South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Marconigrams
The opinion that dim-out conditions are more difficult than complete black-out, was expressed by two bus drivers and a police constable at a Wombwell inquest this week on a child knocked down and killed by a bus in Wombwell last Thursday.
Mr. Reginald Foort, the famous organist, is to visit Mexborough on December 13th, when he will give a programme of organ music in the Trinity Methodist Church. There will be other supporting artists and proceeds of the concert are in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund.
As a result of the recent show promoted by the Mexborough Chrysanthemum Society, over £15 was raised for the Mexborough Montagu Hospital. The Society is arranging discussion meetings for early in 1945 on similar lines to those held this year, with the object of assisting new members of the Society and anyone interested in growing chrysanthemums.
Mexborough Montagu Hospital is now equipped with a supply of penicillin for use in any cases requiring this new treatment.
Mr. Robert Foot, chairman of the Mining Association, is compiling a plan for the reconstruction of the coal industry after the war, which it is stated he hopes to have finished by the end of the year, when it will be submitted to the industry.
A week-end course for members of Young Farmers’ Clubs is being held at the Modern School, Ecclesfield, during the week-end, Friday November 24th, to Sunday November 26th.
The use of poison for keeping down vermin is, says the R.S.P.C.A., the cause of the death of many pet animals. The returns of the Society convictions for October which number 72 contain ten, all connected with poison laying, five for permitting poisoned edible matter to be laid, four for causing it to be laid and one for having it.
Mr. J. A. Hall, President of the Yorkshire Mineworkers’ Association, is prepared to match any number of British miners against an equal number of American miners, under similar conditions of work. That is his reply to the gratuitous sympathy of American industrial experts, their statement that British mining is inadequate and their assertion that the problem of production is “shot through with politics.”
December 1st is the latest date for the posting of 6d air letters intended for Christmas delivery to the British North African Force, Central Mediterranean Force, Middle East Force, Paiforce and to members of the Forces in East Africa, Canada, U.S.A., Malta and West Africa; and to ships of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy at ports in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, East Africa, West Africa and North America. The same date applies for civilian addresses where there is a service. The air letter service is not available to civilian addresses in the U.S.A.