South Yorkshire Times — Saturday, 12 June 1943
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An exhibition lawn tennis match is being arranged on the courts of the Mexborough Athletic Club on Saturday, June 26th, in which local and Sheffield players, including some with County experience, are expected to take part. All proceeds from the match will be for the Red Cross.
Officials of Frickley Colliery on Saturday presented a cheque to Mr. F. W. Kaye, under-manager since 1932, who has retired owing to ill-health. The presentation was made by Mr. W. H. Tagg, agent of the pit, supported by Mr. F. Doxey, agent of Hickleton Main, and a former assistant manager at Frickley.
On Wednesday, June 23rd, Lady Louis Mountbatten, Superintendent-in-Chief of the Nursing Section of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, will visit the Ambulance Hall, Worsbrough Bridge, for the purpose of inspecting the ladies and girl cadets of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in and around Worsborough, including units from Wombwell, Stairfoot, Barnsley, Elsecar, Tankersley, etc., and will afterwards address them in the Ambulance Hall.
Two members of Manvers Main Boys’ Club and 2013 Squadron of the A.T.C., W. Thompson (17) and Jimmy Butler (16), will be among those competing in the national A.T.C. boxing championships at the Albert Hall, London, to-morrow (Saturday). Thompson (9st.) will be in the senior competition and Butler (7st. 7lb.) in the junior competition. They have gained this honour by winning the North East Command and Northern Counties A.T.C. championships. Part of the programme will be broadcast in the Forces programme at 4.25 p.m.
The first war-time National Congress of the Young Communist League will be held in London during Whitsuntide.
Rooms are at a high premium in Coast resorts, and the motto to be observed by all is to “stay put” for the Whitsun holiday.
Because of a grievance affecting only two pony drivers at the Dearne Valley Colliery, which employs six hundred men was stopped on Wednesday.
The W.V.S. for Civil Defence of the Rotherham County Borough and Rother Valley area are to hold a rally in the Town Hall Assembly Rooms, Rotherham, on Tuesday, June 22nd. The speakers include Lady Mathews, Joyce Lady Allerton and Mrs. Charlton.
Lieut.-Col. E. T. Williams, D.S.O., General Montgomery’s Chief Intelligence Officer, who has been described as “the brains of the Eighth Army,” is son of the Rev. J. E. Williams, of Sheffield, who has frequently visited Elsecar Congregational Church, where he is well known.
Miss Eleanor Baron, whose father was for forty years stationmaster at Conisbrough, has died at the home of her niece, Mrs. R. W. Wicks, of 32, Bridge Street, Doncaster. She was eighty-seven and had been bombed out of three houses in London. She was born and educated at Sprotbrough.
Mr. Roger Livesey, a member of the famous Mexborough family of actors, plays the principal part in a new film, “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.” It is said to be the longest and most expensive British film ever made. It is in Technicolor and cost £250,000 and took two years to make.
Mr. F. S. Green, of Mexborough, has this week been attending the annual conference in London of the National Federation of Meat Traders, as representative of the South Yorkshire and N.E. Derbyshire Council of Pork Butchers. Mr. Green is President of the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Council of Pork Butchers and also of the Rotherham and District Pork Butchers’ Association.
The quantity of paper salvaged is much less than the amount issued, and although not even the wildest optimist would expect it all to be returned as salvage, the margin of waste is still too high. The Waste Paper Recovery Association ask that all newspaper readers should make a habit of putting their copy aside for salvage after use—though, of course, all clean paper is useful salvage. Waste paper not only helps to re-stock newsprint but is also used in the making of cartridge and shell cases, both needed in prodigious quantities for the new offensives. Every scrap of paper down to the humble bus ticket, can count.