Herald Express from Torquay, Devon, England • 6

THURSDAY HERALD EXPRESS MAY 27 1954 Regional Boards Are Too Large And TORQUAY COMMENT ON NHS Cheques at Home Iloydi Bank Trsvdkn Cheques can be just is useful to you in this i as they an abroad You can cash them at the branches of 1b the British Isles Many hotels restaurants and big ret wdl accept them in payment of accounts You can aho pay face with thesn at main tailway stations In het wheat trsvdhng you trill find Lloyds Bank Tra than your own cheques and safer than cash A la tfAftUt is tkt British bits with whom Uojis Bank Cktfm at payable easy be tkasd front say i wench of the Bank GERMANS SEEK A 40-HOUR WEEK A CAMPAIGN by the West German trade unions for a 40-hours working week is being strenuously opposed by the government and the employers Union leaden say that the working houn of the average West German are longer than thoae in any other industrially highly-developed country In the world while fill real wages are lower They want a 40-hour week with the tame pay as for the 48 houn which most of them work at present The influential newspaper the Indus triekuner which reflects the view of the Ruhr industry described the 40-hour week as an American institution which West Germany should not import" The 40-hour week would mean lower production a decrease of the national income and a lowering of the standard of living" said the paper PLANT LIMITED Our plants are not equipped in the same way as those in America or some other European In the Civil Service shorter working hours would mean more officials and more bureaucracy Union leaders were urged not to seek to coerce the employers Into a mistaken economic policy A similar view was expressed by the Federation of German Employers' Associations We it stated make up for a reduction in working time by an increase in production as long as the capital and technical equipment of our plants lag far behind other European and overseas The Minister Prof Erhard believes that shorter working hours in industry would threaten the stability of the mark Industrial quarters take the view that any Introduction of the 40-hour week before West German industry Is more fully rationalised could threaten economic recovery Union leaders drew on evidence from industry itself to show that a shorter week can be successful MOTOB CAB WOBKS The Ford motor works at Cologne introduced the 40-hour week in 1928 and again soon after the war The director general Dr Erhard Vitgor interviewed in the trade union weekly Welt der Arbeit said: We are doing very well with the 40-hour week Employees can maintain maximum amount of efficiency only for about on month when working 48 hours a week so that efficiency rapidly decreases In the long run" LLOYDS BANK LIMITED fiufy Manfield SUBLIW i In black patent 459 at sulnas wbipsnake 499 2 Strings eack kill Wee (Similar model with elated back 499) LIMIT A la red anootk medal balWas white suede 459 la ml ksjwag 499 8 fittings to eack half rice (Similar medal with open beck 899 te 429) FAUa A In black brown or Mne glee 399 In seal knmag snakaakim 429 3 fittings te each ksY-eiee A new high-speed gear cutting machine nesigneu na Burn tnel Millionaire Inventor of the machine Mr David Brown belteves it should bring down prices of can and everything for which gears are needed Do a complete decorating job with Brolac point with the enamel Aaiafc Murac USE JUDGMENT ON ZEBRAS 57 FLEET STREET TORQUAY Abe at MBWTON ASAOT Advice To Pedestrians MR HUGH MOLSON (Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Transport) replying to Mr Page (C Crosby) who questioned him about the recently-published pedestrian crossing regulations said the line of studs will indicate a line usually 45 feet from the edge of a zebra crossing beyond which no stopping or parking by vehicles wjll be allowed Matt Otl Finish These two famous finishes provide the complete answer to decorating problems both indoors and out Brolac containing la the most waterproof high gloss obtainable Murac Matt Oil Finish provides a beautiful scrubbablt surface for interior walls There la a range of colours in both these products stocks available Trade supplied 54-6 Torquay Rd PAIGNTON Telephone 57879 LEAMAIYS (PAPERS PAINTS PEAKING kt the Annual conference of the Association of Hospital and Welfare Administrators at Torquay Aid Med-land Chairman Of the Plymouth South Devon and East Cornwall General Hospital Management Committee as briefly reported yesterday declared that the work of regional hospital boards was now finished and suggested that the control of tbe National Health Service should primarily be vested with local authorities He said: main function of the regional board ha now been carried out and the part which each hospital has to play In ne integrated service in an area has been determined Why keep regional boards in existence with their large salaried staff tro-fessional technical and administrative Further why continue to allow employees of the National Health Service to sit upon hese boards and determine policy? Experience had shown he said that regional boards were too large and too remote It was unpossible for ordinary working class people to serve on them as no lost time was paid also where boards covered large areas such as the South Western Metropolitan Regional and the South Western Regional boards it was Impossible for the members to acquire