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CO Clitheroe is to lose its rail- way link, at least so far as


passengers are concerned. One wonders whether the pub­


lic in general will worry about it —until the/facility is lost.


You will notice I have assumed


that the Hellifleld-Blackburn line will be closed. Of course it will. One might as well expect the executioner to -refuse to hang a man after the judge had passed sentence as expect the Transport Users’ Consultative Committee to go against the British Transport (Commission's proposals.


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Clitheroe and the rest of the valley generally will not use the trains. Many local people em­ ployed in Blackburn, for example, much rather prefer to queue out­ doors in wind, rain or snow for a ’bus which takes 40 minutes for a journey the train does in 20.


Mind you, the railways are


much to blame for the loss of custom. Rail fares are to some extent tied to those of the 'buses —return fares, that is. Single train fare is 2d. dearer than single hus fare (Clitheroe- Blackburn) for some strange reason.


The line has been a Cinderella


for years. Successive station- masters have fought unavailingly against the higher-ups to popular­ ise rail travel— even in the days of much-vaunted private enter­


prise. Tile attitude of the people at


the top is clearly indicated in the notices (riving the closure pro­ posals. They tell us adequate alternative services are available bv bus! Could anything be more ridiculous? Fancy recommending


one's competitors! Do the Electricity Board tell


their customers that the Gas Industry offers alternative ser­ vices: do the gas people recom­ mend coal? Not on your life. They compete for custom and make no bones about it.


Another thing. The alternative 17.


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services mentioned are Ribble Motor Services and Accrington and Blackburn Corporations. It’s lust not true. Ribble. yes: Accrington Corporation, no (not from Manchester or Blackburn). Blackburn Corporation, no. Their buses terminate at the old tram


stop at Wilpshire. Incidentally, the story you


carried on October 27th came from the local Trades Council. Whv not from the Town Council have they not had it?


This brings up another import­


ant point. Closure of the line ■will add yet another to the losses Clitheroe has sustained over the years.


From memory one mentions:


Bruneerley. gas. electricity, and education services and. of course. King Lane Hall. And this list does not include loss of local mills.


One hopes the Town Council


will put up a fierce fight, pro­ vided it is not already too late. For, apart from diminishing the town, loss of rail passenger ser­ vices also diminishes the railway system generally.


Where would the rivers be


without their tributaries? Where will the railways be without feeder services?


On reflection, there seems to J/f&


be a need for all Lancashire towns to join forces on the passenger transport front. Lines all over the county are being shut down, and the Fleetwood- Isle of Man steamer service has gone.


To borrow a famous phrase,


Dr. Beeching’s remedy for the railway’s ailments is not worth a guinea a box.


NEVILLE GARSIDE.


5, Brungcrlcy Avenue, Clitheroe. “ IGNORANT WIVES”


J WAS somewhat astounded at the heading to your report


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re the Girls’ Grammar School speech day in the October 27th issue of the Advertiser and Times: “ Men do not want ignor­ ant wives.” What a rash state­ ment to make.


On reading the article, I dis­


covered that Miss J. Charles- worth, assistant secretary of the Manchester University Appoint­ ments Board, was responsible, but that she was merely stating her belief.


As she is a spinster, I believe


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she has really no authority to speak on the vast problem of marriage.


Encourage the girls to learn all


they can, but do not mislead them into making “ WTong marriages.”


Surely, marriage is not based


on education. Even an ignorant man would look for more in a girl who was to be his wife than mere education, however bene­ ficial that might be to him. We are becoming over-balanced in the matter of education.


There are already far too many


divorce cases in this country, and the children in these cases are frustrated.


I have heard that some people


marry for money, others beauty, charm and also attractions of various kinds. Whatever the circumstances—it all amounts to “ wrong living.”


Satan cannot love and is res­


ponsible for much suffering by his deception. Sexy films, nudism and all the sloppy sentimental stuff seen at the cinema and on TV are not love.


To base one's marriage on any­


thing but love is like the man who built his house upon the sand. Marriage must have a firm foundation, like the one who built his house upon the rock.


Have you ever read Sir Henry


Drummond’s little book entitled “ The Greatest Thing in the World” ?


If so you would find it was


love. God is love, therefore'love is God’s gift. The answer to the marriage


problem is “ perfect love” ex­ isting between the two persons concerned for each, other.


AGAINST IMMORALITY. COMMON MARKET


V O U R paper carried on October A 27th an article.reporting Mr.,


Charles Fletcher-Cooke, M.P., speaking on the theme “ The


.Common Market ^and survival of tKe'West.” Your readers may perhaps


reraember-.tbat.,when the Parlia­ mentary Liberal: Party urged Her Majesty’s Government to start consultations with a view to the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community on February


12th,


1959, Mr. R. Maudling said then, “ I feel that we must reject the possibility of signing the Treaty of Rome. To sign that treaty would involve consequences for us and the Commonwealth rela­ tions which I do not think that the House as a whole would wish to see” ; and Conservative Ministers have denied until July of this year that they would ever apply for membership to the Rome Treaty countries.


