Daily Post: The Paper for Wales from Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales (2024)

September 26, 1978

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Daily Post: The Paper for Walesi

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Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales

Issue Date:

Tuesday, September 26, 1978

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1

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Paintings Purchased 19th century Paintings purchased at good prices often better than obtained in a saleroom and no commission payable DAILY POST Rushworths Specialists in SCHOOL ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS For the latest prices of Woodwind Brass Percussion Violins Cellos Basses Instruments and Toy Percussion write for current list of Rushworth Enquiries for School instruments rental also welcome Liverpool Birkenhead Chester and Southport upper NORTH GATE ST CHESTER Tel Oieeter 21781 RT GALLERT Price 9p Tuesday September 26 1978 PLUS OUR EXCITING SERIES YOUR cfii Containers comeback HOLYHEAD JOY P7 Wrexham daredevil IV ride again' HOSPITAL INTERVIEW P3 Suburban Jungle SEX KEEPS OFFICE P8 MORNUM killed as planes crash on town 140 Smoke billows over San 3000 feet and could be seen by the control tower four miles away One eyewitness said It appeared the Cessna was right on top of the Pacific South West Boeing 727 which was flying in from Los Angeles with 129 passengers and seven crew aboard A temporary mortuary set up at a nearby parochial school and the Red Cross called for blood donations A body found about one mile away was wearing a uniform and officials said they believed it was pilot The San Diego fire department said about 16 houses in two streets were set ablaze and destroyed as the jet plunged from the sky in a fireball Over 100 firemen raced Diego where the jet airliner FORDS OP day to day in Wales arthur williams Village pays tribute PLANS are being made at Rhos the village of many talents near Wrexham to celebrate the centenary of the hirth of one of its most famous sons Dr Caradog Roberts who was born in 1878 and died in 1935 There will be events and functions over a period of a week at the end of next month and the beginning of November They have een arranged by a committee representative of various chapels in the area- One member of the committee is Mrs Stella Git-tings Dr daughter who is a member of Bethlehem Chapel where her father was the organist Dr Canadog Roberts who began his working life as an apprentice carpenter was the first from North Wales and the youngest Welshman ever to gain a Doctorate of Music ini Oxford He became prominent throughout Wales as a conductor adjudicator organist composer and a musical editor Among other compositions he wrote many hyrarn tunes and specialised in two fields as a composer of hymns for children and as a composer and arranger of carols Choirs and bands associated with Rhos will be taking part in the centenary celebrations as well as well-known soloists and lecturers Adult 8 back to school The big winter learn-in classes for adults in Gwynedd and 1 arranged by the Department Extra Mural Studies of the UCNW Bangor has begun and will be in full swing soon In Gwynedd the list of subjects available varies from Welsh lectures on the seamen of Gwynedd to the works of poet Sir Parry-Williams and lectures on science in the mother-tongue In Clwyd subjects include 'lectures in Welsh on social problems Welsh literature and the homes and history of famous people of Dyffryn Clwyd In both areas of course there are lectures in English ranging from local history music in France visual history geology learning how to programme a computer The extra mural departments also arrange day release and) partial day release courses with some local firms and in association with the TGWU and the Trades Union Congress Courses for management and shop-floor workers are under the direction of Mr Penri Williams Warden of the Wrexham Adult Education Centre and Mr A Dillon These will be held at the centre and on work premises Ambassador hits Town Mr Tadao Kato the Japanese Ambassador is to address a meeting of businessmen in the Shire Hall Mold on Thursday The function has been arranged by the Development Corporation for Woles in conjunction with the Anglo-Japanese Economic Institute Mr subject will be as an investor and as a growing market for British He will give sped al advice to Welsh exporters who would like to trade with Japan or who wish to develop further any existing Japanese links to the scene to try to rescue survivors and put out the flames but many were overcome by smoke Residents used garden hoses to douse some of the flames One eyewitness Mr Eugene Burch said: looked up into the air and saw two planes a small single-engine plane and the 727 banking toward the airport hit the small plane and burst Immediately into flames on one of the wings and plummeted straight down to the Another Mrs Louella Saunders said she heard three explosions and saw the plane coming down from her kitchen window heard the explosions and saw a body falling through the she said The body fell on the house i police made her give Gipsy hack and yesterday Kim heard the news that the new owner butcher Mr Lawrence Potter of Bishop Sutton Bristol had the pony slaughtered eight days ago The task of breaking the news to Kim fell to her father Desmond first reaction was to burst into tears She was very upset But there is some good news for Kim her father plans to buy her a pony of her own know when it will be it depends on the said Mr Bowen I want to buy it myself not too keen on the money coming out of the fund organised to save Mr Potter said earlier yesterday: have been pictured as a villain and a bastard but that is quite