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

ft LATE EDITIOxN Monday, January 30, 1967 FORECASTS. CITY: Showers. Cool gusty SE winds. Exp. temp, ranges; City 62 to 74; Liverpool same.

N.S.W.: Rain in NE. Showers southward near coast. Gale force winds North Coast. latum SUN: Today rises 5.14, sets 7.2. MOON: Rises 9.51 p.m., sets 9.16 a.m.

TIDES (Fort Denison): High 11.15 aim. (5ft 7in), 11.56 p.m. (4ft 7in). Low 4.55 a.m. (lOin), 5.46 p.m.

(4in). No. 40,286 Telephone 2 0944 One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Year of Publication. 28 PAGES TV Guide PRICE 5c 3 wje kef AND THE NEXT LANDFALL FOR SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S DEVON ay Cronulla wins surfboat race Cronulla won yesterday's $1,500 "Herald" surfboat race from Manly to Whale Beach. Bronte and Norlh Narrabeen came second and third in the 16-mile race, in which the 25 starters had to battle strong surf and unfavourable winds.

Bungan won a special prize for exemplifying the dedication and devotion of the lifesaving movement. Of the nine members of the club, five competed in the race and four stayed on patrol at the beach. (Full report, picture, page 5.) Outboard trial success Twenty-four out-boards took part vester-day in the "Herald" 90-minute trial at the Taree Aquatic Carnival. The Vice-Commodore of the Manning River Aquatic Association, Mr E. W.

Murdoch, described the trial as "a magnificent success." (Full report, results, page 5.) Favourite hurts knee A veterinary surgeon will examine early favourite Pyramus this morning to determine if the horse will run in the Anniversary Handicap at Randwick today. The trainer, Mr T. J. Smith, said last night Pyramus had knocked a joint on his knee The latest news on today's sporting events, with a review of today's racing in Sydney and Melbourne, and a full form guide, appear on pages 22 and 23. Ten miles out of Sydney Heads, homeward bound half-way round the world to Plymouth, Gipsy Moth IV and Sir Francis Chichester alone at sea yesterday.

The last farewells had been shouted, the last few boats had turned for home. And now there was only a man and the A FRESH WIND AND A ROUSING FAREWELL By JAMES CUNNINGHAM Cyclone brings flood threat to North Coast Civil defence authorities in northern N.S.W. were on standby alert last night as the threat from tropical cyclone Dinah mounted. Teenager dies after city street attack A frail, 17-year-old printer lost a two-day battle for his life in Sydney Hospital yesterday after being attacked in Pitt Street on Friday night. He collapsed a few minutes after a gang of youths attacked him at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool Streets.

He did not regain consciousness. As the area braced itself for possible floods, residents at the other end of the State were cleaning up after a cyclonic storm smashed a 30-mile path along the border on Saturday night. BOTTOMS UP! That surfboat which chased away from Dee Why beach motor cruiser with its amplifier spruik-ing for a local theatre "Chased away" wasn't quite the right phrase. When the seaborne spruikcrs operated off Dee Why and other beaches, surfboats went out, and the crews were met with tankards of chilled beer. On the way hack in the afternoon the lifesavers, still thirsty, went out again, but the cruiser's keg was dry.

NO HARM MEANT. A marine biologist begs us to stop saying unkind things about bluebottles: they're just fishermen at heart, without a speck of malice in their make-up. At microscope level, the bluebottle's tentacle is covered with hundreds of thousands of loaded "guns." These are in the form of tightly coiled threads in a cell of toxic fluid. Touch the cell, and a hair-trigger fires the "guns." Local bluebottles are lightly armed with one major fishing tentacle up to 8ft long. In the Atlantic, now, bluebottles can have several tentacles up to 20ft, each mounting 750,000 "guns." WHO STEALS the furniture from the veranda of the Combined Services Centre in Victoria Street, Darlinghurst? It is well worn stuff which would not fetch a bid in a second-hand market, but at intervals "walks" a small assortment vanished last week.

"It makes us bitter, it's so petty," the supervisor, Mr J. Hilder, says. "We have scouts out looking for it." THE ANSWERS. Miss Eunice Sims (Mona Vale) has the answer for the motorist who collided with a wheelbarrow, and was later baffled by the insurance question, "What was said by the other party?" (Col. 8, Jan.

