25 YEARS AGO/1982
Bomb blasts Newtownstewart
NEWTOWNSTEWART's Main Street was devastated by a 200lb car bomb at tea-time last Monday. Fortunately no one was injured on a day when a renewed IRA campaign throughout the North killed an 11-year-old boy and left 17 people in hospital.
The bomb, which was in a car abandoned beside the Northern Bank at the Omagh Road and Main Street junction, caused considerable blast damage to 50 business premises and private houses. The car had earlier been hijacked in Strabane.
The explosion – at 5.33pm – ripped a gaping hole in the side of the bank, wrecking the interior, and also demolished a wall of the Reform Stores supermarket at the opposite corner, and both building could well have to be demolished.
Early Tyrone goal decisive
TYRONE advanced to a quarter-final Dr McKenna Cup meeting with Antrim in Casement Park on March 28 when they ran out 1-6 to 0-6 winners over neighbours Fermanagh in a dour contest played at Healy Park last Saturday.
The only goal of the game came from Kevin McCabe, which eventually proved to be the decisive score at the end. It came quite early in the match and it gave Tyrone and edge which they were never to surrender despite a determined effort from Fermanagh.
50 YEARS AGO/1957
'What is a mobile shop?'
OMAGH's Urban Councillors have been asked to define what they mean by "a mobile shop." A resolution calling on the government to tax mobile shops which the council passed some months ago, had a mixed reception when it was circulated to other public authorities in the six counties, many of whom were in doubt as to what was a mobile shop.
At Monday's meeting of the Urban Council, Mr W. J. Hamilton said that while promising to make inquiries into the problem of mobile shops and the council's view that they had an unfair advantage over the ordinary businessman, the Association of Municipal Authorities wanted the council to define a mobile shop.
Mr M. Hackett said that in his opinion it was those vehicles that visited housing estates and were constructed with display windows and shelves. Customers could go into them, like into a shop.
Dungannon Shots
SHOTS were fired early on Tuesday at a sentry on guard at the Territorial Army Barrack, Castle Hill, Dungannon. The sentry returned fire and three men were seen running away from a wall near the barrack. Two others escaped under a barbed wire fence. The major portion of the barrack was destroyed by explosives on January 18. It is now being rebuilt.
75 YEARS AGO/1932
Castlederg joyrider
AT CASTLEDERG petty sessions on Saturday, before Captain Gosselin, RM, John Gallagher, Castlederg, was prosecuted for using a motor car without a policy of insurance on February 12, for not having a driver's licence and with taking the car without the owner's consent.
Joseph McAteer, a motor mechanic, said he left his car in the Market Yard. Later he had occasion to stop in Victoria Bridge and, while there, a car he immediately recognised as his own passed on the way to Strabane. Witness shouted on the driver to stop but he failed to do so. Witness then got a conveyance to Sion Mills where he informed the police.
West Tyrone GAA league
THE West Tyrone Board of the GAA made a definite advance when, on Tuesday night at Killyclogher, delegates from all the clubs in the area met for the purpose of running a league competition during the present year.
For all practical purposes, it is the first occasion on which the West Tyrone Board had been in a sufficiently healthy state to embark on so ambitious a scheme and, judging by the keen interest by the various clubs, it is safe to say the project will be attended with no small amount of success.
The meeting also had before its consideration the referee's report in connection with the match recently played in Fintona, between the team representing the latter place and Augher. In the course of the report, an allegation was made as regards the conduct of certain spectators at the match in question.
100 YEARS AGO/1907
Confined for two years
ON FRIDAY, before Mr Justice Madden, John Gilmore of Enniskillen pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him of with having, on February 4, unlawfully and maliciously injured a window in Townhall Street, and doing damage to the extent of £7. Gilmore was further charged that he was an habitual drunkard, and to this charge he pleaded not guilty and also pleaded that he had been a long time in prison.
The jury found that Gilmore was guilty, and his Lordship said he was enabled by Act of Parliament to send the prisoner to a place where he might possibly be cured of what really was a disease. The prisoner would be sent to jail for two weeks, and afterwards he would be sent to the Ennis Inebriates Home for two years.
Suffering ended by Zam-Buk
MR ALFRED Garner of Colville Road, Birmingham, gave a full account of his suffering from piles, and his wonderful cure by Zam-Buk.
"Although troublesome, the hemorrhoids were dry at first and did not prevent me from following my employment. A local doctor said he would soon put me right. As time went on, however, I got worse and soon my strength began to fail me. I tried all kinds of advertised remedies but none could give relief. How I used to crawl to work was a wonder. At last I made my mind to give Zam-Buk a trial. A small quantity was so cooling and soothing that I purchased a large box. Although the contents of 12 boxes was needed to completely cure me, I was more than satisfied with the result."
– CATHAL McQUAID
