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BRITISH BRIEFS Attlee Finally Sells His Home By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special to The Oshawa Times LONDON -- After months of effort, Lord Attlee, former, prime minister of the United | Kingdom, has beén able to sell his house, Cherry Cottdge at Great Missenden, Buckingham- shire. Months ago it was put on the market at $43,500. It has finally been sold for something less than $35.000. Lady Attlee's comment: "It is a satisfactory price -- but 1 won't tell vou the exact figure." INCOME TAX CLASSES ENFIELD, Herts People will soon be attending evening classes at Enfield to learn how to fill in their income lax forms. The lessons will be in- cluded in a series of lectures on "Money Affairs." The course will also deal with such mat ters as instalment buying, mor- gages, rates and taxes. insur ance, investment and savings SAVED FROM WELL WIGHTON, Norfolk. -- Using breathing apparatus because of gas, fireman Bob Avis, of Docking, brought out Mrs. Dora Codman, aged 63, from a 60- feet deep well shaft near her was ° home in Wighton. She taken to hospital seriously ill with two broken legs LONDON Two thousand old age pensioners, at their an- nual rally in London, passed resolutions calling for higher pensions and abolition of the charge of 28 cents made for national health prescriptions They also demanded abolition of the earnings clause for set- tlement pensions. One s] r said the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer had been guilty of the "grossest betrayal" of old peo- ple's welfare BAN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES LEYTON -- A teachers' ban has caused cancellation of school football, drama groups, orchestra rehearsals and danc- ing classes for children at Ley ton, Essex. Three hundred of the 500 teachers on the bor- ough's school staff have already put the ban on all out-of-school activities. They will also refuse to collect dinner money or take dinner registrations. \ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, September 25, 1961 15 lowdale and Mr. P. C. Hill,|spending a week with Mr | Thornhill were Sunday guests of Mrs. C. Smith. wa Mrs. David Hill and Mrs. S. A.| Miss Shirley Harris attended Devitt. the wedding of a friend in Pet- On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. J. erborough, Saturday. |stone when he gathered sticks of training men nurses in mid-|Hlankenberghe, where he was lin a farm field at Sporle, Nor-|yifery, have decided that it|on holiday. The man got away, |folk, has been bought for the| {but dropped the stolen wad of {Norwich Museum. Experts would be undesirable, from the|,,.. victor's reward was free [have since searched the field mother's point of view, for men hacon and eggs at the cafe for {with mine detectors, but all to be rained Bs Wiawiies. Rr the rest of his holiday. {they found were 33 pieces of Was also poinie u a 3 | scrap iron. Act of Parliament would be MET AFTER 48 YEARS | needed to make this possible. LONDON Mrs. Florence | SWIMMERS' HOPES DIE y Weller, 71, of Bermondsey, a WALTHAMSTOW, Essex -- TAXIS IN CURLERS fruit-seller, left. her stand in Walthamstow hopes of having] LONDON -- Twelve women Southwark Park Road t ; . FIGHT FRUIT SCOURGE hf eri gedbulloni eating curlers 2 ad to go 10 ty of the family, grandchildren can Church Sunday morning to were hustled Euston Station to meet . MAIDSTONE, Kent -- Fire- two years time have died, under/from a hairdressing shop in brother, Robert Backhouse, 65,/and great grandchildren of Mrs. hear Canon Ashmore. brother. an wife. MF, 2 : ; blight, the disease which at-'the Chancellor's axe on local Penge, London. into {axis and returning from Windsor, On./James Dixon of Cannington, Mrs. Oliver Barton, Richards Roy Ferg we, iid and MIs. TAKES OVER tacks fruit trees, especially government expenditures. The|driven three miles to Crystai|tarin She had not seen him for gathered with her at the home Landing, St. Joseph's Island, is B.C.; STgusen, est Jank, sccha (Reuters) Pr