20). "A week ago I had an accident on a hot, dusty road in western N.S.W.," she confesses. "The 'other party' was a guide post. On the claim form, I answered the same question with, 'Nothing, the guide post lay quietly on the road'." LOST AMENITY. "Train fares go up and up, hut not passenger a Turramurra resident complains.

"Where are the old suburban station waitinc rooms, with their coal fires in winter? Even country whistle-stops once had them. At most stations the waiting rooms have become lock-ups for luggage and freight." INSIDE Page Comics 23 Crossword 23 Data 6 Entertainment and the Arts 16 From the Pulpit 24 Holiday and Travel 20 Mails 11 Radio 6 Shipping 24 Sport 21, 22, 23, 24 Weather 20 ClASSIflfD ADVERTISING INDEX, Pog 25 FOR TEIEPH0NE ADVERTS. DIAl 2 0944 The storm caused Slmlphone communication to damage to near and neachioutside centres was cut. His father, a 45-year-old war veteran who kept a vigil at his son's bedside, said last night. "I'm stunned that this sort of thing can happen right in the middle of Sydney.

One resident said that three steel rails, used telephone posls, were bent horizontal with the ground by the force of the 100 m.p.h. winds Senior Constable Whit-tington said scores of power and telephone lines were down. It would be a week or more before all individual services were restored. Queensland coast battered, page 11. Brandishing a -boom erang and drinking cham-! pagne, the indomitable Sir Francis Chicnester sanea out of Sydney yesterday while the Harbour went wild in the most turbulent, heart-warming farewell this sea-loving city has ever given to any man.

Last night, with a fresh wind swelling the sails of Gipsy Moth IV, the solitary yachtsman was far at sea driving south-east on the final leg or nis epic voyage around cape Horn and around tne world. In the cockpit of his 53ft ketch Sir Francis must have still been moved by the memory of his send-off. For this was an occasion that those who saw will not soon forget. On this day the city seemed to have moved to sea in a dancing armada ot boats. Family parties in out board runabouts muncnea sandwiches bikini girls lr sleek cruisers drank cham pagne.

CANOE Outside the Heads the crew of the America's Cup hope, Dame Pattie, lined its deck to give three cheers. The British High Com missioner, Sir Charles Johnston, waved from the official Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron launch. And. in the high excite ment and emotion of the moment, even stolid water police on duty shouted their good wisncs. The swarm of boals was so thick that Sir Francis was orcvented from hoisting his sails as he had planned to do off Bradlevs Head, instead he waited until he was near North Head.

For an hour before Gipsy Moth cast off at the R.S.Y.S. wharf at Kirribilli the astonishing farewell developed. The cove was alive with boats jockeying for position Harbour chaos as storm lashes Sydney Avenue, Stanmore, was attacked just before midnight while taking his girlfriend home. He died from head injuries. Raymond and his 16-year-old girlfriend spent most Friday nights dancing to "go-go" music at discotheques.

Last Friday night they went to a club in Liverpool Street, arriving about 7.30 p.m. Police said they left about 11.45 p.m. "He was a very quiet boy, but he liked to have fun," his father, Mr Alban Raymond Dixon, said at his Stanmore home last night. "His girlfriend was a very nice girl and I think they were quite serious." RAN OFF Raymond's girlfriend Honours for dead spacemen NEW YORK, Sunday. The three Apollo astro nauts who died in a flash fire which gutted their spacecraft on Friday wii be given heroes funerals on Tuesday.

Colonel Virgil Grissom1 and Lieutenant-Commanderl Roger Chaffee will be buried in Arlington National Ceme tery, Washington, while Lieutenant-Colonel Edward White will be buried in the, West Point Military Aca-I demy's cemetery in New! York State. A team of experts began sifting through the charred spacecraft today in an attempt to find the cause of the lire. PAGE 2: Price of moon race. PAGE 3: Fire warning last words, pictures. Boys die as sand slips LONDON, Sunday.

Two 14-year-old boys died under an avalanche of sand at West Wylam, Northumber land, yesterday. i-rnns arnnnri Cnhram. on' the Victorian side of the border, and thousands of dollars damage to prop erty between Tocumwal and Yarrawonga. The Weather Bureau in Sydney said yesterday thel north-eastern part of the! State already was feeling fringe effects from cyclone Dinah. A preliminary flood war ning was issued yesterday covering tne tweed, Hruns wick and Richmond Rivers.

