The tee shirt was the prize in a money raising effort by the Buckingham branch of the Gateway Building Society, in association with the Northampton branch.
The branches had joined in the appeal for donations for the Stoke Mandeville Hospital spinal injuries centre, for which Jimmy Savile was trying to raise 10 million pounds.
Everyone who handed in cash received a ticket and ticket number 30 was the lucky winner of the T-shirt.
The enterprise brought in £200 and Mrs Sheila Carter and Mrs Janet Mee, members of the branch staff, and a few friends went along to Stoke Mandeville to hand the cheque over.

Also in 1980:

...SEBASTIAN Coe won the 1500 metre race at the Moscow Olympics.

...LILLINGSTONE Lovell parishioners - a small but united community - are having a do-it-yourself campaign to repair their church roof after it's been stripped, using £395 raised at their church fete.

100 YEARS AGO

A WORTHY old lady offers the following advice to girls: "Whenever a fellow pops the question, don't blush and stare at your feet. Just throw your arm around his neck, look him full in the face, and commence talking about the furniture."

A VERY pleasant afternoon was spent on Thursday afternoon in the meadow near Tingewick Mill, the occasion being the treat in connection with the Congregational Sunday School when between 70 and 80 sat down to tea.

OWING to the dangerous condition of the spire, Mr W Larkins, Steeple-Jack, has been engaged to begin the work of repair at once. The cost of the work will be £155.

50 YEARS AGO

OVER 30 holiday makers, many of whom were going to Bletchley Show, had an hour's wait on Buckingham Railway Station on Bank Holiday Monday when the diesel rail-car which left Banbury at 11.05am broke down at Brackley.

MR Henry Brooke, Minister of Housing and Local Government, has drawn the attention of local authorities to the Litter Act 1958, which enpowers them all as from August 7th to prosecute people who drop litter.

ADDRESSING a recent meeting of the Buckingham Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society the chairman said that although the society had been carrying on its work for 154 years, it was no longer expanding. The society had demands for Bibles which would cost over £1,000,000 and they only had about £900,00 to print them.

25 YEARS AGO
PRINCE Charles, accompanied by the Princess of Wales, opened the new spinal injuries centre in Stoke Mandeville hospital, Aylesbury, on August 3.
FIVE 16-year-olds from the Royal Latin School, Buckingham, are building a computer-controlled robot which they hope will win BP Oil's £2,000 Buildarobot Competition in October.