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Older people puzzled by jet-age youngsters in a world of noise


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official programme. ( windows take your prize


MARK s new competition


O U R hvo teams ready to answer questions and fire comments are, top, left-right: Mr. Wiiliam Preston, Mr. Fred Green. Mrs. Annie Edwards, Mr. George Riley; bottom, left-right: Dorothy Fielding holding Sharon Lawson


Pauline Ellis, Avri! Scott, Jennifer Starkey, Bryan Johnson, and Keith Wright holding “Kun. ’ We hear so much today of what older people think about, young people . . . too rowdy, too much


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money, too noisy . . . but what do young people say about it, and what do they in turn Hunk about the older ones.^


^ Admrliser <ind Times “ reporter set out last Saturday afternoon to find out Visiting the Castle grounds she interviewed both young and old to ascertain tlieir views. Here is what she says:—


W IT H long hair flopping forwards over his eyes or greased back, a gaudy shirt, tight jeans, pointed shoes, and plenty of ■ ' monev . . . little Johnny is ready to go and join his pals at the pictures.


Now force yourself lo think back over the years, and this same little Johnny would be


a little more tired perhaps, having just come home fromla hard day's work.and faceJ w 1 not a night out. but with helping bath the younger members of * largefamily in the old tin bath in front of the lire, and having one good set of clothes, and those only for Sunday .


But is this change for the better? Do young teenagers of today realise their “good fortune,” or is life to them only ‘ Ask


and yc shall receive?” Clitheronians were full of views on the subject when 1


interviewed them Firstly I found some of the


older set of people sitting round ihe bowling green, and asked them their opinions.


“ Youngsters of today certainly get enough freedom, but don't seem lo have the responsibility to go with it. They don't seem to show as much respect as chil­ dren did in my youth, and seem to be more the mob-law type, preferring to go about in masses.” He continued. " In my youth


Slxty-four-yoar-old Mr. Fred Green of Fox Street, said,


the meaning was, and he said, “ a real sense of responsibility to others, and to set an example of how great humans can be, and not how wild!"


Preston of Alma Place, was in agreement. He said, “ In my opinion when we were young we made our own fun and in a better way than they do today.” The question of today's music


And 85-yar-old Mr. William


we could not afford lo buy a lot of things, but today teenagers want this, that and the other, and really don't know what they want or the real meaning of life.”


I asked him what he thought h 'K C ' .A M f i joy INN HEROE I t 's looted Ales


complaint was "courting! Today it should be more private, and not on street corners which is a common sight now!"


continued “were plainer but at least decent. Today they are far too short.”


" The clothes we wore ” she


ence in houses. “ Well they are more houseproud today, and fill their houses with ornaments and gadgets, but only because they have more money to spend.”


arose and Mr. Preston stated “ Well. I don’t like it. Give me straight singing any time,” but Mr. Green said, ” Some of today’s less rowdy music I like, and some of it I Mil admit carries more emphasis to life than ours did.”


poration Street, came in with the woman's view and her great


‘GENEROUS’ LAND OFFER TO HELP COUNCIL BUILD


1 PIECE of land opposite the Commercial Hotel m Gisbum suitable for the erection of two blocks of semi-detached


houses and four one-bedroomed flats or bungalows has been offered to Bowland Rural Council at a “nominal price” by the owner, Mr. J. R. Bindley, of Gisbume Park. Expressing his gratitude, at


FAURANT IER0E


the monthly meeting of the Council in Clitheroe on Mon­ day, Councillor B. Bentley, of the Housing Committee, said never in his 14 years as chairman had he heard of


such generosity. This was a virtual gift of land; land which was much needed m


the village. The Clerk. (Mr. L. D. Telford)


said the way was now.c' ^ further meetings with parties to finalise details, and he


honed that before too long a


start might be made o n ^ ^ r c a After learning that the Area


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llci an " Advertiser and [reporter. "We saw this 1 Ceylon tea and we were la slip giving details of Ipetition. so when I got [decided to enter."


Ilross was presented with Initure—a dining room lilh a dinner waggon. Ind cutlery—at a large liling furniture and she |:tmg her prize to be It today. In the second prize. The pe. a holiday in Ceylon, by a Liverpool couple.'' Cross.


Planning Office had rccommend- “ ufal of P'annins p e jm - sion for a house between Bolton bv-Bowland and Gisburn. the Council decided to aspect the


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more trees were to be planted. The house would, virtually, be


Moreover, he. understood that


an estate house, for its occupants would be engaged In producing and improving bloodstock. This was regarded by the Government as an important export industry. The proposed house and gar­


Mrs. Annie Edwards, of Cor­ I asked her about the differ­ --------


don't cost a lot. so I think we should have more money.”


son, “ You need money to go anywhere. You have to travel for


“And,” chipped in Bryan John


a good selection of places to go to, and after you have paid for travel, pictures or dances, the monev you need mounts up. Youngsters 50 years ago would have wanted as much money as we do if they had had the same facilities to spend it on!”


those days they did not often go away for holidays. Today there are so many marvellous places we can go to . .. so we need money.”


