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THE GUARDIAN Saturday May 6 1972 HOME NEWS Solace in NW for Toriesand Liberals By our own In spite of the huge municipal elections--amounting some comfort for the for the Liberals in Liverpool. Conservatives in been a swing from Labour May, when there was a poll for, the' entire. council. In Liverpool; Liberals rejoiced at six gains which brought their representation on the council to 15. won In Manchester, Conservatives seven Labour seats, and have members an' the council, against 101 Labour.

Mr Arthur Bowen-Gotham, chief Conservative agent for Manchester, said the swing give the party ment to fight next year for -control of the Greater Manchester Metropolitan Council, 'and the Manchester Metropolitan District Council. Last May, Labour captured 60.15 per cent of the votes, but on Thursday only 51.40 per cent. The Conservative share rose from 35.62 per cent to 45.04 per cent. The difference between the parties, last year 24.53 per cent, has narrowed to 6.36 cent. It was also claimed that Labour's not (selling council houses had helped the Conservatives -to new support Conservatives -to new support on corporation estates.

Three wards, in particular, convinced Mr Bowen that more corporation tenants had voted Tory. At Moat, with a large proportion of, council houses, Mr Tom Lavin' increased his onevote majority last year to a lead 747. At Lightbowne, a large working class area, the Conservatives failed to win by only nine votes, compared with last year's Labour majority of 1,553. Another significant ward was Brooklands, where the Conservatives made one of their gains. Alderman Robert Rodgers, leader of the Conservative group, said that it would continue to raise on every possible occasion the right of sitting corporation tenants to buy their houses.

But Mr Peter Pike. secretary off. 'Manchester City. Labour Party, said that until. slum clearance and rehousing problems had been solved, there would be no change.

Our priority is. slum clearance and giving people the opportunity; of getting into better type he said. Labour maintains that if Manchester sold council houses Reporters overall Labour gains in the to 971 seats- there was Conservatives in and Manchester claimed there had of over 9 per cent since last it" would be selling the better type and lessening the opportunities: for occupiers of multistorey flats to get a house. In Liverpool, Mr. Cyril Carr, leader 'of the Liberals on the city council, said his was the- largest Liberal -representa tion.

on any local authority in England. The number of Liberal councillors has risen from one to 15, in four years. Party in' don agreed yesterday that Liverpool's return was the best single result for the Party in the country. Its spokesman coupled with it a good win Birkenhead and progress in Wallasey. Mr Carr, who is also the party's prospective Parliamentcandidate in Wavertree, 'strongest division in the city, yesterday thought the party's had also helped.

He said: "A campaign, however dynamic, can only succeed if the party's image comes across." Tradition The Liberal revival in Liverpool began in Church ward, Wavertree, in 1962 when two councillors- one himself-'were elected for the first time since the war, but the other later lost his seat. Wavertree, division, in which the party won all four wards. on Thursday, had had a long Liberal tradition and the revival had now spread at least four of 'the- city's eight, divisions. Ann Clivyd writes Labour's 44 net gains In 'the Welsh local elections exceeded even the party's big successes at the polls last year. Most of the gains were at the expense of the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru included several important victories on Valley councils 'in overall gains of eight seats, lost their only seat on the Cardiff City Council and on Carmarthen borough council 'to Labour, However, it gained two seats in the Aberdare, area and consolidated its success in the Merthyr byelection by wining a place on the council.

The Liberals. lost. two of their seats and made no gains. Quick move on mayor The first action of Salford's victorious group yesterday was to requisition a special city council meeting fora next Wednesday to elect a Labour mayor. They Intend to rescind a previous Tory-backed resolution naming Alderman Bernard Burchill (Ind Lab) as mayorelect, to- substitute the name 'of Councillor Joe Hardman (Lab): Alderman Burchill, the senior Opposition member and a for- Bill to curb pop festivals dropped Hint of Circus scheme inquiry By our Political Staff Mr Walker, the Secretary for the Environment, gave a strong hint yesterday that he, would order a public.

inquiry 'into Westminster City Council's proposed scheme to redevelop Piccadilly circus at the cost of millions. A a 'Commons written reply to Mr Tugendbat, Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, Mr Walker said the arrangements made with Westminster City Council, including the issue of shortdated office development which were legally prerequisite to the planning applications, were designed to put the whole redevelopment scheme on public view at the earliest possible stage. "But the issue is of such public importance and interest that I am consulting the Westminster City Council about ferring the application to me now without going through the ordinary planning procedures. which are bound to take said. On Tuesday, when the scheme was announced, Mr Walker issued permits for 944.591 sq ft but, as he explained yesterday, only a legal requisites before the planning application for the scheme could be made.

