The PHtlterne Adverfhe.r-& Times. December 24. 1964


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HOPES RUN HIGH FOR THE NEW YEAR MESSAGES FROM


The past year has been a I


„ CIVIC LEADERS AND CLERGY


The Mayor and Mayoress


of Clitheroe (Councillor and Mrs. J. Hall)


all your readers our greetings and best wishes. C h r i s t m a s symbolises


0 N the Eve of Christmas we would like to send to


happiness and goodwill. For many people, however, whose homes stood in the path of the recent floods, the happi­ ness this year must perforce be somewhat meagre, but it was heartwarming to all con­ cerned in the work of clearing up the damaged areas to see how . much goodwill exists today, and we hope that all those who suffered so much worry and loss will gain some comfort and happiness from the knowledge that the thoughts and sympathy of all people of goodwill arc still


with them. At a time when men talk


freely of travel toward the stars Is is perhaps salutory to have to realise that we are still at the mercy of the forces of nature.


Its. ribbed stockings liew thev'd take the 1" is shown in this (colours baby pink,


During the past


on this planet, indeed here in Clitheroe. The efforts of a great •manv people are needed, but as we work together the more hap­ piness there will be—not only between man and fellow man, but also between nations. Let us greet 1965 with the


There is so much to do here


determination to work together for the good of all.


SIR FRANK PEARSON M.P. for Clitheroe


opportunity of wishing all the very many readers of your paper


I AM delighted to have the


all best wishes for 1965. Britain is at the parting of the


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ways and the future of our country for decades could be determined in this coming year and we must all hope that the decisions made by our Govern­


riding importance; first Britain has alwavs exerted an influence In the world far beyond what was justified by her physical resources, and it will be tragic if our leaders curtail our world commitments on the basis of a narrow ..interpretation of our t economic, position as it is


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LITHEROE 4SS


iNOMY


F O R T . . . W *


s i AND FOR ALL MAJOR EVENTS IN 1964. p H


k t h em a " ' lin fuel consumption of Inum servicing (every oOOG ■•conomy-minded. As for Iwith luggage space back I ; of folding rear seat and


lly £509.1.3. (£420 plus p.t. |> p.t. £93.4.7). |(IVE IIVJ P TODAY!


IMF STS ICLITHEKOK


JGE, DUCK ST. |ROE 547


f ' REMEMBER THE FORD CORTINA WHICH WON THE SAFARI DESERT RUN ON TOTAL PETROL


ALSO THE MORE RECENT SUCCESS IN THE R.A.C. RALLY WHICH PASSED THROUGH CLITHEROE AND CHATBURN ONLY SIX WEEKS AGO.


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AGAIN THE FORD CORTINAS WON THE TEAM PRIZE ON 1 O 1 X l L IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY TRIED


TOTAL


TORIES LTD. Storers


IlLACKBURN IT.v—


— 48540


ole or Part Loads AND FRO#


INNING CHARGES P • •• r 1* U iD D IC A f e J P


H A n n l j U N & vU « Sawlev Road Filling Station


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OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS


WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY XMAS


AND A HAPPY a n d prosperous NEW YEAR . } i '


Kindly Note—Our Station will be CLOSED All Christmas Day.


CAN ONLY BE BOUGHT IN THE CLITHEROE AREA FROM TO ALL


FILL UP TODAY “YULE” BE PLEASED-BUT PLEASE REMEMBER J . KJ JL I l l - I X A-# A x x ■*-*■*-• TOT AT PFTROL


DURING CHRISTMAS WEEK WE ARE GIVING EACH CUSTOMER’S CHILD (PASSENGERS IN THE CAR) A FREE BAG OF TOTAL SWEETS. EVEN THESE YOU WILL FIND ARE T O T A L L Y DIFFERENT.


NOTICE


influence which enables us to maintain a population of 50 million at a high standard of living and, without it, this will not be possible.


Europe and it is with Europe that our future must lie. With America we have had, and always must have, a special relation­ ship. but we must beware that this link is not so extended that our identity is submerged or our freedom of action unduly res­


Secondly, we are a part of /


tricted. Government direction and


Government control can never make a people great and my dearest wish for 1965 is that the energies and skills of the British people may be given full freedom to maintain that prosperity which we all enjoy and that strength which has done so much to maintain the peace.


