r r Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, April 27, 1962 HOUSING POLICY


SJO the Labour Parly is fouling l~ its own nest even on the eve of the election!


After reading Aid. Critchley's


sour remark about Coun. Ent- wistle and his jibe that he would have liked him to contest an election on his remarks re hous­ ing policy, may we, young married people, tell him that we, too, would like it and that if Coun Entwistle had come out with ' these remarks years ago instead of now, he would have topped the poll every time, and not with Tory votes either.


selves, with a strong Labour background, are turning Liberal


Many young people, liko our­


what else can we do? We can't vote Tory, and since it is very plain that Labour represents only one section in this town, we


this year. A protest vote? Maybe, but


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party which expects young people like us, struggling with our own mortgages and repairs, or those living in slums or rooms, to subsidise the well-to-do Coun­


must look elsewhere. Why should we support a


cil tenants? The fairest way for all would


be for them to pay ail economic rent, and for those really unable to do so, assistance could be


given. To gel fair treatment for other


householders, no Councillor who is a tenant of the Corporation should be allowed to vote on this issue. I t has not escaped attention


A mistake, but now she wins at festivals


T A A R K -H A IR E D contralto Margaret A t k i n s o n has been singing since she was at school, and lately she has


been very successful in festivals sang was by accident.


s “ The teacher said ‘Margaret


ing this will you?” so, rather surprised, I did, but all the time it was another Margaret who should have sung,” Mar­ garet told me at her home in West View, Clitheroe, this week.


trophies won at last week’s Cecil Bateson Memorial Festi­ val at Nelson, where she won the oratorio, lleder and con-


Latest of her successes are


of Mrs. E. Atkinson and the late Mr. M. Atkinson, and teaches at a Baxenden junior


but the first time she She is the younger daughter


school. ODD BUYS


means that everyone has a lot to do, and on top of that last Thursday was a fine, sunny day, so the streets of Clitheroe were more crowded than ever, but what strange things I found people buying.


■VTATURALLY the last shop- ping day before Easter


had sold six large packets of soap powder to one woman, and four to another, and six dozen clothes pegs to someone


One store reported that they else.


tomer wanted birthday cards and went away with four all containing the printed inscription, “To my sister," saying she would “take the cards while you ha-ve them.”


Meanwhile, another cus­


ushering the children home with a bundle of wallpaper under her arm, telling the children that on no account was she taking them out that afternoon. There was some decorating to be done.


Outside, I saw one woman JEAN MILLER


that in the “ Line up for Town Election" story in last week's Advertiser and Times, addresses


are given in all but four cases. No prize for guessing which! If it is not to conceal the fact


of a Corporation house address, it does seem a rather pointed omission.


allowed to deteriorate, perhaps someone will form a property owners' association to protect us from those who would shift their responsibilities to the genera) body of ratepayers.


If the situation in Clitheroe is UNDER THIRTIES.


every case as it was felt the can­ didates were already well known, having contested previous elec­ tions. There was no intention of concealing whether or not a candidate is a Council tenant.—


Addresses were not given in


Editor. COUNCIL HOUSE RENTS


always assume that the average citizen is unwilling to pay an economic rent for a Council


\VHY do Labour councillors ” living in Council houses


house? Because they are content to


be subsidised by people worse off than themselves, they try to make a merit of it and even


tra-lto classes and was second in the duet class, In which she sang with Mr. Kenneth East- wood.


in festivals for just over two years, as she has only been taking lessons in singing since she left teachers’ training


She has only been singing


college. Before that she first sang at


various church anniversaries and similar occasions.


weekend was the soloist at cen ten a ry celebrations at


She still does that, and last


Grindleton Methodist Church. For two years, too, Mar­


garet has been choir leader at Moor Lane Methodist Church, where she has also been a youth leader.


convince themselves that they are being public spirited.


one else, especially those like myself, who would jump at the chance of an un-subsidised one.


