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NOISE NUISANCE


r WOULD like to complain, L through your columns, to the authorities whom It may concern, regarding the ever increasing noise of motor horns in oui


fare State, with all that it means to the nation as a whole, and especially to the ordinary people, was inherited from the Labour Government.


6treets. It has become a very annoying


habit of the various s'.reet traders to sound their so-called


As a matter of fact, the Wel­


•• musical ” horns in order to attract the attention of their customers. While I do not wish to prevent these people from conducting I heir business m these vans, I do object to then- con­ stantly sounding their horns.


suffered this rude awakenmg for years, I think it is time that somebody did something about it. I .would hazard a guess that there are few streets in Clitheroc in which a shift-worker of some


As a shift worker who has


of advertising. I am under the impression that


Government blazed the trail to full employment, the Tories had always told us that, unemploy­ ment was not only incurable, It was even desirable and essential to a healthy and sound economy.


Indeed, until I,he Labour


facts about the origin of the post-war prosperity.


Anyway, let us try to get to the


Near She end of the wav we were in such dire straits financi­


kind does not live, and I feel sure they would all support my com­ plaint. Surely horns are meant as warnings, not as instruments


It is an offence to sound horns when the vehicle is motionless, If the police were to circulate this warning to street traders, no doubt it would remedy the


matter. SHIFT WORK, EVOLUTION


life or evolution than I can mine. My chief concern is that his interpretation is largely res­ ponsible for the disastrous state of affairs In all walks of life. It is a belief excusing all that is


“ GTUDENT of Nature ” can ° no more prove his theory of


lowest in life. Obviously he has read of the


experiments of Prof. McConnell, who would, I feel certain, laugh his head off at such an interpre­ tation of his work.


called Darwinists have so much blind faith in a form of evolu­ tion which any observant student of Nature would quickly recog­ nise as unscientific.


It is a pity that so many so-


of Nature" has admitted if “ a c o n d i t i o n e d flat-worm's egg hatched out a generation react­ ing to the light like .their parents, that would be proof."


However, I am glad “ Student


reveals characteristics developed by a parent that would be proof of my theory. I would ask him, therefore, to consult any pigeon fancier, poultry breeder or cattle breeder, .who will, I am sure, con­ firm that by selective breeding we have raised production and abilities of our stocks.


In other words, if an offspring


th'sgs, there is ample evidence of '< irpose, 'Will, design and the 1;.' • ' I progress.


In this wonderful scheme of


\'R7-'.re is also proof that we do no>..eS;ather grapes of thorns or vice-versa. If we do not inter­ pret the laws which are so obvious then there is only one way and at the moment it appears to be chaos.


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GLIDING naturally into the ° traditional Tory practice of claiming credit for, and exploit­ ing, the more popular ideas and achievements of their opponents, Mrs. M E. Mellor, chairman of the Yorkshire Provincial Area Advisory Council, would have us believe that the party had always been in favour of full employ­ ment and that the Tory Govern­ ment alone had created the post­ war prosperity.


25 YEARS AGO March 26th, 1937


QTRONG protests against ^ the increase in the county rates were made at the monthly meeting of Bowland Rural District Council when it was announced that, largely as a result of the increase of ninepence in the county rate, the rate in Bowland would be


13s. 3d. in the £ . *


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[ F U R N I S H E R S k'Ua'H'SW.S'


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nPHE managers of Grlndleton A C. of E. school appointed Mrs. Ransley, of "Sunny- meade”, Grindleton, as head­ mistress. Mrs. Ransley had been mistress at the school before her marriage in 1928. *


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LEVER’S BATTERY ‘PELLETS’ *


1\/TR. ALBERT TROOP, of DA Whalley, who had been chairman of Blackburn Rural District Council for 15 years, retired from: the office. * * #


T>Y defeating Whalley Con- -*-* servatives by one point. Clltheroe Catholics became the champions of Ribblesdale


Table Tennis League. * * *


CJPEAKING to members of ~ Clitheroe and District Agricultural Discu ss io n Society, Mr. H. T. Eginton, chief sanitary inspector for the county, said it was the duty of farmers to gain the confidence of the public by producing their milk under as clean conditions as possible. *


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Council discussed the need for playing fields, for which it was hoped to get some considera­ tion from the organisers of the King George V Memorial


rnHE monthly meeting of A Bowland Rural District


Fund. * * *


to discuss Frank Jellinek’s book, "The Paris Commune of 1871”. Mr. E. Parker presided and Mr. D. H. O’Dell opened , the discussion.


rpHE Clitheroe Left Book A club Discussion Class met


ally as to lead Winston Churchill, then Prime Minister, to tell us that when the war did end he would he the most unpopular man in the country because there would be “ Nothing for the boys to come home to.”


