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Curate hits out at betting
‘‘Betting is morally wrong
and a waste o[ resources said the Rev. George Camp bell, curate of St. James Church, at Clitheroc Magis
Mayfield Avenue, Clitheroe who was applying for the licence, when questioned by Mr. Prank Farley, said he had been employed by Mr. L. Ains worth. who held the previous licence.
in Whatley Street, Bawdl-ands. Mr. John Saul, aged 22, of
year. Mr. Saul said he had carried on the business with an assistant.
After Mr. Ainsworth died last
bell said that in a letter to the magistrates’ clerk, he had stated that we were all' answer- able to God for everything we did. After referring to a speech
In his objection, Mv. Camp Wednesday was a special
made by a psychiatrist on bet ting, Mr. Campbell said there was only a minority of people who got into trouble with police after betting, but as gamblini was increasing, so was the number of people in the minority. He said he went to Islington
Heads welcome ( i
'Blackburn,
and..Accrington.,.;... ; Mr.'. Tallow told the - court
application for a betting office licence for premises in Duck Street. Clitheroe. made by Mr. Harold Tatlow, of Buncer Lane, Blackburn, a director of Brad- Jow Ltd.; which' has shops in
his firm; had bought the busi ness from Mr. James Keith Wilkinson.
Successful candidates
tions of tlie Guildhall School of Music and Drama, held in Blackburn, the following can didates were successful in the Speech and Drama section:—
At the December examina
stead, Susan Nutter; Pre liminary Grade: Jane Haigh. Andrew Malcolm was also
Grade 5: Andrew' Malcolm (Merit): Grade 2: Susan Hal
successful in gaining the Junior Gold Badge, with Special Dis tinction (90 marks), at the Poetry Society examinations held at Blackburn in December.
had no objection to the applica tion, and it was granted by the magistrates. Earlier they had granted an
in Clitheroe," he said. The police said in court they
recently, where he used to live, and a police officer told him that betting offices down there were usually the scene of disturbances. “I don’t rvant this to happen
higher school leaving age
Local secondary school headmasters’ enthusiasm about
the Government plan, announced on Wednesday, to raise the school leaving age to 16 in 1972-3, is tempered by the
MAKING
at the Clitheroe branch- of B la ck b u rnV -^ J tje e^ jiW gS .’
PROGRESS .Balances due lo depositors
^dn(rafe'nWj3S2',W8',^fi:it was'stated this' week. v The bank is regarded as
having made excellent progress during the year.
on Monday, the chairman, Col. L. C. King-Wilkinson. an nounced that the total funds, on November 20, 1968, amounted to £50.497.223, an increase for the year of £1,355,285. During the year, 24.832 new
At the 138th annual meeting Time
accounts had been opened. The total turnover of deposits
Concert
served. Proceeds were for school funds.
concert and mannequin parade at Sabden Baptist Sunday School on Saturday. A pie and peas supper was
A large audience attended a MAUREEN C00KS0N LTD.
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and repayments amounted to £52.299.199, an increase of £5,570,451,
added to various schools to help accommodate the extra pupils. At the moment courses for the raising of the school leaving age are being prepared. Mr. Mortimer feels that at least there is now' some time to think about these courses. Mr.
.These blocks are going to be
fact that it will take so Jona. Mr. D. Mortimer, head of
4%^'ithe.-ageil'n“1970-71ik*'^'“ ,-v Another disappointing tiling ’to him is that his school will not get a “raising of the school leaving age building” block as soon as was expected.
been put back until 1972 is disappointing," he said,; * The - original plan,' was* to
Ribblesdale County Secondary School, Clitheroc, does not find the new plan very encouraging. "The fact that thc raising of the school leaving age has
day for Mr. Charles Coulter Tomlinson and his wife, Mary, of Rockdale, West View, Clitheroe. It was-their Gol den Wedding Anniversary. Tomorroww they will cele
brate the event with dinner for relatives and friends at the Black Bull Hotel, Rim- ington,
Mr, and Mrs. Tomlinson
were married at Moor Lane Chapel. His father founded Tomlinson's (Clithcroc) Ltd., which rung a funeral, taxi and ambulance service and a garage in the town. The fun eral service is conducted from Rockdale and the premises for the others are situated in York Street.
Mr, Tomlinson, a native of
Low Moor, entered the busi ness about '1930 and retired seven years ago. He is 72.
. From the age of 12 he was a half-timer at the Low
, and;. fLLlKStLvs,: pf 4 chiypinYr. ; was a,children’s nurse boili ■ with families in-London and
Moor Mill until‘ he was 15. "Mrs! .Tomlinson, who is 73.,
in, Clitheroe. . " ' In the first world war Mr.
Tomlinson fought with thc Machine Gun Corps for four years In France, He was
transferred to the corps from thc East Lancashire Regi ment.
Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson
Mortimer's disappointment in the delaying of the Govern ment’s plan is based on the belief that this plan is more important. "It is essential that the school
have a daughter, Mrs. Eileen Wood, and two grandchildren. Mrs, Wood and her husband, Vic, also live at Rockdale, and Mr. Wood is employed in the family firm as a director.
Mr. Tomlinson enjoys tak
leaving-age be raised to 16,” he said.
ing his dog for walks and likes driving. He and Mrs. Tomlinson both like to go on motoring holidays and have visited Irleand and the south of England,
Bowland • County Secondary School, Grindleton, said: “It is very important that the school leaving age is being raised.
Forgotten
Mr. Nicholson was working with the -Army Education scheme he found that quite a let of illiterate youths who were’ able to read a t the age of 14, •had forgotten how to at the age of 19 or 20. “Anything • that will bridge
is frequently a falling off of school ability when they leave school.” During the war years when
“For less able children there
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that recession is to the good,” he said. “As far as this area is concerned, if the school leaving age remained at 15 with pro visions made lor some to stay on until 16. it may bo better in the long run."
Senior
schoc-l should be able to cope." The new Government plan
increasing number of people who are having full-time education after statutory leav ing age, and until a new scheme comes in for senior secondary pupils to go to Settle, I can forsee that this
He also said: “It is an ever
will involve Britain in its biggest ever school building programme costing £105 million and spread over a three year period beginning in 1970-71.
told how' their shares of this special programme will be allocated.
Local authorities wall soon be . . Decor tips-
facturing company wcrc shown at a meeting of Edisford Park Ladies Club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T Graham, of Lancaster Drive,’ Clitheroe.
Films made by a paint manu
cal; one, showing how paint is made, and the other two gave practical hints to the home decorator.
Graham. The first film was a techni The films were shown by Mr.-
Don AVhillans, .left, - who is fo -1 lake charge of mountaineering classes at Clithcroc Evening Centre, discussest one of. his slides: with members of, the; audience who attended his-, lectureat - the AYellsprings, Hotel .on -Tuesday.:.
Ribblesdale which are in pro gress at the moment, are not affected by the raising of the school leaving age. Mr E. P. Nicholson, head of
The major building pro gramme for extensions to
playing bridge and does a little crochet-work.
Mrs. Tomlinson is fond of
dale for nearly two years now and before that were in Park Avenue for many years.
colour television licence fee is now £11 and the combined sound and monochrome tele vision licence is £6. The sound only licence costs 25s.
Licence fees The combined sound and
They have lived at Rock
Secondary Schod. Grindle ton, gained the Mowing cer tificates during’ fie autumn term, it was anneunced this week:
awar Pupils of Bowand County
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preliminary aw aid : Brian Stott, Jennifer Al.ham. John Read, Susan Mois, Daphne Lawson. Jean Stoddart, Ian Howard, John Holden, Ian Cornish, Caroline Carter, Chris tine Hodson. Kathleen Cooper, Linda Bunting, -David Mills, Denise Wolfendcn, Kathleen
Lynne Waddingtoi, Melrose Dibb, Alison Clayton Carol Lay- cock, Derek Parke-, Malcolm Handley, Brian d u g d a 1 e, Stephen Johnson Malcolm Johnson. Martin Vaddington Elaine Thompston Lawrence Whitaker. Royal Lite Savhg Society,
E l em e n t a r y icrtificates:
tion Bronze Award: Colin Tay lor, Graham Cowldng, Edward Parkinson, David Parkinson, Frederick Smal l ey, Alan Hacking, Linda Walters. Silver Award: Graham Cow
Hosker. Amateur Swimming Associa
cation for a bookmakers' permit and an application for a bet ting office licence for premises
trates Court yesterday. He was objecting to an appli
and
FOURPENCE FRIDAY,
No. 4308 FARMERS
FEAR ACCIDENTS AND' ' ^CREASED COSTS Meeting on Wednesday
new Whalley4-lilhcVoe by-pass, will cause hardship and a great deal of additional ex pense to farmcuv.m a time when a vast amount of added cost has been imposed ~n thc ’
RcpairMy'6Jiiaiiucnancc of the many miles of fences along the route of the industry. p o w e U
TO SPEAK AT ' ^
RALLY'"" Mr. Enoch Fowiitf, MP, will speak ill a; rally’ organised bv the Clitherbc Young Conservatives:, on July 12 at- Padiham Town Hall.
T-his will be paiit of the recruit ment campaign.: which t-hey are about to. launch. By the
-time it ends,.Vi-n July, it is hoped to have’.400. members. .
