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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 27, 1957
Page
3
Wollstonecraft soprano from Albury wins the Amateur Hour contest in Australia and earns a 41,000 cheque from Lever Pty Ltd. Terry Dear acts as compere. She polled strong votes from a large audience, with other finalists to perform tonight and each other grand finalist to receive 100 pounds.
Four year old Winsom in of Ainslie nearly choked on a rubber feeding bottle toy on Christmas morning. Her father R Baldvin rushed her to hospital where she was examined and released unharmed after the incident occurred an hour before Christmas dinner.
Christmas revellers filled Algiers streets after a 18 month curfew lift. Troops manned advance posts as a thousand paratroopers were deployed to bolster security in Algeria.
Sturdy performance by Queanbeyan as Kis T Grade tops the tables with 29 points while Kingston trails on 26 and Ainslie 23. The report lists first grade batting and bowling leaders, second and third grade stats, and club championship totals across Northbourne Manuka and related clubs.
A car driven by Btasys Andryauskas of Junction Shaft collided with a detached trailer on the Cooma Road at Wilamsdale last night. Andryauskas sustained major front damage but no injuries were reported. The trailer, detached from Russell Keith Brown of Goulburn, sustained only slight damage.
A car overturned on the Federal Highway injuring Officer Robert Dixon 31 of Eucumbene Portal. Dixon suffered a fractured skull and possible internal injuries after a tyre blew out while Kenneth Coates of Robinson Croydon drove the vehicle. Six collisions occurred during the holidays with no injuries.
The United States Navy reported no trace of 17 missing crew members after a night search for a Super Constellation radar plane that crashed near Oahu. Four rescued and two bodies recovered. the ship carried 23 aboard and sank quickly amid heavy seas.
A Tokyo burglar who learned a new method from a comic strip evaded police briefly after robbing a house but was identified by a resident during the chase. The officer questioned the suspect as a girl from the home pointed out the thief’s route.
Sydney report says an 11 year old, William Stewart Chalmers of Beaconsfield Road North Auburn, drowned at a crowded Olympic Pool. He dived in and disappeared beneath bathers, was recovered to the bottom, given artificial respiration, died shortly after at Barrette District Hospital.
A coastal benzine laden ship named Clane Blanco exploded and burned near Salvador Brazil. Fourteen crew members aboard are reported killed with earlier figures of twenty dead including student passengers. The incident occurred at night off the South Atlantic port.
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