Wood-Chopping Big Spectator Sport In Upside Down World
Gordon Tait reports from Sydney on the Royal Show woodchopping carnival, where 120 axemen from Australia, New Zealand and one American, David Geer, compete in underhand chops and log events. Mervyn Youd tops the field, with Jack O Toole a close contender. Youd earns a silver tray and 112 dollars. Geer, a construction firm head, places second in a prior year and plans to return in 1963 seeking more prize money despite high travel costs.
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Sydney
Australia
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New Zealand
David Geer
Jewett City
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Geer
Mervyn Youd
Tasmania
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Post
Jack O'Toole
Melbourne
O’toole
Yood
Albert Edwards
Tom
Pianist Janis Will Team With Goodman in Leningrad
In Moscow press reports, long hair American pianist Byron Janis will join Benny Goodman’s jazz troupe in Leningrad on June 20 to perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in a strings-free arrangement. Janis has drawn sellout crowds in Moscow and the Soviet press shows cautious reception to jazz.
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Moscow
Benny Goodman
Leningrad
George Gershwin
Soviet Union
Goodman
Byron Janis
New York
Janis
Khrushchev
Presidium
Black Sea
Caucasus
Army Theater
Norris Wilson Named EVP of US Committee for Refugees
Former Church World Service director Norris Wilson has been appointed executive vice president of the United States Committee for Refugees. He will oversee work supporting programs for an estimated 15 million refugees worldwide.
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R. Norris Wilson
Church World Service
Pnoint
United States Committee For Refugees
Refugees Say Chinese Communists Lose Grip in Macao
AP reports refugees from Red China in Macao claim dissatisfaction among Communist officials and eroding countryside discipline as food shortages worsened. They argue a Nationalist Chinese invasion would be welcomed, noting police security overran civilian life while scale of refugees remains uncounted though agencies register about 2,900 since January.
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Red China
Peiping
Rea
Macao
Hong Kong
Independent Labs Show Little Interest In Tests
Richmond report says 70 of 171 labs answered a questionnaire on the implied consent blood test for drunken driving. Only one of the responding labs, all but six with pathologists, expressed definite interest, while six said they would not conduct the tests under the 1962 Virginia law.
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Richmond
Mack L .Shanholtz
Shanholtz
General Assembly
Virginia
Nazarene Church Offers Free Helicopter Rides
In Long Beach California the First Church of the Nazarene advertised free helicopter rides to entice visitors to Sunday school and boost church attendance.
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Long Beach
Calif
First Church of the Nazarene
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