an overall picture of the needs of the region Money Management committees are at present appointed by the regional board They have in their hands the administration of huge sums of money We thus have taxation without direct representation Management committees should be an elected authority and it is therefore suggested that the present system of nomination and appointment should give place to an elected body" he said Aid Medland said A local Health Committee with the guid a nee of a city treasurer and the chairman of a finance committee would keep a very much closer watch on the cost' of the National Health Service than the present system I have therefore come to the clear opinion that it is time the National Health Service be came a part of local government Hospitals were very important but not more so than education which wa a function of county councils and county borough councils Within those two spheres and with an overall grouping of areas for each management com mittee working as a committee of a local authority lay the solution to control the increasing cost of the service without impairing its efficiency and allowing for the necessary cost occasioned by scien tifle discoveries Main trunk are con trolled by a local authority-national expenditure to the extent of 75 per cent is used for their maintenance 25 per cent being found by the local authority In the reconstruction of blitz an the national exchequer pavg BO per cent of the loss for the first eight years ten per cent being met by the local authority Responsibility Why should not 90 per cent or 95 per cent of the cost of the National Health Service and the Hospital Service be met out of national expenditure and ten or five per cent by local authorities who in their day-to-day care and control would see that the money was spent where it was most needed and for objects which local people desire to be pursued'' he asked In the case of an essentially personal service one that was primarily concerned with the treatment of people and especially of sick helpless and distressed people It was vitally Important that the chain of responsibility should be short and direct V' at A New OLD TORQUAY RD PRESTON Tel Paignton 83082 NOW OPEN at Hlgb Street TOTNES 1 Stiff the demand grows for MJCWQUEEN BUTTER-BLENDED UP and DOWN the RIVER DART covering the whole navigable portion (IS miles) of this world-famed river SAILING EVERY DAY INCLUDING SUNDAYS between DARTMOUTH and TOTNES From Totnm 115 515 130 550 315 70 6 Return from Dartmouth rrt May 28: 1045 315 Sat May 29: 1130 330 Sun May 30: 1230 515 Fares 36 Slngla Combined Rail Road and River Tonrs Tickets obtainable at railway stations and offices (Specimen Fare From Torquay 03 Paignton 68) THE RIVER DART STEAMBOAT CO LTD DARTMOUTH Phone 22 FROM DOORSTEP TO i Anywhere in British Luxurious WOLSELEI 444's and ZEPHYR ZODIACS at your service Day and Night Phone PRIVATE Teignmouth 797 ICE CREAM made by POLLARDS from the finest local ingredients SMOOTHER RICHER THAN EVER Obtainable at Shops and Restaurants throughout the area Leicester NW) asked the Minister for an estimate of the backlog on new construction work necessary to bring Britain's roads up to present day requirements whether in view of the impractreabilty of dealing with this backlog out of annual revenue he would examine alternative means of financing the work by a road loan If he had reached a decision about the abolition of the Road Fund if he would introduce legislation to abolish it and if he would establish a new national highway authority which would in collaboration with his department have authority to raise capital by loan to construct new modern highways Mr A Lennox -Boyd: 1 cannot usefully attempt an estimate of the backlog There is so much room for difference of opinion on this question that an answer is really anyone's guess I do not think that it Is necessary to set on foot an examination into the means of financing road work by means of a special loan Whether such expenditure should be met out of revenue or by borrowing Is a matter of budgetary policy The recent recommendations of the Select Committee on Estimates about the Road Fund 1-being carefully considered but final decision has not yet been he added Tolls Hint Mr Janner: You are not going to get a fair share of the national resources which are available for thlg very important purpose Is it not high time that some scheme were devised whereby this very vital necessity of getting the roads into proper order should be attended to? Mr Lennox-Boyd: A loan it would have to be secured and serviced and eventually repaid Unless there are tolls roads do not earn an indefinite revenue that could be collected It hat no relevance to the speed of vehicles and pedestrians must use their judgment as to when it is safe to cross If they see a vehicle approaching Lt-Col Lipton (Lab Brix-ton): Is there going to be a battle of wits between pedestrians and the drivers of vehicles? Mr Molson: I hope neither side will regard it as a battle Mr Molson added that the Ministry were going to publicise the new regulation as much as possible Accidents Col Lipton then asked what evidence is available that zebra crossings have reduced the number of accidents to pedestrians compared with those areas where 500 urban authorities have not installed zebra crossings Mr Molson: No reliable con elusions can be drawn from uch