CABLED BRIEFS

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33384, 16 November 1973, Page 9

CABLED BRIEFS

Miners trapped Six African miners were ■ still missing today after 'yesterday’s pressure burst underground, which killed one man at Venterspost Fold mine near Westonaria, I ran-, vaal. Rescue operations con finued throughout the night [to reach them but it is not 'vet known whether they are (still alive.—Johannesburg, [November 15. Aid for Jara port i Australia and Indonesia 'have signed a SNZ4.Sm loan . agreement for improving the I port of Cilacap on the '(southern coast of central Java. The project involves dredging of the channel and [berthing area to a depth of [lO metres to enable ships of '[up to 15.000 tons to use the .port. Djakarta, November 15. Dant floods town A dam has burst in western Venezuela and floodwaters have poured from it (into the town of Carora, an ancient Spanish settlement ’.of about 40,000 inhabitants. iNo casualties have been re- ! | ported, but a boy has been reported missing by his parents.—Caracas, November ’ 15 ' [[/'eacr transplants 1; Interest in heart trans- • | plants appears to be almost - at an end, according to an ■[American surgeon, Dr ‘ Michael Debakey, who has stopped doing the operation. “There is something inI human about waiting for someone to die so that a I healthy heart may be transplanted into another patient,” he said. Of the 12 patients to whom he gave new hearts, Dr Debakey 'said, only one was still alive after five years.—Toronto, (November 15. [ Walking trail ] South Australia has been ' included in a proposal to create a walking trail 3500 [ miles Jong—possibly the longest trail of its kind in the world. If the trail plan goes ahead, people will be 'able to hike from Cape York [to the northern part of the [Flinders Ranges in South [Australia —Adelaide, November 15. Lila Lee dies Lila Lee, one of Holly (wood’s biggest stars of the 'silent screen in the 19205. has died of a stroke. She [was 68. Two of her best[known film parts were in (Cecil B. De Mille’s "Male and Female,” and in “Blood land Sand" in which she starred with Rudolph Valen |tino. —Saranac Lake (Net York), November 15.