Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 9

203 holiday accidents on Merseyside The start of a six miles journey in an open landau from St. Christopher's Church, Speke. to the Adeiphi Hotel. Liverpool, for a bride and groom after their wedding on Boxing Day. They are Miss Angela Blackall, daughter of Mr.

andl Mrs. John Blacksll, of Wood- end Lane, Speke, and John Parry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Parry, of 85 Bray Road. Speke.

Miss Blackhall requested the landau, which was sent from Leyland. none being available locally. AMERICANS TO USE BURTONWOOD AGAIN -JOBS FOR 500 The Americans are returning to Burtonwood. near Warrington, next month, and jobs will be available for about 200 A spokesman for the American Third Air Force in London disclosed this to-day and added that about 200 Americans were expected to be stationed there. He said The re-allocation of U.S.

units from France has made it necessary to move a limited amount of NATOoommitted U.S. Army stores and supplies to existing facilities in the United Kingdom. A total of approximately 200 U.S. Army personnel will begin to move to Burtonwood shortly after January The vast camp, which covers, nearly 2.000 acres, was once the largest American supply depot In Europe. with 25.000 military personnel stationed, there.

It had its own cinemas. schools. clubs. shopping centres, and even a railway system. Newly-weds rode to reception in landau crashed into lame standard.

3 Netherton youths died on Christmas Eve Mr. R. A. Lloyd. (the S.W.

Lancashire Coroner). was to open the inquest at Ormskirk this afternoon on three Netherton youths who died the car in which they lasengers skidded were en on fee at Skelmerettale on Eve and a concrete They were Robert John Parry, aged 18, of 40, Dooley Drive; Philip Eugene Brennan. aged 19. of 82.1 Dooley Drive. and Roy aged 19.

of 34. Marl Road. The driver of the car, Graham aged 19. of Claremont Avenue. Maghull, was taken to Ormskirk and District General Hospital and Iwas later transferred to aas Hospital, He is said to be making progress.

The accident occurred on the main Ormskirk-Wigan road at the junction of Willow Hey and Wigan Road. Skelmersdale, at midnight. Nol other vehicle was involved. Fined, banned for Christmas Eve offence Pleading guilty to driving a van in Woodchurch Road. Birkenhead, while unfit through drink on Christmas Eve, John Terence Darcy.

aged 46, of 99 Houghton Road. Woodchurch. was fined £25 and disqualified from driving 'for 12 months at Birkenhead Magistrates' Court, yesierday. He told the Bench: "I thought at the time I could get home." Inspector J. Hand, prosecuting.

said that after taking a position in the outside lane as though it was his intention to cross straight over Woodchurch Road at the Storeton Road junction. Darcy made a wide sweep left. A police car which was on his inside was also turning in the some direction and the van was seen to be wandering from the centre of the road to the nearside. When it was stopped Darcy moved over to the passenger seat and the van moved forward, one of the policemen having to the hand Told he was being arrested he said: Look, old chap. I think you have played it too far.

I will be home in two minutes." The police surgeon certified that Darcy was unfit to drive. WELL MAINTAINED The Americans left several years ago but since then, the runway has been well maintamed and In recent months. there has been considerable conjecture following visits to the base by high-ranking officers. Buildings have been repaired and other facilities. including Hedda House.

a giant warehouse, once reputed to be the biggest in Europe. have been restored to operational standard. The spokesman said that at least 500 British civilians would be hired during the next few weeks. It will be largely staffed by civilians." he said. 'lt is not intended to use Burtonwood again as an operational base such as Lakenheath or Mildenhall." He added that its use as a storage depot would not be incompatible with current proposals for the expansion of Warrington.

The return of the American will provide a welcome shot In the arm for the local economy. At one time the base provided jobs for about 5.000 civilians from the Warrington. St. Helens, Widnes and Liverpool areas. Earlestown woman killed in crash A woman was killed in a two-ear crash in Lunts Heath Road, Widnes, on Christmas Eve.

