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1 7 i EVENING (STANDARD SATURDAY SEPTEMBER SI 3 9 1 say his figures are phoney and this description is not merely true but kindly CITY HOTEBOUR Br New attaek by Stonham PROJECTMOON HE WAS WORTH AN ARMY IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM By MICHAEL TALKS Lord Stonham fiery chairman of the National Council in Inland Transport this after afternoon launched a new attack on Dr Richard rail closure plans He accused the Railways Board of deceiving people with misleading incomplete and inaccurate figures about the cost of doomed branch lines are a deceiving travesty of the true he told an open forum on rail closures in London NEXT By PETER FAIRLEY down-to-earth talks to explore whether could ever co-operate with America in landing men on the as President Kennedy last night are likely to start next week in Paris The occasion: A meeting of The first Russia KING DR BEECHING -'No further and Insists instead on continuing to supply the figures in their present Incomplete inaccurate and misleading form we shall have no option but to declare and the public to accept that Dr Beeching is determined to close the lines Irrespective of financial considerations and regardless of public Colombia pictures preseats STANLEY THE RUSSIANS AREN'T TOLD rrihe Russian Press while today reporting Mr caU for co-operation between the United States and Russia in space research ignored the part of his speech in which he suggested a joint expedition to the moon QUOTE Senator Barry Gold- water who may be Mr Kenned Republican opponent in the 1964 elections The joint moon plan is a terrible waste of money I want more indications of honesty and faith from Russia before such a project is undertaken Crumbling alliances to diminishing leadership in the world are the hallmarks of the present administration as it fights with friends and fawns on enemies QUOTE Mr James Webb director of the UJS National Aeronautics and Space Administration The' scheme will not mean any slowing down of efforts to put two -Americans on moon by 1970 the I 1 f-l i i I i i i I ri- i i I i- t- I i Vi i i i- i ii i-f: i I ROBIN PURDUE Thrills on the screen or in that tunnel? On Monday we shall haye a fair idea of how many unhappy holidaymakers took refuge froin the weather in the nearest cinema But if the Board of Trade's figures show an increase no one in the Industry will take it- too seriously This was borne out by a remark of Mr John Davis chairman of the Rank Organisation over lunch this week far as I can see there is no indication of a firmness in cinema attendances at the moment he told me But at that same lunch he was celebrating the fact that his group completed a record year in June Rank has been outstandingly successfnl in finding profitable new fields to graze in Plans ready And it is likely that the company will be looking for more in the future The second BBC channel will Increase the challenge of television and further ahead there could be a new com-' mercial channel as well as pay TV But on past performance Davis and his colleagues can be relied on to have plans ready to meet the situation A dozen of- its other activities are capable of considerable expansion The electronics Interests and the Xerox copying process are two with plenty of potential This has well nlsed by stock market men both here and in America and shares are not all that cheap But for the patient Investor who prefers to wait without anxiety rather than live dangerously they still offer the prospect of further capital appreciation There could hardly be a greater contrast to a share like this than those of the Channel Tunnel Company Mr Leo Its chairman is a man of immense integrity and vision He has carefully nursed the Idea of a tunnel over the years and without it might have died long ago No illusions But he has never been happy Jo see the price of the shares pushed up More than anyone ee he Is aware that many points have still to be ironed out his opposite number in France who heads the old Suez anal Company has no illusions eitner Both have helped finance ine expensive study of major Problems but for them this was a calculated risk to the runaway rise In Channel Tunnel shares I was told: JYere certainly not buying At stage it is Impossible to say wnether a tunnel would turn out ro be as good an investment as Suez Canal proved i Miny People are expecting of wonderful things bat is certain about the Project yet" Certainly a stake In this venture can be very exciting The oolossal scale of the scheme nation! capture the imagi- the recent flurries In the Jock market have nothing to do this particular aspect Too many people have been bitten by the getrnch-quick-bug When thi3 happens the 2k ones to benefit are the Professionals who can rftch for the precise moment which to get out with a Quick profit NEW YORK The Washington Post writing today of the death of Sir David Low said: David Low was only nominally a British cartoonist His enviable ability to blend sense and satire made him an ornament of world journalism his great period when Nazis strutted through Europe Mr Low was worth an army in the cause of freedom: his demolishing caricatures of dictators made supermen look like foolish fugitives from a Chaplin movie The New York Times said: "Sir David Low was more than a political crusader He was a social and political crusader whose black and white editorial lines impaled evil exposed fools in low places and high warned the world of its dictators and its follies and in a noble sense was on the side of the common man Reuter Inspector dies Inspector Richard Bruton 48 of the Metropolitan Police attached to Gerald Road Police Station died in hospital today after receiving head injuries when motor-cycling home on Thursday casoaas films preiluctisa BAKER Arnold Wesker Eva Wishaw WEEK 200 top space scientists and engineers at the International Astronautlcal Federation Congress Delegates in the past have included the two men who have just signed the first US-Soviet space co-operation academician