Birmingham Evening Mail du lieu suivant : Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 7

1st EDITION The Birmingham Mail Wednesday July 6 1955 Ah A 7- Tfe 8VV -J 8 i MIDLAND TEST SIGNALS FOR COMMERCIAL TV STATION Test signals arte being relayed from a transmitter aerial attached to a RAF barrage balloon flying 500ft above Common Barn Farm Hints near Lichfield Where the first commercial television station will be sited Work has also begun on laying the foundation for the 455ft tower mast MUSEUMS HAVE LOST SOURCE OF SUPPLY The maintenance of national museum collections is giving cause for anxiety Mr Bruce-Mitford Keeper of the "Department of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum said at the conference in Birmingham of the Museums Association 7 l-llt SLia i I tr DScs up to peel Lord Cherwell in making a complaint in the Lords of want of balance in the National Service call-up said it was not right that a highly-educated doctor of science doing first-class work should be called up to peel potatoes while an unskilled waiter was exempted to serve potatoes in a luxury liner He said that youn men of exceptional ability trained at great public expense were "ruthlessly dragged away from their work and to all Intents and purposes are intellectually sterilised for two rwW: if A Fr 1 4 which will be erected on the hilltop Is 501ft above sea level i 1 s-B nv If iim The rich market supplied by the great private collections of the past had ended and It was unlikely that pre-eminent pieces would go to the national collections In this way as In the past In addition the need to-day was for selective and scientifically-recorded collection of antiquities and not for the gathering of casual accumulations Because important and well excavated groups of material were going to the local museums which conducted the excavations the British Museum had for example no material from any Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavated In modem times Schoolchildren wait at the side of the road waiting for the start tjftals at Dudley their junior cycle of MOTOR CAR HIRE PURCHASE SALES IN JUNE A RECORD Hire-purchase sales in the motor vehicle retail Industry broke all records last month The number of hire-purchase contracts negotiated during June was 81386 60 per cent more than In the same month last year and 528 contracts more than the previous record total In April Restrictions introduced by Mr Butler in February having had no effect on this Industry motor retailers arte now conceding reluctantly that there may be some truth In the rumours that the Chancellor is considering the imposition of further restrictions At first officials in the trade were sceptical about these rumours because the February restrictions had been impressively effective In cutting hire-purchase sales of other goods If new restrictions 9X9 imposed they will have to be drastic since motor retailers already impose more severe restrictions on hire-purchase sales than the Chancellor demands The initial deposit4 for Instance Is almost always 25 per cent or more of the cash price compared with the legal minimum down payment of 15 per cent j- PEAK MONTH On the other hand the case for not imposing more severe hire-purchase restrictions and perhaps for easing them is now being considered by the President of the Board of Trade who has received represen tations from the furniture industry about the serious effect of the February controls on that industry There may be outside factors which have helped to make June a record month for hire-purchase sales of motor vehicles The month is expected to be a peak one for car sales anyway for obvious reasons The figures given for the motor vehicle Industry are taken from statistics compiled by Hire-Purchase Information an organisation which records hire-purchase business in vehicles and industrial machinery mainly for the information of the motor trade Details of the major Items of hire-purchase business in the motor trade in June compared with May Jum May Nw Uaed New Uacd Private Can 71N3MM 7296 34192 Commercial Vehiclea 2933 4232 7720 3719 Motor-cycle 7J95 11171 7724 I637 Tractor and Farm Equipment 1202 421 (029 532 This list is selective Other items such as caravans are Included in the grand total of contracts for the month Child cycle trial reduces accidents Last year there were 650 road accidents in Dudley but in only Mgjit was a child cyclist involved Just how much this low percentage is due