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AMERICA IS GREAT -BUT ALISON


PREFERS ENGLAND “America is fascinating but 1 would not like to have


stopped there longer than six weeks,” is the verdict of 16- year-old Alison Buxbaum, of Greendale View, Grindleton,


who has just returned from a holiday in America. Alison who is the daughter'


o! Mr and Mrs. Alec Buxbaum. spent the six weeks staying with her pen-friend, 17-year- 0;(l Kathryn (Cookie) Pure in Philadelphia.


While over there Alison met


nusy young people and found th.it although the girls wear lmi.'H t!le same fashion as in Enn.ind. the boys dressed very casually and seldom wear ties. Many of the boys wore shorts because of the heat.


The way of life is much


faster in America,” Alison com­ mented. "everyone seems to be doing .something all the time”.


She added that she would


rather live in England than America although she would like to go back sometime in the future.


id gallery. Retainers dwellings showing


■ lie features in II:, li Retainers Dwellings are from tile historical viciv- point, tile most important' Or you may toe cliieflj con­


cerned with items of a' more homely personal nature. To these questions there must be two separate answers. To the person involved in the his­ torical aspect then th~ Retainers Dwcllins.s must come high on the I:.-:.


Sturdy Of one thing 1 am sure


there are not many buildings of a. similar nature in this or any other county And. what is more important, they are so well preserved in’spite having so little special


Sights The whole holiday cost £250,


of which £200 was used to pay for the voyage across on the Queen Elizabeth, blit Alison, who has saved for two years to collect the money, thinks it was definitely worth every penny.


•Although I wanted to see


the sights in America, the main reason 1 went over there was to see m.v pen-friend and meet her parents.”


has been writing to her pen- frienfi for more than four years alter getting her name from a magazine.


Alison explained that she She said that her pen-friend


will probably be coming on a return visit to England, but not for another three years until site finishes college.


treatment in regard to pres­ ervation. The woodwork con­ struction beams, struts' and pegging— not forgetting the unique joiners marks—are


I confess, quite frankly, that the striking Jacobean flight of stairs captivates the eye ol layman and connoisseur. Here again is to be seen first class workmanship, sturdy as on the day it was first con­ structed -inti certainly as al t-active as can be seen any­ where. They tire a credit also to Mrs. P.ve. niy guide, who has eared for them during


rare and to most people, taseinating. As to the Hall iiseif, well


NATURALIST. This was


News . . . 75 YEARS AGO


September .1.5, 1893 The Postmaster General


sanctioned the establishment of a new money order office at Shawbridge, Ciitheroe.


50 YEARS AGO


September 13, 1918 At the monthly meeting of


tiie lo c a l War Pensions Committee, it was reported that during August, payments amounting to £419 17s 90 had been made in 235 cases. The Rev. W. H. Jefn«


preached li'is i n. a u S u r a sermon at Moor Lane Metno-


dist Church. 25 YEARS AGO


daughter of Coun. H.Cooto Selboume House,. Clitheroe ,


September 10, 1943 Miss M i l l i c e n t


sudcessfully obtained


certificate of the Electrical Association for women electrical h o u se d *a * teachers.


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as the last line of your address at the top of your notepaper when writing to others; and ask them to use your Postcode when addressing a letter to you.


❖ If for any reason you have not received your Postcode from the - Head Postmaster or haye mislaid it,


please ask at the nearest post office. • y . please remember to use your Easy Among the sights Alison


visited in America was the United Nations building in New York. They were taken on i guided tour of the build­ ing. ana she was very impressed by it.


Of the American way of life,


Alison said. “Families over there do everything tile easy way. They mostly use tinned food and have every imaginable gadget to help them. I don’t think they know how to peel a potato.


''People don’t get up until


the sixteen years in which this historic Hall has been her homo.


late in the morning, and don’t go to bed until the early hours of the following manning, so mot* of the day time is spent sleeping."


cbout the ' television pro­ grammes in England, Alison found that they are much


While many people grumble


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better than those in America. “There are 10 television


stations in Philadelphia," she said, “and they stay open until 3.0 in the morning, but there is not as much variety as there is on English television, and with adverts coming every 10


minutes or so, it gets very boring.”


Alison, who is an old girl of


Settle High School, will have plenty of chances to remember her holiday as she took four films of photographs during her six-week stay.


Czech boy in Grindleton returns home to family


Because of the Russian in­


vasion of Czechoslovakia, an 18-year-old Czech boy, Milan Duchac from Semily in nor­ thern Czechoslovakia, has left Grindleton where he has been staying, to return to his family. Milan, who had been staying


at Rushton House, Grindleton, the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cann, wanted to return to his home as soon as he heard of the Russian occupation, and left the village on Saturday week en route for Vienna.


