Egg Board move sparks retailer producer clash in Canberra
The Retail Traders' Association president Kevin Gale criticizes the Egg Board as coercive and violating free trade. Farmers' Paul Marton backs strong action, saying producers may force contracts while Canberra retailers pledge support to protect local consumption. Retaliatory measures and urgent meetings loom as signatories weigh contracts.
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Retail Traders’ Association
Kevin Gale
Egg Board
Paul Mortoiy
Canberra
Act
Gale
Marton
Belgium Strike Costs Nation Sixty Four Million
The Belgian strike, now nearly three weeks old, cost about 64 million pounds in 9 000 million francs according to Le Peuple. A Liege clash injured 75 people as soldiers police firemen and rioters clashed. Debris filled streets and paving stones piled up while riot police and paratroopers guarded the area. Saboteurs cut sails in a Liege Verviers tunnel causing a shutdown, police said.
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Belgium
Socialist Party
le Peuple
Liege
India
Riat
Verviers
Overseas Firm Moves In Protest
The General Manager of the firm R Bosch Australia Ltd Mr K Baumeister said by air from Germany to Sydney that Bosch would move its fuel injection pump manufacturing division from Clayton Victoria to Brazil where production costs and economic outlet were more favourable. He cited Australian tariff policies allowing British pumps to undersell local Bosch products in the Australian market despite a Tariff Board ruling granting protection. Bosch produced about £4 million of pumps at Clayton with £1 million exported and none locally.
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Australia
K. Baumeister
Air Fron
Germany
Sydney
Bosch
Claton
Victoria
Brazil
Baumeister
Clayton
Riverina Faces Severe Bushfire Danger Warning
Sydney reports the Weather Bureau issued a grave warning of bushfire danger in the Riverina district of NSW. Dry spell and high temperatures drive risk as forecasts predict very high heat through tomorrow and Tuesday, with dry grass intensifying threat.
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Syuney
Weather Bureau
Riverina
Nsw
Kennedy Has Food Surplus Plan for Freedom Fund
President-elect Mr. Sohn Kennedy outlined a plan to use American agricultural abundance to meet domestic needs and launch a Fund for Freedom program to aid development abroad. The remarks, reported by farm leaders and Orville Freeman, Agriculture Secretary, noted a January 26 national farm leaders’ conference in Washington.
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New York
Sungty
Ayap
Sohn Kennedy
Freeman
Kennedy
Agriculture
Washen
Laos seeks return of commission in Laos crisis
The report says Laos wants a Geneva Commission to approve signatories and contact the Laotian Foreign Minister. Moscow Radio dismissed US demands that the commission recognize Prince Boun Oum, while pro Communist forces report capture of Ban Ban and a rail link to North Vietnam. Lao officials announce an offensive to retake the Plain of Jars as American aid is released to cover December army salaries.
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India
Canada
Poland
Moscow Radio
Lang
Souvanna Phouma
Moscow
Radie
United States
Boun Gum
Souvannia Phouma
Wna
North
Ban Ban von
Plain of
Sars
Moonsen
North Vietnam
Bouyan_Norxsingt
Apeeegay
Yvangvien
Poe Vientiane
Plain of Jars
Laos
Vienty Ane
Violence and Fear Strikes Algeria Polling Station
A clash near a southern Algeria polling station left a French corporal and about 10 insurgents dead, with three soldiers and ten insurgents wounded. The incident on referendum day amidMoslem and European tensions follows insurgent attempts to disrupt vote and fear of abstention.
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Aflon
Algeria
American Associated
Algiers
de Gaulle
Australian to be spokesman for Hammarskjöld
An Australian, George Ivan Smith, is set to become the United Nations Secretary General Hammarskjöld’s official spokesman. He will likely replace Wilbur Foote and take the post of Director of Publications and Public Services. Smith previously headed the UN Office in London and led the Office of Public Information in maternal services.
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Dew Xukig
Ouuay
United Nations
Hammarskjoeld
George Ivan Smith
Ivan Smith
Wilbur Foote
Office of Public Information
Fe Fus
London
Five Die As Twin Engine Plane Crashes In LA
A twin engined plane struck powerlines and crashed at Los Angeles airport in flames. Five people were killed including the pilot and four passengers. Rescue teams confirmed the fatalities as first reports described the scene yesterday.
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United States
Los Angeles
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