The Daily Telegraph from London, Greater London, England • 16

Jg fnUfi Teltfrmpk and Morning Pott Man PENSIONS COUNCIL URGED FOR STATE SCHEME SCOTTISH CHURCH THROWS OUT UNITY PROPOSALS COMMITTEE CHIEF RESIGNS DAILY TELEGRAPH REPORTER BY 300 votes to 266 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh yesterday finally threw out the Bishops-in-Presbytery proposals These were contained in the controversial joint report on relations between AIM TO AVOID PITFALLS AND HEAVY FUTURE COMMITMENT 1 I A FORM of National Pensions Council to guide the country through the pitfalls of State pensions is advocated to-day by the Institute of Actuaries London and the Faculty of Actuaries Edinburgh They believe it is their professional duty to the country and its future to press such a recommendation SELLING MADE TO LOOK EASY EXPONENTS OF OS METHODS DAILY TELEGRAPH REPORTER IIORDEN and Busse origina-1 9 tors of the most advanced techniques in American salesmanship made their bow to a British audience yesterday They did so at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank Brought to London by the Incorporated Sales Managers' Associ-j atton their performance was designed to teach British sales managers how to sell About 400 sales managers from the Nation of Shopkeepers paid 2 guineas each to hear them They were not disappointed Hammers frying-pans bows arrows and brightly coloured targets were among the props employed A series of short hlms featuring the pair as salesman and customer provided light but instructive entertainment The programme said it was not just a lecture" Nor was it Mr Borden who did most of the talking has a free and easy charm coupled with a vividness and directness of expression which make the programme amusing as well as enlightening INTEGRITY IMPORTANT Longbow (driving force! Abbows (sales effort! and Tabgft (higher sales) were all brought into play as Mr Borden emphasised the value of sales manship Integrity he told us was important Not without reason many people looked on the salesman as a burglar with social charm" This type of salesman was "a shoddy practitioner of the rock 'cm and sock technique followed bv a quick frisk lor money from the customer's pocket while he is still slightly Skill in opening the interview overcoming resistance to price showmanship and closing the deal all had their part in a two-hour programme Borden and Basse made selling look easv Not one prospect was heard to ask Say Bud whv should uou do me a favour" TUSK SKULL OF MAMMOTH FOUND BUILDING SITE DAILY TELEGRAPH REPORTER pVDR the third time this month remains of prehistoric animals were found yesterday during excavations on a building site in Ilford High Road Essex where a store stood until badly damaged by fire in March They were the skull of a mammoth and a portion of a mammoth tusk about two feet long They are believed to have lived in an inter-glacial period about 150000 years ago The remains were found at a depth of 30ft in a sandy gravel bed They were fragile and fell to pieces when removed but Natural History Museum experts were able to inden tify the skull as that of a mammoth cither elephas pnmogenus or trogon-therii Finds on this site began a fortnight ago when workmen found the tip of a large horn and several bone fragments Dr A Sutcliffe a senior scientific officer at the Natural History Museum identified them as from a wild ox MILK TEETH Last week they uncovered the back part of the skull including the horn cores of a large bison There were several other animal bones and two milk teeth from an early form of mammoth These are now being reconstructed and examined at the Museum The finds are of considerable im-pnitance not intrinsically but because of their importance in helping to date earlier finds The Natural History Museum already has specimens of all the animals which have lust come to light Mr Donald Forrest the architect on the site has noted the exact level of each of the recent discoveries This will greatly help in dating them Natural Museum experts hope information gleaned from the latest finds will help them to determine the age of their earlier collection The Ilford area during the last century was one of the most productive in Britain of prehistoric remains and was not now proposed that the Church of England and the Church of Scotland should become one single "Church of Great Britain" report and the whole ecumenical movement to which it bears witness challenges you and me to take the Bible seriously" said Mr McLuskey In every place the people of God must be one and if the Gospel is to be effectively preached must be seen to be The motion that the proposals were unacceptable was put bv the Rev Dr Geobge Dbybi rgh Glasgow He said that as it stood the deliverance was liable to give the impression that the Assembly wished to go on playing with the proposals and while appearing to reject them wished to leave the door open for rrintroduction in another