She was Mrs. Hannah Naylor. aged 58, of 10 Coilingwood Road, a passenger in the rear of a Morris Oxford. The driver of the car, William Newton. aged 55, of 29 Park Avenue North, Earleytown.

is in Whiston Hospital and was to-day stated be still very ill. His wife. Vera. aged 48, is improving. The occupants of the other car.

Detective-Constable George Herbert Dafnis, aged 24, of 43 Dcrwent Road. Warrington, a member of the Liverpool City Force, and Miss Lorraine Sandra St. Aubyn. aged 21. of 53 Ruttermere Road, Liverpool 15.

were to-day stated to be satisfactory In Whiston Hospital. MAGISTRATE RESIGNS A magistrate at Abersele since January 1, 1954. Mrs Kathleen Margaret Sylvia Manners, of Abergele, has tendered her resignation as she finds it Impossible, owing to domestic commitments. to be regular in her attendance on the Bench. Mrs Manners Wes, at mane time.

vice-chair- Man of the Court's Juvenile 14I Keep Britain Tidy" declare Government campaign posters. But do we Alderman William Sefton, reader of Liverpool City Council. thinks not. For at a meeting of the Council, Alderman Sefton said the British people were I a dirty, unkempt, untidy lot." he is not alone in his view. Liverpool people agreed yesterday with Alderman Sefton when he said that very few people treat the community as it should be treated.

"You see it wherever you throw cigarette packets and other litter away without a second thought," said Mr. Ted Ansell. of Terence Road, Childwall. Nona in Paris 1 1" It's inherent in the British. You see it in all the railway carriages, buses, pavements, beaches and all picnic places.

"I had the pleasure of seeing Paris and there is no muck or dirt on streets there. They are naturally tidy in Paris. think this problem could be solved in time to come because nur standards are improving all the time," Mr. Ansell mided. Twenty-years-old student Miss Florence Barron.

of 24 Ballantyne Road. Liverpool, said: "1 agate with Alderman Sefton on this. Seeing people throwing litter on pavements is horrible. "We will always be like It is part of the British way of life. I lived in Lanoasterl for over two years and it was just the same there.

It'sl the same all over the country." Careless Mr. P. Lamb. of 53 Honeyhall Road. Halewood, thought the dropping of litter and the untidy picture it presented of the city was entirely due to carelessness.

"I have been to several cities that have been much worse than Liverpool. You just cannot make the general public litter-minded. If people did take more care about littering the streets with cigarette packets and bus tickets. Liverpool could be a city to be proud of." He added that he agreed with Alderman Sefton that the money which is now spent on clearing up the mess could be put to better use in the way of providing additional amenities for Liverpool people. The one thing about Liverpool 0 I Mrs.

Doris Done Cash suggestion British untidy? Liverpool people say '1 4 6 Mr. Ted Angell Standards mirroring people that upsets Mr. Joseph Jones, of 16 Warwick Street, Liverpool. is the thoughtless dropping of bus tickets. Plenty of Bins A street with Liverpool Corporation.

Mr. Jones said: It's mostly cigarette packets and bus tickets that I see littering the pavements and roads. There are plenty of litter bins around for people to use. fuould say we were untidy as far as litter goes," he added. Said Mrs.

Doris Done, a housewife, of 10 Pinewood Avenue, Formby: The money which is used to clear the streets of litter could be used to provide for children to the litter problem is ever solved, that is." She added: "We see these advertisements Keep Britain Tidy' but they don't make much difference really." rifteen-yeara-old Raymond Dunn, of 14 Grove Park, Liverpool, commented: People Just don't care what they throw in the street s. could set an example to the rest of the country if the people of the city became litter minded." Raymond Mum People don't core Florence Barron "Wan of life" CARS COLLIIDE Harold Boswell, aged 18. of 2, Brookland Road. Birkenhead, who is in Chester Royal Infirmary with a lacerated scalp, was to-day said to be satisfactory. On Christmas Eve his car was in collision with another at Milton Green, Handley, Chester.

and in North Wales Figures so far available show that there were 203 road accidents on Merseyside and in North Wales during the five-day Christmas holiday period. Nine people died in these accidents and 49 were seriously injured. The fatal accidents occurred in Liverpool on Saturday, in Birkenhead on Friday. in Flinshire on Saturday and Monday. and in the Gwynedd area yesterday.

