a t w h o s e 9


L icensee on d rivin g charges


A CLITHEROE LICENSEE, Arthur Dean (55) of the Commercial Hotel, Whalley Road, appeared at Clitheroe Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday on two charges of driv­ ing a car while unfit through drink or drugs, and of driving a car in a manner dangerous to the 'public. Dean elected to go for trial,'and pleaded not guilty


to both offences. A summons of driving a'


car without a driving licence was adjourned until


(2) Burning should always ne


carried out into (against) the wind; never bum downwind (3) Bum early in the day whenever possible and do not


adequate flrebrake between the area to be burnt and adjacent property when this includes forestry plantations, other woodland areas or buildings (5) Notify neighbours in


burn after dusk. (4) Ensure that there is an


after the trial. Prosecuting for the police,


Mr. W. D. Greenwood said that a witness, Mrs! Rose E. Ren- wick, of Whalley Road, Clith­ eroe, was a passenger in the rear seat of a car being driven towards Whalley on the Bil- lington Road, at 9 p,m. on Wed­ nesday, September 28. They were travelling behind a mar­ oon car Mrs. Renwick will say that


advance when burning is to be undertaken (at least 48 hours notice is desirable). If there is any doubt about the adequacy of the precautions necessary to prevent the spread of tire, the Chiel Fire Officer and, in the case ot forestry plantations, the local Forestry Commission Officer should be consulted. Make certain also that adequate arrangements are made before­ hand so as to ensure the speedy calling of the fire brigade should the. burning get out of


control. (6) Make sure that all fires


arc out before leaving the area. INEFFICIENT


a Clitheroe man who was riding a motorcycle, and on testing the front brake he found it would not revert to its proper position, said Inspector H. Dickinson prosecuting at Clith­ eroe yesterday week.


PC Craig of Clitheroe stopped


Whalley Road, was fined £2 for having an inefficient brake.


Pleading guilty by letter, the defendant said he had the


v.


brake mended immediately afterwards.


Pasquale Di Pietro (37), of


turned, the driver was in his car in the stable yard behind the main street. He was still in difficulty and nearly drove into .an iron pillar. Mr. Corn­ thwaite then told the police. By this time the car had


the driver, ‘‘Look here mate. Reverse the car or you’re going to kill someone.” But the driver is alleged to


the maroon car was swerving from side to side, and every time a car came in the opposite direction the maroon car al­ most stopped. After the oncom­ ing traffic had passed, the car would increase speed, again swerving from side to side, but never going above 25 mph.


Touching wall


Renwick reported the matter to Whalley police. "At 9-10 p.m. two witnesses,


Mr. Greenwood said that Mrs.


Mr. and Mrs. Birkbeck were in their home in King' Street, Whalley, when they heard a noise. and saw a maroon car up against .the double doors of a building iri the . entry between their home ■ and the Dog; Inn. The side wing' was in contact with the wall.” ■ Mr. Greenwood said that Mr.


reached the main road, and was stopped with the front wheels out into the road. Mr. Cornthwaite then said to


have replied, ‘‘I ’m not bothered. I'll not kill myself.” His speech was slurred and his breath


one person in the car, and that was the driver. Mr. Comthwaite will also say this.” Mr. Greenwood said that


another witness, Mrs. P. N. Wil­ kinson, was standing at the


I WAS-utterly, astounded .and inceiised on reading ;, your article, “Norwegian Girls find CUtheroe Interesting,” to dis­ cover ‘ that - foreigners are actu­ ally able- to come to England to be trained as teachers, at our, ■ the tax-payers’ -expense, when their own countries re­ fuse to do this for them. There is, as everyone ‘knows, a great shortage of places tor


A growing menace


LIKE Harold R, Brought™ am convinced your “VieS,1 must be a watchdog on tv l’ vital to an efficient, and .‘I83 , fying local life.


