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Preparing [or iecimal


currency A range of adding much,


les and cash registers which


an be switched from sterling 3 decimal, and back to ster' ng again, was shown at the wan and Royal Hotel, Clith- roe on Monday and Tues- ay. The demonstrations \V


iy Tuesday evening it was esti aated that about 30 represen' atires from business concerns


iven by a Middlesex firm, and ),r„


n Clitheroe had visited the how. A film strip was shown i)]us_


rating the problems confront ng accounting departments "


Answer


i.my said, “As decimalisation s on its way, the only way to


A spokesman for the com-


•nsure that business has the inswer is to act now.


v i t h machines capable of landling the new decimal cur- •ency Immediately, it will face •erious disruption of its busi- less routine.’’


"Unless a firm is equipped F u n d r a i s e r


■vith a bring and buy sale, held >y the Townsend Fellowship in Dlitheroe Palish Church Sun­ day School recently, raised £13 4s. for the British and Foreign Bible Society.


A tea and biscuit evening J u m b l e s a l e


a jumble sale held on behalf of the Old Age Pensions Asso­ ciation in Stanley House, Clith­ eroe, on Saturday.


More than £9 was raised at force yesterday week removes


Animal feeding An Order which came into


the restrictions o.1 the use for animal feeding of milk and milk products originating out­ side the foot-and-mouth disease Controlled Areas.


ing lrom premises in the Con­ trolled or Infected Areas must, before being fed to animals, be either boiled, pasteurised, or treated to standards agreed with the Milk Marketing Board.


Milk and milk products com­


ABO V It Gliding smoothly down the “Ski- berg”, John Honeywell surprisingly managed to stay upright on one of his early runs.


In the last s ix financial


years, the Post Office has spent £61 million on mechanising the


mails. K e y to the system is the postal code, now being intro­ duced at major towns.


RIGHT But reporter Anne McDougall found it wasn't so easy to keep her feel.


fI.TTHF.ROF, FORTUNATE IN ITS MAYORS


Hail and farewell. Re­


tired hank manager to .succeed an accountant and business executive, both of vast experience in their respective tailings, in the Maioraliv — the highest eflicc it is in ihe power of a local authority to bestow upon it-, oustanding citizens.


CWin: hapm posiLicu I'oiu: .i anouah's finances be


iiihi:,,.. . ,1)^ respect..


w be:.;<-r hands? A source of 'lie gnn.n-y satisfaction and comfor: for tile ratepayers


Aid. Robinson.


s u r e l y ! My sincere con­ gratulations to Councillor Hardman on his acceptance coupled with every good wish that he and his Mayoress will have a happy term of office and pleasing experience. And mv gratitude and good wishes to the retiring Mayor and Mayoress for the digni­ fied ambassadorial way in which they have filled that


high office.


L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r Clitheroe has every reason


Conn, Hardman.


would do much lor the luturc development of Ribblesdale rcsidemially and industrially.


to be thankful for its sin­ gularly fortunate opportunity to call into responsible service such self-sacrificing public- spirited inhabitants. Never has our old borough stood in greater need of such assist­ ance in its administration as residents like Alderman Rob­ inson and Councillor Hard­ man are so willing and able lo render.


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that it is more than ever necessary to take care of the pence. Clitheroe most cer­ tainly must keep abreast of the rapidly changing times but in doing so it mast have the most meticulous regard lor what are and what are not necessary amenities.


The demands on the rate­ payers are nowadays so great


ton and Danven in resenting Blackburn’s Big Brother approach to the area re­ development schemes? A professional body is sug­


Is Clitheroe with Accring­


gested to project tile area nationally. What does it mat­ ter where the centre of re­ gional administration is? In­ sistent parochialism must be ruled out. The prime con­ sideration should definitely be the economic health of the entire Ribblesdalc com­ munity. Finance Committee chair­


men. must over remember that they are at the head of big business spending other people's money. Unified action has now become an urgent necessity for develop­ ment on the right lines. HAROLD R. BROUGHTON.


ous menace to desirable pro­ gress and such watchdogs as we now have on public ex­ penditure give us every rea­ son to be grateful that they have put themselves on call for this great public service. To you, Mr. Alderman and Mi-s. Robinson, happiness and satisfaction in your retire­ ment, and to you Coun. and Mrs. Hardman, good fortune and pleasure in your take


Escalating rates are a seri­ over. UNIFICATION


has again leapt into the pic­ ture could I have another word or two on the desirability for the amalgamation of our three local authorities and their unification into a single regional unit. A forceful joint approach should without


Now that King Lane Hall


78, Pimlico Road, Clitheroe.


Fair basis for Council


House rents It appears that tile Coun­


cil, after six months of pusillanimous delay, has fin­ ally reached the obvious con­ clusion t h a t the gross rateable value is the only fair basis for a council house rent. Having thus, after much


STORY


John Honeywell


❖ PICTURES


Roy Cliatburn


You don’ t need snow to


learn to ski > The Pendle Ski Club, formed early


last year, has already attracted almost 250 members. Membership costs i'2 a year, and


then the members can use the artifi­ cial slope for live shillings an hour during the instruction periods. The Club proposes to increase the


trips to neighbouring skiing centres, as well as combined activities with other winter sports organisations.


each month, the Club holds an open social evening at the Wellsprings Hotel, to which new members are always wel­ come.


