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liviiNO DRIVE SCHOOL on ” :


JER 6th, 1959 7-30. p.m..


J |alloris Petrol, and others.


fduding Supper) ! .; returning at 10-40 p.m.


;n g a s b o a r d : & CABARDlkE 'als4— la i jh tc t i ie c :HUDA7, OCTOBER 30th, 1969'


Lighting of Vehicies: ; 5-1# n.m. to 6"39 a.nt; '


sound sense 'when he told his Council this week that the majority o f ' their decisions


TlfR. L. D. TELFORD, Clerk IvX to Bowland RJD.C., spoke


could be released immediately instead of having to wait a month until the full meeting of the Council.


roe Rural Councils hold their committee meetings immediately following the monthly Council meeting. This means that’-the decisions do not come up Tor con­ firmation until the following month.


Both Bowland and Clithe-


meetings tend to become “ rubber! stamp’’ affairs as major committees are formed of all members of the Council. The Council are merely


The result Is that the


“APPLE-PIE Ora)ER” WAS MIRTH-MAKER


N.U.T. PRESmENT A T SPEECH DAY


Charact^i^urage, Courtesy, Curiosity X.ane Hall bn 'Vlfedne^ay.


School, giv& byi Miss A. F. Cooke,'presiderit of the National Union of Teachers,, a t the annual speebh day in: King.


TrODK -“Cs ’’ and not thtM " R’a ’' p n ^ e d tbe'-fflbject Of ail dddtess to the children of Ribblesdale Modern


'


The first “Cf’ wdS character—the mo^t Important pro- uct of educatlbn, and Miss Cooke referred to the way


clever or pretty they could all ■be courteous and that meant


being, polltej and, ihavlng. con­ sideration (or their 'friends, their schoolteachers, parents and strangers. I I


‘


irig other;people 'and you will find others wllj help you. Those , who bring sunshine Into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves,’’ she said. : ■'!


!“Get Into a habit of help- I ' .


have delegated powers which means ithey can act without waiting for the full meeting of the Council.


formallv agreeing to some- hing which has already been thrashed out in committee. In some cases, committees


Members ,of the cast; Left to right. .Standing: i Freda Jolly, Merie Woods, Florence Bowskill Bill Hughes. Seatei: Frank; Ridehalgh, Edward Horsfield, Enid Butcher, Ellen Mills. Kneeling; Frank Butcher.


I '


coming before the open meet­ ing of the Council also means that some of the matters have alreadv been dealt with, and yet! the Council still has to “ approve ’’ them.


agreed to do certain things— p e r h i a p s just concerning minor matters—and yet the people concerned know they have i been done.' . Readers cannot i understand- it and wonder i why the Press are late with “ news ’’ of Council affairs.


ridiculous situation of reports appearing In, the local Press that the Council have


We therefore have the


problem' would be by Councils agreeing to release the news as sooni as possible after the committee meetings without waiting! for the full Council to meet.


.Ohfe way of solving the JL


Demonstration given In the;


A ; . )omS;i Castle: Street


iNEJXT, Nov. 3rd 2-30 p.m.


j


have ample opportunity of knowing what their elect^ representatives planned to do on matters of general interest and of being able to speak to Councillors about them before the decisions came before the monthly meeting.


Ratepayers w o u l d .then


remeihber that, lii, the final reckoning, they are the ser­ vants and not the masters of the public, and one of their duties |ls to let the public know what they are doing before they do It.


*


rPHE Mayor of CUtheroe ■*- Coun. J. Entwistle, spoke


Master, Bakers’ Association held a t Clltheroe on Saturday I t was stated, that the nev


ISH CHURCH STT present—


JiDNESS” (Part 3) fee-Act Comedy


ROOST”


Ik' GREEN lURCH SCHOOL


)AY .SATURDAY h,! 13th'and 14th


&l/6;Unr^rvedl/- idJ Thursday) '!


p.m. h


'


day School on Tues., Wed., I30 to 4-30;-7-30; to 9-30 p.tfi.


