Liverpool Daily Post (Merseyside ed.) du lieu suivant : Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 9

onpa NUM'IWiiill Liverpool Daily Post Friday May 26 1972 9 Rural areas want say in £400m new town She saw start to 3000 lives "It Is composed of old established communities We know what this area wants and what is good for the people whose roots are here must do all in our power to look after their interests while at the same time co-operating wherever possible in any efforts to make Warrington an attractive place for whole of the Warrington New Town designated area they should be in a much more powerful Esition to argue how a ge part of that money ought to be spent New Town planners may be experts who have had experience in planning new towns but this is not a virgin declared County Councillor Farrington their authority have resisted efforts by Warrington Borough Council to extend their boundaries at their expense "Now the whole area has been put into the melting pot under local government re-organisation and we are to be remoulded into a district which will be the biggest and the richest from a merings he had heard neither did the civic leaders and planners of the neighbouring borough councils He pointed out that nearly £400 million of Government money was being injected into the area to make Warrington one of the showpiece towns of the north As a big district authority covering the reatable point of view of the eight district authorities that are proposed for the new Cheshire 1 he said Coupled with the development of the area as a new town he described it as an exciting challenge Personally he had not always see eye to eye with the New Town planners and from mur- THE IMPORTANT role of adjoining rural districts in the future of Warrington when the town becomes part of Cheshire was emphasised by Lan-cahsire County Councillor Walter Farrington at annual meeting of Warrington Rural Council writes Tony Riley believe that it will be the rural districts ourselves and the parishes Runcorn district just south of the Manchester Ship that will be playing a dominant role in the Warrington of the he said Councillor Farrington who was proposing the election of Councillor Alan Humphreys as the new chairman of the council said in the past 1 Club director crushed to death in lorry Police I will face pickets again PICKETS and police will face each other again this morning at the Shell Oil Refinery complex at Ellesmere Port Yesterday a large force of police stepped in to prevent pickets from bringing the town to a halt with traffic jams for the third day in succession The strikers were told that although they had the right to picket no obstruction of main roads would be allowed And while pickets still continued to talk to all car drivers entering the refinery the process was speeded up and no vehicles were kept waiting on the main approach roads i Accept A spokesman for Cheshire Police said men seemed to accept the explanation of the legal position and cooperated with One strike at the Burmah Refinery involving 40 pipe-layers ended yesterday after subcontractors had promised to re-employ five mates sacked last week However about 400 pipe-fitters scaffolders welders and erectors employed by various subcontractors are still out on strike for various reasons And last night Transport and General Workers Union shop steward Mr Mick Abbott said: weather beat us today not the know our rights and we wil be out in force tomorrow I am sure we are all willing to risk being WHEN it comes to delivering babies there must be few who can equal the knowledge and experience of midwife Mrs Martha Chamber- lain After delivering over 3000 babies in Bootle during the last thirty-seven years Mrs Chamberlain retired yesterday aged 73 But her departure did not go unnoticed for she was the toast of the health department when her fellow midwives gave her a big send-off Doctor MacCulloch said: is something quite unique for somebody to have delivered more than 3000 babies in her lifetime our hearts we sincerely thank you for this She was presented with several ifts by Colleagues and friends Speaking after the presentation Mrs Chamberlain of 175 Hornby Road Bootle said she had seen many changes since she first started in midwifery "There is a great satisfaction in helping mothers and she said WIGAN Rugby League club director Eric Ayles died a £92000 stand at the ground Central Park Mr contractor was crushed in the cab of hi lorry when a three-ton concrete and steel lintel down on top of exit gate at the ground Kay Jennings at the wheel yesterday Photograph by NIGEL WIGGLESWORTH Malady of this coroner Edge Hill bid by lecturer KENSINGTON ward Labour Party last night nominated Mr Robert Wareing of Haileybury Road Hunts Cross as their nominee for consideration by the Edge Hill Parliamentary Committee as a possible successor to Sir Arthur Irvine the present MP for the division Aged 41 and a lecturer at the Liverpool Central College of Further Education Mr a i fought unsuccessfully the Berwick on Tweed constituency in 1970 and is chairman of the Liverpool