Clitheroe Advertiser and Times


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1966 VIEWPOINT


SOME. NEW YEAR THOUGHTS


T ° ; the sewrely prartieal among us, the New Year _ is just a way of conveniently marking the passage calendar. There is nothing to distinguish


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the first of January from any other wintry day—it is just as1


freezing and gloomy as the December day from


which .it was bom. But to the traditionalists and the more romantically-minded it is the time of the year for taking the two-way look. We look backward over the past year, with its gains and losses, successes and failures, opportunities seized and lost, and all those far too many might-have-beens; and forward to.the New Year, with its chance of a fresh start in every aspect of life. It is a time o f rosy promise and new hope, a time


to wipe the slate clean and begin again, a time for re-dedication. _ After the festival of Christmas we should be in the


right mood for optimism, for we have seen the chur­ lishness and spite, the grabbing and the grasping, the strife and turmoil, the uppishness and one-uppishness of ordinary existence vanish and the basic cheerfulness, kindliness and humility of people assert themselves. Suddenly the world has become a brighter and cosier place in which to live, and we are busy asking our­ selves why, oh why, can’t such a spirit prevail through­ out the year.


Whose fault? This is a question we ask every twelve months, and


just as regularly we resign ourselves to the thought that it can never be, that no matter how we would wish it the spirit o f goodwill cannot last. Not because of any fault in ourselves, of course! The blame lies in others, who slip back into their soulless routine of getting and spending like cogs in a machine that has been • disrupted for a brief spell. ' But it needs very little self-analysis to realise that we


ourselves contribute in some degree to the total of selfishness and viciousness, and that we deceive our­ selves if we believe it can be cleared from the books like a bad debt at the end of the year by one stroke o f magnanimity. It cannot be, and shouldn’t be. So each year we try to strengthen our good intent by making resolutions. Well, here we are. on the eve of 1967, with a whole


year ahead in which to try to retain and spread the goodwill so glibly expressed. And it is easier said than done. It is not so simple to apply Christian principles to everyday life, to give rather than to receive, to love one’s enemies, to cast out hatred, bitterness and envy, to-do unto others as you would have them do unto you. To. follow such rules today is to become known as


a crank. “ Such stuff is all right for the parsons and theorists” people say “ but it can’t work in ‘real’ life.”


A little way Perhaps not, but have we ever tried it? Couldn’t wa


go at least a little way towards it? How? By never speaking ill of .any person even if we


cannot say anything good. By understanding the^ other man’s point o f view even if we disagree with it. By never being envious of other people’s possessions, or, 5f we are rich, by admitting that our success is more the result o f luck than the hard work we boast of, and by giving to those less fortunate, acknowledging that great wealth can often be a sign of lost opportunity for doing good. By never trying to keep up with the Joneses, bud rather trying to make sure the Joneses keep up with us. By accepting responsibility with humility. By working


hard ourselves but always understanding other peoples difficulties and deficiencies. By encouraging the diligent but always having patience with the slothful. By giving good value in all we sell, whether goods or labour. By having sympathy for the suffering, pity for the pompous, and forgiveness for the repentent wrong­ doer. By never despising the lowliest of human beings and never failing to say of any of them, even the


criminal: “ There, but for the grace of God, go I. These are just a few of a multitude of resolutions


that are not too hard to follow. Not one of them is out of touch with reality. But not one of them is likely to be widely observed for more than a few pious moments.at New Year. What a pity, for what a differ­ ent-world they could make. Almost, in fact, a Chris­


tian world! _________ For the second time in. NEWS IN BRIEF


Children of St. Denys’ Home were up at 5-30 a.m. on Christ­


mas Day. Mrs. N. Poster, the House


Mother, said, “We always stay at home for Christmas.and just


have a family day. “When the childern woke up,


there was a pillow case for each of them filled with toys. The Mayor and Mayoress, Coun. and Mrs. Tom Robinson visited us in the morning, and a special Christmas lunch was served.” On Christmas Eve, some of


the older children attended midnight communion at the Parish Church.