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Was that journey necessary?


teacher training, and many a innlicants are turned down As ONE who has Persistently fulfil its true purpose of pro-


peoples pxacesr


doorway of her house, and saw- Dean, whom she knew, as he lives one house away from her, drive up in a zig-zagging manner and stop at the Cra­ ven Heifer Hotel. He stopped, got out and went inside. No- one else got out of the car.


rear


towards Clitheroe, wobbling from side to side on the road. Mr. ' Greenwood said "Mr.


smelled of drink. The vehicle then travelled


Cornthwatte’s evidence is cor­ roborated by Mr. Birkbeck, who was present at the time. And the third person there, Mrs. Birkbeck will say that she saw the car, and that there was only one person in it.” He said that after 9-30 p,m„


question I had had my. tea. I came down the stairs, when who


he was on duty in Clitheroe Police Station, when Dean came infto make a voluntary state­ ment. This read: “On tile night in


PC John T. L, Swift said that


should come to the back door but a man 1 know—Dick Bam­ ber. I said ‘You are just the man I wanted to see’. “I asked him if his wife would


Eric Cornthwaite, a welder of Cuckoo Hall Farm, North Town, Padiham, arrived on the scene, The driver of the maroon car was crashing his gears and stal­ ling his engine, and when told to move, he moved forwards, colliding with the wall again. He then drove forwards,


Mrs. - Renwick was travelling back on her way to Clitheroe in the same car when she saw riie maroon car again, near Lamb Roe, Whalley. I t was being driven in an erratic man­ ner, ^continuously going over to the . offside of the road. Mrs. Renwick then reported the mat­ ter to' Clitheroe police. ■ PC John Waring went to the


,


in local government spending, must know much more than i feel | must now add my sup- we do about its principles and


pplicants are turned down. endeavoured to call attention tecting the innocent as well as Why, then, are foreign students to the necessity for the practice punishing the guilty all of us


allowed to steal our young of every economy these days —laymen and. lawyers too— , , ,


terest.me,' are as follows; m


who pays It?


(2) When their training Is My reason. Clitheroe has oan^there be such a thing ; y completed, why is it not been shorn of much of its infallibility so far even as ?esJ erate!^ compulsory for them to erstwhile authority. Gas, water, either the bewigged personality lead an independent life. ° | a?c remain in Engiand for at electricity, education, highways! sitting" on 'toe^udicial bench


is


their training for our benefit? After all, we are


brg


who has just applied for nation-wide scheme of regional- teacher training, I am vitally isation.


KATHLEEN M. WAKEHAM.


Ightfield House, Caldicot. Monmouthshire.


car which was parked nearby, so he drove it. When we got there, his wife


like to look after the bar at weekend, as my wife was in a nursing home. He said he didn’t know, and would run me over to Blackburn in his car. "I told him to take me in my


car,' which was parked in Whal­ ley Road, CUtheroe, opposite the Craven Heifer Hotel, with its front offside wheel three feet from the kerb, and the nearside back wheel five feet


from the kerb. The car, which was unatten­


, it from the entry, i When Mr. Comthwaite re-


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ded, had dipped headlights, and the front nearside was ex­ tensively damaged; PC Waring went inside the Craven Heifer Hotel, where he saw Mr. Dean. He asked him who was the


plied; "I have driven it here. I t’s all right, isn’t it?”


Swaying


Dean was swaying from s'de to side, his breath smelled strongly of drink, and his speech was


PC Waring could see that


to come outside, he replied, ‘‘I didn’t drive. I ’m stopping here. The officer then walked to


When the officer asked Dean


the door, and Dean followed him, swaying as he walked. PC Waring took hold of his


said she couldn’t wait on, as she is already doing that at the Ace of Spades Club in Whalley. While we were there, we talked about things and Dick gave me two small whiskies. ‘I t was after 9 o'clock when we came out of the house. Dick


got into the driver’s seat and got into the back as I was


driver' of the car. Dean is alleged to have re­


ley 1 said, ‘Pull up here and we’ll have a drink'. We went into the entry and found there was not enough room for the car so he reversed it and we came on to Clibheroe. I said to Dick ‘Pull up here, there might be a chap I wish to see.’ I got out of the car to go into the Craven Heifer and told Dick I ’d see him again. "There were four or live


fairly sleepy through taking drugs the doctor had given me. When we got near to Whal­


ely short of teachers. districts may before long be thoroughly considered As a mother of a daughter swept into the Government’s cribed rules,


interested in these questions. This the affected l o c a l authorities should already t - well aware of. They have cer­ tainly every cause to be seriously concerned at the not, to them, very pleasant ■ spect, but I doubt very much whether any action they may now be


POPPY DAY


As a country, we are once maymgTe im“


Another two points which in- p0rt to the two local Coun- practice.” That is just what^I out


cillors who protested against sought to bring . the sending of representatives original, letter to the


U a°g ran t wlffiYalsYra to meetinSs °£ the Non-County riser and Times”. unnecessary expense,


in my Adver-


word” but find it a poor sub- task. So may I, in the imTal stitute tor the apology, to of the community, draw a n 1 which I feel myself entitled, tion to the remarks for his unjustified accusation. Town • Council re “FLUNA,” zones.


