09 Sep 1957
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 09, 1957
Page
1
Police identify victims in numerous crashes on Pacific Highway and state roads. Victims include Willas John Maxwell of Vale Road South and an elderly woman near Queanbeyan. Others suffered serious injuries in Sydney and Windsor incidents involving cars, trucks, caravans, and motorcycles.
Five people were killed in a head on collision on Wirrulla road 38 miles west of Adelaide on the Fleur Peninsula. The Miller family with Helen Minney died. four others injured include Kevin Miller Patrick Barrett and Harnett Phillips. Police freed the unconscious from wrecked cars after the crash on a hill crest.
A Gippsland youth Weil Douglas McLean 22 of Colville was killed when his car left Colville Road rolled over an embankment pinning him. Millio Surletti 26 of Avenel died from injuries after a passenger vehicle hit a drain and crashed into a tree at Avenel. Driver William Leslie Gee of Avenel was treated for shock and released. James Fiorini of Avenel was admitted to Mooroopna Hospital with serious injuries. A pedestrian Thomas Leonard Callow 58 of St. Kilda was struck and killed in Brighton.
The Vatican's appeal court, the Roman Rota, annulled 417 marriages in the judicial year but rejected 142 annulment requests. It said violence or war was used to compel some parties, and noted that over 40 percent of cases could be heard without cost to appellants.
Twenty three people killed when the Paris to Nimes express derailed near the end of its 13 hour journey. About fifty were entered and thirty admitted to hospital.
Reginald James Walsh of Headquarter Company RMC was driving along Plant Road when a rut caused a tyre blowout. The car broadsided and overturned with major damage but Walsh escaped injury.
Canberra church leaders arrange care for Edna Locke's eight sons aged three to fourteen after their mother's death. Rev E G Buckie moves to place them on Bungarimbil farm in Tumbarumba with help from Rev John Brain and Mrs Brain. Fundraising and a public meeting planned to furnish clothing and £1300 for first year care and farm setup.
A Queanbeyan man Petro Leuczuk aged 34 and father of three was killed in a head on collision with a car driven by John Joseph Considine at Canberra Avenue about one mile north of Harman Naval Station at 6 30 pm on Saturday. Police seek witnesses or details by calling 13344. Two other vehicles also suffered major damage nearby involving Alexander Zsigmond and Keith Oscar Bradshaw.
Reports from Japan show Typhoon Bow sweeping the country causing homelessness and casualties. Four killed and 38 seriously hurt as winds ease toward the Kurile Islands. Kyushu crops destroyed worth over £7,000. Coast guard searches for missing crew members aboard.
At Farnborough a party of jet aviation experts paid to view British aircraft on display. A Soviet delegation attended last year by government invitation. Inside, Russians studied turbo jet engines and guided missiles while a TU jet liner carried the Soviet Ambassador and Zorin to Moscow.
Two refrigeration mechanics from Sydney were badly burned in a methyl chloride gas explosion in the cellar of the Hotel Ainslie Rex in Canberra. Randall Graham of Gardgan Road Kingsford and Hardy Alleyne of Ronald Street Ryde suffered facial burns after a safety lamp flame apparently triggered the blast at about 9 50 am while testing pipes. The Canberra ambulance attended and both men were hospitalised with Alleyne initially critical but later showing some improvement.
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