Borough Labour Party yesterday helping to build Ayles a 45-year-old building his upraised tipper brought him as he drove out of an Mr Ayles a former St Helehs and Swinton forward had won the contract to rebuild the Douglas Stand due to be ready by September He was only driving because his regular driver was off ill Parts of the boundary wall and the embossed concrete sign Park Wigan Rugby Football came down as well as the tipper scythed into the lintel The lintel which was over the exit gate was left balanced on the crushed cab Twenty workmen tried to rock it clear A mobile crane had to be called to hoist it dear Wigan fire brigade used hydraulic lifting gear to prise open the cab to release Mr Ayles who was trapped for half an hour Resuscitation was tried but he was fdund to be dead at Wigan Infirmary One of his workers Mr Bernard Power aged 35 of Balcarres Road Aspull near Wigan who was driving the mechanical shovel had just loaded up the lorry He said: were removing rubbish for foundation work He had just gone dumping a load He was only doing the job to get a move on with the work because our regular driver was off ill for three Mr Ayles of Bell Lane Kitt Green Wigan was just completing three years as a director of the club and was up for re-election The club secretary Mr Geoff Sutcliffe said: is a terrible tragedy There were never enough hours in the day for Eric He really wanted to get on with the Club groundsman Mr Billy Mitchell added: has worked nearly round the clock on -this job for the last listening to records Hardwick told us to get out and Neil to stay in It was not particularly an angry scene I think it would have embarrassed he added are she said One of the youths In the house Michael Philip Briercliffe aged 17 of Hillcrest Road Ellesmere Port said they were not drinking smoking or taking drugs just sitting Crosby yachtsmen safe after ordeal The crushed cab of the lorry in which Mr Ayles died Meet Kay a queen of the road by Margaret Hyde WHEN KAY JENNINGS drives by she always gets a second look for she is one of few women lorry drivers daughter Kay arrived behind the wheel of a 15-tonner at Liverpool docks yesterday wearing a jaunty bright pink beret been a lorry driver for a year now and met only one other woman like said twenty-five year old Kay of Cheswardine Market Drayton a great life I get up at five every morning and do about 69 hours a week all over the She gets equal pay with the men (her reason for doing the job) and passed her lorry driving test first time after only a instruction The blokes on the road make a fuss of me and my boy friends believe me at first when I tell them what I she grinned Kav is used to hard work She tackled the morning milking of 18 cows when she was 13 and has run her farm Search for knife raid men widens Doomwatch on poison dumping THE SEARCH for two men who attacked a Scarisbrick man with a knife and bound and gagged him and his wife while they robbed the safe of £500 early yesterday was still going on last night Southport and Orm-skirk police were extending their search into Maghull and part of Merseyside Mr Edwin Kershaw of Pool Hey Lane a seafood processing factory proprietor was making TWO Crosby yachtsmen who had been missing since Wednesday were safely in Liverpool last night One Mr Eric White of Mariners Road Blundell-sands was taken to the Northern Hospital where he was detained for treatment to a head injury His friend Mr Terry Pritchard of Kaigh Avenue Crosby was allowed home Their borrowed yacht the Half Moon had been found by a Dutch tug eight miles off More-cambe Bay at lunchtime yesterday after a full scale search by aircraft and a fleet of small boats Concern for the yacht grew after she failed to arrive at Red Wharf Bay Anglesey on Wednesday evening after leaving Blundellsands Sailing Club earlier in the day The two men were transferred to the Puffin a Mersey pilot boat at the mouth of the river yesterday afternoon and landed at Princes Stage at 6 pm Late last night Mr Pitchard was resting and was too tired to talk of the ordeal by Peter Saunders A YOUTH hanged himself after an incident during which his friends were told to leave the house by his father a Neston inquest heard last night cannot imagine what could have caused your son to have done such a dreadful thing Perhaps it is part of the malady of this age and this permissive said West Cheshire coroner Mr Rex Taylor think many youngsters of this generation resent discipline and possibly he was a little more resentful of this than some You were certainly doing no more than what you thought was your proper Mr Taylcr told the arents of 17-year-old "eil Hardwick a catering student of Berwick Gardens Little Sutton Mr Taylor recorded a verdict that Neil killed himself while the balance of his mind was emporarily disturbed He was found by his mother "hanging from a cord outside his bedroom window Monday morning His parents had gone to Leeds at the week-end for a wedding reception and Neil was to have accompanied them But his father Mr William Hardwick said Neil did not go He walked out of