There wa• one 11urpr11e - 1n the 1tate of lbe union me11age, today. Preeldent 111enhower 1n1ert1n1 a paragraph at the la1t m1nut-e, a para1rapb - no, 1A the out in advance to new••• and meabere ot Congre••• lo the 1eg11lator11 were caught bJ 1urpr1••• •hen, tn the m1441e of ht1 a4dre11, tbe Preeldent •t•ted that the 1overnment would t, ave a 1urplu1 la tbe neat•*•• ti•cal yeas. Be 1a1d the t11ure tor tederal 1p.-ndla1 WO u1 d be - - leTeAIJ-Alne •b 11 l loa - - l11b t-buadr ed-fl11 l 1 on dollar,, lbe government 1aco■• el1hty-tour b1111o~. Leaving uncle 8aa well ln tbe •o, 10 lon1 ego, the 1uppo11t1on wa1 - tba, lhe trea1ur1 might not be able. to balance the bu4get. But now - a goodly 1urplu1. Another tndlcatlon of the booming economy ot the country. In eplte - - of the eteel 1tr1ke. The 1urpr11• announcement -- drew entbu1laet10 cheer• at the Jotnt 1e1s1on of Congre••· But, the EISENHOWE - 2 D n oc rat1c le a der promptly pointed ut that they'll that will be have to fac e a demand !or a tax cut,/ encouraged -- by the sur p lus. However, Speaker Sam Rayburn quickly rep e a . ed what he has been raying -- that tax reduction would not be wi r- e. He'a against any slaeh1ng in the federal revenues. On the other hand, another kind of demand is predicted a call for m ore federal spending. Depend on the politicians to find some way to use -- a four billion dollar surplus. / The epecial message, seventy--two hundred wo r ds long, covered familiar gz••~xt g round for the most part. The Pregid P .nt -- expressing ca·1tious .,t- optimism in speaking of the forffi coming summit conference. Also, pressing his ideas for a world- war against hunger. There w ~ o ne point -- which had t ~~ D e m ocrats ~ rowlin ~ tonight. Pr es i d e nt Eisenhower -- making an appeal for cooperation. Stop, what he called, the "wrangling". A kin 6 Con re ~•• which the Democrats control -- to ~top wran 6 11ng with hie actm1n1etration. De ovrate retorting that cooperation is a two way street. Say i ng -- they are i~ not the only ones who wrangle. Pointing to the Con~ressional ills the Pre.iaent has vetoed. NIXON More about steel:- A Dem cratic c . ar e -- that V1ce Pree1dent Nixon made a ~ecret agreement with the steel companie r according to which -- t ey would r efrai~ f rom price increase ••S~m until after the election. D e~ ocrat1c NatiSnal Chairman Paul Butler quot P d a statement f rom the ~all Street Journal that there was -•an unwri ~ ten understanding.• The steel companie coming to terms with the union -- a~ rec mm e nded by the Vice P resident and Secretary of Labor Mitchellr. with a zJxa promi e not to hike prices until next year. It's hard to imagine a dramatic thriller more tense - than one disclosed by news from the Arctic, today. A scientific station - established up there near the North Pole, called - station Alfa. Or, in a more f miliar way - w1ce floe Ch a rlie•. A technological tea ■ of twenty-eight men - living in tents, on an ice floe, worting - with scientific araphernalia. So what is the news now - from that ice island? I, for one, can feel shaky - when 1 think about it. Having aid a visit, ~ couple of years ago - to a St~tion A /scientific base on thefloating ice - near the Pole. Living there, for some days, with members of a technical team who told me - their ice island might break up - a thing to be prep~red for. So, at night, it wasn:t easy to escape the thought, what if the ice under us should crack and disintegrate right now? nich it did some months later. And once again ~hat is what has ha pened ARCTIC - 2 at Station Alfa, that was set up lasts ring - and has been drifting a mile and a half a day ever since. Churning along - in the midst of countless other ice floes. Then, suddenly, Station Alfa - started to break up. Today's news declaring - that, in ten hours, three fowths of the ice island was ground into fragments. One fourth of lee Floe Charlie - remaining. Just as we had ot on the other, on; theee'scientists have an airstrip leveled off on the ice. And that strip has been breaking up, cut swiftly - fro ■ five thousand feet down to thirt7 seven hundred feet. And their only way out will be by plane. The latest word is from the Air force, that hurry up rescue operations are now under way, to take off - the twenty-eight man team. Also - to save as much scientific equipment as .J ossible, as lee floe Charlie - g,es to ieces. Later word - scientists have been taken off the crumbling ice island. They've been flown to alaska. 6 1 I DLE In a ~all Street brokerag firm, the mail clerk is no millionaire executive and ChPrles 1111e, work1n for White, W~ld and C mpany makes ixty-two do llars a week as mild and quiet a mail " clerk~ ou oan ma 1ne. Bu , in his modest home he had forty expensive suits of clothes 1n the cloLet and forty pairs of shoes. At the race track a big man. Betting heavily on the l orses. Of cours , you can guess the answer -- embezzlement. But, how could a ma11 clerk cheat the brokerage company out of half a million dollars 1n ~ en years? When he d P alt with nothing else but tamnsT That's the an~wer -- stamps. He r1 ~ed the stamp machine in such a fashion that he•d u;~a make off with five hundr ed dollars , orth o f stamps at a lip. Selling these - - to dealers at cut rate pr1cee. Unsuspec ed by the comp~ny - for ten y are. Only caught -- when he went too far. The stamp bill for December ■x•■ z• exorbitant. .fil!SSIA In Soviet Russia, Alexanderovich Geriskrimenko is the mana g er of a collective farm, who re p orted - an overproduction of eggs. Twenty eight percent - above the quota. Which would make him - something of a hero of S oviet agriculture. To d ay, theofficjal Communist news p aper, lsvestia, told how Moscow news re p orters made a trip to Alexanderovich Geriskrimenko's collective farm. lntendi to give Geriskrimenko a fine write up - p raising the over p roduction of eggs. When thl, got there, they found a first - class collective farm. Only one thing p eculiar - there were no chickens. Not a sin g le hen - anywhere. It would seem that Alexanderovich Geriskrimenko followed a n old Soviet p ractice - re p orting ~ togress - w h en there was none. But - Dick - y o u'd think - he'd h a ve a few chickens around. BOMB In London, for twenty years, pe o pl ~ ridiculed ~ dward Mahoney and his bo n b. He's an artist, and ~ay b e his imagination -- was over developed -- he kept telling every b ody who would listen -- that there w a s a bomb under the local fire station. Today, Mahoney eteted: It became a kind of neighborhood 3oke. Everybody RBked m e -- how my bomb wa~ doingT Mahoney showed the skeptics -- his diary. An entry for April Tenth, Nineteen Forty -- during the blitz of World War Two. Stating -- that a Nazi bomb fell and nev r exploded. In the diary - a sketch map showing the location. •1• m arking the spot. L cal officials paid so little attention to Mahoney and hie diary -- that they bu1lt a fire stat 1 ~ n at that exact place •x•. But Ma honey kept on t el11n~ about his bomb, u ntil finally -- William Hartley, chief of the Br1t1eh Army bo m b squad, t ou g ht m aybe they might BOB - 2 1nvect1 ate. They did, and today's news tells -- how, under the fire station, they have unearthed a two thousand pound bomb. Which they are now - - rem ving. Mahoney eye: "Nobody laughs any more -- except me. •