ft Ctrmcroe / tavertiser aitd rimes, Friday, December 23, lQ6t>


Trinity Methodist Church ------ o------ .


CHRISTMAS EYE 11-30 p.m. Holy Communion


CHRISTMAS DAY Family Services


at 9-30 a.m. and 3-30 p.m. Conducted by


Rev. R. JOBLING


Congegational Church Clithcroc


CHRISTMAS DAY


9-30 a.m. Morning Worship “Birthday Candle


Lighting Ceremony” Rev. Kathleen M.


Hendry, B.A., B.D. ------ o------


No Evening Service


HOLDEN CHAPEL --------- o--------- ANNUAL


SACRED CONCERT by Choir and Friends on


Wednesday, Dec. 28th at 7-15 p.m.


Chairman:— Mr. T. Donaldson


Supper Tickets 3/6 Children 2/-


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Clitheroe and District Chamber of Trade ----- o-----------


SHOPS


(except essential, services) are recommended to


CLOSE on


MONDAY and TUESDAY December 26th and 27th


and on MONDAY January 2nd, 1967


TERRIBLE ORDEAL IN RAGING


HALF AN hour of horror as mountainous waves lashed him and three other men against Blackpool’s North Pier was described by Mr. Keith Wilson of;Park Avenue, Clitheroe, when an Advertiser and Times reporter visited him on Tuesday. Twenty-six-year-old Mr. Wilson was the driver of the wartime- DUKW which


capsized in raging seas off Blackpool promenade on Monday, throwing him and three passengers in the boat into the sea. Three of the men escaped after half an hour, but the


fourth was drowned despite an heroic attempt to rescue him. Mr. Wilson said, “As 1 was


in the sea, I saw all my past coming up. 1 thought that was it. I’U tell you now—I was really scared.” But despite the fact that


morrow, I ’ll never go back,” he said. Mr. Wilson was employed


sea rig Bedford X, which is being used for a drainage


by a firm of contractors to drive the DUKW out to the


project. He expects to finish his part


in the project this weekend, when he will be coming back to work in Clitheroe. Here, in his own words, is


he was numb with cold when he was hauled from the water, and was too ill to come home on Monday, Mr. Wilson was setting out early on Wednesday morning to finish his job. “ If I don’t go back to­


us, and coming right over into the boat Then suddenly, the water’ got into the engines and they stalled, and we capsized. “ We clung together, by


back the sea went rougher, and the waves must have been 15ft. high. “They kept on pounding


instinct I suppose, and thank God we managed to do that. We clutched on to two of the buoys and were swept along by the current to the pier. “ A lifebelt was lowered on


the end of a rope, and after a struggle, three of us were hauled out. I didn’t see what happened to the fourth man." Mr. Wilson said that he


was not a strong swimmer, and was in the water for half an hour before he was hauled out. The man who died was Mr.


— my employers — at about quarter past one, and set out on my own in the DUKW.' “ I had been driving the


what happened— “ I left the office of Howards


rig, and it was worse after wards. The bilge pumps were working all right then. ”1 readied the rig, and


the men were lowered down into the DUKW. On the way


CUTHEROE PARISH CHURCH (Saint Mary Magdalene)


CHRISTMAS EVE, 1966


Holy Communion (Sung) ... (First Communion of Christmas)


11-45 p.m. CHRISTMAS DAY


Holy Communion ... Holy Communion ... Parish Communion Mattins ... ... ••••. Holy Communion ... Evensong ... ...


7- 8- 9-


10- 11-


the rig I noticed that the waves were rough. I was going to pick up two drill-men and a surveyor and bring them back to shore. “ I had shipped quite a lot of water before reaching the


DUKW for Howards since July, and on the way out to


LEGION HELP


SINCE i the report in our issue of December 2, concerning the help which the British Legion gives to aged ex-servicemen, the benevolent secretary, Mr. R. Martin has received several letters telling him of people in need of. assistance. Some of these, however, have


been anonymous, and in one case, told of a man who is now in hospital. The letter reads: “There are


one ex-serviceman in particular who is now in hospital. The letter continues: “He is


heroic attempts to rescue him by Detective Sergeant John Brown, 33, of the Blackpool force.


