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8 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 13. 19G3 Letters to the Editor


In the little controversy


which has sprung up about choice of site for bungalows, let us keep firmly in mind those aspects of their decision which are certain to cause repercussions in the fut­


ure. We are considering two


possible sites, one of which is supposed, without much


evidence, to be- the more popular.


We are also considering one recreation ground,


PLAYGROUNDS BE CLOSE TO HOMES


although now cluttered up with dog.owners, cars, and puddles (which always hap­ pens to neglected ground anyway) but -which has always been expected to re. vert t-o its natural and right­ ful use seme day when our so. busy councillors could " get around to it.


Of course dog owners use it—they will even use your


to their lads coming home plastered in mud.


front path if you let them— and of course parents object


apart from t h a t ' they don’t care where they arc so long as they are out of earshot themselves.


It makes them more work; Never too


people and other household­ ers already living in the dist­ rict and who are made un­ happy by the constant wrang­ ling and daily erosion of their property, have always been able to tell them to "get on. the rec.”


The point is, that old-


sometimes go and can be seen there by people other than your correspondent.


to give a much needed dem­ onstration around the homes of those who don’t care a hoot about anything unless they themselves experience the discomfort.


But where now? Perhaps


they say. "than the cries of children at play?" Especially when accompained by the crash of broken glass!


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tial councillors may be unin­ formed about much that goes on in this town, but'now-that they are “beefing” again about vandalism up at the


Our councillors and polen.


Castle, commonsense should tell them that i ts not isolated to up there; it goes on all the time, but private property holders don’t put it in the paper.


Any community which does


not provide for tho needs of its younger generation will be in trouble sooner or later.


be reasonably near their homes, wherever possible, as the "rec” is to this part of the town.


And their play places must


dent “it's not so far to the Castie.”


"But.” says your correspon­


look so far from a sitting room in Castle view, but it’s just too far except for those who make an afternoon and evening of.it.


Well, the Castle may not


footballer, but only a fren­ zied kicker ,jn an intermittent sort of way. the. usual pattern is about 30 .minutes out and five minutes in. especially in the sudden deluges of rain we had recently.


When you are not a' real For D A D ’ S


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a But we, too. are concerned


than the youngsters. We had a friend who died last year, whose life was actually short­ ened by what amounted-to a daily persecution and worries of this kind.


bout-old people, even more


may the matter of the bus fares for old people.


So let us consider if we


towns where they have Cor­ poration buses can concessi­ onary fares be allowed.


We are told that only in


never will believe it! While well-to-do people in Black­ burn can ride about for a penny (I know many are welltb-do, I ride with them) and here in Clitherce old people pay full fare, anything which is so patently wrong must have a solution.


I do not believe this: I


nies say no, but everyone gets pushed around these days, why shouldn’t they?


arrange rate rebates etc., it only needs a strong pressure group to get concessionary fares.


If the Government can


Tliis an idea for poten­ tial councillors, especially


smash hit with D.E.R t .


Wimbledon is a In Colour ^


Suntanned players, tense f p . on the cool green turf. Wimbledon is wonderful in colour. Enjoy a whole year’ of 19" colour TV for £67.10 - the weekly equivalent of 25/11.


In Black and White


See every shot, players sharply defined against the court. On a 19" set that's yours for a year*


for £21.11.1 -the weekly equivalent of only 8/4.


• Minimum rental 12 months- Of course the bus compa­ When it is fine, they Vi I!


late . In endeavouring to set


out clearly the1 honest case for the Veteran' bowlers 1 realise that this:. is the eleventh hour, but :it is never too- late until the trap is finally sprung on


ratify, or throw out, the so- called "new' deal".’ This is virtually the same old' deal that the council worked out last October in the quiet of Che "closed season” ready'to be launched on the unsus­ pecting Veterans at the start of the 1969 season. •


Tuesday. The council must then


prises almost • the - whole council it would-appear that ratification is simply a case of “all put up your hands” but I believe there may' be some member who was absent from that meeting who. might have the courage to stand up and speak up.


As the sub committee com­


cause of -the Veteran-bowler is just, and believe sincerely that the council has no case ■for


not be allowed to forget at the appropriate time. . I am convinced that the


ing concessions to old people existed 10 years ago, there are even. better reasons to­


charges at the Castie. If good reasons for grant­


increasing.' - bowling


day. No one realises better than


our pensioners that the cost of food, clothes, rents, rates, gas and electricity,' travel and holidays, have rocketed in the


The old age pensioners will- those already in the: OAP Clitheroe.


movement. - "Hands off. the res."


last. io.years far -in cXCesfi cf pension increases.


