► CARNIVAL CHEQUES

Teignmouth’s 1972 Carnival raised the sum of £1,020, and at a well-attended public meeting, held at the Royal Hotel on Monday, cheques were presented to 35 organisations by the Carnival Queen, Miss Susan Woods.

Prior to this week, they were very fortunate to have the Kitsilano Boys Band, under their founder and conductor, Mr Delamont, at 80 years of age. During their visit, they were boarded at the Conservative Club, where they had meals in the Winston Room.

► CREWMAN JUMPED SHIP

A Cypriot motor ship, the Ralph Von Bargen, arrived in the harbour last Sunday afternoon. Police kept a round-the-clock guard on the ship after an Indian crewman, Mr Krishna Dev Clibber, of Khanna, India, tried to leave the ship. He had said he was ill after a rough passage, and he wanted to visit his sister in London, but immigration officials rejected his request, and he was ordered to stay aboard the coaster until she sailed.

► ‘STRONG EXPRESS’

Members of the Teignmouth Unit RNXS took an active part in the recent NATO exercise Strong Express. This was the biggest exercise since the war, involving eleven countries and a force of 64,000 personnel. Forty British warships took part. Working in close collaboration with the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve, and ships of the Belgian and Dutch navies, much useful experience was gained. Applicants for membership will be welcomed by Lieut Cmdr R F G Vaughan at the RNXS Headquarters in the old Morgan Giles offices.

► POST OFFICE DRIVERS

The 10 annual awards, presented last week at the Post Office, increased the safe driving awards held by the drivers to a total of 98 years of blameless driving. In the year 1971, Teignmouth’s mail drivers travelled no less than 70,000 miles, in busy modern traffic conditions, in the thickest of summer season traffic and in all possible weather conditions.

The 30-year silver cross was awarded to Mr George Sanders. His record of blameless driving is only exceeded by three other drivers in the whole of the South West.

► ‘APATHY’

Teignmouth Urban Council has been under fire from an industrialist that it was “apathetic” towards industry in the town. ‘This is not so,’ said the chairman, Mr Frederick Morris last week. ‘For the past 10 years, we have striven to find an industrial site, and there just is none.’

Mr Dennis Florence, of Shaldon, stated recently that he had been forced to set up a factory, which would probably employ 50 people, in Birmingham, because no suitable site could be found in Teignmouth. Mr Arthur Bladon remarked that if one was to employ 50 men building boats on a site 150ft x 50ft, ‘then they must be toy boats for a lake’.

► JIMMY SAVILE

In his recently televised documentary on BBC1, he indirectly put an old Teignmouth shipbuilding firm on the map again. The lifeboat on which he was televising while going to sea from Beaumaris was built by Morgan Giles Ltd. during the second world war, in between Admiralty and RAF work, which had priority. She was named ‘Field Marshall and Mrs Smuts’ and launched in 1945.

► RIVIERA CINEMA

Sunday for five days: Charles Bronson and Ursula Andress in Red Sun; Tom Courtney as Otley; Friday and Saturday: Charles Heston in The Omega Man; Richard Wagner in One Hour to Doomsday.