Evening Post from Bristol, Avon, England • 1

BrUtal Evening Port Oct 6 U46 St Iff '1V (MISTOL) LTB FISHPONDS BRISTOL TL 653471 652371 Distributors of incorporating the SATURDAY OCTOBER 1966 Pric 4d CROSSMAN FOR WILL THE by MAUREEN TOMISON A new fob in the Labour Party is to be created for Mr Richard Crossman Leader of the House Mr Crossman is to be the Labour Party manager RETIRES AFTER 52 YEARS A keeps the audience away from performers as Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones has the fans screaming at the Colston Hall Bristol last night storm Michael Bissex marries Gloucester county cricketer Michael Bissex (22) was being married at Bath this afternoon His Bride is Carol Lindsay (20) of Chantry Mead Road Bath A shorthand-typist she met Michael of Vernham Grove Odd Down three years ago at a dancing class Michael a Gloucestershire batsman has been with the county for seven years and has been playing first-class cricket for two years Michael ig to go on the MCC under-25 tour of Pakistan next year His captain England player John Mortimore will be a guest at the wedding so with other team mates Arthur Milton and David Smith also England players and Tony Brown and coach Graham Wiltshire The best man wli be Mr John Buffery Somerset fencing champion The bride has made her own dress and her mother the two dresses After the wedding at St Philip and St church the couple will honeymoon in Majorca for two weeks STEP NEARER COMPLETION The Ashton Gate Bristol road scheme takes another step towards completion on Monday After the morning rush-hour traffic has spent itself a main feature of the £800000 road complex will be brought into use This will be the 80ft bridge over the railway the opening of which had to be put back a week because of a delay in delivery of handrails traffic switch will take part at 10 30 am Only city bound traffic will be affected Traffic Bristoi-boundfnm Long Ashton will go tmq the city by way of Brunei Way over the new bridge Traffic from Cianage Road will travel into Brunei Way via a new road Outgoing traffic from the city will continue exactly as as present and Portishead traffic will still be temporarily routed through Blackmoors Lane Drills stolen Chippenham Police are inves tigating the theft yesterday afternoon of two power drill from the shop of Trotman and Sons at High Street Caine Stones Never since the days of Mr Herbert Morrison has any man fulfilled the roleo linksman between the Parliamentary Labour Party and the constituencies In effect this is what Mr Crossman will be while retaining his position as leader Unlike his predecessor Mr Herbert Bowden Mr Crossman is a member of the Partw Executive Trusty He has therefore access to the heart of Labour Party research and organisation Transport House Furthermore he is one of Mr trusties and holds a high posiUon in the party He will be the man to set in motion the dilaogue between Westminster and the grass roots about which everybody in the Labour Party is talking today It was talked about by Mr Crossman at the closed session in Brighton at the Labour Party conference last week It was talked about by Mr Anthony Wedgewood Benn on Wednesday night at Sussex University Labour Club And it was talked about last week by the for an efficient also in Brighton last Tuesday PEP was founded about a year ago by Mr Jim North-cote author of Labour and formerly of Transport House Mr Northcote resigned disagreement over the arrangement of the party structure 1975 onwards In setting up PEP Mr Northcote was backed by the three Labour publicity organs Socialist Commentary New Statesman and Tribune The shake-up in the party structure is intended to pro ject Labour plans for 1975 and beyond Until now the Labour Party have for the last 15 years either been in opposition or hanging on to government by a tiny majority Now they are able to look forward and plan policies as the governing party and Mr Crossman will be able to relieve Cabinet Ministers tied up in departmental work from the necessity of doing all their own forward 1 I Mr Rickard Crossman SO TO SMILES AGAIN Ten year old Antony Kapelko saddened last Sunday when he found his pet rabbit Snowy missing was overjoyed again last night An unknown man called at his home with two more rabbits was thrilled to Antony Kapelko said hig mother Mrs Doreen Kapelko of 17 Neville Road Kingswood today She said the man arrived at her home after reading in the Evening Post about disappearance read the article out to his son who had nine rabbits and the boy was a bit upset and decided he wanted to give two of his to said Mrs Kapelko KINDNESS are all overcome at such kindness The little father said he would try to come round last night to see the expression on face but he did not