae being highly pleased with the solution in this matter which hae put a thorn in British-American relations. CUBA Over here, the American Red Croes says it has both the supplies and the shipe, ready to go to Cuba, and bring back the eleven hundred thirteen Bay of Pige prisoners. If Attorney J mee Donovan eucceeefully completes hie negotiations with Fidel Castro, which ar6 continuing 1n Havrna tonight. Thoueande of pounds of food, drugs and medical supplies have been pouring into Florida to be used ae ransom. Dft'RO. TO L.T. Time now to hear from Lowell Thomas, and I wouldn't be at all eurpr1eed if he•e et111 down there, a~ far eouth ae anybody can go. Am I right, LOwell? Where are you now? l' ■ still at the South Pole, Doug. You ■ ay think l a■ slightly ■ ad when l aay that l'd like to stay here, under the ice, tor a weei or two. But for a year? - - 1'• not 10 aure. lf it waa ■y job, ao■•thing intereating to do, studying coa ■ ic raya or what•••r probably ao. twenty-two youna ••n here for a year. There are £lewen acientiata; the other el•••n lawy peraonnel including the Seab••• who ■aintain thia place down here in the ice. lot on top of it. On the aurtace here at the Pole, it'• ■uch too cold and too windy, but down in thia tunnel, in the ice, it's war■ - •••n with your coat off. But tnere above ua, on the ice, tne teaperature drop• to as lo••• one hundred and forty degree• below. And winds aweep across thia white continent at fro ■ a hundred to two hundred ■ ilea an hour. SOUTb lOLi #2 - 2 ----------- So tbe boys - nearl7 all of the ■ in their twentiea - live in great tunnel• deep in the ice. Thia year, the Mayor ot ~outh Pole Village 11 a doctor: lavy Lilutenant Dan Beaainger, officer in coaaand at the Pole. He baa a first naae that could cauae confuaion. He aecond happen• to be •Dan•. ui ■ first na■ e ia , •colonel•. But how could you addreaa bi ■ bJ that in th• lav11 lhen 1our plane land ■ you here on the ice, 1ou aee no evidence of hu■ an habitation, eacept gaaolin• dru••• • radio antenna, aad aoae ■1ateriou1 looking aaall wooden structure• that ■ark th• 1batt1 where you descend into the snow tunnels. Aa tar•• you can see, only snow and ice, and snow in every direction to the horizon. By the way, these tunnels are not that, when first cut. At first they are great trench•• carved out by huge aaohines ■ anu£actureu in Switzerland, each aachine weighing twent1 ton1, powered bJ General Motora dieael engines and propelled bJ a s11te ■ of h1draulic puapa and aotora that are difficult to explain. The1 are tlown here in 1ection1 and then aaaeabled. lith one you can out a •••the nine feet wide, four feet deep and three hundred feet long, that 11, in halt an hour. So each trench that becoaea a tunnel ia the reault of a aeries of 1ucb cut1, the aachine ■ illing the anow and burling it aewent1 feet or ao in the air. lben the trench i1 froa twent1-eigbt to thirt1-aix feet deep. the whole thing i1 cowered ower with eight guage galwanized iron 1egaent1, and ano• i• packed on top, ao on the aurface Jou can walk over a tunnel or driwe a weasel ower it, and not know it i• there. lbere a tunnel is only uaed for coaaunication■ purposes - going froa one area to another - it i• a great circular ■ etal tube, fro ■ fifteen to thirt7-aix feet in dia■ eter. ln tbe tunnel• are wooden building•, pre-fabricated atructurea, in units, large enough ao that eacb ■ at h••• four or five roo ■ a, •••• hall, offices, laboratori••• sleeping quarters, and ao on. These atructurea are ahoYed into the tunnela. Tbe7 are aeYeral feet narrower than the tunnel, ao there ia roo ■ tor a waltwa7 on either aide; a apace that alao keep• the heat in th• buildin1• fro■ ■eltlna the wall• of th• anow tunnel,. And th•1 are built ••••ral teet off the floor. One tunnel down here where~ a■ is eighteen hundred feet long - ■ore than a third of a ■ ile. The whole thing is so ingenious you ha•• to see it, or a picture of it, to appreciate what the 1 eabees have done to ■ ate it possible tor scientists to work here in the heart of the ■oat de1olate region on earth, where there wa1 no lite at all until they caae. ienguin1, ••al• and whale• along the coa1t, but no liwing thing acroaa the thou1anda ot ail•• ot thi1 great white continent, in tbe heart ot which l •• at the aoaent, right at tbe South Pole. So lona! POL101 IJ 1 T. well, Lo•ll, - ' " had IOIII cold weather in . . . York reoentlJ -- •kee • al110st wieh I •re there too. So long, and we• 11 be hearing from you again soon. FOLLOW L.T. So long, Lowell, 1t wae good to hear from you and we• 11 be hearing tTom you again soon. ISIIJER Two or the nation•s b1gge1t overseas alr carriers are planning a marriage. D1rectore ot Prn American World Airwa71 and Trans-World Airlines have approved plans to •rge into a globe spanning syetem that would exce~d in aeeets the proposed Joining or A•r1can and laetern airlines. However, there are many hurdles ahead. The shareboldera or Pan Am and TWA IIU!t approve. So met the Civil Aeronautics Board, and Preeident Kennedy. In addition, '!'WI•• doaestic c011petitor1 also may object with heavy fine. ... There•s a young lady sophomore at Texas Technological college in Lubboc 1• Texae, who eaya that the trouble with her name le that people expect her to be jol y · all the time -- although she admits she haa her bad dpJs Jut like everrone else. Her family na• dates back to her great-grandfather and she•s spent her lite convincing doubters she 11n•t kidding when she introduces herself. But, she ad■ite it alway• givee her eoaething to talk about, eepec,ally at this t1me ot year. Her name? Nary Christaae. And now, a tella who bae No-el -- in his na•. (l)D 1'1' lES Richard, three items, the first from Dickinson, North Dakota, where the police chief eaye a patrolman was more surprieed than irritated when he saw a fifteen year old girl back up her car on a etate highway, atop for a red light and then -- continue backing up. The little lady told the officer she had put too many milee on the car and was trying to take them off, before returnirg totter parents. NUllber two - from Wales, where railway ott1c1ale wondered what to do with a consignment of live goats that ate their cardboarddestination labele. Number three - fr011 Racine, Wisconsin. Young aan named Hank Lem - age nineteen~ arrived from China only a few days ago - waen•t sure how to mail a letter. But he tried. He went to a downtown street corner, e~wa box and pulled the lever. Ten fire trucks roared to the scene. Roaring to our ecene right now with a message, Dick Noel, and I'll be back tomorrow.