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Coventry Cathedral Festival of Arts Entertainment Act of Devotion Br The Bishop of Coventry. his cassock twitching in the wind, stood before the risin walls of the new cathedra and introduced yesterday's Festival of the Arta on ABC Television. Dr. Bardsley spoke with ringing enthusiasm. He made no mention of the controversy which had removed this programme of musk, poetry and dancing from the ruins of the old cathedral to the London television studios.

But his tones regMrtned his belief that the Arts and the Church could unite, with grace and conviction, in an offering to the greater glory of God. And so it proved to be. What followed, after Dr. Bardsley, aided' by sketches and models, had conjured up the new cathedral. was superbly done.

It was not hushed and solemn in the way our presence in God's house sometimes makes us feel, but lively, joyful and full of the pride of people dedicating to God their most prised possession. their artistry. We slipped easily on the words of The Lord is my Shepherd into David's dance before Saul. performed by John Gilpin. of London's Festival Ballet, with music by Maurice Jacobson who conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

though for the rest of the programme the C. 8.5.0. was under the baton of the Festival Ballet's conductor. Geoffrey Corbett. AT THE FILMS Two brothers and the yol they both lore: a scene from the film at the Cinephone.

By Alex Walker MIXTURE AS BEFORE FOR four months now the Cinephone, Oxford Street. has been showing the same programme: a study of prostitution from Japan and the nudist colony 1711 Isle of Levant. It seems Londoners will have some time yet to waft for the new Programme; but Birmingham may see it this week. at the Cinephone. Bristol Street And an ominouslyfamiliar ring it has.

It consists. in fact, of a study of delinquency from Japan and a nudist colony film. Elyria. 7UVSNILS PASSION Is a 4 love story. But more to the point.

It is a story of Japan's beat generation young people produced by war and defeat. Two brothers and the girl they both love are the main characters, but their circle of friends is examined in detail, the way they behave and the values they hold. They are wealthy Young provincials, a cut above our own 'Teddy boys, or Italy's vitelioni, or France's Eames, but unmistakably kin After Beethoven's overture 'Coventry Prologue' of the Anton Donn pigmented Dame Sybil Thorndfke who read the Coventry Prologue. In this Christopher Hassall spoke of the time. to them.

They are callous, cynical, amoral and irresponsible, though at times some of them can also be touchingly responsive and gentle. They own yachts, fast motor-boats and sports cars of foreign make they adore and have no thought for themselves or others. When wrapped in thunder the marauders came. Sowing their seeds of death like scattered dame. City and shrine in one catastrophe Became a beacon for all the world to see.

And ended on the ringing note boas years of stress and toil a great release. And Coventry reborn shall be at peace. Words and form were simple and refreshingly tree from the inflation that sometimes creeps into public verse; and Dame Sybil's delivery was as sympathetic and firm as a handclasp. though one could have wished the cameras had presented her leas austerely. Their day begins at the hour they wake up.

They appear to have no Jobs, but indulgent parents, whom we never see and who supply no affection, counsel or comfort, only the material needs of their young. They wear drainpipe trousers and aloha beach shirts, have their hair cut in shantaro style a ragged crew-cut and affect dark glum day and night, Religion has no place in their lives. They are engaged in a restless search for identity, and the pursuit leads through bars, dance-halls and the flight spots of Tokio and smart coast resorts. They brawl, drink, gamble and make love in mechanical, disillusioned fashion; and before the film ends we have got to know them well. I was glad that at this point the original plan of showing a film of the raids on Coventry was abandoned: Mr.

Hamill verse needed no such illustration. After a cello and plant) recital by Beatrice and Margaret Harrison. Alicia Markova danced The Dying Swan and then the climax. excerpts from Les Slarnides. These were more successful than the solo.

for the cameras not only caught the fluency and grace of the Festival Ballet, but also their continuity of motion: they watched as we would watch. And what do we feel? Revulsion certainly. Concern probably that the dim itself has no statement to make about them. but exposes dispassionatelyeven, you might say. indifferently and ends with a dark twist into death and the nihilist whirlpool.

Hut also. I hope, we feel Interest in what by all accounts is a social Mr. Dolin's Thanks Than, thanks by Mr. Dorn to everyone In the progranune. who had come together for the first time only on Sunday the Bishop of Coventry and Ald.

Pearl Hyde. the former Lord Mayor of Coventry. who had encouraged the venture. And aa a choirboy sang I know that my Redeemer 'teeth." there ended an enter- tainnent which was also, In Its way, an act of devotion. A.