turn up and I forgot to ask him his name when he came-the first time Antony now has three rabbits the two new arrivals and old hutch mate Spot Jungle veterans return liome Aboard an RAF Belfast freigher arriving at RAF Fairford (Glos) yesterday were Faith Hope and Charity Whirlwind helicopters which have just completed 100 maercy trips carrying injured troops from jungle territory They stopped at Fairford Cirencester during their 1200 mile return journey from eorgetown Guyana where ley have just been used in training of the Defence force This was the biggest airlift Transport Command have Undertaken shudder of a throbbing feedback Peter Jay and Jaywalkers had the tricky job of opening the show and were outstanding by English pop standards Mr Herbert Hodges advertisement director of the Evening Post and Western Daily Press Ijas retired after 52 years with Bristol newspapers He was presented with a silver salvar last night by Mr A Hawkins chairman and managing director of the Evening Post Ltd Mr Hodges to his friends and colleagues started a work for the Bristol Press as a boy of 15 in 1914 He joined the old Times and Mirror as a Junior clerk and immediately became involved in the advertising side of newspapers BRISTOL'S OWN When the paper closed in 1932 Mr Hodges joined the all Bristol asked for and helped to the Evening Post And it was he who priced the first copy on April 18 In the early years of the war Mr Hodges was appoin-j ted classified advertisement manager Subsequently he was promoted to assistant advertisement manager and became head of the advertis- ing department in 1953 Three years ago he joined the Evening Post board as advertising director He is remaining on the board Mr Hodges was a founder member of the Bristol Publicity Club He is a former president and a present vice-president Mr Hodges lives in Clarendon Road Redland ROBERTS FROGMEN HUNT ON Frogmen were continuing their search of a West Country reservoir today for new clues to the whereabouts of Harry Roberts It is thought the police are hoping to find the gun used by Roberts who is wanted in connection with the murder of three London policemen in Dowdeswell reservoir near Cheltenham A security blanket has been around the lake since Metropolitan police frogmen began dragging operations yesterday The Rolling second show ended in bedlam at Bristol Colston Hall last night An amiable bouncer stood at the feet of a prancing Mick Jagger Girls running TRAFFIC LIGHTS FOR JUNCTION Traffic lights are due to be installed next February at Five-Way Junction Lodge Causeway Fishponds where a bus shelter was demolished in a road accident on Thursday This was stated today by a Bristol Corporation spokesman replying to a letter sent by Mr A Hibbs of Henshaw Close Kingswood to the City Engineer Mr James Bennett complaining that traffic lights had been promised for the junction some time ago Mr Hibbs said: Next time the bus shelter Is demolished it may not be empty It may be full of The Corporation spokes-1 man said: A tender has been let to supply traffic signal equipment and delivery is promised for January It should be installed by February Today Mr Louis Mudge of 2 Elbury Avenue Kingswood said: Luckily no one was in the shelter at the moment of Impact" towards their idol rebounded I harmlessly off his ample i chest Then they were quietly led back to their seats Some could not take all the excitement from the noise of rabble-rousing songs like Off My You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadows" They burst into tears fainted or just sat dumbly as if hypnotised One could distantly hear the numbers and the screams were not quite as deafening as they used to be I could even pick out individuals and the musicians were playing extremely well A PLEASURE Supporting were Ike and Tina and this was pop at its very best It was a pleasure to watch and listen to their band girlie singers and star Tina Turner She belted out River Love Like I and Tell the Truth to give Bristol the most exciting i pop happening in ages The Yardbirds were so overamplified that the only sound in the hall drowning i even the screams was the i Girl (16) dies on A360 Susan Payne (16) of Towerhead Farm Ban well died last night in an accident on the A 360 The accident occurred between Ban well and Sand-ford near Towerhead Farm i Miss Payne it is under-) stood had alighted from a service bus when she was in an accident ith a motor-car driven by Dennis Hall (18) of 16 West Town Cheddar Miss Payne was taken Weson-super-Mare Hospital but was dead on arrival NEWS FLASH riii Police Sergeant Derek Beaty wa stabbed in the back early today after he and other police officers at Keswick (Cumberland) were called to a disturbance in a house in Lake Road Keswick.