to the annual cycle trial organised by Dudley police It is Impossible to estimate but to one who has acted as an umpire at the trial a reporter of Birmingham writes the estimate is a very great ALDERMAN DIGS PLOT Setting example A move by the Housing Committee at West Bromwich to compel tenants to cultivate their gardens has been This was merely to fit them to fight when everyone knew that on the outbreak of war they would be drafted back to their laboratories Lord Cherwell was speaking during a debate on a motion put down by Lord Olyn and some surprise was caused when Lord Olyn at the outset apologised for the wording of his motion This had mentioned "seamen who had no qualifications other than those of Lord Qlvn explained that he did not intend to convey that persons provincial The signals first to be transmitted from the site are bteing received by a pick-up van touring large towns on what it is theoretically estimated will be the fringe areas of the range First trial transmissions were sent to Crewe Nottingham and Shrewsbury and later in the week tests will be made at Hereford Oswestry Peterborough Northampton Cheltenham ana Leamington Tests will not be necessary in the Birmingham Walsall Wolverhampton and Coventry area The tests are sent out on a four-watt transmitter powered by a petrol generator Several tests are made In the same town to overcome any geographical obstructions The station which is under canvas is being manned by two radio en- Beers who have recently returned Africa where they nave been establishing transmitting stations on some of the highest mountains They are Mr Roaewell who operates the portable transmitter and Mr Scales who patrols fringe areas in the van WILL COST £250000 Supervising initial constructional work on the £250000 station is Mr Savage who was on leave from Nigeria when recalled to work at Hints He is within sight of the BBC television mast at Sutton Coldfield on the top of which he worked for several months at the age of 60 The commercial transmitter will differ from that at Sutton Coldfield It will be a tower of steel embeded in confcrete narrowing gradually towards the apex The 200-ft taller BBC mast which is supported by hawsers is practically the same circumference from top to bottom followed by an appeal by Alderman John Davis a former May volunteers to help aged or disabled who Joined the Merchant Navy in the catering avoid National Service because that SCANDAL OF IMMUNITIES Govt warned over diplomats Earl Jovyitt leader of tpe Opposition Peers said in the House of Lords that the extension of diplomatic Immunities and privileges was becoming rather a and he would put down a motion on the subject in the autumn He warned the Government that he would get a big measure of support from all sides of the House Speaking during the debate on the German Conventions Bill he commented: only people I know who are not subject to diplomatic immunity at present are tile South African cricketers They are much better entitled to it than many who have The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs the Marquis of Reading said he recognised that there was a measure of apprehension on this matter I will certainly heed the gipsy's warning about what is going to happen when we return in the autumn" he said UNEASINESS JUSTIFIED It Is' quite exceptional to find any organised body of people coming from a foreign country who are not subject to diplomatic Lord Jowitt said The time has cpme when must take a stand pn this matter What is called diplomatic iihmunity from one point of view is really deprivation of rights from another point of view We ought to a stop to this practice" Lord Killeam a former British Ambassador to Egypt said: have been horrified at the extension of these considerable privileges to a large body of people who are no doubt worthy in themselves This uneasiness about it is thoroughly 0 indications can be gained of which points most need emphasis to children in road safety lectures with which the police follow up this annual trial THE COMMON FAULT Having spent an afternoon umpiring at a check point in the last trial it Is interesting to see the reactions of voung cyclists The common fault was for though they are started at regular Intervals Halt iigns bring meant that there were men In them well qualified to do necessary archaeological work and publications AIDING LOCAL MUSEUMS In a discussion after Mr talk Mr Adrian Oswald Keeper of the Archaeological