A. W. Boys Save for Education Committee Three pupils of Chesterfield school have saved Derbyshire Education Committee nearly by laying out their own playground. Under supervision. the boys worked with gardening forks, shovels, wheelbarrows and a steamroller to surface 3.100 sq yards of land.

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of the truth of its image of life, or how Japanese fllm-goers and the public greeted it. The distributors' information is meagre: and what I know about it I owe to friend from Tokio. and a single sear and yellow newspaper cutting. It seems that Juvenile Passion is the first film to reach our screens of a type which blossomed out in Japan a few years ago and had a great vogue until public indignation made the producers think better. (Japan's film moghuls," I've been readthg in an article In the new issue of The Living cinema, are not the ilk we know: their industry is very decorously run: It clings to formal manners and polite ways of going.) What started the films was a novel written by a university student.

fthintaro Ishihara. It was called Season of the Sun, and it scooped Japan's main literary award for Its originality. It was about a group of morally abandoned young people treed by war from the old family restraints and now facing a bleak future. The picture was exaggerated: but there was truth in it: and the response to the novel was such as to open parents' eyes and touch off self-criticism and public outcry. Its effect on the younger set was electric: soon life was assiduously aping ark, and the speech, dress and ways of Ishihara's characters sprouted among bands of adolescents.

Tayozoku they were nicknamed the clan." (Sun-Eleason, one notes, is what one of the brothers in Jurenile Passion calla his speedboat. More Tayoesku novels appeared. Elms followed and it is one of them Kurutta Kafitsu. or Corrupted Fruitwhich is at the Clnephone. retitled and in a French-speaking version with English subtitles.

of course which seems to heighten its cynicism. The screenplay is by Milani: the Elm I think, was made three years ago when the tide was turning and producers, on the defensive, had been driven to claim that the characters in their films behaved far better than Tayozoku on the streets! rm reluctant to say so. but the film has considerable artistic merit. The director has treated the simple story of jealousy and passion with technical fluency and a sharp eye for character and detail. At times it is crudely erotic and the censor has Justifiably snipped away at scenes: but sometimes, too, in momenta with the girl and the shy younger brother on the beach it is wonderfully tender and happens and yet everything seems to happen.

The setting is coastal, and a sense of salt wind, sun and water impregnates the film. At the end the smell is distinctly corrupt, the effect Is perverse; and yet It fascinates In harsh, impressive way. AT saves glybia, a dusty brochure for a Californian nudist colony made in 1933, is its very age. Fashions date even among the unclad. and the looks, poses, accents and air of ingenue innocence which everyone wears like a suntan incited me to irreverent guffaws as family photograph albums still do.

It is all done with puritanical decorum and lofty moral and medicinal purpose: even the platinumtressed beauty on it rock who waves a bunch of fireweed at us Intermittently is as Innocuous as that advertisement which instructs us on the needs of growing girls. Voices stumble over themselves with sincerity: bodies wobble by: the cloche bobs up: vintage Oldsmobile trundles past: there is a startling glimpse of Aimee Semple McPherson's summer residence. all white stucco, minarets and onion domes Of course. If you ask why a cinema has chosen to go back a quarter of a century to make up a programme with this elm, then Elyria falls into place as a symptom of to-day's malaise in the industry: one week boasting it has the edge over television. the next going one better than the peepshow on the pier.

QIR CAROL REIM'S Alm The Kt, (Odeon) has been much praised, and I fear I am the odd man out. 8o much. too. has been written about It that I trust It will not seem discourteous to a director to deal so tril i i i his work. It is a story of tugboat skippers and the hazards they run in the war-time Atlantic, and of the mysterious woman in Fiat 12, Sea View.

whom each inherits on the other's death. Trevor Howard and William Holden play the two men with the key to the door: Sophia Loran Is the permanent tenant. The flim has Sir Carol's customary brilliance of composition and now of too significant--detail; but I found its story remote, the development repetitious and the meaning vague. Carl Foreman, who scripted and produced the 111 m. calls It a study in fear: an anonymous American critic sees it as a fertility myth--" the male dies and is replaced, but the female is always the same" To me It seems a pity that Sir Carol, who once preferred stories with roots In the actualities of life, should now choose those sited In the no man's land between myth and fact.

