Settlers Seek Stability Down Under in Australia
US citizens continue to migrate to Australia at a steady pace with nearly 4,000 moving yearly and over 70,000 Americans settling there in 25 years. The piece recounts 19th century fears of Americans draining Australia during the California gold rush and notes the later reverse flow as Australian miners and others returned home.
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Wee Wah
N.S.W
Australia
NEA
America
California
Melbourne
United States
American Farmer Finds Mixed Rewards in Australian Cotton Boom
Paul Kahl moved to the Namoi River Valley in 1961 with a wife and six children and built a thriving cotton operation aided by new methods. Yet many U.S. settlers struggle with taxes, crime, and adaptation, with 1,200 of 3,190 migrants from 1968-69 already returning home as droughts and floods test resilience.
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Fornia
Kahl
California
Australia
Namoi River
Sydney
Paul Kahl
Department of Immigration
U.S
Althou
America
Shangri-la
Namoi Cotton Corporation
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Plane crash survivor and jungle search in Peru
A 17 year old survivor Juliane Koepcke reached civilization after 10 days in jungles following a Christmas Eve airliner crash carrying 92 aboard. A military search, dropped by helicopter, sought wreckage about 520 miles northeast of Peru as rescuers faced rain and rough terrain. The wreckage was located, fuselage split, with 12 man searchers near the site.
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William Heath
Associated Press
Lima
Peru
Juliane Koepcke
Civilization
Clyde Peters
Snd
Jorge Torres
Hans Koepcke
Summer Linguistics Institute
U.S
U of A and SSC Obtain Grants for Disadvantaged Education
The National Science Foundation awarded Southern State College 36279 and the University of Arkansas Fayetteville 29340 to develop programs aiding disadvantaged pupils. Each school will partner with local schools to implement the efforts. St George is noted as patron saint of the Boy Scouts.
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St. George
The
Boy Scouts
Auto sales in US top 10 million in 1971 record
Detroit AP reports US auto sales reached 10,155,411 in 1971, a record driven by year end buying after wage price controls and tax repeal. Major makers led by General Motors with 4,653,894 cars, a 42 percent rise, while imports held about 14.6 percent of the market.
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Detroit
United States
U.S
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Nixon and Sato Aim To Patch Diplomatic Rift
President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato begin face to face talks at the Western White House after informal diplomacy by Treasury Secretary Connally. The two day summit follows friction over Nixon's China visit and a 10 percent import surcharge, with sessions planned between Connally Mizuta and Stans Tanaka to discuss trade matters.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Japan
Eisaku Sato
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Sato
California
White House
Connally
Miko Mizuta
Treasury
Nellie
China
William P
Railroad Sells Tiny Gerlach Community
GERLACH Nev AP The Western Pacific Railroad is selling Gerlach a tiny railroad community 90 miles north of Reno The railroad built and owns the town but now wants out of the community business in Gerlach which has 18 commercial lots with business establishments and 111 lots of dwellings Dan Brown president of Land Corp of Nevada said his Reno based firm is considering buying the town but hasn't set a price Rogers another participant said in a taped ABC interview that fore warned Sato of the China initiative would have endangered the trip and Japan has a free system and active press.
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Gerlach
Nev
Western Pacific Railroad
Reno
Western
Dan Brown
Land Corp. of
Nevada
Rogers
American Broadcasting Co
Sato
China
United States
Japan
May Ask for Special Session
Gov. Dale Bumpers said he met Tuesday night at the executive mansion with legislators department heads and advisers to discuss the possibility of a special legislative session. He said he was preparing as if a session would be called but did not state whether one is necessary.
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Little Rock
Legislative Joint Auditing Committee
State Treasury
Virgil T. Fletcher
Benton
Interlock, Inc
Fletcher
Legislative Council
Orvel M. Johnson
Dale Bumpers
Executive Mansion
Bumpers
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Clyde Davis
Hope, Ark
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