YESTERDAYS 1964
Despite the scene pictured above, there was no hint of the riotous ecstasy which shot him and the Comets to the top seven years ago with Rock Around The Clock.
The fans were saving their tonsils for younger things, things that came in the second half of the concert, the Teens and the Manfred men.
They got the bedlam, Mr Haley had to be content with nostalgia.
The show was far short of a sell-out and, surprisingly so, on paper one of the strongest attractions to go to Sophia Gardens in a long time.
At least two girls fainted, a modest pointer to a modest success. working conditions at the mine at Blaendare, near Pontypool. The mine belongs to the Guest Keen and Nettlefolds group of companies.
After a special meeting of the union lodge, the men decided to hand in their notices. The decision followed a fruitless meeting between union officials and company representatives.
The men said the company expected two men to load more than nine tonnes of clay a day before being entitled to bonus earnings. In view of other duties they perform, they claim they should be paid bonuses from the first ton of clay loaded.
The song Goldfinger is from the new James Bond film of the same name and, as one would expect, it’s a most dramatic composition.
Certainly not catchy enough to be top of the pops but the film could help push it into the lower half of the tables. Brigade headquarters where he is stationed, an officer of the regiment pointed out at a magistrates’ court.
Taylor had been there for two years as a boy soldier and was undergoing recruit training which entitled him to use the bar at the camp, the officer said. Taylor was given an absolute discharge. FORMER model Sue Dexter, wife of Ted Dexter, Tory candidate for Cardiff South-East, took her first nervous step on to the political platform, helping her husband to canvass, above.
She met the shoppers of Llanrumney and quietly asked them to support her England cricket captain husband in his election fight against Labour’s James Callaghan.
As model Susan Longford, 26-yearold Mrs Dexter was used to stares at fashion houses. Today she had the stares of suburban housewives who were doing their weekend shopping.
Mrs Dexter admitted: “Being a parliamentary candidate’s wife is far more unnerving. But everyone I have spoken to so far has been friendly.” THREE hundred railway enthusiasts left London on what was likely to be the last steam-hauled passenger express train from Paddington.