and Historical Museum Birmingham said that as a result of a change of policy the British Museum was now anxious to help local museums and he thought that It should try to extend Its loan circulation to the utmost People in the provinces cannot always go to London to see these he said Not more than 10 per cent' of Birmingham's population can go to London to see collections and so they come to us to see what we have got and sometimes it is pitifully little I think we are sometimes apt to forget the man in the street Often he has only half-an-hour at mogt to see them closer together as they ride on the course and once half-a-dozen or so have got together they are too inclined to remain together often tenants in the heavy work Many tenants have received printed leaflets warning them that they might be evicted if cultivation was not begun within 21 days One of them is Mrs Sarah Print (aged 70) a widow living alone in Denbigh Drive Hateley Heath Her front garden has been dug for her by Aiderman Davies who lives on the same estate One can understand the local authority wanting gardens kept he said but there are many old tenants and others who through illness cannot do it and I hope that my example will lead to young people volunteering to give a hand in any odd moment they can spare The Deputy Housing Manager Mr Edey said that the Housing Committee was concerned about tenants who disregarded their obligations to cultivate their gardens but there was no intention to evict old or disabled tenants BIG PRIZES AHEAD IN NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION The combination of atomic power nd automatic factories with new and new techniques would about an industrial revolution second half of the 20th century Mr Peter Thomeycroft President of the Board of Tared told uests at a dinner at Guildhall jondon "It would be tragic and indeed fruitless if we tried to atave off the industrial revolution because we were afraid of Mr Thomeycroft said "The benefits It ieauB bring in increasing wealth in lessening poverty in raising standards and in ncreasing leisure are goals which we must always hold constantly before our eyes is much that we can do with co-operation there is little that we can ao without It nation with nation and employer with worker not let us forgtet the rolie of Governments They endeavour to sustain employment at levels at which trade unionists can move forward to these adventures with confidence arid courage The prerequisite of a successful advance in these new fields is a combination of stability and freedom CONDITIONS There are and We are not alone in this other restrictions and controls not imposed by Governments on industry but imposed by industry on itself The conditions of the do not persist today If the eyes of Governments or industry or trade unions are to be fixed on the problems of 20 years ago if our arrangements our outlook and our policies are to be shaped by the constant fear of a slump rather than the hopes of sharixu in Hie revolutionary changes which lie ahead then we should move backward and hot forwards The prizes of this world will go to those who have more courage In these matters than The annual cycle test is rigorous but fair and covers every phase of cycling especially in towns It begins with a (test of the cycle for roadworthiness and it must be emphasised that a brand new cycle is not always madworthy one examined this year was found to be so loose in the crown head below the handlebars that the cyclist had he suddenly been forced to wrench his handlebars would have spun them in then socket FOUR MILE COURSE Each entrant has' to cdjver a four mile course through the! town and environs perhaps best described the point-to-point racing phrase fair hunting The route covers almost every traffic and road hazard traffic light turning right and left from a minor roaa into a major road turning from a major road Into a minor road halt signs left-hand turns right-hand turns across a busy traffic stream an emergency brake test It ends with a controlled test in a school playground in which each entrant has to ride at walking pace to show his control of a machine while riding at slow pace in to brake sharply at a given signal and still control his machine and pass an oral test orn the provisions of the new Highway Code The course has 14 1 umpired and umpires are voluntary and drawn from every class of road uiser so that the children pare Judged and by varied reactions Fnally