L,t.- QLps., fil. HOV. 20, 1~~9 1 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Discoverer Ho. 8 - our late1t - aeema to be - a auoceaa. Today•• rocket, fired fro ■ Vandenberg Air roroe Ba1e, in California - headed 1outh on a cour1e - intende4 to put th• aatellite into orbit. Sending it o•er the South Pole - then to 10 speeding around and o••r the lorth Pole. A ■an- ■ ade aoon - awlnging around, north to 1oatb. ln toda7•1 launching of Di1coverer luaber light, the chief purpo•• waa - to recover a capsule. lbioh baa been atteapted s•••ral ti••• pre•iou1l7 - but without 1uoce11. Today'• n•• satellite - carr7ing a three hundred and ten pound capsule. Such as might be used - in apace navigation. To be released from the satellite - during its seventeenth revolution around this earth. LltR - 2 . . . All plan• aade for a p o11lble recover7. in an area of tbe Pacific, near Hawaii. Later toda7 word tli• aan-aade aoon ia in orbit. It paaaei o••r th• lortb Pole and waa plote4 up b7 obaer••r• on lodiat lalaad, oft the coa1t of Ala1ta. EAIACBUTI Have 1ou heard about that record-breaking parachute ju■p - announced by the Air Force? A Juap - of seventy-six thouaand, tour hundred feet! On the ■•• Mexico deaert, Captain Joseph Iittlnger ot Taapa, florida, ••• taken up in a high altitude balloon, to an altitude of nearly fifteen ail••· Then out he ••nt - into the thin air of the 1trato1phere. Te ■perature - one hundred and four below zero. He plUD&ed for a free fall of aoae thirteen ■ ilea. At tea thouaand feet, the parachute opened, and lowered bi ■ in the u1ual way; down to the de1ert. Soviet lu1aia report• what 1ouada lite a record - for a parachute juap. ln which - ever7thing ••nt wroaa. A woaan parachuti1t - falling more tan a mile. ltraight down - like a rock, and, atriting the ground. The woaan chaapion of Soviet Buaaia - in a Juaping contest in Bulgaria. At five thousand, seven fAIAC IV% I - 2 RETAKE · hundred and fort1-tour teet, ahe balled out of a plaae, with two p arachutes. But neither one of the ■ worked. Sh• landed - in a newl7 p lowed field. The rig1la1 of the two dud parachute• broke her tall •••••hat - and the 10ft ■ ud of the plowed earth 414 the r,at. She 1ur•i•e4. Fell a ail• and i• alive. u.1. - The General Aesembly of the U.N. voted a recommendation, tonight - that nuclear weapons be restricted - to the countriee that already have them! The United States, ~ Britain and Soviet Russia. The vote·- an expression or opposition to the spread or atomic armament throughout the world. Aa matters no• stand, Prance is the only nation •1th an avowd 111b1t1on - to bec0111 a nuclear po•r. Intending to join what tlMtyfre calling - tlMt •nuclear club," The Algerian rebels - ready to negotiate with rreacb President Charles »•Gaulle. ln Tunis, today, the Algerian •goYern■eat-in-exil•• naae4 a tive-■aa delegation for peace talks. All the delegate• are iaaargeat leaders, now in Frenob priaone. lhich ■ igbt 1eea - a defiant sort of geetve. Certain to arouae tbe wratb - of Colonial lrench coaaer•ati••• in Algeria. Aa for DeGaulle, bia first reaction, toda, - ••• deci4e41.y ohlllJ. BISBIIJIOWER President Eisenhower will hold a bi-partisan meeting- o• before leaving on hie trip abroa~ December Third. He •11 , confer with Democratic and Republican . leaders ot Congress - on some toreign affairs. Policy he 1 11 pureue 1n talks in eleven countries, Jacluding - tar ott India. This is the presidential substitute - tor the idea ot taking a prominent Democratic leader along with him. Pormer President Truman - euggesttd. Th proposal was made by Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, but the President tells him in reply that, because ot the extent or his Journey, with quick stops tor diplomatic talks - he must keep the number or hie party down. Not feasible - to take along a Democratic leader like former President Truman, you raa, recall •1th whom /•-,u• ' president Eisenhower has been in chilly . ., ' terms for some yeare. IJJPLA . . A sad ator7 - in the payola busin111. Th• owner of liD& leoor41 in Cincinnati aa71 - hl• fir ■ paid 1i1hteen hundred dollar• a ■ onth to di10 Jocte71, to play reoorde - the CoapaDJ turned oat. But, Sidney lathan ad4• - that be fo\llld tbe pqola did not inor•••• tb• 1al•• of reoorda. Sa,a he: - • A diac jocteJ can't aak• a record a hit.