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THE AGE, Monday, April 25, 1977 HOME NEWS 5 Asian migrant lift sought From GREGG BORSCHMANN SYDNEY. The Federal Government will be asked to admit 10,000 Asian refugees every year. Man dies in level crossing smash A man was killed when his car hit the BallaratMildura passenger train at a level crossing near Ballarat early Saturday morning. He was Norman John Lander, 26, of Marigold Street, Wendouree West. He was one of five people killed in road accidents on the weekend.

Malcolm James Chandof Beverly Street, Doncaster, was killed when was driving spun out of control after colliding with a tram travelling in the opposite direction, in High Street, Kew. He then collided with a following car. The accident occurred at 9.18 p.m. on Friday. George Simpson, 33.

of Felecia Grove, Forest Hill, was killed when the car he driving ran off a lefthand bend in Coburns Road, Toolern Vale, and rolled over. Simpson was thrown from the car. Henry Marriot, 48, of Fraser Street, Broadmeadows, was killed when struck by a car as was walking across Johnston Street, Broadmeadows. An elderly male pedestrian was killed when struck by a car in Franklin Street at 6.50 pm on Saturday. His name has not been released.

A girl, six, had her skull fractured in a two-car collision in Clayton Road, Clayton, late Saturday afternoon. Judith Luttrell, of Kaye Court, Dandenong, was taken to Dandenong Hospital and transferred early yesterday morning to Prince Hospital. Six other people in the cars, including four children, were taken to Dandenong Hospital with minor injuries. Liberals conflict over pot laws SYDNEY. The Liberal Party has been publicly embarrassed by a decision of the NSW Young Liberal Movement to support the decriminalisation of marihuana for personal use.

The decision, passed yesterday, is in direct conflict with the Parliamentary party's policy on the drug. The 80 Young Liberal delegates carried a supporting motion by a slim majority after an hour's debate at the movement's annual conference in Newcastle. The NSW president of the movement, Mr. Jim Carey, told the meeting that if penalties against the personal use of the drug were removed, police could concentrate on convictions for hard drugs like heroin. The former chairman of the Parliamentary Drug Committee under the previous State Government, Mr.

A. Viney, Wakehurst) said night he doubted whether the delegates would have had sufficient knowledge to make such 3 decision. TOPSOIL A-1 Sandy loam DIRT CHEAP Delivered all suburbs (Bankcard Welcome) Phone now KEL QUARRIES 20 1000 Also at CHEAP RATES: BRICK SAND, CRUSHED ROCK, PACKING SAND, LILYDALE TOPPINGS, SCORIA, Min. 8 yds. HAVE A NICE DAY The national Dougherty, said settled in family towns.

Mr. Dougherty, 21-day tour of Bangladesh, said many were talented tarmers "These people are asset to Australia great Australian Mr. Dougherty said Minister for Immigration MacKellar, with the "He said the scheme carefully and funded Even if Mr. MacKellar Mr. Dougherty is Government to let year.

Delays in giving nationality: ALP man About twelve thousand applications for citizenship are lying untouched in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Melbourne, a Labor candidate claimed yesterday. Peter Gavin, the endorsed ALP candidate for Coburg, said that according to "informed sources" the delays were the result of instructions to ASIO and the Commonwealth police "not to screen the Mr. Gavin said he believed the reasons for the blockage were political. "The Federal Government may be frightened by the fact that naturalised migrants in up to 75 per cent of cases become Labor voters," he said. The delay in processing applications was now running at about 18 months compared with six months a year ago.

This meant that migrants who had applied a year ago would still be disbarred from voting in next month's referendum. Ironic It was ironic that while the Federal Government on the surface encouraged citizenship they were making it so difficult for people to become naturalised. But the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr. MacKellar, last night dismissed Mr. Gavin's claims that the delays were politically inspired as "sheer nonsense." "We have quickened up the process since we came to power," Mr.

MacKellar said. "When I came to power time varied from State to State but it was between three and six months. We got it down to three months." Latest immigration figures show that 57,000 migrants were granted citizenship in the year ending June 30, 1975. Mr. MacKellar said matters took longer now because the checks particularly those on character took a long time.

