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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 04, 1961
Page
3
Ground operators at Muchea deny loss of critical Project Mercury records. NASA equipment supported the plan as Dakota air tests completed before official opening in March. Hulme confirms airborne exercises finished and accident on a routine transfer flight between Pearce and Edinburgh, S.A.
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery told Royal Warwickshire Regiment members he would leave the original surrender paper signed by the German High Command in 1945 to their regimental museum in Warwick after his death. He recalled a Commons row over withholding the document and said Winston Churchill defended his right to keep it.
A new rubbish dump had been opened at the old Deak in quarry according to a Department of the Interior spokesman yesterday. The dump off Mugea Road was closed yesterday afternoon.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a U S government scientist noting no proof of deliberate outbreaks but uncertainty about their origins. The piece argues crops could be targeted with biological methods at lower cost, citing limited crop warfare funding and potential Communist interest worldwide.
Canberra hosts a special meeting where about a dozen southern district agents established the Southern Districts council of the N S W Society of Real Estate Agents and Valuers. L Mooney elected first president with C Brierly addressing the gathering.
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