Teignmouth Post and Gazette No 4881, Friday 5, September 1975

COPPERY PROTEST

While many Teignmouth and Shaldon people protested at the rate increases by withholding payment until summoned to Court, a Newton Abbot lady, Mrs. Edith Fordham, protested against the condition of the flat she rents, and the Teignbridge Council’s delay in finding her family a house, by paying the whole sum in 2p, 1p and 1/2p pieces. It took a clerk in the Council’s Rates Office over an hour to count the £49.54.

SAVINGS BANKS AMALGAMATE

Five Trustee Savings Banks in the South West have amalgamated and will be known in future as the South West Trustee Savings Bank. A spokesman from the new head office said it was part of the long-term plan of streamlining and devolution from Government control, based on the recommendations of the Page committee. “We are preparing ourselves for Government legislation in 1976, which will give us more freedom.”

CONDUCTED LONDON SERVICE

Bishop Wilfred Westall, the former Bishop of Crediton, a friend of the Jacobs family, officiated at the funeral of Mrs. Caroline Jacobs at a Golders Green crematorium on Tuesday.

Her husband, television personality David Jacobs, arrived at the funeral limping and with his arm in a sling.He and his late wife were in a car crash in Spain, with Mr. Richard Marsh, British Rail Chairman. Both husbands sustained minor injuries. Mr. Marsh flew back to London on Tuesday. Bishop Westall was often on the panel of "Any Questions”, presented by David Jacobs.

WROTE FAMOUS SONGS

At Dartmouth, the song writer and cabaret artist Paddy Roberts died at his home Prospect House, aged 65. Among his compositions were the songs “Softly, Softly”, “Ballad of Bethnal Green”, “Lay down Your Arms” and “Evermore”. He came to England in 1934 from South Africa. He soon became one of the most prolific writers in Denmark Street, and was elected Chairman of the Songwriters’ Guild in 1958.

NEW BALL GAME

Exmouth and Teignmouth Fire Brigades indulged in a new ball game at the Cranford football ground, Exmouth. The game was played with a 4ft diameter waterproofed ball, by teams of eleven, each team having two jets to propel the ball to their respective goals. All the players were soon thoroughly soaked.

HOSE PIPE BAN STAYS

Restrictions on the use of hosepipes for domestic and private usage will still apply to a large section of the South West, due to the continuing below average rainfall, including Tiverton, North Devon, Torridge, Teignbridge and Torbay, and parts of Somerset.

WOGGLE HOPPER CALLS AT TEIGNMOUTH

Sponsored for handicapped children, 75 years old Mr. George Corner, of Batley, Yorkshire, walking from Blyth, Northumberland, towards Lands End, called at the office dressed in a Boy Scout uniform. He has spent a life time in the Scouts, and retired as assistant District Commissioner for Batley.

He has a collection of newspaper photographs as he travelled down through England showing his “woggle hopping” skills (leapfrogging over Post Office pillar boxes, to show that he is still fit). He tries to dress in appropriate costume, eg when in Ireland, he woggle hopped dressed as a leprechaun, and in Scotland in a kilt.