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OLDEN WEDDING


Io n wedding a S , ® vou- | fcve ana best w is S ^ -


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bcrClllft'7 -«w: .Mar-'«'e '°Bettj F ^ w l e d g KEnts


( ' to ^ t i ia n k ^ ^ i j^ l id s and neighbours fS^'es, |1 expressions of %?.?/ «'el I “oral tributes rccciJSJWbJ I jbeir tune of sorroS? aur- | ikm B the Rev. R a 'w als° i■his- kind ministrations Bur


In and Miss Elsie Kav "5tt' Impress sincere thank*L vclsl> I ■-Ives, friends anti 3°. “U


Masons Anns, w g ;, .—Mr. Harrv T


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■« of condolence. andle«ers. i Iites received durin,? ®°rai


I to the doctor Nn^aal‘s


!d. the district nurses6 R- L ’-cv. J. c. Hudson *• an4 fciiatburn Road, ciitln>m»


Ik s to the warden amf's?1 ■astleford and theRevJ\n ?


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|,H.—Mr. and Mrs nil T 111 and family wish tn*r?nnis Iriends for tlicir kindUm?11 I ' of sympathy ami « res‘ lutes received f %•)> lavement. a 11 d ,„..,,th,l:lr


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Io n for their kind ess ’ D’ prownlow Street |ioroe.


s for the many h m ilfSbb- Ot sorrow: Gratef.WtvJteir


‘'CAN YOU find an elderly person to spend Christmas with me and my family?” This was the request we received this week from a Ciiaiglcy reader who won­ ders if there are other people in the area who would like to do the same but having difficulty in mak­


ing contact. Mother of three boys, Mrs.


I| i . si'cb kindness and ^ml1


■ark Avenue, Clitheroe. IFIELD.—The family frely thank all S


m their loss. iup’ i (Susannah Patefield wish tn


lids and neighbours for me-' Is of sympathy, floral Sfc'


la n d Rev. Pr. Ma r e d c n S ' l i h e i r help and i S ^ ;


|y tton View, Clitheroe.


■“ Ida Benson, our beloved ■ier and granny, called home ■ovember. 19G8.


IN MEMORIAM ' 1 eas“ retl memories


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l ‘ f*1"0 not forgotten mother ■win you ever be.


T;°“ « as life ancl memory


»vilL remember thee1’' I ?,'11 rr


Tewkesbury. Glos.


l i r wile and mother Evelyn Idled 2 December. 1964 iv day in some small way ■ones of you come our war | |om her loving husband


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J mother who died 2 Decern- II f)C4. |?pIt i fu l memories silently


■e| ie mother we loved and will Inn Pauline and Barry.


t- ver forget.


IN.—Remembering today a 1 husband and father David, J died 27 November. I960. |)m his wife and family.


JORTH,—In loving memory m dear husband and father.


t. who died 26 November,


Irly loved and sadly missed." l>m his loving wife Alice, ■Stanley. Margaret, and the


■ Iich day passes darling, lur loving wife May.


>s you more,


|es to thank the doctors I nurses, and her many Ids for cards, fruits and Irs received during her Et illness. Ilighiield Road, Clitheroe.


I APPRECIATION (ER.—M rs . T. Bowker


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THE MAYOR of Clitheroe, Coun. Sidney Moore, is pic­


tured here showing the town’s mace to Mr. and Mrs. R. Langford, of Given Drive, two of the 180 people who attended the Mayoral At Home.


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’■vhose legs you think a lot of, the loveliest Christmas stockings. Because that's the very we II ask you for a pair of our tights. “ ° ^ is yeor give Aristoc to everyone


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ANYONE unaware may be excused tomorrow night for thinking that the R.A.C. rally is starling all over


90 rally cars will converge on the town for Clitheroe and District Motor Club’s annual Hall Trophy rally Which starts from Edisford car park at 11 p.m. This year the event has


cess the No. 1 position has been .given to local drivers Ian


ing Northern names will be found amongst the first 44 cars. After their R.A.C. rally suc­


attracted its biggest-ever entry and many of the lead­


again from Clitheroe. From 9 p.m. 'onwards, about


Grant and John Hughes in the Escort R.S. 1600.


