INFORMATION OFFICER

The retention of Mr Rodney Hallworth as information officer was favoured by the members attending of the publicity committee on Monday. In a report, Mr Hallworth gave information of the press and TV publicity during the last few months, which included record temperatures of the sea, the meteorite which struck Shaldon, the ‘armada’ of fishing boats which travelled to London, and the Indian summer in October, during which people went into the sea to bathe.

RESIGNATIONS

The chairman of Teignmouth Carnival resigned at the annual meeting on Monday evening, after launching a strong attack on the local council. 

Mr Douglas Mahon, who resigned along with his wife Joyce, the secretary, spoke of the quarrel with council members, after the carnival executive committee last year decided to bring forward the Carnival Week from the third week in August to July. ‘This had proved an outstanding success, with a record £1,025 to distribute to charities, compared with £441 in 1970. The third week was becoming a “dead duck”, which we backed up with audited figures to prove our point. We were accused in this chamber, ladies and gentlemen, of being – and I quote – “very selfish”, “pigheaded”, “using blackmail” and “all take and no give”. We even heard the word “traditional” being mentioned!’

WISE WORDS

Argument creates more differences than it settles. 

Wits are a means of support that must be sharp to be sure. 

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies

Be yourself and you’ll feel at home anywhere.

Youth is the only label that can put a market value on inexperience.

J Arbuthnot

BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

Friends of the late Mr Jack Price will be interested to know his name has been inscribed in the Musicians’ Book of Remembrance in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, London. The Church is known for its musical associations. Sir Henry Wood’s ashes are buried in the Musicians’ Chapel.

RUSSIA

Mr and Mrs Edmund O’Kelly of Shaldon described their Russian holiday as days of colour and delight, in a peep round the so-called Iron Curtain. They were able to wander round without fear or hindrance among ‘disciplined, courteous and friendly people’. A highlight of their stay in Moscow was seeing the Bolshoi company present a new ballet in the Kremlin’s great modern Congress Hall. ‘To see it was to be entranced. To hear the music was to be carried away and to depict such a thing surely indicates the great love of art, music and imaginative presentation, natural to the Russian people. The great hall, where the performance took place, had seating for 5,000 and it was choc-a-bloc.’

So much did Mr O’Kelly enjoy his visit that he is learning Russian under the expert tuition of Mr Peter Constantinoff at night classes in Teignmouth, to converse fluently in a return trip.

RIVIERA CINEMA

Borsalino with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, right; Targets with Boris Karloff;  Jane Eyre with George C Scott and Susannah York.