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HOME NEWS 3 1 THE AGE, Tuesday, December 28, 1971 DCA RAPS PILOTS Cyclone 'Places for all who qualify or only the very bright Universities to raise intakes For the lucky ones a holiday by the sea More apply to study in country town starts the big clean-up A massive effort to clean up cyclone-torn Townsville got into full swing yesterday. Eight hundred soldiers, civil defence workers, tradesmen and police combined to start mopping up and rebuilding. Victoria's universities and colleges of advanced education are expected to reject fewer applicants this year. The number of students applying for places is expected to be about the same as last year, but the first-year intake in the universities and colleges will rise. Monash University will increase its first-year intake by 180 students (to 4610), La Trobe's will rise by 82S to 1380 and Melbourne University's will remain at about 3000 (the number has been static for some years).

Tho exact number of washed into Fish River, near Bathurst (NSW). The man's car and three other vehicles were flung into the river at Tarana, 20 miles east of Bathurst, during a flash flood late on Sunday night. The occupants of the other cars were able to scramble to safety. The cars had been parked on a camping site. Heavy rains iind hail in Wagga have cost farmers thousands of dollars in lost wheat crops in the past week.

The monsoon strength rains have deluged Wagga and surrounding areas with five inches in the past four days. Thousands of acres of wheat, caught in mid-harvest, have been soaked and flattened by driving rain. Doctors attack dangerous offence system laces available in the tate's 16 colleges of advanced education is not yet known, but the vice-president of the Victoria Institute of Colleges (Dr. P. G.

Law) said yesterday the over-all intake would go up by about 20 per cent. Last year the secretary of the Universities Admissions Committee (Mr. N. Milne) estimated that four of every 10 students who qualified to enter Victorian universities would be relected. This year the exact figure cannot be estimated, because applications for universities are combined for the first time with applications for four major col-leges of advanced education.

The colleges included in the multiple admissions scheme are the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Swinburne College of Technology, the School of Speech Science, and the Physiotherapy School. WHO RISK IT BY THE SEAT OF THEIR PANTS The Department of Civil Aviation yesterday strongly criticised light aircraft pilots who took risks by continuing their flights in bad weather. An editorial in latest issue of the department's Air Safety Digest says many pilots ignore the hazards of bad-weather flying and disregard aviation rules. "Overall, it is clear that some general aviation pilots need to do a lot of rethinking about their attitudes to flying in general and where the limit of their ability lies in particular," the editorial said. Criticising the pilots who take chances the digest says: "The overall problem cannot fairly be attributed to ignorance of the hazards involved.

"Rather the underlying common factor seems to be one of disregard of the legislation that exists to protect pilots from such dangers, and disregard of the wealth of hard-earned experience that brought about this legislation, Deliberate "In a few cases this disregard is regrettably de-liberate. In others, especially involving the less-experienced, it probably results to some degree from the pilot's failure to properly assess an operational situation which is beyond his ability and which, in theory, he would not contemplate. "Two other factors no doubt also play their part in the circumstances leading to some of the accidents. "One is the deep-seated belief, present in all of us to a greater or lesser degree, that it 'won't happen to "The other is 'I've got away with it before I can do it Reviewing an accident in which the pilot survived to make a report the digest says: Limitations "Questioned after the -accident, the pilot said that although he understood the limitations of VFR (visual flight rules) he had descended into cloud, because the success of the flight depended on me getting there. "Some time before the flight he had undergone one hour's dual instruction in instrument flying and he had also studied it himself.

"On this occasion, he just wanted to do everyt thing possible to make the flight a success and had no fears about flying in cloud. "It is all too evident from the subsequent events that quite apart from this pilot's almost incomprehensible disregard for air navigation regulations, and the safety of his passengers, and other air space users, he had no real idea of or experience of instrument flight technique." The editorial said It was ironical while the latest issue of the digest was being prepared, six more accidents caused by pilots flying visually in bad weather had occurred. By JOHN LEWIS Some prisoners in Australian institutions have been confined for prolonged periods on "ill-defined grounds amounting sometimes to nothing more than suspicion," according to the latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia. Others have been detained for long periods because administrators had been unwilling to make decisions which had been shirked by others in the past, it says. Below: For the sailors the excitement of the day was the start of the Queenscliff-Devonport yacht race.

Pictured passing the Queenscliff lighthouse is Marina, a 33 ft. yacht skippered by H. Pryor, (Brighton Yacht Club). Above: John Heller, 12, of Balwyn, and his three-months-old terrier, Simba, are among the lucky ones who are spending their holidays at the seaside. John will be at Anglesea for three weeks and by the look of things yesterday he and Simba will spend most of their time in the water.

Cyclone Althea left damage estimated at $10 million to S20 million. It will take months to repair. An army spokesman said yesterday three people were Killed and 257 others had been treated by doctors and hospitals. Most suffered cuts and abrasions caused by flying timber and metal roofing. Ten people reported missing were yesterday found safe and well.

The soldiers, tradesmen and insurance assessors arrived from throughout Australia yesterday morning. The army has taken full control of the programme. About 600. soldiers have een split into 30 groups. Each has been allocated an area and yesterday began clearing houses and shops, helping elderly people, and finding accommodation for families.

The tradesmen, including carpenters, plumbers and builders are accompanying them. Ten crews, mainly from the Fourth Field Regiment, are on stand-by to deal with emergencies. Yesterday afternoon about 30 per cent, of the city's power had been restored, most of it to the southern suburban area. An army spokesman, who has toured the area several times with insurance assessors, said last night the damage would be between $10 and $20 million. Throughout yesterday supplies were flown into Townsville.

