Evening Post from Bristol, Avon, England • 35

EVENING POST THURSDAY DECEMBER 14 1972 Big row looms after inquiry result revealed by NIGEL HEATH A big row is brewing inNorth Somerset over the 1966 public inquiry into the route of the South Bristol spur road Mr Raymond Hawkins is Mr Brian Williams as he to he served to the 200 Probe into the penny a pound sugar sales offer by TONY BELL Bargain sales promising housewives sugar at one penny a pound are being investigated by Weights and Measures officers In tjiree cases at Staple Hill Downend and Kings-wood hundreds of angry shoppers discovered the offer was too good to be true Penny-a-pound sugar was the lure on handbills delivered throughout the area advertising sales of bankrupt stock fancy goods or hardware But in fact only one of the three sales took place at all at the Page Hall Staple Hill last Friday Mangotsfield Councillor John Guy chairman of the Page Hall and Parks Committee said today: of people turned up but there was no sugar organiser said he had nothing to do with the handbills Apparently two different sets of leaflets and had been sent out advertising sales in the hall on the same BLANKETS Sale No 2 was due to take place at the Sandringham Hotel Downend last Monday But licensee's wife Mrs Marjorie Maxey said: business like chaps came in the week before and made arrangements to hold a blanket sale in the ballroom But they turned up on Monday with almost a minimarket of stuff We said they go ahead because of unfair competition to local traders police came down to help us with the large crowd that had gathered The stuff was never unloaded so we know if there was any sugar for The third sale had been advertised at the Kingswood Hotel Kingswood on Tuesday But the two organisers never appeared and scores of bargain-hunters had to be turned away A' spokesman for the Gloucestershire Weights and Measures Department at Staple Hill confirmed that an investigation was being made He said: are looking into these sales to see if any offence under the Weights and Measures Act or the Trades Descriptions Act has been Hundreds of residents have been waiting ever since to hear which route the road will take on its way from the end of the Long Ashton bypass to Clevedon But unknown to them the inquiry result was published fortnight ago as part of the revised county development plan And now they are demanding to know why they were not personally Informed that no firm decision on the proposed Wrax-allrTickenham line is to be taken until their alternative routes have been thoroughly investigated Somerset County Council said this afternoon the 1966 spur road investigation was Just part of a general public inquiry into the review of the county development plan Unaware The recent publication of the plan was the correct way to announce the spur road result People who had specifically asked to be informed of the result had been notified But Wraxall Parish Council chairman Mrs Mary West said this afternoon: This seems a ridiculous way of going about things When people are ljsted as objectors at an inquiry they naturally expect to hear the For months the people of Wraxall have been vigorously campaigning for the spur road to run between Nailsea and Back-well They say the proposed route past their village would ruin valuable farmland Seamen walk out in dysentery row About 150 off-duty Asian crew from the 45000 ton liner Canberra walked off the ship at Southampton today to demonstrate solidairty with col- leagues dismissed yesterday from the 29000-ton Orsova dismissed 212 Goanese crew from Orsova after they refused to submit to medical tests following a dysentery outbreak on a sunshine cruise to the Equator IN THE WORLD LOS ANGELES: A Raphael painting and valued at £490000 has been recovered two years after it was stolen from the home of a wealthy estate dealer Police arrested three men after two of them tried to sell it to an art dealer WASHINGTON: A smil ing Dr Henry Kissinger returned from Paris overnight to report to President Nixon on the progress of the Vietnam peace talks amid indications that a ceasefire is still some time away SYDNEY: Mr William Davis Editor of Punch said today he was fighting a losing battle tring to get humour back into British politics Speaking to reporters at Sydney Airport he said have lost the art of using humour to take the tension out of a LONDON: Mr Geoff Martin (32) a city broker and former president of thfc National Union of Students is to be the new director of Shelter the national campaign for the homeless He succeeds Mr John Willis who leaves at the end of the year to become manager of Liverpool Housing Trust LONDON: The headless body of a man was found at the side of the Grand Union Canal near Scrubs Lane Bush today A railway line runs nearby and one theory being explored by detectives was that the man may have been hit by a train and his body thrown to the spot where it was found by a railman M5 BRIDGE back the opening date to 1974 So far about 1000ft of the bridge has been erected Now there are only 3550ft to go A LEADING oil company official appealed in Bristol today for the bridge to be completed a matter of Speaking at the Fosters Rooms Mr Luff South West group representative for Shell Mex and BP said that the movement of industrial traffic in the West would be seriously hampered until this vital link is finished The company have recently completed the major reconstruction of their £2 million oil terminal at Avonmouth Promise given on dorks report by JIM WEBBER Public presentation of the long-awaited Casson Report on the future redevelopment of the City Docks area of Bristol now seems more probable as a New Year offering rather than a Christmas present Certainly an official statement today must make the idea of any revelations at next Planning Committee meeting unlikely Th situation seems to me to be fogged by apparently contradictory statements from the architectural consultants to the Corporation and to the Evening Post Today Aid Wally Jenkins chairman of the Planning Committee who have com-misioned the report reiterated his promise of the fullest consultation and opportunity for discussion when it is received Sir Hugh himself hinted yesterday that his report would be ready in time for next Planning Committee meeting though of course this is a matter exclusively for Aid Jenkins to decide depending when the document is available from the printers Denial Following a report from Donald Hatwell our London Editor yestrday Mr Lavry Crook City public relations officer issued this statement today: On reading this report the chairman