YESTERDAYS 1956
FOR the past two days M51 has given them a terrible time down at Cardiff (Rhoose) Airport.
The trouble was, they couldn’t get M51 out of the hangar. Its wings drooped, its tail sagged, in fact, it was a dreadful mess.
Worried officials from Cambrian Air Services Ltd hurried hither and thither. Conferences were called. What was to be done with M51?
Finally their minds were made up for them when M51 – a racing pigeon – fluttered exhausted out of the hangar and surrendered. TWO small slips of plain white paper helped save the honour of South Wales bill-posters.
Covering the words “saucy – this play begins where other left off”, to large posters advertising next week’s show at the New Theatre, Cardiff.
The firm which holds the contract for posting the bills refused to stick them.
“We have no objection to the play, but the posters were considered to be unsuitable for public display,” explained a local representative.
“We have been advised by our national association not to take part in sticking them.”
The objection was later cancelled when the bill-posters decided to stick two bits of paper over part of the poster.
The play’s sponsor, Guy Charles, said: “It’s the first time I have heard complaints about the poster. In Swansea, where the play Daughter of Desire was running all week, the manager said he had no complaints all week.” CARDIFF boxer Jim Driscoll, the man they called “Peerless”, has been elected to the American Boxing Hall of Fame – the first Welshman to join the illustrious Valhalla of great old-time boxers.
The Hall of Fame is located in the Ring magazine museum in Madison Square Garden, New York, and consists of three groups – The pioneers – legendary characters of the bareknuckle days, the Old Timers (great fighters active before 1919), and the modern group, which includes Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, etc.
The election of “Peerless Jim” makes amends for the previous bias against Welsh boxers. THE segregation row in Pontarddulais – it is alleged Welsh-speaking children have been warned not to mix with English playmates – was taken a step further when it was described as “an example of South African apartheid”.
The statement was made by Gwynne Thomas, the Pontarddulais organiser of public meetings protesting against Glamorgan County Council’s school reorganisation plan, which caused the dispute.