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Friday 22 March 1963
Half the world’s population - 1,500 million people - are desperately hungry this morning. Three out of every twenty are starving. Show-business personalities are backing the Freedom From Hunger campaign. They include Sheila Hancock, disc jockey Brian Matthew, Acker Bilk and pianist Mrs Mills. They have set a target to raise £2,500,000 for the campaign.
More babies are born in March than any other month of the year. Over the past ten years, the pattern of March babies has changed only once, in 1953 when May was the biggest month for babies. Why March? One theory states that couples recapture their honeymoon magic on summer holidays. Another theory states that couples plan their babies for March as a beat-the-tax plan - a baby born in March gives its parents a tax-rebate on the child allowance.
As the number of typhoid cases in Britain claimed to 35 yesterday, a restaurant and coffee-bar were closed by order of Dr Parker, Brighton’s medical officer because a man employed at both establishments has developed typhoid. Customers are being traced, including students at the University of Sussex and Brighton Technical College.
This week, 7,260 workers at Kodak will share a bonus of £1,216,000. The annual share-out was started in 1912, and was missed in only one year - 1943.
London Transport are to test an automatic underground train driver system on the District Line next month, but drivers will still go along in case the robots fail. The robots control the trains by electrical signals fed into the rails and read by electronic equipment in the cabs.
Television highlights: Royal Shakespeare Company - As You Like It. The Perfect Horse with David Attenborough. What’s New with Peter West.
Radio highlights: Piano Party. Announcements.
Weather: cold and cloudy with some snow. Maximum temperature 5c, 41f.