these charts are studied by Dudley police and from the analysis Centenary dance The most ambitious display of folk dancing ever staged In South Africa will take place in Pretoria in November when about 4000 dancers from Gallipoli man retires Major-General Frank Kingsley Norris who served as a stretcher bearer at Gallipoli and eventually became Director-General of the Australian Medical Services has retired Aged 62 he was with the first contingent of Australian troops to go overseas in the first- world war A good I Is that their signals tor slowing down turning etc are rather too exaggerated sometimes causing a slight wobble as the rider stops with only one hand on the handlebars and some rode the course with exaggerated There were however snrpriaillgly few examples of riding through on the inside of halted vehicles between the vehicle and the pavement or of halting at traffic signs in a ragged three and four abreast bunch Finally it would have a salutary effect on many parents of cycle-owning children If they could see what faults are committed by some children and what efforts Dudley police are making to give Dudley children a sound grounding in modem road traffic conditions and safety first was not so He was now satisfied that the training of these men was such that they had to be proficient lifeboatmen and proficient in other duties He withdrew the motion after the debate In moving it he said that the number of men- training in technology and other branches of science were not as many as were needed if the country was to go ahead to hoe am not suggesting that total exemption should be granted to he said but asking whether the Ministry of Defence and the Government Departments should not consider whether there is an alternative form of service so that they could make their contribution and which would not interfere too much with their Lord Cherwell said 1 really do not believe that the only way candidates can be found to fill these minor posts on luxury liners should be to relieve them of all obligations to do their military service It would be abominable If were he merely a dishwasher a bartender or a hairdresser on a luxury were to be allowed to escape entirely from military Last year 8000 men were exempted for agricultural 8000 men to hoe turnips against 50 to do high grade research in the universities" The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Lord Carrington replying said it was essential they should have a large body of trained seamen in the event of war and they would be asking for trouble if for short-term advantage they did anything to weaken the man-power of the Merchant Fleet With the new and complicated Service equipment it was more than ever essential there should be an ample supply of men In the Forces with a very high standard of scientific and engineering different parts of the country with folk-dancing teams from seven overseas countries will entertain during the Pretoria centenary celebratiqps UMTS GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE Describing a former inmate of Broadmoor as a "deadly menace the Lord Chief Justice Lord Goddard in the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday directed hi imprisonment for the rest of his natural life" subject to the discretion of the Home Secretary if in future the man should be found to be insane The man was Kenneth Edward Holmes (32) chemist of North Newbald near Hull who had appealed against sentence of ten vears' imprisonment passed on him at York Assize for an offence against an eleven-year-old girl at North Newbald Lord Goddard said: It was a case in which It was difficult to speak with moderation except on the rooting that Holmes must be mentally unstable TOMORROW School site wanted ENQUIRY HELD As Smethwick auctioneer Mr Charles William Taylor complained at a public enquiry in Birmingham yesterday that after five years of delay he had sought a public enquiry to obtain a decision on two and a half acres of land at Edgbaston Which Birmingham Corporation wanted as the site for a new Roman Catholic school but which he and his partners wished to develop as a housing estate Mr Taylor with the other owners of the land Mr Goodman and Mr Goodman opposed an application by Birmingham Corporate for a compulsory purchase order on the site at the back of Willow Avenue Sandon Road and Poplar Avenue Edgbaston Mr A Coward (for the corporation) said the site was ideal for a 20-class school for Roman Catholic senior pupils rt wl SALES MANAGERS DAY 4- yf Watch out for the special SALES DAY tickets each one bringing you a SENSATIONAL BARGAIN CITY MAY SEEK POWERS Ex-gratia payments for injuries GROUND FLOOR it- mtigWwm mmm -YnL Save a Third! 