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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 21, 1958
Page
11
Weather report for Canberra and region notes barometer readings and temperatures across the day with a mild warm trend and light winds. A long list of local births, obituaries, and social notices follows including engagements, new arrivals, and memorials. Minor classified items on painting and job adverts appear later in the page.
Detectives, led by Acting Chief Gully, seek a man woman and child travelling in a 1938 black Dodge with a battered caravan. Victims Mia Bow man 46 and daughter Wendy 16 from Glen Helen Station and Thomas Whelan 22 of Unley Park were found shot and battered on December 13. Five BA detectives pursue in Northern Territory with two crossing into Western Australia as police broadcast details of the car and its occupants.
A chaotic exchange involving rival jets in Taipei as tensions flare between opposing forces. Officials confirm an aerial incident near Taiwan Strait with no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
Herbert Mur Pa Kt nn ark pleaded guilty at Canberra petty sessions after police evidence placed him at the scene of a car crash near Entworth Arena on Burt Street. He appeared unsteady with slurred speech and offered no account of the collision. He admitted being under the influence after leaving Queanbeyan where he had been visiting friends.
Lithgow Hospital treated two war-accident casualties today. One man from Stewart Street ran with a wooden skewer in his mouth when an arm tied to a former RAAS boxer Stan Bolt of Finlay Avenue Lithgow caused a bang. Bolt, a Lithgow RSL Club steward, was tapping a new keg when the bang struck Bob in the eye requiring urgent treatment.
Sydney report states diesel electric locomotives average nearly four times the yearly mileage of steam engines. Commissioner for Railways Mr McCuskersaid presented data today. A decision to scrap steam locomotives for routes workable with diesel or electric power is under consideration as experiments continue.
Pirates pursue recovery of 3428 pounds at sea off BI on January 7 as helpers assist in reclaiming part or all of the money, with a plan to forward funds to Malaya. It notes an 8 lunch interruption at a motor camp where a figure was fed, and the incident involves intervention by others.
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