Our Planning Correspondent writes: If Mr Walker should finally decide, to call the decision on the latest set of proposals in for his consideration next week and then make an immediate announcement, there would be a statutory period of at- least six weeks before the public investigation of the plans could begin. On this 'basis, July would seem the earliest there; would. undoubtedly be complaints from some parties that this would allow insufficient time for preparation of material with which to fight the scheme. However, there is a feeling abroad that a decision should be reached before the end of the vear, particularly since Piccadilly redevelopment has now been mulled over for more than 13 years. since Mr Jack Cottons' original proposal for a tower on the Monico site was turned down.

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The Bill's, demise may have left its sponsor, Mr Jerry Wiggin, looking like a startled disc jockey, but it does not affect the man who will head the committee, Mr Dennis Stevenson, Mr Stevenson is 26 and a market research consultant. He was chosen by. Mr Walker, Secretary -for the Environment, who has shown a preference for youth in appointments to official committees. Last year, he appointed Mr Stevenson chairman of the Peterlee and Aycliffe joint new town corporation, Count Durham. amid.

criticism from those who said that he had little experience of public affairs. Before Mr Stevenson heard that the Bill had been tabled By JOHN' CUNNINGHAM out, said that the amendments, made. needed." to' it He were sonally wanted pop festivals to flourish, but in a way that minimises inconvenience to other people." The festivals were a normal recreational demand and under the Bill, as originally drafted, it would have possible for. 1l1- motivated" councillors or individuals to frustrate this pastime. The committee will also act in an advisory capacity.

to' the. Department of 'the Environment and to local' authorities. Mr Stevenson's researches: have already been of tsome help to the department. He was asked to chair one of four working parties to help prepare the British Government's contribution to. the global conference on environment- to be held later this year in Stockholm.

A Heston King William, a 10-year-old shire horse, hauling the coffin to the funeral at Bury died yesterday while of at Mr work Reg in Nunn, the the stud manager of J. W. Whewell's string horses. Mr Nunn, who was 68, stables on Tuesday. Picture by Robert Smithies.

Accused of malice' Thomas Germane (26), was imprisoned for 18 at 1 the Old Bailey yesterday, for stealing £115. He to answer questions and a jury decided that he was mute of malice." Mr Germane, of no fixed address, was found not guilty of robbing Mr Tang Sum Chang, in Gerard Street. Soho, guilty of stealing the money from him. A jury was empanelled with the special oath: "I swear by Almighty God that I will well truly try whether the prisoner at the bar stands mute of malice or by visitation of God and a true verdict give according to the evidence." There were no printed copies of the oath for the jurors and they repeated from the jury ushers' book, passing it from hand to hand. Detective Constable Roy Dodd said that when he arrested Mr Germane on November 12, he was speaking coherently.

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The working was concerned 'with; the part. young people and voluntary groups "couta" play in the campaign against pollution, and a section or their report, Which is now with Mr Walker, dealt with pop festivals. Several pop were. visited by the working party in the course of compiling their evidence: Mr Stevenson said that the atmosphere of the Weeley festival in Essex last year was like "a county show." Seamen decide to register The National Union of Seamen yesterday confirmed its executive council's decision to register under the Industrial Relations Act. The voting was 63-12 in favour at the union's conference in Folkestone.

The decision means that conference also confirmed the executive's decision to seek an approved closed shop. The general secretary. Ar William Hogarth, explained that although they had decided to register they condemned the its authors, and its practical implications. They had registered so that they could retain a closed shop. It was a question of survival." said Mr Hogarth.

We could not afford the spectacular collapse of this as the price of a philosophic or ideological gesture in defiance- of the Act. Deregistration' would have been just that--nothing more than an empty gesture and would have rapidly brought about the union's disintegration." Without an approved closed shop seamen would be deprived of the one permanent agency that represented them with their employers. the Government, and international bodies. They would not have been suspended from the TUC if they 'had de-registered. conference adjourned until Monday.

The Shipping Federation said that reports of the pay offer accepted by the conference earlier contained incorrect figures. The settlement would give a basic rate for a 40-hour week of £21.98, without overtime. A foreign-going able bodied seaman would get an extra £8.70 a -month to give a monthly basic rate, on a 40- hour week basis. of £93.90. Average earnings would rise to £39.18 for a 66-hour week.

The State's man of property By CHRISTINE EADE put a banker, Mr John The Prime Minister yesterday, aged 46, in charge of all the Government's land and buildings, including the vast tracts of land and property owned by the Ministry of Defence. He will be paid £16.000 a vear to manage. new Property Services -Agency, and will be directly responsible to Mr Peter Walker, the Secretary for the Environment. Mr Heath explained in a Commons written reply yesterday that the agency, which comes into being on September 1, would give property management services to all Government departments in building. maintenance, and supplies.

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D. Sainsbury. The Prime Minister also accepted their other recommendation that two departments. Stationery Office. which spends £85 millions a year, and the Central Office of Information, both at present responsible to Treasury Ministers should be made the responsibility of Lord Jellicoe.