' ' - - f i s s smokeless closed—EDITOR.


A way help


to


cleaner air by "nersna,!, I rather than control.” 5


lations, we are moving tov,,/ oil and electrical ■ spastics eak they so (A


I feel such overlooks the i creasing menace in our mid;


All admirable, I confess h.,t 1011


As a point of interest, mav i ask anyone who feels concern to note the smoke and poiij.


e r s r £ z s t w?.. * w s v e r s t Pfflj&WiSssg " iSr JsL > i


in show business realise' to™ kP™etL°Ut ®osf mons W K the importance of a ajQand>y{j1g5lg00^ja'n3 M and


putting the ratepayers to then, in a world teeming with S s e mmcky enough to be born ™ shunting, emits more «


town,


1 ^ . th/ l e,_y,ia_rs l°_uti11^ P°lice: have all gone, n4 '[ “ lg . manacled miscreant ^ “i t s s ^ n orev oils y ^ r s . .


on the grounds that it jt is but human to err. How, S e d e r s to help to provide caT1 sa? ' tllat °ne train, engia tleS


, portents correctly, the Borougl cernelNeither can be a law “bv L g fheSociety’s recogmsed byscientific mve|M and « » surrounding local rural unto himself and must observe


pres' Again this year, ■ these provide ment


of proved qualification can 0f providing . vital help tor ]0cal authority, and is r ' I achieve something like an spastic men, women and chil- poSe, one of the re • ^P;


So long as the adjudicator membering our friends but also shouId not be tolerated rxvntr/4/4 nnaHfin.»Mnr» ran rt* nrnvirHno- vital help for lnnol


an ideal way not only of re- such ugliness to mm J


i


acceptable moral balance in dren—of whom there are 75,000 the North-West Economi his handling of the scales of in Britain Justice that justice is not


inclined to take will affect the callage of justice, revolutionary c h a n g e con-


stances should I be very T?1.,Pim lco ^ a d , Olitheroe.


wrong in asking if their journey was really necessary. I wonder.


THE Annual Poppy Day Appeal have been satisfactorily met will take place on Saturday, by authentic reports of those November 12th this year, while conferences which could have during Remembrance Week — been communicated to the 7th to 13—the usual house-to- ratepaying electors by way of


Report sufficient ? Wouldn’t Clitheroe’s needs


pressj


merely done but is seen to be started the Society has estab- doing so little or nothin 11 done then we need not fear fished over 100 schools and cen- this respect, that fearsome event, a mis- tres and placed many hundreds The old adage of "W


in the fourteen years since it 0f the 82 local authorities C Planning Council crit’cise « templates In such circum- „„ ” * ”,?ADo " ’rfBR0UGMT0N


Put it proper


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house collections will be con- the Council chamber and the MAY ducted.


in perspective ,


charities ^houldlfe primed. f°I in person then, in my opinion, Ject matter has been mainly do not think such reasonine has the attendance of the. Town to do with the proposed re-


that at such rime appeals for Clitheroe had to be represented County Boroughs and the sub- grouping of towns into larger


risked their all in the service True, no vary staggering units. of their country in wars


chaps in the hotel and I bought them drinks. I had one small whisky and was half way through another when the police officer came in. “He took me to the station.


bol of remembrance of those met on a deferred payment or — , H T r, n who gave their hves, and of instalment svstem there should 1116 two meetings l London those who still suffer or who are la


„ we have arrived at a day when, views to the Royal Commission through the escalating rates which has been set up to deal tw o demand, this obligation can l i with this matter,


sum was involved but when We were asked to submit our


in need resulting for their ser- imnortonee of the exeraise of aU P3115 o* the country.' vice in the war.


