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The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • 1

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Saturday April 5 1969 SUN Today rhea MO mu MS MOON: Rum 7S pm mu 834 am TIDES (Fort Den lion) High 9S7 am (4ft 11 talk 1014 pm (5ft lOln) Low 354 am (Oft SlnLSl pm (Ift Pin) LATE EDITION PRICE 5c COLUMN cathedral: POLICE ASKED TO LEAVE Church almost at point of 1 Pope a HOME Pope Paul in an anguished appeal last night for Homan Catholic unity said the Church was now divided almost to the point of schism claim lives Eleven people have died on NSW roads so far this more than the police figure of 10 for the whole holiday Easter one last year Yesterday was in the words of the executive director of the NSW Road Council Mr Harrison blackest Good Friday I can remember" The worst crash came early Four people a mother and her baby daughter arid a father and his son died in a head-on collision on the New England Highway near Tenterfield (See separate report) Main highways were choked and distress calls came from all over the State The Sydney-based Air Ambulance answered the calls on a round-the-clock shuttle service bringing injured bom et least six major country centres 155 injured The overtaxed service "flat out" despite the fact 1 called in the RAAF that hotels were closed and a Hercules from yesterday Richmond air base Mr Harrison said last brought injured from the is a tragic entry Tenlerfieid crash to Syd- (mo the Easter weekend aey would be Apart bom the road as bed as any Good Fri-deatna the tod of injured day we have had ss tar last night had reached as road deatha are coo-155 earned" There were a total of The Acting Superinlea-402 road accidetMs from dent of Trainc Superin-5 pm on Thursday and Undent Lane Mid 71 people had been it looked aa if N5W charm with 170 assort- was going back to "the ed offences by 30 pm bed old days" road last night fatalities Speeding offences He Mid that motor numbered 1109 from lots' should take notice of tout of 3607 reports of ths appeal ha made on traffic breaches and Thursday when he Hid infringements that the use of care had The Police Depart reduced the Easter toil ment reported late test from 37 hi 1967 10 10 night that its Breaths- -ear lyzcr Squad wm working npeM available policeman wlU be on duty including members of the Breatha-tynr Squad and their efforts will be dictated by a desire to ensure the road toll is kept to a minimum" he said Menzies speaks Vatican observers said it was the harshest language used by the Pope so far ta hit attacks on the growing rebellion against Church authority among Catholic priest and laymen around tha Speaking at a Maundy Thursday Mam in the St John Lateran Basilica the Pope said: "How can the Church be authentic and enduring if the spiritual and social bond uniting it suffers such attacks from opposition or neglect of its hierarchical structure? "How can it be Church that a united people when a ferment practically of schisms divides and subdivide! it breaks it into groupa attached more than anything else to arbitrary and basically selfish autonomy disjpiiscd as Christian pluralism or freedom of conscience?" The Pope questioned whether the Church was still really animated by a irit of unity and arity not wa too have 'division' such as those Sl Paul deplored among tha Corinthians?" he said In an appeal for unity he added "Let us renounce the spirit of discord the verbal attacks on brothers" The Pope's appeal followed only -a day after a direct attack on priests who leave holy orders or create scandal He told them they were crucify ing the Church The warnings have coma at a moment UM aMan oa Thursday Tha the Pontiff washed boys comascasontes to the A postlee feet of a boy to SL Police acceded to request from the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney the Most Rev Louie to leave St Andrew's Cathedral yesterday after a group of young people held a silent protest during the Morning Prayer and Litany Carrying placards wuths and hits girls tom their pewa during a hymn and stood silently on the marble steps before the wlph where the Arch- Mop Mood Church warden ton