DULLES L.T.-DBLCO. 'l'UBSDAY, OCT. 28, 1958 (Given by Walter Cronkite,L.T. in So.Pacific) At tonight•s dinner, given by the Pilgrims of the United States - Secretary of State Dulles sharing the platform with Prime Minister Diefenbaker of Canada. The two statesmen speaking in defense of - Canadian-American unity. Pointing out that COOlllUnist aggression - is a 0O11111On threat on both aides of the water. Secretary of State Dulles calling the northem ~ ! ~ ~ • ' * • • • • o n thiB continent - "a front unfr defense." Adding, that Americans and Canadians must always stand together - because or their faith in the same democratic ideals. r I DEBT The national debt has climbed - to its highest point in history. So says a Treasury report which puts the debt at - close to two hundred and eighty billion, eight hundred and fifty-two million dollars. That•s an increase or thirty million over the previous high - set in Nineteen P1fty-P1ve. Them reason tor the jwnp in the national debt - is bigger borrowing by the Trea&ury, to finance the budget. The borrowing has been necessary - because or a slump in taxes, due to the recession. J(IUIOSA - In Taipei, the belief is that an informal truce is shaping up - 1n the Formosa Strait. The reason for the belief - 1s a steadily decreasing intensity - in the bombardment by coaaun1st guns on the mainland. Up till dusk today, less than three hundred shells - had landed in the Quemoy area. This compares with daily barrages or around eigh1thouaand ■hells - while the talks between Secretary of State Dullea and Chiang Ka1-shek were going on. Mao Tse-tung has already proclaimed - a partial cease-fire. He•s guaranteed not to shell lat1onal1st supply vessels and landing beaches - on even numbered days. And be might silence his guns completely - without agreeing to any. formal truce. POPE - The way the Papal election ended in Rome today - came as no surprise. It was the third day of voting. Ten ballots had been cast - by the cGnclave or Cardinals. And always the same result - failure - announced.to the crowd outside by those familiar puffs or black Blloke. That aeant - a deadlock inside the conclave. 'l'he princes of the Catholic Church - unable to decide on one ot the favorites. And the feeling grew that the winner would have to be - a compromise choice. An elderly Cardinal - who would re tor but a few years. In short, a "caretaker Pope". Then clll8 the climax tor the crowd outside the Vatican. A wisp of white amoke, spiraling into the aky - announcing that the Church had a successor to Pius the 'flieltth. His identification followed - Cardinal Roncall1, patriarch of Venice - becoming Pope John the Twenty-Third. so let•s take a look at the new Pontiff. He•s seventy-six __ • 1ila■11lJ 111¥ chosen over the younger Cardinals. The conclave evidently expecte John the twenty-third POPE - 2 - to have a short reign - but long enough for some obvious candidate to emerge. The new Pope will help the next conclave - by naming more Cardinals. oai, t ~ ~ o • have the red hat - while the authorized number is seventy • • ..J..--,)~ Iii -•• ■■e famous for his good humor, and willingness to compromise. His specialty - the spiritual affairs or the Church. And that•s typical, too. we were told to look for a non-political Pope - unlike Pius the Twelfth, who struggled with international problems of diplomacy and war. Well, the success , or to Pius the Twelfth - is as non-political a candidate ~ ae you could find. John the Twenty-Third JI certain to reign as - a pastoral Pope. There•s an interesting note on the name he chose. The name_ John. The last 11 John 11 to sit on the Papal throne - John the Twenty-Second_ was a Frenchman. Card in al Roncalli became very pro-French_ when h i ; ~ ~ t h e Holy See in Parle.Hence his cho i ce of a title is a compliment to Fr ance. rIAMENT id Today•e opening or the British Parliament - was a mixture of tradition and novelty. The tradition was Her Majesty, the Queen - arriving amid the pomp and pageantry that have grown up over the centuries. He~NaJesty ,.,ore her state \ robes. on her head - the imperial crown - with its three thousand diamonds. Around her neck, a brilliant diamond necklace. On her collar - the Order or the Garter. Her MaJe~ty opened Parliament - amid a concourse of peers, wearing red robes tr1111118d with ermine. The novelty was - a television camera, picking up oereaoQ. every movement ot the 1 .