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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Apr 30, 1963
Page
5
Princess Beatrix undertakes an extensive goodwill tour visiting major cities across the United States and Canada. She attends official functions, meets officials, and promotes bilateral relations during the multi nation visit.
Western Australia Native Welfare Minister Mr. Lewis urged no distinction between native and white drinkers under proposed laws. He plans legislation to grant Aboriginal access to liquor and to rename the Native Welfare Act and Department, removing the word native.
An American expedition plans a two man summit attempt on Mount Everest by Wednesday following the 1953 pattern. Sherpa porters may accompany the climbers as they approach 29,028 feet from 26,200 feet via the South East ridge in a bid to reach the summit.
A freight train derailment in Pennsylvania yesterday wrecked 23 cars three tanker cars containing gas ignited a fire and explosions injuring at least 15 people. About 140 residents were evacuated as a precaution and four firefighters suffered facial neck and hand burns.
United Press International reports heavy fighting in Vietnam with 26 Government soldiers wounded and 57 missing. A sergeant becomes the 80th American to die there. Viet Cong overran a coastal outpost near Quang Ngai, while a helicopter was downed at Da Nang with injuries. Mon tana grd tribesmen and Viet Cong attacked Do Xa, 40 miles northeast of Kontum, as Government forces pursue a major offensive and hamlet building program faces possible sabotage.
Reports from Noumea say ninety percent of Wallace Island’s population in French Polynesia are ill with influenza and deaths are rising. The outbreak is described as severe with high mortality.
Twenty three deaths occur in two weeks on Wallis Futuna but the island’s annual death average is about sixty. The virus reportedly reached Futuna, where only one doctor serves the population. The island group lies 200 miles west of Samoa between Samoa and Fiji and is administered from Noumea.
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