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MONDAY, DECEMb£R 31, 1962 ------------------------------------- KGM.B - Honolulu, Good Bvening £verybody: After a journey aroun the world, by way or the Sout ~ole, around the world and then one-third of toe •~Y around apin, la ■ back on A ■ erican soil tonigbt. ! won't attempt to review where all~ have been; but, 1 aa on tbe tropical island if Oahu, in Honolulu, capital or our 50th state -- taking a look at the world fro ■ a spot that is just about as near Paradise, as you can find on this old planet. -------------- Whether or not Hawaii is a good place to start the New Year depends, upon your point of view. nere in onolulu it isn't too easy to realize that people elsewnere are not quite as well off as they are in tnese glorio • 1 us 1s ands in the aiddle of the Pacific O.cean. for instance, •h•n 1 left the Royal Hawaiian •everal hours ago, visitors fro■ the aainland ••r• - ■ost of the■ - 1111 reading the atory in the aorning paper telling about the way •old ■ an winter• ia behaving in •e• ingland and other parts of the Jil ort heas t, on the ■ ainland. Here under a pal■ tree, with the te ■perature in th• aid ?O'a, that ator■ area see ■s far, tar awa, - - 80 ■ ile an hour wind• .. uprootiq tr••• on Long !aland! disrupted! Tena ot tbouaand• people atrand•d in 11 •• England, •• are told; •-- dri tta 20 feet hi1h in Maine and le• Baapabire, teaperature down to•• low aa 3u below! lf Me• &ngland ia naving one of the · t bas endured in our lifet.i ■ e, in severest stor■ s J a way l am so r r y t.o • i 8 8 . t 1 • l'd like to co ■ pare it with tne cliaate 1 encountered recently in the South Pde. But, aince l'• not in lew England, l can think of no better place to be, than here on the beach at laikiki. And gri ■ weather news baa been co ■ ing through fro ■ lurope! A United Preas wire fro ■ London statea toat the recent blizzard in Europe has brought deatn to soae 700 people. Snow, ice, and bitter cold all tae wa1 froa italy to tbe jritish .isles. lt aeeaa hard to realize that the atora baa isolated villa1•• in Britain ebere today belicoptera ••re out droping auppli••· To return to iawaii £or a ■oaent, here they have been having their aecond winter open water ski tourna■ent, with a Californian, Larry Penacho, tr1in1 to set a new World Hecord - trying to better tbe juap ne made, a few montns ago, 155 feet on water skis. MOSCOW ------ liy now you ■ay have all heard about the friendly New ~ear graet1·ng that P · lhruahchev ~ re ■ 1er sent to liritiah Pri ■ e liniater Mac~illan; likita expressing th• hope tnat world probleas will be solved during the coaing year Berlin disaraament, nuclear te1ting, etc. Said lhru1hchev, 'Th• £act that th• recent criaia in tbe Caribbean area was overcoae proved that even a aoat acute proble ■ can be reaolved peacefull7, provided the ~artiea concerned display goodwill in tbe matter•. Then he went on:- ' l truat that the coaing year will be a year of furtoer develop■ent of Anglo-Soviet relation• for the good of the peoples of our countri•• and for the good of world peace.• loble aentiaenta! l' ■ sur ■ost of ua agree with Ir. 1. and we hope he will do his part. Veteran correspondent Joe ~regg cables tnat De Gaulle says that France and other Western iuropean nations are ready to welcome Great Britain as a meaber of their econoaic and political coa■ unity in the future, but that she ■uat join thea •without reservations, and per ■ anently•. In a lew Year's ive radio-television ■ es sage to the French people, De Gaulle also held out the prospect of a •1reat relaxation of tension• between East and West, and an iast-Weat peace aettleaent in ,urope. l~t what about Red China1 The trouble between China and India could turn out to be the world's ■oat serious problea. 1 • •• in J. nd i a a few weeks ago when th• Chinese Reda declared their •cease-fire•. So far no one has explained why the Chinese Reds stopped tbeir advances when they did, why t ! 