Cable news in brief

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34123, 8 April 1976, Page 17

Cable news in brief

Cash grabbed Three masked gunmen burst from a stairwell in the basement of the “Daily News” building in New York on Tuesday, surprised two Wells Fargo guards making a bank delivery and escaped with SUSBSI,OOO. —New York. Flying high British Airways has earned 1 more revenue on its eastern routes than on the so-called 1 “blue ribbon” North Atlan-; tic routes for the first time.) In the year ending March 31. the State-run airline has announced that carrying 900,000 passengers, together with cargo, had earned £lBom on routes to the Middle East, Far East, and Australia. —London. Aid for farmers

Australian woolgrowers who are in financial trouble as a result of the storemen and packers’ strike may be given extra time to pay their

taxes, the Federal Treasurer (Mr Phillip Lynch) has announced. Mr Lynch said he ■ had taken the matter up with ■ the Commissioner for Tax- : ation, and had been assured i that woolgrowers in diffii cutty would get sympathetic I treatment.—Canberra. Paper reshuffle The “New York Times” 1 has announced a major reorganisation of its news deli partments, including a con-' Jsolidation of the daily and I Sunday newspapers into one

■jseetton. The managing editor • (Mr A. M. Rosenthal) will ■take over the combined 1 daily-Sunday news departement, the Sunday editor, Mr I'Max Frankel, becoming editor ■ of the editorial page from : January 1. 1977.—New York. Obituary ! Meyer Davis, who domi-i nated American “society”. ■ music for half a century,' and built up an empire of 80 •bands and 1000 musicians I catering to the affluent, has. kdied, aged 81. — New' York. I