RANG HOSPITAL


rang the hospital and was told that he was not in any danger.” The Wilson’s have two


children—Angela, who was six on Tuesday, and Michael, 4. Mr. Wilson, who used to


play football for Clitheroe, was bom in Barrow, near Whalley, and used to work at the Clitheroe branch of ICI.


Slaidburn Parish


00 a.m. 00 a.m. 15 a.m. 40 a.m. 45 a.m.


6-30 p.m


ALAN F. CLARK, Vicar. ALAN DEAN TOM TAYLOR.}


Christmas Eve Holy Communion


St. Georges, Dunsop Bridge 7-00 p.m.


Friends Meeting-House Newton — 8-00 p.m.


St. Andrews, Slaidbum 11-00 p.m.


Assistant Curates


Mr. G. B. DRAYSON, and


Mrs. DRAYSON send to all, their


WARMEST GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES for


CHRISTMAS and the NEW YEAR


EXAMINATION SUCCESSES IN PIANOFORTE PLAYING 1966


LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC


March — Step 2 — Anne Jackson, Julie E. Hartley, Beverley A. Petty.


December — Step 1 — Hilary Chapman (first class)


ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC


March — Grade 3 — Irene E. Robertson July — Grade 1 — Michael J. Bond (Merit)


December — Grade 1 — Bernard H. Blackwell (Merit) Anne Jackson (Merit), Julie E. Hartley, Beverley A. Petty, Susan M. Hood.


Grade 2 — Shiela M. Robertson (Merit), Susanne P. Bond


Grade 3 — Ian Braithwaite (Distinction) Grade 4 — Irene E. Robertson


Grade 5 — Barbara M. Jones, Judith R. Lloyd Prepared by JEAN M. HARTLEY


M.P.


Christmas Day Holy Communion


St Andrews, Slaidburn 10-30 a.m.


Borough of Clitheroe ■


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CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS


Notice is hereby given that the Public Library and Reading Room will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, December 26th and 27th and on Monday, January 2nd,


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Vocalist The Top Banjo Man


Clitheroe Social Club on Monday evening to present tho prizes to the finalists of the individual snooker championship. Tom Wheelan, on the left of our picture, was a comfortable winner, beating .Wilt Waggett (centre) by two frames to nil.


Brian. London, the ' world-famous heavyweight boxer from Blackpool, visited the


In tho semi-finals, Wheelan beat N. Waterworth by two framesr to nil, / and - Waggett. beat A. Atkinson by two frames to one)


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who celebrated her 23rd birth­ day yesterday, said, “ The first I knew about it was when a policeman came and told me what had happened, and assured me that Keith was all right. “ But I was scared until I


Mr. Wilson’s wife, Shirley,


William Webb (42) a member of Blackpool Borough Sur­ veyor’s department. He was swept away after


there to help ex-servicemen. The family are all old age pensioners, but two of them will not be able to work again.” Mr. Alf Wood, the president, told the Advertiser and Times


an ex-serviceman, and you say, Mr. President, that you are


a good many ex-servicemen who get no help at ail.” Reference is then made to


“SMASH-AND-GRAB” RAID ON SHOP Thieves make £49 haul


SMASH AND GRAB raiders made off with a record player, tape recorder and transistor radio, from a Clitheroe shop early on Monday morning. A stone was thrown through the plate glass window


morning she heard a crash, and thought it came from the back. She got out of bed and looked through the window, but she neither saw nor heard anything else and so thought nothing more of it. “Many , noises are heard dur­


the firm, told the Advertiser and Times: "My mother lives In the flat above the shop, but it has no door through to the shop. "About four o’clock in the


Mr. Barry Aspden, a director of .


of J. Aspden Ltd’s electrical and cycle shop in King Street. It caused considerable damage to a washing machine and a television set.