wrong saw the animal and it was a merev that it should be put down It was incapable of fending for A TOTAL of 140 people were killed when two planes collided in mid-air and plunged into a suburb of San Diego California yesterday An American jet airliner on an internal flight collided with a light Cessna plane on its tinal approach to San Lindbergh airfield All 136 people on board the jet two aboard the Cessna and at least two people on the ground were the victims of worst aviation disaster Another 80 people were injured when the two planes rained fiery debris onto houses and flats police said The disaster could have been even worse The aircraft narrowly missed two schools filled with children The collision occurred at company if it was asked So far the company a leading CBI member had not requested CBI assistance stand ready to go to the aid of any member company which is threatened on the one hand by industrial action and on the other by Government said the spokesman The Government had given the CBI an undertaking that it would consult them before imposing sanctions against a company for breach of pay guidelines on a Government contract The next step could come on Friday Mr Ron Todd the Ford chief negotiator said that the union side of the Ford Joint Negotiating Committee would meet in London then to review the position The Ford dispute put share prices into a £900 million pound downward skid on stockmarkets yesterday A long line of losses running into double figures in places sent the Financial Times index tumbling 92 points to close at 5094 With setback when the Ford workers first threw down their pay challenge a total of around £1500 million has been wiped off share values in two trading days On Foreign Exchanges worries over Ford also hit the pound But as the dollar came under renewed pressure Sterling rallied to dose 40 points higher on balance at 19755 More than 2000 workers at the James Mackie and Sons Belfast engineering firm derided last night to reject the 5 per cent pay increase they have been receiving since August 1 The men gave a two month ultimatum for management to come up with more cash in a bonus package shipowners last night reached agreement in London with union negotiators representing 44000 merchant navy officers and cadets on a 10 per cent pay deal Both sides agreed that the increases which will date from November 1 comes under stage three and noit stage four of the pay policy Conservative Asso elation would be increasingly taken in Cardiff by tihe Assembly anxious to increase its powers at the expense of genuine local government As a result the voice of Wales at Westminster would be of a neighbour she added Other eyewitnesses said there was a loud explosion that shook every window in a nearby shopping centre The engines were on fire and it nosed straight into the ground San Diego resident Henrietta Fairman said sha was walking along a street just before 9 am local time heard an explosion looked up to my lelt and I saw the Boeing coming in The left engine was in flames it was plummeting rapidly and it hit about a block or so from she said smoke came up and I heard an explosion when it hit It was she said as her voice trailed off in tears Hours after the crash at least five of the wood frame houses were still ablaze in the neighbourhood where the airliner fell Black smoke billowed over the area and fragment of bodies could be seen on rooftops and in the streets Fire engines were massed In the area which authorities cordoned off from a crowd of more than 4000 The Boeing 727 began its trip in Sacramento California and landed in Los Angeles before heading for San Diego The Cessna had reportedly taken off from Gillespie community airport five miles north of Lindbergh The crash Is one of the worst in aviation history When a Pan American Airways 747 and a KLM 747 Jumbo jet collided on a runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands 579 people were killed in the biggest aircraft disaster The worst mid-air collision was in September 1976 when a Yugoslav charter DC10 and a British Airlines Trident collided near Zagreb leaving 176 dead The previous worst death toll in the US occurred in 1960 when 134 people were killed in New York City when a DC8 and a Constellation crashed Granddad SOUTH outgoing Prime Minister John Vorster became a grandfather for the sixth time when Balthazar Joannes Vorster was born to Mrs Retba Vorster wife of the youngest son Pieter Gandhi bid FORMER Indian Premier Mrs Imdina Gandhi yesterday applied to a Delhi court for permission to visit Britain from November 10 to 19 to take part in celebrations connected with the anniversary of her birth Latest Lighting-up: IS 33 to 0834 TALK ADJOUWMPD ion manage mew tlks at British Celanese ictory Wrexham where ispute stopped produe-on adjourned las night id will resume today sveral hundred work onle laid off after alk-odt by men in in-rig department last week Weather NORTH Wales will have a rather windy day Some sunny spells are expected but there will also be squally showers Winds westerly and fresh perhaps strong at times Temperatures rather cool around 15C (59F) Outlook: Rather cold with a few showers at first some rain likely later STRIKING Ford workers outside the Halewood plant yesterday White collar unions in new strike threat crashed in a giant fireball throughout Pferin With ever oody out except management it will drive home to Fords that the entire workforce of 75000 people are united in their fight for a bigger pay rise One source said last night that the three white collar ASTMS TASS and ACTS may decide on united action Bernie Carr ASTMS chairman at Halewood said last night: likelihood is thrt we will also be offered a five per cent rise If the reply is the same then I expect the foremen to regard the offer as