Jennifer Starkey said;"" in


Riley, of Primrose Street, was determined that freedom made voungsters rowdy. “And ” he ejaculated, “ police should be stricter with them. I t ’s no good fining when they can afford to fork out money there and then.”


Sixty-five-year-old Mr. George


make them realise.” he said. The subject of clothes cropped


“A night in jail would perhaps


up again and Mr. Green entered the conversation again with ” Some of the clothes and hair­ styles I like, and think they are smart. . . although som e are definitely carried to excess."


how thev get in them, and judg­ ing from the state of some of the boys’ hair there will be ‘sheppics' nesting in there before long!"


Mr. Preston said," I don't know


“ tight trousers and shoes will eventually die out when people realise they are bad for the body and feet.”


Mr. Riley however thought


speeded up a great deal today with travel and production and people are forgetting to sit back and appreciate the good things. There are more holidays, money, noise...and we are forgetting what peace is."


“ Life ” he continued. ” has


won't blame youths for wanting more money. If we are honest with ourselves that has always been our common failing too!”


But Mi'. Green answered. “ I "NO, NO, NO!"


age, near Park House Farm, Bol- ton-by-Bowland, was to be built on behalf of Mr. H. G. Hindle, of Crooked Field Farm, Chaigley. said Mr. Williamson. I t was going to be a soundly-built and designed house, better than several for which they had granted planning permission. If one went to the Lake Dis­


trict one would see countless similar houses, which most people agreed were assets to the district. This would be the case


with this house. Another point was that it


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L°d) saL^he ^ o ^ was 300 and TO


*1 yards respeetvelyn fromvthe


o f " panning authority its erection might lead to sporadic


development in that a! ea’ which they were opposed.


,t was nart of the Bowland


Forest Area of outstanding natural beauty and was inade­ quately screened.


| a snapshot of the two playing on the beach | ; one of the six winners,


second competition she


Jig Show of 1964 " and Ids will meet Ken Dodd ] presented with a long- record of Ken Dodd,"


i now looking forward to Blackpool. We shall see


Visible from a neighbouring road. " w o u l d , ‘hed fe lt1


amenity to the surrounding coun- I m e T ™


t rTheestatement that I tw jU b e dearly seen from the road u as S o u s , for 99 per cent of


travellers would not J s®e. i f , house for the screening trees.


In addition, it would be clearly


would be a source of rateable revenue, and he felt that more people should be encouraged to build suitably planned and con­


while he agreed in principle with Councillor Williamson, he felt


structed houses in the area. Councillor T. Aspin said that


that they ought to inspect the site before deciding to go into dispute with the' Area Planning


Office.Councillor Williamson agreed with this and withdrew his pro-


P°Mr!°nR. R. Overend, public health inspector and building


surveyor to Bowland Rural Coun­ cil. told members at their mon­ thly meeting at Clitheroe on Monday that the following build­ ing works had been completed in Bowland.


rear of Stirk House, Gisburn; public conveniences at Wadding­ ton; sewage works at Newton; additional toilet block at Three Rivers Caravan Park, West Brad­ ford; extension at Hill Cottage, Bolton - by - Bowland; detached bungalow at Dunsop Trout Farm,


Garage and ten chalets at the , Dimsop Bridge.


and went to find a group of young Clitheroe teenagers in the summer-house. “ You get more money than teenagers did 50 years ago,” I told them, ” Do you think you have enough?”


I left the older people then,


from all sides. Over to you, Avril Scott.


“ No!”, "No!", “No!", came


“ Well" she started, “ people then did not have much to choose from. Today we have a greater selection and things


“ is a great cost. I t changes so often (“ every week ’’ said Bryan) that you need money to keep up with it or else you're classed as


" Fashion ” Avril interrupted


square.” Fourteen-year-old Pauline Ellis


Our picture shows left-right; Peter Nicholson, Peter Bolton, Kenneth Jagger, Barry Bolton, Brian Ncwbold, Peter Baxcndale.


■THE greatest problem in forming a group today seems lo be A what to call it. A newly formed Hurst Green group, how­


ever, have looked to their local history and the lads pictured above are now the “Demdykes”.