"freeze,” noticed by shopkeepers in the town, it looks as if this


Record post Despite , the effects of the


ing the night from the car park behind the shop.” Mr. Aspden said the raiders


had grabbed the three nearest objects before making off. His mother did not hear a car or van after the crash. The thieves left behind cer­


there was a record number of letters and cards posted in Clitheroe. The figure was 102.693 compared with 91,077 on the same days last year.


Christmas will be a bumper one for mail,' On Monday and Tuesday


tain parts of the record player, which would not work without them. ' •


glass which was all over the pavement, I doubt whether we


parked our van on the park and were walking up to work. "If we hadn’t walked over the


that the British Legion is un­ able to help anyone who is now In hospital.


of needy ex-servicemen should sign their namee.


Mr. Wood also requests that people who write to him telling


Please return library books


An appeal to people who bor­ row books from Clitheroe Lib­


rary to make a special effort and bring their books back on time was made by Councillor George Braithwaite a t the monthly meeting of Clitheroe Town Council on Tuesday evening. He said: “When the Borough


and got an officer to telephone the police.”


The stolen property was value at £49.


5 a.m. by two Clitheroe postmen —Mr. Dick Wilkinson and Mr. Hugh Cooper, both of West View. Mr. Wilkinson said: “We had


The smash was discovered at


Coll told the Advertiser and Times that such a tremendous increase in the mail was unpre­ cedented.”


The Postmaster, Mr. W. Mc-


the “Post early for Christmas” publicity had been excellent, and business at the Post Office counter had begun to drop on Wednesday, after an ext­ remely busy week previously.


He said that the response to


and there were few that had burst open.


would have noticed it at that time of the morning. "We ran to the Post Office


Parcels had been packed well,


rush, 42 part-time operatives have been engaged, most of them students. Unlike other post offices, Clitheroe has not had to hire transport to deliver the mail for there Is already a large fleet of vehicles for the size of the office.


To cope with the Christmas


Improve Salthill Road, Council asked


Council to improve the state of Salthill Road was made at the monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, by Coun. R. Turner. Councillor Turner said: “According to the last com­


A plea to Clitheroe Town


mittee meeting urgent repairs would be carried out at Salt-


Librarian, Mr. Arthur Hanson, presented his annual report, the Advertiser and Times did a very useful service by drawing the attention of the public to the fact that borrowers were not returning their hooks in time. “This delay causes unneces­


sary work for the library staff, and hinders other people who might want to borrow the books.’


Guildhall School successes


drama exams were:—Grade 7, Gillian Robinson; Grade 6, Elaine Marsden (Credit), Rachel Shaw; Grade 3, Robert Wightman, Michael Bond. Lynn Balshaw was successful


AT the December examinations of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama held in Blackburn 11-year-old Andrew A. Malcolm of Waddington, gained 88 marks and a special honours certificate for his work In Grade 4 (Speech and Drama). Other candidates who were successful in the speech and


Society examinations held in Blackburn last week. They all attend the Watson


School of Speech and Dramatic Art.


LORD CLITHEROE APPOINTED BANK DEPUTY CHAIRMAN


of Borax (Holding) and Mer­ cantile Investment Trust, and also vice-chairman of ’Tube Investments and joint deputy chairman of John Brown and Co. He Is a director of Coutts and Co.


NATIONAL Provincial Bank announce the appointment of Lord Clitheroe as a deputy chairman to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Sir Frederick Lelth-Ross. Lord Clitheroe is chairman


in passing the Junior Silver Medal exam at the Poetry


Parents were guests


Edisford C o u n t y Primary School, Clitheroe, were invited to the school yesterday after­ noon to take part in the annual service of carols and lessons. On Wednesday the remain­


Parents of the pupils at


given yesterday night week when parents and old people from Castleford were invited. The programme included a


der of the pupils at the school enjoyed a repeat performance of a musical evening given by about 60 pupils. The musical evening was


selection of musical items, a musical drama and a quartet of brass instruments.