I don’t think I had a thorough medical examination. The doc­ tor only'held my arms out. couldn’t wdlk in a line as I was unsteady through taking the drugs. “I couldn’t give the. officer the


arm, but Dean brushed it away and would have fallen to the ground if the officer had not grabbed his arm. Dean slumped against the officer and it was with great difficulty that he managed to get him across the


keys tor my car as 1 had none. The next day my brother bought me a key from a garage. Then Dick Bomber called and he had the keys. He said he was sorry but he had automatically put them into his pocket."


road to the police car. Dean refused to get into the


he also told him to get into the car. Dean again refused. PO Penlington then asked


car, and when another officer, PC George Penlington, arrived


Dean for the keys to his car so that he could move xt to a


safer place. Dean is alleged to have re­


plied: “You try and find the


steering wheel at that time. Mr Greenwood said the lic­


Keys.**Then, with the aid of a pas­ ser-by, PC Penlington moved Dean’s car and noticed that there was no t e f t 011 the


rips


ensee of the Craven Heifer, Mr. E. Saddington told the police that while Dean was on the premises, he had consumed a whisky and soda and part , of


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another whisky. Dean was taken to Clitheroe


going up the steps


eroe’s head of police, arrived and noticed that Deans speech was slurred, his eyes were star­ ing and he was very unsteady


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^He^aked Dean if he was the driver of the maroon car, and Dean is alleged to have replied: “Yes, but you wont get no


k6wiien asked if he understood what PC Waring had told him- Dean replied, “Dont remember


no wall."


Greenwood told Dean that a doctor would come to examine him, and asked him if he wan­ ted his own doctor. Dean mum­ bled something the Inspector, could mo t . understand, so he sent for Dr. B. P. Sachdev of


Inspector Dickinson, said Mr.


Whalley. Dr. Sachdev formed the opinion that Dean was unfit


to drive through drink. Early next morning, Dean


Driven by friend


Dean called at CUtheroe Police Station on Oictober 3 and elec­ ted to make a statement, say­ ing that a friend Mr. ,Dick Bamber, had driven the car all


Mr. Greenwood said that M


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3amber, who had been inter­ viewed by the police, had cor­ roborated everything Dean had said. A notice of intention to prosecute Bamber had been


served. He declared: ‘‘I t is the prose­


cution’s


“ ’Mrs..- Blirkbeck and her hus- nua- band will m they only saw


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drove the car. When Mrs. Ren­ wick saw the car she said there was only, - one person in it and that wai.the driver.


contention that Dean u r i i rr TTie Clithcroe'raiid Distri"’’t.Branch'.o£ the Lancashire Ladies Social Section of the


National Farmers Union1 held their annual dinner and dance at the Swan and Royal Hotel last night week. Photo shows (left to right: Mrs. Barrow (secretary), Miss N. Smith (county treasurer), xMrs. Berry (vice-president), Mrs. H. Green (county president); Mrs. M. Taylor (president), Mrs. R. Pearson (county secretary), Miss E. Winrow (county vice-president), and Mrs. Blczard (treasurer).


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was charged and made no reply. He was released on bail, on his own recognisance of £20.


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Police Station, where he would have fallen to the ground xf PC Waring had not taken hold of his arm. He also fell while


apart from Mrs. Renwick idenri- field Dean as the driver of the car, Mrs. Renwdck said that she did not see the driver’s face, and would not know him. Mrs. Renwick said that her first thought in reporting the


Thought driver ill In court, all the witnesses,


one side of rile road to the other. I thought he was ill,” she said. Mr. Birkett, who owns the


driver to the police was that she thought he was ilL “The driver was gliding from


shoe shop next to the entry in Whalley where the car was damaged, identified Dean as the driver in court. He said, “He wasn't acting


BROUGHTON


of spastics in employment in there’s muck there’s money” is commerce and industry.


here


Society is gladly supported by authority will impose some cot. I many of us in the world of en- trol on those dog owners who tertainment. We have come insist on forcing the disagree- into close contact with many able habits of their pets on spastics and have always been the general inhabitants of the impressed with the desire of town, those born with this handicap to play a full part in life. A spastic baby is born every


The work of The Spastics ever, lead me to ask when our long out of date. It does, hoi-. "KEMPLE."


eight hours. I t looks to us to give it a chance in life. As a family man myself and as


Chairman of the Stars Organi- w , „ .


ha£ ; ^ " ‘1 "T o fo v e r “lou™ e a r ^ a v l Oiristmai ^ an d n X ou? m a n y ^othera If attended meetings"of the Non- appeal a recoM-breaking hit , . „


any weight when w^ are con- Clerk alone would have been alignment of boundaries and London W.l. sidering the S oi th i e who Quite sufficient. .


..Vi650 Spiritual liealing rally


and practical value by its many Take care of the pence and accept tor R is^an endravom Th^ tity that


kind of* distress whether they and value. Isn’t it the whispy have paid my own expenses.