•It should be noted that increases in pensions are granted in retrospect- after


scheduled for November and J’ho can deny that prices have gone sky high since the last-increase making the poor even poorer?


the' rise in the cost of living has taken place. The next increase. ,is


Ninety-five per cent., of


those who use - the Castle green come into the cate-,


gory' of what used to be “ vleci truly “the working class . These old: men worked in


state pension, plus a small supplementary allowance for those who' can prove, by a means' test that they are


They must now live on the


wish to use the town’s greens accept this allowance to which thev are entitled by right, and ’i t should1 be noted


below normal subsistence level. A great many of those who


that the - cost/ of, bowling is not included in any cost °L living estimates. . - The Parks committee' are asking the pensioners to


allow - them „to enjoy the benefits . of cars, holidays abroad and colour TV.


- day OAP. Those working folk who are


from - the professions and executives whose superannua­ tion schemes and gratuities are based on theirlast three years of earnings, live-in a world apart from the present


Those pensioners who come


hope, repeated—period dur­ ing which the country had three million unemployed and the means test. These men have not- been


today's pensioners grew up through tlic era of two world wars, between which was a never-to-be-forgotten—


or, we


the days when pensions from, industry were unheard of.


racket for them, launched at - five per cent in the guise of patriotic investment, at a time of patriotic fervour, after the most devastating


war of liuman sacrifice in his­ tory, and under the- same


banner, reduced to tliree-and- a-half per cent.


now' scarcely worth the paper' it. is printed on.


Their precious capital is


offer of -3d. per hour it represents ’6d. a'day—14s. a. month. The annual- subscrip­ tion at Chatburn Road'is 30s.


Even at ..the .“now deal"


the. proposed charges are still out of all proportion to the means of cur pensioners and that the Id. per hour con­ cession should be retained for those who, Heaven knows, have earned it. The absence of councillors


and OAPs can bowl at Rib- blesdalc for 7s. 6d. a year. I therefore contend that


Til


from-the Castle .in the last few weeks is significant. As Shakespeare wrote, “Con­ science doth make cowards of us ail.” That is the basis of the


Gettog ready for the start.


accept the same conditions as those whose-high earnings.


' justice for .those who, in the autumn; of their lives,, seek to continue to, exercise their


case. I t is not. one of (plead­ ing or bending the knee, but one which demands common


failing muscles which can no longer pursue more violent exercise,, or take walks into our beautiful countryside whichwas about all they were able to enjoy -when they were young. ' I honestly believe, that this


MASSIVE A glorious spring even­


ing greeted the 50 plus rally crews gathering at Edisford Eor the start of Clitheroc and District Motor Club’s Hall Trophy Rally, making its reappear­ ance after a break of two


plea cannot in- justice be refused. Charles Musson, Pimlico Road, Clitheroe; .


Seeking


happiness As a companion to my


able to save the -nest egg for retirement which the more fortunate employees of today get' automatically through tlicir firm's pension schemes, added to genuine opportunity to save if they wish'to take it, • and - their savings can be invested at high interest rates.


No thrce-and-a-half per cent War Loan persuasion


published findings on lone- liness > I am preparing a social' report on happiness, and happy people. . To assist me in my sociolo­


gical researches, I .would appreciate any. observations on this subject-from readers of . the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. A. Georges, 13 Colnemead.


Mill , End, Rickmansworth, Herts.'


chance a free tyre check .Yet another piece of


motoring legislation by the Government is failing in its purpose. More.than a year ago, the law concern­ ing the use of correct and sound tyres came into force and produced as great a wave of positive reaction among motorists as had the earlier anti-


the effects are W'earing off.


drink law. But, as with the drink law,


and it Is admitted that some aspects of the tyre law are difficult to enforce, t h o u g h by no means so difficult as the now almost forgotten and ignored anti-noise legislation.


vehicles on the road that had something . wrong with their


lenged as: being far too con­ servative by Mr. Don. Smith, President of the National Tyre D i s t r i b u t o r s ’ Asso­ ciation.


tyres. ■ That figure has bcen'chal-


,


made only last month at a service p o i n t ■


more than 60 per cent of the tyres inspected had some form of defect which made them dangerous.


Gauges


ing, which caused trouble at the outset when the instru­ ments themselves w e r e the subject of legal argument and had finally to obtain Home Office approval, one of the enforcements difficulties con­ cerning tyres lies in the gauges used.


Like the breathalyser test­


tyres should have atleastone . millimetre of tread d e p t h , but . there is- no approved gauge to measure this arid disputed cases have been dis­ missed.


