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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, February 2, 1962


s. W. ALLEN, F.B.O.A. (HCNS.) OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN


CONTACT LENS PRACTITIONER


Twelve months afterwards


“Now I life”,


T«Uphon« Ciitharoe 1176.


5, MARKET PLACE, CLITHEROE.


am enjoying says Jean


TWELVE months after a hole-in-the-heart operation, 19- year-old Jean Cattermole is full of the joy of living, for


better every day and the other is because Maurice is home,” she told me at her home, 73 Highfleld Road, Clitheroe, this


two reasons. "One is because I am feeling


week. Until yesterday, week, when


20 months.


he arrived at her home, Jean had not seen her boyfriend, Maurice Dearden, of Deer Park Road, Towneley, Burnley, for


much the things I could not do, but now I am beginning to find out. I used to be dread­ fully tired after work, some­ times even after lunchtime, but now I hardly feel tired at


“I never used to realise


ents were told she would be an invalid all her life and would gradually grow worse, has a


all.” Today the girl whose par­


Gardening with Tom Oaklea


Thoughts turn to salads in early spring


“ So peason and bean in the wane of the moon


Who soweth them sooner he sowelh too soone,


And flourish with bearing most plentiful wise.”


That they with the planet may rest and arise,


(Thomas Tusscr, 1573).


moon’s phases, but this is the time of year when keen garden­ ers start making their earliest sowings under glass and in the open garden.


VPE don’t make our sowings ’ ’ nowadays according to the


necessary to maintain a steady temperature of 50-55’ F. to get the seeds to germinate satisfac­ torily and grow away properly without check. If you can’t maintain this temperature it is best to put off sowing for a few weeks.


Under glass you will find it


greenhouse, however, you can get ahead with a fair amount of sowing now, both of crops which mature quickly and of those which need a long season of growth.


If you have a . suitably heated


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Lettuces arn short-term crops


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from the Royal Engineers, with whom he served in North Borneo and later Hong Kong.


He has just been demobbed


twenties love dancing, but when Maurice took Jean dancing on Saturday It was an even greater thrill.


Most girls in their teens and


could not dance for any length of time, or walk up hills without getting breath­ less. Running for buses and playing games at school were two other everyday things for which Jean was not strong enough.


Until her operation, she


the same rosy cheeked, laughing-eyed girl with dark curly 'hair who has always looked the picture of health, she really feels healthy.


Now, although she is still


my job as a telephonist at Clitheroe Post Office in April, three months after my operation, I haven’t had any sick leave,” Jean told me.


“So far, since I went back to 10'koteuek Business


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LEVER’S BATTERY ‘PELLETS’


bright future, even if, as she says, it only consists of “feel­ ing a bit better every day.”


W.I. ANNUAL L


ATOST Women’s Institutes ■


their representatives for me annual meeting of the Lanca­ shire Federation of Institutes which will be held at the Queen’s Hall, Preston, on Tuesday, February 27th.


The morning speaker willbe


Mrs. K. G. Bullows, J.P., a member of the N.F.W.I. execi- tive committee, whose talk is entitled “What is your sut- scription worth to you ?”


At the afternoon session, a


talk entitled “From theatre to television” will be given by


Miss S. Pearson. Also of interest to delegates


will be a display arranged by “ Home and Country,” the Women’s Institute magazine.


JEAN MILLER. ’A have by now appointed ,■


can put them in the cold frame to harden them off for planting out in the open in April to give you the first supplies in late May.


Towards the end of March you


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Choose varieties such as May IN THE AUTUMN


ing season, and to produce young plants hardened off and suitable for planting out in early spring, seed is usually sown in the autumn, and the plants are hardened off this month and planted out in March. But if you make a sowing now you will be able to have supplies in autumn.


Cauliflowers need a long grow­


sown in the autumn to get an early start. But on the heavier soils and in cold gardens this method is not always successful and it is often necessary to sow again in spring.


Broad beans, too, are often


l i t is a much better plan, where a warm greenhouse is available, to sow the seeds in boxes or even in pots in early February for later hardening off and plan! mg out in the open.


get the seeds to germinate and you can even get .good results in an unheated frame if you can give some protection on very cold nights.


You won't need much heat to


The more thinly you sow all o these seeds the better, to avoid


lessen root disturbance when you prick out the seedlings^


vercrowding in the boxes and to


suitable, but nowadays more and more gardeners are using a no­ soil compost, based on sedge peat. These have been thorough­ ly tested, are easy to use and store, constant in quality, and do not require sterilising.


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will be like on the following day, we cannot fail to notice tile un- mistakeable signs of spring.