contemptuous will be for the membership to decide whether we should join the strike but as I see it we cannot Essex 13000 on strike: Southampton 4000 on strike: Basildon tractor plant Essex 2800 out: Swansea 2000 out Workers also voted to strike at Langley in Berkshire Enfield in Middlesex Dunton in Essex Daventry in Northants and at Leamington In Northern Ireland 1200 workers downed tools at Dunmurray West Belfast in support of their colleagues in England In his statement chief executive Sir Terence Beckett said: have a point blank refusal even to examine how more money could be made available to employees our employees wll lose income and become an additional drain on the He claimed a contract with the workers which Kim Bowen in hospital yesterday Kim later returned home after having her tonsils removed FORDS moved towards a total shutdown last night as nearly 40000 workers joined the strike against the five per cent pay limit Support tor the stoppage grew throughout the day and more workers were expected to walkout from the night shifts The action by more than two-thirds of 57000 hourly-paid workers was according to the chief executive Terence Becket our key plants are on strike over what has been made into a political rather htan an industrial he said If the stoppage drags on strikers could find a powerful ally in the dock workers The Transport and General Union has said it will back its action but has not yet called an official strike If the strike goes on the union could ask dockers to stop Ford products leaving Britain and prevent Ford cars built abroad from entering the country Mr Sid Harraway union official at Dagenham said Harwich dockers had already promised to black Ford equipment from tomorrow Meanwhile Ford shop stewards will tomorrow take their pay battle to Downing Street They will deliver a letter to Number 10 telling the Prime Minister that his chances of winning a General Election will be seriously affected if he sticks to the 5 per cent The shop stewards will go to Downing Street knowing that almost the entire workforce at 23 Ford plants are behind them In their statement they will tell Mr Callaghan that most Ford workers are Labour supporters and warn him that their loyalty is being severely tested Their letter will call upon the Prime Minister to reconsider the incomes policy In a BBC radio interview Mr Joel Barnett Chief Secretary to the Treasury warned strikers that an all-out stoppage would not help them or the country The Government was he said that Britain should riot get back to a state of high inflation But Mr Moss Evans general secretary of the TGWU said: are not hell-bent on making irresponsible Kim weeps for Gipsy ride on the backs of our colleagues and we will have to consider similar Firemen and security officers at Halewood were the last group of hourly-paid workers to walk out yesterday Management had to man the gates and factory fire station Meanwhile the 200 shop stewards from the three plants held a joint meeting yesterday at Transport House They are to hold another meeting on Friday to discuss arranging a mass meeting of the 11000 men out on strike A spokesman for Fords at Halewood said: strike will result in production losses of 900 Escorts and 3000 gearboxes every day worth £3 still had four weeks to run contained a clause which had been totally disregarded the unions to refuse to continue talking across the table when matters of such magnitude cry out for calm counsel is a matter of profound said Sir Terence A spokesman for the Confederation of British Industry said the employers organisation would be ready to help the Ford by Larry Neild 18000 white collar workers may join the thousands of hourly paid production workers on strike The threat emerged last night as leaders of the engineers supervisors and office workers feared that they would also be offered a five per cent pay rise in their deal due to be released on Thursday The 800 Halewood foremen and supervisors have already been summoned to a mass meeting on Saturday to discuss action But the strong likelihood is that the white collar workers will vote on joining the all-out strike by car and component makers from the 23 Ford plants His union had warned Cabinet Ministers that it was not going to stick to a rigid pay policy knew that right from the he said Ford Motor Company and the unions concerned should bargain fairly and freely and when a settlement is arrived at and there is a threat of the Government imposing sanctions upon the company approaches will be He claimed that the strike showed the among workers at the Government pay policy Workers staged walkouts at all Ford's kev plants With mor esupoort for the strikers expected it was a bleak day for the company Round the country stoppages included: Halewood Merseyside 1 1000 on strike: Dagenham plant in SCHOOLGIRL rustler Kim Brown burst into tears yesterday when she heard that her favourite pony had been slaughtered said 14-year-old Kim loved that pony Now gone and it was all so Kim won the hearts of hundreds of animal lovers when she kidnapped the pony Gipsy from Exeter market She could not bear the thought of the two-year-old grey filly going to the yard received a total of £19 through the post this morning and have no idea who to she said keep the money though I shall give it to a rest Kim was still close to tears as she spoke in the living room of her home in Exwick Road Exeter after returning from having her tonsils out in hospital After her rescue bid Tory attacks Assembly A WELSH Assembly would rob local Government in the Principality of some of its grant aid said Mr Leon Brittan MiP Conservative Party spokesman on Devolution speaking at Newtown last night He told a public meeting lanranged by Montgomery.

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