The disastrous financial cir­


cumstances in July precipitated this country’s approach to the Common Market, and while the Liberal Party welcomes this approach, it is only to be regret­ ted that the Conservative Government had neither the vision nor the courage to apply for membership at a time when we could have had some influ­ ence in the organisation of the European Economic Community.


W. KINDER, Chairman.


MARTIN STRANGE, Hon. Secretary.


Clitheroe Liberal Association. REMEMBRANCE


Q U R young folk enjoy greater v freedom than any past generation; they have better opportunities in education, im­ proved chances of earning good wages and salaries and very many avenues for the enjoyment of life to the full; withall there is plenty of evidence that the younger generation faces seriously the problems of to-day and to­ morrow. Most are the sons and daughters and the grandchildren of those who fought in two World Wars. Sometimes I won­ der if they ever think of the enormous sacrifice in life, in health and in personal ambitions which these wars caused to ordinary men and women, their fathers, mothers and grand­ parents in our country alone.


At the time of Poppy Day and


Remembrance Sunday we older people stress the word “ Remem­ brance.” Do our younger ones, who knew not war, apprjT'ste what we elders understaij'-f oy “ Remembrance ” — honouring those qualities of self sairifice and loyalty which have shvays characterised our race in times of peril. The steadfastniss of our men and women resulted in the defeat of our enemies in two World Wars and in the safe­ guarding of ideals embodied in our way of life.


The British Legion honours


this debt through “ Remem­ brance ” and " Succour ” to all who served. Many of then are now old, others are incapacitated by wounds, and a largo number are not in that health which might have been theirs had they not served their country with such courage and patriotism.


Sustained and encouraged by a


generous British public, we of the Legion are proud of our record of service in the field of ex­ services’ welfare and benevol­ ence. This has grown and ex­ panded over 40 years, and now cares for all our fellow country­ men and women who are war sufferers, more recently those dis­ tressed because of the fighting in Korea, Malaya, Suez and in other small and gruelling conflicts.


All this endeavour costs a


great deal of money. Our hopes that last year's 40th anniversar” Poppy Day collection would be record one were not fulfilled; ex­ penditure on benevolence ex­ ceeded the Poppy Day income by £137,000. Therefore, if we are to sustain our beneficent activities to the full, this year’s Poppy Day


collection must exceed that of last year. May I plead for generosity as


you take your poppies from the collectors' trays, and especially on the part of younger people. By your gifts “ Remembrance ” can be established as an endur­ ing, practical and ever worthy tribute to .those who gave us what we have.


GENERAL SIR ROY BUCHER K.B.E., C.B., M.C.,


National Chairman.


Water Board move to take over


A opened negotiations with Huntroyde and Standen Estates for the board to take over the water supply for Pendleton, Clitheroe Rural


TjWLDE Water Board has


District Council has been told. The Board’s e n g i n e e r


states that while the Board had no liability in the matter instructions had been issued for every assistance to be given to the Rural Council's Public Health Inspector, and an improvised drip feed chlorinator had been loaned to Huntroyde and was being maintained by the Board.


an extension of the Wiswell pumped supply.


The Board’s scheme will be


Sisters went


thousands of miles


XA of miles across America and Canada, Miss Hannah Haworth and her sister, Miss Edith Haworth, arrived back at their home, “Sunnyfield,” West Bradford Road, Wad- dington last week and thank­ fully put their clocks and watches back for the last time for some months.


A FTER travelling thousands


since some states had summer time and some hadn’t,” Miss Hannah Haworth told me.


used to was this constant changing of time, especially


13 weeks, setting off with Mrs. Alice Coulthurst, who also lives at "Sunnyfield.” Mrs. Coulthurst, president o f Waddington Women’s Insti­ tute flew home as well as making the outward journey by air after visiting her brother, Mrl Bob Booth, in East Walpole, near Boston.


The two had been away for


visit a number of their rela­ tives, most of whom they had not met previously.


The sisters then went on to


stop, then Colorado and the Rockies and south to Tulsa and Oklahoma. After visiting Mena, Arkansas, and Dallas, Texas, thev went to New Orleans and then on to Winnipeg.


Kansas City was the first


with a nephew in Edmonton, and there they were impressed by the Rockies and the beau­


For some time they stayed


through the ice fields of British Columbia to Toronto, where they were met by their brother, before going to view Niagara.


ties of Jasper Park, a holiday centre. Their journey then was


from Drummondville to Nova Scotia and Halifax before sailing for Montreal on the Empress of Canada.


