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January 31, 1951. Dr P. Kinmont, JP, who for 28 years has been president of the Newark Caledonian Society, was in the chair for the Burns Night celebration dinner at the Robin Hood Hotel on Thursday. The haggis was piped in in traditional style and was addressed by the president. The principal guest was Dr William Marshall, of Peterborough, who gave The Immortal Memory. He said Burns "reigns supreme in the kingdom of our hearts and minds, untrammelled by considerations of politics or ideology, or even of time or space, because he stands for and had the genius to express the things that are the essence of Scotland and of the Scottish people." Newark's ancient Beaumond Cross, erected it is believed as a memorial to Queen Eleanor in 1920, may be moved. The future of the cross was debated at Monday's meeting of Newark Town Council, when it was decided to support a recommendation of Newark Road Safety Council to Nottinghamshire County Council that a traffic island be erected at Beaumond Cross. o-o-o-O-o-o-o Thick fog on the Fosse Road on Monday morning was responsible for a bus and a motor lorry colliding near Kneeton Lane end, when 14 of the bus passengers received injuries.

January 31, 1951 Newark firemen held a family party in the Rest Room at Newark Fire Station on Saturday at which 100 guests were present. Tea was provided by wives of the firemen. o-o-o-O-o-o-o The Newark Division of the County Police is to have two additional Inspectors. There will also be a second police Sergeant at Balderton. These recommendations from the Chief Constable, Mr J. E. S. Browne, were approved by the Nottinghamshire Standing Joint Committee on Friday. The committee agreed to the spending of an estimated £14,982 on 22 new police vehicles, including £1,154 for a 26hp car for the Chief Constable. o-o-o-O-o-o-o Newark's agricultural effort is being held up because women who open railway crossing gates have to bath their babies, says a farmer. Mr J. B. Jones raised the question of right of way over level crossings at Thursday's meeting of the Newark branch of the National Farmers' Union. He thought the law that gives railway priority over road traffic was out of date. "I feel it would be to the country's advantage to have the law changed so that the railwayman opens the gates only for trains." Another member said he had to use two crossings himself, and both were operated by women. "We have to wait for them to bath the baby," was his comment.

January 17, 1951. Almost 500 Newark people queued for their 20lbs allocation of coke at Newark Gasworks on Friday. The first were there at 6.30 and by 8 o'clock 200 were waiting. There is a tea shortage in the shops because, say Newark grocers, administration was moved from Newark Food Office to Nottingham last year. In several Newark shops the shortage is acute. The grocers allege that tea, issued on supplementary permits, is not being replaced for months, and they may have to refuse trade from people with supplementary permits unless something is done. Supplementary permits cannot be estimated in advance. They are granted for weddings, funerals, farmwork, etc. Harvest permits may be claimed any time during the year when farmers are threshing. One Newark retailer has supplied more tea to the ordinary registered customers in the last ration period than in previous months, and yet the permit he received yesterday showed a decrease of 290 pounds in his eight-week allowance. Newark and district is suffering from the biggest epidemic of influenza since 1938. Ransome and Marles Bearing Co Ltd say in the week before Christmas 3% of its staff was away ill. Last week that figure was 190 people.

January 10, 1951 Customers at Farndon's Britannia Inn have to use the back door because the Trent has flooded at the front of the building to a depth of two feet. The above Advertiser newsphoto shows how the river has overflowed. Mr E. Hill, the Britannia's licensee, said that Mr C. Saxby, Farndon's foreman, has for the last few days been collecting his groceries from the Britannia's front door by boat. The swollen River Trent is also fast washing away ground from Averham. The Rector of Averham, the Rev D. N. Allenby said that in the churchyard a gravestone has fallen into the river and part of a coffin is overhanging the water where the bank has been eaten away. o-o-o-O-o-o-o "Deplorable" is how the chairman of Newark Hospital Group, Councillor B. L. Maule, described conditions in the clinic and out-patient departments of Newark Hospital. There is a lack of privacy for people being examined. Men and women are seen by consultants in a room divided into cubicles only by flimsy curtains, and patients who are waiting cannot help hearing what is said. The Newark Hospital Group have pressed for improvements to be made, councillor Maule says, but the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board state alterations will not be possible until 1952. "The matter will not be allowed to rest," councillor Maule told the Advertiser yesterday.

January 3, 1951 Wireless listeners all over the country were able to hear choral Holy Communion broadcast from Newark Parish Church on Sunday morning. In church the broadcast was unobtrusive, and in no way did it interfere with the solemn character of the service. Wireless listeners heard first the ringing of the church bells and then the playing of an organ voluntary by Mr Colin Ingleson who accompanied the singing. Before the service began the vicar, the Rev G. W. Clarkson, speaking from the chancel steps, invited those listening at home to join in the service. o-o-o-O-o-o-o National shortages, shop quotas and the high price of wool have lessened the range of bargains in Newark's 1951 sales. Cotton sheets, wool blankets and other household articles are not available at the bargain counters this year. It is in shops' fashion departments where trade has been brisk and there have been considerable reductions in some women's garments. o-o-o-O-o-o-o A Newark conferment in the New Year's Honours list is the B.E.M. for Mr W. F. Turnbull, Chief Petty Officer instructor of the Newark Sea Cadet Corps. Mr Turnbull, who lives at 26, Boundary Road, has been with the Corps since its formation in 1943. Before coming to Newark about 20 years ago he saw service in the Royal Navy as a boy, and transferred to the Merchant service after the first world war. For many years he has been employed in the grinding department at Messrs. Ransome and Marles. He is a well-known and popular personality among Newark friends.