·y······h······e············m ........ a ....... 1;·n········ .... r .... u ...... s .... h ...... ,i. ~~: ~;£~:::::;~ = ence all d y y ter- I day they flew in and out or Darwin

South now Over !~~~me~~pUene::: I for the r con true-' ::: ~ ~:·1~:E~

The evacuation of Darwin has now declined markedly to P~~~~sn;p~~gt~ ~~~~= i take on, back to th

tri~kle. uatlon centre. NML Build- Melbourne to take on nnd it Le; difficult to estlmat.e ing. second floor. • a new load.

I

hould th numb rs who have It ls hoped to send key "" left by road." he said. personnel south soon for 9"•• ..........

r st and recuperatlon

men bat for

Commercial airline re- with their !am.Illes. MCC !.lime normnl operations Staff of the d!stribu-on Friday, January 3· Uon centres, sanlt.ation

Th air evncuntlon ar-rnngmcnts will continue crev.~. NT pollce, jail

1 guards, food committee on t 1e commerclnl ftlghts. members anu other vol-

unteers who have been holding the fort more or less non stop since Cyc­lone Tracv wlll be air­lifted out.

Repor ar reacrunr the co-ordlnatinr centre that cxc iv charge hav been made for good to r ldents and tra\•el­lers.

The Co-ordinator of Emergency Services, l\1r Ray McHenry, invites people who have had ex­periences of excessive charges to submit the de­tail ln writing to the centre or at any police tatlon. Action can then be

taken to investigate the complaint and appropriate measures taken to control the practice.

Due to complete des­truction. some areas ot Darv•in cannot. obta.1n water.

But services have been restored now to the north­ern suburbs except Wang­url, Nakara, Tiwl and Anula.

Darwin MELBOURNE - Eng­

land cricketer. v;ent to bat for the Darwin disas­ter fund during the Aus­tralia - MCC knock - out game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday.

The MCC touring party approached the Victorian Cricket Associatlon and a Melbourne newspaper Last night and offered their services to help the Dar­win appeal.

Team manager Alec Bedser sald all members of the party not playing i the match, went among the crowd collecting for the fund.

"People were a.s gener­ous in their dona.lions as they have been in their hospitality to the England t am during this tour," · id Bedser.

I BRIEF Eleven new Aus1ralian knights and one Dam

have been named by the Queen in her New Y ar Honors list.

They he d more th. n ~ A tra.11.ans who h \'e been i\'en w rd in r gnlti n of ~ervic to the communlt:. com­merce, port. the rts and journ l · n.

Only th non - Labor go\" rum 11t.s of New

uth W l ·. Victoria. nd W st rn

·ubmitt d honors 11 t for th Que n's approval, np rt from nominations for th police m d 1 in south Austrnll nd '!'Mm ni .

Th r ngaln no F dernl Go\' •nun nt list.

LO. 'DON, Wtdn da). - Qu n Ellmbeth con­ferred a tlU on ha.rU Chaplin today and turned the ere n clQwn of ol~n chy into a. knl&ht call d · " Ir h rle ."

At the age of 8:> - some 60 yenrs after ere Uni his comic tramp in baggy pant/ and bowler-Chap­lin was ma.de a Knight Commander of the Order or the British Emplrc CK.B.E.>.

It wns one of 732 new titles. medals and decor­ations in the New Y nr's Honors.

YDNEY. - Hoodlum. et fire to cars, lit bon­

flr s and brawled In a dozen uburbs a ydney welcomed In the Ne Year early y terday.

Two men died and 50 were injured in road acci­dents, whll nnotber 12 p ople went to hospital with drug overdoses.

Police said o.n 18-ycar­old girl wos raped by 10 youths and a 17-year-old girl was stripped and beaten in a New Yeo.r's Eve party at the outer western suburb ot Leth­bridge Po.rk.

Police reported that cars were set ablaze at Tempe, Wooloomooloo and Banks town.

A group ot youths Ut bonftrcs in the inner sub­urb ot Pyrmont.

YDNEY. - A larre bushfire ls burnlnr rapid­ly towards the main we.t­ern rail line ln far w~t­ern N W.

Fire fighters and rail­way controllers fear the blaze will d~troy the sleepers supporting the railc; and threaten thfl vital link bf-tween Sydney and Perth.

Late yesterday the firp was only 11 kilometres south of the line.

The fire has so tar burnt out 3885 square km of the Wentworth and Central Darling Shires since it broke out on the Lethero Station south of Pooncarrie last Friday.

BRI BA..lifE. - PoUce have charred a 23-year-

I Mr And rson. In his

column in tht• W hl.ng­ton Post, said th Ameri­can ·ubmnrlnc, U1 Mad­ison, sustained nin foot scrnpe a.long its hull.

H Id hts sources told him thnt. v n if th Am­l'rlcnn submarine hnd been ruptur d and had sunk thcr should hnv b l'n no nuclenr hazltrd.

The columniat wroto tlmt nft.er the two ships id wip d, they surfn.c d

n.nd thclr cnpto.ins in.c;pcc­t d one another wl\J'lly.

The columnl. t. · Id: "It. ould have been an urlY

Incident, pt'rha1>9 a na.v11l confrontaUon on the htrh e • but the skipper. or

both ubs k pt cool a&n<l moved away ln oppo. It dlr~tlon without. ny communication."