np the placards end removed one young man from Uie cathedra 1 but left the other diaaeaun sitting on the steps until the aervica eras er Diving the Archbishop dress three uniformed pal icemen entered the cathedral carrying their caps LEAFLETS The Archbishop mid lease gentlemen there no disturbance" end asked them to leave The pul iceman in charge nodded hia head and left The placards eonfficaled by the wardens carried pictures of Christ and Martin Luther King One reed "Christians crucify Christ in Vietnam" another "Silence a potent political weapon of opprewou After the service the protesters stood at the doors of the cathedral handing out leaflets headed leans of Nazareth Martin Luther King assassinated by nice respectable people" Thonomds at ter services page i 142395 make it a quiet day With a day of sunshine the Royal Easter Show esterday drew a crowd of 42395 the biggest on a Good Friday since 1965 But officials said it was one of the quietest Good Friday Show days on record "We bad a very big crowd but they were Forecast The Weather Bur- for Sydney today with teniperatarea hatwaau SS and 7 isgraaa good crowd they all to enjoy them- seemed out selves" a aid Yesterday's figure surpassed ths 1968 figure of 134-066 by 1329 and the total attendance over the first seven days 571595 com- with 592720 br year Todays program Paget 12 and 21 list IBIGHffl FIRST things first A hire-car driver was called to Maicwl to pick up mi American burineasraan wfcoM flint request wttst Drive nw to yaw Kouta Pmh" Then he thrust out of then Instant omens into tbo driver's hands to bt photographed half dozen times fondling Itoaln sod standing basidt wallaby ta Iht hotri" bt told tha Jnr a rash trip but I Just ban to let the folks back boau know bit Australis" THE WATER Board ilittf war billed tor rarer at water rater lha other day Utile matter of SIJ35 for supplier It drew from lha Blue Mountainr CUy Council while letting a reservoir at Emu Plaint SEARCHING for new markets for its butter and meal surpluses tha New Zealand Government MHiled Japan in the late 1950s with the slogan "A meat sandwich in everv lunch tin" ft seems to have worked A Japanese Statistics Bureau survey shows that in cities of more than 50000 the average household of four now spends $37 month on meat (shout 103 per cent of the total food budget) compared with $17 ta I960 H'E all make mistakes hut six Canterbury Boyd High School pupils going home after a pollre lecture on driving and road tale ty were rur-prised to see a police mint-car (not their lecturer's) swing out from the kerb Into the traffic without on indicator warning FROM a Melbourne reader a tingle to add to those road lafety slogans: You watch the guy who drives ahead And tha guy who drives behind You watch to tha left and watch to tha right And drive with a calm clem mind But tha guy you really have to watch On tha roadway you will find Is ths guy behind tha guy ahead And ahead of tha guy behind WE reported- recently that the Education Department had received a bank cheque for $204 with en anonymous letter benefit children particularly thoM suffering from financial or emotional difficulty" This week the department sent to the Forest Road Bexley special school duplicator and two reading laboratories used in teaching handicapped children for which the staff rays "Thank you whoever you ere" INSIDE Books 15 16 Churches 10 Comics 12 Crossword 12 Entertainment and the Arts 8 Gardening 10 Magazine 13 14 Mails 21 Radio 20 Real Estate 21 Royal Show Awards 12 Shipping 21 Snort 17 18 19 20 Television 20 Weather 20 CUUHMI UVUTIIIM MMX Page 11 fOI TIUPNONt AIVUIL IM 1 044 frtRiBri mi rbMmM br Mrfw 8 tfJMilirait Brutes MtOJO'BFtw IBBIa 1 Rib rri Nri OR ftmaMw Rond victim Gail Warncs held by Section Officer Corbett at Kingston! Smith Airport yesterday The bottle she boldtag contains plasma being fed to Gall TRAGEDY CUTS SHORT A LITTLE HOLIDAY HIT TREE In other fatal accidenu A 53-yea r-oid litter from Villa wood George Weigud died when the car he was driving end another vehicle collided head-on at Campbell Hill Road Guildford et 1 145 pjn on Thursday A man whom name has not yet been released was killed at 5 am