L.T. DEL CO Tue s dav F b 8 ------------------L~ __ g_ry~r1_i_~_1 22 GOOD EVENING EVER YBO D Y: H sh in g t o n is all ago toni ght - certain th a t 1 e will have the Eisenhower nswer by thi s time tomorrow - or some hours e a rlier. Before noon - since the P re s i d ent h as s cheduled tomorrow's ¥hite House news confer e nce for ten thirty A.M., E s tern time. In o~her words, hi s usual news conference, on the usual day of the week, a nd at the usual time. Many are inter p reting this announcement as another indication - that he give an affirmative answer to run again. The argument of some observers is that if he p lanned to retire, would he not say so on a weekend? And thereby cushion the effect on the Stock Market? As it appears no w this all-important V hite House ne is conference w ill ta k e . lace not long after the i a r k et o p ens in Ne York. P ress Secretary Ha g erty today still I E O E - 2 __________ ..,..._..., e h i th t no one - iter lly O OE, no h a t the re i de nt' deci s ion i to be, r even hen he ill announce it?! Hep ed u an o ortunity to give G. O . . le"der even the faintest hint today when he conferred ith t emf r more than an hour On leaving the executive n s ion, they all told re p orters that the second term uestion was not even mentioned. o · . 1 C! n b s tatement 0 o l t r mlin to d t n w u 1 . Th r e 1 t e k - drew / lo of sn o m ocr C C ut et=- ecr t ~ d h s n 0 r nc t ay - th s m rely ivi the e ic n o 1 t f cts. e put tt tude this ay .•- eric and her ·e s tern al li S 0 1 li hat t e stru les of the past ten years - hav not een in vain. e h a ve compel! d th oviets to drop the S linist policy of - a r arid t rr r. ~ ec e :r~~d 1 hat we should not be complacent_( because Khrushchev could asily return to the old St linist policy - if 11e and his colle es thought they might CRASH e a r a yton, Ohio, a n ir Forc e bomber crashed. o su vivors - eleven lives lost. The giant plan e plunged into the home of Mrs. Medella Henderson, and exploded. Everything - turned into am ss of flames, bomber, house and all. Mrs. H e nderson, as it happened, was vacationing in Florid a . N body in the house - when the catastrophe occurred. CRASH -- Three hours later another Air Force bomber cr a · hed ne a r S edalia, i souri - four l ives o s t. Thi s one al s o hit a farm house. Two occu ants injured. F MISSILES In ashi ton today, the H t us vo ted more tha n fifteen million dollars - for res earch . O ne million - to improvE a "transonic" tunne 1. nd build an "atmosphere-entry simulator". Sounds mighty technical, but it's easy to explain in a ge neral way . Research - for th e development of an inter-continental missile. · ' hich would go speeding at super-sonfic velocity. So they must investigate problems of a missile - oing so fast. H e nce, the " transonic" tunnel. An inter-continental weapon would soar to a great altitude - virtually above the atmosphere. Plunging down a hundred thousand feet at the end of its flight. Re-entering - the atmosphere. Hence the "atmosphere-entry simulator", reproducing this condition. The mis si le w ould travel at fifteen thous P nd miles an hour. And a t such velocity the problem 1s - heat. Enough to melt mos t metals. or, at least, weaken them. One of the criti c al q u est ions_ in the d evel opment of what they call - th •1 II e ultimate weapon. EARTH UAKE ig teen da ys o , ebruary inth, there was a sharp earthquake in outhern C a lifornia. Which produced a spectacular effect - only no disclosed. By a party of scientists - DSIIDU returning from a remote area in Mexico, the peninsula of Lower California. Down there, in the desert, the trembler cracked open tho ground - a nd warm springs came flowing to the surface. tone point, there's a fissure in the desert - eighteen miles long and a foot wide.~ne o4the warm springs - is really a big one. Pouring forth water at the rate of more than five hundred gallons a minute. The water - at a temperature of eighty-one degrees. Indicating that it is coming from deep down in the rock. Heat, at a great subterranean depth, the water. So say the Scientists. MAYOR A urora, I linois, is havin g a politic a l rumpus. The Ton Cou ncil - demanding the resignation of the Mayor. W ho breathes defiance - sayin g he won't resign. The trouble - a letter th t M yor Paul E gan wrote - makin g a proposal to Soviet Russia. Ad dressing Deputy remier Mikoyan, he suggested that a couplf-hundred II#- American Mayors should make a trip to ~ Russi~ "in search of p e a c e ) ' ~ ~ . ' reviously, His H 0 nor · had angered the 'Town F a thers - in various w ays. His election - a stunning surprise. He was on the Unemployment Compensation Rolls, when the citizens voted him in as Mayor. Whereupon, he announced - that heavy trucks would be kept outf Aurora. And had police barriers put up - to e nforce his e d i ~ ~ e d to fire his Chief-of- Po lice - also the head of the State Commerce Commission. At the moment, he is being sued for libel by ~ i t y Commissioner. All of which was a heavy burden for the Town Council. The letter t Mosco w _ the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back t t the Mavor So.the City Fathers are trying o ous ......, - who refuses to be ousted. . ROBBER ------ Los Angeles re p orts - the arrest of a robber - a sacrel igiou s , bl asp hemous robber_ charged w ith looting church s - Only churches. The olice re ort Wesley Pond as confessing: "Every time I p ass a church, I get an uncontrollable urge. I iiust broke into churches." A few years ago, he went to San Quentin Prison - for church robbery. Released a couple of months ago, he went out and