Prizegiving and carols


good attendance at the annual prize distribution and carol service a t Low Moor Methodist Church.


On Sunday there was


by Mi-. J. Addison and Mrs. S. Barnes .presented the prizes.


Evening Fellowship


MORE than 20 members of Trinity Ladies’ Evening Fellow­ ship attended the Christmas meeting in the school on Fri­ day. They sang carols and lis­ tened to Christmas readings and were served with tea and mince" tarts.


Miss M. Demain and children joined in the service by singing carols and reading the lessons. These children had been trained by Miss Dorothy Barnes and Miss Judith (Har­ greaves. The yearly report was given


played and carols sung with Mr. Colin Jones, at the organ and Miss Megan Smith, at the piano. The service was conducted by


Old Christmas tunes were


hill Road. Nothing has yet been done.


cil to provide footpaths and decent roads in this area. He added: “There are 11


"It is the duty of this Coun­


privately owned houses and bungalows with a rate asses- ment as high as any in this town. There are also eight corporation houses. All these tenants and their children have to walk on this cart track every day and you can imagine the state of their footwear when they arrive at school. “You must remember no


Mrs. M. Clegg and six


pretty young helpers mime to the popular song, “Doe, Ray, Me” in a concert which formed part of the entertain­ ment at Wiswell Womens’ Institute’s Christmas party held in Whalley Grammar


School on Wednesday week. Entertainment took the form


of a mock television pro­ gramme . with dances, songs, sketches and even advertise­ ments. The final item was a burlesque of Cinderella. Those taking part in the


entertainment were Mesdames F. Birtwell, M. Clegg, E. Davies,


E. Grimshaw, E. Grindley, K. Haydock, M. Hopwood, M. Mosley, E. Thomas, S. A. Walker, M. Whittaker, D. Whittle and the children tak­ ing part were Jane Clegg, Jane Hopwood, Alison Grindley, Pauline Smelt and Barbara and Carol Whittaker.


and Donny Wallace and Mrs. A. Clarke was at the piano.


Producers were Ida Gradwell


hostesses on behalf of the visitors.


Mr. C. Hopwood thanked the


preceded the entertainment the president, Mrs. Clegg was in the chair and she welcomed members and their guests.


During the meeting which


meeting would be held at Barrow on January 11 when there would be a lantern lec­ ture on “Holland in bulb time”


She announced that the next


and slides of the Royal garden party. Frizes were presented to the


councillors or officials reside in Salthill Road, so they have not to live with .these conditions. “When York Street was re­


dealt with at the earliest pos­ sible moment.”


surfaced, an application was made, for the old tarmac to be laid in Salthill but that was ignored. “I trust this matter will be


following members who had gained the most points in com­ petitions during the year: 1 Mrs. K. Haydock, 2 Mrs. L. Nicholson, 3 Mrs. S. Jury.


and other competitions were won by Mrs. E. Baldwin, Mrs. E. Brown and Mrs. I. Dawson.


SHOULD HAVE BEEN


CONSULTED - R.D.C. Clitheroe Rural Council considers it should have


been consulted over the finding of pre-Roman gold orna­ ments found recently on the site of the Roman camp at


Portfield, Whalley. The matter was discussed


at the monthly meeting of Clitheroe Rural Council, on Monday afternoon, when it was agreed that the whole question of treasure "trove should be submitted for com sideration by the Rural Dis­


ton) reported receipt of a letter sent to the Duchy of Lancaster referring to the finding of the ornaments which it was understood had been declared by a Coroner’s inquest to be the property of H.M. the Queen in her right of the Duchy of Lancaster. I t was also understood that


the Duchy that as this site was in Clitheroe Rural Coun­ cil’s district and registered in


negotiations were proceeding for the ornaments to be placed in the British Museum and for copies to be presented to the Blackburn Museum. I t had been suggested to


trict Council Association. The Clerk (Mr. T. P. Rush-


the Register of Local Land Charges under the Ancient Monuments Act, the Council ought to be considered as to the place of deposit of the copies, and also that details of the finds ought to be sup­ plied to the local authority in which area they were found, e.g., by supplying photographs and written descriptions for local information.


