The Glamorgan Gazette from Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales • 2

GLAMORGAN GAZETTE THURSDAY JUNE 8 1978 2 PORTHCAWL ESTATE AGENCY Honoured by the Queen Four local men in Birthday List rlnmnraan Pmintv Pminnil ir FOUR local men have been honoured in the Queen's Borthday I ist County Coun Philip Squire Glamorgan County Council in OUR SPECIALIST SERVICES ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE PORTHCAWL AREA who has been awarded the CBE is chairman of the Mid Glamorgan Education Committee and has been a member of the Mid Glamorgan County Council and the former Glamorgan County Council since 1946 Coun Squire who has lived in Maesteg Road Tondu since 1932 was awarded the OBE in 1969 and has been a JP since 1954 He was born in Box Terrace Coytrahen and left school at 15 to help his father in a haulage business which operated 25 horse-drawn cards He subsequently spent two years the at Pentre Colliery in Kenfig Hill and later farmed at Bettws Coun Squire who joined the Labour Party in 1924 has been a member of the executive of the Ogmore Constituency Party for nearly 40 years He became the first chairman of the new Mid DON'T HESITATE TO CALL US IF YOU'RE THINKING OF BUYING OR SELLING IN THE PORTHCAWL DISTRICT PROPERTY ALWAYS AVAILABLE PROPERTY ALWAYS REQUIRED FOR WAITING CUSTOMERS Agents for the: HASTINGS THANET BUILDING SOCIETY 51 NEW ROAD PORTHCAWL Tel: 6491 Aberkenfig Social and Athletic Club have presented a total of £153 to Penybont Gateway Club The money came from an evening of entertainment at the club Entrance fees and the proceeds of the raffle added to the £6845 from a bottle on the bar Our picture shows members of the club looking on as Selwyn King of the Gateway Club smashes the bottle Left to right: Philip Healey vice-chairman John Jones steward Selwyn King John Howells treasurer Les Phillips committee member Charles Robson chairman County Coun SqUire SMASH! AND IT'S £153 1973 He has been a member of the Welsh Joint Education Committee since it was set up in 1974 and is one of the two senior vice-chairmen He is also a member of the South Wales Police Authority A former member of the Welsh Council and a former chairman of the Sports Council for Wales he served on the Investiture Committee of the Prince of Wales Coun Squire served as a member for Llangynwyd Lower on the old Penybont Council for 37 unbroken years retiring upon reorganisation in 1974 He and his wife Doris have been married for 58 years Coun Squire once described her to the as best unpaid secretary in the The couple have two sons Clive and Geoffrey who are both police officers MB A 0 GARFIEID Mr Arthur David Garfield of Tyn-y-Waun Llangynwyd a past president of the Glamorgan County National Union branch has been awarded the MBE Mr Garfield was chairman of the Glamorgan NFU action committee set up in 1974 and led the blockade of Barry Docks in protest against the import of Irish cattle He is a member of the management committee of Trawscoed Experimental Husbandry Farm Aberystwyth a member of the Hill Farming Advisory Committee the Glamorgan representative on the Wool Marketing Board a member of the South Wales Regional Panel of the Ministry of Agriculture and a local magistrate MB DAVIES Former van driver and labourer Mr Morgan James Davies of Queen Street Blaengarw has been awarded the BEM Mr Davies who is 59 was educated at Blaengarw School and Bridgend Technical School Before joining the army in 1939 he worked in Oxford as a van driver When World War Two ended he suffered a peeriod of unemployment and then joined the Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation (now the Welsh Development Agencvi as a labourer He now holds the position of storekeeper with the Agency at Bridgend Mr Davies is married with one daughter MH HUGGETT Last British Ryder Cup captain Mr Brian Huggett can now add the MBE to his list of triumphs awarded for devotion to a profession he began on a wage of £1 a week Known on the international golf circuit as "Welsh Bulldog" Brian who comes from Porthcawl and who now lives with his wife Winnie and two daughters in Surrey! can boast a long list of achievements He has been a member of the Ryder Cup team six times since 1963 and played in the team which tied with the Americans in 1969 He has won the British Matchplay Championship and the Dunlop Masters title He finished third in the British Open in 1962 and three years later was a joint runner-up we've discounted it we've checked it out Now it's Guaranteed Coca cola CANS Kelloggs Frosties IE ITiflOZ Armour Veribest Health Service celebrations Secretary of State may visit Bridgend BRIDGEND is likely to be the area in which the Secretary of State for Wales will be host at a reception to mark the 30th anniversary of the National Health Service The Welsh Office has sent out a letter to local authorities suggesting that they might want to do something to mark the coming into effect of the as well as the Act and other Acts in the social services field As part of the commemorative celebrations two receptions