form Dr Dryburgh said acccpiance ot his motion would ensure that representatives in future conversations would maintain that the Church of Scotland would not entertain any proposals which would nullify or cast doubt on their doctrinal or constitutional MR GROMYKO'S ESCORT CRASHES The car carrying Mr Gromyko passing the overturned motor-cycle of a jiolice outrider who knocked down a pedestrian while escorting the Ruvsian Foreign Minister from London Airport to the Russian Embassy yesterday The police motor-cyclist helped the pedestrian to his (eet and he as treated at the airport medtcaj centre Mr Gromyko had just arrived in London from (ieneva on his way to Washington to attend the funeral to-dav of Mr Dulles i i DEER ANTLERS MAY BE CLUE TO AGE OF STONEHENGE In a booklet National Pensions: An Appeal to States manship they say that although ultimate decisions must rest with Parliament the proposed council should be established by mutual agreement of the main political parties It should have authority comparable with that of a Royal Commission Grave disquiet is expressed because some important aspects are escaping the attention they require Perhaps the greatest danger in this situation is that national pensions can so easily become entangled in purely party politics The present scheme has not been entirely free from that risk The opportunities for unintentional mishandling of a scheme of graduated benefits are far greater It is a normal aim of Government not to tie the financial hands of its successors too closely but there is a real danger that with national pensions a rapidly expanding share of the future national income can almost knowingly become committed" PROPOSALS CRITICISED Growing Costs Roth the Government and the Socialist proposals committed a substantial proportion of future earnings The growing cost of paving pensions alone was estimated at the following percentages of present total earnings: Ulti- A DIO-CARBON tests of pieces of deer antlers found during last excavations at Stonehenge have been made by British Museum experts As a result new evidence may be provided to determine the date for the building of Stonehenge Archological evidence has led to the belief that the monument went up in It dHEd the mo Its present lorm sometime about important prehistoric stone circle in 1500 BC Atomic research has England Anglican and Presbyterian Churches which was published in 1957 The assembly agreed that the proposals were unacceptable They implied a denial of the catholicity of the Church of Scotland and of the validity and regularity of its ministry within the Church Catholic The minority supported the deliverance of the Church's Inter-Church Relations Committee This said that the proposals in the icint report were unacceptable in their present form" At the close ot the debate the Rev Dr A Cbaig Glasgow Convener of the Inter-Church Relations Committee tor the past three years announced his resignation He said The Church of Scotland has made a switch in its policy and the Church now needs a new man to take over" DIFFICULT TASK Committee's Aim Presenting the report ot his committee Dr Craig referred to the comments on the ioint report and said I doubt if any committee of the Assembly has ever been set a harder task than to scrutinise analyse and finally skeletonise a body of documents so intractably The essentials ot the committee's recommended policy were: The determination to honour their obligations to seek and promote union with other Churches The recognition that this could mean nothing less than a sustained effort to attain a single united national Church The determination to reach such an understanding with the Church south of the Border as may eventuate in a fullness of sacramental communion I say full sacramental communion' said Dr Craig "and thal connotes far more than a mere dribbl ing kind of inter-communion affecting onlv a few individuals occasionally and in special circumstances" If the Assembly adopted this recommended policy it would in effect be reaffirming the long-term policy authorised seven years ago in terms of which the recent conversations were held Before the eves of the Church now so far alerted to two years of discussion to the problems and sorrows of disunity it will be holding up the vision of a reintegrated Christendom which has been the inspiration of the modern ecumenical movement If it rejects this policy it will in effect be turning aside from the main stream of the ecumenical movement and retreating into a citadel of spiky UNITY NECESSARY Some Prices Too The Rev Fbasfb McLuskey New Kilpatrick seconding said it was necessary to seek for Christian unity but there were some prices too high to pay for unity The report made it clear that it had not been proposed graduated benehts can be too easily enlarged Since we are not made to pay for the graduated benehts which we are promising ourselves there is an obvious danger that we shall promise