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com. HARDMAN


STAYS ON


AS MAYOR Coun. Sydney F. Hardman lias accepted a unani­ mous invitation to con­ tinue in office as Mayor of Clitheroe for another year.


I t is usual for mayors of C’.itheroe to stay in office for a second year, but tradi­ tionally, they have to re­ ceive a formal invitation.


Coun Hardman, whose wife is mayoress, lives in Pimlico Road. He has been a Con­ servative member of the town council since May, 1959.


Treasurer


He was manager of the Clith­ eroe branch of the Midland


retirement in October, 1956. Born in Radcmre, he joined ■the staff of the Midland in Manchester in 1908. He was manager of the Prestwich


Bank from 1937 until his


He .served in the 2n d /4th Base .Lancashire Regiment' from 1916 to 1920, stationed


branch for 10 years before coming to Clitheroe 32 years ago.


. in Burma. During the last


Since 1942, he has been treas­ urer of St. Denys’ childrens’ home, Clitheroe. He. was also


war, he was treasurer to the Sea Cadet Corps in Clith­ eroe.


Mrs. Hardman, like her hus­ band. is associated with Ciitheroe Parish Church.


Snow hazard Drifting snow was causing


difficulties to travellers in the rural areas around Clitheroe yesterday. Postmen were unable to make deliveries to some farms.


■treasurer for 19 years of the Clitheroe and District Agri­ cultural Society.


plea by planning chief


authorities of Clithcroe Borough, Clitheroc Rural and Bowland Rural Councils was made by Coun. John Black­ burn, Clitheroe’s development and town planning chairman,


A call for the amalgamation of the neighbouring


on Wednesday evening. He told Clitheroe Trades Council th a t he hoped th a t in the I next few weeks, representatives of the three authorities would


get together round the conference table. ----------- “The results, I feel sure, will


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Wballey Window, News, Cycling. • Page 4—The Family


Page, including Fashion, M o t o r i n g,T : Women’s interest features. Page 5—News, Pictures) Prize Crossword.


-Round and About, District Jottings.


Page 6—Country Diary, .


Page 7—News, Pictures,


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be that with one voice they will say ‘Let's amalgamate and keep our areas together, as they naturally should be'.” Coun. Blackburn expressed


ceeds of a nation-wide appeal, will be made available immediately. — ------------------------------- A spokesman for the Co-operative Union who launched an appeal for the victims, told a reporter that a meeting in Manchester yesterday had authorised distribution of the


fund. The money will be allocated on the following basis:


9 Shareholders who had up to £500 invested will be


recompensed in full. $ Shareholders with more than £500 invested will


£ by the Official Receiver, in May last year, will receive a further 18s in the £. $ Loan holders will get 2s in the £, plus a share in


receive 50 per cent. 0 Small savers, who have already been paid 2s in the


any residue. The spokesman added th at each beneficiary was being notified


immediately. Loan accounts


ra th the Blackburn, and Burnley Co-operative Societies, on behalf of the beneficiaries, who can either withdraw immediately, or leave it to accrue interest. He said the delay in making the payments had been due to


The Co-operative Union is proposing to open loan accounts Waddington. under the snow. This acrid picture was taken last wegendbyichn Pye, of Ciithero ^


the tremendous amount of work involved in verifying all the share claims Coun. J. H. Fell of Limefield Avenue, Whalley, who is secre­


help, upon which the co-ops were founded, are still maintained, and are not just a matter of lip-service.” He added: ‘ I t is a tragedy that some people have not, lived


“ I t demonstrates quite clearly that the. principle of mutual


to see this happy culmination, but at the same time, no blame can be attached to the Union for this.


they have done their job as expeditiously as they could.” Father Francis.Tierney, former Whalley Parish Priest, who took the initiative in forming a committee to help the victims,


"They had to wait for the Official Receiver to finish, and Nursing home


extremely happy to hear this, we have been -waiting for. some years now.’’; ■ "


was told the news in a Blackburn nursing home by an Advertiser and Times reporter yesterday. He said “Both myself and the emergency committee are


:V latcn-maiuuB.


have gone either way, but, as in every tournament, there were one or two in which the fight­ ers were not,in the same class. One su ch pout was. a middle­


Several of the. contesis-oouW ,.


of Maple Leaf ABC. Bcotle, beat T. Naylor, of Fhduux ABC, Liverpool.;


B Bovesr or-ovrwsci Dist. BC. LightweightYi. /Callaghan,


weight contest, between two coloured boxers, R. Tuckett. of Market District Boys’ Club, Lec-ds, and P. Adelagum, of BDS Manchester. The bout, started very evenly,


Light welterweight: J. Allen, of Burv YMCA, bat P. Smith,


:


of Fleetwood Gynuasium. ■ Welterweight: -J Dyansfield.


with Tuckett, (lie more power­ fully built of the two, giving as good as-he got, but he reeled after a flurry of blows from Adelagum, and the referee had no option but to stop the fight to prevent further punishment.


