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837 MONDAY, TUESDAY, ALASTAIR SIM, LESLIE BANKS in TO plus (A) HUGH HERBERT. TOM BROWN in Continuous from 6 p.m.—Matinee on Saturday at 2.45 THURSDAY FRIDAY. SATURDAY JOHN WAYNE, FRANCES DEE in OF with (A) Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford Exciting Actionful Thrilling STIRLING BUS STATION MURRAY PLACE IN QUESTION. Stirling Town Council and Messrs W. Alexander Sons could not egree to the necessitv of retaining stops in Murray Place for longdistance buses after the opening of the new station at Goosecroft, and recently had a meeting with the regional traffic commissioners.

It was reported to the Town Council at their monthly meeting on Monday night that at the meeting with the commissioner the chief report was submitted, recommending the discontinuance of the stopping places in Murray Place for long-distance on the ground of public safety. The magistrates supported the view, and. after a full discussion, the traffic commissioner agreed to visit the locus of the stopping places in question and to intimate his decision later. On Monday night the town clerk read a letter from the regional traffic commissioner stating that the old busoffice stop was to be abolished for south-going traffic, but that the opposite stance at the South Church was to be continued for north-going longdistance traffic. Judge Millar expressed his disappointment at the decision to continue in use the South Church stance, and he pointed out that the very favourable lease of the ground in Goosecroft to Messrs Alexander for a "bus station was made to have the Stirling stances for the local services only.

The Council agreed to Judge suggestion that the regional commissioner be informed that they accepted his decision under protest. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS STIRLING LIST FOR 1942. Stirling Town Council, at their monthly meeting on Monday night, adopted the recommendations of the magistrates regarding the public holidays for 1942. Christmas Day, 25th December next, is the last holiday for the current year. The list for 1942 is as follows Thursday, Ist January (Licensing Act) Monday, 13th April (Factory Act and Licensing Act); Wednesday, 20th May; Monday, 22nd June; Wednesday, 22nd July; Wednesday, 19th August (Licensing Act); Monday, 14th September (Factory Act) Wednesdav.

14th October. There was no seconder for an amendment by Councillor Duncan that all public holidays be observed on Monday. He argued it would give the benefit of the long week-end and would enable shop-keepers to cope with clerical work. He understood there was a shortage of stocks at the week-end. Councillor Plank pointed out that wives were paid on Monday and the shops did a fairly big trade then.

wiMimmm: vV-' When victory has brought peace and hope to the peoples of the world, countless thousands will toast the real liiit THE STIRLING OBSERVER TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1941 STIRLING KINGHORN BRIDE The wedding took place on Friday, in St. Episcopal Church, Kinghorn. of Miss Mary Ward, third daughter of Mrs D. Ward and the late Mr W. Ward, Croft-an-Righ, Kinghorn, and Leading Aircraftman David Macfarlane, second son of Mr and Mrs J.

Macfarlane, Burghmuir, Stirling. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Aircraftman Joseph Ward, RA.F., favoured a dress of white satin with veil and white head-dress to match. She carried a bouquet of pink and white chrysanthemums. She was attended by Miss Isa Henderson, Glamis Road, Kinghorn, who wore white crepe-de-chine with white net and headdress to match. The train-bearer.

Miss Ada Ward, sister of the bride, was dressed in pink creoe-de-chine, also with net. Groomsman was Leading Aircraftman Duffy, R.A.F., and Rev. E. F. Snow performed the ceremony.

A reception was afterwards held in Bayvlew Hotel. that he could not remember anything that happened that night, and could not give a statement. Sheriff Burn-Murdoch found the charge proved, and in passing sentence of twentyfive imprisonment, said that it was quite plain that the house-breaking and assault had come about through accused being drunk. NO COCOA LICENCE STIRLING SHOPKEEPER FINED. For selling cocoa without a licence from the Food Control Office, Joseph Zola, 9 Bow Street, Stirling, was fined 10s by Sheriff Burn-Murdoch at Stirling on Thursday.

The fiscal said that accused had a fish restaurant, in which quite a lot of cocoa was displayed for sale, and enforcement inspectors discovered that the shop did not have a licence for the sale of cocoa. On behalf of accused it was stated that he was now in the army, and the shop was being carried on by his sisters. His sisters knew that he had a licence to sell food, but the licence could not be found, and they thought that it included the sale of cocoa. KILDEAN HOSPITAL bailie McGregor re-elected CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE. Bailie McGregor was re-appointed chairman of Stirling Combination Hospital Committee when the committee met in the Municipal Buildings, Stirling, on Friday.

Other appointments made were: vicechairman and works committee convener Councillor Aitken; convener of finance committee Judge Brown. It was reported that Miss Hardy, Hawick, succeeds Sister Turner as sister at the hospital. Miss Turner has been appointed matron in succession to Miss J. J. Roy, retired.

Quarterly reports were submitted at the business meeting by the doctor and matron. Dr. R. Lockhart reported that there were in hospital at the beginning of the quarter, 13 cases. 32 cases were admitted during the quarter; 33 discharged; and there were in hospital at the end of the quarter, 12 cases.

