South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 March 1952
Marconigrams
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A rate of 24s. in the £—and an increase of 3s.—has been declared at Darfield.
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Armour plate castings for the turret of the famous Centurion tank are being made at Penistone.
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The miners’ annual summer school will be held at Oxford again this year. Probable date is from July 12-19.
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There were 112 of Yorkshire’s 115 pits working the voluntary Saturday shift on Saturday—four more than the previous week. Average attendance was 67 per cent.
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Rotherham Meteorological Station reports that last month was the driest February for 20 years. Total rainfall was 0.32 inches, which was 1.53 inches below the average for the month.
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Soon after his wedding at Owston Parish Church on Saturday Len White, Rotherham United winger, left for Barnsley where Rotherham played the “Reds” in a local Derby.
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Mexborough West Riding Police chartered a special coach on Monday to convey 33 Mexborough witnesses to Wakefield for the trial of a schoolteacher.
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In the area covered by the “South Yorkshire Times” series of newspapers there were during February no fatal injuries in road accidents. Five persons were seriously injured and 11 slightly injured.
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Mr. Tom Swift, for 40 years a member of Dearne Urban Council, and of the old Bolton-on-Dearne Urban Council, was presented with a case of pipes and an inscribed lighter at Dearne Labour Party annual dinner on Saturday.
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Mr. Andrew Cutler (69), of Concrete Cottages, Brampton, is the first to draw a miner’s pension under the new scheme from Darfield Main Colliery. He has worked in the mines since leaving school and his pension will be 14s. a week.
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Former Denaby United, Doncaster Rovers, and England footballer, Sam Cowan, was present at the wedding at Warmsworth on Monday of his niece, Miss Pauline Carr, of the Cecil Hotel, Warmsworth, and Mr. Harry Wadsworth, of Doncaster.
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