A textile student, Milan had


been in England for six weeks and had been working in a mill in Skipton for a considerable part of his stay. When he first came, he stop­ ped with Mr. and Mrs. cann for


two weeks, and then went into digs in Skipton, before return­ ing to stay with the Ganns at the end of his visit. Mr. Cann told the Adver­


tiser and Times, “Milan was a very pleasant boy and fitted in extremely well. We took him to Norfolk for a weekend, and then arranged for him to visit London for a few days.” Mr. Cann said that Milan


also visited the Lake District, played a game of cricket and watched a rugby match during his stay. “He was extremely well


Milan was not really anti­ communist. he did not appreci­ ate the Rusians going into his


HIT HORSE HAD


TO BE SHOT The owner of a horse which was killed after an accident


with a car was fined £1 at Gisburn on Monday for allowing it to stray on the highway.


John Falshaw, 82, of Den- holme Farm, Newsholme, near


Gisburn, admitted the offence. Insp. D. Hardy, prosecuting,


said that Mr. David Newhouse was driving along the Long


Preston Road, towards Gisburn at 11-10 p.m. on July 21. He rounded a bend in the


road and saw the horse immediately in front of the


PEKD PPLIES. of BLACKBURN


car. He tried to take evasive action but could not avoid hit­ ting it. The car was extensively dam­


aged. and as a result of its injuries, the horse had to be destroyed. When seen by the police, Mr.


Falshaw admitted that the horse " ’as his, but said he did not know how the horse could have get out of its field. Mr. W. D. Greenwood, de­ fending, said that all the fen­ ces round the field had been sound, but had possibly been damaged. He added: " It has been a


great loss and has caused a great deal of distress that this old family retainer has been killed in such a way".


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SLIDE IS MADE SAFE BY SHIELD


Many Chatburn mothers


are now relieved to see that a protective shield has been erected on the playing field slide. For many months, the


they could have very easily fallen and quite a few chil­ dren have come very close to falling,” said Mrs. Lena Bradshaw of Ribble Lane who t a k e s four-year-old Gwendoline Hook to the play­ ing fields regularly. One mother said, "We are


high platform on the slide has been unprotected and children have been in dai^er of falling from the top. “When the slide was open


all concerned about the chil­ dren's safety and now the shield has been erected we can allow the children to play on the slide with the knowledge that they are completely safe." Four-year-old Gwendoline


Hook of Bridge Road, Chat- burn onjoys the now safe slide.


looked after by everyone in general. It was a pleasure to have him, and we are expecting to hear from him again,” he said. Mr. Cann said that while


country. “He was extremely upset by


the Russian invasion,” Mr. Cann added, “but his family is in Czechoslovakia so he wanted to return to them.” Mr. Cann said that while he


himself had no worries about Milan getting back without difficulty, Milan was a little worried about returning be­ cause he had heard rumours of people going back to Czecho­ slovakia being sent to concen­ tration camps Mr. Cann said that Milan


journeyed by train to London on Saturday week, before catch­


ing a plane to Vienna where he was to be met by a representa­


card from Milan posted in Vienna which arrived in Grin­ dleton in the middie of last


week, but has heard nothing since then. .“I have no doubt that he will ba"k safely," said Mr. Cann,


“for if there had been any trouble we would have heard about it from the Czechoslo­ vakian textile firm.”


No licences — six anglers


Gisburn on Monday for fish­


fined Six anglers were fined at


ing for trout without licen­ ces. They were: John Graham


Ford, London Road, Blackburn, £2 and £2 for using maggot.


Accrington, £2 and his rod con­ fiscated. and £10 for giving a false name and address to the


John Clegg, Emperor Street,


water bailiff and policeman who saw him. Anthony McVey, Windermere Avenue, Huncoat, Accrington


£ 2. William Patter, Whalley


Street, Blackburn, £2 and £2 for using maggot. Alan Taylor, of Manchester


£2 and Frank Whitby, of Cad- ishead, £2.


Girl, 8, injured in accident


An eight-year-old Pendleton


girl was injured to a car acci­ dent on Sunday evening. Katrina Pailister, of Hay-


hurst Cottage, Pendleton, was taken to Blackburn Royal


Infirmary, where she had three stitches inserted to a cut in her head. The driver of the car in.


Woman escaped


volved was Mir. Benjamin Field­ ing Franklin, of Hob Hall, Holme, near divdger. Katrina was allowed home af ter treatment.


Feasibilty study Hie Poet Office is to con­


duct a feasibility study to con­ junction with the Research Department of Anaesthetics in the Royal College of Surgeons of England to determine whether complex information about a patient’s condition can be transmitted in analogue form over the public telephone network for analysis by a dis­ tant computer.


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serious injury A woman driver escaped


serious injury on Sunday when her car was to collision with another car at Lameside Farm, Chatbum. She was Lilian Boardman, of


Wigan Lane, Wigan. After treatment at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, she was allowed home. Her car was badly dam­ aged. The driver of the other car


was Mr. Alan Parker, of Smithies Bridge Farm, Sawley.


Man remembered nothing of head- on collision


magistrates court on Monday that he could remember nothing of an accident in which he was involved, and which resulted in four people needing hospital treatment. Banie Mason, 21, a


Charged with dangerous driving, a man told Bowland


market gardener, of Dimples Lane, Garstang, pleaded not guilty to the charge.


