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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 22, 1950
Page
3
The OCR listing catalogs multiple radio time slots and program titles such as Bible readings, news, music, children's programs, and remarks on child eye coordination. It reads like a station timetable with entries for reads, devotions, broadcasts, and lectures, without coherent narrative.
Canberra reports say Australian occupation force withdrawal could affect personnel in Japan. Correspondent tours camps near Kure finds many married men hopeful wife and families may join, noting cost hurdles and government position. Frewen family home shows modern Army furnished housing. locals and servicemen express mixed views while general sentiment notes easing tensions but uncertainty remains.
In a New York dispatch the piece argues that early 20th century health actions catalyze global unity. It traces international cooperation from failed early conferences to the creation of the World Health Organization and a worldwide epidemiological network enabling rapid disease awareness and safer cross border exchange. It notes shifts from defensive controls toward broader offensive health measures and highlights global interdependence.
A truncated theatre listing notes Ingrid Bergman stars in a Joan of Arc production at Tropical Theatre. The program includes a variety of curtain entertainment and short features as part of the current bill.
A collage of eccentric stories and historic vignettes from Australia and New Guinea. It mentions Mary Smokes Creek in Queensland, Bishop Arkfeld of Lae, diver J E John with dramatic ocean exploits, and Canberra’s aborigine lore. Also notes a railway ghost train in Perth, a red flag law, the Tasmanian Garth house tragedy, and a menacing unfinished homestead monument.
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