comparisons but there Is ample evidence that zebra crossings have helped to keep down pedestrian casualties generally Col Lipton: How does the Minister explain the fact that in those areas where there are not zebra crossings accidents are very much less and as the number of persons killed or seriously injured zebra crossings Is higher thig year than last when Is he going to reconsider this complicated costly and ineffective experiment Mr Molson: The value of zebra crossing is largely a matter of opinion The Pedestrian Association has obtained the views of 168 local authorities Three of them agree with Col Lipton and 165 agree with me (Laughter) The Roads There jvas further laughter when Col Lipton said that owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the reply he would raise the matter again Mr Barnett Janner (Lab Take it Easyl Lonely Island Has A Contains IO Dairy Butte HOI "Two pounds of Mayqueen Seems a lot but the children love Ball of pi mm My husband can't tU it from butter And so goes on and on Thousands of housewives all over Britain pouring into iM Mbypok for MAYQUBN the butter-blended margarine rpHE island the world forgot is being remembered briefly as radio amateurg are waiting to listen for short-wave signals from a tiny coral outcrop in the Eastern Pacific Clipperton Island a lonely atoll 670 tea miles south-west of Acapulco (Mexico) is to go on the air if an expedition of amateur radio enthusiasts reaches its goal Their gtorm-battered schooner engine disabled recently had to radio for rescue aid Their distress call indicated that the Isle still carries a jinx For on that insignificant speck of rock ten degrees north of the equator occurred not only piracy and shipwreck but also one of the most fantastic and tragic storie in the annals of adventure Although Fiance now owns Clipperton until 1951 Its claim was contested by Mexico In the year leading up to the first world war fertiliser was dug from the Island and a small Mexican army garrison was maintained there In 1914 amid political upheaval in Mrxlro and the outbreak of the first World war supplies for the culony on ('Upper tun numbering at least SO men women and children were somehow forgotten Ships imply slopped going there After a year the garrison commander Capt Ramon de A maud took the only three men still strong enough to pull oar and set out to row to the mainland 675 miles away They were never heard of again A hurricane struck soon afterwards Then a lighthouse keeper went Insane murdered the remaining men and set himself up as king One of the women he sought to enslave killed him with an axe a he slept On July 18 1917 after three years of Isolation Clipperton was visited by the US ship Yorktown while on naval patrol Three women and tight children survived Their terrible story was pieced together as they were taken to the mainland but because of the war the tragedy received little notice at the time Clipperton Is a low narrow ring of coral roughly seven miles around enclosing landlocked lagoon A single high rock juts 62 feet abova the sea resembling a sailing ship from a distance From 1945 until the end of the second world war a US navv weather station was maintained on Clipperton 2 000 miles wen of the Panama Canal and 3000 mile east of Hawaii Mexico long mapped Clipper ton us the Island of Passion i Isla de la Passion) following a legend that sailors of Cortex landing there in the 1500's fought among themselves In 1705 the Island reputedly became the lair of John Clipper-ton freebooting renegade mate of the English navigator William Dampier The island was forgotten until 1858 when a French ship landed a boat to hoist the Imperial colours of Napoleon III Mexico protested but did nothing else for 40 years Then In 1897 a year after another French man of war visited the Island It sent a gunboat of its own Ownership of the island grew more controversial after British company received concession In 1906 to work phosphate deposits there The question was referred to the International Court at The Hague with no result and then to the King of Italy for arbitration After thinking it over for 22 years the Italian monarch awarded Clipperton to France Other than the Navy weathermen however only a tow shipwrecked fisherman nave lived on Clipperton since the tragedy of 1917 All tliul remained in 1949 were a few rails from the phosphate era a ruined building or two and rusted slerl jelly at the edge of Use reef washed by surf Call today and see how you can ratify eqjoy shaving I Tty a Remington 60 for yourself without obligation and' prove bow old -fashioned any other shaving Method 1a We look forward to showing you how (having cad bo a pleasure with the Try acme toskv See if your family can distinguish it from butter Ten to one dMy can't It looks like butter tastes like butter spreads like butter goes into pats and on like butter And costs only 22 lb MAYCO Margarine leaves plenty of change from shopping money Fine flavoured of excellent quality it costs less than ration margarine Use it generously at table and in cooking 14 lb MAYFAM Margarine is another Maypole winner nothing better anywhere at tbe price rich creamy and spreadable with a melting buttery It costs only 19 lb ELKCTIIC SMAVII Get your Margarine from your MAYPOLE Shop MATFOLI DAISY COMPANY LTD SYDNEY TRUSCOTT Ltd For Everything Electrical 45 FLEET STREET (Tel MOB) TORQUAY.