But certainly see the film THE MOONRAKER Forum): Moat enjoyable historical romance, played literally up to the hilt by George Baker smuggling the future Charles II out of 'England and Peter Arne tracking him down for Cromwell. Sylvia Etyma as a Puritan maid, moonlight gallops, swordplay on table tops, and bags of panache. Run Silent. Run Deep (Ciaumont): Clark ClaWe and Burt Lamcsater at odds In a submarine; human story routine: action sequences compelling, but it is unfortunate that The Enemy Below cams out first. SEARCH FOR SITE OF LOST VILLAGE By a Staff Reporter In the heart of rural Warwickshire on Saturday.

a group of people walked along a village street where there are no houses. They were in the lost village of Chesterton. The visitors were members of Birmingham Archaeological Society, led by Dr. Harry Thorpe. Reader in Historical Geography at Birmingham University.

Just over 500 years ago the parish of Chesterton with its two settlements of Chesterton and Kingston, was a thriving community. In the 14th century. It is believed, 79 families lived there. They tilled their strips of land in the large open fields, and apparently prospered. Then came a revolution in agriculture.

The landlords discovered that cattle and sheep were more profitable than arable farming and in many parts of the country, land was enclosed for grazing. The land owned by the lords of the manor of Kinpton, was enclosed for this purpose In 1437, and a few years later the Peyto family, lords of the neighbouring manor of Chesterton, took a similar Two BBC studio managers in Birmingham, Miss Gillian Myra Reeves, of Garth House, Brand Lane, Ludlow, and Mr. Michael James Ford, of Springfield Cottage. Long Crandon. Buckinghamshire, were married at St.

Laurence's Church, Ludlow, on Saturday. The bridegroom, who Is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. T. T.

Ford, is also producer of the youth programme, Youth Calls the Tune. The bride is the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. G.

Reeves. Her father Is history master at Ludlow Grammar School. where the wedding reception was held. WATCH ON AIRLINERS FOR TRACES OF RADIATION By Our Correspor E. J.

FREEMAN A watchful eye will be kept on the amount of nuclear radiation picked up by the latest fast. high-altitude Jet airliners when they begin transatlantic Passenger services. They will fly at heights at which radioactive dust, the result of nuclear bomb tests, is present in the atmosphere. Although the amount of radiation likely to seep into passenger cabins through pressurisation systems is small. actenusts are ready to devise dust filters which will eliminate any significant Increase in radiation over the level being experienced at present.

Traces of radioactivity have already been found in the dust filters of some Viscount turboprop airliners and in some highflying military Jet aircraft. Mr. Alan Donovan Foulkes and Miss Flora Rosemary Hingley, who were married at Ribbesford Parish Church, Bewdley, on Saturday. Two hundred guests attended the reception which followed the wedding. The bride is the only daughter of Mr.

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OBITUARY Viscountess Rhondda Viscountess Rhondda. who saved her weekly review Time and Tide from closure because of mounting costa early this month, died yesterday in a London hospital. She was 73. and had gone Into hospital just before the light to lave the magazine, of which she was was brought to a successful finish. Lady Rhondda was born Margaret Haig Thomas.

daughter of Mr. David Alfred Thomas. the colliery owner. industrialist and Liberal M.P. She was a suffragette who went to prison for her beliefs.

was an ardent campaigner for peeresses in their own right to be allowed to sit in the House of Lords. and was the author of several boots. She was one of the survivors in the sinking of the Lusitania. In 1908 she married Sir Humphrey Mackworth. a keen sportsman.

The marriage was dissolved In 1923. She believed that only unconstitutional "action would win votes for women. Her main unconstitutional act was setting fire to pillar-boxes in and around Cardiff. for which she was sent to prison for a month. Viscountess Rhondda Succeeded Title When her father.

Viscount Rhondda. died in 1919. the title paned to special proviston made by Lloyd-deorge when the title was created. as there was no male heir. She had already taken over most of her father's 40 directorships and many chairmanships.

In 1922 she petitioned for a writ of summons to the House of Lords. and the Committee of Privileges decided she should be admitted. The House itself ruled against her claim. Mr. K.

W. Tinegate Mr. Kenneth William Tinegate, of Birmingham Road, Lydiate Ash. Bromogrove, who had been associated with rowing In the Midlands since he was 11. has died In Brornsgrove General Hospital.

He was 43. H. was a member of the Birmingham Rowing Club for more than 20 years. and had won many trophies for rowing. With Mr.

J. B. Brown. of Loughborough. he was runner-up in the Double Sculls at Henley in both 1949 and 1950.

In 1950 the pair were selected to compete in the Empire Games in New Zealand. While returning from there hi' Ship Mr. Tinegate met his wife, Miss Edna Child. a former diving champion. who had won two gold medals in the New Zealand Empire Oames Mr.