A LTHOUGH we cannot in Feb- ruary predict what the weather


A promise of better, brighter days coProgress, however, is not always


frost, snow and chilly winds, but come what may, on the occasion­ al mild, open days we note a strange freshness in the air.


We shall no doubt have more


the bird song. The thrushes in particular are fond of expressing their delight about an hour be­ fore fading light—a sure sign that they have noticed a change and are anxious to get' on with their affairs.


Then you cannot fail to note


song just before evening are one of the greatest delights of our countryside. They are always an inspiration and a sure promise of better, brighter days.


To me, these periodic bursts of


just take a look in the hedge­ row or woodland. Everywhere there is evidence of fading autumn—the faded meadowsweet, ivy. woodruff and knapweed, but we need not search very far to


Also, if you are in any doubt, sun. DOGS MERCURY


flower. Then, as we can see in Brungerley, the butter burr is also in full flower. A little search in the more sheltered spots will show the spearheads of the wild hyacinth. The cuckoo-pint is hastening ahead at a remarkable rate and many shoots have their leaves un­ folded.


rJPHE dogs mercury is well above ground and almost ready to


ladies, whichever title you pre­ fer, is one of the first plants to break through each year, and. come what may, is always well to the fore in February.


The cuckoo-pint or lords and


other day. Each year I have followed the progress of a certain colony most carefully and for five or six years a small group situated in the lee of a wall has always revealed the quickest progress.


nsistent, as I discovered the


been outclassed by another colony less than a hundred yards away, these being fully three inches taller. As to the cause, I cannot say. Perhaps it is the frost, but who knows?


This year, however, they have


notice the activities of the mag­ pies. There was that unmistake- able promise in the air, and high in the top of a sycamore the bird was examining the old nest which had withstood all the rough weather and gales.


At Mitton, I could not fail to GREAT INTEREST


discover a host of new spring shoots eager as ever to welcome the brighter days and ascending


terest in their nests, this time at Hurst Green.' Like the rooks, the magpies are concerned from time to time, and repeatedly in spring, visit the nest of previous years, in spite of the fact that they will not be actively engaged in domestic affairs for a couple of


ALSO on the same day, I saw a pair revealing great in­


and ringed plover were to be seen by the shore, and what is most interesting, at such close range.


said concerning my own experi­ ence over the Border. It is in these parts, and particularly in the Hebrides, that I have noticed die remarkable change in the behaviour of wild life. The greater the isolation the greater the display of confidence in


This all bears out all I have humans. THE HIGHLIGHT


even to the casual obseryer, never fail to command attention. This particular coastline is real wild goose country and my friend writes of seeing huge assemblies, which she estimated at being well over the thousand-mark.


T-TIGHLIGHT of 'this excursion was the wild geese, which,


but careful scrutiny revealed two snow geese just disturbed and taking to the ail’. Identification of such a rarity was, even in such circumstances, not very


The majority were, greydags,


difficult. Soon they alighted and began


, Lancashire and Yorkshire are eager to observe the first signs


months. While we on the borders of


I of a change to better days, 1 farther north it is evident, from 1 a letter I have received, that the wild fowl are reluctant to leave their winter quarters.


friend Dr. Fleming is enough to quicken the pulse of many orni­ thologists who enjoy the sight of wildfowl and the rarity. An ex­ cursion in the vicinity of Stran­ raer was well worth while and provided a list of exceptional


This correspondence from my ers, redshanks, dunlin, wigeon,


grazing with the grey lags. Later on Loch Ryan, thousands of wigeon were seen and c.ose by in the stubble field were more


wiiq geese. Obviously such places are a


paradise for the bud watehei. Who can fail to be thrilled at the sight of geese either in flight or grazing? For there is something in their call, flight and assemb y which brings to mind the wild remote areas of the far north.


interest. Whooper swans, oyster catch­


opportunity of seeing such huge flocks, but they are repeatedly observed by readers as they pass overhead on their flight-fines Mr Hay of Green Gore, Huist Green, reports seeing a skein of geese passing westward a few


We, however, have not the days ago. naturalist


the district, and only re­ cently has he retired from the position of organist at his beloved Union Street Methodist Church.


Still earlier he played the piano at all three cinemas in the town in the days of silent movies. While Tom Mix thundered — silently — across the screen, Mr. Wil­ kinson was there at the front, playing suitably stir­ ring music.


It was “Hearts and Flowers” when the little crippled girl lost her favourite dog, or when the drunken father sent his eldest son from home, “never to return again”, but when Pearl White was waiting for the train to cut her In half, or the rope to break as she hung over the cliff, his nim­ ble fingers racing over the keyboard brought the epi­ sode to a close and the aud­ ience to Its feet.