burglarized ten more churches. Until - caught. One episode - the most curious of all. The burglar tells how he went into a church, and was confronted - by a clergyman. He told the pastor he had come to pray for hel p , because he was without a job. The clergyman said - he'd help him. And went off - to p rocure some money. Whereu p on, the burglar robbed the poor box - getting three dollars. The pastor came back, and gave him seven dollars - Christian charity. ROBBER - 2 -------- You'd thin that oul d have touched the conscience of the church robber. And it did - in a w E\Y . Later , he re p aid the s even do 11 a rs - b u t ' e p t the thre e dollars he had stolen from the oor box. TREAS a ca , I l linois , a l a e r as on reasur e hunt - i n an ol ous . C as xe cuto r - for s ecel a c roed e , o died a t the a e of sev e nty-si x . In the house, every hing s o out - of - date , it as ei rd. I a b r oom on the s eco nd floor, the lawyer pushed a side a d resser. B e hind hich - was a curtain. Drawing the curtain aside, he sa w - a small door, a secret entrance. Oo ening the door, he found a hidden room - with a treasure trove of the old and obsolete. Heaps of coins, eome dating back a hundred years. Coins - that have not been in circulation within the memory of living man. Copper half-pennies - and three cent pieces. Thus far, sixty-five hundred dollars in cash has been found. lso - many pairs of shoes. The old high button fashion. Which wo men wore - once upon a time. Valentines, dated ineteen Hundred. Clipped out advertisements from ' ,' Chicago stores, _ whi c t ad been out of business for\fifty years. MiBB 8eAPOOOOP leet3t e11't@e~ ea1se TREAS U R E - 2 -------- In her will, Miss Cece l ia Schroeder left one hundred dollars each - to eleven s econd cousins. But not one enny - Henry - to nine first cousiijs. She sure w a s odd. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: W a sh ington is all a g o g toni ght - certain th a t · e will have the Eisenhower a nswer by thi s time tomorrow - or some hours earlier. Before noon - since the P re sid ent ha s scheduled tomorrow's White Bouse news conference fo r ten thirty A.Y., E tern time. In o~her words, his usual news conference, on the usual day of the week, and at the usual time. Many are interpreting this announcement as another indication - that he give an affirmative answer to run again. The argument of some observers is that if he p lanned to retire, would he not say so on a weekend? And thereby cushion the effect on the Stock Market? As it appears now this all-important ~ hite House ne 1 ~ conference w ill ta k e lace not long after the Ma rket opens in New York. P ress Secretary Ha g erty today still EI ENHO W ER - 2 ---------- em ha s i z e s th t no one - literally NO ONE, knows what the P re s ident' s decision is to be, or Pven when he will announce it!! He passed u p an o ortunity to give G.O. P . leaders even the faintest hint today when he conferred with them for more than an hour . On leaving the executive m a nsion, they all told re p orters that the second term uestion was not even mentioned. DULLES er tary o · 3tat Du l ls st nds by his s tatement - t ha t our forei poli y has 11 com pe ed the K r emli n to adopt a ~~ n ew peac ful 1 ne . Th at opinion, expressed l as t week - drew a A, lot of snipi from D emo cr tic c ritics . But ea.. Secret~d his news co nference today - that he a s merely iving the American pe o p l e th e f a cts. He put hi s a ttitude this way:- America a nd her estern allies should r ea li ze that the struggles of the p a st ten years - have not been in vain. We have compelled the ~oviets to drop the S alinist policy of - war arid terror. ~ S e c r e t a r 1 ~ ~ d 1 that we should not be complacent.( because Khrushchev could easily return to the old CONVI CT ------- At ug a r la nd, Tex as ' ix convict s shot their way out of t ri son t od ay. Fleein g f rom th e c e ntr a l Teaa s p rison farm. T he e d er, o ne l lvin e tt s - des cribed as " Ad ngerous cri m in a ln, s erving t h irty-five years for robbery a n d assault. The convicts over- p owered a guard, took his gun, l e p ed into the p rison truck, and sped away as the other g uards O ? e ned u with their guns. The truc k wa f ound abandoned later - the convicts stealing a r ncher' s auto. Tonight, Texas p olice a re on the al ert, setting up road-blocks. During the day, a p lane scouted the area - without seeing any trace of the missing men. COM MER CIA ........ ------- The Briti h - y o u have h e a r re trying out o u r A merican s y s tem of commercial T. L r e cently, t h e BBC shunned commercial s . U ntil Now they have come u · with a ro g ram that h a s to do 1 ith the most revered of all the cl ass ics of English literature - Shakes p eare's "Hamlet". The p lay - cut for T. V. - cut to ninety minut e s. Sections of "Hamlet" ut together carefully - by Shakespeare scholare And t h en p ut on BBC T.V. Bow did it go over? Well, it ended with Hamlet there de a d on the stage, with Fortinbras s p eaking the final oration over the dead Hamlet - a t which point suddenly the voice of the b k · Sa1·d he: "I'm afraid we must announcer roe in. leave Hamlet." Whereupon there followed - what? You've guessed it - a si ngin g commercial, telling the T.V. audience about the virtues of somwthing. t l ·n a of thin g J·u s t wasn't done U to now th a in Britain! Follo w Shakespeare with a singing com- mercial? The Prince of Denmark there dead on the T.V. stag e a n a jolly s in in g commerci 1 comes o n!! Henry, c an yo u im a ine the furo re in ~ n l _ nd today LTP.1956.02.28i.pdf LTP.1956.02.28ii.pdf