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SIMON/"ART OF SOUP" CONTEST: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH 11-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW BALESTIERI (bah-less-TE-EH-ree), WINNER OF CAMPBELL'S SOUP'S "ART OF SOUP" CONTEST TO FIND THE NEXT ANDY WARHOL. YOUNG MATTHEW WON BY SPELLING OUT THE CAMPBELL'S SOUP LABEL IN EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS.

Nestle Waters North America, recently renamed BlueTriton Brands, bottles 65 million gallons of Chaffee County spring water per year. The company’s contract to do so, which has been in place since 2009, is now up for renewal.

Writer JERRY STAHL. His new memoir is Permanent Midnight (Warner Bros). STAHL was a successful journalist, a scriptwriter for cult film classics like "Cafe Flesh," and "Dr. Caligari," who went on to write for the hit TV shows "Moonlighting," "ALF" and "thirtysomething." STAHL was also a junkie. His new memoir he writes, "You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success." Tobias Wolff says of STAHL's book, "An original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time."

WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH THOMAS MANN, DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENTAL STUDIES AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, ABOUT THE BATTLE FOR THE BUDGET THIS WEEK ON CAPITOL HILL...AND ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON STANDING TALL.

Daniel talks with CNN reporter Gary Striker who is in the Zairean town of Kikwit where there's been an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has killed at least 57 people since it resurfaced in March. Striker visited the hospital in Kikwit which he says is the epicenter of the outbreak. He describes what he saw.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH KEITH DEVLIN, DEAN OF SCIENCE AT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE IN MORAGA, CALIFORNIA, EDITOR OF "FOCUS," THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE MATHEMATICS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK MATHEMATICS - THE SCIENCE OF PATTERNS: THE SEARCH FOR ORDER IN LIFE, MIND & THE UNIVERSE, (PUBLISHED BY W.H. FREEMAN, A SUBSIDIARY OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.), ABOUT THE "GOLDEN AGE" OF MATHEMATICS. IN THE LAST THIRTY YEARS, SOME OF THE GREATEST MATH PUZZLES HAVE BEEN SOLVED.

We talk with visitors at the Vietnam War Memorial about their thoughts on the Vietnam War, which came to an end 20 years ago today.

Daniel Zwerdling talks to education researcher Gerald Bracey about the state of American education. Bracey feels, contrary to public opinion, that the education system is in fact doing very well. He says that the school system includes a more diverse group of students than it did 50 years ago and education standards compare very favourably with the rest of the industrialized world.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Actor, CLARENCE WILLIAMS III. He is best known as the bell-bottomed clad hippie cop on the "The Mod Squad." WILLIAMS is noted as a theater actor and Tony Award nominee. In addition, he has appeared in numerous TV shows such as "The Cosby Show" and "Hill Street Blues", and films such as "Purple Rain" and "Sugar Hill." WILLIAMS plays a mortician in the new action horror film "Tales From The Hood.