How attitudes to race have changed since this edition of the Warrington Guardian!
The Warrington five-piece pop group Smiley had just recorded their first disk - and when they were a four-piece, they were called Gollywog.
Meanwhile, the TV listings for Sunday - one three only channels available and there was no breakfast TV - advertised the Black and White Minstrel show at 10.15pm on BBC 2.
The big education story of the week was the occupation of the admin wing of Padgate College, now Warrington Collegiate, by 200 students.
They alleged that a charity concert by Hot Chocolate in aid of UNICEF had been stopped by the college authorities.
And some of the roads for the new town future were well on their way.
£630,000 had been put down for the "Grange District Distributor" (Woolston Grange Avenue) and work began next month.
A map showed it crossed the route of the "probably Northern Expressway" - now known at Birchwood Expressway.
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