are being arranged by the Welsh Office so that Ministers can meet people in Wales who have been and are contributing to the work of the health and social services Mr John Morris Secretary of State for Wales will be host at one of the receptions probably in the Bridgend area on July 6 during the early evening Representatives from Dyfed Gwent mid south and west Glamorgan will attend the function Local authorities have been asked by the Welsh Office to tell them who they want to attend as a matter of urgency Corned Beef 21P Ml lb 120Z 26 10OZ co-op Cheesecake Mix 'Queen for the Day' row FrmPi co-op Family value Luxury Blend I LOW CalOrie Margarine JAJ squash 21 co-op Red Seal Haroartm Embassy dumber I Kit-e-Kat Co-op Processed Peas LARGE tip Tk I A1 Every packet carries a Government health warning LJI VJC co-op Carden Peas AllVp Thomas St Athan 18 of the working four week until had been from Bover-ton teaches and the while Davies stated that great local Town of the had given of DOd received also raised sponsored ago and jumble sale cost marvellous public already been various the vaie including Carnival Marcross Car-nival word from stunned least I can with and after a day Co-op Sliced KY PEARS 22'Ap Carrots Jl1 TALL TINS CO-OP FREEZER FOOD CENTRES WINES AND SPIRITS band at a display on carnival day including leading the procession through the town like booking a meal at one restaurant and going to another to eat it She was under an obligation to remain with the band I am in charge of 27 young girls and two boys When you get a number of girls together you get a lot of petty little arguments and bickering which I have tried hard to avoid We have had our ups and downs Believe me it is extremely hard running a jazz band of which we are so proud have a waiting list of young girls anxious to join the band aAfter strict training week after week it is hard to find a replacement at short she said Mrs Staples added "If I had a daughter selected as carnival queen I would naturally be delighted and as proud as Mrs Phillips Unfortunately Michelle decided on the one day and will regret leaving the band You have to be firm with the girls in the formation of a jazz band They must look to the band as their first choice above everything else I just cannot keep on putting in replacements after training them so Mrs Staples said she and a Run-down shops protest From PI 1974 things have been allowed to slide and they feel that the shopping centre needs to be pepped up as a number of shops have closed recently Altogether at least a dozen shops in the two main streets are empty Members also claim that if two of the banks in the town had not decided to extend their premises there would be even more empty shops Market traders have also been complaining bitterly about the run down of both the indoor and outdoor markets Although the council has now given the indoor market its first renovation for about 15 years traders are not happy about the overall lack of direction and sense of purpose with the council as far as promoting the market and the Maesteg Shopping Centre as a whole is concerned Outside traders complain about a drastic drop in the number of people now friend Mrs Elaine of Flemingston had personally made uniforms or five nights each 1030 A further 12 made by a lady Mjrs Staples marching formations playing of instruments Mr Malcom Malcolm trains the drummers Mrs Staples also the band had received support from the Council and residents town The Council them a donation while £150 had been from a Trust She added: "We over £100 from a walk several weeks £200 in our first Our drums alone but we are having support from the The band has booked for engagements in during the summer the Cowbridge July 8th and on August 12th And the last Michelle: was the time but at now spend more time pet pony all I was Queen for visiting the Friday market They fee general tattiness of many of which ar and splintered is encourage trade The shelving of sive re-development seems to have lef a kind of limbo and better if the plemented a les programme of outdoor market wit provements to shopping centr seems unlike money to etlt scale re-developme available in the nea PORTHCAWL PENYGRAIG GILFACH GOCH LLANTWIT MAJOR CARDIFF NEWPORT P0NTYP00L ABERSYCHAN P0NTNEWY0D ARCTIC ICECREAM ROLLS 26p TREATS VANILLA ICE CREAM 4 Its 99p CO-OP PEAS Grade A 2lbs 29p CO-OP FISH FINGERS (20) 'COUNTY FAIR' CREAM SPONGES Chopped AT YOUR CO-OP OFF-LICENCE DEPTS CROFT ORIGINAL SHERRY 7oCi £1 99 HEATHERDALE SCOTCH WHISKY 655 Proof 70ci l359 CINZANO ROSSO and BIANCO 7 Set £139 SEOGEMOOR BRITISH SHERRY 70cl 99p KARLOVA REISLING £115 COLT 45 Small Cans 4pk 78p Large Cana 4-pk £112 HEINEKEN LAGER QQ Large Cans 4pk 55P CO-OP BURGERS (io) 57p CO-OP CHEESE TOMATO PIZZA (4) open th the ikeiy to unlik the ex Plgn rs I tW j-r: bjtj0us the c0me im- say Tfh( th urge will be tfuture You get more for your money in your shopping basket every time you shop at CRS Cooperative Retail Services South Wales Region Subject to availability Offers end 17th June 1978 OIR 834.