Teignmouth Post and Gazette No 4894 Friday, 5 December 1975

PHONE CALL FINE

A woman from Kingsway admitted making a phone call from the Cockhaven Manor Hotel, telling the operator at the Torquay exchange that a bomb was going to go off, without naming any location. She was fined £25 for the offence of giving a telephone message which she knew to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance and needless anxiety. The caller had asked for a Dublin number but put the phone down and picked it up again, saying the bomb was going to go off in the hotel. The call was traced to the hotel. She later told the police she did not have any relatives in Dublin, nor any particular number. She was intoxicated and had just had a row with her husband and wanted to cause a disturbance, but lost her nerve.

FERRY CHARGES

Efforts to increase the ferry charges 100% will go through as soon as the Council’s administration is completed.This massive increase has generated most dissatisfaction. However, it does look as if the Council may be “killing the goose”. The ferry looks less and less a bargain at 10p, when for 12p a bus will take passengers right into the centre of Teignmouth and avoid the half-mile trudge up the Strand and Northumberland Place.

NEW PRINTING PRESS

A modern letterpress printing machine, which will be used in the production of the Teignmouth Post and Gazette, was installed on Friday by the Brunswick Press Ltd. It is a Nebiolo Saturnia, and will be used for colour printing in addition to the newspaper. Measuring 11ft by 7ft 9ins, it stands just under six feet high and weighs over seven tons. Police closed George Street to traffic for the day, so that the press, which had arrived by lorry from Yorkshire, could be winched into the building and installed. Thanks to Mr. F. R. Bladon for prompt attention in removing and replacing the window.

ST. PETER’S CHURCH RE-OPENING

(In Days of Yore, 50 Years Ago) St. Peter’s Church, Shaldon, had an overflow congregation for the re-opening service, conducted by the Lord Bishop of Exeter. The Church had been closed for 15 months while renovation work, costing £4,000, was carried out.

DEBATING SOCIETY

“The Commonwealth Should Be Dissolved”

Mr. W. Bulley, proposing, spoke very lucidly about the growth of the Empire and its enormous power. He then spoke of the strong influences and post war changes, which led to the Dominions to seek allies outside. The leaders of countries remaining continually abused and condemned Britain. Many were notorious for racialist oppression, bloodshed and bribery, and their people suffered from starvation and disease.

Among them, a popular game is “Shoot the President” One over-enthusiastic lot shot the family as well.Mr. S. Berridge, opposing, believed the benefits of the Empire persisted into the Commonnwealth and quoted examples between London and Lahore. He likened it to a family, with natural children, step children and foster children. Now, regrettably, they were all submerged in a mass of independence.

Mr. Berridge noted the continued opportunities for engineers to work within the Commonwealth when there were few adequate chances in the country. Mr. Bulley thought that no one would be hurt if the Commonwealth were dissolved. The realities were that Britain was no longer “The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg.” The motion was declared Lost.

RIVIERA CINEMA

Sidney James and Barbara Windsor in “CARRY ON DICK” and “CARRY ON GIRLS"