-•••• Yor the first time in its seven hundred years - the opening or Palliament could be seen by millions outside the chamber. One novelty was so new - the QUeen forgot all about it. She addressed the gathering as "my Lorde, and members of the House or commons." Her MaJesty forgot that , for the first time_ there are Ladies sitting in the House of Lords. IJl'l'RO. TO RECORDING Tonight Lowell Thomas continues his description . of an amazing exploit of science - in the Par Pacific. Space rockets - used to study a total eclipse of the sun. Goo4 £Yeain1 •••17bo47: Again aJ Yoice la co ■ iDg to 7ou fro■ tbe ~outb Pacific, troa uancer lalaad. ln a aoaent 7ou will bear th• count-down and then tbefiriq oft~, first rocket••• sent into Outer ~pace to aate a atu1 of tb• ~un. A f•• 11ard• fro ■••• uDder the ••111•• ot two anti-aircraft 1un1, at a telephone, ataada Mr. Herbert rrledaaa, oae of the top 1oieatlat1 of ov •••al 111,aroh ~aborator, la Wasblnaton. lear hia Mr. talbott vbubb, a Pen17lYanlan - Princeton tralaed - alao ot the 1.1.~.; while tar below•• in the ••11 ot thl1 uaaaal poat-war ahlp the Point veflanoe, at th• rocket ooatrol panel, atanda their colleaau•, ur. John ~ladaa,, a Vir1inlan, along with a group of electronloa expert• fro• the 1.1.L. - Mlll liohola, Joe 1o■eoet, oob lreplia, Arl7n UDJlcter, and von ~rouaaeau. aen who opfrat• th• buttona, but seldoa i t •••r ••• a rocket tat• off. vr. ~indaa7 bol41 ln h11 hand what the7 call •The l•J to Paradl•••• The teJ tbat unllota ihe panel fro■ which th••• haa• rooteta are to be fi•••• Tb• alx 22-toot whit• ad ail••• rooteta, ■o•ated 1••• tbaa a bUMl•ed feet fro■ •• OD tbitbea91 ••tal f.liabt oeot. Tb• ahlp'• helicopter■ tbat ••• half ot tbat fll1bt ••ot, an4 oa which•• ha•• beea ■akl .. laa•erable lllabt1 bact aa4 forth to uaaa•• l11aa4, tbl1 ••••i .. •••oath• lalaa4, wltb ora••• to ata, t.!a••• utll th• rocket flrlq la••••; 10 the7 1 11 not be blon to •tta. The rootet1, ~J tbe •a,, ha•• beea per■ onallaed. That ia, a naM labia ... bloot le\tera baa b••· paiatN on each. Tb• rocat• th•u•l••• ar• whit• exoept for the 1li1teaiq no•• co•••• ua, roetet .. i• ••••41K MIEie for the ~•ptala'• wife. ua, la JU■ I PAU~ for th• two aoaa of the aan of aol•••• who u a da thl• a1tro-pbJ1iol1t proJeot; a third 11 oall•4 TO■uswro - r•■•ab•r her ia 1bit, ~•r10? another 1, aaaed tor J•••• Mitch••••'• •~Oo~r UffY, ia M1Xa • 3 South Paoiflo. AD4 the filttb baa what 1 bell••• la tbe ■01t appropriate•••• of thea all - ~Aul, TBOIIPMOI, tbe girl la ~oaeraet Mau1h••~• •tAll• who aa4e Jeaaae ••11•• aa4 ••••ral otbera •o fuo••· altboqb Meager 1alaa4 to th• ~olJ•••laaa i• Pua Pua,•• oa■• her• fro■ laae Pa10, oar laat atop. &a4 Paco P .. o ••• the aettla1 for •1&11•. ~o, thia al1bt7 rootet will be a aal•t• to da4le fboap1oa. Aad lt will ba•• to 10 •••• to ■ate•• ■•oh of a ••••atioa •• ~a41e aade o•t berel ,aob of tb••• rooketa la half-like aad balf•A•P• &-•-P. the iiea 11 tor the••••• t~• Ilk• half, to propel \he rooketa, la Jt aeooa4• ap to 5400 feet. At that polat the Ilk• f••l b•r•• oat aa4 tu bl•at noaei like 4ropa awa,, while it• tero• •••4• tbe •l••••r polate4 Alp oa ap \o 45,000 feet,••• th• fael of tb• &ap i1alt•• •• tak•• ower, p~opelllDI th• noket oa up to 80,000 feet, where it buaa out, b•t by wh•• the rocket no•• co•• will be b••••llq at tb• rat• of ?000 feet a aeooad, aa4 aowlaa into ~P• 0 • with •••uab ••locit1 - eaoqb toro• - to oarrJ it oa a total di1taaoe of 800,000 feet - 150 allea! ur. t'riedaaa baa J••t phoned vr. ~lndaa,, three deck• below ua, to ••loot the paael with Tbe •l•J to Paradiae•. The alren ia alr.eadJ warala1 ua! (BlillJ loa oaa bear tbe flaal ooaat-dowa. Liatea! (~oat - ~owa aad laploaioa) That eaplo1loa - ■dtle4 ~ eoa••• it waa reoor4•• bebla4 beaYJ 4oor1 oa the Maq ieaearob Laborato17 trail•• in tbe 1hip'1 lell tbree deot1 below, waa the flrlq ot the tirat roc~•t •••• •••t iato O•ter Hpace to pro•l4• •• witb ■ore taowle41• abo•t tb• Baa. AlreadJ al1aala are coaiag back fro• the iaatrueat• in the rocket. Ho it ••••• to have b••• a ooaplet• 1uooeaa. ~,v,n teat rooketa were tired beet in th• Stat••· Th•J all erked pert,otlJ. Thia ti•• OD a real project sia are to be fired, during thia total ecllp•• which at thi1 ao■eat baa turned da7 into niabt her• in th• south Pacific. The ecllp•• it11lt w.:. - 5 i one of the mosts ectacular henomenon i h a ve ever seen. Add to it the drama of this rocket ti~ing - well, l can't describe it. 1n my next 1'11 tell you how the remaining five rockets take off - whether any miss tire. And what do you do if one does? ~oes someone run down the flight ueck and give it a bang! At any rate 1 1 11 tell you more about how successful th expedition has been: how it has opened up a new era. ~o long.