In Bootle. however, there were no accidents at all on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or yesterday and only three accidents, causing injury to O. 23 four people. during the holiday. Last year.

with a three-day holiday period, two people were billed and seven seriously injured on Liverpool's roads. This year. over the five days. 21 people were badly hurt in the city. Three Netherton youths died In a crash at Skelmersdsle on Christmas Eve.

ism 21: Sirlipus "lithe Dec 21: fatal Well, as Wel Dec 277 L'wees Boone WsPl'v lio Pilate Ow're'd 0 2 2 6 i 2 3 23 21 3 2 1 3 1 3 II 2 4 1 11 3 3 1 44 4 23 10 14 of porsons MOM or Inbred. I i 3 I 3 5 2 25 IS Cunard to have two container vessels Two specialised cargo container ships are to be built for the Cunard Steam Ship Company Limited to expand services on North Atlantic routes and to meet future demands. A company spokesman In said that Cunard be making a state! meet to-morrow. No ships had yet been ordered. It is expected to have the new container ships in operation by 1969 but no decision has yet been taken on whether they will operate from Liverpool.

"It will depend, of course, on the facilities available at said the spokesman. New large container ships would be able to load and unload more cargo in one working day than was now handled in a week. BOARD'S PLANS At present, Cunard operate container services in ordinary cargo liners from Liverpool and London to North Amelia can The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board say that provision has been made in redevelopment plans for container service berths. "Anyshipping line wishing to use Liverpool as a container service terminal will be able to do ao, certainly by 1909," a Board spokesman said. Sir Basil SmaLlpeice, the Cunard chairman, told the Liverpool and Merseyside branch of the Institute of Directors on December 13 that DOW container ships would need completely modernised ports.

They were going to be too large to serve just Britain and would have to serve the Continent as well. "Liverpool is ahead' well keyed in to the British Rail national freight grid. We can expect Liverpool to draw container cargoes from all over even whisky from Scotland," said Sir Bull. Crosh on his new cycle When riding his new eyrie on Chrioness 'Day Stogies James Mamas. aged five.

01 Yew Tree Read. Menton. we it maiden with a ear is Pasture Avenue. Morsien. Re was talon to Metals doled Haspital wafering from bead injuries.

To-day be was stated to be seriously W. bat there had been seine Isa- Wallasey PoIII bate appealed for witnesses to get to tooth with them MAN DIED AFTER FIGHT AT KIRKBY, COURT TOLD After a fight at the bus station at Kirkby town centre, a young married man died of stab wounds, it was alleged by the police at Liverpool County Magistrates' Court to-day. Antony Peloe, 20-years-old unemployed labourer, of 39 Stratton Road. Kirkby, appeared on remand accused of the murder of William Upton, aged 23, labourer, of 43 Grosmont Road, Southdene, Kirkby. Upton is a married man with a young child.

Chief Inspector Brunskill, prosecuting, said that during the evening of December 23, Upton had been drinking with fnends in Liverpool and was later returning home by bus with one of his friends, Victor Edward Williams, of 114 Broad Lane. Kirkby. Both men were seated on th upper deck and were singing. When the bus reached a stop In Whitefield Drive, Kirkby, It was boarded by Peloe and his friend, Lawrence John Welsh, who were accompanied by their girl-friends. It is apparent that all' concerned had had sufficient to drink that night," said Inspector Brunskill, 1" and some altercation took place between Webb and Williams regarding the singing." At Kirkby town centre they alighted from the bus and a fight ensued between Welsh and Williams and between Peloe and Upton.

Each fight was independent of the other. During the course of the fight between Peloe and Upton. said the chief inspector. Upton received a number of stab wounds in the side and back and he collapsed by the railings at the but station. Peloe and Welsh then left the scene.

