20 Apr 1963
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Apr 20, 1963
Page
1
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A conference atop Mount Kosciusko failed to resolve a dispute over the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Eight Kosciusko State Park Trust members and three scientists met with Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority Commissioner Sir William Hudson for an hour, but left unconvinced that the Kosciusko Dam Scheme was economically necessary.
NSW authorities and the Kosciuszko Trust clash over the Kosciuszko Dam plan and its 19 miles of aqueducts. Academics warn the project could damage the park’s science, with talks to be referred to federal and state governments for resolution.
High ranking neutralist officers report 13 killed as Phongsavan falls to Pathet Lao and dissident neutralists. Prince Souvanna Phouma accuses Pathet Lao of plans to destroy neutralist forces and reignite civil war by overrun of the plain near Vientiane.
Don Argyropoulos a 44 year old Greek miner working for Utah Constructions in Australia was killed underground in a 15 mile tunnel when a locomotive pulling six trucks passed and a rock fell from a truck overturning onto him crushing him against the mine wall. He had lived in Australia nine years and left a wife and young son in Greece. He had planned a visit to Greece soon.
Two men were slightly injured when two cars overturned in a collision at the corner of Boldrewood and David Streets, O’Connor. Drivers were B Scholt of Coral Place Campbell and G A Ganaschik of Blackbutt Street O’Connor. Scholt suffered scalp abrasions and his passenger W B Schalt scalp and right elbow abrasions. Both cars were heavily damaged.
A Canberra couple, George Soraka 23 and Irene Sonia Misko 20, were buried together at Fawkner Cemetery after a service attended by about 1,500 people from Melbourne's Ukrainian community. Childhood sweethearts engaged last Christmas, they died in a car collision near Kalkallo on the Hume Highway a week earlier while returning to Canberra from Melbourne.
The 20 million rail project will standardise gauges from Kalgoorlie to Perth and Broken Hill to Port Pirie enabling passenger and freight trains across 253 miles. Expected completion by early 1968, with negotiations ongoing on Western Australian and Victorian standardisation and compensation to Silverton Tramway.
Ansett Transport Industries Ltd announced it had bought a controlling interest in Macrobertson Miller Airlines. The chairman said all shares owned by Macrobertson Pty. Ltd. and Miller Investments Pty. Ltd. had been acquired. Remaining shares would be held by more than 800 Western Australia shareholders. Macrobertson Miller would continue under existing management with no staff changes.
Rioters in Paris attacked the Spanish Embassy as 52 year old Grimau, a clandestine Spanish Communist central committee member and former Barcelona Police Chief, was sentenced to death for alleged torture of rightists during the civil war. A British MP traveled to Madrid urging Amnesty intervention on his behalf.
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