The bureau said that with in the next 36 hours rain could increase substantially, A spokesman for the; N.S.W. Civil Defence Office said the regional civil defence controller in Lismore Mr J. H. Lewis-Hughes, had alerted all local controllers. A round-the-clock alert was being maintained and the organisation was ready for immediate action in the 10 local authority areas in the region.

CAMPERS Mr Lewis-Hughes said last night that campers and boat owners from thel Queensland border to Evans Head had been warned of the cyclone. The southern border town of Tocumwal, resembled battlefield yesterday with iron, trees and shrubs scattered in streets and vards. senior nonstable c. Whit- tington, of Tocumwal, said: You couldn believe it unless you saw it. The hail completely stripped the bark on trees.

In one farmer's paddock "It was only about 100 yards from Central Police Station." The youth, Raymond David Dixon, of Railway MR A. R. DIXON LATE NEWS 1 RAYMOND DIXON alongside the gleaming wtute-painted Ketch. Small craft of every dis- cription, from a home made canoe, crewed by two schoolboys, to stately launches, just managed to avoid collisions as they churned about. And yet, from all parts of the Harbour more boatsl came hurrying to join the throng.

Craft began bump ing gently as they waited jammed together. Crowds packed the grounds of the R.S.Y.S. and surrounding buildings asi more and more people streamed in and stayed sweating in the hot sun. SHORTS On the wharf someone raised a notice proclaiming: "Were proud ot you, Sir Francis." Appropriately, Sir Fran cis, aboard Gipsy Moth was dressed to match the sun shine. He wore a white peaked cap, a brilliant red and blue striped sports shirt and crimson shorts.

Just before casting off at 11 a.m. he stepped on to the iettv for the last time. There he shook hands with the nearest in the crowd and was presented with a boom erang. Then, with police launches clearing the water about it, Gipsy Moth, using its auxiliary motor got slowly under way. At the wheel was Lady Chichcsler, wearing a red cap, navy sweater and slacks.

Among a small party also on board were Mr Warwick Hood, the naval architect who redesigned Gipsy Moth keel. Captain L. M. Hinchliffe, secretary of the R.S.Y.S., yacht designer Mr, Alan Payne and Mr H. M.

Eaton who helped Sir Fran cis with work on the ketch A few moments later Mr Continued P. 11. chanted, "Don't hang Ryan, hang Bolte." Detective-Inspector R. M. Braybrook, who was showered with eggs, said: "We have seen a lot of local toughs in the crowd here today." Two men were charged at Coburg police station with using indecent language, and an 18-year-old labourer, of East Keilor, was charged with assaulting police, resisting offensive behaviour and throwing a missile to the danger of the public.

Father John Brosnan, the Roman Catholic chap 6th Batt. soldier killed in Vietnam Sunday. One Australian soldier died and three were, wounded in Vietnam yesterday. Private Geoffrey Law rence Tweedie, 21, single, nf Lilvda e. victoria.

member of 6th Battalion, Roval Australian Regiment, died from gunshot wounds. wounds. nant Trevor John Sheehan. 25. married, of Merrylands, New South Wales, and Private Leigh Edward Gates, 21, single of Blairgowrie, Victoria, received shrapnel wounds.

CONCUSSION Private Noel Bruce Hex-ter, 21. single, of East Malvern, Victoria, suffered con cussion. The casualties occurred during what Army officials here called "a series of hard-fought actions" in which Australian troops killed at least two guerillas and wounded up to 10 others. The Australians had once again clamped down on Vietcong guerilla movements in Phuoc Tuy province and at the same time fought off an attack on a friendly village, the officials added. Death, despair, starvation, page 2.

Villagers pack refugee camps, page 3. by 500 Gaol lain at the gaol, celebrated Mass for Ryan and his 75-ycar-old mother in the condemned cell at Pent ridge Gaol today. Ryan's solicitor, Mr Ralph Frcadman, tonight appealed for anyone know ing the whereabouts of John Tolmic. who recently left a sawmill company at Murrindindi, to telephone his assistant urgently at Someone has told me that this man Tolmie may have something interesting to tell me anout the snooting incident," he said. Celebrations Re-enactment of Governor Phillip's landing at Manly in 1788 and an artillery salute from an 1854 cannon will be among the highlights of Australia Day celebrations today.