On tile first Tuesday ol


Jackson said that a German or Swiss instructor gives a talk, and films of his particu­ lar country are shown. Then national food and drinks are served.


The secretary. Mr. Tom


club. Mr. David Hamel-Cooke. is the licensee of the Well- springs Hotel, which owns ten acres ol land on Pendleside


The vice-president ot the NURSERY


ered. can be used as a nur­ sery slope, and it also con­ tains a steeper slope lor more experienced sportsmen. In addition, there the wide


Tins land, when snow-cov­


clubhouse lor the members ol tile ski club.


up a ski shop at the hotel, m partnership with a Preston sports firm and on the first day of trading, anoraks, skis, boots and bob-caps were m great demand. Also envisaged is a modern


areas of Pendleside owned by Lord Clitherj?. whose son is president ol the Ski Club. Mr. Hamei-Cooke has set


Fourleen-ycar-old Julie Anne Jackson, daughter ol the olub secretary, Tom Jackson, and my instructor, Mrs, Marie Jackson is by no means a novice at skiing. She has eight years' experience at the sport, and visits a winter sports resort every year with her parents.


peculiar statement that " . . . the gross assessment figure is not a true valuation . . . it is much too high?” If this is. in fact, the case, why have the courts not been flooded by council tenants, and others, claiming their legal right to a reduction? What, other


scramble for cheap votes, can explain the statement that flat rate increases are the fairest and most equit­ able way to increase rents? Apparently, a tenant paying a 15 per cent increase must feel happy seeing a tenant of a house twice the size pay­ ing an increase of only 7 per cent. It is to be doubtful if even Mr. “Pound-in-your- pocket” would try and justify this one!


t h a n a Blatant


sequitur of the evening, how­ ever. was reserved for the official


The most blatant non-


charging only 95 per cent of the five-year-old rack-rental figure. Did nobody wonder just what an 8 per cent bank rate had to do with this deci­ sion? Did nobody ask why a bank rate which has in­ creased the price of every­ thing else, should reduce council house costs? Did it not occur to any Councillor that the increasing cost of living over five years would justify 115 per cent of the gross rateable value instead of the 95 per cent proposed? Finally. Sir, why was there


justification fo r


such a scheme is vital to en­ sure that intolerable rent burdens are not placed on tenants unable to pay econ­ omic rents.


no mention of a rent rebate scheme? Any advocate of economic rents, believing in social justice, knows that


'FLUNA'


Youth Club thanked


thanks to Trinity Youth Club for their kindness to the over­ sixties by entertaining them to a party and concert on Satur­ day.


Allow me to express warm


dclav be made to adjust what differences there -.ire in the interests of Ribblesdale as a whole. They have so very much in common,' especially in the matter of the provision of desirable amenities. Mr. Carter, of the North


labour, produced a fairly healthy mouse, the mountain then proceeds to dismember its unfortunate off-spring, to the accompaniment of a chorus of fatuous statements which even the charitable can only excuse on the grounds that they presage the open­ ing of the electioneering season. Only on this assumption


RI6D.


West Regional Planning Council, in his 6even point plan, says well when he de­ clares that local authorities must weld themselves into regional units for effective and economical adminstra- tion. Action now in the face of what is taking place hi •other parts of our country


one was good to us. MEARLEY


We had a really good tea and an excellent conceit and every­


WITH memories of Jean- Claude Killy and the Grenoble Olympics still fresh in my mind. I skied down a shallow slope on


Pendleside last weekend. But there was no swishing


rapidly down a long schuss, or sw erv in g frantically between the gates of the special slalom. There wasn't even any snow. I was skiing on 100 square


yards of tufted nylon carpet, the property of the Pendle Ski Club.


Skiberg


springs Hotel, tins Skiberg, as it is called, enables skiers to practise their sport all the year round. More important, it enables beginners—like my­ self—to leant the basics of skiing before launching out r- i crisp, white, and slippery snow.


Shed behind the Well-


Our Joe bed a barney wit missis one day.


Birds of a fe a th e r


They wor both sat by t ’ftre when they’d finaished their tay.


It started through n’owt (as most rows seem to do!).


Ond wor stall going at it at quarter to two!


Each called t'other ’barmy’ ond various names,


Ah corn't seem to please thee 'owever Ah try,


Ah'll be missing one morning baht saying "Goodbye”!


If •thowr’t no i’ yon club, thowrt wiltliirds up in t


The way tlia goes on folks’ll think as thowr’t soft.


loft,


Tha meks so mich fuss, a blind chap could see


Tha thinks more o’ them pidgins than tha thinks o' me!”


