From our archives:

85 years ago

“One of the dangers of our present day life was that we live too much on the surface, without digging deeply and finding the true values of things,” said Mrs Arnold Rowntree when she opened the annual sale of work promoted by the York and District Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society in St George’s Hall, York.

Mr Burnett, who presided, said the Society was trying to clear its overdraft, to obtain a more comfortable and inspiring place for these people to live in and to add to the amenities that they had at the institute.

A well-developed pig with two heads had been born on the farm of Mr G H Rymer, of Bagby, near Thirsk.

The animal was one of a litter of 14, and lived only a few seconds after birth. Its mother was a Yorkshire sow.

50 years ago

Once again the top prize for the Evening Press Mark the Ball competition was a ready-for-the road car, a De-Luxe Morris Mini, taxed for 12 months and insured from the day it was handed over.

The winner could either take the car or £550 in cash.

All the lucky one had to do was to put a cross in the right place.

Selby Business and Professional Women’s Club held its international night where candles representing countries throughout the world were lit.

One of the guests was Mme Marie Claire Bassaber a teacher at Selby Girls’ High School, from Paris, who lit a candle on behalf her native country.

Fulford Parish Council had been told that its burial charges were still ‘frozen’.

Due to increased costs and the fact that there had been no rise since 1962, the council was planning to put up the scale of burial fees and charges at Fulford Cemetery, but thankfully then came the freeze.

20 years ago

York City faced a triple slam of Football Association discipline against manager Alan Little chairman Douglas Craig and Secretary Keith Usher.

All three had been reported to the FA by referee Terry Heibron after a stormy climax to City’s 1-1 draw at home to Luton Town.

Roads Minister John Watts announced at a press conference in Malton that a complete new junction at one of North Yorkshire’s worst accident blackspots, needed to be built to make it safer for villagers to cross the busy stretch of A64.