ourselves too much The cost of such promises could be very heavy for our children and grandchildren We are promising ourselves now that our children will pay us larger pensions in future than we are willing to pay now to our The machinery for contracting-out laid down by the Government might be workable while the proposed scheme remained in its existing shape but would need substantial revision if the scheme were changed appreciably Occupational schemes were thus placed in a position of uncertainty INFLATION FEAR Scheme The Socialists' proposal to adopt in part the savings in advance method of occupational schemes rather than to utilise completely ti pay as you go system was an attempt to make the present generation pay more of the costs of the promiser now being given To the extent it succeeded in doing so it would be advantageous but unfortunately there were difficulties For instance besides an extra 1100 million a vear for further immediate pension benefits or £200 million a vear if ancillary benefits were included the plan required £500 million a vear for building up an invested fund To attempt to withdraw such a sum from current circulation could through increased prices and wage demands create a new round of inflation rather than add greatlv to investment If consumption were to be reduced on this scale and investment increased an appreciable diversion of effort and labour from one type of industry to another would be needed Not only is there this serious initial problem but the integrity of the fund would have to be maintained through all the economic difficulties which will arise from time to time in the future The precedents in this and other countries are against the fulfilment ol anv ambitious attempt at funding" At a Press conference in London to introduce the booklet Mr Rcdington President of the Institute of Actuaries said: "We are not averse to increases in state pensions Our aim is to avoid increases without understanding the consequences The public does not realise the extent to which we are committing the future" PENALTY FOR DARE Christopher Rabbetts 16 who was suspended from Poole Grammar School Dorset after riding naked through a park on a motor-cvcle will be allowed to take the GCE examination next month His suspension continues until the end of the term the governors said yesterday The boy said he made the ride ai a dare" A limited trial excavation is recommended to elucidate the North Setting" which is indicated at the moment bv no more than three emptv stone-holes The Board estimates that if its recommended policy on scheduling ancient monuments is carried out there will eventually be 15000 in the country But with the number of staff available the programme may take 30 scars to complete Sir Eric Dc Normann is chairman of the Board for England At the time of the report the Board since reconstituted comprised: Mr Briggs Mr Bruce-Mitford Prof Clark Mr Trenchard Cox Prof Grimes Prof Hawkcs Mr Nigel Nicolson MP Mr A Ralegh Radford Mr Baillie Reynolds Prof Sir Albert Richard-son Prof I A Richmond Prof Geoffrey Webb and Sir Mortimer Wheeler Ancient Monumcnu Boards for England Scotland and Wales 5th annual report Stationer Office It) made present scientific tests possible They were described yesterday by Mr Barker Senior Experimental Officer at the British Museum as fantastically difficult measurements" The deer antlers found in a ramp leading towards the remaining upright of the Great Trilithon had been presumably used as picks or levers The purpose of the test is to determine their age by measuring the amount of carbon 14 remaining Because of the sub-normal levels of measurement many tons of equipment have been needed The British Museum laboratories have completed their report The findings are likely to be made known this week Information about the experiment i was disclosed bv Prof Stuart Pigvott one of the supervising archaeologists in an account ot the 1958 Stonehenge excavations published as an appendix to the annual report of the Ancient Monuments Board for England yesterday The deer antler pieces were contemporary with the final stage of construction INITIALS BURIED Prof Piggott also reports on a small and separate excavation made round the altar stone Initials of late 17th century stvle cut on the edge of the stone show it had been once clear of the turf and had since become buried The stone proved to have one squared end and one trimmed obliquely At some stage it must have stood upright Great public interest was aroused by the work at Stonehenge and attendances and receipts rose from 229000 to 325000 and from £5000 to £7000 Following last successful restoration at Stonehenge the Board NO ESCAPE HELP WARDERS CLEARED Warders at Wandsworth Prison have been cleared of allegations that they accepted bribes to help prisoners to escape The finding was announced yesterday by the Prison Commissioners after a five month police inquiry The accusations