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• 4 ■ Clitlitroc Advertiser and Times, August 1, i960


A f is tfu l of g litt e r becomes


i Ever since Ringo Starr


sported his first fist full of glitter, way back in the


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Even the cat helped care for orphans!


F i v e b a b y r a b b i t s , orphaned during h a y ­ m a k i n g at C u t t o c k Clough Farm, near Wad- dington, spent the first four weeks of their lives being cared for in a Clitheroe home.


Farmer Mr. Christopher


D i n s d a l e found the babies, and: his fiancee,


.Miss Jennifer Christy, of Castle View, Clithe­ roe, took them home with her. ; -


“They have now. gone back to the farm and have been set free,” said Miss Christy, “but I knew as soon as I saw them that I wanted them.


“The rabbits were very small w h e n we first brought them home and at the time of departure they were about the size of m y h a n d,” said Jennifer.


“They, slept in a: shoe box but when they got bigger we had to put them in


. another box.” Both Jennifer and h e r mother were delighted to keep the babies until they were old , enough to care


■ for themselves. .They .fed them—m ilk from an eye­ dropper and later cab­ bage, lettuce ■ and dande­ lion leaves.


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Your Children’s


TOYS—GAMES—BOOKS Etc.


r a n e e a t h a n d By Joan


early days of Beatlemania, rings have been getting


bigger and bigger.' Now, the king-sized lump


of simulated sapphire can be functional as well. The manufacturers of a blister-big range of rings, packed with cream pa-fume describe their idea as “fragrance of hand." And after wearing a mas­


Mulcaster


midriffs, and the rather selfish logic of the city gent who was seen this week cool­ ing his heels in a horse and cattle trough.


sive flip-top turquoise for a while, I must admit it’s as good a way as any of carry­ ing around a nice smell at your fingertips. Especially . in the hot-


weather, when scent evapor­ ates rapidly and people in


crowds are more crowded. The rings themselves come


in a variety of shapes and sizes from large department stores, and cost three guineas and five-and-a-half guineas, depending on style. If this sounds expensive,


don’t realise, as they sweat to and from work, is that “cool” begins from within. Rather -like the fantastic skin beauty writers tell you comes from eating all the right things.


But what a lot of people


who has spent , a lot of liis time recently looking a.t heat and sweat rashes, most of us eat the wrong things to keep cool. The trouble with the Eng­


And according to a doctor


consider that empty, they are useful' rings for putting things in — from a sly cigar­ ette stub when you can’t find an ash toy, to sweetening pellets, or a locket-sized snap of a favourite boy-friend.


Bicycle


■ lottes for the hitching-up of. Presuming of course that a


tacular is another piece of summer madness from the jewellery industry. Jewelled bicycle clips, gold-plated, trendy dollies’ evening cul-


Less useful, but more spec­


trendy dolly would ride a bicycle to her favourite dis­ cotheque, doesn’t mind being seen flashing round streets looking like a slave girl wait­ ing for the ball and.chain, and has 55s. very much to


spare. Seriously though, say the


manufacturers — inciden­ tally, very serious manufac­ turers who also make belts for the Queen when they aren’t making tilings like gold-plated, jewelled bicycle clips — they could be a use­ ful accessory.


Selfish


' means- of transport, I sup­ pose some kind of security round all those yards of fabric might be an idea. A serious issue this, I


flimsy trouser suits being worn for evening, so many flimsy flowing trouser suits having their ' hems caught getting in and out of various


With so many- flowing,


1 There are many ways of keeping one’s temperature


string. . ‘Forbidden’


down in the current bursts of hot weather now sweeping


hot water bottle filled with crushed ice to bed. to bare


the country. They vary from taking a


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• 34 KING STREET CLITHEROE


slimming has also resulted in bread becoming something of a “forbidden fruit". Which is why its nutritional values now need to be advertised, in contrast to those of the “spud”Yet Britain still consumes far more flour through all forms of bakery products, than eithfx the USA or Can­ ada - 150 lbs per British head compared to their 112 lbs and 129 lbs respectively. And Lancashire and York­