ICH PLAYERS tN r - O B L E


ERSET.MAUGHAM ^Grenet-Dancburt)


:CHOOL, WHALLEY


6 SATURDAY 12th, 13 th '& 14th


IP p.m. sday to Friday 2/6


Oder Half-Price). Hi Seats 3/-;


|Mr. P. 'Whitaker’s, King St., - November 6th,!


| ^ ■ >


a t i; thb<;+jannuAl.,o4teM B l a c k b u r n and 'DlSmct


bakeryi school at Blackburr Technical College was seconc to none m the country.


claimed to be the backbone o: the trdde, and much re-think­ ing would have tb be done If the baking trade was to remain in its present form.


The I small baker was


Post" and “Preston Guardlanl’ and a free-lance jo um ap t


ifepresentatlve In CUtheroi! for t h e ,“ Lancashire Evening


a .ldJ frank dugdale. Park Avenue,, fClltheroe,


and former Mayor of Cllthe ­ roe. left £3,915 (£3,768 net. duty ps4d £36)'.


, ^ , ,


died on May 29th, after being confined to bed for more thai


a yeek with heart trouble. ; . ■ *>■■■ I


i;.. #


XjVlLLOWINp the deiiarturb of the : ! Rew-Ft.': f ; li.;


. Vavasour, S.J., a new rep r^ ■ sentative for Clltheroe, Rur^l District CouncU', from the parish of Alg h ^ to n , Ballw and Chalgley, Is to be


appointed. If an election Is, necessary


polling will'!be on November


24th at Hurst Green ,0. of K School,. between 12 noon anjd 8 p.m.


' ! * , *


;A JUMBLk, SALE In tl|e ■^ school oh Friday raised


t Mothers’ Union. * *. ; *


£ 2 7 :4s. for the funds pf Clltheroe P a r i s h Churq.


ORGANISED by the QuaU ^ Street c o m m i t t e e , coffee morning in Clltheroe


* ' * , Aid. Dugdale, who was 64. theft


; trates’i Court yesterday. Insp. Taylor said Thoiln-


f ’tHARGED with stealing, i n ^ estate car! worth, £1,210 from Clltheroe, a 26-year-o Id Sklptoh' dumper driver/ t ie fatoerj i of four children, Rlch'ard N eP n Thornton, w m remanded In custody un;ll tomorrow, Saturday, when le appeared,:; at Clltheroe Mag s-


ixm'lmd broken the hasp of the .garage doors at MUle:'s- dene. Whalley Road, the ho:ne of Mr. Donald Blackburn, apd taken:the car


offence Thornton was auered to have repUed "Yes, we did


Wheh charged with (he


take the car and I am v in sorry.” ! Asking for he remand; Insp. Taylor said further enquiries were neejes^ sary.


Parish Church School on Saturday raised about .£^6 for church funds. ! *


amount collected In the


roe Wesley Church during t p annual house-to-house collec­


REMEMBRANCE


[iety Choir & Orchestra HAAIMOND.;


H' THOMAS. NOWAKOWSKI '.CE TATTERSALL


qrmance of ■ ! ' ' I E M 115 p.m


MBER 12th, 1959 ; '


: JEORGE’S HALL


ixter, Ltd., 72, King William f,4/-. Area: 5/-, 4/-, 3/|-, 2/-.


.-*■ district covered by CUthte-


recently, was : £3^ T p amount collected, in the to'jro


tion for the N a t l o h p Children’s Home and O rp h p - age, held In CU th e^


as a whole has yet to announced.


* * ,*


68, Whalley R o a d , CUtheioe; - who will be 83 on Sunday, Oddle,


■DIRTHDAY GREETINGS Miss Bridget McHale,


Waddlngton, who will ^ be on Wednesday: and to Thomas Jsimes Holgate, o:! Top Row, Downham, who ^


be 87 on Thursday. •PHIS 'WEEK’S


road safety SLOQAU Make haste slowly


. Overbeck,^ 90


JJr,:. 3


to of


At the Dairy Show


"nAVlD KAY, of Greenglore, ^ Hufst Green, is - at the National Dairy Show, Oltim.- pla,! as a member of Lancashire ;Fariners.


the ung


and Ayrshire cows on Friday in the lunlor section of the Y.F. Inter-county competi Ion. ..Robin Clark, of West Bjcad-


Hb is judging S hortpm


fbrd,'. Is reserve with team. \


[ ; I ,


Club heard the fourth series of lectures on ar.


Young Farmers ON Wednesday, membei s of


husbandry, given by Rlchatdson, iof the Cqunty


Institute of Agriculture, Mr. i Alan Coates predlded.


