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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 03, 1957
Page
6
The readable text mentions voting in London and various names and figures. It references a party context and a plausibly electoral setting with costs and totals, though most details are garbled.
Reports say the Cabinet plans to push bank legislation as Senate debate resumes this week. Parties discuss recommitting the bill while opposition cites obstacles and a recent defeat of a related measure.
Moscow radio reports the Panamanian registered freighter Ni kitag K gank sank in a Black Sea storm on Saturday with the captain and five crew members dead. The Soviet tanker Makh Ach Kala rescued eight crewmen and one lifeboat after receiving distress signals.
Dr Theodore von Karman, senior NATO missile adviser, said the American doctrine of massive retaliation might be outmoded due to Soviet missile advances. He warned a surprise nuclear strike could potentially knock out NATO bases, while questioning current accuracy of Russian intermediate range ballistic missiles.
Comedian Jerry Lewis raised 700000 dollars on a late night TV show for macular dystrophy treatment and research. The broadcast featured few guest appearances and aired yesterday.
Alex Gabriel, once a Hungarian freedom fighter now in Britain, seized his two year old son from his wife Edith in a Paris street after she tried to take the child to Hungary. Edith Horvath, daughter of a Hungarian deputy defense minister, was treated for shock and ordered to leave France. Gabriel was arrested for causing a public scene but later released. the couple reconciled and returned to London.
Arbitration inquiry heard shipowners warn stoppage harms Australia’s economy with 34 ships idle in Sydney, 40,000 tons awaiting discharge. The Waterside Workers Federation contested the union’s obligations while three ships continued under the authority’s policy, leaving 1,800 watersiders out of work.
A Hungarian migrant Laszlo Bogner of McKeahnie Street Queanbeyan drowned in the Queanbeyan River while swimming near the weir on Sunday afternoon. Three friends dived to help but tired from the effort. His body was recovered and an inquest is set for Thursday in the Queanbeyan Coroner's Court.
Eight children aged two to twelve perished early yesterday when their home in Sherbrooke, about 100 miles east of Montreal, was destroyed by fire.
Two drivers escaped injury after capsizes within a quarter hour last night. A skid caused the first crash between two utilities driven by David Maxwell Edwards of Duffy Street Ainslie and George Albert Millyan of Moorehouse Street O Connor. Edwards’s vehicle overturned. The second incident involved a panel van driven by Norman Leslie Gehrig of Jarrah Street O Connor whose van slid on loose gravel and rolled over. Gehrig managed to exit onto the bitumen. Both vehicles sustained heavy damage though Gehrig’s loss was less than feared.
Amateur photographers show interest in a night picture of the Causewity site published in The Cumberland Times yesterday. The photo was taken about 745 pm by Mr C Meade using a single lens 35 mm reflex camera. The fast film used was forced development.
Two Australian destroyers Voyager and Warramunga are set to arrive in Australia on dates in February after departure from Tobruk. They will land in Melbourne and Sydney respectively.
Reports from Oran say insurgents who struck near Montgardier, east of Oran in Western Algeria, burned a Muslim woman alive in front of her family before killing her husband. Security forces killed 26 insurgents and captured two during destruction of an insurgent transit camp in the coastal hills.
American rocket engineers prepared to fire the Vanguard mission to place a six inch satellite into Earth orbit. The launch hinges on favorable weather with light winds and clear skies.
Fourteen poliomyelitis cases have occurred in the Wewak area over six weeks and four cases including one death in the Lae area. All Lae patients are natives, with a European nurse among Wewak victims. Health authorities push vaccination to contain the outbreak.
Lauteka sugar mill workers struck this morning for the third time this crushing season. They protested mill owners failure to dismiss two overseers and demanded action to end what they call improper management.
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