Tinegate, who was employed in the Hockley timber merchants business of E. W. Tinegate, started by his father. was a former captain of King's Norton Rugby Club. Be It survived by his wife and two daughters.

MAINLY FOR WOMEN New Books for the Kitchen Shelf By DOREEN DAVIES DEEP FREEZER, to most of Us, is a mystery; something owned by rich Americans, or used in glossy grocery shops. Barbara Wilcox and her husband, F. D. Smith, have a farm and have been using a deep freezer for a long time. The result is a book which should sell deep freezers to a lot of people I am certainly tempted after reading it! Deep Freezing at Home (Andre Deutsch, 155.) is a first-rate guide to this new domestic art of home freezing of food for long storage.

And an art it seems to be. The authors give advice on the important choice of the right type of pe of freezer, and tell of the rather comp packaging of foods before they are stored. This is an art that cannot be learned in a minute. and the book will be used every day by those who buy this fascinating new arrival in the kitchen. Salmon at Christmas We are told how to freeze poultry, game, meat and even Mitt, so that pheasant and partridge can be eaten out of season, salmon served at Christmas.

There are many pages given to the freezing of fruit and vegetables, so that surplus produce from the garden, or bulk buys from the greengrocer's, can be stored when prices are at their lowest. This is most helpful, and means a varied diet in the winter and a very -much-lower housekeeping purse. In addition to the basic information on deep freezing of foods. Barbara Wilcox describes some Howe has travelled the world over, collecting excellent ways of serving frozen foods in delicious recipes from every land in which she has lived. and unusual dishes.

These include "Duck en Here's an armchair traveller's book for the Chemise," an amusing title for duck roasted with kitchen pate de foie gras in a flour pastry casing! There is also a recipe for a really mouthwatering cherry pie (made with cherries picked in your own orchard, yet enjoyed in mid-winter with the help of the magical deep freezer) Mt from cover of Da" Freesia. of Hum! The authoress writes simply, with knowledge and affectation, and her recipes match her style. Some are fun to read and impossible to cook, 1 1 1TRITKRB of cookery books are Interesting such as emu egg omelette banana leaves stu ff ed creatures. If novelists are story-tellers with fish. Others will bring new ideas and round the camp fire, and playwrights the flavours to our cooking: Avocado pears as a voice behind the Punch and Judy show, the garnish in soups (from Bermuda).

and finelycookery-book writer seems to me to be a squirrel. shredded boiled lettuce with fish (from Sings- She has been storing her recipes for years, and the deliciously-named Matrimony from the book appears when her granary is foil. the atribbean. described as "sweet and sour Cooking from the Commonwealth, by Robin a sundae of chopped apples, orange pulp and Rows (Andre Deutsch, 305.) la a harvest. Mrs.

nutmeg. Arpa Doppia, there are no and I did not notice any piccolg Francese. Never mind. Something of the variety of the first great orchestrator is suggested by the Judicious use of those four recorders, and of two trumpets and three trombones, with a New Ideas and Flavours I body of of strs which (though It Includes at ing least half-a-dozen schoolgirls) is by far the most that IC.E.H.S. has yet mustered.

There are two conttduo-keyboards: a grand piano (schoolgirl) to support full orchestra, and a mintplano played by Mrs. Bolton herself to accompany the long but wonderful stretches of monodic recitative. It Is only a pity that Bolton has not sought out some sort of an old harmonium to supply the regal" (chamber- THE BIRMINGHAM POST GAZETTE, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1958 Drifted to Cities The peasant farmers, deprived of their livelihood, left the village. Many of them drifted into Birmingham and Coventry and found work in the woollen, leather, or metal industries. Their humble homesteads were destroyd and the village ceased to be.

The present parish of Chesterton has a population of only 152, although It covers 3,585 acres. Dr. Thorpe has done a great deal of research to locate the exact site of the "lost" village He pointed out to members of the archaeological society the pattern of the small community still clearly discernible In the mounds and depressions In the fields sloping to a stream which flows near an existing farm house. Norman Church The medieval Chesterton, Dr. Thorpe said was a very orderly village comprising a row of houses on one side of the broad village green and two rows on the other side.

