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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 20, 1961
Page
1
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Pravda reports Russia is ready for talks on Berlin and other world issues. It warns West Germany is playing a dangerous game to obstruct a German Peace Treaty and to split the great powers.
A wartime climate is described as risky as Soviet media denounces Western threat while Kennedy plans to decide on a Berlin approach. Western papers call for negotiation amid calls for peace and continued firmness. Leaders and ministers weigh a possible Paris meeting around August 4 to discuss Berlin.
A large surge of East German refugees left via Berlin on Thursday with about 1 400 Germans moving westward. Refugees queued for small luxuries like chocolate, pricey in the east. Ernst Lemner, West German Minister of All German Affairs, spoke with refugees at a West Berlin camp.
In a landmark judgment, Mr Justice Hale awarded damages to David Royston Hunt a severely disabled boy. The total includes 266 special 3700 loss of earning power 800 loss of enjoyment of life and 5000 compensation for physical injury. Liability lay three quarters against foster mother Bernice Lilian Hunt and one quarter against Brian Maurice Johnson for a car incident on July 24 195% when David was seven months old.
Commission engineers plan a new river channel through the Commonwealth Bridge causeway to divert Molonglo River nearer the middle of Canberra Lake. By 1963 a six lane bridge will span the lake. the old span and causeway will be removed in October with traffic shifted to a side road.
The most powerful Australian radio transmitter will enter service at Canberra next month. Senator Garton announced the unit, designed to communicate with ships in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The transmitter, first installed in World War II, has been redesigned and rebuilt for its new high performance.
Captain Grissom waits in the Mercury Redstone capsule as overcast skies trap the launch. NASA cites unfavorable weather and sustained cloud cover at 15 000 to 18 000 feet that would hinder optical tracking during the critical powered flight. Spectators fill beaches and roads along the space strip hoping for a Friday 9 p.m. retry.
Six Common Market countries pledged to cooperate on political matters and urged Britain to join and commit to the Common Market. The statement followed Wednesday discussions highlighting hopes Britain would align with the bloc’s principles.
A head on collision on the Princes Highway near Murray Bridge claimed seven lives. Six died at the scene or in Stanly hospital later. The victims include Morphettville trainer Mr A As iChaetz and his wife Mrs Graetz with their son jockey, Mrs J E Smart, and three Phillis family members from Glenelg Mitch ell Park and Barton.
Rescue workers and racegoers converge at a wrecked convoy after a fatal collision near Adelaide. The scene resembles a war zone with cars crushed, steering columns embedded, and bodies pinned between seats while rescuers free victims and pull survivors from the scene.
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