Joe sed, “Reight, mi lass, now Ah’ve 'eard quite enough,


Ah'm list'ning no longer to that kind o' stuff,


Ah'm flittin' to t ’loft 'till tha cools down! Goodneight!”


reight,


So Joe med a bed up on t'fioor of ’is ’ut,


•’Hoo might think Ah’m daft, but Ah know what Ah’m doin’,


’E'd weighed it aw’ up. ond 'is plans wor clear cut,


Twill be grond lyin’ 'ere, wi t'little birds cooin’l”


Weel, that’s what ’e thowt, but when everything’s sed.


When ’e oppened 'is mouth ond in floated a feather!


Then ’e picked up 'is blankets ond staggered to t ’door,


It's noan wise to lie down wi’ birds pearked ower ’ead,


Ond Joe veira quickly reached th’enid o’ 'is tether,


'E coughed ond 'e spluttered ten minutes or more.


Ah’ve started a cough, itls upsetting mi birds!”


E cried, “Let me in, lass, ferget them 'ard words,


They wor both on ’em sorry f e r ’t things as they’d sed,


Alice May let ’im in, ond they went, up to bed.


Since when they’ve bin living like two turtle doves! JIMIFEL. .


Ond they soon med it up wi’ their ‘darlings’ ond ‘luvs,’


THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT ‘FACE-LIFT


does the claim that council tenants a r e “constantly milked" bear any relation­ ship to sense. Was no Coun­ cillor curious as to why this "milking” has resulted In a housing account deficiency instead of the accumulated surplus required to pay for repairs necessitated by past occupation? What else can explain the


The shining face of Clitheroe Post Office, which this


week has emerged from beneath the layers of grime built up over many years, is a welcome, but unaccustomed sight.


When the scaffolding has been removed, we shall be able


to appreciate the building as it must have appeared when It was erected.


now serve to point out just how dirty the majority of our town centre buildings are.


Unfortunately, admirable though the “clean-up” Is, it will "Proud Clitheronlan”


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Hoo sed, “Ah’m fed up wi’ thee ond tbi games,


first skiing lesson. I looked in the Encyclopaedia Britannica to see what it had to say about the sport.


Before setting out on my


that skiing was "a way of moving over snow wearing” . . . wait for it . . . “flat runners called skis.”


Not surprisingly, I learnt


thing that I thought may have been of use to me. “On the level or on slight grades, the skier uses a gliding gait: downhill he slides effortlessly over the snow, turning to avoid obstacles, to slacken speed, or to change direc­ tion.”


But it did tell me some­ Simple !


to change direction. Seems simple enough.” That was


“So,” I thought, “you turn


A q u e s t i o n o f b a l a n c e


before I got on to the Ski­ berg.


square yards of tufted nylon looked harmless e n o u g h . Hardly big enough to do any damage on, I assured myself. But half an hour later,


From the road, the 100


the edges of the skis into the matting to stop myself from slithering helplessly away. After a few tries, I man­


aged to get the knack, but it was very tiring. Now that I had proved I


when I was fully kitted out with skis, boots, and a pair of sticks, tlie slope took on a more menacing air. I t seemed to stretch away to­ wards Wihalley, like a 90 metre ski-jump.


pushed, I launched myself out, fearing the worst. Actually, that’s not exactly true. I didn’t launch myself out. The strain of holding myself at the top of the slope, with a pair of well- waxed, very slippery skis on my feet, proved too much, and off I went, at what seemed to be a great speed.


Without waiting to be


the foot of the slope un­ harmed. My instructor. Mrs. Marie


Miraculously, I arrived at


Jackson, assured me that I had done very well. Next time, I must bend a little more at the ankles, and let my knees give a little more. Very funny! My knees had


almost given way already. Sideways


wards the top of the slope again. To me, it was much more difficult than gliding down. Firstly, I had to turn


Undaunted, I set off to­


could keep upright just ski­ ing straight down the slope, Mi's. Jackson tried to find ways of up-ending me. She held out a stick and I had to bob under it as I swished downhill. I had to do a little bunny jump, lifting the backs of ihe skis, simultaneously turning them sideways to slow’ myself down.


Surprise


no avail. No matter what tricks she played, I stayed upright, much to everyone’s surprise, not least my own. I began to think that my


But all her efforts were to


amazed—and disgusted. This was my first attempt, and they had been learning for some weeks, yet they man­ aged to fly headlong at some time during the hour’s lesson. All too soon, the time was


Other activities include Turning round with seve n-foot long skis strapped to e ach foot can be a bit of a problem, as I soon discovered.


size of the slope as time goes on. so as to provide a good practice area for


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guardian angel, fairy god­ mother, or Pendle Witch was taking care of me. All my fellow pupils were


up and I had to take my gear back to the club’s ski shop at the Wellsprings. Almost regretfully, I took


round. This itself is no mean task, and there is little point in watching the three feet of skis in front of your nose. There's another three feet behind you. Then, summoning all my


off my skis and extricated my feet from the heavy boots. But my appetite for this graceful sport tad been whetted. I determined to return and attempt to become a little more accomplished. On Sunday morning I was


strength, I had to walk side­ ways up the slope, digging


uses muscles you don’t know you have. On Sunday, I was aching in places I didn’t know I tad.


having second thoughts. I t has been said that skiing


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