A special lunch was organ­


ised by the Luncheon Club and held- at Pendle Old Folks Club on Wednesday week. The Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor and Mrs.. T. Robinson were the guests of honour, and more than 40 old people attended. After the ' lunch, carols were sung, and later the helpers had tea


and" mince pies. * ■. * *


In contrast to the appalling


road toll in the country over the, Christmas period, there were no accidents reported to the police in either Clitheroe, Gisburn or Whalley. Inspector ’ Harold Dickinson


said that he thought motorists in the district could be given a "pat on the back” for then- behaviour over the weekend. All main roads in the district


were kept free from ice by the staff , of the highways depart­


ments. Late Christmas Eve and


were also out on the other evenings, salting and gritting


the-roads.. * * *


ROAD SAFETY SLOGAN less


More haste, speed


THIS WEEK'S


early Christmas morning were the -busiest 'times, but they


Patients at Clitheroe hospital


had an enjoyable Christmas, receiving gifts from many local organisations, They were also treated to carol singing, and an excellent Christmas dinner. On Christmas Eve, the Rev.


and Mrs. R. Jobling distributed gifts to each patient from the management committee, and on the previous Sunday, the Friends of' the Hospital pro­ vided presents for every patient. On Christmas morning, mem­


bers of Trinity Youth Club and Church visited the hospital and


sang carols in ever ward. The Mayor and Mayoress,


Councillor and Mrs. T. Robin­ son also visited the hospital in the morning, and stayed for


lunch with the staff. Each ward was decorated,


and on Christmas Day, Mrs. W, Scales judged them. The win- ners were the rehabilitation


unit.


In wrong direction


A Clitheroe police officer


noticed that a car was being driven in the wrong direction down King Lane and stopped it, said Inspector Harold Dickinson, prosecuting at Clitheroe on Thursday. Alfred Smith (5D of Bayley


Street, Claytdn-le-Moors, was fined £2 for driving the car in the wrong direction, and George Parkinson of Barnes Street, Clayton-le-Moors, was fined £1 for aiding and abet­ ting. Both men pleaded guilty. In court, Smith satd, “I want


to take the whole blame my­ self. Mr. Parkinson informed me that I was going into a one­ way street. But to avoid revers­ ing into the main street I carried on.”


Parkinson, by letter, said, ‘ I . , .


am guilty of the offence,, but the driver went against my instructions when he turned into that street.”


RAYMOND WINCKLEY


This article is reprinted from the Blackburn Times weekly • article “ Referees’ • Corner."


IN-HI S second season as a referee, Raymond Winckley of Whiteweil Drive, Clitheroe, was struck and knocked out by a player he was cautioning. The player is now out of the game, but Raymond is still going strong (writes Ken


Adcroft). “ You have to learn to take


the rough with the smooth," says Raymond, who normally writes this weekly column.


A Class Two official, he has


been a referee now for 12 seasons. He first b e c am e


interested when he acted as a linesman in school matches, and took up whistling seriously when he left school.


' Since .then, he has officiated in the Lancashire Amateur League, the Blackburn Com­ bination and Youth League and the Clitheroe Youth and Amateur Leagues.


He is keenly interested in


youth and schoolboy football and is a former secretary of Clitheroe Youth League as well as a committee member of the Clitheroe castle fete five- a-side football competition.


Two seasons ago, h6 had CHILDREN’S PARTY The children at Bright Street


Nursei-y were entertained at the annual . Christmas party on Thursday week.


A typically happy group at the British Legion Party held at St. James’s’ School,


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“ A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR” THE FOOTWEAR SPECIALISTS


48 WHALLEY ROAD, CLITHEROE GOOD PARKING WHILST YOU SHOP


eleven days, a Clitheroe man, on Thursday had a narrow escape in the raging sea at Blackpool. He was Keith Wilson (26),


of Park Avenue, the driver of a wartime DUKW. A week last Monday the


vehicle, which K e i th was driving, capsized in a raging sea off Blackpool promenade, throwing him and three pas­ sengers in the sea. One of -the passengers was drowned. A picture of Keith is given


on our sports page. In Thursday’s incident Keith


and three other men leapt from the vehicle and reached


Taking the rough with the smooth


the distinction of being in charge of four schoolboy and youth finals in one year and has also had several inter­ county appointments.


To young referees he says:


“ Always have a sense of humour,” and to players: “ Learn the laws and prevent arguments.”


A 46-YEAR-OLD Chatburn man, Mr. Eric Thornton


Stretch of Mill Lane died as a result of injuries when ho fell off his scooter yesterday morning,


Mr, stretoh was on his


way to work at Accrington Labour Exchange when the accident occurred opposite Bellman Farm on Chatburn Road, Clitheroe. No other vehicle was involved, -


A post mortem was held


yesterday afternoon. Mr. Stretch, who used to


be assistant manager at the Clitheroe Labour Exchange, leaves a widow. During the war he was in charge of a British Army petrol depot in the Ruhr Valley in Germany,


DRAMA BADGE


Welmoet Voerhuis, of 1 Clare­ mont Drive, who is a pupil at Moorland School, has been awarded a badge by the Poetry Society of London for passing with' honours an examination in Shakespearean acting.