the house on Saturday after refusing to help his mother do the washing-up He swore at his mother and she slapped his face They returned from Leeds earlier than anticipated on Sunday night and found Neil had five friends in the house They had left instructions he was to have nobody in the house while they were away Mr Hardwick told Neil to get rid of his friends Mrs Hardwicke said there had been rows in the past but the last year had been very happy and they had got on marvellously well together reason why I want his friends in was because I knew it would be a bottle-party and I was not having a lot of boys in the house being sick all over the place said he wanted a party before he left college and I said: you will wait until you disposal contractors tip owners and manufacturers should notify river authorities of any movement of toxic materials Although they have no power to prevent such movement the authorities can take legal action in the event of dumping which causes an environmental hazard such as the pollution of farmland or water supplies The notification procedure comes into effect next month and a river authority spokesman said that following local ovemment reorganisa-' tion it was thought that new and bigger authorities would eventually set up special dumping grounds In the past it had been difficult to assess the extent of dumping of toxic materials he added but the new Act would bring the picture clearly into focus the usual check on his factory before going to bed shortly after night when the men set on him forcing him back into his bungalow and wounding him slightly in the throat with a knife The assailants were also believed to have been carrying a shotgun After tying up Mr Kershaw they forced his wife Margaret to open! the safe from which they! stole £500 and a quantity of silver coins The thieves put the money into a brown and fawn and grey cushion cover and after stealing Mr car keys they made their getaway in his car which was later found abandoned in the lane Both Mr and Mrs Kershaw were tied to a post inside their bungalow After they managed to free themselves their! 15-year-old son David jumped out of a bedroom window and ran to inform neighbours The two men were seen on the Southport-Orm-skirk road trying to thumb a lift towards Ormskirk and police are anxious to contact anyone who may have given them a lift by Tony Riley A THREE-MAN team has been set up by the Mersey and Weaver River Authority to combat the dumping of chemical poisons The team believed to be one of the first in the country will have a special responsibility to maintain a stringent check on all vehicles transporting toxic substances throughout the area of Lancashire and Cheshire covered by tihe authority The team will' be attached to the water quality department and will deal specifically with notices of intention to remove waste under the Act recently rushed through Parliament foil-lowing public concern over cyanide dumping New legislation demands that all waste letter load of MINISTER for Industrial Development Mr hristopher Cbataway has declined to take action to prevent 800 jobs being lost at the Liverpool offices of British Railways But the letter he has sent to City Council Liberal leader Cyril Carr was described as load of bureaucratic non- yesterday by the councillor Mr Carr had suggested Mr Chataway should approach Transport Minister Mr John Peyton and intervene in the proposed transfer of British Railways administration jobs from Liverpool to Manchester Nonsense He made the suggestion when Mr Chataway visited Liverpool last week In his letter Mr Chataway said he felt it was not a matter in which he should seek to Influence decisions Mr Peyton had told him the transfer of jobs was a Mr Carr commented: letter was a load of ureaucratic nonsense Mr Chataway is responsible for the industrial development of the region and he should be able to intervene if jobs are at stake Mr Peyton has told people in the past at a meeting of MPs and councillors in Liverpool that he is ultimately responsible for the BR offices all doubletalk I intend to take it up further until I get Speed by-pass inquiry urge councillors three councillors have written to Mr John Boynton clerk of Cheshire county council seeking his help in speeding up the arranging of a public inquiry into Bebington proposed East-ham by-pass Laugh a minute at Chester An actress a bishop and a large dalmatian contribute to the laughs in Phillip energetic farce See How They Run which has been revived at the Gateway Chester The actress (Lynette Davies makes her a fair and flighty piece) is married to a staid country parson (in this role David Beale loses his trousers but not his dignity) After an evening out with a former boy friend the actress returns home to find the bishop has arrived unexpectedly so has a drunken spinster an infatuated maid and ad escaped German prisoner (It all takes place during the last war) The whole thing is onfusing nonsensical and extraordinary funny and Brian deceptively slick production is helped on its way by an excellent cast 1 ANTHONY DUNFORD