U n d e r t h e .regulations, . . . .


prosecute except where tyres are practically bald or other­


The police arc reluctant to


wise damaged. I t seems fairly certain that


the Home Office will, sooner or later, give their official approval to certain depth gauges, but even-this is not likely to make enforcement-


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flood of legislation concern­ ing m o t o r vehicles is that the police are toeing given more and ■ more to do with­ out any notable-increase .in man-power.


general. Tile facts cf this continuing


Garages : Because they are so. fully


occupied, law- enforcement is being more and snore : handed over to garages and their mechanics. But I -do not think civilians, should have the -responsibility. of administer­ ing and • enforcing the law. .Yet-that. is'what, is hap­ pening on a growing, scale


He says that in a survey on the M.l.


port declared recently t h a t there were still 10 per cent of


Even the Minister of .trans­


with the annual car test. The e Ministry- now plan to add a check on .the fitting of'.seat belts to this operation .where the cars are 1965 models or later.


ready included. I can forsee a . continual addition to the list of items required to be tested annually and to the fee involved.


Tyres, of course, are al­


1.500 members of the National Tyre Distributors’ Association will be ready to .-tell you about wheel balancing and give other ' advice about tyres during this National Tyre Week which starts on June 16.


be able to get your tyres checked for nothing. Some


However, next week vou wil]


in tyres. They are organised to-offer the best sendee for repairs' as well as advice in buying the right tyres.


Nipped


clearly demonstrated. 1 bad taken - a wheel and tyre into a \ garage for repair. When I


went, to -collect it, the tyre w;as flat.


paired but the mechanic must- have nipped tltc tube. It was


I was told it had been re­


sent it to a N.T.D.A. member. There lias -been, -no more trouble. - - ■ i ' ■


tubed tyre with wheel. : j . v


This'.- happened


:Whew tubeless tyre is concerned,only


done again—with the same result. Eventually the garage


•to be a a spoked


•epair few


garages have proper vulcan­ isation .equipment and qun1'" lied people to (use- if. ,


NI recommend a visit, to an


if irregular wear on.a trt® ls spotted due to bad tracking or - other . reasons And it


.T.D.A. depot next week be­ cause it - can save you money


could prevent a serious acci­ dent. -It will also help th» trade


The Lost Summer


Elusive Pan,'will.ycu not walk with me? I see the pale winter sun And silver dust of frost on old stone walls.


Silent oak and sycamore Bearing their’ burden of snow,


But. I dream of a summer long ago. Long spell-bound by. winter


The sleepy hedgehbg peeping from his hole. He and the wliite-robed meadows long for spring:


- The frozen streams break free from icy chains, , .


■ The swallows are returning-home To welcome in the May; But I look for, a : summer .long ago.


to find out just what are the motorists’ main'- problems


And burble merrily to the newts That bask upon the sunlit stones. The hawthorne trees unfurl their leaves In vivid green of-springtime.


register is being built-llD to record such problems and act on them.


about, their tvres, A sDecial Economising


• Motorists are at. last finding k that thev’can often help to


petro’. Nearly. 10 per cent of them have been economising •in- this manner.


eep running costs down by selecting a lower grade of


here was a big rtroo in l'ie When ‘ the hounds a t their quarry tear? - sales of 5-star ioi octane


t^ Last year for the first time-


petrol, totalling some 200.000 tons.


c


. .y«th n e a r l y ano million • more tons of petrol being sold


four star.of 97 octane "P" ' wards more than 300 000 more tonstbemR sold: ^slight1*' smaller swing t0 fhe BAstar 94


Tas !l swing to the


octane; w”th another .^ . to w a r d s th e a t e r 90-


ate at.last. experimenting 10 th« motorists


The witches dance on Hallowe’en And night ciwls hoot, yet are mot seen, perhaps-there‘never, was . . A summer long ago.


The wild geese how are.seeking-wanner lands, And'squirrels hunt-for nuts for winter.stores,-;--. ,


Friendly robins now return


To join the beggars’ band. They know'of'other springtimes, other-years,*,-;


,


In brown decaying leaves. But’I dream-of-a-summer long-ago.


So do not care for what is lost ■ ' ' - . A - Jieverley-A n n Lisliin an


We shall be hay-making. The lonely curlew'strangely cries High above t-he blackened moors, I pause, -


Sadly the.cherry-blossom.Tails . . ' ..... The ravished- bride of spring. Before the roses hang their heads


And listen, perhaps he too recalls That summer long ago.- ...


Gipsy red and sunset gold are Woodlands, dales and vales We sing the harvest songs- of bounteous earth.


And autumn stealing August's crown =hall seek to turn the year around. Oh Mother Ceres weep, whilst legends hide


In early morning mists, For I dream cf a summer long ago.


And the red fox run from his lair, Will his last thoughts be,of summer fields


Soontohall'tlie huntsmans'horn be heard .


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find tlfc minimum grade - of petrol that will suit their car and run without causing any pinking.


helpful in this.. respect or motorists can often try their own blending by mixing two


The blender-type pumps are


grades in different propor­ tions.


