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Wednesday, 29th March 1978 THE TEESDALE MERCURY Tribute to GROUPS WISHING HANDOUTS Troubled? LIGHT IN PHONE BOX? £4,000 bill Mr t . Nixon FACE A TOUGHER GRILLING Poems wi 11 IT WILL COST £1.400!t for keeping Three new members were among The figure amazes councillor those who attended the first meeting Council will be tighter with cash calm yo u . a check of Middleton-in-Teesdale Over 60 An anti-depressant with no harm A telephone kiosk at Whiterigg Gate, Forest, has never Club in the 1978 session Teesdole District Council has dr awn up new rules for the organisa ful side effects is being offered to had a light in it since it was put there in 1954. Mrs Johnson presided and asked people of all ages in Teesdale. on noise for a silence to be observed in trib tions which come forward year aft er year with requests for donations. But the organisers insist there is •But now, following pleas by He added that it was also close The National Coal Board has ute to Mr Thomas Nixon, a club In the past some groups have made annual requests and received n<o cause for alarm and that there local people, the Post Office has to the Pennine Way and was needed given Teesdale Council the answer founder member and committee sums regularly, while others have asked for money only occasionally or is certain to be no medical con said- it can’t afford to put in elec by rescue workers if there was an it expected—'No—when it asked for man, who had died during the troversy about it. tricity because it would cost £1,400. emergency on the moors in the a piece of noise-measuring equip winter recess. never at all. Instead of a course of drug treat middle of the night. ment resting nearly £4,000. A show of transparencies depict ment, this anti-depressant is a course When the figure was given to The N.C.B. told the council’s phlets and! booklets. Coun. Richardson suggested that ing life in Teesdalew including Mid Members of the council’s finance committee, who o f six weekly evening classes on Teesdale Council’s finance commit environment committee that it would But Coun. John Gwillim said all dleton, over the past hundred years have been struggling to make ends meet with rates the poetry of John Keats. tee oj> Wednesday, Coun. Eric in view of the public need, the Post these leaflets were already available be impossible for it to give this was given by Mr and Mrs Harold money, agreed on Wednesday to tighten the rules. Though he had a brief and tragic Richardson said he had no idea Office should be asked to install a at post offices or from the social kind of equipment to all the coun Beadle, Richmond, and proved of life, bis poetry had great beauty— how the amount had been fixed. light without asking the council to services office in Barnard Castle. cils in the North East. great interest to the members. They decided that every time a land and sating the oourt. and the lecturer, Mrs Gillian Sig pay any of the cost. “There is absolutely no need to He pointed out that there is an If pointed out that all other A new member, Mrs Lee, won the contribution is given to any organ The Sports Council and Playing ners, says she is sure it will help go to any public expense to pro electricity line running along poles The committee agreed to make authorities in the region which lucky number prize. Members were isation it shall be made clear that Fields Association had been con to calm everyone going through vide this kind of service,” he de by the side of the road and passing this request. Mr Edward Pooley, wanted to measure noise at open reminded that the proposed jumble it will not have any automatic tacted, but said they were unlikely troubled times. clared. “1 regard it simply as a within a few yards of the kiosk. clerk, said the council’s case oould cast workings were buying their sale postponed through illness and right to a donation in any future to be able to help. Club members The first session is at Baliol piece of empire building.” be weakened if it was felt that own machinery. severe weather conditions, would year. themselves had raised over £600 School on Tuesday, 11th April, at “They would merely have to put He added that Middleton Parish people on the moors, or others go So the committee agreed to do now be held on 29th April. with two efforts. 7-30 p.m., under the auspices of up one extra pole beside the kiosk And every time an application Council had already voted against ing out to call a doctor, should the same and buy one piece of Hie eotertainent at the next the Workers* Educational Associa and bring a cable across the road is made, the organisation will have Coun. Kenneth Robinson said giving any support to the scheme. make sure they carried a torch. equipment costing £3,850, plus meeting would be given by the W.I. tion. to it,” he added. “As far as I can to put in its last available balance that in view o f the fact that club Several members said they be V.A.T., along with a calibrator concert party. P.S. — You don’t have to be see, it would be a simple job.” sheet. members were helping themselves lieved the Community Service did But Ooun. -Richardson said he costing an extra £95. troubled to be admitted and Mrs In other words, every request will and had contacted other organisa excellent -work for villages through He said people in that part of could not agree with this. Anyone They will be used to keep a regu Si-ggers said she is-' certain the lar check on noise levels at all be -treated on its merits, with only tions, he felt they should be given out the county, but that this exten the dale looked on the kiosk, as a rushing out from home in the poems will appeal to everyone, those groups which actually need a donation of £50. sion of the work was not necessary. lifeline. They had to go to it to; middle of the night to call a doctor opencast sites in Teesdale over the however healthy they feel! THE GREAT cash having any chance of being Members agreed with this, along Coun. John Armstrong thought call a doctor or ambulance if some- j could not be expected to remem next few years. If the equipment ber that a torch was needed, he shows too much noise, the council given some. with a condition that the club •the extra duties had just been body was ill in- the middle of thej U WRITER OF The finance committee, which has should be open to all resident® of thought about as a way of ‘‘keeping night. said. will take action. iOSD set aside £1,420 for donations of Hamsterley and that the money the pot boiling.” . Members said that while they >« Coun. Kenneth Robinson com M this kind in the next 12 months, should be paid only after the work Ooun. Mrs Mary D’Aguiar com Because of that, a light was asked the N.C.B. to provide the Danger is mented that it would possibly be v e iR SACRED SONGS will consider each request thor has been done and the club started. mented that another example of this essential. -People should not have machinery, they didn’t really ex cheaper to pay for a telephone to oughly. But the committee decided against attitude was that somebody was to grope about in the dark when pect the answer to be yes. SUI Mr H. C. Watson presided over .they were coping with a medical be installed in somebody’s house The first application considered giving any donation to Community going to Bowes to discuss rural bus still there Ooun. Frank Duffy commented: 9 the last meeting of the present ses for the use of other people, than after the new rules were approved Service for Durham County, which services. emergency in the middle of the “It would be better and cheaper to sion of Barnard Castle Methodist night. to have electricity in the kiosk. issue everyone with earplugs.” M Guild, the programme for which came from Hamsterley Tennis Club, asked for cash to help set up a She said the parish council had —despite in had been arranged by the Christian which a^ked for money to help get mobile information service for vil already given a reply about bus d9 c established last summer and had it lages. services and had stated that there M an service committee. protests ■ 1 c Mrs Lavinia Thwaites, of Balders- deferred at that time for further It wanted to -buy a vehicle and was no need for anybody to make At the annual parish meeting ait. dale, spoke to a large attendance inquiries. send it round all villages in the a visit about it. But the visit was SHEEP WORRYING FINE IS NOW Bowes nine electors were present— on the life of Ira D. Sankev and Mr Eric Fell, treasurer, said the county, including Teesdale, to give still being made and it would be; 1 1 and one subject was that, after his sacred songs and solos. club had reported that the parish residents a chance of getting all nothing more than a waste of time, j Bunai many oomplaints to Teesdale Dis- i This was described as the premier council had given help with leasing sorts of government leaflets, pam she claimed.