The millions of poppies to be 'vliicb if; i,s lowing? offered to the public here and


been made at the egions Poppy interested in the Ayes Factory • at Richmond by dis- 013 » « * „ o£ ^ at votlnS-


in many other countries on the delegations report. Meanwhile g0jng_ i12th November next will have


a — “ - ,B zba Biove


oer nexo


and thole who carry our tray! “ ent *hat- anticipation of Buvck i nn ......................


abled ex-Service men. Those who organise the collections,


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and collecting tins are, one and all, voluntary helpers.


J


Interest on our accumulated need for every care in the characteristic opening gambit funds.


knows that, over the years, the withdrawn. I make no com- Poppy Day collections has sel- ment on that. While I am not dom been sufficient to meet our lacking in my appreciation of outgoings on our benevolent {fie excellent service they duties to the ex-Servlce commu- render to tile community quite nity, the deficit always being voluntarily and so self-sacri- made good by legacies and ficingly I must still stress the


,1 hardly think the public would be' lost if they were ,


- the Councils decision, the three bookings had already , been made and that the money


Men’s Industries; The Cambrian L aw ’s Im p m i r r tn s p start with a garbled version of Tweed Factory; British Legion


The Poppy Factory; Disabled


silly or anything but I was wor­ ried for his safety. I told him traffic was coming ’when it wasn’t so that he wouldn’t go out into the road.” Mr. Comthwaite said he


Village with Preston Hall Hos- Extremely grateful tor the misrepresents what has been pital; Industries situated at the generous allocation of space said, and introduces so much Village; Five Country Homes, you granted me last week for that is hew, that to . deal with the latest now nearing comple- my newsletter appearing under all his points, in. detail, would tion near eamington Spa; Four the heading “ System needs be, unduly demanding- o f Convalescent Homes; Monthly overhauling ” . it had been my space. allowances to permanently in- intention to leave the subject Attempting to meet my capacitated and to widows, now -there until I had my attention request for “chapter and verse” costing over £200,000 annually; drawn to a book review in a in support of his charge (that Holidays for 100% war disabled;


** ** our correspondence which so


spoke to Dean to give him directions. "I watched his an­ tics. He was crashing his gears and stalling. He nearly hit an iron pillar when he reversed at speed." Inspector Dickinson said that when he saw Dean at the police


Free legal and other assistance the heading “ In Pursuit of Wilson"), he first, pathetically, to war pensions claimants; Justice.”


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station, he had noticed his con­ dition gradually' worsen. ”He speech which w a s


Company. These are some of I t concerned the author of Then he tries to dragoon the benefits provided from the a book with the title " Con- your readers to his support, money collected on Poppy Day. tempt of Court” in which one saddling them-with interpreta- he wpU riiffh O who had had a prolonged tions of my doggerel which ra n J a nL nf Pv battle with the law and the originate in a ‘’Studious-


sation. __ xi- _ 1«« in of _ _____— i.Vnt * nv T nUima/i


for trial. . After hearing, evidence, he


said,. “I am n o t: guilty.” Represented by Mr! F ; Parley, Dean reserved his defence.


?™,tc™,eC0n0nUC State 01 country..


year’s -


, J. BEN -DAVIS


ft,nrinmip nhnte nf our WBU a5 wl«y aiiuuiu— uuiisieaa. (Can anyone as well as a layman perforce that this is, precisely,


well as they should—not even congress. turned lawyer like himself. Wilson did?).


Housing Association tor the Could I beg' of you to provide worded my verses in a way that provslion of houses; House pur- me with a little more space to enables him to justify his accu- chase loans and Car Attendants refer to this?


complains that I have not


DEBATE having failed ‘ Student ” reverts to


___ Clitheroe.


A garbled version


him, his


expenditure of public money, of calling his opponent names. He follows this unhappy


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. ,---- .---t; Z0P1L -------- T n / n H o r tT o im - T Incidentally, I was somft tv q c c m


The British Legion gives the where such relatively small because of my tour .years”■ f^ e am ™ L tht e Act of Remembrance a positive amounts are involved.


the strictest economv even I was asked to attend Street, on Saturday, experience; I was glad to r“ ^ “ nbf


Industrial accidents


please put the “Trip ^ , iop£°J„®p^ ^ lVay..I c^ Manchester‘chamber of Com to London at- the ratepayers your readers to give their sup-


merce is sponsoring a safety in industry exhibition ner. spring because the latest acci­ dent figures have been des­ cribed by the Chief Inspector of Factories as ’’shockingly | high.” The number of reported I