pears, has been discovered in plans included provision for Palace to have their hair do's/48 years. When she last -saw of her daughter, Mi: and Mrs. guest of her niece Mrs. W. W. Smith a and Mss, Charles dent Kwame Nkrumah yes. Kent, Surrey, and Essex. The!two swimming pools, slipper finished. They were under the him he was 17 vears old, but Milton Fisher, Caesarea on VanCamp and all were guests Smith and her guest, Mrs. Ross, oyer a5 "supreme commander" aisease, which originated in baths and shower baths. to bel hair driers when a power fail-with the help of a recent photo- Saturday in honor of Mrs. Dix-jof Mr. and Mrs. William Fee Port Colborne of Ghana's armed forces Fri America. scorches and black-|built at a cost of $875,000. ure blacked out parts of Penge |graph. she recognized him as|on's 90th birthday. The honor-jwho celebrated his 82nd birth- Pwenty five, ladies of Black day and appointed Brig. S.J. A ens the leaves of affected trees, No MALE "MIDWIVES" stock Women's Institute spent Oty, to take over the admin. RETR OAT A RI RRR {he came off the train ed guest received a chair and day Sunday the leaves tr FREE BACON AND EGGS 8 to ! eo jed 20 J 3 ay. Tharsdav ev Stille spent tu, | which become non-frult bearing.| 'LONDON -- 'The Roval Col-| DURHAM -- Victor Richard: _ DATES FROM 1867 several other gifts. COREA: 10 LaWI e osnTs JF Sdests ollisiralion of the armed. forces : inist1y ol ajviceliive sxpens lege of Midwives, which was son, a 15 year-old schoolboy] The patriotic song, The Maple Mr. and Mrs. L. Fitze were Butt who has won an Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fletch jrom Gen, Renty Alexander, 4 are fighting the outbreak. lasked by the Society of Regis- from Durham City, chased alleaf Forever, was writien by Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.|Charitable Fund Foundation Lindsay, visited he Ny puilish Sificel A Simement said ELECTRIC BLANKET tered Male Nurses for its views man who robbed a cafe for half Toronto schoolteacher Alexander|L. Stinson and girls, Cadmus, Bursary. and Mrs. Frank Re Ares: rhat hencetorth I Pusitigns of WELWYN GARDEN CITY -- on the desirability or otherwise a mile through the streets of Muir in 1867. 2 Officers and friends of LOL Dr. and Mrs. C. E. 1, Wil-l Mrs. Ross, Port Colborn, isibe Nan L oihe military will Knightsfield at Welwyn Garden SE " r_---------- - -- RE --~ City New Town should be one of the safest roads in the coun- try this coming winter. An elec- tric blanket of heated wires has been laid under the surface to stop ice and snow affecting the road. The scheme has cost $10,000 to install and electri city for it will cost the council a dollar an "hour. TRAIN'S RECORD DEBUT LONDON -- Britain's fastest train, the diesel electric West Riding Express, made its debut with a three-hour journey over the 185 miles from Leeds to London. It averaged 62.8 miles per hour 'overall, and covered the 106 miles between Redford atfield at the record aver- 73.8 miles per hour. Family Reunion For 90th Birthday "we sw ms. an By MRS. R. C. HILL Toronto County Lodge, were in cousins Mrs. Hilda Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Hector Shortridge BLACKSTOCK -- About twen- attendance at St. John's Angli- Winnipeg; Mr. and Mrs. Isaac and Bill were Sunday supper Davey and Mrs. Rayburn and guests of Mr. and Mrs. Allan son Bert. Alliston; also her Bailey, Oshawa. i ) aN = -) : he al, Ae of </\ TE BIG NEW OIL PORT BELFAST, Ireland Work has been started on a new oil port for the British Isles. It is to be on Belfast Lough, and will serve a new British Petroleum | refinery to be built in Northern Ireland. A big jetty is to be con structed, but the main work is the dredging of a channel deep enough for large oil tankers EXPENSIVE PLANE LONDON -- An order for the| world's most luxurious and ex-| pensive "éxecutive" aircraft is announced by the Hawker-Sid- deley' Company. A Comet jet airliner is to be delivered next vear to King Saud of Saudi Arabia as a personal transport. 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