The sites of the little homesteads are marked by a series of small plateaux down the incline of the Beide. A well-dellned lane is evident on one side of the village, while another lane, still open as a right of way, leads directly to the church. This is the church of St. Giles, built in Norman times on a small hill equidistant from the communities of Chesterton and Kingston. Now the church.

which stands aloo and alone. Is too large for its tiny. scattered parish, and services are held there only on alternate Sundays. BOYS DEAD IN SAND DUNE The bodies of two brothers. David Hall 411 i and Digby Hall 12., were found yesterday In a sand dune at Dogs Bay.

Rounstone. co. Galway. The boys, sons of Mr. and lira.

Lancelot Hall, of Klicoole, co. Wicklow. had been on holiday at Rounstone. and were Wooed on Friday after they played 011 the sands. Plastic Surgery Followed by Marriage Operations on girls with reading china hooked noses and acne scars were described by Dr.

Alma Dea Mona plastic surgeon and clinical professor of surgery at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, in a lecture In London on Saturday. Dr. Morani said that este trivial defects led to serious emotional upsets. and the plastic surgeon could act as a psychiatrist in remedying them. One girl, whose face was entirely pitted with acne scars, had been to 19 doctors before going for plastic surgery, and had threatened to commit suicide.

Dr. Morani added the happy ending: flhe went away and got married." WORLD OF MUSIC 'Needless Panic' The amount of contamination suffered by passengers is likely to be less than they would receive from natural ground radiation which they experience most of their lives. I was told when I checked with a highranking R.A.P. "We should tile to see the public educated to truth about radiation of th. sort." an air-line official said.

"There seems to be a lot of needless panic whenever the word radiation is mentioned." By J. F. Waterhouse MONTE VERDI AT K.E.H.S. SOMEDAY. perhaps the might be a bit ambitious even organ) continuo which Monteboys of King Edward's for ILE 8.) the boys' school Verdi demands for the infernal School.

Birmingham, and the does wisely to concentrate on scenes of Acts and IV. That girls of King Edward's High legitimate drama." Until. uncanny change of colour Is School, Birmingham. will join that is to say. there dawns the vital to his conception forces in opera.

While the blissful day of collaboration. present curious segregational ruling continues. Edwardian operatic enterprise stays "on IfEANWHILE, operatic enterths distaff side." LV-a prise at K.E.H.B. is enter- OROST the regal, however. This is a quite astoundingly successful and a most deeply moving production: amply sufficient to give anyone a good idea of the nature and the emotional.

depth of the first great opera: even to raise the inevitable enquiry about whether opera, for all its subsequent centuries of elaboration and Come to thing of it, this ts prising indeed. It was so under pretty well bound to be so. the musical direction of Miss K.E.S. is unlikely often to dis- Vivienne Holmes, and it cover, among its Shells and remains so under the musical Removes, treble voices strong direction of Mrs. Vivienne or assured enough for female Bolton.

Dido and Aeneas. operatic leads: and an opera lahlgenia in Toots. The with Its male roles shoved up Beggar's Opera. I cannot offen octave is more satisfactory, hand recall for certain (there a very, very great deal more was also a lively Bastten and satisfactory, than would bean Bastienne between whiles) ZOir ith its female roles whicb of these were directed by ed down an octave. Miss Holmes and which by aggrandisement.

has really progressed" at all in essential music-drama since Monteverdi's day. snort of putting on Mr. Mrs. Bolton; though I rathei omen Hwy Budd iwnion think it was sometime between the Gluck and the Gay that the Hand on heart. I declare that I have never in any operahouse been so nearly moved to tears as I was when the halfregained Euridice" (Eleanor Fisher).

with her grey, ghostly make-up and her timidly-poised gesture of affection, found the infernal spirits intervening between her and Orpheus Rosemary Day) as he turned to look at her. It is all enormously helped by production. lighting, costumes and settings (both the enchanting bergamasque of the scenes on earth, with their garlands and tiny pergola, and the Dantelike towering rocks of Hades. with Charon's gryphon-prowed boat). Various hands seem to have been responsible for the designing, but one would never have guessed so.

It has a remarkable unity of conception. one became the other, as a result of a happy intercollegiate union which may surely be taken as a happy harbinger of the aforementioned dawn. Mr. Bolton, better known In musical circles as a traverse flautist, plays one of four recorders in the Monteverdlan orchestra (under the direction of Mn. Bolton) which was heard at K.E.H.S.

on Friday and Saturday nights and which will be heard there once again to-night. I heard it on Saturday night. day HAVING only thaH AVING returned from more than a week at the Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music, I was unable to do much preparatory homework on the earliest great masterpiece of opera (and by Apollo, what a masterpiece it Claudio Monteverdi's La Parole (1607). I will not, therefore, venture to estimate Just how far Mrs. Bolton's version of the score satlidied the demands of that wonderful word which Dr.

