Two of the officials who have taken on the task of continuing to provide Launceston with a Christmas lights display of which to be proud, plus the outgoing chairman of the Festive Lighting Committee. They are Tim Evea the secretary; Chris Parsons, the chairman; and Jo Heard, the outgoing chairman.

Chris Berry, a resident of Crackington, has recently completed a ten-year project compiling a book on the impact of Christianity in the parish of St Gennys, and the past and present lives of its residents.

Morwenstow Community Primary School was bursting with characters during Book Week, as the children dressed up as their favourite fictional heroes and heroines. They were: Sophie Bailey, viking warrior; Becky Wickett, Tinkerbelle; Aimee Olde, Big Ears; Laura Pengilly, Mulan; Adam Osborne, Captain Hook; Amy and Emma Hands, flower fairies; Natasha Heard, Cruella de Vil; Samantha Lock, Wicked Witch of the West; William Bryant, White Rabbit; Fay Mannix, Alice in Wonderland; and Katherine Bryant, Baby Bear.

* * *

Greenpeace came to Bude on Saturday for a jumble sale and coffee morning in the parish hall organised jointly with the local CND group and featuring the United Nations’ International Year of Peace. Greenpeace county coordinators Dave and Liz Bradbury with local member Allen Brett, who is trying to set up a Greenpeace group for the area and can be contacted on Bradworthy 355.

The Launceston District Road Safety quiz held at Launceston College attracted teams from Egloskerry WI, Launceston Young Farmers, Fire Brigade, Lions, Rotaract Club, and Town Council, and Launceston and North Cornwall Motor Club.

Launceston town councillors this week got the backing of North Cornwall Council in their bid to preserve the facade of the only unaltered Georgian house in the town (6 High Street - formerly Folley’s delicatessen), which is also the last ground-floor dwelling in the town centre.

Hundreds of Launceston College pupils missed lessons on Thursday because an important parents’ meeting, unusually held in the evening, was brought forward to the afternoon. Classes ended at lunchtime as teachers met the parents of third-formers faced with choosing courses for the next two years. No other school has been hit by the continuing teachers’ industrial dispute this week.

* * *

The newly formed Stratton Girl Guides are getting off to a good start under the leadership of Mrs K Dearing (Captain) and her daughter Christine (Lieutenant).

Launceston Young Farmers’ Club presented the premiere of their play ‘Riches and Rags’ at their parents’ evening. The six cast members are Sonia Allen, Elizabeth Stanbury, Sue Martyn, Jimmy Kempthorne, Mike King and Julian Stanbury.

‘Bradworthy and its Borderland’ by Cecil Collacott makes an excellent guidebook, indeed, it us sutitled ‘A Tour of the Upper Torridge Countryside’. The book is enhanced by several excellent photographs by Colin Radmore.

Mr C T Stone has applied for change of use from general stores and off-licence to a public house at Tresparrett Stores, Tresparrett, near Camelford.

A luncheon club, formed for pensioners, commenced yesterday (Thursday), in the Salvation Army Hall, Launceston. Organised by the WRVS, it was run under the supervision of Mrs H E Ford.

* * *

Mr William Ralph Bennett, of Dunheved Road, Launceston, is to be mayor of Launceston for the coming year and this will be his second term of office as he was mayor in 1963/64.

Philip Wonnacott, aged nine, of Launceston VP (National) School is to have his poem “The Fox” included in an anthology.

Mr J T Pethick received an inscribed clock to mark his retirement from the Bude Unit of the Cornwall County Fire Brigade.

Philip Rowe, third son of the headmaster of Launceston College, is a member of the Cornwall Schools’ under-15 football team, which will play Devon at Home Park, Plymouth.

* * *

Mr Jeremy Thorpe, the prospective Liberal candidate for North Devon said that if there was a by-election in the North Devon Division tomorrow, there would be a Liberal victory with a majority of 1,500.

At Lezant Parish Council meeting a letter was read from S W Electricity Board saying that they could see no possibility of a scheme for the Trebullett area within the present three-year programme.

* * *

Two local officers of the British Red Cross Society have been awarded one of the highest honours of the Society — The Distinguished War Service Certificate. They are Capt Burrow, RN, Vice-President of the Stratton Division, and Miss Anderson, late Commandant of the Bude Detachment and for two and a half years Matron of the Flexbury, Camp Reception Station.

In their first production since 1941, the Launceston Dramatic and Musical Society presented “Love from a Stranger”. It was produced by Miss L W Scoble, and taking part were Christine Reeve, Tom Woodward, Daisy Gibson, Dorothy Angal, Charles Causley, Kenneth Hosking, Brenda Poore and Bertie Willmott.

First deliveries of permit-free cars have just been made to Messrs Spry’s Garage, Launceston, where two models — a Morris Eight and a Ford Anglia — were on view this week.

* * *

Mrs Glasscock of Tintagel, who has already given £500 to the New Hospital Fund at Launceston in memory of her husband, has offered a further £500. This would bring the total to £7,500 at which figure the committee propose to commence building.

There is a possibility that a professional element is to be introduced into Cornish football. The CFA is at present examining the position.

Born at Marhamchurch and having lived for many years at Holsworthy, Miss Mary Grace Hoskin, now at Exeter will celebrate her 100th birthday on Saturday and will be the first centenarian to receive a congratulatory message from King Edward VIII since he came to the throne.

* * *

An application to amend the hours of licensed houses in the Camelford areas was turned down by the magistrates on Friday. The hours will remain as before: 10.30 to 2.30 and 5 to 9 in the winter, and 11.30 to 2.30 and 5 to 10 in the summer. The licensees sought to make it 11 to 3 and 6 to 10 all the year round.

For paying less than the minimum standard wage of 31s for a 51 hour week (over time 9d weekdays, 10d Sundays) to his workmen, a Coads Green farmer was fined 10s at Launceston on Friday.

Out visiting friends for the evening, Mr and Mrs Maynard of Poundstock returned to find that their bungalow, Hill Side, had been gutted by fire. The roof had fallen in and everything destroyed, leaving them only the clothes they stood up in.