yesterday when his ear ran off the toed and hit a on the Mitchell PM backs stand on Red China non ROY MACARTNEY OTTAWA Fridays- The Prime Minister Mr Gorton fresh from talks with the Canadian Prime Minister Mr Pierre Trudeau yesterday defended derision not to recognise Red China despite Canada's move to do so Paul kisses the when the brooding crisis within the Church has bunt once mote into tha open with daily reports of priests defying their superiors or leaving holy orders The Archbishop of Rosario in Argentina is ta Rome for consuha-ttons on the resignation of 27 priests ta his dkv And the bead of the Jesuit order ta Holland FWher Jan Hermans diplomacy ta Washington and Ottawa At hk Press conference yesterday Mr Gorton Mid ns had explained to Mr Trudeau the reasons why Australia had force! in Vietnam wheat On Vietnam traop withdrawals Mr Gorton Mid: fl sea under present circumstances no suggestion of any 'reduction of Australian forces in Vietnam this year Bur 'you asking ms to predicate some-lltiag on whole kit of things thm might or might not happen but as at the moment not aomething to which J'm giving any Under hostile questioning by Canadian reporters Mr Gorton denied Australia had cut the minimum of price fixed in the International Grains Agreement He Mid the United Stale and Canada both had charged there had been "funny business" the way Australia had calcu Pope 1 Lateiaa Basilica ceraamay daring which aad kissed the feet of 12 gesture In Canberra they aey that had Sir Robert Menzies stayed ta power there would have been no squabble over the she for new Parliament House Sr Robert's Arm choice was the now ta disfavour But on page 2 today he comm back and argues that it is after all the right place for the monumental building needed The drug mystery The drag-seDere of Sydney have many trade secrets The drug-users have plenty to hide too A "Herald" special reporter apent two weeks among theM people to try to anewer soma of the questions that puzzle Sle about the drag lem The first of wo reports will be published on Monday LATE NEWS Hiahwav Trail about 45 miles tan Dubbo Two people died on Willow Tree Road six miles south of Quirindl heir car 6 am when arrived lost night to discum the cases of too Dutch Jesuits who have threatened to resign on the issue of priestly celibacy Asked to comment on Pope Paulis address the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal GIL ray raid: "When the Pope has spoken there is no need for anybody inferior to the Pope to make any comment" lated freight charges in arriving at her price It had not been demonstrated he 'Mid to hk satisfaction that any "funny business" had been going on in Australia Technical -talka going on in Washington at present to try to bun out them differences betwe wheatgrowing countries Mr Gorton disclosed that he expected Increased Australian defence expenditure in the next Budget AAP-Reuter quoted Mr Gorton as saying that ho and Mr Trudeau both wanted la closer affinity' between their taro nations In calling for closer ties he disclosed that a man N-partiaan parliamentary group led by an Australian Minister would visit Canada in June PAGE 3t Canada to reduce NATO force PAGE 9t Top wheat producers meet mi market erkis deadline for noon to which both sides agreed hut Egyptian shelling continued for another 25 minutes the spokesman raid An Egyptian Army com munique issued in Cairo which blamed the Israelii fur the flare-up aaid an Israeli helicopter was shot down and many Israeli gun positions along the Canal's east hank were destroved Big Four talks open pngs 3 "My name's and I'm nine" Ute small girt in the Debbie hook someone had given her to her chew Her right wrkt was bandaged fold Smith Airport to 1 Uvea wen bit on Good Friday The Warns family of laetada Road Eaitwood driving to Brkbane at 630 am yesterday The driver of the second car Mr John David Lihou night heads of ShornclifTa Bris- eraa their two-months- bane and hi father old skier Michelle Reuben Lihou 65 were Pienle Pnfait a rut Marla a lew reel away her Debbie had not been both killed Ttrirkcsi of Ouirindi badlyinjured father Ron- told But her tea retained Debbta Gall and their vcucra