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April 24, 1957

Newarkers, it seems, make good use of their leisure. The variety of their spare time activities is indicated by Newark's first hobbies exhibition organised by the Rotary Club and the Round Table at the Mount School.

The exhibition fills the school hall and five other rooms, with exhibits ranging in size from model aircraft with a one-inch wingspan to a full-size sailing dinghy.

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The Home Brewery Co Ltd, would like Newark people to suggest names for the new public house which is to be built on the Hawton Road estate.

Mr. J. C. Green, director, said: "If the name we choose is suggested by a local resident, we will give him, or her, a prize - probably a crate of beer!"

The new house is to be built on the north side of the junction of Churchill Drive and Jersey Street.

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Miss Sheila Lamb, daughter of Councillor and Mrs R. H. Lamb, Boundary Road, Newark, has been given a copy of Sir Winston Churchill's book, History Of The English Speaking Peoples (Volume II) autographed by the author.

The gift, from the Young Conservative Association, is in recognition of the part played by Miss Lamb in last year's Young Conservatives recruiting campaign. Miss Lamb personally enrolled 60 new members.

In the autograph-hunting world, a Churchill signature is worth about £25. Inscribed in one of his one books it is worth much more.

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April 17, 1957

Three British Waterways men took a leading part in the dramatic rescue of a man from Cromwell Weir.

Mr Jack Bradley, waterways inspector, organised the rescue, Mr Thomas Booth, dredger captain, made the final rescue attempt in a small cob boat, and Skipper Jim Thompson's skilful handling of the Friar Tuck enabled the rescue to be successful.

From 12.40am to 3.25am, Mr Edward Parkinson clung desperately to his jammed boat while the icy River Trent swirled around him over the weir.

Repeated attempts to rescue him with ropes and boats failed.

The rescue was completed only when the tug, at great risk to itself was sailed almost to the edge of the weir.

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Police officers have paid surprise visits to Newark schools and inspected all the children's bicycles. The result, Newark Road Safety Council was told on Monday, was that Newark cycle repairers have had one of their busiest weeks.

It was the first time such a check had been made, but it is now intended that it shall be repeated every term.

Mr A. S. Otter, the head of Sconce Hills Schools, said he had been present during the examination of 30 cycles and knew that several of these had since been taken to recognised dealers for attention.

"It is an excellent system and the response has been very good indeed," he said.

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April 10, 1957

It was decided at a well attended meeting at Newark General Hospital on Monday to form a League of Friends of the Newark group of Hospitals (Newark and Hawtonville).

Alderman B. L. Maule, chairman of Newark Hospitals management committee, presided over the inaugural meeting and it was decided that those present should form the nucleus of the committee.

Alderman Maule said one of the aims of the league would be to "mobilise, encourage and foster, and maintain the interest of the public in the patients and support the work of the hospitals by voluntary service."

Few people realised, he said, that such things as televisions for Newark General Hospital could not be bought out of hospital funds, but only with money raised through voluntary organisations.

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At a time when much is said about the drift from the land there is, in fact, a substantial drift back to the land from the towns, Mr Philip Lyth, the principal of Nottinghamshire Farm Institute, told Newark Rotary Club on Monday.

Latest youth employment figures for Newark showed that 22.8% of all boys leaving school went into engineering, the biggest employer. But 22.2% went into farming.

"It indicates that there are still plenty of boys who want to take up farming," he said. “And a large proportion of these are town boys."

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April 3, 1957

On one side of Sherwood Avenue, Newark Swimming Pool is open on Sunday afternoons during the summer. Opposite, the tennis courts are to remain closed on Sundays.

Newark Town Council on Monday rejected an attempt to refer back a re-affirmation of the principle of "No sport on Sundays." Only three Labour members voted in favour of it.

The parks committee, asked by Farrar Boilerworks Tennis Club if it could use the grass court on Sundays, replied informing the club of the council's policy not to provide facilities for Sunday games.

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One of two air cadets selected to represent Great Britain on a three-week visit to Norway this summer is a 16-years-old Newarker. The other is a member of the Combined Cadet Force of Harrow School.

Chosen from more than 90 cadets in two days of interviews at Innsworth RAF Station, Gloucester, was Cadet Sergeant John William Martin, son of Mr And Mrs W. H. Martin, of 2 Windsor Road, Newark.

A member of the Newark squadron of the Air Training Corps for the past 21/2 years, Sergeant Martin and his companion from Harrow will be the first ever to go as cadet ambassadors to Norway under a reciprocal visit scheme introduced this year by some NATO countries.