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Earrings Brooches filigree 26 Birmingham Corporation may seek jwers to make ex gratia payments claimants for damages suffering for instance by Injury resulting from being knocked down by a corporation when claimants lose their actions for damages in court The case of the girl Stephens Birmingham Corporation tried last year by Mr Justice Finnemore in which the Judge suggested that an ex gratia payment might be made for the loss of a leg as a result of a corporation bus accident has Mr Denis Howell the MP to put down a question asking if the Minister of Housing and Local Government will consider introducing legislation to give local authorities discretion to make payments in such cases if they think it desirable i The Judge had said that such a Bombs found on foreshore After police liad cleared two miles of sea front at Wallasey Cheshire last night an Army bomb disposal squad exploded one of two 1001b German bombs found on the foreshore by a fisherman Because it was not known how many more bombs might lie there it was decided that the area must be cleared Bathers were called from an open-air swimming-pool golfers were warned not to play holes on the seaward side of the course and holiday makers were ordered from the beach and the promenade The second bomb became submerged in the sand after being covered by the tide At dawn to-day police and soldiers with mine detectors searched for it and any other bomhs that might be there Rolls-Royce profit sharing Rolls Royce Ltd at a special meeting confirmed one of the largest workers co-partnership schemas ever evolved in British industry The scheme means that 1200000 10s shares yill be offered to 18000 employees who have more than five years service with the company This year 800000 shares will be issued and the remaining 400000 will be kept for future years for sale to employees who have not yet reached the minimum of five years service Lord Hiyes chairman of the company told the meeting: We hope to foster the existing excellent relationships with the staff by the offer of these shares" 300 MODEL COATS All Drastically Reduced Many Below Half Price! 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Singlets Trunks In interlock or cellular two lots 36 and 211 FIFTH FLOOR suggest for your Bitrfii 'VW Best Best Avge Age Weight Time Time 2yllm 6871b 3046 3068 4314 Grooms Caper ID) 4y 2m 64lo 3036 3087 5555 Mauve Glory (D) 6y 0m 3026 3063 6243 Pearl Prince (D) 3y 0m fiOMJJ 3000 3068 t362 Weird Chateau (D) 2y 4m 624lb 3078 3093 Reserve: Minor Gift 732 pm SECOND RACE 500yds Flat 3314 Cable seal 3yiim 67'ib 2990 3032 1146 Bright and Cl 3321 Demotic lilt lWi1IL 1231 Toujour Lamour D) 2yllm 62 1 1b 3023 3039 j- Duchujp 7M 9X9 THIRD RACE 500yds Flat 4121 DOUBLEDALE (D) SylOm 58b 2991 3012 tl43 Silent Betty (B ly 8m 52 Glh 2972 3002 4224 Colossal Hit D)H 3y Om 61 Mb 2982 3017 jroval that the Third Floor) Carpets Axminster Wilton or embossed Indian £29 19 6 Half Price! Underfelts App 3 2V2yds 19 6 Plain Coco Door Mats 21 12in 3 9 Cotton Pile Carpets in Persian App 3 2l2yds £7-19-6 1513 The Duke (D 2y 0m 601b 2972 3000 t461 Chance (D) 4y 4m 64Mb 29 75 2991 Reserves: Romano's Circus and All Clear 844 pm SIXTH RACE 500yds Flat 33t4 HOPE (B) (scr) lylOm 54 lb 2896 29 22 1552 Dromonlg Boy (D) (1) 2y 2m 691b 2904 2925 tt44 Local Emperor (D) J2) lylOm 61lb 2907 29 50 2152 Wlmpole Carmen (B) (3) 2y lm 51Mb 2919 2934 5131 Dark Navigator (D) (4) ly 6m 63Mb 2930 2950 Rmarfm: Striped Sandy (3) Burlington Basher (4) 92 pm SEVENTH RACE 500yds Hurdles 5531 WIZARD CARD (Dl (5) 2y 3m 70Mb 3000 3030 3221 Henry Lee (D) 'tscr) 3y 3m 661b 2972 3008 4122 Sand Fescue (D) (11) 4y 6m 69Mb 3022 3051 4412 Persian Legend (D) (12) 3y 6m 62Mb 3021 3054 4 Colin Major (D) (13) 3y 4m 63 Mb 3044 3058 fteaem: Duchess (17) 920 Pm EIGHTH RACE 500yds Flat 3414 LAZY PRINCE (D) 3y 4m 811b 2956 2986 2125 Maesydd Madeley (D) 2y 4m 541b 29 58 2991 4248 Lonesome Pimpernel (D) 3y lm 29 39 2977 t412 Newtown Jester (D 2y 3m 53 Mb 29 62 2979 2111 Rare Rascal (D) 2y 2m 55Mb 2958 2987 Reserves: Final Flash All Clear For some past our London STOP PRESS TABLECLOTHS in white I I Approx 54ln square EACH 1 Third Floor) 30 gaol for razor attack