Upton was taken by ambulance to Walton ospital where he died at 12.15 a.m. as the result of his injuries. At noon on December 24. Peloe was seen at Kirkby Police Station by Detective Chief Inspector John Watson and Detective Inspector Wilfred Stanley. When charged he allegedly said "There's nothing I can say." Peloe.

said Chief Inspector Brunskill, had made a statement but it was not proposed to put it in at this stage. Peloe was remanded in custody until January 1. St. Helens new C.I.D. second-in command Detective Se rg eant Port Sunlight man is next president A man who lives in a hou once occupied by the first Lord Leverhulme is to be the next president of Birkenhead and Wirral branch of the United Commercial Travellers' office once held by the founder of the Unilever business.

He is Mr. R. V. Smith (above) of Bridge Cottage, 23 Park Road, Port Sunlight, whose home was among the first to be built in the garden village and was occupied by the first Lord Leverhulme in 1898 and 1897. Mr.

Smith Is sales controller of Lever Brothers Associates and has been associated with Unilever for over 43 years. He was sales director of A. E. Pears, from 1943 to 1949 and from 1930 to 1960 sales director of Crosfields (C.W.G.) prior to moving to Port Sunlight. WELL-KNOWN In their six years In the village, the Smith family have become well-known local Smith and her elder daughter, Valerie, being members of the W.R.V.S.

and helping with meals-on-wheels, bandicapped people and pensioners. Mrs. Smith is deputy leader of a pensioners' luncheon club, and president of the Senior Citizens Friday Club. Mr. Smith will be inaugurated as president of the Birkenhead and Wirral branch of the LT.T.CA.

next month. During the last 20 years, three chairmen of Lever Brothers, Port Sunlight, Mr. George Nairn. Mr. Frank been president MINISTER REJECTS PLAN FOR CITY FLATS The Minister of Housing and Local Government has dismissed an appeal by a Derbyshire man against Liverpool City Council's refusal to give planning permission to build on a site on the Sunnyside estate at Princes Park, Liverpool.

Mr. Arthur Cockburn, a Ministry inspector who conducted the public inquiry in October and who inspected the site, recommended that the appeal be dismissed. Mr. J. R.

Edwards, of Long Eaton, Derbyshire, had applied for permission to build a two -1 storey block of flats and town houses, with garages. The city council turned this' down on the grounds that the separate development of the site in the way Mr. Edwards proposed would prejudice the ultimate development of the land. WALTON PRISONER CHARGED WITH HOUSEBREAKING Dennis Smart, aged 18, one of the five men said to have escaped from Walton Prison, Liverpool, last week, was remanded In custody at Derby to-day on a charge of house- breaking. Smart, a labourer, address was given as H.M.

Prison, Walton, Liverpool, was remanded until January 2. He was charged with to- Igether with Alexander Samuel McKnight, aged 19, and Gerald John Ward. aged two other prisoners who have been breaking into the house of Charles Cope. at 114 Whitaker Road, Derby. and stealing a gent's, wrist watch, gold engagement ring, radio, two torches, al bottle of gin, a bottle of a scoutmaster's Arthur Filbey, of Southport Police, is to take up two pairs of earrings, a packet an appointment in the St.

of biscuits, a child's wrist Helens County Borough watch, fruit, two bottles of Police as detective insherry and a camera, valued spector and second intogether at £27 10s. command of the C.I.D. McKnight, of Troweir Sergeant Filbey, Girvan, Ayrshire, and Ward aged 42. is married and has of Govan, Glasgow. bothltwo children, Martin, aged 17.

appeared before the magic and Nicholas. a 3 He lives; trates on Christmas Eve at 23 Rawlinson Road, South-1 and were remanded until Port, but is a native of Bury. January 2. He joined the Southport' Police in July. 1946, and CENTRE OF SEARCH served in the uniformed de- Detective Constable James partment.

In 1947 he uas Reddington said that informs- transferred to the C.I.D. and tion was received last Thurs- was trained as a fingerprint day evening about five and photographic officer. prisoners escaping from In 1956 he left the force to Walton. Extensive inquiries take up an appointment A ith were carried out in De rb the the Colonial Police in Tanfollowing day and various ganyika. He returned to addresses in the town were England in 1962 and rejoined visited by the police.

the Southport Police as about 4.40 p.m. the ective constable and was prosearch was centred on the moted to sergeant in the Rylmeld Recreation Ground uniformed branch, and again district and at 6.20 p.m. Ward transferred in 1964 to the was arrested." said Detective C.I.D. Constable Reddington "At A well-known Southport 6.55 p.m. McKnight was lice detective constable arrsted but the third has been promoted to patron prisoner.