The last stage was 800 miles


Mr. and Mrs. J. Windle, form­ erly of Clitheroe, who have


Among people they met were


lived in Drummondville for many years.


JEAN MILLER. Candidate talks


-C3~ economic situation was given by Mr. John Yerburgh, pro sp ec tiv e Conservative Candidate for Blackburn, to members of Clitheroe branch of the Women’s Unionist Association in Clitheroe Con­ servative Club yesterday week.


to Tory women A TALK on the country's


branch’s annual meeting, at which a successful year was reported. It was announced that the branch had raised £100 at the Divisional bazaar in Clitheroe the previous week, when a total of more than £600 was realised.


The talk followed the


re-elected chairman, and Mrs. F. Jamieson and Mrs. T. Robinson were elected vice- chairmen.


ted honorary treasurer, Mrs. J. R. Thompson hon. secretary, and Mrs. C. Short was appointed to the committee.


Mrs. G. M. Higson was elec­


secretary and agent for Clith- croe Division and Mrs. F. Shields, of Whalley, chairman of the Divisional Women’s Unionist Association, were also present.


Miss Margaret Whalley, Mrs. D. Satterthwaite was “One thing we couldn’t get


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did before you had television? The answer appears to be “No.” A survey of local newspaper readers in Britain shows that readership in homes possess­ ing a TV set is generally just as high as in those without one.


are becoming more avid fol­ lowers of the local Press. Some 83 per cent of housewives to­ day read local pepers, com­ pared with only 81 per cent, three years ago.


arily of benefit to advertisers. Industry and commerce want to know the most practical and economic medium for publi­ cising their products and at­ tracting staff.


This type of survey is prim­


the social standpoint. It shows that the intruding noise of television has not surpassed the silent, printed word. For this, there are two basic res- ons. The local newspaper, with its readability and integ­ rity, is loyal to its area. The old tendency to sneer at the parochialism of the parish pump is dying out. Despite expanding and moving popu­ lations, local personalities and events contribute to the com­ munity which, in turn, likes to have a written record of what goes on.


But it is also of value from


entertainment medium. Even its most serious topics are limi­ ted in duration for fear of boring the customer, who has no choice in selection once he switches to a given channel.


Television is still mainly an


quickly chose the item that interests him most, and read it when and where he wishes. What’s more, he can keep it for future reference if he wants. These advantages are reflected in the increasing in­ fluence of the local newspaper —an advantage that TV is un­ likely to undermine.


The newspaper reader can


J-A football clubs are worried by decreasing “ gates,” I was interested to read some account books lent to me by Mr. George Atkinson, of Chat- burn.


GOOD OLD DAYS A T a time when directors of


for home matches amounted to 5s. 3d., although the club raised £14 2s. Id. by providing facilities for an indoor game- whist!


played In the Ribblesdale Amateur Football League. In season 1919-20, total gates


gates showed a big increase and £14 10s. 4d. was levied. £3 7s. of which came from a shield tie with the old Clith­ eroe Amateurs’ team.


The next season, however,


nine pairs of shorts cost only 11s, 9d., and you did not have to pay your players up to £ 100 per week, plus winning bonuses, a yearly balance of £42 5s. 9d. was quite adequate.


But when you consider that WELL, CAN YOU?


rrHIS interesting problem A was set me by a colleague:


How can you drive out of Clitheroe by car without going over or under a bridge?


SALES TALK


TTHHE modern line of least A resistance is the dotted one at the bottom of the hire-purchase contract.


—The Reader's Digest THIS WAS NEWS . . .


25 YEARS A(70 November 13th, 1936 •


the prizes at Clitheroe Royal Gr- :ar School’s annual day. Mr. R. p. Asshe- ■man of the govern- d. *


TAR. H. P. HERBERT, Bishop of Blackburn, presented


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GEORGE HAR- who had


Cou. ts, * thwaite. »


;heroe Town ars, was elec­ lccession to


rPHE ial Remembrance J- Day service was held in Moor Lane Methodist Church, being attended by members of the British Legion, repres­ entatives of the local League of Nations’ Union and other organisations. ^ ^


A STRONG plea for faith in


made by the Rev. Frank Cole­ man, of Blackpool, addressing a peace meeting organised by the Clitheroe branch of the League of Nations’ Union and held at the Parish Church


the League of. Nations was School.


of Slaidburn, the Rev. B. T. Bowker, in a speech to the members of the Rotary Club


r'tLASS distinctions we r e condemned by the Rector


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of Clitheroe. *


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1%/TR H. G. DAWSON, of Read, llA won first prize in the bass-baritone open class In Burnley Music Festival. It was his second successive victory


In the class.


50 YEARS AGO November 17th, 1911


A


Suffrage Society was held in the Public Hall and addressed by Coun. Margaret Ashton, of Manchester.