A 10-year-old Dutch girl, Welmoet, who is trained in


elocution by Mrs. Greta Wilkin­ son, chose as her examination pieces an extract from “The Tempest” in which she por­ trayed Miranda, and one of


Juliet’s speeches from “Romeo and Juliet.”


She takes a keen interest in


drama and hopes to continue acting when she returns to Holland early next year.


The Voerhuis family came to


Clitheroe from Rotterdam almost seven years ago when Mi-. Voerhuis took a job at Milliard’s, Simonstone. Since then Welmoet has been learn­ ing English so that now she speaks it perfectly.


Welmoet’s fellow student,


Caroline Hargreaves, of Urm- ston, Manchester, also gained her Shakespeare Badge but with a credit.


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WOMAN PARSON ON TV


Clitheroe’s - first woman mini­ ster, the Rev. Kathleen M. Hendry, appeared in “Scene” on ITV on Wednesday even­ ing when she took part in a discussion on the' Anglican C h u r c h Commission on Women in Holy Orders. Mrs. Hendry, minister at


C l i t h e r o e Congregational Church, was chosen by the producer as an example of one of the few women in the Ministry. On Wednesday morning


she was asked by ITV to arrive at the Granada studios in Manchester in time for the evening’s interview. Conducting the interview


SUCCEEDS REV. R. JOBLING IN 1968


THE Rev. Norman D. Wal­ ton, of The Lilacs, 21, Wig- ton Road, Carlisle, has accepted an invitation to suc­ ceed the Rev. Ronald Jobling, supt. minister of Clitheroe Methodist Circuit, in Sept­ ember, 1968. A native o f East Anglia,


Mr. Walton lived in Nor­ wich and entered the minis­ try from Norwich St. Peter’s


Circuit, He was trained for the


ministry at Handsworth Col­ lege, Birmingham, at a period when Dr. W. _ F. Lofthouse, who has since


died, was principal. Mr. W a l t o n became


actively engaged in Metho­ dist work in 1934, spending the first two years of his probation in the Brixton Hill Circuit, London, and the next two years as assistant to the Chairman o f the then Derby district.


Since those days he has


travelled in the following circuits: Bournemouth; Pon- typool (Eastern Valley); Nor­ wich, his home circuit; Luton; Alford, Lines.


When he leaves his present


circuit in 1968 he will have completed ten years as mini­ ster of Wigton Road Church (450 members).


He also now has pastoral


oversight of a small new Church (53 members) on a recently - developed housing estate, and a country Church (18 members).


His wife is a native of the


Pontypool area in Mon­ mouthshire. Mr. and Mrs. Walton have two daughters, Anne, who at present is training as a.teacher at West­ minster College, Oxford, and Margaret, who attends the Carlisle and County High School for Girls.


was Brian Trueman and also taking part in the discussion were the Rev. Jean Wilkin­ son, Congregational Minister at Tranmerc, Cheshire, and Mrs. K. Baxter, who took part in the commission.


Christmas baby The only Christmas Day


baby bom at Bramley Meade Maternity Home, Whalley, was to Mrs. Rosemary Simpson, of Harlech Drive, Stanhill, Oswald- twistle, who gave birth to a girl. Sarah Louise. Yesterday week, a day before


Christmas Eve,. Mrs. Barbara Papillo, of 22 Union Street,


Low Moor gave birth to a baby, boy.


Members of the Clitheroe


Youth Action Group and a num­ ber of friends and parents com­ pleted their year’s activities with a Christmas party which will now become an annual event. The final fund raising effort


was a huge success and the group will decide early in the New Year how the donations will be used. During Christmas week, the


youngsters were active making up Christmas food parcels and distributing them to 50 elderly people. The parcels consisted of tea, butter, biscuits, sugar, sal­ mon, turkey, fruit cream and soup. The food was bought with the


money raised at the Sale of Work Stall at tile Castle Fete.