BRITISH SCHOOL


Educated at the old Low Moor School (now the British School) when Mr. Oxburgh was headmaster, and later at the old Technical School in Greenacre Street, he first began to look seriously at the world around him when he attended a Mutual Im­ provement Society.


Through this, and through conditions existing at the time — women had no vote and children started work at 6 a.m. — he became a Socialist. This provided the ldealogical stimulus which was to make him Mayor of the town and a faithful ser­ vant on many bodies outside Its environs.


He has always been a keen fol­ lower of sport, and In his younger days played a little cricket and football — “not very well”, he ruefully ad­ mits. Today he can often be seen at Shaw Bridge, and frequently follows the Clith­ eroe. team to their “away” destinations. So proud is he of the local team that he would rather go to Shaw Bridge than to Wembley


Although young people have changed since his younger days, enjoy much more free­ dom and have a great deal more money, there is noth­ ing basically wrong with them, he says, and with the right guidance they could grow into a fine generation of adults.


SEARCH FOR PLEASURE One trend that was particu­


larly noticeable among the younger people, however, was the constant search for pleasure. Many of them had little or no regard for the finer things of life, the blessings of the open air, the Joy that came from hard work and the satisfaction of helping others.


Now in the twilight of life, he described to me his achieve­ ments, hopes and regrets.


The worst mistake the Coun­ cil had made was losing the facilities at Brungerley, fol­ lowed closely in seriousness by the loss of the King Lane Hall and the tardiness in developing the riverside at


Edisford.


He views the demolition of old property in the town with mixed feelings. True, the property is outmoded and probably needs demolishing, but every house has been a home to someone. Every house has seen within its four walls the whole pageant of human experi­ ence, from birth to death,


full circle. ■


‘I t ’s not bricks and mortar that make a home”, he says. “They can only make a


/V I t.]


Profile by Brian Edwards ALD. W. WILKINSON


TAOWN Low Moor there lives a. grand old man called


William Wilkinson. Aider- man William Wilkinson. Now in his 83rd year, this lively, rotund man, with an energetic mind and a quick sense of humour, is the old­ est member of Clitheroe, Town Council.


All his life he has lived in Low Moor, and never has he felt a desire to leave the ‘village’, for within its straight, nar­ row streets he has grown from, youth to manhood, raised a family, and devoted himself to the service of others.


This service has been per­ formed in many ways. Long before he was voted on to the Town Council he had delighted thousands of music lovers by playing church organs throughout


house. .It needs a man and a woman to make a home.”


The greatest change he would like to see would be for every Christian church to be full, whatever the denomination, for without God’s help man’s strivings were all in vain.


I .asked him what changes he would make if he could live his life over again. He said he would try to go to uni­ versity, but when I asked to what purpose he would put this accumulated knowledge he was at a loss for an answer


TO PLAN THINGS


“I would just like to plan things”, he said. What sort of things? "Oh, just things”.


The reason for this Indecision I discovered later. "Things” have changed so much in the 72 years since he started work /at 2s. 6d. a week In the ring room at Low Moor mill, that “things” which mattered in his younger days have lost importance today.


He has lived through the busi­ est period of man’s history since the world began and, not unnaturally, he is a little bewildered by the changes which have taken place.


Many old people, faced with this situation, sit at home, watch the embers of the fire and dream of days gone by.


Not so Alderman Wilkinson. He is still fighting for what he believes In in the Town Council arena, and is look­ ing forward to two more active years before he re­ tires. “I’m not retiring un­ defeated”, he says, “but I’m retiring undismayed”.


SCHOOLS GOVERNOR


He is also a governor of both Grammar «


member of the No. 5 Divis­ ional Education Executive and Divisional Health Com­ mittee.


■ Schools and a


I asked him if he could see any signs of peace in our time.


"Not in my time”, he laughed. “And not in your time, either, if the ultimate ends of science are not drastically altered. Without a drastic change in the outlook of our leaders there will not be a world at all.”


Some kind of world govern­ ment was inevitable if there was to be any lasting peace. The United Nations was a start in the right-direction, but there would never, be any lasting peace so long as people were wrongly sub­ jected to the domination of others.


These, then, are the views' of one ol the best-known and best-respected men in the town, a man who has de­ voted much of his life to the service of others.


Coffee evening


fOTELD last week at the home J "1- of Mr. and Mrs. A. Den­ nett, of '36, Turner Street, Clitheroe, a coffee evening or­ ganised by the boys of the Covenanter Bible Class of St. James’s Church raised £6-10s. for class funds.


BOOK VENDOR


type of slot machine In use at Preston.