Smart, made good in the uniformed his escape." he added 'department. During the search th He is Detective Constable break-in at Whitaker Road Eric Sweeney. who was born was discovered. in Birkenhead in 1920 and Detective Constable Red- served in the Royal Artillery dington said that at 8.10 a.m. from 1939 to 1946, where he yesterday he saw Smart at a held the rank of sergeant.

police station in East KU- He joined the Southport bride. Lanarkshire. Police in 1947 and was Smart was brought back to attached to the uniformed Derby. where he made a state- department until 1959. and ment.

In this, said Detective was then moved to the newly Constable Reddington. Smart created dog section. said that he stole four vehicles Both he and his dog. Jan, between Liverpool and Derby. are well-known in the town He also said that he managed and have been complimented.

to get to Scotland by rail. various trials and have Detective Constable Red-been responsible for a dington said that Smart of arrests. He has arrested by Hamilton Police been a member of the C.I.D.' on Christmas Day in a park. since 1905. Tunnel "snowfall" delayed early-morning traffic The Interior of the Mersey Tunnel looked like a Christmas grotto to-day after part of a load of finely-ground meal in bags had fallen from a lorry in the middle section.

The bags burst. scattering showers of meal. The lorry was travelling from Birkenhead, and teattic was Mgt beginning to build uP to the usual morning Peak, when the mishap occurred. Fortunately the bags toppled into the footwalk at the side. Repair squads struggled to clear them and were hampered by the snowy dust which covered them from head to foot and brought visibility to almost nil.

The incident was at 7.23 a.m. The Tunnel was cleared of the bags in about 20 but tbe temporary blockage caste a heavy build-up of raffle on the Birkenhead side. Our men looked host like snowmen." remarked a Tunnel official. He added: It was lucky the bags did not fall into the line of traffic. otherwise things might have been much more serious." The Liverpool Ede owl hooey boos, December 21, 1966 9 APPALLING WASTE The city council considered that, havigig regard to the adjoining residential properties, the land should remain in open use.

Mr. A. Edmondson, representing Mr. Edwards, told the inquiry the land had never been developed. Since land was so scarce in the city, this was "an appalling waste." The inspector said this land was an integral part of the Sunnyside estate and that development would destroy the open setting.

It would also prejudice redevelopment. Mama at work to the debrfi of the staaSs at Souillyati Southport F.C. want 70,000 to restore stand Forensic science experts and detectives were this morning probing the smoke-blackened ruins of Fourth Division soccer club Southport's only stand destroyed yesterday in a fierce blaze. Fire swept through the after the blaze was a giant ,150 -yard long stand in the safe containing part of the early hours of the morning takings from the Boxing Day and bars, changing rooms, game. And the heat fused (showers, offices, a gymnasium the lock so that no one could 'and the club's boardroom, all et in.

But safe experts from housed beneath it, were razed Manchester have been called to the ground. in to open it. Said a club At the height of the fire, es "Fortunately the of the takings went to families living oppositeite bulk the bank after the match." ground were evacuated as a strong wind fanned the flames The land on which the club and threatened to carry stands is owned by Southport Corporation, and there are across to their houses. Corporation, that the council may And to-day. a £70,000 ask the club to plan for any restoration appeal was new stand or building to launched by the Southport coincide with the building board of directors after an line of houses alongside the emergency meeting last night ground in Haig Avenue.