The recruitment? carnyaig:/, it is hoped, will help tirestabl-ish active. branches inlPadiham;- Worsthorrie,.: Foulifdge and Great Hanrood. L.&
Mr. Powell Iwas invited to attend by
Mr.Philip Lock- wood, chai rmanof t he Clit-heroe Division. Youn g Conservatives;:;’;: His’ speech will take place during thc Padiham area holidays, but as it is a’Divisional meeting and peopleYfronT outside the town are. expectedijo- attend, a full house is,anticipated.
This was-The feeling at a special meeting of the Ciitn- ■
croe and Bowland branch of the National Farmers’ Union, held al the Auction Mart Cafe on Monday.
Twenty.mem bers attended, together with Mr..I. Worthington, chairman of the Parliamentary committee of the Lancashire County branch of thc N.F.U.. and Mr. David Yorke, a land agent. The meeting had been called to discuss the effect s’of 'thc
made responsible for the upkeep of the fences after a predeter mined number of years. I t was said there would be no bridges and underpasses for the protec tion of farmers and their stock not to mention the risk to child ren who must cross the roads at places like Worston and Chat- burn. the meeting was told. With the amount and speed traffic that was- expected.
by-pass. Further discussions will- be held bn Wednesday. At present, farmers are to be
of ... there would almost inevitably be accidents, and no doubt some of these would involve vehicles running into, and demolishing fences.
Ridiculous
Ministry of Transport to, say they would maintain the fences for perhaps- eight or* 10 years, but it'was-pointed out that' one could not estimate’ the' cost of repairs in another 10 or 20 years.
It was all very well Tor the
Branches ^already Resist in Clitheroe<nnd;v\Vlialley and Long-ridgeTwith. Bibchestev. ‘
try at this- time estimate, what the compensation should be? The suggested 6d. a yard,-.was ridiculous, th e . meeting felt. Mi-.: 'Yorke; said that .under
How, 'then," could the Minis -' .. \ "
YOUTHS FINED £40
Three Longridgc youths
were-fined a total of £40 at Bowland Magistrates’ Court on Monday, after pleading guilty to a number of game offences. They were Norman John
the, Highways Act of 1959, the Ministry had an option; as; to whether or not they (would, accebtaSrqsponsibUit'^itfor'wthei
sure as possible should... be brought to bear on the Minister in order to- make him under stand the predicament of the
It was felt-that as much pres-
farmer today. Mr. F. W. Giles, branch chair
man, told how a motorist had r e c e n t l y rim into and demolished more than 30 feet of his boundary fence. This sort of tiling had hap
pened many times in the past, and he had not always mana- ed to catch the offender.
Accidents
about the possibility of cattle straying through such gaps and being killed, or causing acci dents. What would be the posi
in order.
ton said tlie Union needed the support of all other farmers and thev in turn would see that as much as possible would be done to bring the matter to the attention of the Minister of Transport.
king, Colin Taylor, Peter Jack- son, Richard Christopher, Alan Hacking,. Edward Parkinson David Parkinson.
Guild’s New Year party
noon Guild held their Christ mas and New Year party in the Parish Church Hail on Monday when 80 members and friends
Clitheroe Ribblesdale After I’age 2—Weekend pro
grammes, Entertainments, Cinema.
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Crossword. Page 6—Country Diary;
ley readers: wedding: News; . Through a Whalley Window. hscnicnis^
Page 4—Women’s Institute sale”80 I’age 5—News; pictures; tisements.
Round and About; District Jottings; Letters. Page 7—Classified adver-
• 8—Motor cars for
Notes; Pattern Service; Dis- ‘ Page 9_Sports notes. Inct Joltings.
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Rushton presided and the soloists were Mrs. L. Clayton
attended. The chairman, Miss D.
and Mi-s. R. Johnson. Games were played and danc
ing and singing took place. The pianist was Mrs. H. Sharpies. During the evening supper was
served. On February 28, the After
noon Guild will be hold-tag jumble sale.
Summing up. Mr. Worthing . Members were also worried
tion of the farmer then? The farmer could not be ex
pected to be constantly patrol ling his fences to see they were
i._,,Insp,iMi Waller.?prosecuting, !^id;.lP.c.i?Ttap'rnlqmV^aw-La Year-
Warefng, aged 18. of. Charles Grove, and Nicholas Parsons, 18, of Alexander Road, who were both fined £5 for taking, game without a licence; .£5 for killing:game on a Sunday; and £5 for' trespassing in daytime in pursuit of game; and-Ian Ctayton; a 20-year»-61d farm worker,. of Whittingham,. .who was fined £5' for taking, game without a licence and £5 for trespassing: in; daytime'in’- pur. suit of game. ,
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land and then saw .three men walking on. the fell.. He shouted ;at them and they
search the car, and found two dead cock pheasants, still warm,
fomid that Waretag was carry ing a double-barrelled shotgun which had had both barrels fired. Parson’s gun had one barrel fired, but Clayton’s gun had not been fired. When questioned, Wareing,
in the boot of the vehicle. He examined the guns and
who is now a recruit in' the Royal Marines, said “I am going into the Army, will that make any difference?” . Parsons said he was going to
tried to hide and then walked down to the road. The officer asked if he could
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Rector and Vicar
land, only son of Mrs. Lizzie Strickland, of The Hospital, Waddington, and the late Mr. Janies Strickland, has been instituted as, the Rector of Exton and Vicar of Wins- ford. A native of Ciitheroe, 54-year-
The Rev. George Strick
old Mr. Strickland is a- former pupil of the Royal Grammar School..'' '
•tratain'gy-'.at ..Kolhnnni'.Col-lag a. and was ' ordained:;,, by-, the Bishop of Coventry in Coventry Cathedral in 1939. • His first curacy was at St.