Councillor H. Holden, Chairman of Clitheroe Rural Council


1 APPRECIATE the oppor­


the columns of your excellent newspaper to send a New Year’s message to your readers, and particularly to those who are resident in the Rural District of Clitheroe. As civic head of this scattered


tunity given to me through


new sewage schemes for Slaid- bum and Newton have been com­ pleted and a Meals on Wheels Committee has - been established in Waddington, West Bradford and Grindleton, and is function­ ing satisfactorily thanks to voluntary help. Next year further work will go


full one for local government in Bowland. Amongst other things the


fitting myself to meet another j


on in sewage and housing with a 'hope that it will improve the living conditions of our Bowland


'happy if, by not spoiling them with regrets for the past ana fears for the future, we gn<- them that full attention and appreciation which, as gifts of God in all then- intended fresn- ness. they deserve. Each day » a new chance—"This is the da> the. Lord hath made, rejoice and


residents. In conclusion may I leave with


be glad in it." Rev. A. F. Clark


vou as a thought for 1965. part of the Psalm from which our Bowland motto is taken: “ I will lift up mine eyes unto


and earth." Rev. R. Jobling


Vicar of Clitheroe and Rural Doan AS I send you this New' Year


the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven


(Superintendent Minister, Clitheroe Methodist Circuit)


ON Christmas morning 1944 I


Manchester Regiment (Machine Gunners), on the Road to Man­ dalay. We had “stood too" for half an hour up to dawn, and then brewed up and had two Army biscuits and half a tin of sardines each for breakfast, whilst a plane flew over us tow­ ing a streamer bearing the words "Happy Christmas to the 14th


was with a section of the Army".


but about 2 p.m., whilst waiting for a dried up river course to be matted so that our vehicles could cross, five of us shared a tin of peaches. It w'as sharing . that tin of peaches which made Christmas for us then I What


We had a pretty rough day, , .


rural area, I have seen, from my visits to the several communities which make it up, how important a part the village hall plays in its life, and yet how difficult a task the management committees have in maintaining these excel­ lent institutions, when there is such a tendency for a drift of the young folk to the towns.


My wish therefore is that the


village communitiv should in 1965 come to a full realisation of the value of their village halls and, by their support and encouragement, help to maintain and improve them as an attractive focal point in the life of the village.


ment wall be wise ones. There are two points of over­


readers our heartiest good wishes for a happy, healthy and pros­ perous New Year, with peace and goodwill prevailing throughout th.e world.


M.v wife and I send to all your Councillor T. Robinson,


Chairman of Bowland Rural Council


hought .to'Cxlst today. It is World


residents in Bowland my sincere Greetings for the New Year, with the earnest wish that 1965 may bring health, peace and prosperity.


I AM glad to have this oppor­ tunity of again sending to


are we sharing this year ? Sharing means being together


and each of us giving and receiv­ ing what \ve can. Sharing makes a crowd into a community. Let us be sure we give our share to the joys and goodness of 1965, in fact how about giving a little more than we get, and sharing the prosperity of a Christian


community. Father H. McEvoy, S. J.


But each dav of our lives is exactly that—a fresh gift of life from God’s hands. When He bade us let tomorrow take care of itself. He clearly wanted us to see that this was His plan for happiness. “Happiness” is an interesting word: it is con­ cerned with the “haps,” the old English word for the events, pleasant or difficult, of life. We have to sec that a possible hap­


EACH New Year's Day is a linking of past and future.


piness is hidden in our every encounter in the, sometimes tough, business of living. A trial accepted is far more likely to ensure my happiness, by ennob­ ling my character, than the run


pation is a fine resolve. A full use of today may redeem much of m.v past; it is the best wav of


very much in my mind—it is that w'hich came at Christmas. Has Christmas taught us the great lesson that alone can bring peace and good will in the New Year . That lesson is that we must


message, another message is


dSMay we all have a happy New I Year by making each day of it o “New Day." The days win 00


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Liverpool and from there sailed for America. He had been gone from home only an hour when the Law arrived! Sam's father did well enough


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in America to send for his wife and son, but she decided not to go—the inn was doing too well. After her husband died, Mrs. Fletcher remarried. The family decided to emigrate


farewell to his beloved hill. The time came when, settled


to New Zealand and Sam took a final walk up Pendle to say


accept the whole of the angels Christmas song, or we can have none of it, unless first and foie- most man gives “glory to God there can be no peace on eartn and goodwill toward man. It is futile, as Christmas pro-,


claims to attempt to engineer the Christmas older of society with the Christ left out. What then is the glory of


in New Zealand. Sam wanted to marry Harriet Lomas, a girl who had travelled out with them in the ship. He saved to obtain land of his own. finally fulfilling his wish in 1864. But there was something on that land which made him stand and stare in amazement. Two years later Sam mauled


God. First, the glory of God is the splendour of God made, known to man, more particularly in the person of Him, who was born on Christmas Day. The- glory of God is thus the presence of God visibly operative m the hearts and lives of men and


the girl of his choice and they sailed for Napier. At last came the day when Harriett stood with Sam on their own property. Suddenly the sun shone, the


mists rose and Sam pointed eagerly. "There it is . . . see, over there!" There was nothing to see except


women.Secondly the angels sang "glory to God”. The two, glory of God and the glory, to God are complementary and point tne ’ways .of peace on earth, and


\ 0 visit to the charming village of Bollon-by-Bowland would be complete without a look into the church with it's extraordinary monument, the Pudsay 1 omb.