BuL they don’t convince any­


sive, uncomfortable rooms, or try having an expensive mortgage millstone around their necks in addition to subsidising Council house tenants, and they wouldn’t create as loudly as they do when asked to pay a slight increase.


Let them try living in expen­


cheaper than any comparable ones in the country, and it is time the rents were increased by 10 shillings weekly. Even then


Clitheroe's Council houses are


they would be cheap. ON-TIIE-LIST.


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lyrAY I draw your readers' attention to the urgent need for clothing for 250,000 Algerian


refugees who will return to their shattered homeland this summer. I am helping the Oxford Com­


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mittee for Famine Relief in Clitheroe, collecting a shilling a month from a few friends through Oxfam’s pledged gifts scheme, and I know there must be many people in Clitheroe who would be only too glad to help with parcels or clothing.


for Refugees stressed the urgen­ cy in a recent cable: “ Clothing and blankets from Oxfani desperately needed for million returning refugees. Vital _ they have these minimum necessities.


The U.N. High Commissioner Perhaps our local organisation


would help with a special clothing collection?


According to Oxfam, which


ships most of the clothing col lected in Britain, relief agencies overseas have been asking for more clothing than in previous years, hut the intake here has fallen People just don't seem to realise that clothing is still needed — especially children’s. (Oxfam needs 1,240 tons of clothing this year).


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able to carry on with it, and with singing In festivals, after


d hopes that she will be


lives in neighbouring Wilson Street. A Doctor of Philosophy, he teaches at a technical college in Watford, so Mar­ garet does not see him very often.


her wedding in August. Her fiance. Bill Bleazard,


we shall be living afterwards,” she explained.


“ I just do not know where Water merger


plan: Council told ‘Agree or ..


TTNLESS Clitheroe Town U1 council agree to the borough’s water undertaking being taken over by Fylde Water Board before the end of June, the Minister of Housing and Local Govern­ ment will promote a compul­ sory re-grouping order.


monthly meeting of the Town Council last week, when it was stated that originally the Minister had decided that the date for the take-over should be May 19th.


This was announced at the


between the Town Council and the Ministry, the date has been amended.


F o 11 d w i n g negotiations Night parking: anShe likes this job very much Bench reminder


T ADY WORSLEY - presiding at


Magistrate’s Court yesterday week, said It would appear that many motorists were not aware that it was an offence to park a car on the offside of the road at night, even If lights were left on.


TAYLOR Clitheroe


reminded that this was an offence it would save some of them from being prosecuted. _


Perhaps if motorists were


_ COUNTRY DIARY _ The riddle of bird migration


A T this time of the year, as we note the return of our summer visitors, our thoughts


invariably turn to the subject of migration. e First we welcome the wheat-


•swallow, swift, cuckoo and nightjar. They arrive unfail­ ingly each year to the same area after travelling thous­ ands of miles.


ar, then from abroad, the wi l l ow warbler, martins,


again leave our valley to follow a set route to winter once more in Africa or on the shores of the Mediterranean.


reThen, after ' nesting and aring ttheir young, they


able when we realise that the outstanding feat of navigation is achieved mositly at night with few landmarks to guide t them on their way. It Is all


It is all the more remark­


examine the comparatively frail structure of these


he more wonderful when we


creatures which in many cases are little more than half an ounce in weight.


were left to our own devices, a very tricky performance indeed. No doubt, unless we were aided by map and compass, the job would be impossible and thousands would never reach the intended destination.


wEven to a human, the task ould be arduous, and if we mBut to these creatures, the INHERENT FACULTY


which has been lost to man as he became civilised.


iVTAVIGATION is acheived by some inherent faculty


‘ I’m drunk/ said man clinging to bus stop standard


found in Moor Lane on a Sun­ day afternoon trying to sup­ port himself by a bus stop standard, it was stated by Inspector W. Taylor at Clith­ eroe yesterday week. He was clinging to the stan­


TYAVID GOODBIER, of Edis- ford Road, Clitheroe, was


dard with, both hands and slowly sank to the ground with his back to the wall.


proached him he said, “I’m drunk.”


