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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18 1958 4 Liberal proposals to ease racial tension MOTION FOR PARTY ASSEMBLY Let councils, not the State, run hospitals Mr Morrison's second thoughts From "our Special Correspondent Scarborough, Wednesday. local government, Mr Morrison said Mr Herbert Morrison there was a case for universal county Mr "Dert ir borough- council if the country could suggested here to-day that the day- be divided into suitable areas. But it From our Political Correspondent Torquay, Wednesday. The Liberal which will lectures. Investigate and secure the widest dispersal of 'coloured people in housing -4; Rigorously suppress crime and vice-from wherever It comes, ban the manufacture and sale of "flick knives and similar offensive weapons.

open its annual assemoiy nere to-morrow, is stm enougn oi an and empower the political enigma to attract unusual crowd of reporters and offences. commentators from the dancer Finally, this assembly firmly ueuevei world outside liberalism. the solution in the long rur o-day' running of hospitals should would be foolish to ignore the be transferred back from the control difficulties this would raise, of the State to that of local authori- How cto ties In bis presidential address, on JJJg local government, at the conference --penny rate produces a negligible of the Association of Municipal amount? There are people about who Corporations, he said he believed would want to convert London into a fr trancfWrine series of county boroughs. Thev would do there was a case ior iransierring it ovej. mv dead tKKiv That would mean back in this way some Of the there was no London left.

It would be services taken over by the State. just as bad as cutting up Manchester or Tho Conservative press. which wealth visitors and showing tolerance hpenn to take an interest in the and understanding." Liberal Assembly last year, after the Gloucester by-election result, is represented in larger numbers this ear, after the Torrington victory. And one of our angrier young columnists even-went so far as to travc' down from Paddington to The draft foreign affairs motion available to-nighi observes with deepening anxiety the exacerbations of international tensions irt the Far and Middle East and in Central Europe, and urges collective action through a United Nations made truly reprcsen- He disagreed With the present eirrnmiinam inio couniy mrousro. niu inanaee- would like to know who would get past method of appointing hospital Manchester and Birmingiam win a scheme like On the probiem of the conurbations Tormiav with 'a gladstone bag- ative of all nations including the manaee-ment committees and said that while Government control might apolv to specialist hospitals, scientific research and supplies, the day-to-day running of hospitals was eminently a job for local government.

because there you get a more democratic regime and a delicate tribute made out of carpet Chinese People's Republic, and made he said it was doubtful whether there should be local authorities to cover the whole area of the conurbatior What was needed was a Boundary Cam- greater responsiveness to the needs of mission, which wotim deal witn trie it. boundaries of county districts, borough with a loud flower pattern. effective by the provision ot an inter-When the Liberal delegates assemble national police force. Britain, states thev wi'l be given two emergency the draft motion, should take the motions which have not so far been initiative in establishing such a force circulated in a final form. One deals and should provide herself "with with racial relations and will be suitable naval, military, and air forces, debated on Saturday afternoon.

The armed with conventional weapons so' second deals with foreign affairs and that she could herself contribute to I Some people complained about districts and possibly metropolitan Government interference In the boroughs and county councils, so there Rehearsals on the Bastille set in the IS. B.C. television studios at Ealing, for the production of Arthur Benjamin's Opera "A Tate of Two Cities" based on Dickens's novel, which is to be screened in October, will be debated on Friday morning, the international police No discrimination iNudear disarmament Mr Ewin Malindine. prospective "his- reference to "conventional" Liberal candidate for North Cornwall, weapons links up with Yeovil NEWCASTLE ENDS ELEVEN-PLUS Pour intelligence tests Development body to "sell" Wales to industrialists By our Newcastle Correspondent Details of a new Development Newcastle upon Tyne City Council NEW ROUTE FOR MOTORWAY Saving a forest A special motorway subcommittee, appointed by Leicestershire County Council in April, yesterday announced details of a proposed new route through the county lor the London to Yorkshire motorway. The new line still cuts through the Charnwood forest but, according to the committee's report, it will be less conspicuous and far less harmful to the amenities.

When the original route was announced some months ago, a petition of protest signed by more than thirty-two thousand people was presented to the Minister of Transport. Corporation, which will seek to attract industries to Wales and Monmouthshire, were given in by 31 votes to 24 decided last night to discontinue the present 11-plus examination. It approved a recom affairs of local authorities, he went "UIU "'V' on, but the authorities had been degree of agreement. successful In obtaining bigger and bigger state grants, and it was only "Jeanne museums natural that there should be some At the afternoon session Dr W. E.

interference. He would like, how- Swinton. president of the Museums ever, to see some independent means Association, gave a provocative review of revenue for local authorities and of the origin and growth of museums one method he favoured was the in the municipal sense from the great rating of land values. exhibition of 1851. He considered that a museum should be a "dynamic Quality in the council place, with its exhibits related to the Mr Morrison said he was worried area in which it was situated.

