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questions being put to young people in Clitheroc


and District by ANNE McDOUGAIX. In this, the fourth article


in the series, she interviews a bank clerk.


A M A N ' S M E A L A T S T . J A M E S ' S


BID TO ADMIT PRESS TO COMMITTEES DEFEATED


meeting. Its surprise element was due to the fact that the Finance


and General Purposes Committee, which met earlier this month, had resolved to consider the question of Press ad­ mission at the Council’s annual cockle and mussel feast in


May. In the longest speech heard


in Council for some months, Coun. Hall stressed that the question had been raised


Two hundred and fifty people attended the annual


turkcv tea held in St. James’s School on Saturday. The .Men's Fellowship were responsible for the whole event—cooking and serving the meal, laying and clear­ ing the tables and even doing the washing up.


\f(cr the meal, entertainment was provided by the


church choir and the Men’s Fellowship singers, and by three members of Grimshaw Street Congregational church, Preston—Miss B. Cunningham (elocutionist), Mr. T. Chadwick (comedian) and Mr, J. Halliday (magician). The picture shows some of the helpers during the


serving of tea.


a f o r t u n e r o u t i n e


diesicr to study for examina- lions, and Judith, who has been entered with the bank’s internal training scheme, has studied accounting, taken a cashier’s course and under­ taken general clerical work.


“There arc six other girls


working with me in the bank. In December and June of every year wc have balance time—this means wc have to work until nine and ten in the evening,” said Judith.


A member of the bank’s


social club. Judith enjoys dressmaking, reading and dancing. She is also a keen driver.


Her two main jobs are


attending to the accounting machine and cashier work.


Working in a bank, she


summed up, is interesting and rewarding with the added attraction of meeting people from all walks of life.


Young Fanners’ activities


.tempers of Clitheroe And oriel Young Fanners’ Clul) : last week, when the boys


•e given an illustrated talk on estry by Mr. Hall, of Dunsop


dee, and the girls heard a k by Mrs. Dakin on the mak- ; of artificial flowers. Thanks re expressed by Stephen try. seconded by Jeffrey npson.


3eorge Whittaker presided >r the business meeting licit followed, and at which It & announced that both senior iz teams had been successfu,. .thqroe ‘A’ had beaten crington ‘A’ by 50 points to t and Clitheroe ‘B’ had beaten rale by 06 points to 31.


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ad last we e k the Town ncil approved its Highways, ami-tee's resolution agree- that waiting should be ree­


;th where there is 80 pavf' t—and prohibited on tne


.erly side.


led to two hours in three on easterly side—9 long the >


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Guides of Clitheroe and Dis­ Four Guide oompanies and


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guides in countries all over tho world during a candle-lighting ceremony and money collected to help provide equipment for Guides less fortunate than those in this district. More th an


£3 was raised. The first candle was lit by


Mrs. I. J. Thompson, Division Commissioner, who sent greet­ ings to Lady Baden-Powoll, at


present in India. A campfire was lit by Miss


. Civic Hall re-slating deferred


re-consider the proposed re­ stating of Clitheroe's Civic Hall. The committee at its meeting early in February had decided to accept the one tender received in respect of the work—amounting to £683. But at the Town Council


The Estates Committee is to


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Trainer, and visitors included members of Clitheroe and Slaidburn Trefoil Guilds.


A 15-year-old Guide, Carolino


Brice, of the 2nd Whalley Com1 pany, received her Queen's Guide award from Mrs. I. J. Thompson, the Division Com missioner at a Thinking Day ceremony in Whalley.


During the evening there


was a film on Ranger Guido activities a n d exhibitions


arranged by each patrol about different countries where Guides are extremely active.


Thinking Day pennies were collected for Friendship Funds.


No d is c r im in a t io n in p o s t e r b a n


Public Library was not for posters ’ promoted or prepared by any political party.”


Tile notice board in Clitheroe


by Coun. G. Braithwaite. chair­ man of the Public Library Com­ mittee. of the reason for not granting a request by Clitheroe Liberal Association to display in the Library a poster giving details of the advice centre organised by the Association.


This explanation was given


meeting Conn J. A. Norman moved 0 reference back to com­ mittee because of the new situation which had arisen over King Lane Hall.


don’t want members of the Liberal Association to think any political discrimination was involved in this decision.


Stated Coun. Braithwalte: "I


several times previously. He continued: “As far back


as 1959. a sub-committee was set up to And ways and means of providing better links be­ tween the Council and public. A report was produced suggest­ ing many ways of keeping the public informed—more directed questions in Council—reports by the departmental chairmen ' regular town hall quizzes—


statements amplifying minutes —clearer minuting and so on,” How much of the report was


practised today, asked Coun. Hall, reminding the meeting that it had later become statu­ tory for all Councils to ndmit Press and public to committees made up of all members of the Council, and the encourage­ ment to adopt this procedure given at conferences of the Association of Municipal Cor­ porations.