• PAINTINGS There's nothing puny, about that etory of Old Masters discovered in Hollywood. Ten paint1nge - round in the home ot a • television repairman. Two experts - proclaiming them '6 N authentic - dating back to the Renaissance. worth - at least ten million dollars. The pictures belong to the TV repair man and his w1te and her two brothers. She, a native of Italy, stating - that they were in her aristocratic tamily for generations. Well, you'd need only to take a look at the names ot the famous artists - to whom the paintings are aecribed. Among the ten pictures - masterpieces hy Rafael,Titian, All t,it,aaa • Tintoretto, Caravaggio./ le, a,tai.11@ ,_, ala•"' In addition to which, the two experts declare that, in Chicago last year, they discovered three paintings by - Rafael, Giorgione, and the venetian Old Master, G1ovaM1 Bellini. Add up the 11st of names, and about the only ones missing are Mi~naelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Glowing eccle1ia1tical pageantry - ln lashing\oa, \o411• The de41cation of the nation•• large1t Catholic Charoh - the Rational Shrine of th• laaaculate Coacep\ioa. ln the oereao117 - aix Cardinali, two haa4re4 lrobltiabopa, aa4 »iabop1. Rome, the Eternal City, hae a venerable history - or jurisprudence. Dating back to the daye - when Cicero delivered oratione - pleading cases before courte of law. So now, in Rome - a decision handed down by a high court or Appeale. Dismieeing a case - aga1net a horse-cab driver, naed Silvio Bianchi. Hie crime1 Well, he gave hie horse a cup of cottee. Silvio's teetimony ie - that he was in a tavern having a bottle ot vino. Which made him teel benevolent. "I remembered, 11 s 11 vio I e testimony goes on, "that 1111 horee was outs 1de the wine shop. So I thought I'd otter h111 - a cup ot cottee • 11 Why not a glass or wine2 Apparently, that Roman dobbin 1e - a teetotler. So it was - a cup or · Espreeso. "•turally," Silvio goes on, "people had never seen euch a thing. A crowd g athered - to eee my friend, my horse, drin k hie coffee." So that wa e the o ffense - of which S ilvio wu found ~ - 2 guilty. '!'he verdict - now reversed by the Court ot Appeals in Rome. That 1 decision - worthy of ancient Roman judges./ lt 1 s no crime to give a horse a cup of coffee. M♦MPNA!UI At a town in Wales, Mrs. Phyllia Willia■• 1 1 a grandaother - who lovea televiaion. Grandaa Willia■•. ,irtuall,y bJpnotlzed b7 TV. On the acreen 1he aaw a thriller - called •the Granda& jandit,• in which an old lad7, auch lite her1elt, roba a ahopteeper. So Mra. lillia■• decided - ahe'd do the aa■ e thin1. On television, the arand■ a bandit uaed - a to7 platol. Ira. lillia■ a haa a nuaber of grandchildren. Plenty ot toy piatola around. So •h• took one, and proceeded to a neiahboriq town. lh•r• ahe walked into a ahop, toot the toy piatol out of her handbag, and announced - •Thi• ia a atict-up!• ln the TV draaa, the •arandaa bandit• had quite a long career of robber7. Mrs. Willia■•• alaa, not following the 1cript in that respect. Whea the shopkee p er grabbed her, Grandaa hit hi h h d itb the pistol - but, was 1uickl7 a overt e ea • 114MPl9tfll - 2 . . ~ . 1 ubjugated. AQJhow ebe ••'•• up in exactlJ the•••• •IJ •• th• •gran4■ a bandit.• Taken oft to Jail - to \blnt it oYer. And 1 - 1 - u - Moa.