The current passion for


IT REALLY IS mips WITH EVERYTHING


’ Britain’s staple food would now seem to be. . chips.


cover, our bread consumption is sinking. We now need costly encour­


They come frequently unsolicited, with fish, steaks, pics, roasts. I have even had chips served along with spaghetti. At the same time, I dis-


agement, through big glossy adverts, in order to “use our loaf.” In the past 60 years, as


revealed in a National Food Survey, potato consumption has fallen' only marginally. But flour consumption has fallen from 211 to 156 lbs • per head per year of the population. The fact that we’re more


could sit and think about it for hours. And I ’d probably come up with a piece of


produced or from the near­ est confectioners) than we have ever done. Our intake of sugar has rocketed by 40 per cent over the last 60 years, which seems to show we’re not all that hot on those slimming regimes.


White '


affuent- accounts, of course, for a drop in the bread- • eating habit. There are more foods to choose from, which means fewer corners of the stomach left empty for starchy fill-ups.


Flour Advisory Bureau, established .$n the 1950’s to-, promote tlie consumption of ; bread and other flour pro­ ducts is still pretty pleased with flour sales on a national basis.


In any case, the British


despite great publicity being given to specially reinforced, low-calorie, high. protein, fancy or wholemeal breads, we still prefer our loaves in the main to be white (85 per cent of all sales) and sliced. And, whether bread is


They also point out that


and more uncomfortable you are likely to get.


as you may temporarily find that ice-cream cornet — bum up quickly. And to keep eat­ ing these means being con­ stantly hot.


Sugary foods.— as cooling


fizzy drinks loaded with, sugar: a much more refresh- ing and cooling drink in hot weather is lemon without


The same goes for all those


sugar and sweetened'with a substitute, plain iced water or Russian tea.


potatoes, puddings, etc. are bulky enough to keep the' digestive system working constantly — and while it is working, your body tempera­


lish is that they feed all the year round as they do in the winter. A fairly rich, diet may have some value in January when


it’s freezing, but in this flaming July the more calo- ■ ries you consume, the hotter


this‘kind of .73 degree tern-, perature is white meat — poultry or white fish — salad and fruit.


ture'is up. In fact the coolest meal in


could have the bonus effect of slimming down a few hot a n d heavily - overweight


Such a low-calorie diet


Britons. Which, is' probably another reason why so many of them are hot.


1 Too many stodgy foods —


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Chipping - and'Rimington WIs chose two interesting -themes for their entries in the Creative Leisure exhibition


1 at the Royal Lancashire Show this week. Six members of Chipping


-WI took part i in the project, which' was lapidary, the


i polishing and cutting „ of


• stones. They collected - pebbles of


all shapes; and sizes from


various - parts of -Lancashire, the beaches and countryside, and from the stream that runs through Chipping.


home-made machine to pro­ duce jewellery and objects


These ’ were ground on a d’art. Judging


methods and the various tools used for chipping and boring


The exhibit showed the


' the exhibits, at Preston -they were awarded 76 per cent.


gained 72 per cent; and it was the work, of Miss Mary Bair- stow and Mrs. • • Margaret Brennan, who were helped by Mrs. E. Dean and Mrs. A. Holgate.


Rimington WI’s e n t r y _______ CIcar-cut simplicity for


autumn.. .clothes to make the dolly girl -feel richly pampered and coolly inde­


pendent. ; On the left'. is a gay


trouser s u i t». “Yipee”, available in sizes. 7 to 13,


at £15 4s 6d. If you want the dress


only, it will, cost nine guineas. , “Jamboree”, • on the


right is also in sizes 7 to 13, and is priced at 8 i guineas.


All are available in three


colour combinations —- black , and - cream, clove


and 'cream, or*.—.auber­ gine aid cream.


