L.T. - OLDS. 2 G 00D EVE ING : (LT. on hie way o S outh Sea Ielande and Antarctica. Be. g iven by D oug Edwarde of CR5.) Plane for d Croes inspection of cargoes bound for Cuba ran into a ma or ena today when the organizat1orle international committee announced in Geneva it will poetpone a deci e ion on whether to perform euch inspection. At the same time, a epokeeman for A c ting U.N. Secretary General U-Thant Paid the Red Crose 1n~pection plan, for the time being, ie, 11 1n abeyance. " Thie word came ae U-Thant began studying a new So v iet - Cuban proposal for settling the Caribbean crisis. The propoeal bac k s Premier caetro 1 e demands for U.S. withdrawal from the Guantanamo Naval Base and the lifting of the American bloc ka de of Cuba. It preeumably is the reeult of two weeks of al k e in Ha ana between F irst Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan U:AD - 2 and ca~tro. The United States, however, ie standing firm in ite determination not to withdraw from Guantanamo, and officiale in Washington have begun preeeing more eharply their demande that Soviet Jet bombers now in Cuba muet be removed. In Havana, Cuba, Security off1c1ale claimed today to have smashed, what they called, 11 a U.S. Intelligence plot" to blow up copper and nickel minee in two Cuban provinces. The government etatement aleo ea1d the leader of a u.s.-tra1ned band of eaboteure had been captured. ADENAUE R West German C hancellor Adenauer be g ine talk~ with President Kennedy in Washington tomorrow, on world problems ranging from Cuba to Berlin. They are expected to put the final touchee on propoeitione the Weet might offer if Premier Khruehchev decides to negotiate the Berlin question. The talke will begin with an evaluation of Soviet 1ntent1one in light of Ruee1a 1 e withdrawal of mieeilee from Cuba. BERLrn e fu g ee eoldie re from E aet Ge r many who fled to the weet report tonight that Communiet E ast Germany has frozen the discharge of eerv ic emen until further notice, becauee of what•e termed the 11 serioue po l itical eituation. 11 western officials hear the freeze wae ordered last month during the Cuban crisis and still is in effect. Meanwhile, here at home, in Richmond, Indiana, a replica of the Berlin Wall has been erected in the middle of tiu■r u.s. Highway Forty. Of course, it brought both applau1e and grumbling from impeded motoriste. One woman in a car, eastbound, protested: "What are you trying to do -- scare us to death bef<' we get to waehington?" Volunteers had stacked up five hundred concrete blocks into an un mortared wall in the street two feet thick, eix feet high and eixteen feet l~ng, topped with barbed wire two feet higher. Sponsors, the Richmond, Indiana, Junior Chambe r of commerce; the Jaycees, always trying to do the beet thin g but some of the passers by are asking questions on this one. INDIA India announced plans today to expand its armed forcee in the undeclared war against Red China. It includes military training for every able bodied man in the country. Home guard units are being eet up in all dietricts bordering Tibet, which le the baee of the Communist Chinese offensive in the Himalaya Mountain area. The Indian government charges that Communiet China has flooded the entire border of India with eoldiere. On Wednesday, the Indian nation celebrates Prime Minister Nehru•e seventy-third birthday. And donations of gold are pouring in to give him hie weight in that precioue metal for the war effort. SPACE A thirty - five year old Air Force Major -- ~roy Gordon Cooper, Jr. - will be America's ne x t man in space. The Space Agency today named Cooper~ the man who will fly a spacecraft on a planned one - day mission, which would take him around the earth eighteen times. The la&nching is scheduled for next April, and cooper•e back up pilot will be Aetronaut Alan Shepard, who was the first American to ride a rocket into space on a sub - orbital trip last year. ROCKET U.S.Space scientists plan to launch a gi ant Saturn rocket from Cape Canaveral this Friday in the t hird step of a test series aimed at blazing an American trail to the moon. The Saturn will carry aloft more instruments than any other U.S. rocket launched so far. It will also dump ninety-five tons of water into outer space in what the Space Agency calls, a " bonue scientific experiment", to see what water will do at a height of one hundred and four miles. Scientists say it should form a huge ice cloud and provide more information about electrification in the upper regions of space. - - - - -- LABOR The AFL - CIO t oday broke off relatione with the National A s eociation for the Advancement of Colored People in protest against the activities of the NAACP 1 e Labbr Secretary, Herbert Hill. AFL-CIO President Geor g e Meany eaid Hill has been making " baeeleee chargee" of racial discrimination aga1net some union. BUOO E T R ed in k - - the federal bud g et ie running rampant with it · a l ma:t ei g ht billion dollars worth. Accordin to the budget bureau 1t'e the second hi heet peace - time deficit on record. The price ta for the Cuban criei e alone ie pinned at one hundred million, maybe more, dependin g on whether there•e a wo re ening of the present eituation. Fiecally, the bi gg eet sin g le change ie a drop in tax collectione, in parge part the reeult of the failure of the economy to expand at the rapid pace the adllnietration hoped for an d forecaet. Total ealee of goods and services will come to five hundred and fifty - four billion in Nineteen Sixty-Two 1netead of the five hundred and eixty-eeven billion predicted. ARC'l'IC Now the Ruaeiane are CO'lling up with a new plan,for warming the Arctic regions. A Soviet engineer, Alexei Sokolov, euggeste the installation of eub•rged pumps in the Bering straits - - the area between the t1pe of Alaaka and Siberia to push the icy polar water into the Pacific. The official Russian ttewa Agency, Taee, quote ■ the engineer ae eaying th1e plan 11 better and cheaper than another proposed project calling tor conetructton ot a Da■ acroas the etraite, equipped with the J)lilllpa. Sokolov 1ay1 a aublllrged 4a• would allow more water to be puaped while allowing ice and shipping to paas through the ■ traits. Dick Hoel, eounde like 7our kind ot weather. CHRISTMAS Well,Dick, it•s exactly forty - one days until Christmae, but already harbingere of the Yuletide are in the air. It wae announced today 1n Salida, Colorado, that a one hundred and fifty year old Blue Spruce, eighty-tive reet tall, has been selected ae th1e year•eWhite Houee Christa, tree. It will be loaded on two railteay flat-care tomorrow and etarted on ite Journey to Washington. And etill another Yuletide note, the N1neteen Sixty - Two bat Christmas seal campaign began today in Louisville, Kentucky, and the campaign flag wae raised at the courthouse by workers named Charlee w. Chrietmae, Clayton M • .... seal, and our own volunteer, Dick N5?8l. Good night - I'll be back tomorrow.