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AS A visitor to the Spiritual ■


industrial accidents in 1955 reached the record figure of 293,000, including 627 deaths, and one particularly disquieting feature is the large number ot | accidents to young workers, some of them due to dangerous | ’skylarking".


nPp i to stress Uie were to hear evidence from Healing Services a t th e No wonder the Chief Insp«- Spiritualist Church Greenacre tor has thought it necessary to I feel that jssue this warning: “It mon


h ad ^ ren newly ponsfble but working pto | th f iret ° ^ t io n ^ a n ^ r i ie sinring tlfe notentiallv dangerous ^ s s a j s j s b


K t0™’ar_ar to that council voted against my to more than 100 people, and in are tremendous and apart from the interval.before the evening the toll of human suffering


Only two members of the a susbstantial tea was served Losses, caused by accidents


ana days in London, apart from were- sung. Many famous med- been estimated at between the fare, I received £5 is,


(Aid.) ERNEST CROSSLEY


healing, and the philosophy of a year. Spiritual teachings.


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tragedy. for thousands of_ ex forces o£ law endeavoured to imagination. Following which, _


slurred, became incoherent and ■he - was sitting in a comer mumbling to . himself.” Dean was committed to go


deny what


National Chairman- that the author had established ness 0f his case, he presses British Legion, his point beyond all reasonable home his disadvantage by- say- doubt that “ if the law is to ing that I “sneered at Coun­ cillors who live in Council houses” and that, although I didn’t metion names . . . cer­ tain local Councillor must have taken it as a reference to themselves.”


The reviewer commented Realising, by now, the weak- 1


of which “Student" seems so shy. Echoing ..Socialist R. Crossman, I said that Council tenants, able to afford it, should pay proper rents.: I did not agree, however, that Coun­ cils should overcharge anyone and then recited a later change In attitude of the Ministry of Housing. I ended by suggesting that any Coun­ cillor tenant had a chance “To give a lead to all of us, and an example show, by paying proper rental" but only “If he thinks his rent' too low.” This seems to me, to be both an accurate summary of my dog­ gerel of 19bh August and an eminently reasonable proposl tion. If, in fact, “certain local


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answered by Mr. Walter Taylor, less action,hi Peace-,,.,,IUS of Great Harwood, who, it is


' Questions were invited, and during the war so does cs.e- E.,Timmins,


p? Incidentally, tor the two full service, more favourite hymns their cost to the country nss iums gave their services, in £300 million and £450 mill.® If careless talk cost


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I interpret the signs and standing in the dock are con- lubfic has heloed handicapped Furthel': as noi!* has been ^ yrds and gift labels. S ^ u 'a i^W d 8^ , * 0 health'


armeTl Plcture and start at the real I be#inr s!


Let us, therefore, get a true ccompani. | °f oar I


This correspondence is now A councillor is com™,, that, because more — “Wli are heating dwellin-""-- m°te gas,


a constant watch be kmt 1 things vital to everyone an? ' however, is an astron'mv’


I t is, indeed, essential th». I


School ^rescue’ pheasJ


A GROUP of Clittl hoys out tor a lur in the Castle . Tuesday, " rescued j which has been i grounds for a fewl


jtoyal Grammar £ Sainsbury spottedj


A 5th form boy f


which the boys il probably escaped! children’s zoo in I


friends and they I bird, trying to call 15 boys were invil chase, and after f they managed to J bird and caught it I They took the f parks Superintend


Peter shouted tel


Hall. Said Mr. H i


pheasant c e r t a il escaped from the- :l is a wild hen phel had probably stl some moors rounl “The boys wer|


in bringing it to il been seen in the I various people thil ADOPTS


staff had adopted I were looking aftel


arily.


recovers, then we I to the moors an l obviously strayed i | and cannot find to the moors. It not eaten much I past few days, sol ing it special phi said Mr. Hall.


“ This is until ,.l


With] carl


A 17-YEAR-OI1


car driver, Stephl of Langshaw Dr| lided with the real car In Castle Strl £10 at Clitheroe yl for driving with! and attention. I Inspector H. Dl


6ecuting, said Dr. I of Clitheroe, was I 6tream of traffic. I mirror he saw a I ing down on hinl slowed down, but! ran into the back! ing extensive daifl Pye pleaded gi'B


He said the strtf suddenly pulled f could not stop in


land Rural Counl new duffle coa| already in use be well-worn, wh| came up at the J Ing of the Coun<| The new coats, bought from a are expected to !|


INEW DUFFI Workmen empl


Mr. Hall said thl


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