Borough Treasurer’s


A/TR. J- H. TAYLOR,*who had served for 12: years in the


office.


PUBLIC meeting in sup- port of the Women’s


was recommended by the General Purposes Committee of the Town Council to suc­ ceed the late Mr. W. E. Harri­ son as Treasurer. S *


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to construct a reservoir at Dalehead by the Fylde Water Board was published. “The scheme, estimated to cost more than £1,000,000, will, if sanctioned, change the whole face of that part of the Bow- land district. Roads, foot­ paths, farms and the village of Dalehead will be swept away and the Board even wish to remove the bodies interred in the little grave­ yard attached to Dalehead Parish Church,” it was reported.*


nPHE draft of an application to Parliament for power


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-rx cession which accom­ panied the Mayor, Coun. C. T. Mitchell, to the Parish Church was the public appearance of the newly-formed local corps of the Veteran’s Reserve, with which Coun. Mitchell, as an old Volunteer officer, was associated. *


AN innovation in the pro- * *


p .C . WALSH, stationed at A Whalley, was granted the merit badge for detective services given by him in the Lonsdale South Division, from which he had been trans­ ferred. *


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'ITHHE quarterly report of A Clitheroe Weavers’ Wind­


ers’ and Warpers’ Association, presented by Coun. A. H. Cot- tam, secretary, stated that trade generally had been very good and that 300 new mem­ bers had been enrolled during October.


died at “Rock Mount,” Clith­ eroe. aged 68. In addition to building Littlemoor Corn Mill and Brooks Mill, he was instrumental in reorganising the almost derelict quarries at Horrocksford.


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They give the accounts of Chatburn F.C. when the club


It also reveals that women


TAO you read the “ Advertiser and Times ” less than you


WITHOUT A SONG AS the embers of a bonfire


XA were dying out near Well- gate on Saturday night, the watchers were startled by a request from a nearby house­ holder: "Will you put my piano on the fire?”


The instrument was duly carried out, and was found to be not a piano, but a pianola, complete with a set of paper roller-records.


to me by a friend, who also mentioned that he was-,walk­ ing from Up Brooks when he saw three small boys sitting in arm chairs 'and a settee at the side of the road.


This incident was described


he asked. “We’re ' guardin’t bunfire,” they replied.


"What are you doing, lads,”


father Is employed by Lanca­ shire County Council, has been held in awe by his schoolfellows since mention­ ing that his father is a highwayman.


. . . . AND DELIVER. XA CHILD, who attends a


A local school and whose


XA S. Awbery, who unsuc­ cessfully contested the Clith­ eroe Division as a Labour candidate in the 1930’s, found in his experience as a Baptist local preacher the founda­ tion for his training as a


THE FOUNDATION A S a young man, Mr. Stanley


good deal of work for the movement and for the Trade Union movement, but now I see he is not to stand at the next election.


Bristol Central since 1946. Mr. Awbery began work in


He has been Labour M.P. for Three fined


a copper works at the age of 13, and became more and more interested in Trade Union work, which he took up actively in 1905.


contested Clitheroe Division, he was very active in both movements in Barry and Swansea, in South Wales.


Particularly at the time he


fPHREE Clitheroe people A were each fined £5 at Clitheroe Magistrates’ Court yesterday week for using tele­ vision sets without licences.


of Talbot Close, Gerald Halsall, of Ribble Way, Low Moor, and Jean Sieczkowski, of Grove House, Woone Lane.


They were Jean Isherwood, iiinmDmiiMr[iiiraiiniiiiiiiii[u«a!vauB“M,""~'=rammiiirantiHiimnimimaniii>


man’s religion should be re­ flected in every sphere of his activity, whether political, social or industrial.


It is his opinion that a LIBERAL SPEAKER


rpHE prospective Liberal A candidate for Accrington, Mr. Terry Maher, will, I* hear, be the chief speaker at the first public meeting to be held by Clitheroe Liberal Associa­ tion on Tuesday.


former .member of the execu­ tive of the National League of Young Liberals and was adopted prospective candidate for Accrington in January,


study of housing conditions in Accrington, and I am told his speech will also deal with housing, roads, and conditions in industry in North East Lancashire.


1960. He has made a particular


K. H. Bulcock, Mr. M. Strange and Dr. M. D. Parker.


Motor cyclist hurt


propogandist for the Labour and Socialist movement. Since then he has done a


xA Waddington Road, Clith­ eroe, sustained a shoulder in­ jury when the motor cycle he was riding was involved in a collision with a shooting brake at the junction of Thorn


ALAN E. HILL, aged 18, of


brake was Charles P. Reid, of Blackburn Road, Darwen.


Hill was treated at Black­ burn Royal Infirmary.


Street and Henthorn Road on Friday night. The driver of the shooting


Other speakers will be Mrs. Mr. Maher, who is 26 is a


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