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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 16, 1950
Page
7
Advice urges avoiding quarrels to preserve self respect and peace. It cites proverbs and religious sayings about avoiding defilement and promoting harmony. The text assigns duties to soldiers police and individuals to seek peace and to drop quarrelsome friends or alcohol harming mind and character.
A collection of obituaries and memorial notices, including Knowles family entries for Archibald Jol Kuayewle and Archibald John Knowles with funeral details in Horsham, and in memoriam messages for Cowell and Taylor with references to Tobruk and family sentiments. Notices express thanks for sympathy and specify relations and dates.
Horsham officials plan Sunday afternoon band recitals with cooperation from Mr A Dawson and Mr A E Bragess. The venture aims to start soon in Horsham, with initial selections announced yesterday by Mr Dawson.
The Premier plans a bill in the upcoming session to curb cancer quacks and deter unskilled healers. Labor voices call for extending the bill to all incurable diseases, to stop fraudulent cures and protect patients from exploitation.
Bert Mills former Hawthorn interstate footballer and Horsham coach Jack Blackman are in the district on business. John Leslie, away for several weeks in Horsham, returns home. Rev J E Creswell visits Horsham for first time in ten years. H B Schmidt of Casterton and family depart for Thor sham. Sechmbir, eight years at Casterton Bank, transfers to Horsham, starts next week. District residents admitted to various farehag resorts or gage: F Drake Murton L McCracken Kaniva Miss M Kenny Glenizia Miss A Pope Rupanyup.
A reader urges the city to recruit aid for an airstrip project in Horsham as the town marks its centenary. The letter proposes the Governor and officials attend the first scheduled service to inaugurate celebrations, signaling progress over 100 years.
Archibald John Knowles aged 28 dies after illness at Wimmera Base Hospital. Born in Horsham he worked as a clerk and married Jane Valerie Felgingham at Ararat. Funeral from St John’s Church of Plyland to Horsham Cemetery. Miss Gertrude Jane Wilmoth dies aged 74 after visiting her brother R J Wilmoth Horsham. Survivors include three brothers. Service at St Mary’s Church of England Camberwell and cremation at Springvale.
Shirley Joy Copeman Engaged to San George Cornell son of Mrs. Les Timms of Oakleigh and the late Mr. Cornell. The announcement lists both families in Horsham and Oakleigh.
Law rence ML H R criticized the government for altering the Communist Party Dissolution Bill while claiming the changes preserve core principles. He argued the move strengthens democratic freedoms and allows broader political cooperation, contrasting with the Chifley Administration’s stance and suggesting it improves legal viability and public support.
Mr P R Biggin at Horsham Court of Petty Sessions adjourned to discuss lack of heating in the cold stone Horsham Court House. He urged that steps be taken to provide reasonable heating so long court sittings are more comfortable.
Eric Zippel of Wonwondah East fined one pound for a tail light left off on a Horsham run. Bryan Nelson of George Street Horsham fined one pound for riding without a licence after his tail light fell off. Richard Walsh fined ten shillings for driving without a rear light and for not using the light after being stopped on the Henry Highway.
Grenville Mackley of Haven appeared at Horsham magistrates after a patrol stopped him in Firebrace Street for loud exhaust. First Constable James Griffin stated the truck loaded with firewood had a disconnected silencer with a short straight pipe. Mackley admitted guilt and said the silencer was welded back two days later.
President Truman and others receive copies of the first volume of Thomas Jefferson papers at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The 52 volumes are to be published by Brigham University Press. The ceremony features George Marshall and Princeton University president Barlett Dobbs among attendees.
A fragmented passage describes students facing additional duties from a school choir project. It mentions schedules and anticipation of workload, with scattered references to a campus setting and involvement by staff and pupils.
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