or VfutrilKU gtd Warn wm being lh0Trtj a father were taken to the At Oootamundra a carefully carried in a 77 Royal North Shore Hos- whtie thair cundi-was satisfactory lad wrreErtch as uoouniunara a nlne-year-o)d schoolgirl Katrina Fnfamo of St the back of the careruuy earned in a atretcher from the four- engined Hercules at Kings I kncw throuab a beaded Royal Boa Doncaster another of the four waiting ambulances Albumen wm being fed Iub Hls right arm and foot and hh head were heavily swathed in bandage Faula Warncs the collision in which four IN SPORT in ths Sires' Produca Stakes Heading tha list of other sporting fixtures tha Rugby League match-of-tbe-day between Eastern Suburbs and North Sydney at the SCG Rugby Union supporters have a choice of aix matches ta the Irst round of tha premiership competition Second-round Soccer matches will be played at Wentworth Park and Arlington Oval A pre-season hockey carnival set down for Manly Park and other fixtures include tha Austro hips at pnfilan at Pittwater a met roil rawing regatta at Abbotsford winter bass ball competition marches and tha eight gpw meeting at Liverpool at a Press conference Mr Gorton uid Peking wanted its claim to Formou recognised would have aliens reservations about a community of 12 or 13 million people of probably ighest living standards of soy country in Asia being willy nifly handed over to control of Power to which ft dklift want to go" ho mid Mr Gorton candid sad stums answered questions for 35 minutes At first ho would not on Canada1! to recognho China It wm independent Government wboee judgment ahould ipectcd ho Mid DIPLOMACY Goaded by bo re- questions Canadian when Aua- reporter on India would adapt a policy Mr Gorton "We do not intend to recognke Red Chin That has been our announced policy and at thk stag I am no change fat it" Asked if Australia supported the "domino theory" in Vietnam because of fear of Common-kt China Mr Gorton replied: "I have no fear at all for Australia I don't expert to he invaded by China nest week" Neighbouring tries however saws real threat to their security if Vietnam became Com- Mr Gorton prepared to fly hack to Canberra today a political leader whose confidence end image have heea rebuilt and burnished by three days of personal Marys waa killed ta a multi-car smash on the Hume Highway north of GundagaL A four-yea rid boy Michael ABan Jamlcaun of Mt Drain waa killed instantly when the car his father waa driving collided with track at Leura in the Blue Mountains yesterday afternoon At 3 pm on the Mitchell Highway four milei north of Wellington FJbIm Harder 23 of Duhba died ta a head-on coilkioa Vincenzo Lombardo 22 of Brisbane and an tin identified young woman pamenger each suffered a broken neck in smash near Aberdeen Both were unconscious ta hospital but night Victims in other States In Victoria live of the tlx killed on the roads so far wen pedestrians The Quceariaad foil stood at four last night and ta South Australia two had died New Canal flare-up A crack line-up of Australian and New Zealand hones will contest the 550000 Doncaster Handicap over one mile at Randwick today Tha Doncaster tha highlight of a heavy sporting day In Sydney with fixtures catering for all Tha Quacnila ad-owned Cyron trained in Sydney Doncaster favourite at 7-3 The race is ths feature evant on the opening day of tha AJCa autumn carnival at Randwick Stake money for lha day la a record $105200 Last year's Melbourne Cun winner Rain Lover win ha oa trial In the Autumn Stakes hi hold hk position as favourite for Monday's Sydney Cup Vein tha champion unbeaten two-yea r-oid from Mel bourne will Mm another 527800 it successful TEL AVIV Friday Israeli and Egyptian forces engaged each other for two hours today at the southern end of the Suez Canal in the lint artillery dud in the region since March 24 An laraeli military spokesman here who accused the Egyptian! of starting the fighting mid there were no casualties on the Israeli side UN military nhrv-era proposed 1 cease-fin Mlax Moya Dhos 20 of Brisbane gets lick from Frtace Medea CHARLES MCQUILLANS selection to win today's big race A.

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