Anatoli Blagonravov and Dr Hugh Dryden of America their advisers' £750 a minute This pact ensures a Joint effort on three sharing pictures and data from meteorological satellites exchanging radio messages between the two countries via space and co-ordinating a number of scientific experiments All three will begin next year But It took 12 months to thrash out an acceptable formula for even this limited amount of get-together And UJS scientists see formidable obstacles in the way of extending it to the mammoth moon programme It is of course an attractive pipe dream The moon project is at present -drinking up £759 a minute and will cost every man woman and child in America more than' £30 a head before it finishes around 1970 Basic differences There are many who would jump at a chance of sharing this burden It seems illogical too for earth men to duplicate their attempts to go outside the planet But few practical space scientists see how a joint effort with Russia could work As Brainerd 1 1 1 recently boss of the £7000 million lunar puts It: is difficult enough to get agreement between our- own people much less with people outside the country basic things as jigs measures and engineering tools are all different Russia works in centimetres and litres America deals In feet Inches and gallons Rocket experts do not see eye to eye on the best way of getting to the moon Russian scientists talk only of joining -up space ships in a rendezvous dose to the earth leaping off to the moon from there But the UJS plan calls for a small ferry to detach itself from a large moon ship near the lunar crust land two men and rejoin the mother craft for the 240000 miles journey back to earth later new firm Is fufiy experienced in this type of work The managing director of the firm intends to visit the parents concerned and reassure them that their fears are Families flee Families quit their homes when explosions were caused by electric underground cabins arcing In Whitechapel Road Stepney early today Saturday strike The strike" by Trustee Savings Bank staffs oyer a pay dispute today hit all nine branches in South Wales and Monmouthshire About 50 clerks are involved This new charge comes a month after his accusation that the figures were phoney" to which Dr Beeching retorted distorts practically everything we say" Will Dr Beeching do battle again? Said a spokesman: has already given his views and does not want to be drawn Into any further Imperative need Stressing what he called Imperative to get accurate details of earn: and costs of all threatened branch lines Lord Stonham said The figures at present supplied by British Railways do not accurately represent the position when Government or quasi-Govemment departments have published figures they have been accepted without question as a complete and accurate statement Under the new Railway standards of morality this is no possible" Kindly Former Labour MP for Shoreditch and Finsbury Lord Stonham claimed the Railways Board ignored the financial contribution made by a branch line to a main line in assessing its solvency a private enterprise concern excluded from its balance sheet the earnings of departments it was proposing to close LORD STONHAM Demands or sell it would' be accused of publishing fraudulent accounts have said previously that Dr Beeching's figures are phoney Iption Is now seen and this descrip! to be not merely Demanding the production of "full and figures by Dr Beeching Lord Btonham said: he refuses to do so SUE STARTS HER REIGN TODAY Twenty-year-old Sue Parnell was chosen as this Miss Enfield at the Enfield Show last night After the contest she said: shaking like a leaf I can't believe it THE SCHOOL STRIKE THREAT OVER BOB An Essex mother Is calling a meeting because a group of handicapped children has lost their friend tax driver Bob Adams 32 Mrs Patricia Tobin 43 mother of nine of Whittington Road Hutton near Brentwood said today: have hn appointment to see Mr SPECIAL MIDNIGHT PREVIEW AT THE COLUMBIA THEATRE TONIGH7 (Imitation Only) To bo attended by mu Ssbcrg Jack Hedley Irwin Shaw Robert Parrish and Marcia Ashton Eilem Atkins Eilem Atkins Maxine I MP when he returns from Audley laa Bonne Keith Baxter Jim Backus Amelia Bayntva Ann Ball John Blathal Reger Booth Joha Boalter Charles Boyer Avis Buanage Marie Burke Sheila Burrell Kiki Byrne Geraldine Chaplin Heather mI Chosen Tom Chatto Tsai Chin Bryan Coleman Una ijsi Collins Reger Dann Shelagh Delaney Maurice Denham Colin Douglas Paul Eddingtoa Samantha Eggar Jacqueline Ellis Jessie Evans Sylvia Fine (Mrs Danny Kaye) Dai Francis William Franklyn Pater Gilmore ill Teddy Green Eileen' Gourlay Susan Hampshire Mary Hanefey Robert Hardy Donald Harron Sarah Harter Joan a trade mission in Yugoslavia We mothers and children are very The row blew up when Mr Adams a Brentwood High Street taxi proprietor loot his contract with the South Essex Divisional Education Executive when another -firm supplied a lower tender Said Mrs Tobin: love and trust Bob and they donT want anyone else to take them The-news that Uncle Bob has been sacked has shattered their little Mrs Tobin has two children attending the special school Mary 13 and Paul 10 Mr Adams of Billericay Road lerongate said: have not Heal Gerald Janies Margo Jenkins Gemma Jones Deborah Kerr Mark Kingston David Knight Joan Little-wood Basil Lord Rosemary Martin Trevor Martin Jack wvuii pgsii hmiif nwacitmi mu iiu iicrvi mmiimj Mason Murray Melvin Tony Mercer Patricia Michael Merton Nan Munro John Neville Larry Noble Anthony Hutting Nicholas Parsons Laurie Puync Rees Anton Rodgers Harold Scott Victor Spinetti rd da Souza Tommy Steele Sylvia Syms Valerie Wendy Toye Stephanie Voss John Vyvyan John Sonia Edward Warner Richard Warner Billy dc Wolfe COLUMBIA liMIKK OPENING AT THE ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26th HIIIMIIUINHI'UIHI wewmwmrnemimwiww" -W-f-V- $C-siZ made any complaint to the I put in executive I put in a tender for the work which was higher than the one Mr Derek Wflcockson the divisional education officer said: 5 A---.