E s c a p e rm i le s


eroe?" was Coun. Hall's next question. And lie alleged that ‘•many escape routes were tried to avoid complying with the law—the last, device being the one used now. that of reducing all Committee by one member.” He went on: "So we do not


"What happened in Clith


Was it because there are occasions when delicate matters such as land or property purch­ ase would be better kept confi­ dential until the Anal stage. Fair cnought. but we now have the opportunity of safeguarding the Council's interest in such m a t t e r s — either working through an appointed sub­ committee or temporarily ex­ cluding the Press during a particular debate “Or could there be another


carry out the intention of the law but we have managed not to break it. Why was this done?


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. Friday, March I. !9(tS


the Press and public should be invited to meetings of full com­ mittees front April I next, his proposal being seconded by Aid. W Sharpies.


A surprise move by the Deputy Mayor, Couu. J. Hall, Aid. Sharpies alleged summarily to settle the question of whether Press and public ''* e"


Swept under carpet that


it ^as™ verv


should be admitted to the meetings of Clithcroc Town Coun- q{,lckly ‘SWOpt u„der the carpet oil's full committees, ended in defeat at the monthly Council


until the cockle and mussel feast.


good sense of the Press, if ad­ mitted to committees, to see that any matter which should be kept secret for the time being, would not be disclosed. He would also go a little fur-


And the alderman added that he had "enough faith in the


safeguards I mentioned, it could I tiler and l®nd agendas to the onlv serve to stimulate better public, so they could follow the debate. I’ve heard excellent de- proceedings; otherwise it would bates on interesting subjects in be almost impossible for them this room—but, I regret to say. to follow the business not during the last two or three I meeting, years. It could mean less waste of time on trivialities and gos-| U n f a i r o n u s sip and more attention to what


of a


Clitheroe could become by the Both Aid. C. Chatburn and ngf of more vision and fore-1 Coun. J. A, Baines felt it would sight ’’


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wrong impressions. And he in- cerning the advisability of dis- stanced minute 851 on Oper- closing certain information, ation Spring Clean which, he Pointed out Coun. Barnes contended, must give a wrong "Wo have nothing to hide but impression to the Civic society 1 obviously, certain matters at t and the Divisional Education I c e r t a i n stage must be kept Officer. Declared Corni. Hall: quiet." This should be the res- “They don’t need telling we ponsibility of the Council—not can't spend a lot of monev on °f the Press. "We could ask the it in the present economic ell- Press to withhold the informa- mate; they didn't even ask for tlon, but whether they did so that. But they would want to would then be their responsible know, in rommon with most I By and not ours," he added, other local authorities in the I And neither Aid. Chatburn North West, that we have the I nor Coun. Barnes felt that the sense to realise that spending Press would take kindly to being small amounts to brighten the excluded from a committee area is not luxury but the hard discussion of possibly the only business of attracting industry, I item on a committee agenda on


It could also avoid giving responsibility onthe Press con- be unfair to put the onus of


trade and people.” What imaffc ;


Ha l l continued: “Or what image does the Council convey to the Liberal Party of this town by saying: ‘No,- we won’t


Well into his stride, Coun. Abstract of Accounts.


councillors to understand that document. We might even give the impression that the com­ mittee doesn’t know. Nothing like this could happen if they could drop in at a committee meeting or rend a Journalist's notes of tile matter


re as on for excluding the Press?” Coun. Hall went on: "It could, conceivably be used to hide ineffective Council work. It could even be used to produce minutes of resolutions which convey a different mean­ ing to the public from what actually took place in commit­ tee. at the request of such a committee and not. I hasten to add, by a whim of the Town Clerk's staff.” Giving one example. Coun. Hall said that m i n u t e 562


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which they were anxious to ob- give you any information about ^ now Ule Deputy Mayor


the running of the Civic Hall suti<jen-ly demanding ‘that the (minute 8o3i but you are wel- pfess ijg admitted to committee come to call and look at our mee,tjnKS


“We have nothing to hide,


“What a treat for them; it's but the proper place for a mat- jolly difficult for experienced ter like this to be discussed is


I repeat might, have heard good reasons given for this. What an image this Council is presen­ ting to tile public.


"If they had been allowed to attend the meeting they might,


with regerd to the provision of baths. Not even a vice-chair­ man gets to know what’s going on there." (Coun. Hall is vice- chairman of the P a r k s and Cemeteries Committee 1. He added: "This could be one


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surprise at the Deputy Mayor bringing the matter up that evening when it had been agreed to discuss it at the cockle and mussel feast


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