Labour Government not only pulled us through the aftermath of the most disastrous war but, through a carefully - planned economy, proceeded to create the Welfare State, with full employ­ ment and all-in prosperity for the first time in our peace-time


Yet, from near bankruptcy, the


Gardening with Toni Oaklea


Springtime is seedtime


rpHERE is an old saying, "a *- peck of March dust is


worth a king’s ransom”, and how right it is, as every gardener will agree !


seems that everything has to be done at once and the gardener who is ill-prepared quickly falls behind.


This is the month when it


winds as they whistle through us, but they do dry out the ground. This helps us to get on with the job of breaking down to a good ‘tilth’ the top few inches of soil.


We may curse the cold


tilth is ideal for sowing small seeds. Large seeds, including peas and beans, are not too fussy of course.


A fine, almost dust-like


history. And yet, but for the good


that can be sown this month, both in the kitchen garden and in the flower garden. Summer spinach makes a very pleasant vegetable and a first sowing may be made now, but only a small one. Later on you should make another sowing or two to give a long succession for picking. Sow the seeds in a drill one- inch deep.


There are plenty of seeds SLAIN


piLITHEROE’S most fearsome A-1 creature, the Gas Works Dragon, will roam the streets of the town no more, for this week it has been dismantled


sense of the electorate, it would have been otherwise, for had the Tories been returned to power there would almost certainly have been a repetition of what occurred after the First World War, when, after promising a “ Land fit for heroes to live in," th they made things so hard that


boys, the girls, or anyone else to come home to.


ere was nothing much for the E.B Mother’s Day


PLL buy our Mam a present, L When it comes Mother's Day. Last year I tried to help her, But found it didn't pay. I thought I ’d make her break­ fast,


Then somehow burnt the toast, The porridge all went lumpy, But I burnt the bacon most!


I do the best I can, But when I'd done, I found a


[ don’t know what went wrong with it,


R hole,


She didn’t fancy breakfast. At twenty-five past three!


iMy Aunty Mary had. 1 . i


And when I took the tray up M s', airs,


ight through her frying pan! am said “ Good gracious me!"


So now I’ve started saving, I've freppence from my Dad, And fourpence for some jam jars,


; think I ’ll, get some ..b------- Mam says they're fat’ning, see—


ibc’let^,


And if she doesn't like them— well,


She may give them to me! JIMIFEL.


Sawley races


rTHE annual point-io-point races 1 held at Sawley by the Pendle Forest and Craven Hunt will be on Saturday, April 7th, three weeks earlier than usual.


first at 2 p.m., and they will be run over a course of three and a quarter miles.


There will be five races, the


" Templewood,” Pendle Road, Clitheroe, is the entries secretary and Mr. H. R. Birtwistle the general secretary.


Mr. J. N. D. Birtwistle, ot


Closing date for entries is next Saturday, March 31st.


THIS WAS NEWS . . .


50 YEARS AGO March 30th, 1912


/"AWING to the high demand v ' for coke during the coal strike, the Gas Committee decided not to sell any larger quantity than 5 cwts.' and to supply only local ratepayers This was to stop people from other towns coming to Clith­ eroe and depleting the stock. Half-hundredweights of coke were supplied at 3£d. Coal prices rose to two shillings per cwt. and at that price supplies were limited.


# * *


fT'HE half-year’s rate levied a by Bowland Rural District Council was sixpence in the £


$ *


land at Grindleton for the purposes of a sewerage scheme failed to come to any arrange­ ment with the owner. # * *


A SUB - COMMI TTEE appointed to negotiate for


particularly es se n ti al to prepare a good seed-bed, breaking down the soil as finely as possible.


sow now is onion. This should be done early in March to give s the plants a long growing


Another useful vegetable to eason. For this crop it is


enriched with a generous helping of organic material. Farmyard manure is excellent, but failing this a sedge peat comes in very handy. Before sowing the seed, however, give the prepared bed a dressing of Vegerite plus Aldrin.


The soil should have been


and rake in. This will help to produce excellent onions, And it will do more than this for the aldrin, one of the newer soil insecticides, will also deal with troublesome


Use at 3-oz. per square yard


soil pests. Don’t forget to make the


onion bed as firm as possible Some people still roll their beds before sowing onion seed, but I don’t recommend this except perhaps on very light sandy soils.


bed, heel and toe, when you are preparing the final sowing surface. Then rake it over, first one way and then the other to get a fine, level surface, free of stones and lumps of soil.