Computer


that vibrates so quickly that all moisture is thrown off its surface; a side-loading lug­ gage compartment; a built-in


An "ultrasonic" windscreen


computer that keeps a con­ stant check on'the efficiency of' lights, steering, brakes, heating and wheels.


ideas thrown up by the latest Vauxhall Craftsmen’s Guild competition, the winners' of which. will be named from among 50 young finalists next Monday, June 16.


These are some of the


Preston, Newport ■ Pagncll, and all over the country, and have been weeded out from more than ‘ 600 competitors who have entered their model cars and specifications of the


They come from Sheffield. future. for


activity, similar to that usually observed oil a Sun­ day afternoon, with competi­ tors. officials and spectators all milling around. The refreshment trailer was


years. The park was a hive of


LOCAL SUPPORT FOR CAR RALLY


a. -short rest for the lucky ones who were on time. T.C. 19 was the first one


of Healey and on to Masham where petrol was taken and


doing a roaring trade but did not attract tho navigators who wisely stayed clear; lots of food and navigating don't usually mix. There was massive support


through a series of lanes to Barden and the cars made their way west on to map 90 and the fourth selective on


the very rough Cobscnr Rake, very popular with organisers. This led to the village of


from the club's own members 19 official starters—not bad for a club our size, and we must thank them for the in­ terest shown. One hour before the start


after petrol and this led on' to the Charlcot “white” about two miles of rough road. After this the route led


notorious Barley Bank which, judging by the broken glass, had put out a spot lamp or two. From hero the cars fol­ lowed . a vague Devil’s Own route to the final control out­ side the village of Wray.


taken to Lancaster on to the M6 and down to the Forton service centre which was the finish of the event. By. the number of cars


The main road was then


Grinton through which tho cars had to crawl in deference to the residents. From here the 5th selective


there it was apparent that quite a few had fallen by the wayside.


an hour to plot the route and for most crews this seemed ample.’ " At 11 p.tii. the first car left


the start crews began collect­ ing the route cards from the caravan:' They wore allowed


the park and was followed at one minute intervals by every­ one else.


Rougher


■ ham and the first time con­ trol along the Mearley "white” which proved to be rougher than, a lot of people had expected.' There was plenty of this to come as the rally; progressed.


to Clitheroe,’ on towards Chatbum, making their way towards Worston and along the'twisty back road to Down-


The cars first travelled in­


was approached taking the cars over Harkersidc and Whitaside Moors. By this time is was broad daylight, and about one mile from Ask- rigg the route turned off the tarmac on to a grass track to bring them out at Nappa


motoring took them through Bainbridge, Hawes and on to Garsdale station and the start of selective six which ran over to Dent station, another popular rally route. Then to Deepdale, and the


A good 12 miles of quiet


Stell and E. Birtwistle. (CDMCi, Copper S; 2nd over­ all and 1st Novice, J. A. Mason and F. Baird, (CDMCi Anglia; 3rd overall, and 1st expert, H. Morley and P. Brocklehurst (High Moor M.C.i, Imp. 4th overall, 2nd expert, W.


Results: 1st overall. R.


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'Over Pendlc, through Sabdeiv and on to Barrowford, Foul- ridge and Kelbrook to approach the ‘white’ road which would take the. cam through the Noyna Bottoms foid, which fortunately was low but a'bit rough.


tween Colne and Skipton. A neutral section took the


crews were given a “herring­ bone” route card on which' three controls were hidden and this took them through the maze of yellow roads be­


At 'the next control the .


i.e. Allyssmn, Lobelia, Marigolds, Nemesia, Bedding Dahlias, Geraniums, Pol Grown Salvias, elc.


cars- through Skipton and on to Barden Moor, and the first selective section from there through Bolton Park ' and back by Bolton Abbey to the A59 once more..,- . : .‘A quick dash up towards


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Blubberhouses and left on-to the bleak Kex Gill- Moor to the start of tho second selec­ tive took the cars- north off the map and through the vill­


follow now to Dallow gill, and the third selective over Foun­ tains, Earth Moor. At least one car failed to take the sharp left hander


age of Glasshouses. There were a few “via’s” to


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along this road the cars turned north up to the:village


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.to Clnpham Common and T.C. 29 whore, another “her­ ringbone” section was handed out. • At the end of this section the route went ■ down the


route joined the AGS, taking the cars through Ingleton on


steep rise to Kingsdale and the last selective where one Clitheroe crew managed to gain their wings as they joined the high flyers. , ■ At the end of, Kingsdale the


Bateson and K. Hindle (CDMC). Cortina GT; 5th overall. Miss S. Alcock and C. R. Beveridge (MIMC),' Escort GT. ■ 2nd novice, N. Calvert, arid K. D. Topp, (CDMC), Cortiria GT; Best mixed crew, Miss J. Bentham and Mrs. P. Hough (MIMC). Mini. Next Tuesday at Low Moor


bring a few maps with you; 04. 95, and 90 are the .most


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