1974 - 50 Years Ago - May Part 1

1974 - 50 Years Ago - May Part 1

1. —-The Department of Public Building and Works brought park benches and concrete flower tubs out of storage this morning as King Street became Jersey’s first permanent pedestrian precinct.

2.——The Education Committee are to carry out an investigation into the Island’s methods of dealing with young offenders, giving special consideration to the need for a separate remand home for delinquents. The move follows an extensive weekend conference involving those concerned with juvenile offenders.

3.—The Defence Committee have accepted the summer timetable and the fare increases proposed by the JMT. From May 20 the basic rate will be 6p instead of 5p. Fares of 10p and more will be increased by 2p). Fares for pensioners and schoolchildren will remain the same.

4.——Plans to convert the Jersey Fabrics Building in Rue de la Vallée, St. Mary, into a Mormon chapel have been rejected by the IDC because they would have involved an inappropriate architectural style and would: have detracted from the amenities of the area.

' 6.——Two of the larger units of the Fire Service were driven through the pedestrian precinct in King Street this morning to see if they could manoeuvre past the flower tubs and seats. The test proved successful.

’8.——After being found guilty on a majority verdict, Kenneth Sharp English was sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs Eva May Cullen.

.10.—A 19.year-old Scottish girl became the millionth person to ride on the Fort Regent cable cars.

11—Sheila Mitchell, a 23-year-old secretary from Newcastle, was crowned “ Jersey Holiday Queen, 1974 ”. Second and third places went to “ Miss Sheffield", 21-year-old June Pickering, and “Miss Harlow ", Susan Jarivs (20). The competition attracted 26 entrants frrom towns all over the UK. j '

13. John Mitchell, the 11 year-old sufferer from thrombasthenia, 'a rare “ bleeding disease ”, who was injured when he swung from a rope suspended from a. tree across the Rue des Friquettes, St. Saviour, last Wednesday evening. is making excellent progress at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, where he was rushed the same night, and should be back in Jersey soon.

14.—The Jersey branch of the Royal National Life-boat Institution have now raised the £100,000 needed to pay for the Island’s new lifeboat. The appeal fund has now been closed and a cheque for £100,000 will be handed over at the annual general meeting or the RNLI in London on May 21. The coxswain of the Jersey boat. Mike Berry, will receive his silver medal for gallantry at this meeting.

15.—The two male lowland gorillas successfully reared by the Zoo, Assumbo and Mamfe. were taken from their nursery for the first time today and moved to a cage in the mammal house.