Skilful


for a featherweight contest between B. Gent, of Chorley Youth Centre, and N. Tate of Market District Boys’ Club, Leeds. Tate was so much on • top


Tile same could well be said


the same fears spoken earlier this week by Coun. Ronald Wil­ liamson, of Bowland Council, and Aid. Tom Robinson, Clith- eroc’s deputy mayor. Ail are worried about the re­


of Manco ABC, Stretford, beat G. Whittaker, of Market Dis­ trict Bov’s Club, Leeds; E. Bean of KirkbyJ ABC, beat D. Harburn, of Halifax Star ABC. Light middleweight: A


tary of the emergency committee which was set up after the failure of the Biiling.ton and Whalley Co-op, spoke yesterday of the “ splendid generosity ” of the Co-operative Union.


FINE BOXING AT POLICE


TOURNAMENT There was some very exciting and skilful boxing at


the Lancashire Constabulary Sports:aid Social Clubs


amateur Boxing Tournament held in Ml: Civic Hall on Wednesday, but the fighter everyone want’d lo see. Jimmy Birkett. of/Billington, did not compete because he was suffering from ’flu...................................^ ---■ ■


bypass accepted Minister


Work will start almost at jgs , Clilheroe-Whalley bypass, 11


Managing director


fined £107 Managing director of three


Arms. Frank Taylor, of Brookside Road. Preston. , iwas fined a total of £107


.PetrcvAnns, Billington, a™ .cuialified from driving , for 12 CVmfi‘Vn ’ ‘ v' " ' - • 'V ■


was announced yesterday. 1 ^ The road will, start at the ^


fmcol £50 and dis-


ster of Transport, has acccp- for driving, withor.. cue caie ted the £3,366,235 render of the and attention.


Mr ‘‘Richard M-d'sh, Mini- the prescribed 'limit, and £25 \ hitf''blood ulcohol content ciuove


Sir Alfred McAlpine and Son He 1vas also ordered to pay Ltd./Leonard Fairclough Ltd. £ n 16s. 3d. witnesses’ expenses. Consortium for tile work which' a five-guinea- doctor's fee, and is expected to be completed to- a 15-guinea advocate's fee.


wards the end of 1970. Construction of the new


bridge carrying tile Blackburn o i io ck lu Shocked


—Hellifield railway line, under Taylor was disqualified from which the new roaid will pass, I driving for a further six is already in progress.


Byrne, of Kirkbv. ABC/ beat K. Cadwallader, of Preston, ABC. Middleweight: Adelagum,


of BDS Manchester, beat R. Tuckett’ of Market District


Boy’s Club, Leeds, Among tire special guests


were the Mayor of Clitheroe Coun. S. F. Hardman,, the chairman of Clitheroe Rural Council, Coun. Col. H. East- wood, and several po lic e


that lvis opponent hit 'the can­ vas three times in the second round before he was eventually counted out. A schoolboy contest, opened


port of the Royal Commission on Local Government, which is to be published during the next few weeks.


Combined


They fear that Clitheroc and the surrounding rural areas may be : governed by “faceless men, 50 miles away." Coun. Blackburn: pointed out


that the combined populations of the three authorities was 27,100, and with part of Black­ burn Rural Council included, the total would be 35,000 people in an area of 200 square miles. “Over 'th e year" he satd.


officers. The official In charge of the evening was Major E. C. Cairns


the tournament and the specta­ tors were amazed by the show of aggression on the part of the two boxers, neither of whom touched five foot. K. Bucktrout, of Halifax Star


F Clark and B. Berry; the judges Messrs. H. D. Briscall, E. G. Roberts, A. Cooke, F; W. Hurst, E. Fox, J. F. Hickley and


(ABA). The referees were Messrs. H


G. Buck. Mr. E. Henry was the time­


keeper.


ABC was tlie unanimous winner over S. McKenna, of the Lanca­ shire Constabulary Sports and Social Club, in 'th is first bout, and McKenna had to put up with the indignity of being the first fighter to have blood drawn


“Clitheroe has become the natural centre and authorities in this area have always been on good terms. “Cfitheroe and district has


very little in common with the Blackburn or Burnley authori­ ties. We have always thought that they were' too far away. “Both these authorities have


to be changed quite a bit, in fact of the schedule 18 games 10 did not take place; four were added to the list, and one bout was a mixture. of two others, with one' boxer from one bout fighting a boxer from another ; scheduled bout. The results were: Schoolboy'


The official programme had . . .


Doctors J. Hardy and G. Ham pson, and the MC' w h. Con stable J. R


The medical officers .were , _ •


The bypass will enable trav- of endorsements on his, licence, oilers to ‘avoid the bottleneck at He had six .previous convictions Whalley . where


| months because of the number build-up traffic


causes Ions delays and con | collj5ion between Taylor’s gestion.


at the J™®® Single The .prosecution resulted from


| aa,. a«d th a t of a Mr: J. 1 Eustclhik in: Whalley Road,


traffic conditions a t Chtherw 1 L of a blood sample and Chatbum, where the exis-


. The bypass. will eventually 1 have dual eamageways,. but initially is being built w th a


single 24-foot radv carriageway. I ■ The scheme wall


building of to bndges. There will be two roundabouts—one at the Petre Arms the other


millilitres.


