Cambridge Evening News from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England • 22

I CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS Friday January 7 lt72 22 -4 UNLIT AND LOVELY IN THE JUL I I IE -M-k 111 Pool needed now more than fjesus Green pool closure to save money? Cambridge Evening News Head Office: 51 Newmarket Boad Cambridge CB5 8EJ Telephone 58877 Classified Advertisements 64051 Citv Centre Office: 2 Market Street London Office: 14 Bride Lane London EC4Y 8EE Telephone 01-353-3758 Branoh Offices: 27 Market Place Ely 2127 High Street Newmarket 2581 High Street Saffron Walden 2218-9 George Street Huntingdon 2356 48 Market Square St Neots 3136 3 Melbourn Street Royston 42194 4 Queen Street Haverhill 3806 TREASURER ITY RATES CHILL From Happy healthy days ever O-ONE who has visited Jesus green swimming pool during one of those golden days in September would ever consider closing this pool One hundred yards of crystal-blue water the beautiful trees and the sun which mercifully is free Whatever the cost it is a very cheap amenity to Cambridge This pool is needed now more than ft ever was with increased leisure time traffic irn the roads to the sea becoming impossible The people who swim in the pool on hot days are numbered in thousands where will they all go? Piece indoor pool already steamed up and distinctly unpleasant Young people with time on their habds are becoming more and more a social problem Why take this very cheap healthy pastime away from them? If money needs to be saved we can all suggest a little less tarmac for a start Let us get our priorities right (Mrs) HEFFER 6 Belvoir Road Cambridge Responsible debating I THINK that many of your readers will have seen with surprise your report of County Councillor Lang's remarks at the meeting of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Education Committee I refer of course in particular to the comment that like Alderman Hickson have never made a really worthwhile educational Despite wide differences of opinion the debate on the future of secondary education in the Cambridge area has in general been conducted in a friendly and I believe responsible manner Personal abuse has been absent on all but a very few occasions and it is therefore most regrettable that as the debate draws to its close a priest of the Church of England should show himself so lacking in charity and in knowledge of the contribution made by Aid Hickson to local government over the past twenty-five years (Aid) CUNINGHAM 36 Regent Street Cambridge Personally PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS BIRTHS HARRIS On January 3rd 1972 to Sheila (nee Quinton) and John a son brother for Lvn Beverley and Nicola Sincere thanks to doctors and nurses Mill Road Hospital HODGSON On Thursday January 6th 1972 at Princess Alexandra Hospital Harlow to Susan (nee Pratt) and Stewart a son Ian Michael PLEDGE On January 5th 1972 to Jenny (nee Rust) and Adrian precious gift of a son David Jonathan brother for Rachel Louise and Simon Robert ENGAGEMENTS HARRISON PEACOCK Mr and Mrs Harrison Prospect Farm Reach are pleased to announce the engagement of their eldest son Brian to Barbara daughter of Mr and Mrs Peacock The Shop Reach HARRISON PEACOCK Mr and Mrs Peacock Post Office Stores Reach have much pleasure in announcing the engagement of their youngest daughter Barbara to Brian eldest son of Mr and Mrs Harrison Prospect Cottage Reach YATES EASTWELL Mr and Mrs Eastwell of Rose Farm Great Gransden have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their eldest daughter Sherry-Lynne to Philip Alan youngest son of Mr and Mrs A Yates 8 Fox Close St Neots GOLDEN WEDDINGS NORTON Congratulations on your golden wedding mum and dad Love from your sons daughters and families DEATHS BARKER Leonard William (Tim) of 10 Station Road Lode Cambs dear husband of Cis and father of Vera Ronnie and Eileen peacefully at his home on January 5th 1972 aed 65 years Funeral service at the Cambridge Crematorium on Monday January 10th at 1030 am Sprays of flowers may be sent to the Weyman Funeral Home Abbey Walk Cambridge BOON Charlotte Mary of Fitzwllllam House Cottenham late of Oakington widow of the late James Thomas beloved mother and grandma passed peacefully to rest on January 5th 1972 Funeral service at Cambridge Crematorium on Monday January 10th at 12 noon Flowers to Eaden Chapel of Rest KNIGHT Alfred Thomas of 43 Centre Drive Newmarket passed away in Newmarket General Hospital January 5th 1972 Cremation at Cambridge on Tuesday January 11th 230 pm No flowers by request MAYLE On January 6th 1972 peace fully in hospital Alice Elizabeth aged 71 years beloved wife of the late Charles Mayle of 5 Broad Street Ely Service at Cambridge Crematorium on Wednesday January 12th at 1130 am MATTHEWS On January 5th 1972 peacefully in hospital Annie aged 90 years late of Sawston Funeral service at St Church Sawston on Tuesday January 11th at 315 pm followed by Interment In the churchyard Flowers to the church PAGE John Charles Page 72 High Street West Wickham Cambs passed peacefully to rest at home on Wednesday January 5th 1972 aged 90 years Cremation at Cambridge Crematorium on Tuesday January 11th at 10 30 am Please no flowers but If desired donations may be sent for the British Legion Disablement Fund co Paintln Ltd Funeral Directors 43 High 6treet Linton RITSON Charles Ronald of 43 Station Road Waterbeach dearly loved husband of Grace and father of Jim Michael and died suddenly tft Hospital on January 6th 1972 Funeral service at Waterbeach Church at 12 noon on Monday January 10th followed by interment in Waterbeach Cemetery WATTS Victor Alexander passed peacefully to rest on Thursday January 6th 1972 Funeral service at Cambridge Crematorium at 1130 am on Thursday January 11th 1972 IN MEMORIAM LUCAS (formerly 'Cooper In loving memory of my dear Mum Ellen Matilda who passed away January 7 th 1961 Loved and remembered always daughter Joyce Arthur and Grandclildren LUCAS (formerly Cooper) Treasured memories of