which included bribers- corruption and a suggestion that £1000 had been paid for a set of keys were made by a prisoner He has since been discharged The Prison Commission vesterdav issued a notice to be read at special staff parades at Wandsworth last night and to-day It said it was aware of the resentment caused by reports in January in certain sections of the Press and added: These reports have been exhaustively investigated The Commissioners are glad to find that the officers concerned have been completely vindicated by the investigation ROLLS-ROYCE PLAN Rolls-Royce plans to develop an industrial site at Ravnesway Derby it was disclosed vesterdav We cannot say at this stage the pur pose for which the proposed plant is intended" said an official SOCIALISTS NOT TO PAY FOR CD Socialist councillors of St Pancras were told yesterday that they will not have to pay the Home Office costs incurred in running the borough's Civil Defence Corps It was disbanded in May 1957 when the Socialist majority held it was a waste of money" It was announced yesterday at an auditor's meeting that the Home Office would pay 75 per cent of the bill of nearly £6000 leaving 25 per cent to the charge of the Council The Council would also have to pay £457 for the expenses of a Home Office Commissioner appointed to run the Corps In December the Council agreed to resume responsibility for Civil Defence When the Home Office bill was hrst sent the Socialists found they were personally surcharged to pav from their own pockets Councillor A Prior Conservative leader of the Council which is now Conservative controlled said last night The Home Office is acting in an extremely generous manner towards the Council in giving us this grant We could have been deprived of it altogether The Socialist Council had no right to stop Civil These tables could be expected to remain valid whatever the rise in national income because pensions were likely to increase with earnings Costa of sickness unemployment and other national insurance benefits industrial injuries and the National Health Service were additional BURDEN ON CHILDREN Promise Of Too Much The financial implications of the Government and the Socialist schemes are criticised Of the Government's proposal to meet the cost as under the present scheme by pay as you go" the booklet savs: of the main consequences of the pay as you system is that the schema of FLOUR MILLING AGREEMENTS BAR A numoer of agreements in the flour milling industry were declared contrarv to the public interest by the Restrictive Practices Court in London vesterdav None of the agreements was defended Some were schemes for deferred rebates for big buyers of home milled flour Associations named were the Incorporated Association of British and Irish Millers the Scottish Flour Millers' Association and the Belfast Home Millers' Association Schemes between members of the northeastern and south-eastern groups of flour millers were also declared contrary to public interest INTERLOCKING PARTS ANGER OVER NEW MR BUTLER ACCUSED Daily Telegraph Reporter Mr Butler Home Secretary was vesterdav accused bv the Prison Officers Association of delibcntelv opposing certain recommend it ions in the recent Ptrrv rennrt which would have benefited orison staffs The accusation was made in a letter to the Home Office Last Wednesday the Association in conference at Dover sent a telegram to Mr Butler alleging unfairness and dclav in granting a new deal as outlined in the Wvnn-Parrv report These charges were refuted at the week-end in a letter sent bv Mr Butler to Mr Harlev Cronin secretary of the Association In their reply the Association claimed that Mr Butler misled the public into thinking the Government haJ accepted the recommendations of the Wvnn-Parrv committee The letter says he was illogical in refusing to meet a deputation from the Association until matters in dispute had been settled by arbitration The Association had expressed willingness to accept the recommendations of the Committee as they stood and "accept the rough with the The official attitude had been to accept in their entirety anv recommendations unfavourable to the warders OMAN FIGHTING MC The Military Cross has been awarded to Cap! ohn Dixie Churchill of Yeldham near Halstead Essex for training a half company of the Armed Forces of the Sultan of Oman to become a highly effective fighting force and for leading patrols against mountain rebels Capt Churchill of the Suffolk Rejft it attached to the Sultan's Armed Force STEEL nUM The GKN Group is a jigsaw of companies each independent none so big as to be unwieldy all concerned with steel in one form or another As far as Bayliss Jones Bayliss are concerned the forms are many BJB produce forgings with particular emphasis on railway fastenings they build heavy machine frames and complete machines they supply steelwork for power transmission lines they 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