THE WEEK’S OBITUARY Mr. D. M. Page


His friends in the Clitheroe


district, particularly in Hurst Green, will be grieved to learn of the sudden death at his home, 31 Beach Road, Levin, New Zealand, on Christmas Eve, of Mr. Derek Maxwell Page, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Page 67, Waddington Road, Clitheroe. Mi-. Page, who was 37, was


born in Garston, near Liver­ pool. His father, who is now employed as timekeeper at Hor- rocksford Lime Company was then a sergeant-major instruc­ tor in the Army Physical Train­ ing Corps, and as a boy Derek was with his parents In Malta during the wartime siege. After the war he did his National Service in the Army, serving with the Hampshire Regiment' in Austria and then with the Gloucester in Korea and Japan, attaining the rank of sergeant-instructor. On returning to civilian life,


he was employed for a year as assistant to his father, who was then physical education in­ structor at Stonyhurst College. Later he joined the New


Escaped again from raging sea


the nearby shore when the engine stalled and they-began to ship water. Four other men decided to


stay in the DUKW, which was swept 200 yards- through the surf and on to the sand. Last week Keith was in the


sea half an hour after the other DUKW sank; Two skin- divers from -the drilling rig Bedford X were also saved. Keith said later, “ My wife


begged me not to go out in a DUKW again. “ But I had to find out if I ’d


lost my nerve. , “ When the engine stalled


today, and we’ began to ship water again, the h o r r ib l e


i memories came flooding back. Luckilv w e had not got fat out."


Zealand Regiment, in which' he served for five years. During this time he married a New Zealand girl and on leaving the regiment he decided to settle in the dominion, becoming a phy­ sical education instructor at a boys’ school. He had to retire from this position on health grounds af-ter an attack of rheumatic fever and latterly he had been employed by the Hy Grade Container Company In


Levin His mother visited him in


New Zealand in 1963, remaining there for a year, and his parents had already arranged to join their son in Levin, having booked their passage for next -October. They now hope to ob­ tain an earlier passage. He leaves a widow and three young children, and to them


and his parents will go heart­ felt sympathy in then- sudden and tragic loss.


Mrs. E. Hoyle Mrs. Emily Hoyle of “Habber-


ley” , The Sands, Whalley, died at her home on Wednesday,


aged 74. Mrs. Hoyle who was born in


Blackburn, had lived in Ac­ crington before moving to Whalley about 16 years ago. She was a member of the


MAY WE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF WISHING ALL OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS A


off scooter^


Clitheroe Advcitisei and Tintce, Saturday, Deccniber'31 ,-196t> --5:


in hospital yesterday week of Mr. Peter Arrowsmith of 18 Standen Road, Clitheroe. He was 31.


Mr. P. Arrowsmith The death occurred suddenly


. A native of Billington he lived in Chipping for five years before moving to Clitheroe on his mar­ riage in 1954.


He was a bricklayer and stone


mason by trade and worked for the Manchester Corporation.


His hobbles included flying


model aeroplanes and sailing model boats.


Clitheroe branch of the British Legion and several members attended the funeral and sent wreaths.


He was a member of the He was associated with S.S,


Michael and John’s Church, Clitheroe where Requiem Mass was held prior to interment at Clitheroe Cemetery on Thurs­ day. Mr. Arrowsmith leaves a wife


and three children. Miss A. May


thorne Place, Clitheroe, died at Lostock Hall, Preston on Wed­ nesday week. She was 76. Miss May came to Clitheroe


from Cornwall about 30 years ago and was closely associated with the Parish Church where she was an active worker especi­ ally for tlie Linen Guild. She was also a member of the C l i t h e r o e Branch of the Women’s Unionists Association. Her sister and brother-in-law,


Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chapman, live at Eastham House, Clith­ eroe. The Vicar of Clitheroe, the Rev.


A F. Clark, officiated at. the service at the Parish Church and interment a t ' Clitheroe Cemetery on Saturday.


Mr. J. Cowell Mr. John Cowell, of The Cot­


tage, Worston, who was greatly interested in local history, died in Queen’s Park Hospital yes­ terday week aged 57. He spent much of his spare time collect­ ing, items of information con­ cerning Clitheroe and district and was a frequent contributor to the columns of the Advertiser and. Times. Mr. Cowell, who was a mem­


WRVS in Whalley. Her hus­ band, Mr. George Hoyle is a haulage contractor In Accring­ ton.


Harry ana a daughter, Elsie. Cremation took place at


Accrington yesterday. Mrs. ‘Hoyle also leaves a son,


ber of tlie Chatburn British Legion, was a former committee


member. He was formerly employed at


Chatburn Mill. Mr. Cowell had Jived at Grin-


dleton before moving to Wors­ ton more than 30 yearn ago. Ho leaves-a wife, Mrs. Mar­


jorie Ellen Cowell, two sons, and a daughter. Cremation at Accrington took nlacc on Wednesday.


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