South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 04 April 1942
Marconigrams
Empire Youth Sunday will be observed this year on April 26th.
The new Vicars of Swinton and Kilnhurst are to be instituted next Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening respectively.
Twelve thousand tons of scrap metal were collected during the week ending March 21st. This represents the railings from 120,000 houses and is sufficient to replace a heavy cruiser.
Sub-Lieut. G. Deal of H.M.S. Olive, who was the guest of honour at Wath-on-Dearne during the town’s Warship Week, is broadcasting his experiences of a South Yorkshire Warship Week this Thursday evening at 7-30. The broadcast will be an Empire transmission in the short-wave programme (2553 metres).
In the first thirty months of war lifeboats have rescued 4,630 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last thirteen years of peace. They are rescuing nearly two lives for every life rescued in the last war, and five lives for every one rescued in the twenty years of peace between the two wars.
Road operators In the North Eastern Region have smashed their Warship Weeks’ Savings Target of £350,000 by investing £365,000. Major F. S. Eastwood, the Regional Transport Commissioner, called for an investment of £250,000 from operators of road transport in the region, through the local Warship Weeks. The original target of £250,000 was soon within reach and Major Eastwood raised it to £300,000, following this with a further increase to £350,000. The amount invested to date averages over £10 per vehicle.
Mr. John Cooke, of Mexborough, retires on Good Friday, after 52 years-service with Amalgamated Denaby Collieries. Ltd., for most of the time as a winder.
Flight-Lieut. A. S. Bedford, R.A.F.V.R., of Mexborough, an old boy of the Mexborough Secondary School, was married on Saturday at Derby to Miss Joyce Evelyn Craft, of Derby.
A silk eiderdown was presented by Manvers Main Collieries, Ltd., to Mr. and Mrs J Harget of Adwick -on-Dearne, on Sunday, on the occasion of their golden wedding. Mr. Harget, a Manvers pensioner had a record of over 50 years service with the Company.
Dr. Reginald Ogley, F.R.C.S.. L.R.C.P., third son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Ogley, of Hilltop, Conisbrough, has taken up an important appointment as house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Dr. Ogley, who recently completed his training at University College Hospital. London, is a talented athlete, having played hockey for the Yorkshire and North of England teams.