The new road- will a»o ease t cutberoe Police Station, and ifc contained 119 miffi-


Gfitheroe, on October 30. T&vlor .was given breath tests


ting trunk road passes through , mmes oI ;l.iCOhol per 100 main shopping areas.


already, been acquired for the I le^t of a double -whisky, second carriageway.


Sufficient land, howeve., h a s ^ k d ' h 4, . ^ the equiva- The blood sample was not


“ Reraise he : was


tJ e n until an tour after the . . t b which tune Ins


had had time .to absorb * leollol.'. The test


at a point east of blithe o I silc.wef1 he couid not have had


Road wl1 ^ 5 0 ^ e oTWhal- much over the limit a t th e time 1 of the accident, he added.


j Moody, defend- 'said 'Taylor -had some . bis car, and after the


of I f tv,,.or motoring offences. ...ni/vim- en s anj wns disqualified


quarter mile long I fter plcad;ng guilly to two .Whnllev bvDass. l l ' -hargcs at Clilheroe yestcr-


building tire eiglit j |’|-q|-|-j driving for 18 months (1


PENNINE ' FOUNDER GIVES LEG


The history of the Pennine Bom in . Whalley. Mr.


Stephenson was secretary of the Ramblers Association until last year, when he retired at the age of 75.


organised by the north-east Lancashire branch of , the Ramblers Association, of the many difficulties and objections which were overcome in a long and tedious campaign before Parliament approved this first long-distance right-of-way for walkers in this country.


He told the ■ meeting, The scheme was sparked off


in 1935 by a letter which Mr. Stephenson received from .two American girls wishing to find some long moorland walks.


Planning


before the '250-miles. of un­ broken trails, stretching from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border, were opened.


But it was 30 years later


his talk with many beautiful colour slides which he has taken over the years of plan­ ning and walking the route.


Mr. Stephenson illustrated


ing Mr. Stephenson, announced that a public meeting was to be held in Clitheroe Conser­ vative Club on Tuesday, March 18, when i t was hoped th a t a local branch of the Ramblers’ Association would be formed:


Mr. Bernard Sharpies, thank­


Philip Daley, chairman of the national executive.


The speaker will be Mr.


MP speaks at Tories9 annual


meeting The speaker at the Whalley.


Wiswcll and Barrow. Con­ servative Association’s annual general meeting was Mr. David Waddington, MP


for Nelson and Colne. The meeting took place at


the Red Pump Hotel. Bashall Eaves, last Friday. On the financial situation,'


Mr Waddington said the trade debt was £300 million more than it was when the Con­ servatives left office in 1961. British people were now en­


. 250-mile walk


.dong the backbone of England—was described to a meet­ ing in the Girls’ Grammar School on Wednesday by Mr. Tom Stephenson, whose inspiration it was.


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during a greater level of taxa­ tion than ever before and they were now sick of the Harold Wilson administration. When the Conservatives re­


turn to power, said Mr. Wad­ dington they intended to create a better talance between direct and indirect taxation, im­ prove trade union liaison and abolish selective employment


President, Mr. C. Pierce; chair­ man, Mr. R. Cunliffe; honorary treasurer. Mr. H. Grieve; hon­ orary secretary, Mr. P. Mawson. About 30 members attended


tax. The officers elected were:


FIRE HERO BURNED


John Ragnail, .a former Clithcroe youth, who was ex


tp-nxivelv.burned when he res­ cued a 68-ycar-oia ''woman from a'house fire this week, was stated-yesterday-to be “fair” in Blackburn Royal


Infirmary. He is the only son of Mr,


and Mrs. Joe RagnaH, formerly of Edisfond Road, Clitheroe, and a former pupil of Ribbles- dale County (Secondary School


Mrs. Mary WaJSh, of Belgrave Street, Blackburn, where John aged 19, was a lodger.


was awakened by a bang. He went downstairs and resoued Mrs. Walsh from the living


He was sleeping upstairs and


'room where she had been sleeping.-


Mrs. Walsh was taken to the Infirmary suffering from shock,


Tliq fire was a t the home of Leading the


‘geography master -at Slony- hurst College, who captained England.’s.aigby-lcam against. Ireland recently, will lead the international team again tomorrow against France at


Underdogs’ Dick Greenwood. • the


mented, “We are -definitely considered the ' underdogs against France, but that is how


we like it.


chance against Ireland, but- we played hard and the result was


“Wc were not given much ,


be playing once again for the Barbarians, the international


very close.” A week tomorrow. Dick will


touring team. Playing for them is one of


the greatest honours in rugby,” he said.


Twickenham. Of tomorrow’s game he com­


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contests; K. Bucktrout, of Hal;-/ fax Star ABC beat S. Me-7 Kenna, of the Lancashire Con­ stabulary Sports and Social Club; N. Bond, of the Fleetwocd' Gymnasium, beat D. Dunn, of the Lancashire Constabulary Sports arid Social Club, Has- lingden section; T. Heffemail, of Oldham Boy’s Club beat B. Bland.of Bury; P. Kelly, of Market District Boys’ Club, Leeds, treat A. Foulkes, of Phoenix ABC, Liverpool. Featherweight: N. Tate of


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