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EQUIPMENT ON BOARD OPERATING AS PLANNED
Spaceship sailing smoothly
Russian rocket 303,740 miles from earth
Moscow, Feb. 13.
Russia's Venus-bound spaceship was 303,- 740 miles from the earth at 9 am GMT today.
Tass gave the following additional information about the spaceship's progress and aims:
will either score a direct hit or become a little planet on its own, IF IT MISSES
If '' missen Venus
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It was travelling away from the earth at a speed of 2.5 miles a second. "After a few days the automatic Interplanetary sta- tion will be out of the so-called swingt into orbit round the sphere of terrestrial gravitation sun, it will rat meet the earth
All equipment aboard the
on the way back. Ha "year" operating space ship is
will be shorter than oura. 30- During planned.
the lant
cording to Professor Arl Sternfeld, leading astronautic ¡ expert.
But in any case the ship may well unravel
tralismission period the tel perature abuard the station was 20 degrees (centigrade)
bove zero.
The station's equipment. is designed for studying cosmic
to
space somn
the secreta of cloud- wrapped Venus, most mysteri- our of the planets, including ibe most intriguing of all whether life exists there.
Dog had right Kennedy urges Animal
to bite
trespasser
Melbourne, Feb. 13,
A trespasser who was bitten by a dog on private pro- perty had no right to damages, Mr Justice Adam ruled in the Su- ? preme Court today.
Te upheld a Geelong court decision watch dismissed a
complaint by a men who was
| bitten in a Geelong garage ou [u public holiday.
Mr Justle, Adain held Uint the magistrate was entitled to And that the complainant, Mr Charles H. Trethowan, of north Geelong, was a trespasser when he entered : closed Garage
a ured premises through yard at the rear 03 ʼn public hollday to get some work done-
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car
Aversham, Feb. 13, James Bartlett, B3-year-akl veteran driver, was ordered to It also ploneering the way take a new driving test today shot ut Mars--AP & after he was fined £5 for enre-
Jess driving.-UPI.
dition, magnetle Arlds, inter- anetary matter and regattering Collisions with micro-meteorites, constantly-charging solar tat- teries power radio relays of in- formation from the space ship
the Reuter, Communications. with station wil he maintained once in five days. Progress reports will be keurd once a week fron 1.ow un.
Soviet
selcntists said
today
that their flying laboratory
#hould meet
between May
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the planet Venus
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Illegal diamond mining
Abidjan, Feb. 13.
joint Ivory Coast-Mali
delegation today visited
MORE HEADS ROLL
IN RUSSIA
Moscow, Feb. 13.
Two party secretaries condemned in Premier Nikita Khrushchev's forceful criticism of agricultural problems were minus their jobs today as heads continued to roll in party organisations throughout the country."
Seguelo, a diamond bear- In ing region in the north- P.I. west section of the Ivory party secretary
business world
to help fight
inflation
Washington, Feb. 13.
lovers protest
Topeka, Fab. 13. Animal lovers protested to- day about a mouse that
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plunged to its death from 1,024 feet when the re- covery parachute on rocket, launched by four high school students, fail- od to work,
The rockel, fred under the supervision of an Air Force
President Kennedy said today the govern-officer yesterday, was developed
Mr
ment is virtually powerless to combat inflation and called for "constructive co-operation" by labour and manage mont to promote sound wage-price policies.
ot Kennedy spoke luncheon meeting Dí the National Industring Conference Board, en organisation of about 000 business
executives. Labour Secretary Arthur J. Guldberg said earlier that a would not shorter work week br
solution #good
to unem- ployment.
The President's report envisioned his administration and the business warir ns partners, not enemies. He therefore asked for a relationship marked by "mutual under- standing and fruitfuj colinbora-
instead tion"
of "mutant f suspicion and recrimination,"
"Whatever past differences may have existed," Mr Kennedy sail, "we seek more than on al- titude of truce, more than
о
| treaty-sve seek the spirit of A
| full-fiedged alliance,
He said there were three basle Tareas of common concern to governmenL and business--"the rate of economic growth, planned
lity."
that the
dernisation and price slabi- He went on to say threat of inflation hangs over all efforts to pull the economy out of the current recession. Then, defending his
administration against complaints it was not
responsibilities in the latest wave of Arings, recently was replaced by Pre-meeting Ita
Doronina, Arsl regional sidium member Averki Aristov fighting Intiation, he added:
"Whatever one may regard our of Smolensk in an as yet unexplained move-
to be. we are of many
spekers ment. A regional party meet-responsibilities Coast, to make an on-the-interrupted by Mr Karushehov ing also freed from his duties almost totally without direct and spat enquiry into on in- at the January meeting of the Arst secretary M. K. Lazurenko enforceable cident involving illicit Central Committer, was dis- and elected I. S. Gryshevsky in central problem." diamond mining.
missed at a Smolensk regional his place. party session; necording to the Communist
Party newspaper Pravda.
Ten days ago, when Ivory Const polire efficials arrested dozen illegal diamond hunters,
DEWOTY over the
He explained that government Present
in a free society could have only Ukrainian first parly secre-mited influence over wages and tary Nikolai Podgorny, criticised prices, a thousand armed men sur- wounded them, and the police The meeting was attended by himself by Khrushchev, was had to release their prisoners. one of the vice-presidents of present at the meeting,
The next day police reinforce- ments were sent to the area and 500 people were prrested, most of them from Mall.
The Mali delegation in the joint investigation team is led by Jean Marle Kone, Minister of Justice-AFP,
Pravda noted the reting the Russian Republie's Central
"studied the tasks of party Committee, V. M. Churayev,
to
out carry since Smolensk is in the Bus-ganisations
decisions of the January 'Central sian Republic.
Committee meeting."
Doroninn was replaced by Pitr Abrashimov, former am- bassador to Poland. Abrasimov
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The Arings also hit the Kirkl- zian Repubile and Oxlessa res cently as a follow-up to Mr Khrushchev's declaration that party members unable to or- ganise agriculture administra- tion properly must givo up their positions
Therefore, Le said, he relying heavily on his planta Presidential advisory com. milice en labour-manage ment policy to play a major role In promoting soullu ware-price policies, increased productivity
2. and
better
U.S. compeiliive position to world trade. He voiced hope the business leaders Would co-operate.
Mr Goldberg, in his speech, said the first job facing the administration ai its anti-reEEG-
The Soviet Premier was of the clon efforts was to "restore the minian housecleaning in
the
country to production on a 40-
party would somehow solve the hour week." He ruled out any problem of modernisation, mechanisation and production system of government increases in agriculture.--UPI. price controls.--UPI.
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report and protest to the Na-
headquarters la Chicago over the Incident-Reuter.
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