Just the thing for girls


who like: to invent their own styles.


made from white or whole­ meal flour makes no differ­ ence nutritionally; the law requires that while flour be fortified with' iron, two B vitamins and calcium, so it is immaterial to the millers what sort of flour the public demands. I t is a matter of serving what most families like best. Another popular fallacy


shire. the traditional homes of the finest in cakes, pies and pastries, are still this country's largest consumers of household flour. We all tend to consume


TB jir TH IS !


Low fa:; creamy cottage


cheese nakes delicious, cheese-cakes ,; and other cold sweets, and plenty of us appreciate . i t with or without added chives as a main salad food.


among bread snobs is that French bread is far crisper, lighter, more expertly baked than in Britain.


Superior


far more sugary products like cakes and biscuits (home-


French loaf when it has "been in a shop for three bom's or longer. It becomes rapidly rockhard, because of the in­ ferior French-produced wheat that is used to make it—our wheat is largely imported, and' highly superior. This is, of course, why


But they should . try a


as often as three times a day.


. . .


this becomes such an im­ possible chore for the work­ ing wife, has a great deal to do with the fact that the “French fry" or “cheep” is gaining gound as their staple food as well.


Mind you, the fact that Valerie Green In this respect, the cheese


is . at its best ■ mixed with fresh fruits, crunchy salad vegetables.' some s h a r p flavouring and for .a change, with added meat, fish- or poultry. . .V.v The latter additions tempt


Compared with today’s


teenagers I was pretty short of money when I got my first job. My pre-war generation


S u c h h e a v e n l y t im e s a


girl


lived on a shoe string, and lacked so many material


possessions and . modern amenities, now regarded as a right. But we lived more graciously, and though wc had less leisure we used it, . I believe, . to happier advantage. • These ; nostalgic: thoughts'


nre,p rom pted b y nn evening out I spent with a young teenage nephew. So meet 18- years-old John and his girl friend Susan.


t h e i r wo r l d — to give a "square” aunt a glimpse of “swinging” society, and called for me one evening just as dusk was falling.


They wanted to show me


. John was driving his ■ father’s up - to - the - minute family saloon which is his : pride and joy. :


■


’ and when a bus finally arrived my young hosts elbowed their way through the crowd and dragged mo aboard as if we were in a rugger scrum. And. as we left behind a


' “All right if I leave her here?” John enquired patting the shiny cellulose. “Better to go into town by bus—can’t spend all.night trying to find a parking space." So we stood in a long queue.


By JANE HOWITT


filled with the deafening boom-boom-boom of maniac music while an agonised voice kept screaming “ I miss you baby!"


the wild rhythm and her eyes met John’s. It seemed hard to believe, but this was clearly , “ their song.”. 1 ; '


Susan’s foot, began to tap to


like your choice, of record?” I asked my nephew. • The sheer astonishment off


“ What if other people don’t


his young face showed that such a thought had never entered his head. Anyway, to round off tile evening we went : into a discotheque'dive and John and Susan writhed : solmenly. to tribal dances, keeping an unnatural' dist­ ance from each other, all;the while. Dancing, I gathered, ’ was no longer1 sentimental- just hypnotic. ’ Nobody there looked liappy, or even slightly iove-loni. A11T got out of.tlie experience was a headache.


Dull


straggle of elderly people, who had been before us at ■ the stop, John gave me a slightly sheepish grin.


French women usually have to visit their local bakeries


■makes him an. ideal meal. You need: .1 *lb. ■ cottage cheese; 2 tablespoons cream;


men who mayimot be too enthusiastic about, cottage cheese and if-’ by chance, your man is slightly over­ weight. then ' this dairy product which has plenty ^ of protein slid few calories,


' mint jelly; 4' :oz. chopped cooked chicken.;;-,,


2 level teaspoons ma d e mustard; 1 level -tablespoon.


well together, add salt and pepper if you wish, then pile the salad on a -serving' dish. Garnish with watercress and


a choice of sliced tomatoes, radishes,; cucumber, cherries


or lightly ' c o o k e d red- currants/ 'together, with, crisp


lettuce leaves.