16 of the 32 admissions were diphtheria cases. No deaths occurred during the quarter. Miss report gave details of the places the various cases came from. Of the 32 admissions, 20 were Stirling cases, 3 Western District, 5 Callander, 1 Doune, 3 Dunblane. Of the 12 cases in hospital at the end of the quarter.

5 came from Stirling, 1 from the Western District, 2 from Callander. 1 from Doune, and 3 from Dunblane. TREACHEROUS STREETS TOWN COUNCIL TO TAKE NO ACTION. That certain Stirling streets possessed the most treacherous surface in Scotland, was a statement made by the spokesman for a deputation of and lorry drivers heard by Stirling Town Council at their October meeting. The deputation was from the Stirling branch of the Transport and General Union, who asked the Council, in the interests of public safety, to roughen the surface of the roadways from Kildean Toll to Black Boy, Union Street and Kerse Road from the railway bridge to the foot of the Craigs.

The Works Committee have considered the matter since then, and had submitted to them a report by the burgh surveyor that the estimated cost of roughening the surfaces of these roadways would amount to £21.955. On the recommendation of the Works Committee, the Town Council, at their monthly meeting on Monday night decided that no action be taken. Bailie Hay suggested that the committee might explore the possibility of roughening a strip of the road a foot in breadth which might enable drivers to pull up. Councillor Wingate said before the war they had adopted a scheme for roughening the surface of the mam street of Stirling, but the war stopped He understood the burgh engmeer had another scheme in his uocket, anJ he (the councillor) hoped to have something to report to the next Council meeting. The Provost said although the minute recommended no action, the matter was not being lost sight of.

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OBITUARY MR THOMAS YOUNG. The death took place at 13 Mount Avenue, Kilmarnock (the residence of his son-in-law), of Mr Thomas Young, who for many years conducted a business in Baker Street, Stirling. Sixty-two years ago, Mr Young served his apprenticeship as a gardener with Mr Alexander McAndrew, Clifford Park, Stirling. For some years he was in private service at Broomfield, Menstrie, and Kilchrist Castle. Campbeltown.

Returning to Stirling, he took Batterflats as a market garden and added dairying. When the late Mr Pat Drummond built a mansion house at Batterflats, Mr Young laid out the grounds and planted the shrubs and trees. He moved from Batterflats and opened a fruit shop in Baker Street with a nursery on ground to the rear, and remained there for thirty years his retiral in 1935. following the acquisition of the ground by the Town Council. For many years, Mr Young was a keen Salvationist, and acted as treasurer to the local corps.

His wife joined the first local corps of the raised in Stirling. In later vears they were members of the South Church. As a younger man, Mr Young served in the Volunteers when he was in Campbeltown, and he attended the famous He was a member of Lodge Ancient, Stirling, No. 30. Deceased, who was seventy-eight years of age, celebrated his golden wedding in June, 1939.

His wife died some time ago, and he is survived by a family of two sons and two daughters. MISS ELIZABETH McALPINE. Some years ago two remarkable old Stirling ladies went to live at Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. They were daughters of ex-Bailie McAlpine, who was a well-known figure in Stirling business circles over half a century ago. They early left Stirling for appointments in the teaching profession in England and abroad, but they had always a deep affection for the town of their birth.

The younger of the two, Miss Elizabeth McAlpine, has passed away in her eighty-seventh year, and was buried at Burnham on Saturday, Bth November. A largely attended service was held in the Free Church of the town conducted by the minister, the Rev. J. Egerton Smith. The Rev.

J. H. Gavin and Mrs Gavin, of Bristol, represented at this funeral service the old Stirling connections. The surviving friends of the family in the Stirling district will feel much sympathy with the older sister, the venerable Miss Jane McAlpine, whose home is at 25 Highbridge Road, Burnham-on-Sea. REV.

DR. W. S. JAFFRAY. The death took place at Torphins, Aberdeenshire, where he had been living in retirement, of the Rev.

W. S. Jaffray, C.M.G., C.8.E., D.D., honorary chaplain to the King, a nd chaplain commandant, Royal Army Chaplains Department, 1932-37. Seventy-four years of age, he was a brother of the late Mrs Denholm. 6 Victoria Place, Stirling, and Rad been a frequent visitor to this town, and preached on one occasion in the East Church, Stirling.

He was born in 1867, the son of the late Mr William Stevenson Jaffray, of Greystones, Aberdeenshire. After private tuition he entered Edinburgh University, where he graduated in arts and took his divinity course. In 1891 he received a commission as an army chaplain. During the South African War he served with distinction, being mentioned in despatches. He gained the Medal with six clasps, and was promoted.

After varieus appointments at homg with the troops, principally at Aldershot, he again saw active service during the last war. In France he was Assistant Principal Chaplain with the Fifth Army, and afterwards he was Principal Chaplain for Salonica and the Black Sea Forces from 1918 till 1919, ranking as brigadier-general. He was mentioned in despatches four times, created C.M.G. in 1915 and C.B.E. in 1919, given the Order of St.