He did whether enough was being done not want to see Central African butter-to maintain the quality, ability, flies in Sheffield or Egyptian bones in and representative character of the Lake District. Museums should be members of local authorities. Political used as centres of cultural interest and parties should be hand-picking candi- he thought a penny rate levied dates (subject to democratic proce- throughout the country would provide dure) and searching for men of enough money to make this ideal public spirit, ability, and incorrup- possible. tibility. He was sorry that some Councillor Kingsley Gallimqre.

ot trade unions were preventing their West Hartlepool, disagreed with Dr full-time officials from being on local Swinton he believed that a museum councils. In this way a wealth of should open new vistas for people wno experience and knowledge was likely already knew enough about Jnc areas to be lost. in which they li-ed. He also appealed The aldermanlc bench, be thought, for something to be done to Wipe the should be used to improve the quality look of boredom from the faces ot of local councils. Aldermen including museum attendants.

Thev reminded experts of which a council might be him of undertakers' mutes or atten-in need should be elected for six dants at unsuccessful crematoriums a i tt cVfMilfi Vif ushers into a world Cardiff yesterday by Sir Miles will propose the motion on race motion on rmciear aisarraamem, uie relations for the executive. Before text of which has already been pub-the war, he worked with the Liberals lished. The nuclear disarmament in Bethnal Green to check the constant motion will be taken to-morrow. A attacks of Sir Oswald Mosley's summary of Liberal policy decisions Fascists on the youths of that area, has been produced for the assembly in The motion reads a pamphlet, price fld, which says this This assembly, believing that one of ot the hydrogen bomb Liberals say the major issues facing the world is race that the West as a whole must keep relations, abhors the recent race disturb- the H-bomb until general disarmament ances in Nottingham and Nottine Hill, can be reached. But they do not While recognising the difficulties arising believe that Britain should make the from integration of peopleswito different That is wastc-hShandind unemolovrSeSt? totalfy duplication." The assembly will reject colour dnrnlnVtion and the probably be asked formally to endorse restriction of immigration as an expedient this view which has now been endorsed which would destroy the liberal founda- by almost every other organ of the lion of the Commonwealth.

partv. Believes that the shocking housing gfr Arthur Comvns Carr. a dis-conditions. crime and vice in certain tmguished iawyer. will be installed ns districts, and the general need for race of the Liberal nartv understanding and tolerance, is a great f'e social and political challenge.

to-morrow. He installed himself as Thomas, the corporation's first- mendation of the education committee that children should be selected for chairman. secondary schools by four intelligence Sir Miles said the main purpose of the corporation was to Dromote' a balanced development of the industrial, economic, and commercial life of the whole ot Wales, built upon its own natural resources and capacity. A tests taken during their last two years in the primary schools. These tests will be drawn up by the heads of the primary schools on lines suggested by the National Foundation for Educational Research.

Formal examinations in English and arithmetic will be abolished. For entry into the secondary schools next year the committee recommended that two tests only should be given. The decision taken by the council, which is now con The new route, which will have to director-general would be appointed to-act as a Welsh industrial ambassador at large and he would travel to be approved by a full meeting of the countv council and then be submitted the Continent, and to the United States if necessary, in search of firms urtner believes mat rascisi ana pumnui wn. ai a niuaa t-umctcciiii; semi-Fascist organisations are exploiting to-night. A a.uestioner asked Mr these difficulties for their own ends.

Granville Slack, chairman of the Therefore calls on H.M. Government to: aEencia committee, if the Liberals had to the Minister, will enter the forest near Markfield and leave it near LongclitT golf course. It will ioin the original route near Long Whatton. interested in starting industries in Wales. ti Kw.

Th. any comment to make on the con- pubhcity to expound its beliefs in the nf nolle poualitv of riehts of all members of the seraties adoption ot policy stand for election at the end of that of wonder It is not only the froth timr. Thfr should be no such thing of the beer it is thejook on the tace trolled by the Labour party reverses an earlier decision by the council when it was controlled by the Progressives, retaining the 11-plus examination with certain modifications. Commonwealth, and their right to live on. spreading tne ownersnip oi snares.