School friends meet again after twenty-five years


Two school friends who-hadn’t seen each other for. 25 years met this week. They becamc fricnds-during the


Clitheroe, and Mrs. Teresa Hayburn, ofBrigtitoivBoth women are former pupils of Ribblesdale'County Secondary.School and, were confirmed at the same time aU Wadding ton. Parish Church.


war when one of them was evacuated from the south ;to live in this area. They are Mrs. Dorothy Haslewood, of Park , Avenue,


Waddow View, Waddington, at the home of . Mrs,; Alice • Hammond.


Mrs. Haybum, who was then -Miss Teresa Neal, lived-in ’ 1 ».■* Blackburn. visit '


Mrs. Hasiewood -Uved a few doors away at iher* family’s , home. She said this:;1 week: "I’m .really; looking- forward to .


'seeing her,” and she added," slio wants tolseeras'inieny-Pf0**1®• as she can during the visit.1 -


. - , "One: o f . om-; friends' now' owns a halrdresSef’s shop .in,. Blackburn and I am'taking Mrs.Hayburn to sce'hei-.’’'


• ; ; • , time during the school days. . . • , . ; ' -IT j , -jYi -v- , ! -I. j * - .■ - ;. ■ ■ Mix all th e . : ingredients '. ■ Fair ■


■ we strap-hung a l l , the way • to the town centre. : Not one of the males, young ; or old, who were sitting down


want to get anywhere—some of these old trout will be there all night," he whispered as


”, You: have. to push if yon


> offered me or Susan a seat. . John was a well-meaning host. He took us to a lush and


Susan coming out of their trance to a sort of technical discussion on the music; the musicians and the “ new . sound” of someone called Pete. ; I brewed a ; “cuppa” and


So home by bus, John and


thanked John and Susan for the evening.' ' “ You should do it more


often—get in the groove,” grinned John. “ Make. up for. what you missed. Life. must; have been pretty dull in your day


’30s, a • war-and-a-p"eace before they were born.


, quite pricey restaurant, where ■we had to share a table with 1 a long-haired ■


■ read a.book and smoked all i through the meal. ! . The food was fair, the ser- : vice,' surly,- and the tables • crammed • so • close together 5-that our conversation was a ' hopeless competition with the ; chattel- of,our neighbours. I !,quickly copied Susan’s tech-, i nique o f : shielding her plate i with, her arms against, the : flapping.’coats of passers-by. ! .■ With, the coffee; came the i bill, and the haried waitress i beckoned to a, waiting group. SYou’re next .at - this(table,’:,;


student who


;sh c said and John1: accepted our -marching-orders without surprise.


. Deafening


- : " As it was raining, we took - ■


' ' yards from the vestibule. The r'.i-driver told us, bluntly, to get out-and walk the rest.-So we, huddled in the rain; while


‘ traffic was, thick . and slow anoving and we stopped 20,


a'., taxi to the.. ■ theatre.. The


- John paid the fare and fum­ bled for, the extra tip the,’ '.driver demanded.


‘


.-t I really enjoyed the show—'; , ia liglit musical—though I was ' disappointed , in ’the audience.


. -


'^on high'1 stools in 'an ' over-' “.'crowded coffee bar for half an> liour.'


> ctlieir way: from . work; so that ; ;F felt ;al together; too; formal ini •my “ little'black dresi.” 't • j -'After; the show we ■


I "Wliile Susan.-and I -sipped ’ ,


Mj a s K ' M ' i ' i s s s < ™ 3 i ^ £ , 1s » ,s a , s . 1S K m , sights, particulariy.Edisford’Bridge whereithey-spe'nt-a lot,‘of


of \ .shooed ' 'disc'1 in k e - '


' would turn, up in •, .the - ten-:; years-old bull-nosed Morris


my ■ youth, when the . boy-,, friend of the moment • had-, little enough money in -his, pocket, but nevertheless, he


I recalled an evening out;in '


open i jalopy liis father had saved and scraped and, given;, up cigarettes for a couple of years to achieve. . . ,, " ■:


