G 0~ EVENliG EVERYBODY: Tonight, a spectacular missile launching - at Cape C naveral, Florida. An Aray Ju iter - rising into the night sky - visible for three ■ inutea - trailing a jet ot orange flame. The Jupiter - last seen - as a brilliant S?Ot ~t litht, encircled by a rose-colored glow The reflection of its oran g e fla ■ e - on a thin la7er ot White clouds. The Defense Departaent announces - Teat, success ltho it did not complete its full course, we know that the Ju J iter is to be used in launching an artificial sate lite. Today's event, however, s eems to have been - merely a test, in the issile Pr~~•••• NATO , An historic decision - was made in Paris, today. The Nato countries - accepting the Allerican ofter or ■iaailea• ~ L and atomic and hydrogen bombs. Missile bases - -ii be II ' established. Th9"l■wti locations - to be decided by the derenae chiefs of Nato, and through negotiations between the United States and each Nato country. In addition, there's to be a pool or ac1ent1t1c knowledge. 'l'he various nations - to exchange technological information. This - qnder the direction of a "science czar". t • I - scjentific forces,~ 'lli:ai.ac In answer~to the Ruaaian advances the in~space-missile field. Th~weeping agreamenta represent a major victory tor American diplomacy, · Which has been proposing all along - that miss i le bases, wlth · Americ~~tablisbed in Europe. Accompanied - by a 1 &4sm he( fl i ■ 8 or nuclear weapons. ~ '' The European countries of Nata have been described as reluctant, a bu t n ow t h e Nato coun cil has agreed - byAunan l mous vote. NATO - 2 That WSE one big d 1 1 t _ . ec son a the surmnit meeting in Paris, today - and there•s ~nother. The heads of government of the fifteen countries a g r e e d ~ that Mato will press for new disarmament negot1at1ons with Soviet Russia. Which Moscow - has been suggestin g . They call tor new talka J ~ between East and W e st - &11 I str/\may lead on to a conference ot the Foreign Minister~ ~f the Big Four , in Nineteen Fifty-Eight. c d i , f ~ T t ■Afits in with demands made by European countr1eaJ wa,al!.ng to take the Soviets up - IA their suggestions for a ~ new palaver on disarmament. Th~ United StatesA►ns 52&' aeeaed tllxMa any too enthusiastic for ■ore talk. But, in Paris, the . ' American delegation insists - that our agreement ~ h e · nature of a bargain. We•re no~ conceding new negotiations with Nato okay Soviet Russia - in return for the q;r "•,e• on American missiles and nuclear weapons. We're simply accepting the European view in this matter. The conference of the fifteen North Atlantic Treaty -7'-'' "~ nations in Paris is A~•••* over. An official announcement of KATO - 3 today's decisions - to be issued some time tomorrow. So it all ends with~ auccesa for President E1senhowi:,· 1 7 1 - than had been anticipated. FOLLOW NATO ~~~ ;his retum home, P~aident Eisenhower will make a rad1ttelevision report to the Allerican people - joining with Secretary of State John Foster Dullea, in telling the re1ult1 of the Nato SUlllft1t conference. The President was in high spirits, today - aaid he was feeling fine. Following - an 0111nous thing, noted laat nigbt,-lir,eenlu An ambulance - ready and waiting. President Eisenhower attended a state banquet given by French President Coty. The menu - such u only Par11 . . ...{(11,, u.4--, "1:t , .,, can provide. '!be challpagne - the rarest vintage. Outside the I\ I French presidential palace - that aab ul ance, with doctors. because And some supposed - it was there '"'9• of President ~ v E:senhower. ~tationed - because of his recent illnea~. I\ Today, however, this was denied by French officials. Who declared - that an ambulance is always there, whenever a state banq11et is given, Doctors - t:¢1- to haul away any guest who may need assistance. After going through the menu - and the wines. After which - anybody might wind up in the hospital. ied Hungary - staging a wave of trials. To cruah - the final veetigea of the Hungarian