Minister in charge of the Civil Service. The Prime Minister said that both the new agency and the Stationery Office could buy from the private sector in order to get value for money. "It will be an early task for both managements to examine each service provided, with a view to establishing an appropriate basis of charge for it." said the Prime Minister. Where it is decided that charges should not be introduced, separate studies will be made of the possibility of more precise attribution of costs to the user departments than hitherto." The provinces of the new government empire will include historic buildings, laboratories. military bases and their furnishing, design, equipment and maintenance.

They will all be valued, and run along commercial lines. The agency will be run by civil servants of the Department of the Environment, who will create units of accountable management answerable to the agency The agency will also consider whether all the functions now being carried on need to continue, and whether each gives value for money. Problem of having 'no fixed abode' By our Correspondent A probation -officer, at the Royal Courts of Justice, London, said last night that homelessness in some big cities was reaching alarming proportions and producing growing numbers of offenders with no fixed abode. The claim was made. by Mr John Chapman, aged 58,.

who retired yesterday from the executive of the National Association of Probation Officers, on which he had served two years. At the annual conference of the Association, which opened last night at Llandudno, Mr Chapman outlined his personal view about the vital needs of the service. "It is becoming more and apparent that working as a probation officer in London and certain other large conurbations is becoming, almost impossible within the present framework of a nationally organised service," he said. The social disintegration of these large centres is resulting in a high rate of crime and pressure of work for the probation service, which is always reflected in the figures of officers' caseloads." It was the homeless offendhers who needed more support and concentrated individual attention, he pointed out. At the same time, probation offiwere finding it increasingly difficult obtain a home, which could.

afford at a able' distance from their work. By our Correspondent The controversy over the Manchester University radio telescope, was settled a national at parish issue. pump level, dir David Morgan who appeared for one of main objectors said at the public Inquiry in Welshpool yesterday. The inquiry was in its fourth day. There are about 50 objectors to a university application to build the telescope at Meifod, North Montgomeryshire.

The local parish council Is among those supporting the project. for the Protection of Rural Mr. Morgan, for the Council Wales, stressed: This is not Clochmerle." Ile added: Manchester University considers itself beyong the law. It has disregarded law. 'The inquiry has heard that they not consider amenity, nor did they take into consideration any choice of site." Mr.

John Saint Bodfan Gruffydd. a landscape architect, said: barbarous 'proposal, apparentlv displaying. total disregard for the welfare of a healthy rural community and the beauty of the landscape." The inquiry was adjourned until Monday. Warning on tickets Police told those attending Bickershaw festival to check their admision tickets after a man had appeared in court at Wigan last night accused of obtaining £4 with two forged tickets. Peter Cavanagh (21).

a musician, of Hewitt Road, Haringey, London, was remanded in custody until Mon- day. Opposing bail, Inspector Ronald Kenyon said further inquiries involving other tickets had to be Later a police spokesman said: "We know that number of forgeries are in circulation and the fans should Larsen proves his skill By our Chess Although the Danish chess grandmaster. Bent Larsen, lost to Parma in the last round of the Teesside Grand Masters' Touranment at Thornaby, his success in this formidable event re-establishes him as 'the best player in the West after Bobby Fischer. The four British players made reasonably successfulshowing in such strong company. The final scores were Correspondent Larsen 11.

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Your copy, should reach us by 5.30 p.m. the day before Insertion date. BIRTH Thursday. May 1972. to Ince and DAVID RAYMOND in University College London.

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BULLOCK have pleasure in announcing the 214t birthday of their elder daughter. HILARY (Worch-ter College). 13 Rounderoft. Romiley, Cheshire. DEATHS May 4.

1972, at Devon TERENCE COTTON. dearly son of Agnes and the late Cotton, of brother Brendan. of Vera. Doreen, Kevin, and Eileen, the tate Patricia. Funeral later.

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beloved husband of Edna -Elizabeth and dear, father at Stephen and of The Grange: Higheriord. service wit be held. In St Thomps's Church at 2 30 pm. on Tuesday, May 9 followed by the Interment at Barrowford Cemetery, at 3 pm. Rev.

Clack wilL officiate throughout Friends please, this the only intimation. Floral "tributes to The Grange. Funeral Inquiries: W. RE Stott Service. Nelson 64777 passed.

away Thursday, peacefully. Mayo 1973, of the late Nathan mourned by her children. Inn Allan and Phyllis brother Frank White (Dublin), Marcelle, aunts, sisters-in-law. In-law, large circle, of friends. Shiva at 110' Middleton Erasers at 7 50 Am and 8 30 pm.

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and Harry, Funcral at An held Crematorium. Liverpool. at pm. Thursday. May 11.

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Manchester 8. On Max 1972. peacefully at his Davids. Pembrokeshire, ERIC TAYLOR. F.R.G late of Burton.

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Andrew, Laura, and Nell. Funeral servico at St Davids Cathcural, at 10 45 am. on Mondav. Slav 8. 1972.

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