Crompton.


A ,vote of thanks was proj rased by Mr. ^ b e r t -Berry seconded'* hv ir


Stole and sold it


A 37-YEAR-OLD -Chatbum


McDonald, of 21, Bridge Road, was given a conditional dis­ charge at Clltheroe Magis­ trates’ Court yesterday for dealing a £9 15s. extension


ladder. He was ordered to p a y £1 16s. 3d. costs.


general de a ' l e r ; CyrU Councillors must : always The time lag in the minutes


VILLAGE PLAYERS S |R V E UP THE


Anp^er success by new society „


T ABGE helpings of fun havb bei ■*-^ 'Chatbum iChurch, Institute,


Church Players ended a thre s-night run of David play “ Apple-Pie Order,’’


en served up this week at where last night Chatbrnn Read’s


society, who are fortunate bi having as their director Mrs. Penny Butler, who gained he): experience in the har<l school of the professional stage.


The play was only the se:ond to be presented jy the


j again,, a , Lancashire comedy, I which proved popular with the; audlpces. ,


As with their first presenta­ tion, this year’s choice was


! The, story centres around a wbrklhg-tolass family on a new Council estate, .and has a theme of “ When the cat’s away, the mice do play.”


'Ing out' the humour of each sltuatlonl,


excellent! characterisation, as the mother of the., family whe ends up on television because of the way she makes apple pies. ■ ;


, Freda ; Jolly - gave an


Frank Butcher as her hus­ band. Both kept the 'fur moving nicely without over­


She got good support fron


’^ ricle ' Nat HehsKaw, ' whose main Interests In life seemed to be! beer and apple pie.


under^temdlng to the part o: tth&rMcflfeble-,ijoharactep-; o !


doing ifc: Edward Horsfield brough,


' Credit! must go to Florenc: Bowskill i for almost stealln; the show with her perform­ ance as the talkative neigh­ bour, Rosie Roscoe.


’Hughes’, turned,In a pollshei performance as 'a televlsloi personality.


the part of the home help in breezy ' fashion and had t l e


EnldButcher swept througi car role of jBeryl Poster, and B11


POLISHED PEEFORMANCE Ellen!Mills did well In th j


Metal ttierchaiit is cleared


from a Clitheroe mill was fbund not guilty of stealing at the Lancashire ■ Quarter Sessions at Preston.


,


aged 31. of School . Lane, Gul,de, who had . pleaded not guilty to stealing 2icwts. of sirap lead, 401bs. of scrap copper wire and t t metal container from Sun Street Mill, Clltheroe.


He ’ was WIRlani Holden,


that .Holden; called at the mill oh Autost, 14th' and. dls- chssed the 'purchase of the scrap with the manager, but no* price was arranged. -


Prosecution yrltnesses' said


Holden returned with a car ahd took away the scrap and the container.


i During the dinner hour, '


,cbntalner behind. .. - s I Holden, giving ■ -evidence,


to a Blackburn scrap dealer for £10 8s. and left the


with the manager he believed lie was In order in, collecting the scrap. He weltoed it in


aid after his conversation


and ihtended to return on the following Monday ^ t h the weigh ticket to settle : up.


He sold the lead and copper


BLACKBURN metal merchant who Wok scr,ap


The cast made full use of their opportunities for bring-


audience Irigly- The younger element of the


laughing.


accord- J.'.. ;


society was represented by nice p e r f o rm a n c e s from Frank Ridehalgh. as , Teddle Foster, and Valerie Woods, as the teenage roc’n’rpll fan Lbrna Roscoe.


for her work as director, and credit must also be i^ven for the work done ! by an e h t h u s l - a s t i c behlnd-the- scenes staff.


iMrs. Butler must be praised


Fred Mercer, assistant stage managers: Connie Stafford, properties; Constance Free­ man, Prompter; MrA A. Hud/ sbn. booking agent; Mr. T. F. Butler, publicity photographs;


a ' j s s l s t a n t producer: -Ted Boden; Michael Butcher and


These were; Audrey Stretoh, R.W. ■)[he d tout^ the “witch”


country anon


'it


rarely lour wheejs traverse the roads and tracks whlOh girdle its well rounded flanks.


NSIDERING how close )ur! homes lie to Pendle, is rather surprising how


planned to rectify to some extent, this omission. So, riding i to Barrow and thence to Wlswell. we headed up the first of the dayls tracks.