Code


- where to , park within a few ; steps , of - the restaurant -or


■ wardens,; no metered • parking; ; to. fray ; the ..driver’s . temper—: >


theatre of our choice. -There were no yellow lines, no traffic


; ■ | “bangers” , asg prized . posses-.' ;sions: and not-lethal weapons.;;; ,;; Restaurants '■ were n e v e r | more than ‘comfortably full,-


; : meant;that;motorists treatedx ; other road; users- as human,; beings ■ and' their ' treasured ^


(sort',;,of .^unwritten: ,highway;* : code we knew a s , the “ com-- i tesy of: the. road,” which,


and.ln those days.there;was a.;


a- polite and attentive and: if ': ; you made1: a; complaint the


• manager; appeared Tikeimagic''


.Most of them' looked , a s■ i f , .and put'-everything .right. ' A theyhad just' dropped in ton,;.; iboy- and, girlicould; really .get s


!perched -


‘ talk with'privacy:and not.be ruslied out before rthey nvere ?


to know each' other,'over ,a : meal in those days.,They could:!


{r i f we felt sentimental,'we ready. t slippe^ajiiscTnto-the( ’j juuke-;M had the cho


T a‘S L 3 n a « '


'the''choice/' . . . « ,,


\vould ’go' where ’ there was" a • small -string.orchestra to play; Strauss'‘'rir f Novello ■ melodies.'•'


r w . .. Ytm* MERCERS OF R1.ACKBU8N »,,


1; ;each! couple or .party; expected,% ■; and got,' a table toithemselves.s Waiters > andiwaitresses . were;;


'■ way into, the, very heart,,, of, town, and always find some-,


■ Then, we could drive,alhthe .;


I said and egged on by Susan I explained what it was like to be a teenager in the late


" Not so dull, just different,” ..


and dressed carefully and savoured every minute of it— even if it were only a circle seat in the local theatre or a modest “hop” in the church hall. Above all, boys didn’t take


cial occasion. We planned


girls for .granted. Girl friends were for cherishing with all sorts of little but significant attentions Tike a corsage — a smalT spray of flowers (pref­ erably in a, see-through box!) —for dancing, a box of choco­ lates for the ; theatre or cinema, even a bunch of vio­ lets for a walk through the park.


the road-side of the pavement, open doors, bring a chair, produce a light for a cigarette —all-the little courtesies that somehow gave life to-their re­ lationship. After John and Susan had


A boy would always walk on


Their choice was a man­ made fibre which was shown


the stones. At the recent judging of


With the Women's Institutes


in various stages from the beginning to the finished article, in this case a dress. I t was in a turquoise check


' T K * r r " r - J.v, ‘ * X m


com SPEN\ £8M. ON L YEAl


A 11 h o u g


County Counc rose again ii rate of increas in previous yc New schools, [


pupils, the expel education and | ing. plus pay atiion . and sub.1 budgets,; contri | the increase.;: , Actual figurel cashire Count I ance," a book| the accounts the County;,.: year ended Mn| published :■ inf- annual Abstro show that til expendiure for| £134,713,074. Expenditure |


trimmed with white nylon lace.


different stages of construc­ tion; fitting the zip and insertion of interfacing etc.


The exhibit also showed the Correct


hem finish and stages in the making of a bound button hole were also parts of Riming- ton’s display.


A curved seam, a correct


; Preston. There were a great many


this week were 21 chosen as being the, most representative of the theme after a judging and preliminary exhibition in


The exhibits at the Show


ideas and interpretations of the theme.


ing, paper- sculpture,.Rhode­ sian copper, the potato—the plant and'its uses, wood car­ ving, pottery and fly fishing. Flour was another choice of


These included wine mak­ Booklets


kets again, intending produ­ cers might be interested to know of one or two booklets which would he of value to them.


On the subject of WI mar­


National M a r k e t Advisor mentioned them at .a recent meeting in Ciifcheroc..--;-;


Miss C l a i r e Balmer ,


tation of Fruit and Vege­ tables,” issued by the Minis­ try of Agriculture,; was one.