When P.c. Ormerod ap­


able, Goodbier was fined 10s. plIn a letter. Goodbier. who


For being drunk and incap­


been receiving hospital treat­ ment and had taken some tablets. The affect of these tablets, combined with the drink, was to make him drunk.


eaded guilty, said he had


fJ'HE Clitheroe factory of I.C.I., Ltd., is one of the


three factories in the Billing- ham Division which has no lost-time accidents this year.


problem does not appear to be very difficult.


ammals and insects, the


for these frail creatures to accomplish all this, and why, after years of research, have the real workings of migration been so difficult to explain? There have been quite a few explanations, but none which can satisfactorily interpret the why and wherefore which takes place within these small bodies at this season of the year.


How is it therefore possible


difficult to explain in the physical sense how a manx shearwater travelled 20,000 miles by sea from England to South Australia. Yet one such bird was ringed in the Pem­ brokeshire island of Skokholm in September. 1960, and was picked up on the beach near Venus Bay in South Australia in November. 1961.


It would, for instance, be


waters are great travellers but so are far smaller visitors which are now arriving by Ribble and Hoddpr. The willow warbler weighs little more than half an ounce yet it navigates and battles against all sorts of adverse conditions to arrive in our woodland to breed and rear its young. And, most impressive —it is achieved at night.


Of course, manx shear­


follow these ac tiv iti es throughout the seasons, my mind often seeks to find an explanation.


And so as a naturalist, as I NATURE’S BOOK


plan of Nature, but it is only by seeking a reasonable


OTHERS may accept all this as part of the wonderful


explanation that we may arrive at the truth. For Nature’s book is open for everyone to read even if it is not given to all to decipher the language in which it is written.


the explanations which has always interested me is again causing serious consideration. For only recently we find that a once derided science is now receiving university backing and experiments being carried out which can quite easily offer us an explanation.


Now it seems that one of


have been carried out by the Russians an d Americans regarding what is referred to as a sixth sense in humans which enables brain trans­ missions to be accepted un­ hindered by distance or physical barriers.


Already several experiments


may, I consider, quite easily be of the utmost importance when related to our subject of nav igation during bird migrations. Indeied, perhaps


The new look at the mind


you will recall that I have on occasions suggested that such facts within nature are made possible by a manifestation of the sub-conscious mi n d


which just knows. BY SAME INTELLIGENCE


CURELY as the seasons *3 follow a set plan, and the sun, planets and tides then it is not too much to believe that these migratory movements


are also governed by the same intelligence.


the same faculty. One particular moth deposits her eggs on a pine tree. These hatch and quickly eat up readily acceptable food. It is then necessary to go else­ where in search of sustenance.


Others, too in Nature reveal


the larvae keep as a close company. But as they are sightless how do they reach their selected object? Some may suggest a leader, but if the leader be removed the procession will again continue after a short while.


Now as they leave the tree


a nest, the spider a web of great artistic beauty, and the caterpillar a cocoon, all with­ out instruction. Who can say how? Is it instinct, telepathy or just pure mind?


Similarly, the bird builds


the now progressing ex­ periments in Britain, Russia, and America, I would dare to suggest that man is nearer to finding a solution to the problem than he has ever been. Perhaps we shall then discover that the sub­ conscious is infallible.


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TOWN A H


Only two p BACU


morning. The town 1 again on Monday.


the game more than t line shows, they had until the last five mil the winning goal.


ing relegation. Although Clitheroe


the thick mud and made a poor start.


Both teams made mi


down to play method: ball, Bacup scored twic- KERSHAW and WALT1


Before the visitors hi They held this lead


interval, hut Clitheroe h the first 10 minutes of tl half and equalised.


. The visitors went dominate play and CORBRIDGE scored for Clitheroe clinched the \


the last five minutes. Clitheroe's hero wa.


left BARTON, brought attack for this game. 1 twice, the other Clithe coming from HOBS( BIRKETT.


The result of Saturd:


pLITIIEROE’S only f from the defeat 0


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