Our I run onl Sunday was


Hill,' from the brest of which we had a wonderful view of t h e ! viaduct at| Whalley, and then, spuming I the easy way which have takjen us to Port- field Bar, we turned left, and alternately riding,! walking and; dodging stretches of bog, we came to Wilkin Hey, and not! far from there met the main road ipst below the Nlck-o-Pendle.


This one took us over Clerk


this one leading us through Heyhouses before It Climbed the! far! side of the. valley to Hill iiv)p, where |we again found ourselves back on the road,! with only a few miles between us and Roughlee, where \j:e halted for lunch.


to reach Sabden where failed “ eleyei second


ses,” of the


in so we i took


day’s tracks. search


chattering of a i jackdaw brought us to a i halt, but- though |We waited patiently It remalrfed silent as; 'we clus­ tered round Its cage and it wasn^t untlj we moved away that it suddenly I screeched “Help, help” and announced “ I’m a! Jackdaw," I but tact­ ful).- refrained frora saying what i t ' "


As I we' were leaving, the thought we were. reading After


couldn’t I fathom, and that led us lover! some very rough open moorland to begin ■with, but later; Itl Improved | somewhat arid eventually brought us out near Glsbum, wnere we decided;! to have tea as It looked very much like rain.


and last: track for the day, one that out ' map called “ Coal Pit Track”—why, we


a session! -at map we chose our third


An almost gale-force head­


wind ' ahd showers of rain made us very, glad that we had only a short distance to- gb after tea,: and Clltheroe was reached 'Quite early in the evening, i


Irigleton' and Its Falls, leaving Clltheroe a t 9 a.m


'Next i ! Sunday GEARS ’’ evue helps IO.A.P.


Age Pensions’ Association, a variety i revue' wasj presented ih St. :l James’s School last week.


A RRANGEd ! by Ihe Cllthe- roe'' branch of the Old


conipere and the artistes were Barbara 'Towriley, of Black- burh, 'The Martians (skiffle), Anrie B r l e r l e y (soprano), Freddie! Ashe (comedian), John Hornby (adcordlonlst),


Mr. -Raymond Grice was


Brian Townend (pianist) and prhe Little Sunbeams (dan­ cers) ' t r a i n e d SjcNichpl. I


McDonald called on , a Mrs. J. E. Sutton at Whalley for the laldder somethne In July tod said he had seea her son about It.


I Insp. W. T a y l o r said McDonald' asking for the


for It was made. Mrs. Sutton wrote


About £8 I was !O.AlP. funds.' raised we visit


It on: y took a few seconds a


we for the


This did' not nleah fighting battles with guns' or fighting In the, school playground but courage to standi up for what was right I even! when they were .not very !popular for doing so.


The third' “ C "iwas courage.


right, never mind what other people) say,” she said. They should; also'have; the courage- to own up when they were In the wrong, arid jnever try to make but' It was the fault of someone else,


“ If 'you know a thing is j


curiosity, iaiid by! this she did not mearl poking one’s nose Into other people’s affairs but curiosity - which | made them wonder and want to know about the world 'in general. .


MlsSi Cooke’s last “ C ” was


understand other people m the world—for she felt sure they had' funny! Ideas about other I people Iri file world just as other people had about themselves.


\ ^ I NO MONOCLE She related an experience


in America, when' she was asked; by an! Oklahoma scholar if she wore a monocle. After-.feplylng t ^ t


IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND


.of course WHII^T DRIVE


Fine summer-yet : Dfeboats had record I calls


rpHE following letter has ! been received by Mrs. W-


Heaton, o f Closes Hall, Bolton-by-Bowland, In. con­ nection ;wlth 'the Clltheroe alnd district branch of the Royal r , National Life-Boat Institution:


' j Dear Mrs. Heaton, I have


just I received j from' your tionorary treasurer the state- i)ient| of accbinjts , of our • Clltheroe and District branch.


tI One remaxkalile fact about


he past year lias been that Ithough the iw'eather was X c a p t i o n a l l y good and eteorologlsts fclalmed that


the Slimmer was the best for ^8 years, month after month there] were feitord numbers i f cajls on llfe-Jboats.