New sea link with Far East Alternative crossing sought i A COMMITTEE of residents of a group vilages in South Wirtal are busy preparing Sport setting out i ernative to the proposed Burton-Flint crossing of the Dee Estuary The committee were formed at a public meeting at Burton last month and were asked to collate local objections to the Burton-Flint route now being advocated by Cheshire County Council and to put forward an alternative solution They are to report back to the villagers of Burton Pud dington Shotwick and Ness on their work at a further meeting at the Burton village hall on June 6 New chairman COUNCILLOR BILL MARSHALL was last night officially installed as the new chairman of Kirkby Urban Council He succeeds Councillor Jim Chambers Councillors Crapper Miss Doran and Evan Davies say they are continuing to receive complaints from angry residents in Eastham Village about the nuisance from industrial traffic using the narrow roads Formal application for planning permission for the by-pass was submitted to the county council last November As Bebington by-pass scheme constituted a substantial departure from the town map it was advertised locally and objections were made concerning the use of Ferry Road and the consequential road closures The three councillors say they were extremely perturbed at the suggestion that the procedure for a public inquiry was likely to be a lengthy one and on behalf of the worried residents they ask whether the procedure can be speeded up in an effort to remove the danger and nuisance City group join in protest The Liverpool 35 Group were represented at a hunger strike mowstration outside the Russian Embassy in London yesterday in protest over the treatment of Odessa librarian Raiza Palatnik Mrs Sadie Barron of Allerton joined the demonstration on behalf of the group formed by Hewish women in the city last year to fight the imprisonment of 36-year-old Raiza also Jewish had just heard that Raiza had been rushed to a civil hospital after having a heart attack in the labour camp where she is said another group member Mrs Carola Brassey Left £27000 MR FRANK CHEERS of Lyngarth Oldfield Way Heswall who died on February 19 left £2713329 gross £2698064 net Duty £3612 heading for the Far East It should reach Penang on July 1 Although it is the first time the Japanese built ship has been to Liverpool its skipper Captain Wieberdink of Amsterdam is no stranger to the Port He was here during the blitz with the Dutch merchant navy left Liverpool in 1946 and I have come back now because I want to see what Lime Street is like these days During the war all sailors liked coming to Liverpool best of all We always had a great time and I am delighted to he WHEN the mv Bunga Tanjong sailed into Gladstone Dock yesterday it ushered in a new general cargo service between Liverpool and the Far East The Bunga Tanjong from Penang in Malaysia is owned by the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation and together with its sister ships Bunga Melati and Bunga Raya it will operate a regular service between Liverpool and Malaysia Singapore and Japan The 12500 ton ship leaves the Port on May 29 for Le Havre Rotterdam and Hamburg before Ashurst suspended Bill Ashurst the Wigan and Great Britain forward was yesterday given a four match suspension by a Rugby League disciplinary committee in Leeds Ashurst sent off against Salford on April 30 misses the start of next season plea reopens search for lecturer (GO0DHI6HT SR -GOODNIGHT?) HOLY MACKEREL- THAT'S sip Reginald che CAP 400 children in festival FOUR HUNDRED school-children took part in the 26th South Liverpool Schools Music Festival at the Philharmonic Hall last night The massed choir from 17 schools conducted by Mr Glyn Smith sang played and recited their way through 15 items including a seven-part work called written by Douglas Coombes for the BBC schools music programme It was arranged for the combined orchestra by Mrs Joan Jamieson of Windsor Street School -fool AFTER ALL THESE YEARS THE FIRMS RXWDEJ? AND Him-MILUONAIRB HAS FINALLY NOPCBP Chief Constable Detective Chief Inspector Jack Lewis head of Shrewsbury CID said hotels throughout Shropshire were being rechecked and inquiries were also being made at educational establishments where Mr Pilkington may have found employment possibly under an assumed name is ho logical explanation for his he said His car was found the following day in a multistorey car park at Shrewsbury a town he visited periodically Extensive police 1 i ries throughout Shropshire failed to throw light on the mystery of Mr disappearance Now fresh inquiries are being initiated as a result of a plea by his wife Audrey to the SHREWSBURY Police yesterday reopened their files on a missing lecturer following a personal appeal by his wife to Sir John Willison Chief Constable of the West Mercia Force Mr William Alexander Pilkington aged 44 a lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic disappeared from his home at Way-lands Drive Liverpool just over 12 months ago LiryA NDHES SMILING Ai WAVING AT ME iT MEANS IN1 3nt i.