Electronics may help foil school kidnappers The Education Department has asked a group of security companies to suggest possible new electronic means of protecting isolated schools. Department security officials say existing electronic systems would not prevented the Woreen kidnapping in February, and have asked the security companies to consider alternatives. One system being considered is of Austcare, Mr. Bob the refugees could be of three or four in country returned yesterday from a camps in Thailand and of the people in the camps fishermen. farmers.

They would be an am sure they would make he said. would be approaching the and Ethnic Affairs, Mr. would have to be planned the Federal Government. rejects his figure of 10,000, he can convince the thousand people in every Mr. Dougherty visited two camps in Thailand, which has 48,000 refugees.

He asked to see best and the worst camp. At Laem Sing, on the southeast coast of Thailand. he saw 882 people camped in an area 100 yards long and 20 yards wide. Part of the area used to be a cemetery. Except for 90 Cambodians, all the people in the camp were Vietnamese.

They were well fed and had adequate medical care, but their living conditions were poolin lived in bamboo huts with thatched roofs or covered in black plastic. There was no privacy, no dignity, no Mr. Dougherty said. The problem of the people mostly fishermen is that they are confined to the camp and not allowed to use their fishing boats moored nearby because this would be taking the jobs of other Thais. a device which teachers could strap on their arm or keep in their pockets.

When activated it would automatically sound the alarm, possibly through a telephone. Another possibility is a special homing device which could be attached to the teacher or their vehicles. This would help police zero in on the kidnappers and their victims. The Education Department's safety and security co-ordinator, Mr Colin O'Neill, says it would probably cost several million dollars to install electronic equipment in all the State's 759 one and two-teacher schools. "The question is not finance if it's needed," he says, "but if we're going to spento a lot of money we want be foolproof.

"Alarms would need to be activated by some hidden device and, in some cases, the nearest 24-hour police station or garage is too far away for immediate assistance, even if he alarm could be a activated safely. "The security companies might come up with some device which will beat everything. "One of the companies assisting us helps protect the President in the United States, so they might come up with some really good ideas." SCREAMING MEMBERS DIVE TO THE FLOOR AS WINDOW SHATTERS Shots wreck Australian team beams in on the graser SYDNEY. Physicists at the University of New South Wales and the Royal Military College, Duntroon, are well advanced in producing the world's first gamma-ray laser. Production of gamma-ray lasers or "grasers" as they are known will From PHILIP McINTOSH enable scientists to view the atom for the first time.

pends on our knowledge of the difOne of the scientists involved in the ferent molecules. project, Professor Geoff Wilson, said it "To develop drugs like valium you be a great achievement for Aus- need to know the structure of molewould tralia to produce the first graser. cules. He said millions of dollars were be- "The graser will enable us to view ing spent on similar research in the the atom and complicated molecules." United States and the Soviet Union. Professor Wilson is head of the de- A key to the Australian research lies partment of physics at Duntroon.

Work- in specified radio active nuclei supplied ing with him are Professor Henrich by the Atomic Energy Research EstabHora, head of the department of theor- lishment at Lucas Heights, near Sydetical physics at NSW University and ney. Paul George, head of the Professor George said the next step university's school of physics. was find which nuclei were amenProfessor George said yesterday the able to laser action. graser could produce a stronger beam "This is a matter of methodically of light than a laser because its wave going through the several thousand enlength was 5 much shorter. tries on the nuclear table and getting beam," graser is a very will direct, pierc- it down to a list of about 30 possibilithe ing laser do, but better." anything ties and checking out each of these," he said.

"It do can he said. Because of this, the graser will have applications in industry, navigation and All three professors agree they could communication. produce the world's first graser by the In medicine, grasers could be used end of the year. to more effectively remove cancerous "It may take a year or more," said tissue. Professor Wilson.