Sentence of 30 months imprisonment was passed at Warwick Assizes after a Jury had found a 20-year-old National Serviceman Thomas Allan Mackay of the 251' Company Royal Pioneer Corps stationed at Marlborough Farm Camp near Klneton Eilty of maliciously wounding an Ar man with a razor in a fight outside Kineton Institute Hall Mr Justice Lynskey told Mackay: People like you must be made to realiste that weapons of this sort cannot be tolerated in a civilised Mackay who denied slashing the airman said the airman started fight by kicking him 2335 Arden Playboy D) 2f 4m 3Mb 29 82 2995 1532 WUling Chum (D) 2y 4m 58 lb 2988 3011 Reserves: Enemy Brigade and Really Courageous 88 pm FOURTH RACE 700yds Flat 1412 ROVER (D) (8) 2y 6m 671b 4131 4149 44 Ashgrove (D) (4) 2y 6m 601b 4122 4140 112 Guy of Warwick (D) (sc) 2y 5m 73 4132 4136 4234 Rangoon Carnival (D) (4) 2yl0m 65 Mb 4132 4151 3t41 Crazy Prince (D) (8) 3yllm 65Mb 4169 4191 Reserves: Wular Cloud and Rising Curtain Exciting Bargains in FURNISHING FABRICS AT GREAT SAVINGS PERRY BAR FIRST RACE Flat Best Avge 730 pm Latest Placlngs 1563 OUR LQT (B) Almost Half Price Heavy Cotton Damask in cherry nigger rose 1 rust or green 911 48in Yard 011 Save a Third! Rayon cotton Brocade in two- tone effects: 411 47in wide Yd Age Weight Time Time fm 53Mb 2984 3003 4t6t Droll Flash (B) 4y lm 52Mb 2989 3009 Half Price! fabrics in 1yd to 10yd lengths Ex: 48in I I Yard 1 1 48in Linen Yard 31in Ever-glaze" Yard app: dividend should be at the rate of 8 or 5d per share which makes the total amount so paid the same as for last year In accordance with oUr long established practice the sum of £1725 spent In purchasing goodwill has been written off It Is our Intention to build up the General Reserve from year to year as funds permit: and we now propose to add £10000 thereby increasing this reserve to £40000 After which there Is an amount of £9324 which Increases the balance carried forward to £47003 As already mentioned it Is disappointing that after all the hard work expended by all members of the Company for which help I extend thanks and grateful acknowledgment we have less remaining as a reward We are certainly not despondent and are busily studying ways and means of effecting economies though this Is not easy in an era of ever-ascending costs What of the future? Since the middle of last January a transformation has taken place throughout the Tobacco Trade All rationing and quotas have ceased: our customers are free to purchase what when and where they choose The manufacturers are opening new accounts and the consuming public are concentrating on the purchase of a few very few brands and It Is this lack of variety (which Is the life-blood of our trade) that Is causing the major anxiety to manufacturers and wholesalers alike To date our sales of tobacco goods are down Those for Super-Menthol Snuff remain very steady and confectionery and fancy goods are going ahead Within the past fortnight the price of certain pipe tobaccos has increased by varying amounts and of this Increase we wholesalers have received a small uplift In our margin of profit which as far as can be calcula Increase our total earning capacl approximately 5d In every £1C sales Whilst we welcome this as a gesture we trust it Is a token ol' further consideration still to come One-act play festival The third Rugby one-act play festival under the auspices of Rugby Theatre Society is beln Rugby Theatre this week soQieth held in Dramatic es from Rugby Coventry More Bargains in HIGH CLASS BEDDING Almost Half Beautyrest Price pocketed Spring Int Mattresses £15-15-0 Bed OuJIUs with panel bedstead wire spring mattress 4ft 6in n-n-e Spring Int 3ft Divan with spring Mattresses witli hair int mattress sprung £16-10 £9-19-6 (Lewis's Fourth Floori) CORK LINOLEUM Saving a Third! Moire inlaid cork lino 9 5 colours Sq yd 00 Scottish High grade Cork Lino tile block etc RR Sq yd 911 811 0 0 Printed Cork Lino high gloss finish with canvas back A fi Square yard A-iso: Save a Quarter! Printed Floorcovermg Jaspe VIZ Square yard (Lewis's Fifth Floor) premises in Brook Street had been too small When therefore the opportunity to acquire the lease of more commodious accommodation In Little Russell street1 occurred we were glad to accept the offer to purchase the twelve years of unexplred lease This has been done and we entered Into occupation on 39th May 1954 We were successful In selling our property in Brook Street at a capital profit of