Seventeen-ycar-oid Barry Bolton, came up with the idea .


of forming a group, and contacted their present manager, a law student at Leeds University. 19-year-old Kenneth Jagger, who


Bolton a 16-year-old forester is the vocalist, and the drummer is 16-year-old Brian Newbold. an apprentice painter and deco­


inevitably has the nickname “Mick”. Barry’s brother Peter “Bubble”


rator.Others in the group are rythm guitar, 18-year-old Peter Nichol­ son, the only one in the group not from Hurst Green, and lead


guitar is Peter Baxcndale a 20- year-old trainee executive. The group has been together


for four weeks and already have had two engagements at the


Village Hall. BEWARE!


said " I am glad I was not bom 50 years ago. For example today I think fashions are far more sensible. Take the new )ow-heeled shoes and lo o s e mod-style dresses. (" I like those ” said Avril.) They are more comfort­ able and gayer than clothes were then.” Dorothy Fielding H3t said ” 1


tary theatre tickets from an un­ known donor — beware! Think twice before accepting them, or who knows, you may fall for the same trick that robbed two friends of mine of most of then- valuables and treasured posses­


If ever vou receive complimen­


sions. It happened recently in a place


don't think you can say teen­ agers today all get stacks of money, and 50 years ago they had none. Some of them get a lot of money today, others don’t.” At the time of the first world


war. I said to Dorothy, children were looked on as children. Did she consider the same 15-year-old today was ready for high-heels? “ Yes,” she answered. “But I don't think they knew


not far over the Yorkshire bor­ der. My friends were settling down to look at television when there came an insistent knocking on the door. On the main road at the bottom of the drive was a car. its bonnet raised. At the door stood a smart


what fashion was then" Avril said. “The times have progress­ ed and we have with them." Keith Wright went on with


Anaesthetics on animals


this theme. “ Our word today is noisier, and our music is noiser.” I thought that was a good


point. . . these are jet-age young­ sters in a world of noise, natur­ ally it reflects in their music. Perhaps these youngsters, al­


though not realising what bene­ fits progress has brought them, can see more clear’.y where they


are going. No longer can the older ones


Are they frightened that young­ sters will misuse their good for­ tune? Or are they just plain jealous?


amongst us say "You ought to do so-and-so, as I did when I was a lad.” The truth is that today's children cannot go back to that past age. If progress has made them rowdy it has also educated them, brought them health, and a variety of good things people have not been able to have before. Do the older people see this?


farm animals and eats arid dogs are reminded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of additional restrictions on the castration of these animals with­ out the use of anaesthetics which


All persons concerned with now apply.


(Anaesthetics) Act 1964, makes it obligatory to use an anaesthetic when castrating dogs, cats, horses, asses and mules of any age. goals and pigs over two months of age, a n d


The Protection of Animals .


lambs over three months. At the same time the use of


calves and


rubber rings or similar devices is forbidden for castrating bulls, pigs, goats and sheep or for docking lambs’ tails unless appli­ ed during the first week of life. Further restrictions imposed by the Act are that an anaesthetic must be used when de-horning cattle; an anaesthetic is also required when disbudding calves unless this is done by chemical cautery applied during the first


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young couple, obviously in dis­ tress. They explained that they were variety artistes, on their way to an engagement at a nearby theatre, and that their car had broken down. Could they use the telephone to ring for a


in due course a taxi came. The artistes thanked them profusely and left. Later that night the householders noticed that the broken-down car had gone, and presumed a break-down wagon had towed it away. They thought nothing more


taxi? My friends readily agreed, and


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about the incident until a couple of davs later the postman brought two complimentary theatre tickets.t ogether with the legend: "With grateful thanks for your kindness." Evi­ dently the two stranded artistes had sent on the tickets. My friends demurred at first,


ded to go.


show, and were surprised to notice that the two artistes were not on the bill. But the biggest surprise of the evening came when they returned home to find the house ransacked. More than four hundred pounds’ worth of jewellery and other valuables


They didn’t really enjoy the .


had been taken.' Makes you think, doesn t it?


GOLDEN WEDDING MEMORIES


A WOODWORK master at Townley Green School.


United Methodist Church,'Moor Lane, Clltheroe, by Rev. A. ■


wedding. They were married at the


fitting. Mr. Bewsher, who is 72, was a


W.


painter and decorator in this area for many years. A native of Clitheroe, he spent the last 26 years of his profession as a painter at calderstones Hospital, Whalley. He Joined the Painters’ Club in 1912, and to mark the fifty years he had been a mem­ ber, the Club presented him with a cheque, card, and silver badge which he sports proudly on his acket. He was made an honorary member for life. His wife Isabella, nee Bils- borough, was a weaver at Holmes Hill, and she has also


worked a t Jubilee Mill. She is 70-years-old and comes from a welt-known Clitheroe family. Her f a m i ly kept an iron­ monger's store in Castle Street. Of course her greatest interest


Wythenshawe, Manchester, Mr. James Bewsher, and his


sister, Mrs. Gladys Booth, of Waddington, are looking forward to tomorrow as are their parents Mr. and Mrs. James Bewsher, of 13, Spring Gardens, Waddington, who celebrate their golden


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gardening, but he looks back to the days when he was "goalie" for Moor Lane and the “Royal Blues” football teams.


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