A machine vending paper- back books is the latest


COUNTRY COOKERY


overs ” which will become waste unless wo make a dish that will accommodate them. With imagin­ tation. they are almost a meal in


■gVEN in the best managed kitchens there are ’’ left,


ecenomical. This way of using up odds and


hemselves and are certainly


ends of cheese has been popular in the country for many years, being easy to prepare and eaten hot or cold.


grill them on a fireproof plate on one side until golden brown and melted. Red Cheshire is a delightful cheese for this purpose. When the slices have cooled slightly, cut them into squares or fingers and serve with hot baked potatoes or buttered toast.


Take the cheese slices and


.underneath. Cooked, chopped cabbage added to the mash makes a delicious change.


Haute coiffure


J^AY, missis, what ever’s tha done to thi ’air?


It were white nobbut six months ago,


But now its as black as the back W of the fire,


hy. dusta keep changing it so?


When we went to Blackpoo’ in’t summer,


Tha hed it a nice shade of blue, Then next week tha changed it to strawberry pink,


gether with a little onion, mixed with an equal part of mashed potatoes seasoned with salt, pepper, and sauce, and fried in very hot dripping until crisp


Cold meat may be minced to­


DRINKl DRIV1


Snowden, of Claret unfit to drive and ]


A FTER a van dri and received I


This was statecl


Woodcock, aged 55l mitted for trial at [ ing under the infill


ented by Mr. A. M. [ B 1 a c k b u rn, rest| defence.


Woodcock, who wl


examined Woodcock! eroe police station, fil opinion that he wa.[ drive due to his cor| of alcohol.


Dr. B. W. Laithwl MARGARET ALDEN


able to walk along line, could not .standi feet together, could! what day it was, 1 spell “road sign.” al not fasten his collaf properly. At firs| shown a watch, he give the correct lime! he thought he was hi station in Shaw Bridf


He said Woodcocf:| Mr. J. A. Bower, pr>l


said Woodcock wa.-f driver employed by burn Laundry, and o| ber 29th he was and collecting lai| CUtheroe.


David George Lee I Beech Cottage, Copsil


He was accompli


Wi’ yellow, i’ streaks, showing through!


In October, ah think it were plantinum blonde.


Then it altered again, tha’d a big orange flash,


It were brown by the end of the year,


Wi’ small silver flecks ’ere and theer!


Ah can’t say ah like it, tha switches it so,


Ah go ’ot and cold, and then sweaty,


When tha gives it a combing. and t’dandruff falls out,


Theers more shades nor a bag ol confetti!


So. leave it alone, lass—stop mucking about,


When all’s sed and finished— it’s me tha’s to please.


Mother Nature knows best in the end,


A ’usband’s a woman's best friend!


JIMIFEL. Under the axe


Council to the felling of 56 trees in The Laurels, Moreton Park, Whalley.


■jVTO objections will be made ' by Clitheroe Rural District


trees are over-mature and dis­ eased and the remainder have been marked for felling by the County Forestry Assistant for the benefit of the remaining trees.


About-10 per-cent, of the


| Sheila Marjorie Wheeler, as : deputy to Dr. R. C. Webster, the Council’s Medical Officer.


duties as senior assistant Medical Officer for No. 5 Division on December 1st last year.


Dr. Wheeler commenced POPULAR BRITAIN


AFORE • than 81.000 overseas x visitors came to Britain in


November, says the British Travel and Holidays Association, Britain’s official tourist organisa­ tion. This was a seven per cent, increase over the November figure in 1960.


Deputy M.O.H. District Council appointed Dr.


, AT their meeting on Monday, Clitheroe Rural


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seemed quite nonrl they reached Clitheil few houses he seemcl a little longer than i | after one of the breath smelled of ru|


Leeming said


King Street, where for about 10 to 151 and when he came o| had had a drink of nf was rather strong taken a long time tol


He went into a


Claremont Avenue V\| speech was unusual;] with difficulty and


By the time thejl In Claremont Avf


a little. When he got out ol


wobbled a little walked. When he wl he stalled the enginil putting his foot on t|


stayed a long timl house, so he went t l him and found hill the back door, hoi door handle and swl put his arm round| assisted him to the


Leeming said


expecting Woodcocll that morning, and II Year’s present read;! When she answered! Leeming was stand-.l She gave him the prl said it was for Wood| was sitting in the i


Mrs. Snowden sa il


and came towards said so methin! “compliments of thil


Woodcock got out (|


spoke slowly and de| which was contra normal, brisk ma speech. Altogether) not his normal self. T


His eyes were glazil


Mrs. Snowden sa| cock’s condition


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