L.T.-THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 , 1962 GOOD EVENOO : (L.T. at South sea I sla nde, then Antarctica and Europe. Be. given by Doug Edwards or CBS.) An explosion ripped through t : e world's largeet coal ■1ne near car■lchael1, Pennsylvania, today. A report troa the 1cene quote ■ mine officials ae eaying ae many ae thlrt1-t1ve •n are trapped by the blast which occurred in the u.s. steel Corporation I e Robena Nwaber Three mine. Special equl.-nt wu ruehed to the ecene by tederal and etate officiale ae the reec\11 operation got underway at tbe mine, which ie located about ton, milee from Pittsburgh. CUBA - The Pent ag on a nnounces th a t fo r ty-two Soviet Jet bombere have been si g hted a board three R ussi a n ehipe heading e a stward from Cuba. The word in Wa s h i n g ton is -- that the Rueeians h a ve told Ametic a n diplomats that thie is ALL of the medium range Jets the Soviets have sent to caetro. If thie is indeed eo, this would mean that Premier Khrushchev is acting well ahead of hie promised deadline for the planee• removal. on November twentieth, President Kennedy said that theSov1et leader had eaid he would get all the planes out of Cuba within thirty days. ...-. - -· - --- - - -- OVERFLmHTS General Gerhart, the Commander-in-Chief of the North American Defenee Command, eaye that because of heavy air operations during the Cuban crieie a few American planee flying at high altitudee were lieted for a time ae "unknown aircraft • 11 Thie statement wae in answer to what the General called the rumors and stories about alleged Soviet flights over the southeastern United States. And he re-emphaeized that no Rusala aircraft of any type have flown over any part of the continental United States during or eince the Cuban cr1e1e. DffRO. TO L. T • Lowell Thomae ie up in the a ir toni g ht -- with a lot or water down below. What•e new, Lowell ? Hello Everybody: ln going hither and yon, it's natural to wonder where other people are going, and why. Today, £lying south across trench Polynesia, bound for Saaoa, fiji, and Mew Mealand, aboard a TEAL - Taaaan tapir• lirwaya ilectra, an American - probablJ in his tortiea - aaked i t 1 ••• on another fila expedition. Str.ang• how so•• of ua aake a livin1. Thia chap, John Cartwright, fro ■ 1re1no, California, ia on his way to Western Australia to introduce aoaethiDI new to the econoay of the Continent ~own Onder. ue•• going to start a fig plantation. Why leave ~alitornia and go halfway acros1 tne world for that/ a story. lt'1 quite At present be says the beat figs in the world are gewn in the San Juaquin Valley, outside fl 1.1 - f fr ~r. ' ars g . a cr1 g a r f nioety-five er cen f thea Jr ~ . ' i r l II r ' . 6' d f r hip i • ra l • 11 . 1.b r Ci&• are grown in Greece, Turkey and 'yria - but ell interior. low the ' alifornian fi - r • r ar in trouble - all because the Stat of 'alitornla la booaing. Residential freano rowin ut. inl.o he ti orchard region. Land values, includin tau•• Juapin1. The Cig plantation people facin ruin. After a atudy of cli ■ aL and oil hart 1.hty I concluded that the beat place int.he world fort.ho who c n rea fig for figs, should be West ~n Auolrolla. Lid Australia ju ■ p al lh opvorLunlt.y tu at i au late the national econo ■ y l,y e noo ur•l~ l Oft L h l n '/ lot at all! They said th l,;alifornlan coulu brlnf( in lll! - 3 aix little shoots. •·It takes ten yeara tor a fig tree to prod•ce, so fro• six shoots you'd hardly get eaouah ti~ lea••• to outfit 1daa and !Ye. Then flaallJ, lutralia agreed to a teat, on six haodred and forty acres. It will take ten year, to find out how it'• goiag to turn out. You really haYe to be an opti ■ iat if 7ou want a fig plantation. llaoat, aa ••~ of an opti ■ iat aa I woul4 be if I started tor the South Pole •••rln1 a fi& leaf. FOLLOW L.T. Well, Lowell, that costume mi g ht be appropriate -- except for one thing. The Antarctic ie a b l t ch1111eT, than theoarden or Eden wa1 supposed to have been. Remember -- Adam ana Eve never heard or tur parkas. EtGLlHD Distressing news from Britain. A death-dealing s■og tightened tte grip on London's eight mfllton people tonight, Killing at the rate or at least one per,son every hour and crowding hospitals with patients gasping rr011 respiratory ailMnts. '1'he tour-day death tol:l rose to at leaet 11xty-1even in the wor■t 1■og London baa had in ten year.e. Here at hOIII, a •1ntry stor■ baa dumped tratflc-anarllng enow1 rr011 Lake N1chtgan eaat•rd to the Appalachian Mountains. The icy bl.aat 11 sending a spearhead into Dixt• and threatens to slug the heavily populated Eastern aeaboard with a heavy 1now1tor■• Tl'tO Pree1dent Tito of Jugoslavia and Premier Kbruehchev. had what as described as a frank and friendly exchange of opinion at the Kremlin today. The Tass News Agency aB said tbl two leaders discussed the international situation, particularly issues &M.trt&1n1ng to the further developJN.nt ot fraternal Soviet-YUgoelav relations. The foremost topic of the talke 11 i,,11eved to be the two countries• ideological d11pute with Coalmllist China. As a sidelight, the New York Daily Hewe today carried a dispatch rrom Noscow about the Khrushctiev-Tlto 111etlng. It carr ed this headline: "The Marxist Brothere -- at the opera." And now some Aaaerican-type •1how-bueine1s• trom Dick Noel. SAN'l'A CLAUS Well, Dick, there•• a Cal1torn1an in Loe Angel~• in the newe tonight who 1s looking forward to h1e first nor•l Christma1 in eighteen years. For that length of time this fella couldn't stand thee1ght of Santa Claue. When be was tiff yeu1 old -- a1 the story goes -- be was in a depart•nt store to••• Santa, when be slipped and knocked hi■eelt out, cutting bis head. When be ca• to, a crowd was staring, and there, allOl'lg thi■ , wa1 that ••et old gentle•n whoae busineee 1e toya, and llho s0111how was associated with the accident. A paycbiatrlat announce• be 1 s dug th1e pbobia out ot the tellow -- the patient will have his tiret nor•l N1rr1 Chr1etma1 e1nce he was tive. Goodnight everJ~ody -- back tomorrow.