Details, page 5. difficulties and anchors dragged as waves 6ft high were whipped up in the Harbour. Police launches Nemesis and Scott with the aid of private launches and power ooais irom sailing ubs res cued dozens of small craft on the Harbour. Nemesis rescued a 25ft half-cabin cruiser dragging its anchor between Point Piper and Shark Island. Off Darling Point, the crew of a capsized VJ sail-1 ing boat were rescued.

Police also went to the rescue of two men aboard half-cabin cruiser in trouble off George's Head. SEARCH The police launch Fear less rescued a man from a 15ft speedboat in Botany! Bay after an hours search Fearless also rescued two boats in trouble a mile off Wanda Beach. The storm caused flash flooding and a two-hour closure of Richmond Road near the Blacktown showground. The road was covered by 18 inches of water. The storm also caused blackouts in the Sydney and Prospect County Council areas.

At Huskisson, on Jcrvis Bay, 50 Heron sailing boats were overlurned by strong winds in the middle of State championship race. All of the 100 people who had manned the Herons were rescued. Their boats were washed up along the coast and a number are still missing. where grass had beenLressna Police beat back rush A storm which hit Syd ney late yesterday caused chaos among small boats, blew a light aircraft on to its side and caused minor flooding. Southerly winds up to 40 knots and heavy rain lasncd the city and suburbs for more than two hours.

The Weather Bureau re corded 84 points of rain between 5.55 p.m. and 10 n.m. Showers and southerly winds have been forecast for the metropolitan area today. The aircraft which was blown on to its side was a 172. piloted bv a Guyra grazier, Mr Bob Hammond, who was unhurt.

Hammond had landed at Kingsford Smith Airport with radar assistance and was taxiing along the run way approach when the aircraft was blown over. The aircraft was righted and towed off the runway approach. It is owned by Illawarra Aviation Services, of Bankstown. Small sailing boats overturned, launches got into Government workboat to investigate the reports and will bring back the victims, said to be seriously injured. They will he treated at Nonga base hospital, near Rabaul.

The workboat is expected to arrive back in Rabaul early tomorrow. (A.A.P.) told Mr Dixon they were near the corner of Pitt and Liverpool Streets when they were approached by about 10' youths. After the attack the gang ran off as the hysterical girl ran for help at the discotheque, Mr Dixon added. Raymond was assisted inside, fully conscious. He thanked his help ers, but seconds later collapsed, vomiting and bleeding from the nose.

'He was only a little chap, about seven and a half stone, said Mr Dixon, fighting back tears. "Quiet, reserved, and very, very shy, mat describes Raymond." Raymonds mother and his girlfriend were under sedation last night. Four youths will appear in the Metropolitan Children's Court tomorrow charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm. growing, ine carm was leri bare. Almost every building In the town was damaged in some way, but in only one case was evacuation necessary.

He said Mr and Mrs Alan Seamer and their family, whose home was almost wrecked, moved to a friend's house yesterday. ine town was without power most of Saturday night and for a period tele- on Pentridge TWO MEN SET ABLAZE MELBOURNE, Sunday. Five hundred anti-hanging demonstrators fought, running battles with police during a two-hour demonstration outside Pentridge Gaol today. The handful of police on duty outside the gaol wielded their batons as the demonstrators threw punches, eggs and stones. Reinforcements were urgently called and it wns more than two hours before police regained con trol.

As the demonstrators fought with police, 5,000 people were holding an orderly meeting at the Coburg reserve, less than a mile away, to protestj against the decision to hang Ronald Kyan on luesoay. The 500 rioters had taken part in a march with the 5,000 other protesters through the streets of suburban Coburg. However, when the pro cession neared the gaol, the 500 marchers swung around and began to march on Pentridge. They ignored pleas by organisers from the Coburg Protest Committee to turn about. Throughout the demonstration outside the Pentridge walls, the crowd RABAUL.

Sunday. Two villagers became living torches at Vunalama plantation in the Bainings area of New Britain, today. Radio reports to Rabaul say that another plantation worker doused tne two men with petrol, then set them alight. Inspector Peler Lenchan has gone to Bainings in a Prlntad and publiihw by Jefin Fairfax and Son Lirmtwl, of Jent StrMt, Broad war. ft Jen Slrttt, Broodwoy.

Portal odrfrtn, lot 504, 0.f.O., Sydny. ttgiiiaftd at lha Oanrol Pert OffleEt Srdflty, for twtMWiiM by eott 04 MMptJ The youths three aged 17 and one aged 1 6 were charged on Saturday night. .1.