06 Oct 1958
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Oct 06, 1958
Page
1
The RAAF maintains an Antarctic flight with pilots and ground staff for each Australian expedition. The 1958-59 party leaves in December. Members are training and have spent time at Mount Buller in the Victorian Alps. Three New South Welshmen are pictured finishing an igloo they built during a two day two night stay.
President Eisenhower states the United States will not retreat from the Far East if Sino Soviet aggression targets Quemoy and Matsu. He notes allied support and warns against conceding Formosa, amid talks in Warsaw and pressure over U.S. envoy options to Chiang Kai-shek.
Cor port Joseph Ernest Will won aged 26 and his brother in law Victor Allan Eldin aged 16, both of Pratt Road Duntroon, drowned when their dinghy capsized during a fishing trip with Corporal Keith White aged 30. The three were swept by backwash toward a high cliff. Eldin slipped from their grasp and sank. White and Will attempted to reach the shore but exhaustion and waves prevented beaching. White sounded the alarm. Eldin, a Royal Military College cadet, leaves a wife and four children.
Britain yesterday won the race to establish all jet commercial air service across the Atlantic. The two Conquest type jet liners, Delta Bravo and Delta Charlie, flew opposite directions from New York to London and London to New York, with Delta Bravo arriving in London in six hours and Delta Charlie landing in New York in 10 hours 20 minutes after a refueling stop.
Keith Ross, 15, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was trimming a neighbor's lawn when a mower blade severed his left foot at the ankle. He felt a burning pain he misread as a bee sting as the machine struck. He collapsed and authorities investigated the accident.
Elliott declares to stay amateur after a five week negotiation, choosing loyalty to Shell Chemical Co and his country over a £111,000 offer. The Perth press conference notes his aim to compete for Australia and the 1962 Empire Games, with Leavitt uncontactable in Hong Kong and no replacement yet found.
In Cyprus ambushes killed a British serviceman and wounded several, as British troops conducted large follow up in Famagusta and other areas. Cypriots were detained and injured in operations after the murder of Mrs. Catherine Cutcliffe. Archbishop Makarios faces criticism amid rising violence and Governor Sir Hugh Foot pledges to curb the violence and end fear.
Police sought the pilot after a single engined two seater aircraft landed in Amsterdam Avenue in northern Manhattan. The 60 ft wide street, usually busy with traffic, saw the plane skid over a motorist’s car before a man fled on foot.
Indonesia staged a grand Armed Forces Day display with 30 new jet fighters, including MiG and Vampire jets, Mustangs, and Tyushin transports, over Diskarta. Paratroopers deployed in combat gear, and two hours of aerobatics followed as President Okeano urged unity, strength, and a peaceful, independent foreign policy.
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