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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

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40,000 People Homeless In Missouri Floods

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 April 1952 · page 1

OMAHA (Nebraska) : Swirling muddy waters of the Missouri River yesterday lapped through the streets of two towns hastily evacuated by residents in the face of one of the worst floods in the history of…

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Police Rescue Passengers. Tourist Bus in Floodwaters Rescues Made in Swirling Waters. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 2

Twenty-seven passengers of a tourist bus which skidded Into flood waters at Bega on Monday, to-day…

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Mass Movement From Flood

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 1

OMHA (Nebraska) Miss [?] River valley floods coveting more than a million and a quarter acres of nine States…

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Flood Warning By Radio

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 2

RAYMOND TERRACE: Following a letter from the State Flood Warning Committee, advising of the offer…

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Flood Action

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP)—President . Truman to-day called an emergency conference with the…

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United Eight Urged For Flood Control President Truman Appeals -To Western Governors

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 1

OMAHA (Nebrake) : President Truman hat appealed to the Governors of the flood-washed middle western States to unite in a fight flood control projects, which, he says are threatened by an…

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Damage By Floods Runs Into Millions

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 1

OMAHA (Nebraska) : President Truman has followed up his inspection of the devastated mid-west flood area by allocating 250,000 dollars about £111,6000 —from his disaster relief fund for use in…

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Heavy Rain Fails in Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY. Monday—Torrential rain which lashed Sydney last night and early today flooded streets and…

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Heavy Rain Adds To Flood Danger

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 April 1952 · page 1

ST. JOSEPH (Missouri): Rainstorms swelled record mid-western floods above predicted crests yesterday and levee builders wearing life jackets raced to bolster tagging dykes before a new disaster strikes…

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Flood Threat To Leconfield Colliery

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 April 1952 · page 2

An Investigation into the threat of flooding of the Leconfield Colliery near Greta has been ordered by the Minister…

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Flood Battles Continue

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 3

KANSAS CITY: Although the river crest to-night is expected to still be sell below last year’s disastrous…

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Buildings Below Flood Levels

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 2

SINGLETON: Patrick Plains Shire Council will endeavour to get authority to take flood levels into…

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Shire Requires Power To Take Flood Levels Into Consideration Of Building Permits

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

The Patrick Plains Shire Council will urge the Shires' Association of N.S.W. to urge that Councils be granted the necessary power to take flood levels into consideration when approving of applications for the erection of buildings without having to conform to the present provisions…

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Country Women Favour Flood-free Rail Link Resolution at Annual Conference

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

Delegates to the annual conference of the Country Women's Association in Sydney last week uanimously…

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Thunderstorm Stopped Search

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 1

RIO DE JANEIRO: A heavy thunderstorm forced 30 planes temporarily to call off their search yesterday for the…

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Floods in Japan

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 1

TOKYO: Wood, rains In Japan's southernmost island, Kyushu, during the past two days have caused two deaths…

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Radio Flood Warnings

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 4

Lower Hunter Shire Council yesterday agreed with a recommendation of the Maitland City Council that the…

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Lower Hunter Shire Accepts Flood Warning Scheme

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 1

Maitland City Council advised the Lower Hunter Shire Council that it had decided to recommend to the State…

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U.S. General Released by Communist Prisoners Threat To Storm Camp With Flame-throwingTanks

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1952 · page 1

TOKIO: The United States Army frightened Communist prisoners into releasing Brigadier-General Dodd by threatening to storm the prison compound with flame-throwing tanks, United Press reported from Korea to-day. The message said that 20 flame-throwing tanks were lined up in front of…

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Flood Warning System

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 1

Port Stephens Shire Council yesterday decided to support an offer by Radio 2HR to maintain a flood warning…

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