At Magnetic Island, six miles away, the situation is just as bleak. Eighty soldiers and local volunteers yesterday began restoring power to the island. It is expected that power will be fully restored in a few days. They then will begin the gigantic mopping-up programme. Ninety per cent, of the island has been flattened.

Of the 1600 people who were there on Friday just over 200 are left. The army has arranged for supplies to be shipped across. A volunteer brigade of building workers could be mobilised in Brisbane if needed to help rebuild Townsville. An offer of building help was made by Trades and Labor Council president (Mr. J.

Egerton) yesterday. Two A.L.P. senators in Townsville (Senator Keeffe and Senator Georges) were asked to relay the offer to the Prime Minister (Mr. McMahon). Police will resume a search this morning for an elderly man believed drowned when his car was By IOIA HACK our Education Reporter to put his case and to receive explanations for decisions would be made.

"The independence of bodies reviewing people deprived of their liberty on the grounds that they are dangerous, is most important," says the journal. Research in Britain and the U.S. showed that administrators of special hospitals were generally "over cautious" in releasing prisoners. "It seems that administrators and psychiatrists are not the best people to make value judgments on behalf of the community," says the journal. "They may be poor judges of general community standards of conduct and of what actions are considered dangerous enough to justify repressive or therapeutic measures.

"They may have responsibilities to institutions and departments which affect their approach to decision making. "On occasion they may be reluctant to make decisions which they believe are really political ones," it says. The journal says the general public still believes a strong link exists between mental illness and violence because attitudes towards the mentally ill are resistant to change. The traditional isolation of those judged criminally insane in prison-like institutions remote from cities and towns could only support the public in its belief. But special hospitals in England for violence and dangerous patients were often unsatisfactory because patients were denied privacy, and choice in their daily life and had little dignity.

Such hospitals, often overcrowded, were similar to prisons. Other research in the U.S. had shown that recidivism (return to prison) in patients released against staff advice after appeal to courts was little more than inmates released on staff advice. oldtimer, touches down at llllllWiiillllUlillll The journal says in a leading article that the practice of indeterminate sentences for dangerous offenders is unsatisfactory. Indeterminate sentences are usually handed down in cases of criminal insanity or dangerous mental retardation.

"Considering the present state of knowledge and overseas experience, there can be no justification for any extension of their use," says the journal. It calls for a system of review for release of prisoners involving independent review boards, and in which allowance for the prisoner Gaoled on driving charge PERTH. A 20-year-old youth, convicted on his fourth driving under the influence charge, was sent to gaol for two years in Perth police court yesterday. Neville Douglas Thompson, 20, unemployed, of Wcllman Street, Guildford, an eastern suburb, pleaded guilty to charges of driving under the influence and dangerous driving. He was gaoled for 12 months on each charge, the terms to be cumulative.

The court was told that at 3.30 a.m. on December 25, Thompson was found by police sitting behind the steering wheel of a car parked at the entrance of a service station in Guildford Road, Mt. Lawley. The key was still In the ignition and the rear of the car was blocking part of the road. Thompson told the court yesterday that he had taken his girl-friend to a party.

She had become drunk and to keep her out of trouble he haa decided to drive. The car stalled In the entrance of the service station and he was unable to get it started again. Stormy waters take 2 lives Two young men drowned in Victorian waters over the Christmas holiday period. A man, 25, drowned' in Lake Victoria, 30 miles east of Sale on Sunday during a storm. The man, a non-swimmer, was lying on a rubber tyre 20 yards off shore when the storm struck.

It drove him quickly away from several friends who were swimming nearby. The man slipped off the tyre and disappeared in 50 feet of water. The name of the man, from Meerlieu, 25 miles east of Sale, was not available last night. Despite several attempts, his friends were unable to find his" body. Police search and rescue divers, will continue the search today.

A Malvern man, 22, was swept to his death off the Nobbies at Phillip Island yesterday by a big wave. The man, whose name is not yet available was fishing from the rocks with two companions. One of his friends, aged 19, tried to reach him but the man was swept away by the strong current. Police will continue to search the area a rocky bay eight miles south of Cowes today. HIRE OFFICE MACHINES Adding, Calculating, Aceountlnt Machines, Typewriters.

MAXWELL. 347 4722. IAdvt.1 'Upsurge' Mr. Milne said yesterday 17,500 applications had been received for the three universities and four colleges. Of these, about 12,000 were expected to have the Higher School Certificate or an equivalent qualification.

Dr. Law said that applications for the colleges especially those in the country were going up at an "astonishing" rate. "There is a great upsurge in demand for tertiary education and we've got to make up our minds whether we will stick to the traditional idea of offering a place for everyone who is qualified, or offering places only to the very bright ones," he said. "There is pressure to keep the number of graduates tied to the number of jobs available, but I don't really agree with this. "I would agree in highly vocational courses, but not in general areas of education I believe people are entitled to higher education, and the pursuit of education is, after all, of benefit to the community." Woman rescues husband A 68-year-old Northcote woman rescued her Invalid husband when Are badly damaged their home in Woolton Avenue early today.

Mrs. M. Foley was asleep In the five-bedroom house when she was awakened by the sound of flames in the rear of the building. She managed to grab a few clothes before helping her husband, 78, to safety. Two other men sleeping in the house had to flee before they could save their possessions.

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