South Yorkshire Times, November 20th 1943
Marconigrams
“The Bible is the world’s best seller because it is the world’s best book. It owes its vitality to its intrinsic value.” The Rev. H. Drown, Rector of Darfield.
“We are profoundly disturbed by these lightning strikes and unconstitutional stoppages, which can only be described consciously or otherwise as sabotaging the war effort and assisting the enemy,” says a statement issued to their members by the Executive Committee of the Durham Miners’ Association.
The current issue of “Architecture” contains some excellent photographs of the Foulstone Modern School at Darfield, which was recently officially opened by the Rt. Hon. R. A. Butler, Minister of Education. This school is the first of its kind in Yorkshire and is regarded by many as the finest in the whole country. The headmaster is Mr. A. R. Martin, of Mexborough.
Prizes totalling £500 are being offered to men and women in the Forces for their ideas on the postwar world, The British Legion announces an essay competition, with a first prize of £250, open to all members of the Navy, Army, R.A.F., Women’s Auxiliary Services (W.R.N.S., A.T.S. and W.A.A.F.), the Merchant Navy and prisoners of war. The subject chosen for the essay is ‘My ideas and hopes for post-war conditions: how the British Legion can help me to realise them.” Essays, which should not exceed 1,000 words, must be sent to the Legion Headquarters.
Commissioner, Major F. S Eastwood, last week-end, in a review of training for coal mining, the Yorkshire Council for Further Education report that a scheme for boy entrants to the industry provides for practical training at the colliery and a course of 36 hours at a technical institution. Some 500 boys have so far received the school training, and the majority of these have also had some form of special training at the colliery.
To honour the individual soldier standing to arms ready to storm the citadel of Europe, the next savings campaign will be called ‘‘Salute the Soldier,” Sir Harold Mackintosh, National Savings Committee Chairman, told the National Savings Assembly in London on Wednesday. The general outline of the campaign will follow those of the Warship and Wings for Victory Weeks, with special features suitable to the theme.