. That a man who serves In


4 Ufe-boat .today may ' be bxpectfid to be!called out to the irescue three times as often! his father or grand­ father before him notv- seems to Inescapable if act, and, for this' reason particularly .the work)' of those who raise money for the [Service is all


the inore valuable, all the pore! necessaryi and all the more;;welcome..


! lYe!,, -are .. all


delighted that has 'had such year,':,,and our pre due to you


your, branch a successful best thanks your commit­


therefore


tee, and all those who worked for you and helped you.


Yours sincerely,


D. Burnett Brown, Secretary.


Film show A HOLIDAY film show was


Bowler In Wesley School, Clltheroe, ori ' ■ Wednesday. Proceeds were I for the forth­ coming Christmas fair.


given by I Mr. Kenneth A JUMBLE SALE held by


Columba and on'Saturday raised nearly £9 towards the'children’s Christ-


Ijumhlb sale ijihe KnI


masl party. aI He took the ladder but no


rrangement' about paying t h r e e letters to


tetum of' the ladder but he 4.A -flref onH


tojured,***W**wuld bring I t


back when his thumb had PD.ied said the Inspector.


, fact'heTad'sbld tJie ladder to Clltheroe'Young Panaers’


two pieces to two ’ different men, one for £ 2 ' and the other for £2 5s. !


I McDonald claimed that-he had made a hire purchase


)


agreement with. Mrs. Sutton but no amount; had been fixed.


h i r 'n w e 'to d address on It and If he Intended to^teal the. ladder he woiild hardly !aave done that, he said.


lb ( ( ft C U M B O N 'TO R(^OF T O lfe c i| J E W O U N D ED P l( lE O N


escape to rescue the bird, nitthprop iMaUistrates were


air pistol within Tnm'll'nf Tttvlnr


s a id th a t a


t o l a inelghbour Square] Clitheroe nth ' iVhen i shd


in WUKin on August saw the


for wounding the pigeon and •a,, further 50 feet of a


told this verterday, when £ i ' i lor nnng an


in S. CATHERINE’S SUNDAY SCHOOL, West Bradford


SATURDAY, Nov, 7th at 7-30 p.m.


Admission 2/6


(includlilg Refreshments) G l L t e l AND


■ 'SULLIVAN’S'


“lOLANTHE” (by permission of


BRIDGET D'OYLY CARTE)


Ribblesdale Secondary Modern Schoipil DECEMBER


9th . 10 th . nth . 12th |.


People we!re turned away last year.'B(X)K EARLY and avoid dls)iRpolntment. •


Dowi


Church Choir - s i


WHIST DRIVE ijr the ;VlLLAGE HALL


I ^ A Y , NOV. 6th i t 7-4§ p.m.


Acjinission 2/6


(Including Refreshments) gIjod prizes


Proceeds (fi aid of ()holr Funds


C.R.GS. Scout Group ANNUAL


WHiST DRIVE in the SCHOOL HALL


AY, NOV. 6th at 7-15 .p.m. ' '


A|dmission 2/6


Including Home-made Supper. jOIFT. STALL,


Peudleion Parish Church , A'


This would help them to'


MEN’ ^ EFFORT FEMDAK, NOV. 6fli


HOT POT, SUPPER, 6-30 p.m. WHIST &':liOMIlilOES, 8 p.m. DAiNCING'


Admission 3/6 Dance Only 1/6


10-30 p.m.


this should be developed during a chlld’4 time at school. 'iTOllst they coiijd not all be


she'dldn’t wear a monocle the child said i Oh gee, I thought all English people wore monocles!”


speech, Mls> Cooke had some­ thing to say to the parents: about television; reading; the 11-plus exsiminatlon and the General Certificate of Educa­ tion.


In a bright, informal


She conpuded with some


remarks about the Press, criticising newspapers, the national P];ess in particular, for giving too much space to the activities of Teddy Boys and not enough to- .the tremendous, developments In education since the war.


' sided and Introduced the chief guest,


AU HaUbws UjOWS . Mitton


Miss E. k Garnett, chpr-^ man of the governors, pre-


SALE of WORK I llM ^ will be held In


Doors Open 2-30 p.m.


W STALL . MEN’S STALL ClAKE and PRODUCE .


•;, WiHITE elephant ADMISSION:


Adults 6d.; Children 3d.


Refreshments at a Reasonable j charge. ■


Bus leaves Wellgate 1-50 p.m.


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