"But we will be Professor Hora said, "The whole of working hammer and tongs to be the biological and medical research de- first." Australian team Bowls president Mr. Milner Former Premier dies at 78 A former Premier of Victoria, Sir John McDonald, 78, died late on Saturday evening. He had been ill for some time and was a patient at Mooroopna Hospital. Sir John, a Shepparton district fruitgrower, was Premier and Treasurer of a minority Country Party Government from 1950 to 1952. He was Leader of the Country Party from 1945 to 1955 and Opposition Leader in State Parliament from 1945 to 1947.

and from 1948, to 1950. He was Minister for Lands, Supply and Soldier Settlement from 1947 to 1948. Sir John represented Shepparton in Parliament for 19 years before he retired because of ill health in 1955. He was also a director of Australia's biggest fruit canning group, SPC for 32 years and chairman of its board from 1965 to 1970. Sir John is survived by a wife, Mary, a son and two daughters.

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BETTER MECHANICAL COURES, P.L., 58 Burwood Road, Hawthorn, 3122. Phone any time 81 1855; 232 3777. By STEVE HARRIS, our Education Reporter Spencer points to bullet The department has received dozens of suggested. security schemes since and nine pupils were kidnapped from the Woreen Primary School in Gippsland. Mr.

O'Neill believes absence of any effective electronic security, the best measure could be local "patrols." "The proposal is that parents be rostered to call at isolated schools throughout the day," he says. bowls An -season rum Bowling Club day night after air the club and barely Dozens of the 105 bers present dived to floor and screamed as were fired through about 8 pm. Two of the shots a window a few centimetres behind the club's old president, Mr. Spencer. "I had just sat down I'd presented the trophies, and about five onds later I felt something hit my glasses," Mr.

cer said yesterday. "I put my hand up to my glasses and there shattered glass them." "A lot of members screaming and had under tables and chairs. "Then I looked up to that one lady's hand bleeding from glass cuts." The lights in the turned the room offered immediately were drawn. Six ran to investigate where shots had come from. didn't see but found that a number cars in the club carpark been shot at and damaged.

Mr. Spencer, who is first year as club said he believed the were aimed at him. "If they had been with a .22 rifle instead trophy presentation at Carended in uproar on Saturrifle shots were fired into missed the president. night By ERIC BEECHER air rifle, I wouldn't be sittinguhere. today." Spencer, a retired orchadist and bowler for 20 years, said he couldn't understand why anyone would want to fire at him.

"We've never had any strife like this here before. This really upset us as it was the highlight of our bowling season. "I don't know why anyone was after me." Police could find no trace of anyone in the area, but believe youths at the nearby beach may have been responsible. Fraser backs heart week The Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, last night urged Australians to learn to beat heart attacks.

Mr. Fraser, who was opening National Heart Week, said 30 per cent of deaths each year were caused by heart attack. Many of the victims were people in their most productive years men and women withs families, responsible and gages to pay. The National Heart Foundation wants to courage Australian families to eat sensibly, give up cigarettes, and exercise together through its heart week theme: "Heart disease is a family Media job A former publicity officer for the British Conservative Party has been appointed media secretary to the Prime Minister. Miss Janet Kehoe, who took up, her appointment last week, will be ible for liaison with radio and television.

A spokesman for Mr. Fraser said last night her duties would not include Press briefings. Miss Kehoe, from Lismore, NSW, is late 30s. She has worked in films, television and radio in Australia. memthe shots windows entered 78-yearMilner after club sec- Spen- feel was inside were dived see was club- curtains members the anyone, of had in his president, shots fired of an "NEW INVENTION" A little box called "MAY Works like magic You simply ask for an answer to ALL your problems.

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The State Government will organise a memorial service next Saturday at Shepparton's Scots Presbyterian Church. Former Premier, Sir Henry Bolte, said last night that Sir John had been a personal friend and he was upset to hear of his death. Sir Henry said he believed Victoria owed quite a deal to Sir John. He said Sir John had held beliefs firmly and had worked hard for country people while Premier. The Leader of the National Party (formerly the Country Party), Mr.

Peter Ross-Edwards, said last night that Sir John had been a dynamic character. He said it was amazing what his minority government had been able to achieve. Mr. Ross Edwards said he believed Sir John's term as Premier would best be remembered for the enlarging of the Eildon 1 reservoir. ANTIQUES Big shipment for auction next 27 April quality antique furniture, ruby glass, jewellery etc.

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