ReTolution la1t year. A nuaber of official• and ecclesiastics• tacin1 Red courts. The Coa■ uniat regi ■e intending, tinall7 - to p ut toraer P reaier Hahge on trial. lahge, th• Coaaunist - who tried tor an independent Hungar7. HYDROGEN Here•a a denial or reports - that British 1cienti1t1 have succeeded in hameaaing the hydrogen bomb tor peaceful purposes, Have been able - to control the gigantic violence ot fusion the :a-rD> reaction. Chail'll&n Lewis L. Strauaa ot the u.s. Atomic Energy Coa1aa1on declares - that both British and American acientiata are still a long way rroa t•ing 1 1 2 the k • power or the H-b011b,- Making it available - tor 1nduatr1al Thia - in an~wer to an uproar in British newapapera, h-,.1 the which have been charging - t. 1 r1t1ah aucceaa withl(l~ic reaction of hydrogen, has been kept a secret.- Because ot a political deal between Britain and the United States. 'l'heJ claim - if this had been made public, it would have made a greater sensation than the Russian Sputniks. ait the Aller1cana tau insisted - on the secrecy. Chairman Strauss admits - that there has been a ,,...... significant advance. But, there ~ill is,. a long way to go before the hydrogen bomb ever produces industrial power. AIQlflC POWil Meanwhile, tonie;ht, at Shipping ort, PennaylYania - light from atomic ower. The first commercial use, in this country - of atoms for electric light,. The reactor• at the plant of th• Duquesne Light Company. Installed at a coat or one hundred and ten million dollars - and able to produce enough power to light on• hundred and fifty thousand hoaea. Electricit7 - for the Greater : > ittsburgh area. The way it worta, ia that the treaendoua heat of atomic fisaion turn• water into auper-heate4 1tea■ - which runs turbine generator• - producing - electric ower. According to plans of the Atoaic tnergy Co■■ iaaio the town at Shipping Port - begins the co ■aercial use ol the atom. BENSON - - Secretary of Agrlculture Benson announces - that the price gu~rantees on dairy products will be cut next year. 'l'he supports - to come down to the minimum of seventy-rive per cent of parity. Secretary Benaon adds - that the reduction ot the price guarantees should be followed by lower pricea in the . " retail market. Customers - to pay half a cent a quart leaa tor . --· milk. Two and a half cents a pound less - tor butter and cheese. The Secretary argues that all this will be in the beat interests of the dairy fanaera - in the long run. Well,•••• Ezra T. Benaon baa been a target tor brickpats f:-long tlme, Under tire - traa the tara bloc in . 1 . Congress. So you can illagine what this new ■ove means. More brickbats - and they weren•t long in coming. ~gislatora from the rural districts - shouting in protest. Denying - that I , the reduction in price supports will be ref l ecte~ in lower prices for the reta il buyer. One legislator after another - denouncing Bens on . Tonight, the Secretary of Agriculture reminds one of - Ajax defying lightning. &QSTELLO Back to prison, tor Frank Costello - who'll aerYe out the reaainjer ef a five-year sentence. ThG bia-ahot, called the •czar of gambling•, serYed nearly a 7ear. Then released - pending an ap p eal. He clai ■ed that hia conviction tor income tax evasion was obtained on wire- ta p evi4ence - and the Supreae Court ruled a1ain1t wire- tap evidence in case1 like that of Costello. Today, ho••••r, federal Judge John r.x. McGobe7 ruled - that the Costello conYiction di4 not depen4 on wire-tap eYidence. So back to Jail - the big-1hot ■uat go. erving out - that tiYe-7ear sentence. CONPIDBNTIAL In Hollywood, "Confidential M az1ne" and another pub l ication called "Whisper" wre convicted - or conap1racy to publish obacen1ty.,, • .,, The two - incurring tinea ot f i ve thousand dollars each. Thie grows out ot the sensational court cue in Hollywood a several ■ontha ago - when the private live• of top fil■ celebrities were spread on the record. Alter llllich, the magazines amounced - that they wouldn't go