· The Oounty Executive of the Irish Red Cross Society sent congratulations tJo the Letterkenny branch on the success of the laitter's Red Cross 1Week. ·The Raphoa Diocese celebrated the ·Golden Jubilee of .St. Eunan's Ca thedr~l and on·the same occasion a new·chapel was opened and dedicated.. at St. Eunan's College by His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. MaicNeely, Bishop of Raphioe. Mr. M1ichae1l O'Craidhin. C.E..O.. in the course of his annual report to the County Vocational Education Committee called for the expansi·on of rural science classes. : A 'J:'. B. research and x-cr-ay uni1t toured the county. St. Naills junior footba.U team and Donegal juvenile football tePi:rn WOP the county ohaimipioniship in their respe1c1tive grades. The County Council announced plans for the re-'organisation of fire fig9ting services throughout tlhe county and it was stated that with the purchase of neiw equipment the cost would be £26,000. Mr. Tadg O'Mah1ony, town clerk, Letterkenny, was appointed tQlw.n 1clerk, Arklow. Mr. ·M. J. Philliips, distri'ct court clerk at Ballyshannon \';as appointed to a similar position at Clonmel. MT. iSE•an Lema-ss, Minister for Industry and Commerce, received a civic welcome 1wihen he visited Buncrana, where he spoke at a Aeiidheacht to lnark the cel,ebration by the East Doneg1al Comhairle Ceannt1air of the silver jubilee of Fianna Fail. A carpet weighing over twelve hundred-weights, which took over five weeks to oom;plete, was woven at the Killybegs carpet factory for Pri.neess Eliz1abeth. Damage ·estimated at £.1,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a two-storey slated house 1at Rathmullan. ·The death took plaice at Dun:flanaghy, when he was on a visit, of Mt. M. J. M1cManus, the noted author. ·Mr. G. · Bartley, T.D., Parliamentary Secretary, announced, ;during his visit to Killybegs, that it was planned to erect a fish meal jfa1atory there. Much inconvenience in East, South and South West Donegal was occasioned by the lengthly strike wihiich halted the G.N.R. bus service f-0r six weeks. Art; a meeting of Killybegs Harb1our Board it was decided to make an effort to step up the volume of shipping traffic using the port'. It was pointed out that imports of such commodities as tar for road making could be iJmported via the port. T·he County Oomm.ittee of Agrilcul:ture announced at the mronthlY meeting that· the three. candidates from the counity rwho sat for the 377.
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