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For Good J. T. YOUNG & SON LADIES' WEAR AND Watchmakers Jewellers & Silversmiths FOOTWEAR WaVchf*. docks. Jewellery. Cutlery, Wed Ante visit the aaJ Birthday Gifts. Silver. .Barometer) Repairs and flngravinj DARLINGTON We Buy Old Gold. Silver and Sovereigns 26. Market Place. Barnard Castle CO-OPERATIVE fc*>b!uhed i860. Prop.: R H Allan South Durham, North York and Westmorland Advertiser. Dividend on all Purchases Established 1854. * BARNARD CASTLE. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30th. I960. Price TWOPENCE DEATH OF SHE WORE HALF-SOVEREIGNS IN HER SHOES Soldier Wrote to C.O CALENDAR ‘ For His Cards ” NUDIST WAVED TO BARNARD CASTLE Mr C. Hirst and Miss R. Coates March BOWLING ENTHUSIAST Found “ Guiity ” of Being HOUSEWIFE 30. Mannequin Parade. Parish Hall. Barnard Castle Ladut Absent Circle. SERVICES TO April. “ Dear Sir,—As you may 1. Bowes W.l. Social & Supper; SCOUTING MOVEMENT Hutton Magna Man Bound Over i. Jumble Sale. Congregational' now realise. I have ceased to Schoolroom. work for. Her Majesty's 1. Dance. Marwood & Langley- •' Mr J. Blenkinsopp Forces and I would be rnos: dale S.C., Bd. Castle Cricket' grateful if you would forward One cold morning in Feb and Tennis Club. ruary a Hutton Magna hous'e- I walk unclothed across his 2. Coffee Morning. Congrega- ' A staunch bowling enthusiast nty insurance cards and my toinal Schoolroom. Bd. Castle. and a long standing supporter monies due and oblige. wire was hanging out n.cr backyard and wave to her. washing: when she saw a ,jnan 2. Annual Concert. Middietbn-ifi- - of the Barnard Castle Bowling This was how a 25 years old She ran into the h'cuse a Teesdale Male Voice Choir. - Club, it would be difficult to I regular soldier wrote to his com was so embarrassed sne vv'.is . 2. Jumble Sale. Bourne School BOWES SHELVES afraid to come out again. room, Middleton Carnival haxe found a person who had manding officer from his home at Committee. Preston alter deciding after the This was stated at Greta Bridge rendered such invaluable ser QUESTION OF Magistrates' Court on Wednesday 74. Whist .Drive. Barningham Vil- Christmas leave not to return to ins vice to the sport as had John I PUBLIC CONVENIENCES when the ■ man. Montague Henry . lage Hall. Blenkinsopp, the 55-year-oldj unit, Lee (47). of Hutton Magna, ap •_6. Whist Drive, W.l. Hall, News- The letter was read at a district peared. charged with exposing him ham. ■' ■' ' solicitor’s managing clerk, who court martial at Hun.bleton Camp, self with intent to insult a female ■ 6. Middleton Male Voice Choir ' died in hospital on Monday. Barnard Castle, on Friday loom Bowes Parish Annual Assembly and with conduct likely to cause a at Baldersdale School. Of 20. Birch Road, he leaves a| ing, when the soldier. Private I held last week, on Tuesday, was 6. Carvl Jenner Mobile Fheatre, poorly attended compared with the breach of the peace. widow, the former Miss Marguerite I Robert William Anthony Graham, He was found " Not guilty ” <’f Pa-riSh Hall. of the 1st Battalion, the King’s Own usual robust turnout. In the busi 6,7,8. H.M.S. Pinafore, Deer,- Walker, the daughter of'the late Mr the first charge but guilty of the Royal Border Regiment, was ness which followed it was decided second, and was bound over for bolt’ Theatre. and Mrs J. Walker, whom he married charged with desertion, losing arm) to leave in abeyance the provision twelve months in the sum of £10. 7. Whist Drive. Rokeby Parish in 1927. He is also survived by two The bridal group photograph taken on Saturday by Leslie equipment, and escaping from the of public convenienes and possible Hall, for Children’s Fund. sites until after the parish hall and Ley, in Court, told the magi married daughters and five grand Greenbank, shows Mr and Mrs Hirst as they left St. Mary's guard-room at the camp. strates he was a practising nudist 8. Farndale Singers at Bowie&s Church. Middleton, after their wedding. He denied the first charge but was car park were completed. and had been for many years. He Chapel: Gift Stall. Supper, etc; children. found '‘Guilty” of the lesser charge It was pointed out that with 8. Trinity Church Jumble Safe His mother had died only a few j those projects behind them the had no intention of insulting any The wedding took place on ot' being absent from his unit with one, and whenever he knew there World Refugee Year. weeks earlier. He was the second I COUNCILLOR INVITES out leave. He pleaded "Guilty” to matter could be raised with‘greater were people about he wore shorts. 