The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 10

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30, 2-Chome, Azuchi-Machi, Higashi-Ku, Osaka 541, Japan I MELBOURNE: 101 Tulip Street, Cheltenham, (Head Office) )550 1011 CANBERRA: Unit Maryborough Street, Fyshwick, 95 0419 SYDNEY: 64 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 560 7399 HOBART: 141 Murray Street, Hobart, 23 7484 BRISBANE: 64 Robertson Street, Fortitude Valley, 52 8055 PERTH: 164 Lord Street, Perth, 328 7899 ADELAIDE: 130-134 Burbridge Road, Hilton, 352 4011 From copy boy to dept head CANBERRA. Seated in the office of the head scientific officer of the Defence Department, with his back to a large grid map of Australia and South-East Asia, Dr John Farrands reminisced about the days he was a newspaper copy boy. Farrands spent his last aDo. chief of the Australia's scientific think tank for defence on Friday. After six years as head of the defence science and technology organisation he has been appointed secretary of the Department of Science.

He succeeds Sir Hugh Ennor, who retired Friday. Sir Hugh turns 65 today, marking the end of a long distinguished career which included 11 years as the department's permanent head. In his office in the securitytight defence buildings beside Dr John Farrands stresses the importance of science to man the American War Memorial, Dr Farrands remembered his first job as a copy boy on the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial. He was dismissed because he tried too hard. He got into a scuffle with another boy one night after an errand came up.

Both wanted to do it, but the supervisor thought they were trying to get out of the job and, at the age of 16 in the height of the depression, John Farrands lost his first job. But things picked up and eventually he qualified as a science teacher. After "working on radars" during the war he continued with the Government undertaking scientific projects. Now he is one of the major forces in Australia's scientific Quiet start to bridge's second life HOBART. Two early morning joggers achieved the distinction of being the first people to officially cross the rebuilt Tasman Bridge when it was quietly opened on Saturday morning.

At 7.35 am, -and-a-half hours ahead of schedule, several site engineers, watched by a crew of workmen who had pulled down steel barricades blocking the approaches, cut a red ribbon and police waved a lone motorist in a white Honda Civic across. However, Hobart people soon came out to welcome their bridge back and by 11 am, as an ecumenical memorial service was being held under the eastern approaches, hundreds of people were walking, sunshine. riding bicycles or driving across in brilliant And, from the apex of the magnificently arched bridge, the scene looking up the deep blue Derwent was dotted with hundreds of yachts, their colourful spinnakers billowing in a slight westerly breeze as they sailed towards the bridge. Hobart was divided on January 5, 1975, when the bulk carrier Lake Illawarra crashed into the bridge, causing two spans to collapse. Twelve people died.

On Saturday, people were in a happy mood. smiling, waving and praising the bridge, which means the end of 34 months of frustration for motorists who were forced to detour on to the temporary Bailey bridge or catch a ferry. The construction of the army-style Bailey bridge in October cut the trip from the eastern shore to the centre, of the city one hour to half an hour. it is five minutes. At the memorial service in the grounds of the Montagu Bay primary school, politicians, civic leaders and residents prayed bridge's shadow for the dead and, one suspects, that it will never happen again.

a Mr Murray Ling, 46, a public servant the who, with of his wife Helen and two sons, teetered on edge the gap with the front wheels of their car nearly 40 metres above the water, stood quietly in the crowd. "All I can says is: thank God we are all here to see it reopened," he said after the 30-minute ceremony. Almost on cue a bulk carrier, as big the Lake Illawarra and with the same cargo of zinc concentrate, passed between the huge piles supporting the centre section of roadway only metres away from where the Lake Illawarra struck. NSW road toll 950 after 12 die at weekend A four-year-old boy was killed yesterday afternoon while playing outside his home in Eastwood. Daniel Kakaire, of Doomben Avenue, Eastwood, a car.

He died later in hospital. received serious injuries when he stepped i in front of Two people died in a collision between a motorcycle and a car in the Royal National Park, Sutherland, last night. Police had not released their names late last night. The three deaths brought the weekend road toll to 12. This year, 950 people have died on NSW roads, 24 fewer than for the same period last A head-on collision early yesterday between two Holden sedans at the corner of Milperra and Ashford Roads, Milperra, killed two people.

The driver of one of the cars. John Wilcock, 46, of Goldfinch Avenue, Moorebank, and a 47-year-old woman passenger from Padstow, died instantly. Two other passengers and the driver of the other car were taken to hospital. Robert Bron, 27, mechanic, of Bombay Street, Lidcombe, died yesterday afternoon after his car overturned on Trunk Road No 84, about 4km cast of Wallendbeen, near Goulburn. Travers loses advantage By our Chess Correspondent CHESS Paul Dozsa, a Hunga- A.

Flatow 1 J. Purdy H. rian master, sacrificed Barber 1 F. Hutchings the exchange and a K. Harrison N.

Selim pawn for unclear com- M. Wettstein 1 P. Halpin plications against the 0. 1975 titleholder in the round Adjourned game result, eight: Hutchings ninth round of the NSW Flatow States chess champion- Scores (two rounds to ship on Saturday even- play): Dozsa Travers ing. Purdy, Wettstein Curtis, Roy Travers's material Harrison, Hutchings advantage should have Halpin Flatow, Selim, been sufficient for victory, Barber 34; Kewley 3.

but he ran short of time The NSW Country indiand Dozsa infiltrated with vidual championship in his minor pieces on the Orange attracted a disapking's side. pointing entry of 13 A draw was agreed after players. 41 moves, although later Ralph Jackson, of Sydanalysis proved that Dozsa ney, won the event with 5 had a winning position. out of 5, but was ineligible Results, round nine: for the Country title, P. Dozsa R.

Travers which went to Greg VinJ. Curtis D. Kewley all, of Grenfell. Jungle doctor dies MELBOURNE. Sir Albert Coates, the distinguished Melbourne surgeon who won fame as "Coates of Thailand" during World War II, died on Saturday.

He was 82. Sir Albert, a doctor in wartime jungle camps, performed heroic surgery among prisoners of war. He was senior surgeon to the Second AF in Malaya in 1942 and was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. He became senior, doctor to POWs in Thailand, working along the Moulmein-Bangkok railway where thousands died. development, but he recognised nological progress we have that many people are dis- made." of illusioned science with the achievements This, he feels, is the responsifor the and were forsaking it bility of scientific development.

simple life. He is conscious of the FrankTk 3 fols enstein image that many people "Science will always go on, have of scientists who work on it no and matter what people do about weapons. I think the modern Lud- "Most of the things we dite is fooling himself that he is develop are purely defensive. returning to the simple life," he Any offensive capability they said. "You have is purely secondary.

can't have progress "I think we have to sit down without technical progress and I and take a studied look at the think what they fail. to recog- science which we need, and that nise is the good that science has depends on both the economy produced. and the nature of society. "Even the most modest piece "We must look at science of equipment requires a whole which is worth doing for its history of technology behind it. own sake and provides a cultuI like the simple life myself, but ral contribution, and science you can't feed the people of the which is worth doing because earth by ignoring the tech- you have a sense of 1.

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