The corporation, which was now carrying out preliminary work from a head office in Cardiff, hoped in time to establish offices in other countries. It already had money in the bank that increases the as automatic re-election. of the barmaid Discussing the future structure of pleasure." and work where thev chose; 2. tnsure oir rtrinur setiniuu 10 uc iuai that full information' is given to would- thought during this exchange, but Mrs Gladys Robson, chairman of the education committee, said that the Obituary TED KAVANAGH results of the last examination showed an uneaual distribution of places in be immigrants ot conditions ana emniov- when Mr Slack replied mat it ment available here: 3, Arrange for the not be the first time the Conservatives appointment of local liaison adoptei Liberal policies. Sir work in conjunction with all the m)t nf hio trSncp to add Commonwealth and Colonial high com- IP.V'fft Kh f- th? ilnri missioners and commissioners to combat would be the first time they had colour prejudice, organise educational carried them out.

though. the city the aim of the committee's SUMS AS TEST OF INEBRIATION Many sober would fail A police surgeon told Gateshead magistrates yesterday that the driver of a mechanical road-sweener accused of being under the influence of drink could not take seven from a hundred or Bid from 2s 6d. Mr T. Magnay, for the defence, commented Neither could lots of men I haven't got it yet straight report was to provide equal opportuni Ted Kavanagh, script writer of the was never doubt famous ITMA series of programmes brilliant producer. Um triiimvimtp: Tommv TTMA was broadcast for the first time ties to children throughout the city oy I Alderman P.

H. Edwards, a former chairman of the education committee, and expected to have an income of between 25,000 and 40,000 a year, acquired from industrialists An appeal for this purpose would be launched in the next few days and substantial donations had already been promised. Although the corporation proposed concentrating on a- narrow front, mainly in industry, Sir Miles said it would later consider going farther afield in social and cultural activities and it hoped eventually to co-opt the farming industry. Ve envisage the corporation as a permanent feature on the economic Welsh scene." Sir Miles, who is chairman of Monsanto Chemicals. will have as his vice-chairman Mr Julian Pode, of the Steel Company ot Wales.

said that the only result of the new 7 on September 19 1939. and. with seasonal Handley. Francis Worsley, and jXK it ran until Handley'sJ Kavanagh who provided a wonderful death in 1949. With repeats both at.

home tonic of laughter for radio listeners ggMnVa' btt during the years of the war, died audience of any variety programme yesterday in a London hospital. He produced by the B.B.C. scheme could be the readjustment of the numbers of children entering grammar schools from different primary schools it was not an oif and I come from a family of educational report at all but merely a method of distributing the numbers accountants." Dismissing the charge against James Scott, 50. of Pine Street, Gateshead, the chairman, Mrs A. Grey, said The Bench are of the opinion that of places.

NEW PETITION FOR PRISONER Another petition has been sent to the Home Secretary oh behalf of George Hicks, of Cardiff, who was sentenced two years ago to four years', imprisonment for robbery with violence. Mr J. Callaghan, MJ. for South-east Cardiff, who had an interview yesterday at the Home Office about the case, said that the additional points in the petition were being followed up. There was also the possibility of getting a statement from one other witness.

When Hicks was sentenced another man received a ten years' sentence for the same crime robbing a Chinese cafe owner with violence. PLANE UPSIDE DOWN-ENGINE CUT OUT After the engine of his de Havil-land Sea Venom jet aircraft cut out while he was flying upside down in poor visibility, a Royal Navy test pilot landed safely. Yesterday his commanding officer described it as a superb piece of airmanship." The pilot. Lieutenant Gilbert, was flying at 10.000ft. over his base, the Royal Naval Air Station at Abbot-sinch.

Renfrewshire, on Tuesday. As soon as the engine went dead, Lieutenant Gilbert described what happened by radio to his control tower, and made a perfect landing without a scratch either to himself or his aircraft. there was a certain amount of doubt." EYE RESEARCH FUND was bb. Ted Kavanagh was born in New Zealand. He came to England in 1914 to study medicine, and two years later joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

After demobilisation he abandoned the idea of becoming a doctor instead lie joined a firm of manufacturing chemists as a writer on medical and scientific subjects. Later he began to write for the stage and screen and then for broadcasting. It was the ITMA programmes that made his name, for if It's That Man Again meant Tommy Handley (as well as Colonel Chinstrap. Mrs Mopp, Mona Lott, and the rest of gallery of bizarre characters), there MORE PAY, SHORTER WEEK IN RUBBER INDUSTRY The National Joint Industrial Council for the rubber manufacturing industry yesterday announced agreement on a reduction of the normal working week from 45 to 44 hours, together with an increase in the minimum adult rates of pay to 3s 8d an hour for men and 2s 8d an hour for women, with higher rates for semi-skilled and skived jobs. RESTRICTIONS END Lord and Lady Winterton have established a research fund at the corneo-nlastic unit and regional eye CHESS TROBLEAl Xo.

491 Itrom actual ola-. Black at) Foul-and-mouth disease restrictions in an area around Ge'ligaer. Glamorgan, were withdrawn yesterday. The one outbreak involved the slaughter of 21 cattle, 86 sheep, and 74 pigs. I bank.

Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Sussex. Lord Winterton, who is 75, had an eye operation two I years ago. Hsu i THE FINES jg jnU B8P tZhSSA V. 1ia S.nC9ttaKi L.fltjilMHPm.A I i (8) This nosition arose in the interzonal tournament between Bobby Fischer, he American champion (aged 15).

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