NEW REST CENTRE

As a result of a report to the Old People’s Welfare Committee by Miss Alice Cross, they mean to seek aa meeting with the Urban Council to speed up the provision of a new rest centre. The present centre was not large enough for the Monthly Club for the Less Active to function successfully. ‘Some new members are very crippled and with walking aids, and the Centre has become very congested. We also feel that husbands and wives should enjoy the Club together.’ Alice Cross was seeking support to transfer the Club to the Richard Newton Hall as from September.

STOWAWAY SNAKE

It had hidden in the hold of the Marina Dania, and managed to survive the voyage from Kenitra in Morocco, which takes six days. It was 3ft 6ins long, black and yellow, and hidden in a cargo of esparto grass, which is used for high quality paper making. Its getaway was stopped by a docker who stunned it with his foot.

A cargo inspector set out for Bristol with the snake in a plastic bag, to take it to the zoo for identification, but it died on the way. It will be returned to Teignmouth, stuffed and put on show in the bar of the Old Quay Inn.

LONGEST SHIP

The MV Dynacontainer IV, registered in Hamburg, is one of the longest ships to use Teignmouth harbour and is 251ft long. She was built in 1970 a a part container, and is 1,433 tons deadweight, capacity for carrying 109,000 cubic ft of cargo in her hold. She is able to steam at 12 1/2  knots. She left this week with 1,330 tons of clay for Helsinki.

WISE WORDS

There is nothing like a cocktail party to find out who your friends were. It takes a long time to feather a nest on a wild goose chase. Probably the most courageous thing a man can do is to be himself. There are men who wish that fire insurance covered old flames.

PAY RISES

Newton Abbot Urban Council’s much criticised decision to increase its senior officers’ salaries may be referred to the Secretary of State for the Environment. Representatives from Urban Councils bitterly oppose the “secret” pay rises recently given by their future partner. The increases are given by transferring the officers from the under – 50,000 population salary bracket to the 50,000 to 100,000 range.

KENNETH McKELLAR

There were over 600 people in Shaldon’s Flower Show tent to watch Kenneth McKellar open the show. To the disappointment of many, he was wearing - not a kilt - but a dark lounge suit.

It looked at one time as if the show would be a ‘wash-out’, but the village rallied round and rescued it from failure. As a result,  it turned out to be one of the most impressive ever staged. ‘We asked everyone to put something in, whether it was up to show standard or not,’ said the chairman, Mrs E M Williams. Although the beans and gladioli were badly hit, the overall show entries were up. There was also a record number of visitors, with a thousand coming through on the first day.

RIVIERA CINEMA

Paint Your Wagon; The Railway Children staring Dinah Sherridan,  Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins.