May 28, 1952

Newark Sea Cadets are building their own canoe, and are seen at work on it in this Advertiser newsphotograph.

Before they could start work on the craft, they had to apply for a timber licence for the two cubic feet of wood they needed and for permission to 'build in own yard' from the Regional Officer, North Midland Region of the Admiralty.

The first boat was started under the supervision of Mr F. Wright, and the technical instructor is Gerald Bolland, a 20-year-old ex-sea cadet.

Work started in January and the finished canoe will have cost £14. The money has come from the boys themselves - 6d a week from subscriptions - and from the Cadets Parents' Association.

Building the canoe are R. Thwaites, B. Coombes, J. Rawding, R. Fincham, R. Jater (now in Royal Navy) T. W. Pacy.

With no water available at their houses each day some Beacon Hill, Newark, residents are considering whether or not they will in future pay a water rate to Newark Corporation.

Water is being cut off every night from 7pm until 6.30am, and sometimes during the day, too.

This means no baths and no water for cooking. Lavatories cannot be used.

Newark's reservoir facilities, said to be inadequate during the recent dry spell, are causing the trouble.

Farndon Women's Institute Choir (under its conductress, Edna Kirton) won the silver shield in the WI Choir section at the North Nottinghamshire Music and Drama Festival held at Worksop.

They also gained third place in the open class, ladies' choirs, the winners being the Retford Ladies' Choir with Dukeries choir second. Joyce Woodward was the accompanist.

May 21, 1952

There were 1,500 Newarkers at Newark Bathing Pool on Saturday, the opening day of the 1952 session.

The first official swimming day in Newark coincided with the record May weather. With temperatures well into the 80s attendance figures at the pool showed a total of 2,600 swimmers and spectators there on Saturday and Sunday.

Official weather forecasters assure swimmers they can set off with their costumes and confidence today and tomorrow.

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A Newark schoolteacher's wife has a pair of shoes she cannot wear at the moment because her husband is using one of them for an experiment.

Mr W. A. Macdonald of Eton Avenue, Newark, a teacher in the infants' department of the Mount School, has invented a method of repairing worn shoe heels.

He has tried it on one of his wife's shoes, which he took with him when he went to London last week to have an audition for the BBC television show, Inventors' Club.

The Macdonald heel-tip is a rubber sandwich with a thin metal sheet in the middle. Three screws hold the metal plate and its rubber covering to the wooden heel.

"When the rubber tip is worn through, all you have to do is unfasten the three screws and put a new tip on," said Mr Macdonald.

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Facilities for music lovers are to be increased at Newark's Gilstrap public library. The collection of music is to be revised, re-classified, fully catalogued and arranged on special shelves. A representative list of proposed additions has already been complied.

Recent additions to the collection of music include grand opera by famous German, French and Italian composers, light opera (comic and satiric), sacred music, vocal music, keyboard music, piano arrangements, organ music and music from such films as The Great Caruso and Alice In Wonderland.

May 14, 1952

That veterinary research workers will find a better way of stopping the spread of foot and mouth disease than "this wasteful slaughter policy," is the hope of Lieutenant-colonel H. L. V. Beddington, the Barnby cattle breeder who was president of Newark Agricultural Society last year.

"It is sad that our show has had to be curtailed because of the disease," he said, at the society's first eve-of-show dinner in the Sherwood Suite of the Robin Hood Hotel, Newark.

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It happened after the last performance of The Fighting Seabees. As several hundred people walked from the circle in Newark's Savoy Cinema on Saturday night they probably passed near a hidden safe robber.

With at least one accomplice the man later forced fire doors in the building, drank half a bottle of pineapple juice then made off with a safe containing £160.

Tea, butter and 1,000 cigarettes were also taken from the cinema cafe and in the safe taken from a first-floor office was an emerald engagement ring belonging to the manageress, Miss M. Golland.

It is thought that a man remained hidden under the counter in a disused cloakroom while the staff carried out their regular anti-burglar search before leaving the building.

Extra police officers have been on duty making inquiries in connection with the robbery.

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The annual meeting of the Newark and District Boy Scouts Association was held last week in Newark Town Hall. Mr John Banks presided.

Mr R. W. Hindhaugh presented the financial report which showed an increase in the balance on hand of £5 2s 3d.

May 7, 1952

Newark Agricultural Show next Friday and Saturday will not be a financial loss if the weather is good and there is an average attendance.

This is despite the fact that foot and mouth disease restrictions will prevent any cattle, pigs or sheep from being at the fixture.

Mr H. J. Crocker, the Newark Agricultural Show secretary, was busy, but still smiling when the Advertiser cameraman called at the show headquarters.

At a special meeting on Sunday the Show Council decided to cancel the sections for cattle, sheep and pigs after news of the order which banned movement of livestock.

Because of a serious shortage of nursing staff some wards in Newark's hospitals may have to be closed. So states the chairman of the Newark House Committee, Councillor B. L. Maule.

Matron of Newark General Hospital, Miss E. S. R. Beamish, said yesterday that the establishment for student nurses at her hospital is 28. Next week there will be nine.

Appealing for more nursing trainees Coun. Maule says: "The atmosphere is much less institutional than many imagine and ignorance of the present rates of pay and service conditions may be reasons deterring higher recruitment."

Roger Allen, 15-years-old son of a Bathley farm worker, cycles five miles from his home to Newark three times a week to make sure of a career.

He wants to be a pilot in the Royal Air Force, and it was with that in mind he joined Newark squadron of the Air Training Corps 16 months ago.

Cadet First-class Roger Allen is one of the 17 boys in Newark squadron (1260) who parade at least twice a week at their Northgate House headquarters to work for qualifications that show they are made of the stuff the RAF needs.