Clitheroe 'Advertiser 'and Times, Friday, August 19, 1966 “SPIRITUAL” UPLIFT Chapel of Rest


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■Monday, August 29. b . , ! lo s t offices and all ,Jd H * offlces ^


llions and allowances d„» |U1 be paid, a wee^f1


yment on Monday.'


P ™M°nday. August» be will be no delivery I L or parcels but a colW U1 be made from all w


fegrams will be delivers fen 9-0 a.m. and noon I be dictated from [ kiosks a t all times. c' !


Pal boxes as on a Sunday I t r y l i c e n s e s


■from September 1st, this ■ local authorities in Eng. pnd Wales will be enabled | p t licences .for auctions


fet and December 31st in rear.


i r e : poultry between OdT 1


ding Order made jointly e Ministry of Agriculture -ies and Pood and the ary of State for Scot.


is effect of an


primrose Garage, Clitheroe, has paid off in a big way for Hr. Russell Hayton. For Mr. Hayton (26), a pro­


Being a regular customor at


cess worker, of 1, Alma Plaoo, Clitheroe, drove into the sta­ tion recently—and collected a £100 prize. He won the cash .in, the


with tho money at Primrose Garage by Mr. Albert Ruther­ ford. foreoourt manager. A married man with three


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APPEAL DROPPED


J ^ PUBLIC inquiry, follow­ ing an appeal by a


Clithcroe firm against the Town Council’s refusal to let them take over Elliott’s Elec­ trical Shop in York Street and change it to a chapel of rest, is not now to be held.


The appeal, by Tomlinsons


Central Garage of York Street, which was arranged to be heard;on September 1 by a Ministry of Housing and Local Gov ernm ent Inspector, Mr. R. H. Moody has been withdrawn. This week a spokesman for


AND SAFE DRIVERS


Tomlinson’6 said,"Before the appeal could be held, the owners of Elliotts sold the shop to another concern,1 so there was no point in going forward


with it.” The Town Council refused


children. Mr. Hayton said "It’s still hard to bellove have won. "My wife and I are still plan­


Shell "Make Money" competi­ tion. Drivers who buy Shell petrol1 are given - halves of special coupons—and if they got matching halves and can answer a question they oan win prizes from 10 shillings (0 £100.Mr. Hayton was presented


Tomlinson’s a p p l i c a t i o n recently for three reasons under the Town and Country Planning Act. They said that:


ning' what to do with the money, but we want a few things for our' house and I think the rest will be going Into tho bank.” Pioture shows . Mr. Ruther­


to the premises would cause vehicles to stop and wait on the carriageway, and this, ' they thought, would Interfere with the free flow of traffic using the trunk road, and increase the risk of accidents.


1. The proposed development


The Mayor is pictured as lie is about to hand a route card to the first competitor, Mr. J. D._Mallahcu. Also in UiepicturcPle[t ,toright, are Alderman W. Sharpies (Chairman of the Committee), Mr. Bradley and Mrs


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ford (left) handing over the money to Mr. Hayton. Looking on is Mr. Ken Haime (right) Shell representative for tho area.


OPENING TUESDAY AUGUST 23rd


tall walks of life a Ittle "nest-egg" is ^valuable for meeting pportunities as they


rise. Whynotstart he safe way by open-' kg an acoountatyour LcalT.S.B. Call and


pethe Man&gertoday.


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[adey. Phdn6 2279. [CLES enger scats ; £580;


£395; £200; £295' £90 £80:


. £50' st's JTHEROE.


i, DUCK ST. I 547 •


Jertain married women and widows holding "Special" cards v ;


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For th o se (a g e d1B o r / : • M ^N over),'cantractedoutof


the graduated part of the WOMEN Nationalinsurance' Scheme:


- Insured persons holding


For those N O T contracted out of the graduated part of the National Insurance Schema:


■ MEN WOMEN


BOYS


under 18 GIRLS


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was subject to a “no waiting" order, which only exempted certain vehicles which have to wait for short periods. They considered that the length of time during which a funeral cortege would wait, would exceed that allowed, by the "no waiting” order. 3. A cortege drawn up in


2. The side of the trunk road on which the shop was situated


COMPETITORS in th e courtesy driving contest


held at Bankfield' Quarries, Clitheroe, on Sunday, and spectators too, must realise more than ever (he import­ ance of safe driving.


