YESTERDAYS 1972
SINGER Tom Jones gyrated his hips across the Madison Square Garden stage in New York last night, mopped his brow with panties hurled from the audience of 20,000 and belted out, “I’m a man and a half”.
As he crooned, “Something in the way you move attracts me like no other,” women by the hundred tried to storm the stage.
Some threw their brassieres, panties, bouquets and other mementoes at the Welsh singer.
Gifts of champagne, home-baked cakes and stuffed animals lined the stage during his one-night performance.
He held up one brassiere with the name “Sylvia” and her telephone number printed on it and admired aloud, “Very nice, I’d like to see the woman who wears this,” he declared.
Before the performance, in the middle of his seven-month United States tour, Jones arrived with bodyguards and rushed into the dressing room, stopping a moment to talk to a girl using a wheelchair.
After a medley of his best known numbers, belted out amid a barrage of programmes, balloons and assorted debris the lights went off.
Bodyguards pulled the singer by the hands, prised him free from pawing girls and pushed him into a limousine and the show was over. COMEDIAN Terry Scott enjoyed sampling the spaghetti prepared by Polish born Mrs Zbyszka Southall of Machen, when he visited a Machen inn yesterday to see Mrs Southall and her husband Terence, who are old friends of the comedian.
Mr Southall was in school with Terry Scott in Watford. Mrs Southall is the chef in charge of continental cooking at the Fwrrm Ishta, Machen. KEEP children away from abandoned cars – they are potential bombs, warned a fire service chief today.
The warning from Assistant Chief Officer Daniel Edwards, of the Glamorgan Fire Service, came after a nine-year-old boy narrowly escaped serious injury when he threw a lighted match into the petrol tank of an abandoned car at Ferndale.
The tank exploded but Gareth Watkins, of High Street, Ferndale, received only minor injuries around his eyes and forehead.
“The dangers are momentous,” said Officer Edwards.
“A lot of these abandoned cars are potential bombs.” THE Samaritans had to deal with 670 new cries for help in the Cardiff area last year – 159 up on the 1970 figure.
This was mainly due to the TV programme The Befrienders, said chairman Lt-Col George F Bale at the annual meeting of the Cardiff and South East Glamorgan Samaritans.
“This has greatly increased the number of clients and has brought in many applications from people wishing to become Samaritans,” he said. “All of this will mean a great increase in work and responsibility which we must be ready to meet.”
Branch director Rev Kenneth Gillingham said: “The year saw a great expansion in the work of the branch.”