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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 05, 1961
Page
2
The German Ambassador and Frau Muhlenfeld left Canberra yesterday for five months of home leave in Germany, returning after Christmas. They were bid farewell by officials and colleagues.
In a July 28 interview in the Dutch West Indies with AP reporter Gerald Bartell, Yuri Gagarin said he felt he had a very good chance of reaching the moon but gave no timeline. Bartell noted it was the first private AP interview with Gagarin. He added Gagarin hoped to visit the United States and meet the American people.
Thomas McKenna former Glasgow Corporation town planner and Durham University honours graduate travels with his wife and two sons Andrew and Russell. He notes department store multi storey car parks as a rising trend in town planning with fees refunded on purchase. An Indonesian student Peladjar Wismanto arrives en route to the Indonesian Embassy to study poultry farming in Australia for about three years.
A Newcastle clerk, Colin Ernest Cunneen aged 45, was jailed for five years after pleading guilty to 65 charges of falsifying entries in scrap iron and steel invoices, involving 13 722 pounds. Co‑defendant Patric John O’Connell, 19, received 12 months and was ordered to pay 922 pounds compensation to the BHP after serving his sentence.
Journalists concern unemployment in Sydney area prompts a Canberra meeting called by the Australian Journalists Association. In the past week 41 journalists, photographers and artists received notices from Sydney papers, bringing New South Wales jobless total to 64. President Gordon Baroyne called it a serious matter for journalists everywhere.
A year old Jerrina-prazier spent his birthday in an iron lung in Sydney. The grazier Athol Bush was brought in on an iron lung 137 miles from Gowburn Hospital to Print Henry Hospital. Bush had been stricken with poliomyelitis five weeks earlier. He said he had spent birthdays in queer places before but none as strange as this.
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