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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 01, 1963
Page
5
A New Year reflection on Canberra as Australia’s forward capital. The piece notes Canberra’s evolving role in world affairs and national policy, urging citizens to recognize ongoing changes shaping the city and its responsibilities in a broader global context.
A Canberra resident recalls a 1962 blackout incident when a phone box lamp failed, urging better street and phone box lighting. He notes pedestrians and motorists suffer injuries at poorly lit kerbs and uneven paths and criticizes high lamp post heights and ineffective lighting.
Correspondents are reminded that letters to the editor should bear the writer's name and address. If a nom de plume is required it should be appended.
Victoria looks to an underground railway as the cure for a traffic tangle. Government officials note monorail ideas and overseas reports, while other leaders urge engineers abroad to study mono-rail systems as alternatives.
The piece analyzes Jomo Kenyatta’s grip on Kenyan politics as independence nears. It contrasts white settlers’ fear and Africans’ nationalist reverence, noting Kenyatta’s age, public aura, and doubts about his involvement in Mau Mau. It cites official views and scholarly debate on his influence and leadership.
A 1961 portrait of Kenyatta amid Kenyan independence talks shows whites fearing a Kikuyu dominated government and land shifts. Kenyatta promises land development for farmers and citizenship, while internecine party struggles and concerns over Mau Mau resurfacing loom as decolonization nears.
The passage traces Jomo Kenyatta’s origins in the Kikuyu lands near Nairobi born c1890 amid British colonial expansion. It notes white settlers seizing land, affording vast farms, while Africans claim the land was not vacant, fueling Mau Mau grievances. Kenyatta rose as president of the Kenya African Union.
San Francisco reports Alcatraz will be phased out as a federal prison by 1963. Warden Olin Blackwell notes inmate numbers at 212, one of the lowest in history, with transfers to Atlanta Leavenworth Terre Haute Lewisburg and Philadelphia as the system shifts to Marion Ohio. The 1962 bank robbery escape spurred the decision, highlighting crumbling concrete and a broader cost-cutting plan announced by Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
Moscow reports that a top Soviet scientist says a first manned moon flight could occur in 1963 or 1964. Professor Anatoly Blagonravov noted the period of minimum solar activity, the year of the quiet sun, makes such flight medically feasible.
Dr. Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, a leading philosopher, died in Baltimore after a long illness. He was 89 and renowned for his history of ideas and theory of knowledge. His landmark work was The Great Chain of Being and he authored works on Human Nature and Reason, The Mind, and Time.
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