14 Aug 1962
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 14, 1962
Page
1
Soviet space effort targets space stations as Major Andrian Nikolayev and Colonel Pavel Popovich complete 35 and 19 orbits respectively. The twins passed the possible landing point and are expected to continue their mission for another night and morning.
Soviet space experts discuss launching large artificial space bases to relay ships and provide crew relief and supplies. They cite improved communications between ships and future interplanetary stations, noting the successful Vostok launches and ongoing health, radiation, and physiological measurements of cosmonauts.
Commanding Officer of the hired battalion Royal New South Wales Regiment CME Colonel W L Speight visited Werriwa C Company Canberra based section of the Third Battalion. Speight assumed command July 1 this year when former commander Brider James McCarty went to the Reserve. He told a C Company parade the first 1963 camp would be held at Holsworthy from February 10 to March 3.
Joi Tyndall Deputy Leader of the British National Socialist Party is shown grappling with a bloodied man during clashes that broke up a Nazi camp near Guiling Power in Gloucestershire last Tuesday. The confrontation followed Home Secretary Henry Brooke's order to deport George Lincoln Rockwell, the self-styled American Nazi leader, from Beijing, who spent the weekend at the camp.
Australia backs Thailand, saying no offence was intended by ANU refusal to confer an honorary degree on King Bhumibol during his Canberra visit. Bangkok criticizes the move as cowardly and anti Asian, while Thai students weigh transfer options amid debates over the university’s stance.
New York Monday report says a jetliner with 3B passengers and an exhausted crew landed at a small suburban airfield in Trendale, Portland area, instead of the international airport 10 miles away. United Airlines spokesman Captain Bipple attributed the pilot’s confusion to misrouted airstrips.
A man identified as Viado Presovic is in critical condition at Community Hospital after a late night motor crash at the intersection of Angus Street and Acir Drive Wakefield Avenue in Ainslie. A jeep driver, Ernest Shoobert, and another occupant, Matthew Shaobert, were uninjured. The collision also involved Wakefield Avenue and Sherbrooke Street.
Massive crowds along the Berlin Wall clashed with East German forces as West Berlin residents voiced fury at the barrier. Police deployed tear gas and water cannons while guards and tanks stood by on both sides. Washington and Moscow lined up discussions on the German crisis as Brandt vowed lasting memory of those affected.
A man was arrested after a car theft in Goulburn during the night. The vehicle had been reported stolen from behind Ansett-A.N.A. buildings in City at 8 32 p.m. A taxi driver told police at 8 40 p.m. he saw a car matching the description refuel in Mort Street. The detainee will appear in Goulburn Court today.
Francis Page, a 44 year old PMQ technician and Reid House manager, was found dead in his room on Friday morning. A doctor reported no toxin traces in the bloodstream and police see no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
Kenichi Horie, a 23 year old Japanese mechanic, sailed a 19 foot boat from Nishinomiya on Osaka Bay on May 12 aiming to reach San Francisco to study English for two years. He endured five storms, lived on rice beer sake and fish, and sighted land only upon reaching San Francisco. Immigration officials took him to the Japanese Consulate due to lacking a passport.
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