of the Planning Committee asked for contact to be made with Sir representative who denied that this report was true and was not able to give any firm date as to when it will be possible to present the report to the committee Strongest possible representations have been made to the consultants over the delay which has taken place since the original promise was made by Sir Hugh that it would be available in May The chairmam of the committee btfs said that there will be ample opportunity for public comment before any decisions are taken arising out of the report and he hag also promised that the fullest publicity will be given to it This cannot be done until it is received DONALD HATWELL writes: Our report was based on the knowledge that December 20 is the date to which Sir Hugh and his team together with the printers were working We did not criticise the delay It is right that the consultants should not have felt under pressure to pro duce a hasty report We made it clear that the report was finished two months ago and that sickness at the small printing firm handling it has caused the recent hold-up If the report does not reach the Planning Committee by next week this remains the reason Chef at Farleigh Hospital assisted by catering officer prepares Christmas cakes patients during the Anti-hunt rabbit is by Trevor Kavanagh Dougal a pet white rabbit was stabbed to death today in the garden of Yeovil RSPCA official Mr John Bryant It had been stabbed with a spike Mr Bryant of Stratford Road Yeovil said he was convinced the killing was a reprisal for his anti-blood sports activities He is a founder-member of the Yeovil Hunt Saboureurs Association and a formre chairman of the RSPCA Reform Group who are campaigning for the society to officially condemn blood sports This year with other members of the Reort Group he was appointed to the national council of the RSPCA in a surprise victory have received a number of anonymous and abusive letters one of them running to 11 pages and threatening to send me a dead rabbit by said Mr Bryant (30) an aircraft engineer PHONE CALLS the letters topped and I began getting calls have been to the police and they have offered to send a patrol car to discourage anyone who might be in that area again at night 1 I would like to see rapped replies ference between theory and But the report went on: Rawles was expected to look after the ward on his own This included bathing patients taking them to the toilet giving them hot drinks and inspecting the rest of the ward most important aspect of the ward's figr prevention arrangemepj was the principle of constant attention The whole of the evidence convinced us that Jn this ward it was not possible for one night nurse to maintain constant The national executive of the Confederation of Health Service Employees were meeting today to discuss the report COMMENT: Page 4 festive season an stabbed the person responsible The rabbi was one of a pair brother and sister which were to have been desroyed before Mr Bryant took them over Thalidomide offer is condemned The father of a thalidomide child today condemned the Distillers latest compensation offer to the drug victims as and He is Mr David Mason (35) who has led the fight for a better offer I urge every parent to assess the implications of a very crafty document which once again looks more after the interests of the Distillers Company than of the he said Mr Mason a West End art dealer whose 10-year-old daughter Louise is a limbless victim of thalidomide was speaking after examining new compan-sation deal worth nearly £12 million Mr Jack Ashley the Labour MP who has led the fight in Parliament for the victims said today: looks as if the fresh deal is not nearly so generous as it appears at first sight The taxpayer is going to pay a large proportion "I am seeing financial experts for a full Mr Mason estimated the offer would be worth about £32000 each child natural gas A consumer protection group today urged that conversions to natural gas should be halted while a full inquiry takes place In a telegram to the chairman of the Gas Council Mr Arthur Hetherington the National Protection Council said aspects of the conversion were giving cause for concern It said there had been a continuous stream of complaints about repairs leaks and fumes Mr Hetherington later admitted that in some areas the standard of gae service needed considerable improvement An effort was being made to bpnp the bad areas up to standard OF FURS STARTS TOMORROW JUST A FEW EXAMPLES i SUPERB LEOPARD COAT Originally £1500 Now £750 Full Length RANCH MINK COAT Originally £925 Now £462 NATURAL OCELOT COAT Originally £1495 Now £747 NATURAL WILD MINK COAT Originally £845 Now £422 Full Length SIBERIAN SQUIRREL Originally £350 Now £75 Spring Pastel MUSQUASH FLANK COAT Originally £255 Now £12750 THIS EXCEPTIONAL OFFER MUST END THURSDAY DEC 28 1972 Coldharbour blaze: ex-nurse Trevor Kavanagh Former night nurse Mr Rawles today replied Free salt offer Mr Gordon Cullingham borough engineer and surveyor of Windsor is offering all residents of the town a free bag of salt to keep paths clear of snow and ice a ward for longer than five or six minutes Mr Rawles who plans to leave Britain next month to start a new life in the Argentine said today: a person is in charge of such a ward single-handed the maximum period of absence such as recommended in this report is not always practicable 'NOT POSSIBLE' mean absence from the dormitory because you never leave a ward the present systems periods of about 10 to 15 minutes away from a dormitory sleeping area cannot be avoided such as when you have to bath patients is when the place is manned by only one person There is a vast dif- £225 raid Thieves who raided new lorries parked in a compound in Ironmould Lane Brisling-ton stole nine starter batteries worth £225 Bristol Police said today by Fred to criticism of his conduct on the night a fire killed 30 patients in a ward at Coldharbour Hospital A Government committee criticised Mr Rawles now a Yeovil taxi driver for being away for an unacceptably long time from the ward where the fire broke out The Vowden Committee who yesterday published their findings five months after the blaze said the fire was caused by a patient lighting a flame The fire might never have reached its fatal proportions if Mr Rawles had not been away from hie desk at the crucial time Among a number of recommendations the committee suggested that staff should never be absent from CO-OP CUTS THE COST OF CHRISTMAS PONTI VERMOUTH (Sweet and Dry) Only Settle (Net 99p as advertised a Wednesday).