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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 26, 1966
Page
3
Fragmentary text mentions teams and players with garbled names. Key entities are unclear but reference to a setting involving a game or sports event and a rough lineup of participants. No coherent outcome or date is recoverable from the readable portion.
Dr Alfred Bloom told the Haematology Congress in Sydney that exposed Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims show no overall ill health. He cited cytogenetic tests on 24 bomb victims and a control group of 94 unexposed people, noting no consistent genetic damage in offspring and a still elevated leukemia rate only 5 to 10 years post explosion.
George Skellern of Miranda wins the 360,000 first prize in the B Jackpot Lottery for the second time in eight years. The 400 year old retiree expresses relief and humor noting the prior 60,000 win and the air broadcast of the winning ticket.
Roads closing for ten weeks from next Thursday include Adelaide Avenue Novar Street Yarralumla and Kent Street Deakin to traffic. Detours go via Hopetoun Circuit Weston and Guilfoyle Street while construction of the Woden Park Valley overpass proceeds. Traffic to Kent Street or Novar Street to Yarralumla will detour via Kent Street to Hopetoun Circuit and Me Gregor Street to the Woden Valley Crescent.
Melbourne reports representatives of the National Farmers Union of Australia and the Australian Primary Producers Union agreed on joint action on tariff questions and quality standards of rural products. The meeting, chaired by NFU president J R I McAuley and APPL president J P Heffernan, also noted World Trade talks and unity discussions among related bodies. Twenty five delegates attended.
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