nosing into people's attaira any more. And the agreeaent waa - that tbeJ 1 d be liable only tor the charge of obscenity. So now they 1 re convicted on that iaaue, and will pay five thousand bucks each. MEXICO - JIOLICENAN At Vera Cruz, Mexico, Policeman Toribio Jimenez, had a standing joke. He•d st~p an aut011obile, and aak the driver - t he time. When the dr1 ver anawered , telling him the hour, the policeman would aay: "Now I 1 m late for killing 117aelt." Whereupon he 1 d draw hia pistol, with no cartr1dgea in it - put the gun to h1a forehead, and pull the t~1gger. The motorlat - astounded. The policelUUl - roar l ng with laughter. A weird aenae ot huaor, and now we hear how Pol1c811An Toribio Jimenez tried hia joke once again. Stopping a taxicab, asking the chautteur what tille it wu, and then repeating bia gag with the p1atol 91 But, this t111e, he had forgotten to re110ve t he cartridges. so, at Vera Cruz, they•re giving the frolickaome p o liceman a nice funeral. Hy notism - h ~ s made its debut on the s o orts ;. ages. The baseball writers tellin - how > itcher Don ~ewcombe is being hy notized, regularly. Ne combe, with the o g ers, fo~merly of Brooklyn. The big right-hander was obsessed by a morbid fear or viation. He simply couldn't fly, or didn't think he could, and t i s became a serious matter, indeed, when the Uod ers made the move to the Pacific coast, with the tea ■ in for a lot of ~ tlJAJli .. in , bhe future. So I~ewcombe tried hypnotism - to cure the tear. A nd it worked so well, that he now says• he's thinking or learning to fly, and piloting his own plane. But Big Hewk is going on with hypnotism - for still another big reason. Today, S p orts Writer Steve Snider of the United ress quotes the p itcher as declaring - he'll try refute the critics who say - •Newcombe can't hypnotism to HlPNQI.!L - 2 w i n t e b i g o n e s • " C i t i n g t he w e.y he I s b e en b at t e d o u t in ball ga mes that ha v e counted the most - in the World Se ries, for example. l e combe a its - the criticis m wo rried him. He s ays, •It's p ossible that subconsciously, it was on •1 mind - hile 1 was itching. 1 know I've never been scared ot any team - but, sometimes, I guess a man can try too hard.• So now he hopes that hypnotism will remove the wrong. ell, vengali hypnotised the girl Trilby into singing. So, maybe, the Svengali-treataent will ■ ate 'e wcombe - win the big one, erhaps by h7pnotizing the hitters. ENGLAND - DANCE Over i n En land, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mrs. Janet Green must have been singing this morning. Singing - "I Could ~ Have Danced All Night." he nearly did - dancing most of the night. With - no end ~r partners, one after another. Her husband, Fred Green - doesn't dance. That's just the point. Fred and Janet got married a couple of years ago. ~~ a She - a lover of danci • Whi e Fred ~ • t . • ~.~...u~~~nc-aa~--u~~fflli.MPI However, married life has been going along all right, and finally Fred had a charitable idea. He hired a hall and a band - and invited a hundred people. ll!ll With plenty of partners - to dance with his wife. so around she whirled with John and William and P i 1 While Fred sat on the sidelines. ere va. Joe, at this moment we Widow Waltz, or something. If s h o u ~ . - The Merry we 11~ . END Announcer: And now Lowell Thomas, Jr,, with a t ~ oddity, J. L.T.Jr.: From a north Italian town - a story of astonished housewives. Who gazed with wide eyes, and exclaimed - 11 010 miol' Well, you can't blame them. What they saw was enough to make an Amer ca sewife say - "Dio mdol" In the kitchen - a pot or a bucket ot water. When · , a lighted match came near the water -,1t caught fire. Flame - springing up from the water. Flickering - briefly. Why the blazing water? Well, it seems tha\, tor aome • reason or other, methane gas from underground seeped into the town reservoir. The gas - inflammable. Producing an Ital1111D version of - fire water. LTP.1957.12.18.pdf LTP.1957.12.18ii.pdf