Boys build own digital computer for science prize
Richard Swan and Jeremy Stanners, aged 15 and 14, from Telopea Park High School, built a tactile logic machine to play noughts and crosses and convert currency to 10 decimals. They designed a full electrical computer after being urged to try a tougher project and won one of four major Science and Industry Endowment Fund prizes.
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Jeremy Stanners
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Telopea Park High School
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Town plan for ACT Scouts yard shows £25 000 development
Canberra Monaro Area Scout Council considers spending nearly £25 000 to develop a Scout village at the camping reserve by the Coffer River. The chair and executive discuss a chapel, amphitheatre, roads, huts for 30 males and 30 females, a mess hall, camp store, and sleeping quarters as part of a broader site plan while emphasising preserving Scouting spirit and inviting external visits.
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Delay Expected As Premiers Probe Tax Plan Details
Premiers meet the Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and Treasurer Mr Holt with only a vague understanding of the Commonwealths proposals for a new taxation reimbursement agreement.
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Robert Menzies
Mr Holt
Comonwealth
Air assault saves mauled troops in Vietnam battle
American planes smashed a heavy Vietcong assault near Quang Ngai city as government forces faced near defeat. The major engagement left more than 500 soldiers dead wounded or missing, and troops fought to repel the surrounding attack.
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Typist attacked outside Lane Cove home in Sydney
Miss Elizabeth Ann Shepherd a 36 year old typist in the Maher case testified she was assaulted and slashed as she left her home at 7 30 pm to visit her mother. She was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital with shoulder wounds and later discharged. Police noted the attack occurred near her Lane Cove residence amid ongoing Vietnam war reporting.
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Saigon
Rescuer badly hurt in snow at Charlotte Pass
COOMA Monday. The chair-lift operator John Irvenette about 24 of Maroubra Sydney was critically injured today while attempting to rescue Peter Meir about 25 of Adelaide who had crawled half a mile after breaking his ankle on the first stage of the Charlotte Pass chair lift. Both men in Cooma Hospital. Irvenette with fractured thigh and facial lacerations. Meir’s condition satisfactory.
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Maroubra
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Adelaide
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Violence in Jerusalem Wounds Several as Shots Ring Out
Reports from TerusaLe and AP describe gunfire in the Jerusalem sector injuring a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, with two adults also wounded. The incident, attributed to unknown shooters, prompted emergency response and ongoing investigation.
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New Zealand broadcaster cancels university talk on Vietnam
NZBC cancels a radio talk by a university professor criticising government policy on sending union to South Vietnam. Me Waldo Mapaire, controller of news and public affairs, says the decision aims to hear both sides of the issue at the same time in the same programme.
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New Zealand Broadcasting Corporsion
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South Vietnam
NZBC
Waldo Mapaire
Velonias Trial In Insanity Plea For Murder Case
The Velonias murder case reaches jury trial with defence claiming insanity. Stefanos Velonias, a labourer from Narrabundah, pleads not guilty on two counts of murder while awaiting evidence on a Vietnam issue connected to the Prime Minister. Professor Eric Herd of Dunedin and counsel Joske present arguments as to sending troops. Velonias, who was allegedly suffering mental illness, faces trial with the outcome pending.
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Velonias
Jotago University Dunedin
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Joske
Vietnam
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Foreign capital paper backs Australian investment stance
The Treasury released a paper arguing foreign investment income has fallen since 1961 import restrictions ended and a competitive economy. It notes no alarming trend in remittance costs and suggests American payments policy will not force major changes. Full report on page 16.
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