8. Dance, King’s Head Hotel, son of the late Mr and Mrs W. Saturday at St. Mary’s Church. the other two charges. I likelihood of agreement being , Complaints. Barnard Castle Young Con ENCOURAGEMENT FOR I reached. servatives. Bferikinsopp, his elder brother having Middleton-in-Teesdale. between He was sentenced, subject to con Sergt. G. Wakerley said that one Miss Rosalyn Coates, the TOWN BAND firmation. io undergo detention lor Annoyance created by traffic morning early in February, Mrs A. 8-9. Romaldkirk Players Annual been posted missing during the first] 84 days with stoppages of pay to speeding through the village was a F. Macmillan was hanging out her Concert, Reading Room. Rom second daughter of Mr and Mrs subject which received almost aldkirk. world war. Male Choir at Trial Concert make good the value of the lost washing in the backyard at her J. Coates, of 15, Jubilee Place, | equipment- £5 J 3s. singular attention. After complaints home when she saw Ley. He 9. Zetland Hunt Point-to-Point, 4U Years With Firm. were heard it was unanimously Stone Cross Farm, Marwood. Middletop-in-Teesdale, and Mr Suicide Note. walked unclothed across his back John Blenkinsopp was educated at Out of the public eye since last decided to bring it to the notice of yard and waved to her. 10. Cantata. Newgate Methodist Colin Hirst, the youngest son autumn, Barnard Castle Town Lieut. I. P. H urle\, prosecuting, a higher authority, such as the Church. the North Eastern Counties School of Mr and Mrs J. Hirst, said that Graham was away from P.C. M. Roberts said he was on and subsequently he joined the staff Band came out of hibernation on County Council, with a possible duty in Hutton Magna when he re 12. Jumble Sale. Romaldkirk of Heslop and York, rising ultimate Winston Lane, Staindrop. The Sunday, when, with the help of his unit from January 11th to Feb’ (approach to the Member of Parlia- Reading Room. Middleton Male Voice Choir as t nary 4th. when he was arrested at j ment for the division. ceived complaints of Ley having 15. Recital and Concert, Boldron ly to managing clerk with the tirm.' Rector, the Rev. L. Thompson, his mother's home at 16, Charlotte walked unclothed into his backyard. which he seived for 40 years. guest singers, they staged their first On the question of housing for Methodist Church. conducted the ceremony and concert of the year. Streei, Preston. elderly people, it was suggested that About 8-20 a.m. on February 26th 16. Dance. Newbiggin Recreation Not only at Barnard Castle was Miss P. D. Baum was the The letter sent by Graham to his he saw Ley leave the back door and Mr Blenkinsopp a familiar figure at More in the nature of a practice persons who would qualify for the walk towards the coalhouse in the Room. ' , • the bowling rink, but also elsewhere organist. concert. Councillor Roy Watson. I commanding officer was read by' special type of bungalow that could 16. Clay Pigeon Shoot, Newsham Chairman of the Urban District the Adjutant, Captain K. J. Car- be built, should deposit their names yard. He was naked except for a Sports Club. in the north-east ,and he had the Wearing a ballerina-style dress of I inicha'el. pair of slippers. distinction two seasons ago to be witchcraft lace over while tulle, the Council, addressed the audience, with the district council. It was When he saw. me he walked 18. Dance. Marwood and Langley- come the “ champion of champions ” which ran to the better part of a Graham, on oath, said that in I understood that if the required dale Social Centre. bride had in each shoe a golden November of last year he was hy number were forthcoming then it back into the house, and when I of the Darlington and District half-sovereign. Her embroidered veil hundred persons. He referred to the reached the back door he appeared 18. Dance. Dalton Memorial HalL League. His keenness for the sport occasion as a recruiting campaign, ing with his wife on a caravan site was probable that such accommoda 18. Open Clay Pigeon Shoot, was held by a coronet of lace and following the critical stage reached at Barnaul Castle. On returning tion would be built. wearing shorts,” said the officer. Strathmore Arms, Holwick. was atso shared by bis wfe who, pearls, and she carried red roses and to the caravan one evening after " 1 told him about the complaints like himself, held offiical positions in carnations made up with comellias last year when they were on the Aooroval of the oroaress achieved and he said no one had approached 18. Easter Whist Drive and Dance the Barnard Castle Club. brink of closjng down. finishing the day’s work, he found bv Startforth Rural District Coun at Bowes School. and fern. She was given away by They had rallied, however, and a suicide note from his wife.