TRADERS SUGGEST CAR PARK SITES

Teignmouth Chamber of Commerce is to ask the Urban Council to go into the cost of providing a car park under the Den, and the possibility of creating another car park, by covering the railway cutting running through the town. Hope of immediate help came from Mr W Hearn of British Rail, who said there was room for 100 cars on the old goods yard, but it needed direction signs. Mr Ted Welch of the Council said there would be a subway under the new dual carriage way continuing to Myrtle Hill, and a multi storey car park provided after the road scheme was completed.

Mr Bladon said a multi storey would cost £400,000, and a little town like Teignmouth could not afford that, and would have to be borne by the new County Council. The chairman, Mr Frederick Morris, said: “Let us look forward to having a car park on the top of Haldon, and bringing the occupants of the cars down on buses.”

FANTASTIC DEMAND AT NEW LIBRARY

A record for the county was created on the first day, February 6, when 3,805 books were issued. In the first fortnight, 803 new readers enrolled, not only Teignmouth, but Shaldon, Dawlish, Totnes, Chudleigh, Torbay and Ashburton. The demand and the crush were so great that borrowers had to fill in their own application forms.

DIALLING MADE EASY

A lower cost device, called a Card Callmaker, that does away with the need to dial phone calls manually, is now available from Post Office Telecommunications. Calls are made simply by slipping a plastic card into a small automatic dialler linked to the telephone. Users programme onto each card by punching a pattern of holes, a simple guide is provided; this forms a permanent guide for future use. The dialling unit unit uses a photo-electric “magic eye” principle to read the code on the card. For firms using large numbers of customers regularly, the PO will introduce packs of a 1,000 cards at £25.

WISE WORDS

Knowledge is boundless – human capacity is limited.  A clever man can always tell a woman’s age – a wise man never does.

HUGE SALMON PURCHASE

The directors of Ocean Breeze (Teignmouth) Ltd., Mr George C Thomas and M A M Tovey, visited the Frozen Foods Convention in San Francisco, where the Americans told them that they were classified as the fourth largest importer of salmon in England. Mr. Bruce B. Brown, of Western Fish and Oyster Co. of Tacoma, Seattle, thought that his recent visit to Teignmouth was so important that he spent ten days here to see how the firm operated. The salmon comes over frozen, whole or filleted, and is smoked in Teignmouth. They have established business relations, buying in £55,000 worth of salmon.

The firm will soon be building a new factory on the Broadmeadow estate, with jobs for 16 - 20 people. The plans were acceptable planning-wise, but the firm is now awaiting formal approval.

OAK TREES

Quercus robur, the British oak tree, is the subject of a special stamp issue, which went on sale on Wednesday. Designed by David Gentleman, the 9p stamp is one of the Post Office’s contribution to the Tree Planting Year 1973. Mr Perchard, deputising for the Head Postmaster, planted an oak tree at Corbyn’s Head last Friday.

RIVIERA CINEMA

Sunday and Monday: Peter Cushing in “Twins of Evil”; also “The Hands of the Ripper”. Tuesday for 5 days:”Mary Queen of Scots”, with Vanessa Redgrave as Mary and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth, and Patrick McGoohan,  

Trevor Howard and Nigel Davenport.