. THE YEARS IN RETROSPECT Features ·()f 1951. JANUARY The fight against T.B. was hrouglht a step furither by the _opening of the new sanatorium at Killybegs in the reconsitructed fiormc·r industrial school. Tihe .count y learned, through reports from a County Council meeting, that to put the r.oads in a prQPer state of repair the st·aggering sum of £3 million would be required. Ballint:ra motorists were successful in their years-old struggle to have a petrol pump installed in the village. Their success heartened other small centres in the 1county to persevere in s:imilar agitations. Business cirdes in the county exiperienrced much difficulty during the bank strike whiiah lasited six weeks. The month was notable for a revival of inter~st in amateur theaitricals. Pantomimes were held, by local groups, at Ballyshannon, Bundoran, Letterkenny and Mountcharles. An all-Irish drama festival 1was ~ielJ at three centres, Carrick, Kilear, and Glencolurmbkille. Very Rev. D. Canon McGratih, for twenty-three years parish rpriest of Bundoran o.nd a native of Grouselodge, Pettigo, died. The . death also occured this month of another well-known figure in the ciounty, Dr. J. Gormley, Stranorlar. FEBRUARY Fuel was an outstanding problem facing the country and, answering the Government appeal to cut turf to offset coal import cuits Donegal County Council l1aunohed an intensive turf cutting drive. Bundoran found itself in the unusual position of being without a post office for a few days during a change over of premises "My Story" by P,addy the Co-ope, it was announced, is to be publiished in Germany. Very Rev. P. McQuaide, formerly parish priest of Brookborough, · was appointed to succeed the late Very~Rev. Canon McGrath. . 372.
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