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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1960
Page
3
A four year old girl, Margaretta Cummins, was struck in the throat by a .22 calibre rifle bullet and survived by inches. The incident occurred outside her Melbourne home as a rifle club match took place about 300 yards away. She remains in satisfactory condition at Williams Town Hospital.
Canberra Com ments warned the economy faces rising unemployment as domestic production cuts limit job opportunities for a growing workforce. It noted 1959 60 buoyant conditions added 100 000 workers and projected similar growth, urging both State and Federal governments to share responsibility for reducing excessive expenditure to solve the problem.
More than 200 Canberran old-age pensioners attended the annual pensioner's Christmas party at the Canberra Workmen's Club. Saturday marked the eighth such event with hired buses collecting attendees from their homes. After a meal, the pensioners staged an impromptu concert.
An Atlas missile nose cone with a small conventional explosive was detonated in Eniwetok lagoon after a 4384 mile flight from Van Denberg Air Force Base California. General Thomas Power said the test lasted 27 minutes and showed that intercontinental ballistic missiles could compress their time to reach targets in combat to a remarkably short interval.
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