a home-made Christmas tree was won by Mrs. M. Horner


T h e c o m p e t i t i o n for


M.P. SAYS BIG CHANGE IN TYPE OF MILL


NOW CLOSING DOWN Sir Frank Pearson, M.P. for Clitheroe, speaknig on


the debate in the Gommons, last week, about the present position of the textile industry, said that today the mill which was running on short-time, or closing down, was all, too often, a mill which had been modernised. This was an entirely ------------------------- ------—


different position from that which obtained in 1961-62,


TRIBUTE


has reorganised itself on the basis of the . 1959 provisions. I t has done a magnificent job. The fact that hundreds of mills had to go out of pro­ duction in those years has in the end been justified. The fact that hundreds of mills re-equipped themselves has also been justified. “The situation today is


paying a genuine and heart­ felt tribute to the manner in which the Lancashire industry


“ I take this opportunity of Sir Frank said:


vastly different from that which existed in 1961-62, when many old, worn-out mills filled with old Lancashire looms were going out. I t was right that they should. Today it is mills of substantial size, mills on which hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent during the past six years, which are closing down and going out of business. I urge the Minister of State to recognise that he has a very different situation on his hands today from that which obtained in 1961-62. The type of mill which is


Frank said that the.terms on which the Minister of State introduced the Order showed that he was out of touch with the situation in the Lanca­ shire t e x t i l e position at present. “ I would like to quote one


one of the most modern, one of the best, one of the most efficient, one of the most highly mechanised, mills in th: country, producing specialist sheeting which is sold under a branded name known world­ wide. I t is a mill into which hundreds of thousands of pound have been poured since 1959. What did the firm do the other day? I t shut down the whole of one new shed and paid off 160 operatives, and it can see no hope a t the present time of being able to set that shed going again.”


further instance to the House,” Sir Frank added. “ I have in my constituency


running on short-time, the type of mill which is closing down, is all too often l mill which has been modernised. This is very worrying. Until I am given some indication that the M i n i s t e r of State appreciates what the real trouble is, I shall not be able to express the all too optimistic views which we have heard expressed tonight.” Later, in his speech. Sir


God’s Lent child


OUR attention has been drawn by Mr. A. Wilmot, of 21 Manor Road, Clitheroe, to the follow­ ing verses, which may bring comfort to many at a time of sorrow.


I t may be six or seven years or forty-two or three,


“ For you to love the while she lives, and mourn for when she’s dead.


“ I ’ll lend you for a little while a child of mine,” God said,


m •jr SlJ To the |


brancc and there shine the happy p;| to brighten t l true desire t | goodwill tow I


But will you, till I call her back, take care of her for me?


She’ll bring her charms to gladden you and (should her stay be brief)


“You’ll a lw a y s have her


I cannot promise she will stay since all from earth return, But there are lessons taught


memories as a solace for your grief.


below I want this child to learn.


“ I ’ve looked this whole world over in my search for teachers true,


Now will you give her all your love nor think the labour; vain,


And from the folks that crowd life’s lane I have chosen you.


Nor hate me when I come to’ take this lent child back; again?”


“Dear Lord, Thy will be done. For all the joys thy child w% bring the risk of grief we’ll', run.


“We’ll shelter her with tender-, ness,


;


We’ll love her while we may, > And for the happiness we’ve; known forever grateful stay.V


But should the Angels call for/ her much sooner than we„ planned,


We’ll brave the bitter grief' that comes, and try to. understand.”


TRIAL YEAR


monthly meeting of the Council’s, Plans Commitee on Monday. The membership fee Is five guineas per year.


to join the Town and Country Planning Association for a trial period of 12 months. This was decided at the


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