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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 19, 1968
Page
1
In Wahroonga Sydney a Catholic priest Dr R J Batten said he would deny communion to Catholics who publicly defied the popes encyclicals. He will refuse until they retract and cited a Wahroonga group who wrote to a Sydney newspaper to protest birth control encyclical.
A speeding motorist, driving a stolen utility truck, crashed through a Kahibah home lounge and into a TV scene while children watched. He fled after threatening officers, escaping through a bedroom window. a separate Sydney incident saw two armed men flee a crash on Georges River approaches. Local police hunted the suspects. one was captured.
Local law officials announce eleven Papuan and New Guinean graduates will become magistrates in Territory courts later this year. Minister for External Territories Mr Barnes said the magistrates come from a local training scheme started in 1966, marking a step toward indigenous control of justice.
Late news from Da Nang describes a 170 strong force requiring military police to quell rioting as fear spreads of further clashes on a second riot this week. In Canterbury, Australia trails Kent by four runs with Walters top scoring and Chapell dismissed for 52 as rain disrupts the match.
Kremlin denounces liberal anti socialist forces as doomed to failure while Czech Premier Oldrich Cernik signals possible loans from Western banks and World Bank. Pravda reports workers seek Soviet troops and slights Western interference as editors pledge restraint ahead of September party congress. Ceauşescu ends Prague talks with a 20 year friendship treaty and support for reformist reforms.
The Channel 7 telethon raised 6500 for Outreach, short of last year’s 12000. Outreach president C Hermes cited waning appeal and ongoing fundraising as reasons, while ACT MP J R Fraser noted people lack money. Outreach runs a Lyneham home for boys and hoped to start another with this year’s funds.
A 33-year-old woman and her 15-year-old daughter survived by clinging to an upturned boat for more than 15 hours in shark infested waters off Gatakers Bay near Maryborough. Their husband, William Harold Norman Slatter, 35, remained missing after setting off with a five gallon petrol tank to seek help when their 16 foot boat was damaged by a rock. A full scale sea and air search failed to locate him. The women were hospitalized in exhaustion but reported in satisfactory condition.
Army doctors at Walter Reed General Hospital reported intensified concern over Dwight Eisenhower's condition as heart attack complications continued intermittently. The former president remains alert and resting while wife Mamie and son John stay nearby.
Prince Tim a five year old gelding owned by Ken Kerr of Yass was withdrawn from the Progressive Handicap at Canberra Racecourse after a stablehand reported possible doping. Fine Steel won the race by walk over after jockey Ray Bouch rode three furlongs. Police were summoned as the stewards investigated after saliva and urine swabs were ordered from Prince Tim.
North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces opened a new wave of assaults across South Vietnam ending a two week quiet. Heavy mortar and rocket barrages struck near the Laos and Cambodia borders and targeted American and government units. In Tay Ninh province fierce street fighting and tank movements surrounded the provincial capital as allied positions near the Cambodian border faced coordinated attacks and a strategic US radio relay station was overrun.
Across the country the heaviest fighting in four days marked an apparent end to a Vietcong lull in ground combat. In Tay Ninh province near the Cambodian border two enemy battalions, possibly around 1,000 men, were involved. US forces reported four captured bunkers and a relay station housing equipment used to guide allied aircraft, with ongoing shelling of nearby airfields and confrontations at Katum camp. Australian troops also began guarding the provincial capital as heavy artillery rained on surrounding countryside. The clash follows debates in Washington over Hanoi’s sincerity at the Paris talks and the broader war’s trajectory.
Vietcong assassins slipped into Ap Suoi Nghe near Nui Dat and slit the throats of the village chief and his deputy in monsoon rain. A 19-year-old girl was abducted as villagers found the bodies at dawn. Australian officers visited the hamlet and offered 1000 piastres for funeral costs as authorities blamed the Vietcong for a second killing this year.
Interstate visitors favour Inke.
The Labor Party Leader Mr Whitlam advocates further planned cities. The report notes the suggestion appears on page three with ongoing urban policy discussion.
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