,: Ho. received his ministerial
Luke’s Church, Coventry, and he next went to St. Augustine’s Church, Tonge Moor, Bolton:
Missionary
the desire to do missionary work and while the arrange ments were being completed he -took the services at Downham. In the. mission field he served
While at Tonge Moor, he felt
in India, Polynesia and Fiji for a total of seven years. While in Fiji he married his wife, Donee. Mr. Strickland was instituted
Australia in the New Year. Clayton, who appeared in court, made no comment.
£2,000 gift
to fund At a meeting of the Execu-
ing Fund. This sum has been raised at
t i vc Committee o f th e Friends of Blackburn Cath edral on Monday evening, it was unanimously agreed that the sum of £2,000 be given to thc Cathedral Build
the very successful Flower Festival, sponsored by the Friends, which was held in the Cathedral last September. The gift was excellently
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Pot-holm < >;
adventure Twelve members of Clith
eroe Venture Scouts Unit went pot-holing in Kingsdale,
near Jngleton on Sunday. The pothole they went in was
Yordas- Cave,, and then .there was a half-mile walk through a driving blizzard to Jingling Pot.’ The party .went-'.under ground at Jingling Pot and re surfaced by - Rowth Cave. While . - underground,
Scouts had to walk on. hands and-knees, with -water- about a foot deep.- - The expedition was led by Mi-. B. - Boardman, and -two members of, the Bolton- Speleo logical- Society
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MEETING Sir Frank Pearson, MP
for Clithcroc. and Coun. S. F. Hardman, the Mayor, will be special guests at a meet ing concerning Christian Aid lo be held in thc St. James’s Schoolroom on Monday
ised by tile St. James's Church Men’s Fellowship with the
week. The meeting lias been organ
Clitheroe and District Christian Aid Committee. About 500 invitations have
been sent out to members of all the churches in. the district that are connected with Christ ian Aid. The Rev. Leslie Coates, area
secretary for Christian Aid, will give a short talk on “ Overseas Suffering and Need—the Prob lem opened", and then Sir Frank will speak on ‘.'Overseas Aid and Parliamentary.Policy". Mr. Coates and Sir Frank,
together along with the Rev. G. W. Petts, the Oxfam sec retary, will' be asked questions by the audience before the meeting closes at about 9-15. The Rector of St. James', the be
Rev. K Broadhurst, will chairman for 4-he evening.
Married at
Newcastle A former chairman of
Slaidburn Young Farmers’ Club, Mr. George Francis Pittman, was married in Ncwcastic-upon-Tyiic to Miss Maureen Forsyth of Forest
Mr. and .Mrs. F. S. Pittman, of Laythams Farm, slaidburn and the bride is the elder daughter of Mr. and - Mrs. A. Forsyth. Given away by her father, the bride \vore a . full-length
Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The groom is the only son of
r jiy■~flT‘sIngle ’wKite” rose 'head- dress and she carried a bouquet of pink roses, lily of the valley and white: hyacinths. ' • The bridesmaids wore Miss
satin- dress with - a - lace -coat effect, falling into a train. Her .three^puartcE,.yeil^,was secured
as Vicar and Reotor of Wins- ferd and Exton by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Dr. E. B. Henderson and the induction was performed by the Ven. Geoffrey Hildcr, Archdeacon of Taunton.
Frankland, groom’s cousin, groomsmen, Messrs. Jo hn Frankland, groom’s cousin, and John Proctor. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Colin Scott.. After a reception at Forest
Forsyth (bride’s sisters) and Miss Jane Ambui-y. They wore full-length, dresses of rose pink satin, covered with. pink lace and single pink rose head dresses. All carried bouquets of pink roses and freesins. Best man was Mr. George
Lynn Forsythe, Miss Angela
Hall Club, the couple left for a honeymoon touring Scotland, the bride wearing a green two- piece with brown accessories. Mr. and Mrs. Pittman will
live in ‘Inglenook’, Gisburn Road, He&lifield.
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