our dear mother who fell asleep January 7th 1961 Loved and remembered always Percy and Grandchildren PETTIT In loving memory of our dear brother Jim who passed away January 7 1966 Remembered always From his Brothers and Sisters ACKNOWLEDGMENTS COX The widow of the late Mr Bert Cox would like to thank friends and rleatives for letters of sympathy and floral tributes Also their presence at the service Please accept this as the only acknowledgment Births Marriages Deaths In Memoriam Christenings Wedding Anniversaries Memorial Services Congratulations Thanks Examination Successes Change of Address Adoption Birthday Congratulations and Acknowledgments The charge for notices under these headings is 50p for four lines each additional line lOp These announcements cannot be accepted by telephone Death notices require signature of a close relative and the name and address of the funeral director for verification Birth Engagement and Marriage notices require the signature of at least one of the principals or suitable authorisation CORNER HOW dare anyone even think of closing Jesus Green pool Many of us spent happy healthy days as children there and would like to see this continue for youngsters Things surely have gone to On the one hand we have a scheme for a sports hall because Cambridge is lacking in sporting facilities and on the other hand there is a possibility that a swimming pool might get the to help the council economise This would deprive many families if such a thing came about How about less red tape fewer plush over centrally-heated offices? How about fewer of those yellow machines in their many forms? How about many other things? How dare anyone think of closing Jesus Green poql? Still perhaps Mr Bird has missed the experience of swimming on a hot day in the fresh air Where could one swim out of doors apart from Lane and the mind boggles at the thought of Cambridge swimmers massing to this one spot Where? Perhaps Newmarket or Royston or even the mucky old Cam! PAT NEIGHBOUR (MRS) 35 Kings Grove Barton Cambridge THE EDITOR reminds readers who submit letters for publication that they should generally expect to have their names and addresses published If there are special reasons for anonymity being preserved these should be stated in a covering note and in any case namfs and addresses must be given as a proof of good faith Please also state title (Mr Mrs Miss etc) Letters should be written on one side only of each sheet of paper and should be as brief as possisble In handwritten letters proper names should be printed in capitals The editor reserves the right to abridge letters unless correspondents state that they would like publication in full or not at all or alternative modern rendering of the Saxon Aethelthrythe which was the original spelling of Etheldreda frequently being replaced by in modern spelling ie may not be the one dedicated to St Etheldreda in the Ely area? While on the subject of identities may I refer to a Christmas article in which Father Christmas was referred to as a figure of pagan mythology? While I am not very happy concerning the prominence given to the old gentleman often to the exclusion of the real personalities of the Christmas story I would point out that he has der country MAY I as a reactionary but young member of the twentieth century reply to Coun White? (January 4) on the subject of villages without street It is happily our democratic right to live in the country Hundreds like myself detest the sprawl of suburbia We choose to live in a rural district precisely because we do not wish to have street lights parking meters double yellow lines and all the other paraphernalia of technological progress Sadly the arts of technology are regarded by Coun White as intrinsic goods Whereas to me many technological are a nuisance and unnecessary There seems to be no coherent reason behind your complaint other than a desire to force suburbia upon us He does not suggest why we should have street lights Why the peace of the countryside should be broken by illumination Why we should not be able to enjoy a pleasant night-time walk enjoying the nocturnal activity of a village street and seeing the stars without street lamps Most of us have Qutside lights which we can use and switch off You switch off a street lamp So you have to have your curtains drawn even in summer There are two very practical spheres where we would welcome the assistance where technology has gone astray Too many of the villages are spoiled by disgraceful muddles of poles Surely the lines could go underground? Secondly the people of Cambridge are themselves denied the amenities which we cherish It is right and proper that we should come into the city to shop et cetera But it is not fair on the residents that we should park outside their front doors: that we should congest the streets with our cars and overburden their transport Would it not be the province of the rural council to supply a proper car park long before Fen Causeway? Encourage an efficient public transport system to take the drivers into town? And finally to ask the city council to declare the centre a sanctuary no cars! Thus could we make life pleasant for everyone MARCHANT Ambleside Little Eversden ived from Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas who was an early Christian Bishop kind and generous who is believed to have provided dowries for three orphaned girls which was the beginning of the tradition of his bringing gifts to children In many Continental countries he appears as a Bishop only in this country and some others has he degenerated into a jolly rednosed old gentleman with no real connection with the Christmas story riding on reindeer sleighs and now even aeroplanes and space-ships! DAPHNE FOREMAN (MISS) 61 Sturton Street Cambridge OBI 3NF FOR AUDREY READ ETHELDREDA Friday January 7 1772 TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS It is difficult to ignore the present feeling of frustration and dissatisfaction with public transport services