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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 06, 1958
Page
3
Incomplete OCR fragment hints at a chemical oromic solv problem. high level terms suggest cooling and temperature control as part of the procedure. No person or organization names are readable to confirm specifics.
Fragmentary文本 mentions a probe related to water vantage and a reactor conversion. Unclear entities or outcomes due to garbled OCR. No definite persons organizations places or dates can be reliably identified.
Surf season brings a string of rescues along New South Wales beaches from Sydney to Kiama. Lifesavers report bluebottles and strong rips as 150000 beachgoers visit despite cool weather. Cadet Barry Crofts 15 is treated after a bluebottle sting at Bronte while others are revived or treated for stings. Bondi had one girl needing ambulance care after a wave collapse. Freshwater and Maroubra also report multiple rescues with varied medical needs.
Theo Richer of Hart Street, O'Connor, sustained a foot wound when a garden fork, jabbed into the ground, struck his foot as he jumped from a fence into the path of the implement. He was taken to Cinberra Community Hospital for treatment.
The Associated Chambers of Manufactures warns Australian unions against pushing a 35 hour week. In Canberra Letter bulletin it argues that 40 hours remains prudent amid competitive conditions and that the full impact of the 40 hour week is not yet felt. It cites a British 44 hour week and warns that reducing hours could cost Britain and Australia money and threaten good times without increased effort.
Egypt and Australia will begin discussions on sequestrated Australian property in Egypt, a Finance Ministry spokesman said in Cairo. The property value is estimated at about New Coin. Offends Indians in Canada as a death totem pole is depicted on a centenary silver dollar, prompting a boycott by Canada Indians. Lieutenant General Sir Henry Wells to retire in March after final annual Army exercise at Queenscliff, with A R Garrett set to succeed. Britain seeks permission to build three Saat fighter planes for radar and heat research, after government rejection of rocket-jet interceptors. U S Air Force forms first Thor and Jupiter missile training units for use by American and NATO forces. A secret helicopter landing site near Vice President Nixon’s home is established for rapid evacuation in a national emergency.
Sydney reports reveal ALP officials expected Alan Manning to resign after a dispute with DLP secretary J T Kane over the Wagga by election. Campbell and others say Manning confirmed Kane’s conduct and the DLP’s sectarian stance, noting Manning’s resignation signals the party’s decline.
The Democratic Labour Party lost four executive members after their December meeting as J T e confirms. Aboud the clothing maker and Osbourne the journalist resigned, joined by Arthur Butler of Butler Air Transport and Bolton the works manager. Butler declined further comment.
Builders halt progress payments, delaying a £57,000 hospital wing and £80,000 nurses home at Gosford. Nurses are idle, patients crowded in aisles as A C Robertson reports unpaid work. Officials at the Hospitals Commission blame the Public Works Department and promise inquiry.
Three carriages of the Trans Australian express from Port Augusta derailed this morning 80 miles from the South Australian border. Eight coaches were left on the line and 150 passengers crowded into six coaches for the 400 mile trip to Kalgoorlie. The express was delayed about six hours. About 100 yards of track received damage.
PERTH Sunday a 17 year old youth drowned at Garden Island while spearfishing in 12 ft of water using a hookah breathing apparatus. The victim, named John William Lynch, is an apprentice butcher from Bayswater. He was diving from a launch when the accident happened.
Dr. Nowinski a 52 year old Polish scientist specializing in thermo elasticity and metals under temperature changes was granted U S asylum. He published over 60 articles and is noted for Russian work in the field. His wife Maria and their seven year old daughter, both in England, are also slated for asylum.
An elderly man, Harold Brown aged 91 of Gladstone, was killed in a head-on crash on Scotts Head Road seven miles from Macksville. Brown was a passenger in a car driven by his nephew Winston Stuart Brown of Gladstone. Winston Brown survived. The wife suffered a fractured pelvis, and other injured include Mrs Maslin of Gladstone with head injuries, Mrs Wilson of Stuarts Point with head injuries, Ekin 18 of Macksville, and Miss Wilson, injured daughter, all treated at Macksville District Hospital.
A car collided with a street lamp on Commonwealth Avenue in the early hours. Canberra police were notified at about 8.30 am. The driver Barry James Welan of Capitol Hill Hostel was taken to Canberra Community Hospital with possible leg fractures and facial lacerations. The nearly new car was traveling south with no other occupants known.
Madrid reports quote Ava Gardner denying claims she was disfigured in a bull ring accident and requiring plastic surgery. She says she has instructed her lawyer to demand retractions from columnists who published the stories.
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