Tenby blamed a Spring Holiday switch for a poor Whitsun.

Ald. Ivor Crockford told a public meeting that Tenby was thinking big in terms of a sports centre on the site of the Clicketts Lane tip.

The rail service to and from South Pembrokeshire was disrupted when it was discovered that thieves had plundered the rail side telephone wires for copper.

The Harold Jackson Award, presented annually by the Rotary Club for the outstanding member of one of Tenby’s youth organisations, was won by Venture Scout and pupil of Greenhill County Secondary School, David Blackmore.

New captain of Tenby United Rugby Club was Mike Fry, their bearded number eight forward. Mike, who was 28, was a regular choice for the county side.

After seven months aboard the Royal Research Ship, Shackleton, in the Antarctic, Chief Radio Officer Michael Crockford was back home in Tenby. Michael was the son of Tenby’s Mayor and Mayoress, Alderman Ivor Crockford and Mrs. Crockford.

The Hean Castle Hotel, much under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Caine and family, had proven itself Saundersfoot’s most popular close season licensed premises, opened a new bar in time to cater for the influx of summer visitors.

Showing at the South Beach: Warren Beatty and Susannah York in Kaleidoscope; at the Royal Playhouse: Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison in The Agony of The Ecstasy; at the De Valence Pavilion: Pop dancing to Lot 39.