STEEL ~ L. T .-DELCO. FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1959 __:,;.-- (Allan Jackson sube.L.T.,who i' ~n Today the head of a Steel Union local told hi~ ~io~t - " N ow that we•re on the street - we•re g oin g to etick it out." He was exhortin g them to support the Union decieion - for a long etr ik e, in prefe r ence to accepting the contract offered by mana ement. Back i ng up the decieion - high officials of the Union are touring the picket lines. The President of the United Steel Workers, David MacDonald - is swinging through eastern - Pennsylvania. Vice-President, Heward Hague - is in Pittsburgh. They 1 re boosting the morale of working men and women - who face their first weekend without work. Mediation will start again - on Monday. By which time, the workers wil l have lost fifty mill i on dollars in wages - - t'ifty i ndustry two hund r ed and~million i n production - and the natio~, a mi ll i on and a h a l f tons of steel. - BUTLER The Dem ocr a i c ational Ch a irm an cla ims that the publ 'c is e hin h m - b y b e tter th an s x -to-one. - Paul Butler, referr· n to is controversy with Democratic leaders in Congress- says he won't withdraw h is cr i ticism because he ie strongly supported by a delu e of letters and telegrams . He interprets his correspondence to mean - that he spea ks for the party, when he denounces Democrats - who vote for conservative legielation. On Capitol Hill - the interpretation ie a bit different. Senator Harry .... Byrd of Vir g inia calls Butler a 11 radical" - and repeats the charge that the Nat i onalfhairman i s injuring his own party. CASTRO Fidel Castro's offer ~ •t••txe•••x■:r.kaax■flmJI to resign - wae a pa1tl11l move, to strengthen his position. That's the common belief in Havana - where virtually no one expected to see the rebel leader step out.of the tofpot in Cuban politics. According to thie theory is forcin g a show-down with the moderates - with those opposed to hie program for land reform. To nobody 1 e - - surprise - President Urrutia refused to accept ~he Castro resignation. What about the Communists? They're demanding - "a tru"'y revolutionary government." In the Marxiet political dictionarfthat means a government infiltrated by Communists. GENEVA Th e We s te rn or ei g n Min i s t er s i n G eneva - are angry ton ig ht. They are an r y because of Gro m y k o's l atest etatement. It's blunt, uny i elding, belligerent - and a repeat performance. In brief, Gromyko demands that Britain, F rance, and America - accept Ruseia•e plan for Ber11frter today 1 s seesion - Selwyn Lloyd, Couve deMurville and Christian Herter etayed behind for a three-hour conference of their own. When they broke up, all three ehowed quite plainly - they 1 re still angry with their opposite number from Moecow. KHRUSHCHEV Today th e bo ss of the Kreml n wae i n a city - that I ueed to be German. It wae called Stett i n one of the famous h ~ Baltic porte. Germany lost it after the war - and it~be en Polish ever since. Khruehchev too k the proper cue/in hie epeech, He promised the Polee - that Germany will never recover their city, And that declaration brought h i m/authentic cheere. Everyone preeent agreeing with hi1/that the present borderline between Germany and Poland -,JIiii must remain as it ie. POLIO He e 1 ~ a serous warn · from - Surgeon General, Leroy liX Bu rney. Polio s - increasing . More than twelve hundred cases ,•tt t• have been reported - so far. Last year, at the same time - the figure was only seven hundred and fifty-four. According to General Burney / h e tragedy ie that most of the stricken are thoe1/who juet didn 1 t take the trouble to 19 ~ d- · - <c _ (i; ·(Jr 11&cc, R • - LONG - The Gover n or o f Louisiana arrived a ' the Hilton Hotel in Juarez, Mex i co, th i e morn n . And the des k clerk isn't li k ely to forget i t . arl Long was tryin g to catch up with hie aids 7 who deserted h i m while he wae tourin g the night clube. Hie pace was too fast for them. So they quietly decamped - and went bac to the hotel . b Tne Governor found them a s l e e p . ~ • • 1 • 1 He tried to wake them by beating on the , door -j and then started to kick it in. Finally a bellboy arrived with a key - whereupon - Govern~hed his way into the room - and began to berate his aids at the top of his voice Hie temper - hot. Hie language - colorful. When they managed to quiet him down - Governor Long turned in for a snooze. Adm i tt i ng - he was a bit tired himself - after the Juarez ni ht clubs. PANIC T That pan i c i n Pusan, Korea - was caused by n Typhoon / I Billie. The b ig blo ; - storming in from the Yellow Sea / hit the Korean peninsula w i th violent rain, and winds of ei g hty-five miles an hour. And it hit suddenly. Reaching Pusan - it howled - into a stadium ful l of spectators/who had no ill idea that it was coming. The r ~ a s s hysteria. Panic. A few epectators raced for the single narrow exit - and that tou c hed off a -- stampede through the stadium. The crowd surged toward the exit - - in a seething, screaming mob. They were packed so a tightly - that some smothered to death. Many others were trampled/or suffered broken bones from being kicked. ~ o r injuries - countless. Tonight the PUsan hospitals are treating ~ozens of the severely injured. The toll of the deay-" around fifty. And al l because of - an unreasoning pan i c. MONKEY Jap aneee farmers who work the land near Mount Fy/ie uchi- are compla ning to T o ky o abo ut - me auding monkeys. The farmers ----- claim th at the moneys are involved in something close to - a Simi an civ il war. And . . ruining this year•s crop/during - th e ir hostilities. The mon k ey war - looks like this. Two factions are - fi g hting for poseeseionf of - Mount Fuseuchi. When one group - descends into the fields - the other group runs down to head 2// t- / Reeul1/ a monkey free-for-all. After which, the retreat to the mountainf /ieaving the farmere to them off. survivors bury the dead - and estimate the damage to their tomatoes, - beans, and wheat. No wonder the farmers wan t Tokyo to pass a law - - - The catch ;✓.th~t the ¾:-: A . ~ ~ Ministry of Culture is ag ainst he law. The Ministry elai■e permitting them to ~hoot the invaders. - l that Japanese cultur would be hurt - by the disappearance of the mar aud ing mon k eys j) f M ount Fus euc hi . l r 6 1 - SNCM It snowed near Aden - last night. No - the story hae -- ' ( 2 no th i n g to do with the time of year. It isn't that enow is unusual -/ 1.!':. J~y. The real point of the story 11/- that Aden has never had snow before, in recorded history. - The city lies at the southern end of /the scorching Arabian desert. They almost never feel the cold - in Aden. - - I And snow j It 1 s unheard of. Or was - until last night, when white powdery flakes fell weather experts weather conditions in the from the sifor almost an hour. say the snowfall was due ~ r e e k upper atmosphere. ~yway, 1t 1 e - something the people of Aden - won't forget in a hurry. Snow - drifting dowjonto the sands of the Arabian desert. BOHLEN Admin strat i on officials in Washin g ton say that Charles Bohlen - w i ll b e offered a hi h place in the State Department. And from Manila we hear - triat our Ambassador to the Philippines will accept. Wh i ch would seem to end the discuesion about1he - - immediate future/or one of our top experts on the Soviet Union- Charles 11 Chip 11 Bohlen.