Hans RedllCh, in his book on Monteverdi, sought to launch into the English musical vocabulary: Auffuehrun gsprarls practice of meaning, in effect. the manner in which early music was performed and should be SOME previous K.E.H S. operas have been better stocked with solo (and choral) voices, but there Is little here that gives lees than true pleasure, and the Charon (Hilary Price, made-up rather like Death in The Seventh Seal) has a contralto of quite precocious power, quality and control. On Saturday night Miss Day's Orpheus made a tentative. rhythmically spineless start in the first two acts, but later gained confidence her very pretty soprano and drew real emotive power from such passages as her appeal to Charon and (even more her lamenting emergence into daylight.

For inoffensive self- Certainly' not all the instruments specified by Monteverdi are assembled. There is no assurance and a delightful ease of gesture the First Shepherd of Marie Wreford came near to stealing the show. High credits also to the Nymph of Janette Lacey. the Proserpine of Jenifer Jenkinson and the Spirit Herald of Pamela Coldbeck. The Apollo of Jane Brookabank would probably have earned an even higher one had she not suffered an unfortunate dry-up in her final duologue with Orpheus.

Her voice, when she did manage to get it out. sounded as if It might be potentially the best of the lot: and In her great helmet she looked like a gcd. The Hall of K.E.H.S. makes a lovely little opera-house. Strolling in the long interval by the lawns and the pool of the Staff Quadrangle.

one might fancy oneself at Cilyndebourns. CITY. BLOCK GRANTS TO INCREASE INDEPENDENCE' Service on Councils The introduction of the block grant system of payments from the Exchequer to local authorities is intended to provide more independence of action for counclllors who have complained that service on a town or district council is not worth their while, Dame Evelyn Sharp, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. said on Saturday. She was speaking at the Rural Life Conference.

arranged by the National Council of Social Service, at Ashorne Hill. near Leamington unnecessary as a result of the Welfare State, there was a fresh outbreak of voluntary service. In no respect was it more alive than In the Dame Evelyn said she understood tile fears of those who felt that educational progress would be impeded by the block grant system, but a price had to be paid for independence in local goverdment. "If local councils are to be independent they must have independence to be bad or good." she said. of the Statei hciMital service.

There was no dearth of volunteers, but a great need for their training. There is no place for the blundering volunteer, and we have to ne more selective," Dr. Nicholson said. The pity is that everyone who is willing to give service is not always capable of providing it in an acceptable way." Inspection "But the Ministry will still preecnbe standards; there will oe a system of inspection of schools, and there will be criticism and comment on standards." The tradition of unpaid voluntary service on statutory bodies was a great bulwark of British liberty, and it was well represented in country districts where large numbers of townspeople were now living. The countryman need not fear the impact of these people as they demanded the aboution of earth closets, for their htip was essential in acquiring modern amenities.

For some time there had been a feeling that the quality of those willing to serve on local bodies was declining. Here and there were first-class councillors, but the general level was not as high as it once was. People who were admirably qualified excused themselves from nomination on the ground that they had not the time. If you ask industrialists in I remember Complaints of the great days of the they don't serve on the council, they are thunderstruck at the suggestion," Dame Evelyn said, but when you think of what local government means to industry it is fantastic that they should refuse to give it consideration. Pollution from Power Station Castle Donington Rural Council near Derby is to complain to the Central Electricity Authority about the inefficiency of the anti-pollution precautions at Donington Power Station, one of the largest generating plants in Europe.

People in the town are complaining that crops in the area have been affected by gas from the chimneys of the station where 4.000,000 tons of coal a year are used. Cdr. Artlibr Robert Dalby, a local councillor. said yesterday that the residents at the district wanted an assurance that there would be no further pollution. The power station stands In a fertile market gardening district.

close to Melbourne. Seven Men Swim to Rescue Dinghy Seven men swam a quarter of a mile in heavy emu yesterday off Climping, near Littlehampton, Sussex. and brought to shore a dinghy, with a man and woman aboard, which had got into difficulties. Afterwards they disappeared among crowds on the beach before police could obtain their names. Politica 'On the rural and county councils It is probable that the quality is as high as ever it was, but even there one Is beginning to find people disposed to say that they do not like the introduction of politica.

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