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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 25, 1963
Page
12
A reader urges the Interior Department to streamline dog registration, proposing signs and a single visit to collect forms. Another letter praises the Sydney Folk Singers for a children's concert, noting the enthusiastic audience and memorable experience for a mother and child.
The article notes President Kennedy’s West European swing stressing Western defense with emphasis on United States support for Europe. It highlights France’s muted NATO stance and Italy and Germany potential cooperation on tariff talks linked to the Kennedy round, while Britain debates nuclear control and Brussels veto risks.
In the Inland Sea a Kobe businessman led a salvage effort to refloat the Osaka Maru, a Navy transport sank 88 years ago with gold silver and copper coins plus gunpowder aboard. Previous attempts failed after investors were swindled. authorities note gold may lie in a sealed cabin.
Ontario launches a rent certificate plan to lease private housing and relet at lower rents. The program aims to prevent concentration of low income families by using vacant privately owned units. Government subsidies cover the difference between market and controlled rents.
The 48,000-ton Leonardo da Vinci, first of six large oil tankers ordered by the Soviet Union, has been launched at Genoa. A second tanker is planned to be launched in three months, according to Soviet news services.
Noumea reports rising tuberculosis among natives and whites with 169 natives and 74 whites affected, alongside 67 Europeans in 1560, marking a sharp public health concern for New Caledonia.
Zanzibar and Pemba gain internal self government as elections for 4 government posts loom in two weeks. A public holiday is set with no celebrations. Major parties anticipate full independence by year end and seek membership in a proposed East African Federation including Kenya Uganda and Tanganyika.
The London Medical News cites Dr KK Rama Setty of Madras claiming tender coconut water can substitute for glucose or saline in IV transfusions. In 1959 he treated a dehydrated patient with coconut water when saline was unavailable and reported recovery. 54 more patients received the juice over the following three years.
Daily weather notices dictate which nights scientists can use equipment at Mt Stromlo Observatory. Poor Canberra skies reduce nights of operation, prompting a move to a new Coonsbarabran site to improve weather reliability and allow work on about half the nights. The 40 inch reflector from the U.S. costs £110,000 and the Mount Stromlo complex retains the 74 inch telescope and the coude spectrograph.
Victoria faces a mounting exodus of big firms from inner areas as crowding and traffic push operations to outer suburbs. Firms eye Notting Hill transfers and Swanston Street consolidations while staff fear long commutes, with Coates and Patons merging and Love and Lewis building face car park plans.
A Times report notes the Ehrapethan Trust plans to open a permanent ballet school for postgraduate training in Melbourne next year. Existing schools oppose the move and launch a campaign by telegrams to senior officials.
Paris reports France’s revolutionary anti submarine Mahiton missile now operational after sea tests off Levant Island Mediteranean. In initial phase the missile is guided from the launch vessel by radar and then steered toward the submarine’s engines.
A parachute deployed missile powered by a solid fuel engine reaches about 650 feet over the sea before on radio command it splits in two. One part crashes into the sea, the warhead floats and sinks, then is recovered as a torpedo to resume its underwater path.
Mixed marriages in Ceylon are increasing with Sinhalese marrying Tamils and Indian Tamils. The trend shows growing interethnic unions among Sinhalese and Tamil communities, reflecting changing social patterns in the island nation.
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