A better way is to tread the


ash or the ash from log fires, sift it. now and rake it into the top few inches of soil.


If you saved your bonfire


make them in. deep and 9 ins. apart, unless you intend to grow extra large onions for exhibiting at your local show. In this case, it is better to have the drills a foot apart.


Wlren you draw the drills Burning of gorse


many farms. To avoid the risk of destroy­


Q.ORSE-BURNING is a regular and necessary practice op


ing bird life, including the nests and eggs of wild birds, those who still plan to burn gorse are advised to complete it before the end of March, when birds in many parts of the country nor mally start nesting.


interesting stories about not only the district but also of his experiences during the First World War, when he served with the Cheshire Regiment (n France, Italy and Egypt.


for scrap. The dragon was built for the


1951 Festival of Britain torchlight procession in Clith­ eroe and was an impressive sight with its swinging tail and eyes which lit up, not to mention the stream of fire and smoke which belched forth


grounds were o th e rw is e deserted, but Dick keeps up his patrol of them just the same.


I t was a cold day and the


every few seconds. I t was made of sheets o(


SHOWING IN AFRICA A PART from its merits as a


metal by Gas Works staff at Clitheroe in their own time, but although often spoken about has only been seen twice


by the public. For the torchlight proces­


sion held to celebrate the Coronation in 1953 the Gas Works entry was a ferocious- looking giant, but at the torchlight procession in con­ nection with the Castle Fete in 1960 the dragon was brought out of its lair.


not worn well and it was decided to scrap it and, for the next torchlight, have an equally original but more modern entry.


Since then, however, it has Established 1911


dragon's head, and just to illustrate its size, three-year- old Wyatt Vernon crouching


My picture shows the in between its jaws.


CASTLE GUIDE TT'OR many years visitors to A Clitheroe Castle grounds heard interesting anecdotes about the Castle, and the town and district, from the Museum curator, Mr. Bert Clarke, but after his death the Museum was closed for a time until Miss A. Wilkinson and Mrs. M. Reid, of Castle View, were appointed curators.


although not as much Interested in the Museum, was taking a great interest in the Castle grounds, and now visitors to the Castle often have some fossil in the rock pointed out to them, or hear some interesting story about the district’s history.


Richard Cowperthwaitc, of West View, Clitheroe, a former cricketer for his native Barrow, who is something of a nature and history student,


The new “guide” is Mr. TRUSTEE


known, on the steep slope leading to the Castle Offices this week, and it was not long before he was telling me a few


I met Dick, as he is usually


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-cA film, wherever “Whistle down the Wind” is screened people from East Lancashire rush to see it and reviews of the film; and pictures of the young local stars in it have been eagerly collected by people not only in Britain but in many other countries.


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Mvs. R. Royston, of 64 Chelsea Court Esplanade, Durban, South Africa, who has sent


me a programme from the Durban Playhouse, where the film was shown last week.


and in particular the perform­ ances of Alan Barnes, the eight-year-old Chat bur n school-boy, Diane Holgate, and. the other local children who took part.


Film critics praised the film


cutting from the “Natal Daily News” of March 9th. in which Roy Christie writes:


Mrs. Royston has sent me a


i "The conjunction of talent is undeniable, and the result is as invigorating and original cinema as one might justifi­ ably expect.”


the film, he says: “But it is really the child


After outlining the story of


actors who steal the film. One of them in particular Alan Barnes, is the discovery of a generation.


sceptic, as tough as they come He takes no nonsense from anyone. His playing is with­ out a trace of that nauseating precocity which p l a g u e s American child actors, and I’ll guarantee that he’ll tug on


“He is a North Country


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-rV munity hall \vt Town Council on 7| special sub-commi: chairman of the L'| mittee. and the ch and Finance and ( set up.


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sites suggested by t: for the provision oi to meet Clitheroe'i


The sub—commi


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The Borough


sub-committee, how Development and Tc ning Committee fell the time the Council position to go ai national financial cri be over, or at leas acute.


In appointing th


• The special sub-cl will report back on i t | and observations course. They have I disposal a report of LI community centres al ming baths in other <1 gether with the rati for their maintenam|


every maternal heartstring in the audience.” Mr. and Mrs. Royston,


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formerly of Milton Avenue, Clitheroe, went to South Africa in 1951. Mr. Royston died in 1959.


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