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Huge Australian Territory Slowly Becomes Dust Béwl DARWIN Reuters More than 80000 square miles at Australias drought ridden Northern Territory are slowly becoming vast dust bowl broken only by scattered ca tle bones and shells ol crumbl ing houses CBtthmtn have clung grimly to the searched land or the last lonr years helplessly watching the sun burn sparse vegetation in powder Little rain has Iallen slnco llkfl Even water hullato tor the that time since they were in troduced Irom the lush Java paddy llclds century ago are dying of thirst in tho subtropi cal monsoonnl north Further south beyond the reach at tho monsoonborne rain thousands at cattle have been killed by the drought Managers cattlestatioas ranchesare carcluily tending thei rbreediag stock hoping to stave all complete ruin Dclamere cattle station in one at the worsthit areas has lost 1000 cutie10 per cent oI its total Some ranchers already have lelt John Nelson the federal member at Parliament for the Northern Territory said it is the worst disaster since Aus trnlia was settled by Euro pcans COVERS BIG AREA The dustooal stretches lrom about 100 miles south ol Dar win to the upper part at South Australia and across lrom the red deserts ol Western Austra lia to Queensland SPECIAL WITH PORK IN TOMATO SAUCE AYLMER BOSTON BROWN BEANS SPECIAL LIBBYS FANCY TOMATO JUICE TO EL 01 TINE SPECIAL PINK YELLOW AQUA WHITE PUREX TOILET TISSUE IPECIALI LOBLAWS KITBHEN PRIDE APPLE PIE alga ROLL nuts SERVE WITH LOBLAws TANOV OLB WNITB CHEESI WHITE WNOLE WHEAT CRACKED WHEAT SLICED OR UNsLICEO LODLIIWS PRESII BREAD LOBLAw PRIDE oi ARABIA EOIIEE ILa BAO 2t 01 LOAF 69 at 199 The four years at drought ts xi an officially as an average or the entire area the northern reaches at the dunbowl where the mom soon rains may penetrate rain Tell Inst spring But in central Australia some ranches have not seen rain Ior seven years Cattle in the centm of the dust bowl must walk up to 10 miles from their scattered lor uge to waterholcs Somewhere on the palatal rnnrch between iced and water many tall Farther north the Victoria River has partly dried up Nor mally it is lastflowing lmp Icnl river As the drought continues hordes ol kangaroos wild don keys and dingoes Australian wild dogsravage the country side 37 to moon LIAITISE 496 am 39 CAULI PREMIUM QUALITII FROM FLORIDAs FAMOUS INDIAN RIVER nIsTRlcTI SUGARSWEEII RUBY RED GRAPEFRIIII 2m BARBIE EXAMINER WEDNESDAY JANUARY New Airport Light System Bids Sale Landing At $00 SAULT STE MARIE OIL CPI Flying six miles high over the lakebend one night in November TransConada Air Lines pilot on routine Ilium yelled into his microphone being dazzled by light At the Sault airport 258 air miles away chic radio oilicer Bill Shackleton answered Would you mean thae lights he asked as he flicked switch that reduced the can ditrpower at massive bank oI loowatt lights at the end ol the major castwest runway lacing out over Lake Superior The TCA pilot said yes Mr Shackleton said It wasnt freak sighting He contends the lights can be soon lrom the Lakchead by planes it they ap prorch at the right height and angle But this is unlikely to happen in luture because the highin tensity beam will be Used only during cloudy weather On this occasion it was being tested The lights are part at sys tem lor guiding aircrall into the airport during weather The Sault olten bologng because at its proximity to the St Marys River and Lake Su perior is the third Canadian air port to get the system The beam of light ls sent down the runway and 15 miles out over the lake It gives the line at approach Another beam indicates the glide path Britain Takes 375 Years To Get To Decimal Point wNDON GIWhat Duidi engineer Simon Statin invented simple notation or decimal traction in 1588 he predicted It would only be matter of Lime belore dedrnBl coinage weights and measure ware universally introduced it has tnken Britain 375 years to get the point Selwyn Lloyd chancellor ol the exchequer announced the 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