Time after time the various


tests the motorists had to undergo clearly, indicated that


front of this property would move off slowly into the out­ side lane of a road now used as a one-way street, thus in­ creasing hazards for through-


road traffic.


Clitheroe Market SAVE 5d.


ON ANY TWO CAKES


'MOVERS — STORAGE’ With a generous free Mileage Allowance


STUBBS'


Tell Blackburn 48473 Any Hour


FOR PRICES


CEDAR STREET BLACKBURN


the slightest carelessness could have resulted in a very serious accident indeed, had the inci­ dent occurred on the open road.


Competitors, gene r a l l y,


entered into the. spirit of the event and concentrated upon giving clear hand signals, reversing their vehicles in the correct manner, and making every effort to concede as few penally points, as possible


Organised by Clitheroe


Borough and Rural District Joint Road Safety Committee the competition deserved better support.


“More and more people are


needed to join in these events and demonstrate to the public at large that many motorists


SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT TAX


PAYABLE WITH NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM 5TH SEPTEMBER 1966


The new Selective Employment Tax (S.E.T.) announced in the Budget will be pay­ able by all employers from 5th September 1966. The rates of tax will be 25s, a week for each man employed, 1 2s, 6d. for each woman, 1 2s. 6d. for each boy under age 18, and 8s. for each gir[ tinder age 18. The tax Will be paid with the existing flat-rate Class 1 national insurance contribution in one combined stamp. No part of the tax


will be borne by the employee. The nowcombinsd Class t flat-rate contributions from 5th September 1966 will therefore be


PAID BY EMPLOYER


(including S.E.T.) d.


PAID BY


EMPLOYEE (No change)


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do care about the dreadful accident figures and the vital need for better driving stan­ dards,” the secretary, Mr. C. Bradley, told an Advertiser and Times reporter.' ' The car winners were: 1, Mr. C. Wilson, 21, Green


Drive, Clitheroc. 2, Mr. J. Alblas, 7, Clare­ mont Drive, Clilheroc.


One of the tests for competitors after they had undertaken a courtesy run through the town.


3, Mr. J. E. Nutter, 6,


Field Top, Fence. Motor-cycles:


1, Mr. H. R. Thompson, 41,


Standcn Road, Clitheroe. 2, Mr. A. Mallalicu, Lyn-


field Road, Great Harwood. There were 16, competitors


and' the duties of. marshals were carried out by members of the Junior Accident Pre­ vention Council and members of Trinity Youth Cl ub, Clithcroe.


Letters to the editor


LOCAL SUPPORT FOR FIGHT TO PRESERVE “UNIQUE AREA. 9?


IN the House of ^Commons


I Parks Commission." . This motion was: subjected to


for tlie report stage of the Tees Valley and Cleveland Water Bill, Mr.- Marcus Kimball moved: “That this House declines to consider a bill which would Involve irreparable harm to a unique area of inter­ national 1 scientific: importance, fails to have regard to the proper long-term planning for the water requirements of the area, and is contrary to the declared advice of the Nature Conservancy and. the National


last Thursday, on fin order MEN


"Special" cards, i.e. people over 65 (60 women) who WOMEN aretreated as retired and - certain'married women and widows.


a. full three, hours of non-party debate with speakers for and against the amendment from both sides of the House. Mi'. Kimball said: "This is the most important conservation issue that has ever come before the •House" and Sir David Renton called the proposal to build a reservoir at Cow Green "an irrevocable act of spoliation,’ pointing out that it would des troy for all time a unique com munlty of plants which had survived for 10,000 years, in exchange for a stop-gap water supply of only 5 or 10 years


“RELUCTANT”