1 ey didn• t slash right on through to the Bay of Bengal. They had India prostrate and probably could have gone on and on without any difficulty. Of course their lines of supplies were getting long. tiy next aay india should be better prepared - but at i 11 weak. So, in Asia they are wondering whether the Chine•• Reda will reauae their invaaion of lndia a few ■ ontb1 fro■ now, this apring. £wen with all the help £Ddia gets fro ■ the • leat, can the lndian ar■y be ■ade ready to hold back the Chinese, in a ■ are fe• ■ontha1 •AUJiA l~A --------- Two of the principal topics of conversation• here in the Hawaiian lslanda are th• big annual football ga■ e, in the Hula Bowl, next Sunda7, and the spectacular conquest of the volcano, Mauna lea, by several young men in a special auto. The football ga ■ e is a big attraction because the players are all Aaerican football atara fro ■ the aainland, two t•••• coached by •Rip Ingle•• ot Penn State, and coach Barnes of Ucla. A• tor the conque1t of the volcano. Thia was the second annual race to aake it to th• top of llauna lea. A• you perbapa know, this volcano ia on the big island ot d~••ii, rises 13,784 feet above the sea, witn its cinder cone, snow-capped part of the year. race. four driver• with souped-up cars were in tbe Tne winner a chap naaed Jiaay Pflueger, the first ■ an ever to aak• it --- driving to the top ot tue hi g11est peak in the Pacific; that is, loftier than any mountain north of iew Guinea. ! still have quite a few tape report• for you. 1'• not aure where this will be coaiag troa. lhere a ■ l - on tape? HiRCUL~S -------- Oh, st i ll in Australia. What woula be your guess as to tne most famous person living on this continent 4 presuae tne right answer · ould be Prime Minister Menzies, who has been Priae Minister longer than anyone in Australian history. tiut running hi ■ a close second would probably be the nuaber one cricket hero of tae hour, whoe•er he i1, or tennis star Rod Laver, tor aa you perhaps know, the Australians are the ■oat 1porta _ ■ inded people in the world. iut near the top of th• list would be an extraordinary aan with wnoa i spent so ■• tiae today. aia name ia dercules - Hercules Mcintyre - and he'• seventy-six years old. Hie father died at age ninety and between the two of the■ they span th• entire history of Australia - ■odern Australia. l enjoy telling about ■en who do unusual things, and this chap Hercules 1. 8 quite a 11an. There were two older brothers, Gus and Bill, both tall and ls rawny. When a third son b was orn the •c~ntyres • who lived in the Outback where th ey grow tall, figured tnat tnis lad would be biggest and strongest of tb•• all, so they naaed hi ■ Hercules. ~f he bad turned out to be a shriap, the naae aigbt have been incon1ruou1 : but it fits. Hercules is aix feet six and baa played an iaportant role in the developaent of Australia. His brother Gua followed the gold ruab to Alaska, and later was the super who bossed the aen who dug tne faaous Culebra Cut, the Panaaa Canal. lhen Gus caae back here to tne Antipodes he and liercul•• started the aotion picture business in tbia part of the world. They are even credited with having produced the first feature filas ■ade anywhere, not just shots of trains and things of that kind. They . - ... ...._....-..... ~ found t n ey n ad to be tneir own distributors, so they set up tent shows. Later they launched two Aaerican fila organizations in Australia, Paramount and Universal. At age seventy-six Hercules is the bead of a foundation that is doing research on asthma. Asthaa is quite a problem in Australia. One out of every ten Australians has asthma. H ercules Mcintyre tells•• tnat Asthma is aore likely to affect people of high intelligence. Tne reason, The research indicate• that the ■ore intelligent you are the ■ore sensitive you are. Hercules is one or tb• richest ■en in Auatralia and if you are with•• to■orro• evening, I'll let you in on a secret, a way that you aay be able to aake a fortune. - - --------- T nat was fro ■ Australia. Mow, to confuse you, let's return to dawaii. D o any of you read columnist Ann Landers, who tells her readers n ow to solve personal probleas1 •jiss Landers, my wife ran off with a traveliDI salesaan. What do i do now1• and ao on. l ran into her today and thought she looked a little harrassed. ! said, •Ann, have you a problea1• •Yea•, she repli••• •i wonder how! can solve it. l caae to Honolulu for a rest but had such an exciting tiae l decided to go to one of the otner islands, to get away froa everybody. tiut tbere l had an even ■ore strenuous ti••· low l'•• coae back to Honolulu to rest up fro■ that. lhat should l do, Mr. r1• 1 auggeated she go boae to Chicago. Meanwhile, fro ■ Hawaii, so long until tomorrow and Happy le• Year to all.