TEL AVIV, Wtdne day. - I raell troops 11ttaoked two outhcrn L bancse vlllaf durlnr Ole- nlrht, blowlnr up hou . and taklnr prtaon n.

Th y struck ncroos the bord r at tho villng s o! YaarJ and Atroun, niter a clash lnsld Iarncl'tl border yest rdny, tn which threo Arnb gucrrlllns wero killed.

Tho troops destroy d slx houses in tho villas . and took slx prison r11 back into Israel !or 1n­terrogatton.

Tho attacking troop1' co.me undl'r o.rUllcry l\rc as they returned to Ism. 1 from the ro.td but th re were no casualtl .

LO ANGELES, Wed-nesday. - Corned.Ian Jack Benny left. th6 bulk ot hi• multl·mllUon fortune to h close family, accord­lnr w prob ~ document. flied today.

:Bf>nny, who dJed lMt Thunclay of stomach cancer at the age or 80, left a $0810,000 ($A7600> monthly tru'lt Income to hl.s wl!e, Mary Living­stone. as well a.a o. $100,000 C$A76,000J bequ t and h!H Beverly Hills man.'llon.

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The ·story of Tracy • • •

PUBLIC NOTICE ER.IC Arthur C10D t Klcbael Tbu:rsdA)' ~ O!­ftce niDe o Clock or ttrelTe o'clock. « l vie written 1Del8a&e a the Ne

Whlcb m cy'

Uomt'ltts to t'lther D nrln u.ld e td the t of t e torm.

Tra y a cla.s ample or an mteose trop cal c one. small but d hirhrlnd.

Tracy had her na vtty o¥er the 1r&.n:n seas north­

o! Bathurst lslsnd e~ on the 19th of

December. By 9 am thfl following

dar-Prldar-6he sbO'S'ed up oo a tber satenlte pho ograph aa a e&k tro cal low some 700 t:ilometres nonbes.st o! D&r1t1n.

By 9 nm on Sunday, Ttacr 230 k.ilometr n rth o! Darwin and be­came almo.s st.a ionar;

bl!e apperentl" in ensl­t.

During the next 2" hours 'mu:. moved ery , owly south e.st and rounded Bat.burst Isla.nd a · 9 atn on Tuesday.

Miu rotmdfn&' Bath Tnc1 ~

from a tberty oo t4 a ted.r a.nd ly t

tea.dily to Danrtn The eye passed direc- y

o Dannn &.lJ'POrt at ~ am on~ moni­ing.

The eye was very smaH in d.ame er. Radar measurements at 6 pm on the 2-lth revealed an eye only 14 kilome res aC!'06S

'hlcb had shrunk to eigh kilome res by • am on Chrlstmns.

During Trac. s ap­proach in the ear y ~ of Christmas day. sustain­ed wlnds o! 60 to 70 kno 31-36 meW"eS per second)

were erperienced with gusts to 106 knots ( 55 metres per second).

!AS am the a.trpon regide!"ed a

rur. or 1u mo m metres per leOOl:ld). patt-

Tn.cy In .. with a.II time tr

Prom ..30 to (.30 am the nUcroba.roppb M

irport recorded a pres­sure drop of 23 m..IU!be.rs to a low of 950 mllllba.IS, at which potnt the need.le ran of! the chart.

During the following hour an equally rapid rise In pressure was recorded.

After leaving Darw1.n., Tracy oon lnued al ly ea.st5outheastward acro&S sou em Arnhem Land and ui:.o he gulf country of Q eensland.

It ';1;'2.5 feared btie!ly that Tracy m.Jght regen­era!e aver the Gul1 of Carpent.aria and threaten Calms or other north Queensland comm.uni es but by Monday the rem­nants of the £torm had become merely a. pa.rt of Ule monsocmal trough.

Wind' pnmme

tnc from Tracy have Jn" to an Wlconfirmed been sent w Bureau bead- report, two Japanese quarte ln lbourne for met.crorologi.st.IJ committ.-fur her caUbr&tlon and ed aulclde). analysis. Darwln has been bit b7

It. 15 pogsible that this troplul cyclones tour .,,..ill result ln an official times durtnr lta h.Qtory. &ea level pressure some Of the .ftrat two - in what lower thall the 950 1897 and 1919 - only mll.ll.baro recorded. 6Callty me~rologU:al re-

The lowest a.ea level oords are available. pre&rure recorded tn Al.J.8.- The 1937 storm. how­tralla was 940 mllJJbe.rs ever, produced a wind during a tropicaJ cyclone record that atood untU Ul Onslow, WA. in 1961. thia Chmtmas, the peak

<The lowest &ea level gust being 98 miles per preggure ever recorded hour '45 metres per wa.s by d.rop6onde In Ty- seconciJ. phoon Ida south of Japan It wJll be noticed that in 1.958. It was of the the earlier storms struck order of 880 m.lll.Ibars. at lntervala o! about 20

Ida later 5truek central years. Sh!kot:u ca115fng enorm- By thla reckoning Tracy ous dama.ge and loss of was almost 20 years over-:li!e. after wh1ch. acoord __ --:-_d_ue_. __ _.,. _ __ _

Th9 NT News, lftvrsday, January 2, 197~