Whitland parents and teachers raised objections to the secondary education reorganisation proposals. They feared for the fate of their Grammar School.

Saundersfoot Royal Marines Association, the last surviving branch in Wales, celebrated its 21st birthday.

The friendly little town with a touch of Portofino. That was the description given to Tenby in an evening newspaper. A copy of the paper - the Manchester Evening News - was shown to members of the Borough Council’s general purposes committee by the Mayor, Alderman Ivor Crockford.

A photograph was published of two Observer readers several thousands and miles from home. One was Mr. Desmond J. Stone, of Kilgetty, who held a teaching appointment at the Royal Air Force secondary school at Khormaksar, Aden. The other was Mr. Howell James, of Llandissilio, who was serving on the naval frigate, HMS Ashanti, which docked at Aden and which Mr. Stone visited. “One of the first persons I saw,” said Mr. Stone, “was an old acquaintance whom I knew at Narberth Grammar School, Howell James.”

Clr. Fred Fry, chairman of Tenby United RFC, told fellow members of the Borough Council’s general purposes committee that the club was proposing to spend £6,000 on field improvements and facilities.

Showing at the South Beach: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris in ‘The Moving Target.’ At the De Valence Pavilion: Pop dancing to The Prospects.