. After several Members for the North .East had voiced fears of


unemployment on. Teesside if the Cow Green reservoir were not built, Mr. Fred Willey, Minister of . Land and Natural Resources spoke “with great reluctance” in support of the Bill for the reservoir. He said


of a failure in water supplies If we had in succession three or four dry summers and that we could not afford to take this risk to save a scientifically unique area at a cost of £12 million over 60 years.


attendance for a Private Bill— a tribute to the lobby organised by conservationists. But the Bill passed the report stage after Mr. Kimball’s motion was rejected by 112 votes to 82.- The Teesdale battle, however,


'There was an unusually high Competitors in each class


had to take a braking and manoeuvrability test, with penalty points if they touched a marker, as well as drive over a specified r o u t e . Observers were placed at various points.


Marks ■ were awarded -in


respect of the general con­ dition of the vehicle including lights, tyres and mechanical efficiency, and points were deducted for over-elaboration and unnecessary items.


; have we ' are in danger of


believing that * B r i t a 1 n ', Is Irretrievably on the down-grade and we cannot complain if people abroad believe the same. There arc two sides to every


balance sheet and in the belief that for too long we have been bemoaning our liabilities and forgetting our assets X append only a few of the many credit items from our national profit and loss account: 1 No other, nation, except


It was pointed out to com­


petitors that it was more desirable to complete the tests without faults than in the shortest possible time and that timing was only taken into account when two com­ petitors had an equal aggre­ gate number of points.


The com p e t i t i o n was


started • by- the- • Mayor ■ of Clitheroe (Count T. Robin­ son) and the; Chairman of Cli theroe Rur al Council (Coun. Mrs. J. Troop).


developing expression, but tol my way of'thinking, such mor-1 bid desires are not worthy of expression.


time better than in the creation of what is nothing more than distasteful ugliness. Of course there is good and


Surely we ; can employ our


bad .art. but surely ■ we must all agree that it is the purpose of


Western Germany, exports a higher proportion of its gross national product. 2 We have the largest com­


puter industry outside the U.S. 3 Last year our exports to


the U.S. rose by 23 per cent. 4 Britain has a'world lead-In both vertical take-off aircraft


and Hovercraft. 5 We are second' only to Western Germany m world car


goes on. A spokesman for the Teesdale Defence Committee said that they were encouraged by the debate in the Commons. "Although, we had hoped that the Commons would reject the Bill,” the spokesman said, “the very considerable support we received proves that there is great public opposition to the scheme.” The Impressive campaign by


exports. 6 We arc the world's largest


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art to reach perfection, and it must be clear that all works of true art must .be beautiful, in­ telligible and: always striving towards perfection. They must — as it has been


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said—evoke in the souls of men an Impression of reality. When 5 saw the works of


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these young people and had heard their teacher, I felt con­ vinced they - were contributing very little to education or the appreciation of beauty. They were no doubt expres­


exporter of bicycles. 7 London is still a leading


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world financial centre. 8 British textiles have a


sing a feeling they had experl-1 enced, as is the object of all true artists, but surely the feel­ ing they woke in others is one of distaste and disgust. That, we must admit. Is the


worldwide reputation and in textile machinery we outsell countries like the U.S. 9 Since 1955 Britain’s steel


test and certainly proves such to be bad art and a method of corrupting.. The same applies to painting,


that he accepted the advice of the Minister of Housing and Local Government and of the Secretary of State for Educa­ tion and Science., (They, how­ ever, had rejected the advice given to them respectively by the National Parks . Commis­ sion. and the Nature Conser vancy). He said .that he was giving a persona! viewi, He sup­ ported the complaints of several members about the piecemeal provision for water supplies in this region and hoped that, the new ‘Water Resources Board would soon find an overall solu­ tion to the problems. They were expected to submit an interim report for the north by the end


of the year.' ’ employed), and industrial Injiiiy contribution rates will remain unchanged.


This new taxwill be offset-ln certain cases by a system details will be an nounc ed later by f hai Government


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leaf J e tN l1 5 7 J n n o c a s e h ow e v e r c a iv th e ta x b e excused b efo re p y ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY.