some £5000 leu charges The purchase of the leasehold of our Newport warehouse has been completed as forecast In my report to you last year The reorganisation of capital authorised by you at an Extraordinary General Meeting held last August has been successfully carried out Details of the foregoing will be found set out on page 10 of the accounts now Ih your posseulon During the year the goodwill and stocks of three small wholesale businesses were purchased and absorbed Into our existing branches two in Glasgow and one in Birmingham SUCCESS AS MANUFACTURERS Last summer we launched an Intensive campaign to promote sales of our Own manufactured pipes and I am happy to say that the results were very encouraging and we will continue to strive for even better figures Our 8uper-Menthol Snuff sales and profits still provide one of our major sources of revenue and In an endeavour to increase these still further we are' about to embark on a Press advertising scheme far more ambitious than we have undertaken so far 1 Once again South Africa has produced an increase In net earning Third Floor) Stafford and Lutterworth have entered The finals will take place on Saturday FURNITURE BARGAINS 839 pm FIFTH RACE 500yds Flat 5512 SON (DI 3y 2m 614lb 2930 2948 tll4 Rebel (D) 29 50 4224 Carlanp Joy (B) 2yllin 491D Jtfob JyDU Cra A Wadda (D) 2y 3m lb 2914 2929 1316 Manus Hasty (D) 2y 3m 571b 2921 29 37 Reserve: Qrahera Lad 855 pm SIXTH RACE 500yds Flat 4422 SWEETNESS (D) 2y 5m 621b 2930 2959 4515 Grove Wyllwyn (D) 2y 2m 724lb 2934 2952 1325 Black Fire (B) 4y 6m 54Mb 2920 2939 5151 Moses Hasty (D1 2y 8m 55Mb 2920 29 53 1454 Carlane Pey (B) 2y lm 51lb 2904 2936 Reserve: Rich Benefit 911 pm SEVENTH RACE 500yds Flat 5tl2 OVER LODGE (B) 2yllm 2957 2992 t511 Rowdv Neighbour (D) ly 6m 66Mb 29 79 2997 tt5t Black Captain (D) 2yllm 584lb 2978 3011 6112 Chippendale Johnnie (D) 4y 2m 2961 2973 3645 Carlane Dot (B) 3y 8m 631b 2977 29 83 Reserve: Saft Bob 927 pm EIGHTH RACE 500yds Flat tl44 DESERT FORTUNE (D) 2y 0m 74lb 2954 29 80 3511 Sipokey Face (D) 2y 2m 67lb 2936 2955 1113 Pacey Paddy (D) 5y 7m 641b 2961 2979 tt25 Crazy Edition (D) 4y lm 591b 29 67 29 80 3436 Kentucky Champion (D) 3y 6m 65 lb 2955 29:66 Reserve: Brlckslde Navy 1413 Silent Lll (B) 4yllm 60Mb 2985 2991 55tt Crazy Parade (Bi 2y 6m 541b 3001 3031 4134 81eek (D) 3y 6m 72Mb 2982 2997 Reserve: Lisbuagh Boy 750 pm SECOND RACE 500yds Oat 512 JUST BOASTING (D) 5y 3m 6Mb 3003 3034 5552 Double (D) (y 4m 591b 30 32 3054 5244 Guardsman II (D) 6y Om 701b 3033 3077 5tt3 Tobies Hunter (D) 3y Om 651b 3015 3049 t5t6 Oily's Bob (D) ly 6m 60Mb 3059 3070 MUTTS KUdangan Beau 807 pm THIRD RACE 500yds Flat 3232 WL1NGTON AGNES (B) 2y 0m 491b 3026 3042 5225 Castle Jolly (D) i 4y 6m 6Mb 3014 30 31 4345 Howdy Stranger (D) 4y 0m 69Mb 29 95 30 29 4334 Welsh Song (B) 3y 0m 534 lb 3018 3030 3223 Swiss Cottage (D) 4y 3m 604lb 3017 3035 Reserve: County Blue 823 pm FOURTH RACE 300yds Hat 3tl4 SMALL VIEW (D) 4y lm 57lb 1791 1812 t432 Saintly Arthur (D) SylOm 1795 1800 5224 Quill Hill (D) 5y 4m 614lb 18 02 1814 3355 All In The Game (D) By 6m 63' lb 1804 1814 Dining Room Chairs with loose seat 39g coloured Dining Suite with side-board table and four chairs iTIreslde £5-10-0 Hygena Cabinets £10-19 Save 48-! Chairs cushions Save 66-! Kitchen drop front Man burned trying to save pigeon John Tideswell (19) of Nook Cottage Wootton Staffordshire is recovering in the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary after being burned by electricity while attempting to rescue one of his young pigeons which had flown on to a pylon near its coop Tideswell tried to entice the bird down but when he failed he climbed the pylon His hair was burtjed off he was burned on the face and lost consciousness on a platform Policemen and villagers towered him 25fb to the ground Fourth Floor) 4yl0m 624lb 1788 1793 so rov 3412 Overworked (t Reserve: Englestede Hasty LEWIS REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 630 JOMORRUW Accounts How to read form lines Figures in front of name are latest placlngs followed by age In years and months best weights best recent time and average Serformances The selection Is the first dog named In each race (black 'capital letters) next best Is second og In each race These constitute a forecast After name sex te D-dog B-bltch: time based on four latest combinat Ion Nap la denoted thus and second leg of double The Report adopted LEWIS'S LTD BIRMINGHAM 4 Telephone: CENtral 8251.