Rail has long been the subject of discussion and contention and there is ample evidence to suggest that commuter services on the Cambridge-London line are very far from satisfactory Elsewhere in the region public transport presents an unhappy situation As local and unpaying rail links were axed so suitable alternative coach transport was offered but now the fears of many of the objectors of the period are beginning to come true A link which is unprofitable for rail is often unattractive to a coach operator Faced with the choice of either applying to withdraw the service or increasing fares it is usually the latter course which proves the most expedient Limits The same effect is beginning to make itself felt in the vexed area of school transport In the city and surrounding areas fares for schoolchildren have risen to adult levels and many parents living outside certain statutory limits have found themselves facing a considerable bill for such items as school travel and meals Something has to be done and now Cambridgeshire Education Committee are recommending to the full council a move which seems to be inevitable Instead of hiring coaches from operators at considerable cost the committee feel they could provide a better service by operating their own coaches if the economics can be made to work If the proposals to run three coaches as part of an initial pilot scheme are successful then children and parents could look forward to an improved and rather more yielding service Restrictions Do-it-yourself transport in the form of parents banding together to provide either private cars for small groups or even mini buses is hedged around at the moment with considerable licensing and operating restrictions The signs are that the Government are prepared to relax some of the restrictions on mini bus operation in an effort to make life easier where relief is most needed in the open spaces and thinly populated areas of much of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely region Anything which can be done to give local authorities and individuals a little more responsibility in looking after their own requirements is not only welcome but would be in keeping with the manifesto which helped to put the present Government in power IN reading the article in regarding wells I note that you state that St Etheldreda's well has not yet been found although among those which are natural springs you have listed one at Ely called Since Audrey is a corruption NINA WATKINS YOU SAVE AT HEATH ELECTRICAL (T1HE French reputation for permissiveness is wearing a little thin A not that it was ever more than a myth Anyway I sec from the national Press that the French censors have refused to pass without massive cuts a new film by a certain Joel Seria called Deliver Us From Evil Our censors have no such puritanical scruples They are quite happy to let us drool over a charming little tale of two nubile French misses who get kicks out of arson murder incitement to rape and other delectable hobbies they teach in evening class at the tech I can never make out what the anti-censorship faction over here is screaming about I mean do we HAVE any? The movie market as we all know is glutted with movies specialising in the rape-and-sadism syndrome and every variety of moral squalor it is I suppose another symptom of what may become the most unromantic and anti-erotic society since the Restoration if not careful Romance needs at least a soupcon of old-fashioned taboo to flourish as that old square Marcuse knew very well Obviously this kind of brutal cinema is just about as sexy as boiled cod floating in a cesspool but not the worst of it It is pernicious in that it establishes sadism and perversion as the social norm and creates a blase acceptance of debased values The logical conclusion of the process is that the demand for depravity escalates it is an attempt to replace the old taboo morality with a system which by widening areas of social acceptability beyond all reason eventually demolishes taboo altogether More than the straightforward (sic) porn merchants I despise the who pompously label their genre as social comment Their aim they swear is to expose the dangers inherent in a violent society I doubt if most audiences will grasp these subtle minutiae of response They will regard explicitness as the seal of approval no less After all if society is like that they say the less intelligent are often pretty conformist Before the air is rent with pseudo-progressive cries of Not With It let me stress that our healthy teenagers are NOT crying out for this stuff nightmared up by jaded ageing persuaders whose aim is to mould public taste (easy) and then leer all the way to the bank no similar moral quarrel with harmless like Warhol After all he makes such a gimmick of dud photography that you see happening anyway On second thoughts maybe not quite harmless to be the most monumentally soporofic bore ever to gatecrash the medium 1 recently yawned through one of his efforts among an audience of undergraduates the theatre vibrated with snores derisory giggles and groans of Lord not another People danced in the aisles just to keep sane a pity the public does not react like this more often the cinema would not then by systematically slaughtered At its best one of the most comprehensive of art forms Fenland Translucent canvas high and wide Prepared by Divine plan Bathing in bright ethereal light The rich black peaty land Water washed this water lies In silver ribboned strands To where the rainbow bue-ed skies And moist earth mingle hands Interposed with willow treesu-And rushes in broad bands The plough turned soil like rolling seas Show God still works with man The Psalmist says- look to the mountains To find the helping hand But here on these flat and fertile plains God proves that he knows and loves Man THOMPSON 111 Wadloes Road Cambridge Refrigerators Cleaners etc etc HP TBRMS and NO DEPOSIT TERMS AVAILABLE HEATH ELECTHICA1 232 MILL ROAD CAMBRIDGE Tei 4434G Post Code.