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Mr. Willey, said that the.need of ICI for water. from the ,pro­ posed Cow. Green .reservoir was


In answer ,to an intervention,


so urgent that a decision could not wait even a few months for this report which might not, in any case, .be of help in this specific case. Mr.. Willey con­ cluded- that there: was. a .risk


conservationists so far has mounted greater political pres­ sure than ever before. The Committee announced that it definitely intends to petition the House of Lords to reject the Bill. “Public opinion js gradually realising that at Cow Green the whole future of con­ servation Is at stake,” the Com­ mittee said, "and we believe that when the Bill reaches the Lords in the autumn, popular pressure will not allow this great natural treasure to be wil­ fully destroyed." The size of vote in the Commons and the strong demonstration of opposi­ tion to the Cow Green reservoir Increases the chances of stop­ ping the Bill in the House of


Lords. .


been launched- for another £7,000 to finance this petition Contributions may be sent to the Honorary T r e a s u r e r (B.S.B.I.) r Upper - .Teesdale Defence’Fund, o/o The British Museum (Natural History) Cromwoll Road, London, S.W.7 H. SMITH (Hon. Sco).


A; new appeal has already ;


The Clitheroe Naturalist. - Society.


Count your blessings


TXTHAT this country needs tv • just now- is not .more


“ protest .. .songs ’ :.. but umore thanksgiving hymns like .' .the


good ’ old Salvationist one, of


i‘ Count Your: Blessings , When we. have . lived with, an


economic* crisis-as", long, as --?yc


making capacity has increased 55 per cent to 31.5 million tons and some £1,369 million has been spent by the industry on new plant in "the past 16 years. These to my mind add up to


writing, and music today which I am sad to say is about as morbid and sickening as the civilisation to which it appeals.


“NATURALIST"


nine good reasons why we should "count our blessings" and brace ourselves for even further achievements in the field of productivity.


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A chance to give a lead


igOME ,m o n th s - : - ago, R. Crossman’said,' V . -i


AND ART


A T a time when the Govern- . ment is so concerned with


cutting costs and public expen­ diture, it came as a , surprise' to see on Northern BBC Televi­ sion one- who,' ‘purporting to teach art and Its appreciation by the gathering of pieces of scrap metal, is receiving official


sanction. . The experiment is being con­


ducted ill a Lancashire school, and in one of the most, ridicu­


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"Increasethe,council rent Of any tenant who can-make 'An, 'adequate' payment. ■


•He’s •’rightAot.' course;., our hard- pressed rates


v 'W -y A jY - v


: “tycoon”■ with • •His Bentley at the door?. - '. Whilst he’s' our tenant, make ’ him pay , .. .


His proper dues * . . not more! • , ■ , • •


But see the climate’s changed again!


lous Interviews I have over seen, the young pupils did .their-best to excuse what to most intelli­ gent : beings .■ must constitute a sheer waste of time.


name of . , art , and .education, which I am convinced ,is neither taught nor-understood by these


AU this I must add is in (he adults. _ - i j, ‘ t j


: i f is’ all’very well saying .that such:' gathering. together)-:; of scrap - to form a-figuie,..con­ ceived by-they imagination,; is


The Minister now,states :;,. That council rents must' not go up


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To help keep down the rates. In fact, our councillor.' tenants Can vote to keep “rebates.? i~.f


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Oh!'- What - a . chance ./lor .coun-.; cillors,-


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Who live in aicouncll 'row!;® * : To give'-a‘lead to, alUofnis.M/, And, an ^example .show,,'! rf n «• By payings proper rental}S j (J If he thinks hds/rent’s .toq .low U


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Should only help the poor. Why should we house ,, the.|


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, renting after one year . . with a maintenance


chargo of 3/ - weekly , and obtain a further.


credit of £15/4/6 First R.ntal .payment to ^ m a d e


loaflet and loarn’how ? '1' . you may oontinua —


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