Sava, second class, by the Serbian Government for his interest in Serbian troops and refugees; and hi university conferred on him the honorary degree of D.D. On his return to this country he was appointed Deputy Chaplain-General at the War Office in 1921. Having reached the age limit in 1925, he retired. Throughout his army career he was most popular with officers and men in peace-time and on active service. For several winters he served as civil chaplain to the Scottish congregation in St.

Church, Cairo, a member of the kirk session of St. Pont Street, he was of much assistance in that centre of London Scots. For some months, when the late Rev. Dr. Archibald Fleming was ill, Dr.

Jaffray took charge of the congregation. His manv friends rejoiced when, in 1932, His "Majesty approved the appointment of a Second Chaplain Commandant of the Royal Army Chaplains Department, and of Dr. Jaffray as the first holder of that honour. He resigned on reaching the age limit in 1937. In 1901 he married Ethel Annie Duncan, daughter of the Ute Major J.

Law, R.E., of TorphinSi SOLDIER IN ROOM FALLIN WOMAN ALARMING DISCOVERY. PRISON SENTENCE AT STIRLING. The story of how a young married woman, alone with her two children, heard an upstairs window of her house being opened about 11.30 at night, and found a soldier standing in the room was told at Stirling Sheriff Court on Thursday, when Pte. James Crane McCulloch, 54 Third Blcck, Fallin, pleaded not guilty to having on 6th November broken into Gothenburg House, Fallin, occupied by Mrs Catherine Morrison or Simpson, with intent to steal, and assaulting her by striking her a severe blow with his fist at a wash-house at the rear of Third Block, Fallin. Mrs Simpson said that her husband was in the Air Force.

Her house was situated above the Gothenburg public-house, and at the entrance to the public-house was a corrugated iron canopy for black-out purposes, and then a stone porch. She heard a window being raised, and she went into the bedroom, looked out the window, and saw that another window was full up. She ran into the other room, switched on the light, but found it empty. She opened the boxroom door and saw a soldier, whom she recognised as accused, standing there. She ran out of the house shouting for help, and the soldier jumped on to the canopy, and from there to the ground, landing on all fours.

He ran towards the entrance to Third Block. She and a Mrs Bolton ran after him. He went behind a washhouse, and witness went round it one way, and Mrs Bolton the other. Witness caught hold of the soldier, but he struck her a severe blow on the left side of the face with his clenched fist, and ran away. Her face was swollen as a result of the blow.

Witness said that she reported the matter to Constable McLeod, Fallin, and early the following morning at Stirling Police Office, she identified accused as the man who had broken into her house, from a parade of four soldiers. Mrs Amiie Bolton, 24b Block, Fallin, said that she saw Mrs Simpson come running out of her house shouting for help, and at the same time she saw a soldier on all fours on the ground, as if he had stumbled or jumped from a height. He ran into the entrance between Third and Fourth Blocks, and hid behind a wash-house. When she got round the other side of the wash-house Mrs Simpson told her that the soldier had hit her on the face. It was a bright moonlit night, and although she see the face, she recognised him as accused from his appearance.

About 1 a.m. the following morning at the police office in Stirling she identified accused. are you sure now wdien you merely thought it was me at Stirling? said I know your face, but I knew your back. Constable William McLeod, Fallin, said that about 11.40 at night he was on duty in Kersie Road, Fallin, when Mrs Simpson told him of the assault. Shortly afterwards he saw a soldier in uniform near the public-house, and when he asked him where he had come from the soldier refused to give any explanation, and also refused to give his name and address.

He was the worse of drink, and told witness that he had been speaking to a man called Walter Black, opposite the Gothenburg public-house. The soldier (accused) volunteered to go with him to house. Constable McLeod added that he noticed that there was white material adhering to trousers between the knees and ankles, as if he had been kneeling. Mhe window sill on to which accused was alleged to have climbed was whitened. When he cautioned and charged accused with breaking into Gothenburg House and assaulting Mrs Simpson, he said, in reference to the first charge, I know nothing about He made no reply to the second charge of assault.

Walter Black, pumpman, 34 Second Block. Fallin, said that he came off duty shortly before midnight, and he was walking along Kersie Road when two women came forward and one of them, Mrs Simpson, to klhirn that she had run out of the house and left the door open. He went along towards the public-house, and a soldier who was taking the full breadth of the and ho evidently knew him, spoke to him. Ho recognised the soldier as accused, and ho asked if he could get a drink. Witness told him that he get a drink at that time of night.

Mrs Drummond, sister of accused, said that her brother was very drunk that night, but he left the house going on for midnight. He said that he was going to walk to Stirling. About five minutes later witness heard a commotion at the Gothenburg, and thinking that her brother had become sick she looked out the window. AccufccU, speaking from the dock, said Maxwell Place, Stirling. TO-DAY (TUES.) and WED.

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