This at the Bold Hotel, in Lord would mean moving the front- Street. Southport, owned by age of the club back almost view-chairman Mr. Jack to the touchline. Clough. Now speculation is rife MATCH CANCELLED about the possibility of a The blaze began at a.m..

brand new ground being built only 10 hours before South- on Victoria Park-, port were due to make a site of the Southport Flower sh ow. return visit to Wrexham in The idea of an alternative the second leg of their Christ- site, either Victoria Park or mu fi xtures and only hours Town Lane, Kew, was disafter the biggest crowd of the cussed last year. season, 8,197, had watched the promotion hunting seaside team beat the Welsh side 1-0 on Boxing Day. The return match had to be canceled because all Southport's playing kit boots, shorts and lost as the timber stand which housed 2,500 spectators, burned down Dangerous drugs Fifty firemen from Southport and neighbouring towns fought the outbreak but were unable to save any part of the 'building. Part of the wiring for the floodlighting on the 20.000—was also burned out and all the club's records were lost stolen Cheshire Police are investigating the theft of a quantity of drugs from a doctor's car which was parked in Elm Road, Bebington, early on Christmas Day.

Police say the drugs are all dangerous, especially if taken by children, and appeal for any information to be sent to Bromborough Police Station or any police officer. Police cars have already made a broadcast tour of Bebington and New Ferry warning the public to be on the lookout for the drugs, which were contained in a black suitcase. Said groundsman Tommy Evans. aged 33: "It's heartbreaking. We had spent all summer repainting the whole Of the stand, putting in new seating and improving the accommodation.

We had only recently had new Mowers installed." wife Mrs. Muriel Ball, aged 38, who raised the alarm from her home opposite the ground. described the fire. The smoke filled the whole street." she said. "It was impossible to see.

"At first there were no flames. Then there was a sort of dull explosion and the front of the club seemde to blow out. The flames ran from end to end." Chairman of the club. Mr. John.

Church. owner of a produce company. said: "This is virtually the staart of a new club. We are appealing for the help of everyone. OFFICE IN CARAVAN The following drugs in glass phials were stolen Morphine.

Pethadrine, Ergometrine, Sparkle, Lasix, Phemegan, Digoxin, Adremacin, and Aminophylcine. A number of tablets were also stolen, and these were: 20 seconal (small, orange colour), 50 tetracvn (large, orange colour) and 50 penbritin (large, black and red). Two syringes and a number of surgical needles and instrumeats were also stolen. "We may have lost our accommodation. but we still have our team.

No blaze can destroy that. We intend to come out on top in spite of everything." Said secretary Mr. Gordon Hunt, who will be based in a caravan on the ground until new accommodation is pro- vided: "We were adequately insured but that won't cover the cost of rebuilding at present day prices. We shall need all of £70.000." TUG LEAVES MERSEY AFTER 12-DAY DELAY Commented director Mr. Arthur Briscoe, a building contractor, who will be in charge of arrangements for providing temporary seating: "We are down to our rockers now.

We need all the help we can get." But, said Mr. Church: "Soccer will go on at Haig Avenue. We plan to have a temporary stand of scaffolding and canvas sheeting ready in time for the next home first team game on January 21." After being delayed 12 days by gale warnings, the German tug Fairplay XIV left the Mersey yesterday. towing to a Norwegian shipyard for completion the hull of a cargo vessel (2,200 toad launched on December 13 from the Birkenhead yard of Cammell Laird and Co. (Shipbuilders and Engineersl, Ltd.

Departure was scheduled for December 15, but the sailing date was cancelled four times because of the weather. A Cammell Laird's spokesman said the tug and hull were due to arrive at the Norwegian shipyard in about 10 days. Manager Billy Bingham. revealed that training would go on as usual at the ground today if new kit arrives in time. Southport Education Cont.

mittee have given permission for showers, changing rooms and other accommodation at Meols Cop Secondary School. which adjoins the ground. to be used by players for first team home games, reserve matches and training sessions. FACELIFT FOR CITY AREA The area round Liverpool's St. George's Hall is to be given a facelift.

Corporation chief officers are to be asked to report on what chance there is of the work being done within the next year. Lancashire County Council has already agreed to clean tile stonework of the Counts Sessions House in Islington. The club has already received its first offers of help. The Southport Supporters and Social Club have donated £lOO for the purchase of new shorts and jerseys.l and Chester F.C. have offered the loan of two sets of kit.

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