Teignmouth Post and Gazette No 4898 Friday 2 January 1976

RENT RISES

Whatever Christmas spirit anyone had been able to muster in an austerity year evaporated pretty quickly, when councillors recommended price increases which would directly affect those in the lower income bracket.

Their levelling up process for tenants - “levelling up" being the latest popular euphemism covering substantial increases. Devon’s Social Services followed suit by increasing charges for Meals on Wheels and home help services. A report describes the coming financial year as “grim”.The year 1976 is looking like a year in which plenty of people will have “to go without.”

FLUORIDATION

There will be no fluoridation added to water supplies in the SouthWest, the committee was told recently.This will go before a full meeting of the Authority for confirmation. They were strongly in favour of suspending the work at Restormel. It was difficult to argue a case for spending as much as £100,000 for treating the whole region. People who wanted fluoride could buy a special toothpaste.

£23 MILLION PROGRAMME FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS

The Grammar and Secondary Schools are included in six projects in the SouthWest, which are among the 200 over the whole country. The £23 million is specifically set aside for a building programme to assist the development of a full and effective comprehensive system of education.

Local Education are invited to submit major and minor projects, enabling reorganisation to proceed, which could not be implemented in any other way.

SEA WALL BREACH

Teignbridge workmen were quickly on scene on Wednesday morning, and by mid-day the holes were filled. The longest was nine foot deep and twelve feet wide, not far from where the sea wall was badly breached in October

RED CANARY CLUB

James Roy Harvey, now of Rose Hill, Hollywood, Dumfries, was fined for drink charges of selling liquor at the club while being the holder of a licence elsewhere. In March 1975, Harvey was the holder of the licence at The Jolly Sailor. He was making arrangements to take over the club, but before the legal formalities had been complied with, he was selling liquor at the Red Canary Club on his own account.

STOLE SWEETS (from 50 years ago)

A boy aged six was found guilty of stealing a tin of sweets at the Juvenile Court. He was put on probation for 12 months.

LOURDES

Dear Sir: "I would like to appeal through the Readers’ Letters column on behalf of the handicapped childrens’ Pilgrimage Trust. Regardless of religion, children are sent from all over England. Some are very sick, and are given a week they will always remember. We have to raise even more money this year, like everything else, the cost for each child has risen to £75. Green Shield stamps are also helpful, and it now takes 125 books of stamps per child."