•Bulletin. 21. Home Presen­


but gives useful information and the principles of jam making: e t c . : ■; 1


I t is quite expensive, 9s 6d,


ket Handbook which lists regulations concerning the running of-a-market.


gone, I wondered whether I had talked too long to those two affluent young .progres­ sives. Had , I let down my generation, in . th e ir, eyes by'. my stories of- pleasure with leisure of courtesies and con­ tentments. of such 7 a few years ago?


Answer


very next evening, when Susan turned up-at: my-cot­ tage—alone. - At first we chatted-casually


.-I.think I,got my answer ilie


everything, was- all: right be­ tween her and John. “Of course,” ; Susan said,


of this and that, until,-slightly, puzzled ’ I ' askedi whether


“ but do be an-angel and tell me more about the tilings you did when-you were my age. ■ . “ It must.have been such a heavenly time for a; girl


For all your


Hairdressing Requirements visit the salon of


FL0RRIE>E. V ft , > l


BROTHERTON R.H.


' S K i 5 KING STREET, CLITHEROE. Telephone: 3288


Polyhcads now available at 6/11 or. 8/9 WIGS AND HAIRPIECES'IN STOCK


Reduced , prices ; for ; Fensionersj ,Mondayi'«Tuesda.v * and;


Wednesday.: only.;,Late nights Thursday and, Friday. Open ’ ■ • ■ • 8-30 a.m. to 12-30 p.m. Saturday.1 '


THE BOBBIN > ’ t Qi. u 11 ^ . v h t>, U »* ; z i i ,


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s h e e t s ; ; , ; ; ! ^ > ,»*.4N(\.anda> F v


ALL HOUSEHOLD TEXTILES 1 DRESS MATERIALS AND HABERDASHERY


i Car . park opposite, entrance in Accrington Road , ,


, Telephone: ,3365


‘i! Largest s to ck s 'H I ;


■Town Ll-jiof: - -


-MAIN STOCKISTS ^forI* • Swithin; 7 ijjslier.^P^igree,


P. Swallow,- tJiaffnet^'^etha-Lite, iJliekvay.'


' ' '- i Prams (and|N|^j^Goods. ? ' i Poultry


another and it deals with the presentation of ‘ goods from cooked foods to plants includ­ ing preserves, fresh fruit and vegetables, poultry, and dairy produce as well as-many other topics.


“Pleasure-' and Profit” is ■ - - -


Market Handbook costs 2s. 6d. Both are printed by the NFWI


It costs 4s. 6d. and the


The helpers at Clitlicroe's WI market'trill wear distinc­


tive, aprons made; by Mrs. Olga. Hetherington,'. a. member


They are green wi tli red edging round the. large centre pocket, and the letters WI also


of Grindleton WI. ■ ■ | j a \ 3


Fiona Brown 1 : '.-TIT


miW t o


ri Also helpful is the WI Mar­


council’s own ted to £124,331 £8 millions (71 on last year, 1:1 crease than ir| This, says County TreasJ


piled the sumil economic climl 1988/69 counf made


Disbu


estimates mac council, gover at that time discontinuanc of free mil schools,: the: Civil Defence and mairitena bandment of ■ Service and spendingont and improven On the c


In addition


countycounc: increase in,, s ance grants at direct gra ing a reduotic


aid to these valuation* in quent national


a WI, following it-through to loaves of bread.


education sel took the r f expenditure- £87 millions of £7,277,000 Of the re


expenditure i fare service £943.000 (ei? on the; chili £310,000 ; (18 ■ways and b


showed a r ..Additional


. , offset the


., oils miscelle nearly.: £21 balance of additional S)| from rates.;:


in increased 'B The booklcl


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8 This al . a man


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12 Con-ect in bad [


13 A shoil the pre


14 Come c | man,


17 Play oil 19 Varietj| again'


22 What reveal?


21 A chal Israelit|


,; 25 Anne a (7)'. 1


1 Temp we he


24 Descrill ginger f


- * of tile 4 Ha v : under,


.................to tin 6 Fatlgi dents


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