At one stage it rose to almost 11m but there has been a fallback in the trade, partly due to a change in the industrial circumstances of the South Wales area and also due to a recession caused by the closing down of tinplate mills and the general downward trend in the shipping industry.He had no qualms in co-operating with other South Wales MPs, in particular James Callaghan, then Labour MP for Cardiff South East, and George Thomas, Labour MP for Cardiff West, in trying to make sure that Cardiff, Barry and Swansea were not to be abandoned as ports of importance in favour of Port Talbot. In his maiden speech on 11 May 1960, he put a powerful case for the expansion of the Port of Swansea: The Port of Swansea also has a very good general cargo trade. It was while studying to become a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Chartered Auctioneers’ and Estate Agents’ Institute that he became active in the Young Conservatives.In the 1959 general election on a turnout of 82.1 per cent he beat the veteran Labour MP Percy Morris by 24,043 to 23,640 votes. When I arrived at a by-election in the House of Commons in 1962 Hugh Rees was the Welsh whip and the golden boy of Welsh Conservative politics. As Sir Keith Joseph’s Parliamentary Private Secretary he had been marked out for great things.

It is the opinion of Alan Williams MP, who defeated him in 1964, that, had Rees not been so committed to Swansea, he would have been found a safe Conservative seat at an early opportunity in England.Hugh Rees was born in 1928 into a professional family in Swansea, where he attended the Parc Wern School and Glanmor Secondary School. John Edward Hugh Rees, politician and chartered surveyor: born Swansea 8 January 1928; MP (Conservative) for Swansea West 1959-64; PPS to Sir Keith Joseph 1961-62; Assistant Government Whip 1962-64; chairman, Cambrian Housing Society 1968-2003; chairman, Abbey Housing Association 1980-92; married 1961 Gillian Milo-Jones (deceased; two sons); died Swansea 1 December 2003. Again for Hope, he and Hal Kanter wrote Here Come the Girls (1953) and Casanova’s Big Night (1954).At this point, Hartmann abandoned films to write and produce for television. His work for the small screen included The Eve Arden Show, the Henry Fonda series The Smith Family, and the long-running Fred MacMurray sitcom My Three Sons.

In the 1960s he became National Chairman of the Writers Guild of America. In 1988 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where in 1999 the Santa Fe Critics Circle presented him with the Golden Chili Lifetime Achievement Award.Discussing comedy-writing in a New Mexico newspaper, Hartmann said, “You can either do it or you can’t It can’t be taught.”Dick Vosburgh. After collaborating with Jack Sher on the Hope/Hedy Lamarr espionage spoof My Favorite Spy (1951), Hartmann and Danny Arnold scripted The Caddy (1953), a feeble Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis vehicle best remembered, if at all, for the song “That’s Amore”. Next, he and Tashlin wrote The Paleface (1948), Bob Hope’s biggest-ever box-office hit. As Painless Potter, a cowardly correspondence-school dentist from the east pretending to be a tough hombre from the west, (“Gimme four fingers of rye,” he growls at a saloon barkeeper, “and gimme the thumb too!”), the comedian went to the summit of the popularity charts.Hartmann helped him write another comic western, Fancy Pants (1951), co-starring Lucille Ball, as well as a brace of Hope forays into the world of Damon Runyon: Sorrowful Jones (1949) and The Lemon Drop Kid (1951).