Sir Ralph Pudsay of Bolton Hall, sheltered Henry VI .after


goodwill to men. The glory of God is the pres­


ence of God, recognised on earth : and glory to God is man s response of praise and homage which he renders both by lip and


life.Only whole-hearted Christians can evolve together the Christian


Day who alone can guide our feet into the way of peace.


order of Society. It is the Christ of Christmas


WHALLEY CIRCLE GIVES £200


T7TNG GEORGE'S Fund for Sailors has received £200,


of good luck I crave. To meet each day with antici­


from the Whallev Circle, being the proceeds of a Coffee. Morn- ,ing and Evening organised; recently by the Circle.


Hexham and until he was removed to Waddington. The effigy of the knight is engraved alongside those of his three wives, the figures VI, 11, XVII indicating the number of children each


had by him. Beneath the knight and his


lovely grounds adjoining Bolton Hall.’ the mansion itself being considered one of the oldest in the West Riding and dating from the reign of Edward III. An ancient oak-panelled room is still called "King Henry’s parlour." and the gloves, boot and spoon which Henry presented to his host in appreciation of the shel­ ter were exhibited at Kensington Museum in 1862. Not far from the Hall is Rams- bar Scar, a tree-clothed cliff ''rising from the Ribble, which is


wives are the incised figures of his 25 children. The slab bears the following inscription: "This tomb of Sir Ralph Pudsay, Kt„ Lord of Bolton, the faithful adherent of King Henry VI, whom he sheltered at Bolton Hall, after the Battle of Hexham, AD 1463, was restored by his descen­ dant and heir, Pudsay Daw­ son. of Hornby Castle, Esq., AD 1857.” Opposite the church are the


often called Pudsay’s leap, in commemoration of the deeds of a descendant of Sir Ralph.


William Pudsay. Tradition has it that this man.


having discovered a silver mine on his estate minted his own coins, and when discovered es­ caped from his pursuers by making the perilous leap on horseback from the top of the cliff. Eventually he received a free pardon from Queen Elisa­


beth.


T>ENDLE Hill is celebrating 4- its centenary . . . in New Zealand! Mrs. Bertha Bradley, of Napier, New Zealand, uTOtc this week to sav that in this case the Pendle Hill concerned is a homestead so named by former local man Samuel Fletcher, one of the country’s early pioneers. Recently more than 100 descend­ ants of Mr. Fletcher and his wife Harriet, who also come from this area, gathered at the hill to pay tribute to the founders of


PENDLE HILL IN- NEW ZEALAND


the family. The fascinating story of thus


family begins in the year 1848 when Sam Fletcher was only nine years old. He had been roaming on Pendle Hill and re­ turned to his home, a small inn called "A Bird in the Hand", (we wonder whether this could be the site of the present-day


a long green sweep of' hill that ran against the sky—green against the blue. But Harriet understood, the outline and con­ tours were exactly the same, so the name of their property im­ mediately became Pendle Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher had 13


children and the two pioneers ar* buried with 30 of their relatives on Pendle Hill. New Zealand.


Wellsprings?!. Most of the locals were poach­


ers and that day there had been a swoop by the Law following extensive poaching the previous


somebody had framed Uncle Bill Wharmbv. brother of Sam’s mother, by placing some rabbit traps on iiis front fence. That was enough for the police. It was against the law to be found in possession of rabbit traps, and eventually Uncle Bill was sentenced to seven years' hard labour, after which he was to be transported to Van Diemens Land. Tasmania. Australia.


night. It was then that Sam learned


as he was innocent of any crime. Sam's father did not wait to


A hard sentence, particularly


argue with the police, for though lie too. was innocent, he knew that as Bill's best friend, he would probably also be picked up and land in jail. .


Saddling a horse he set off for -


conducting a series of monthly sample surveys from which to estimate the proportions of this season's home grown wheat, barlev and oats remaining unsold on farms at the end of each suc­ cessive month from the end of October. 1964, to the end of


rpHE Ministry of Agriculture, -l Fisheries and Food is again


FARM SURVEY


June, 1965. These enquiries are being


undertaken to help farmers and the grain trades to assess the rate of disposal of those home grown cereals throughout the grain marketing season. Similar surveys have been carried out in previous seasons since 1956-57. The information for this


enquiry is obtained monthly from about 2.800 farms. These were selected by taking a random sample from farms groups according to the cereal acreages grown. Thg sample contains relatively higher proportion of farmers with the larger cereal acreages in order to make the overall sampling error as low a*


possible. ________ ___


THAT YOU GET MORE MILES PER GALLON ON THAN ON ANY OTHER YOU HAVE TRIED. YOU BUY THE SAME FROM US AS USED BY


FOR YOURSELF TOTAL PETROL


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