John “There was a car coming


He said that he could not remember anything from leav­ ing a farm where he had tea until he woke up in a hospital bed the following morning.


He was fined £15, had his


licence endorsed, and was o rd e re d to pay witness' expenses of £9 15s. 5d. Insp. D. Hardy, prosecuting,


said that Mason was involved in a collision with a car driven by Eric Speak, of Whipp Avenue, Clitheroe, on a bend near Slaidbum Parish Church. Mason overtook a oar on a


blind bend, and the head on collision which followed was almost inevitable, said the inspector. Mr. Speak said he was driv­


ing from Newton tote Slaid­ bum village. The road was very narrow and twisty, and shortly before Slaidbum Ohurch, there was a blind left-hand bend with high stone walls on either side.


towards me on my side of the road, overtaking a n o th e r vehicle. He was pretty close to me. I braked, but that was it.” said Mr. Speak. Mr. James Clegg, of May-


field Avenue, Clitheroe, said he was riding his motor-cycle behind Mr Whipp’s car. “The car to front of me went


round the comer and the other car was coming straight at him,” he said. When the two cars collided.


Mr. Clegg was unable to avoid hitting the back of Mr. Whipp’s car, but was not seriously injured. Mr. William Holden Procter,


a schoolteacher, of Osbaldeston Lane, Osbaldeston, near Black- bum, was following Mason’s car, which had overtaken him in Slaidbum.


" I was amazed to see the car


overtake on the bend," he said. " I thought it was more than oareless of the driver.”


Police appeal to public


members of the public this week for information on any­ one who is seen acting suspi­


for help Police appea led to


ciously near parked cars. This follows a further case


of a car being broken into and articles stolen from it. Between 9pm and 10pm on


Monday night, the quarter light of a parked car on the Whalley Anns car park was smashed and a camera, a pair of ladies black sued shoes and a snail hold-all containing a thermos flask were stolen.


The car was owned by Mr.


John Whitehead, of Learning- ton Avenue, Burnley. A police spokesman said that


anyone seeing a person acting suspiciously near parked cars, •should contact t he police immediately.


Five million bonds issued


More than five million Pre­


mium Bonds prizes have been issued since the start of the scheme nearly 12 years ago. Ths 65,468 September prizes took the total to 5,018,871.


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IVitheroe Advertiser and Times, Friday, September 13, 1968 3


Low Moor remembers the Royal Engineers


of the Royal Engineers who ding.toni chatburn, H o d d e r served at Low Moor during Valley and Whalley branches the war made a sentimental of the British Legion, journey there on Saturday.


Former officers and men Regiment R o y a l Engineers, . members of Ciibheroe, Wad-


They took part in the Honour


parade preceding the service They marched to the Gar- of dedication of the Royal dens where an address was Engineers Memorial stone, given by the chairman of Low formerly incorporated in Low Moor Ratepayers’ Association, Moor Mill, where the soldiers Mr. W. E. Hargreaves, were stationed and which has ^ opentag payers were


now been demolished. Moor Club. £ai j by Father F. Hannan and The stone has been set in a the stone was dedicated by the


place of honour in the vicar of Low Moor, the Rev. Churchill Gardens, next to Low A. K. Bisbrown.


The Kitty Hall Memorial


given to a large crowd by and respeoted postmistress was Major E. B. Lockett outside dedicated by the Rev. E. S. the Old Guard Room, where Joselito.


The address of welcome was seat, to honour a well-loved


the ex-sappers were joined by The first lesson was read by representatives of 1 Training


Plan for more productivity


the Rev. T. B. Reid, vicar of Whitewell and the second lesson, by the Rev. E. S. Joselto.


Prayers of thanksgiving were


given by the Rev. Kathleen M. Hendry. The organist was Mr.


A. Jones. As the parade returned to


the Old Guard Room, the salute was taken by Major R. Peart. Among the gu e 6 t s who


attended were the Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe, Coun. and Mrs. S. F. Hardman: the chairman of Clitheroe Rural


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From manual to computer


An £800,000 computer to be


installed to Leeds, will enable the Post Office to switch from manual compilation of tele­ phone directories to production by the computer system.


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Not just pretty, but | pretty comfortable | too.”


says Judith Chalmers t | •5S-


for modernisation, the Post Office has increased product­ ivity in recent years at eight per cent a year and is now planning for 11 per cent a year.


While looking to the need


Council, Coun. H. Eastwood: chairman of Bowland Rural Council, Mrs. S. J. Dew. County Aid. R. F. Motters-


head; County Couns. Mrs. M. E. Chatburn and J. H. Aspin: Chief Insp. J. L. Ashworth of the County Police: Mr. Clifford Hall and various members of the family and officers and members of the various coun­ cils. Picture above left shows the


parade of Royal Engineers before the service and lower left, the stone ceremony.


yoursfaithfully ThePostOffico


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