ner. Ronnie Stoll, this year having changed seats to navi­ gate as ho has not got a suit­ able car. He is piloted by Keith Watkinson in a Hillman Imp.


is in . car seven. Stephanie Baird - navigates for Fred Mason; in their very high- powered Anglia. Both are members of th e Clitheroe club as are 'Robbins/Hack- -ing, Batescn/Birtwistle, Hall/ Humphreys.


of the club will be the appear­ ance of Roy Mapple. Roy achieved national fame


Of interest to past members The first woman competitor At No. 5 is last year's win­


for his success in his bright orange Cooper s and it is fit­ ting that he should choose the scene of two of his previous successes as the- event for his return after a temporary retirement.


for they are all quite capable of holding their own with any male competitors.


Among the-cars-will be found


evidence that motor' sport is not solely a male preserve, with Sue Donnell, Maureen Edwards and the all-women crew of Shirley Alcoek/Jean Davenport to be found along with Stephanie Baird in the expert class. And a most attractive sight they make. However, do not be misled


For the women there will be


a Triumph 2000, a Volvo, a Capri 3000 and a Rover 2000 TC, as well as the usual Cooper S and Escorts not to mention Imps and Anglias.


welcomed at Edisford but are asked to leave 'their cars well away so as not to create a road hazard. The car park will be very full with competitors and organisers and 'the co-opera­ tion of spectators is earnestly requested.


Anyone .interested will be


Honeywell, and the secretary of the meeting, Norman


the event, a list of information will be available a t the start, and this has been compiled by the clerk of the course, Roy


For those wishing to watch


it contains a great deal of advice to assist the Clitheroe club to maintain its good rela­ tions which at present exist


Hetherington. So not only is it genuine but


area may see -the cars as all will be scr-utineered at Prim­ rose Garage before assembling at Edisford.


with those who Jive on the route. Anyone in the Wha-lley Road


proud of the past success of this, its premier event, and feels that the way entries ha-Ve flocked in from a very wide area helps to prove how highly it is regarded through­ out the world/ of ’motor. sport.


The Clitheroe club is very


fine example of silversmith's art. I t was given to the bor­ ough in 1672 by the Duke of Albemarle and is one of the oldest maces in the country.


The silver-gilt mace is a


ing were anolent charters, the regalia and robes. Other interesting items included council minute books, those of the 1830's containing ref­ erences to correspondence by ratepayers who aieferred to


Over-all length is 52 inches and the shaft is engraved \rith the coats-of-ai-ms of the vai’ious out-burgesses. The inscription C2R indicates it was given in the reign of Charles II. On display duiing the even­


successor to one the pi’evious evening when the Mayor had the pleasure of welcoming civic leaders from other- auth­ orities.


hand-written and visitors wei’e able to compare them with the bound printed style of later years and today’s office-produced style. Thursday's At Home was a


the need for public baths as a facility for the promotion of good health and living. Many of the old books are


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rural district who find them­ selves being prosecuted for non-payment of rates, may be faced with an increase in the cost of fees for rate sum­ monses.


Ratepayers in Clitheroe’s


Rate summonses


Clitheroe Rural Council has decided to apply to the mag­


istrates for an increase in the fees from 5s. to £1,


IHT. — Treasured memories p* dear husband James, who l.d away 1 December, 1969.


Eileen and Treasured memories of


J and Mass offerings received ■ heir tragic loss: also Jb? ■ ly doctor. Rev. Pr. Pear l?,e


Pamela Standen, of 6 Dairy Cottages, Chaigley, wrote: "I would love to have someone spend Christmas with us for a (lay, or to stay for a few days. I feel that there must be many other people like me, but don't know how to go about it.” Mrs. Standen would like to


make contact with an elderly person or couple and envis­


ages keeping in touch with her guest or guests by regular visits throughout the year. She has three sons, Edward


(10), Mark (8) and Andrew (5) and feels that they will


have lots of fun preparing for and making presents for their visitor. Mrs. Standen told our


ee and son Stephen. - In loving memory of a


reporter: “It is this something l have always wanted to do, but living out of the way at Chaigley, transport presented a problem. But now that I have got my own car I will pick up my guests. "One reads so much about


the loneliness of old people at this time of year I felt I had to do something to help and, perhaps, encourage others to do the same.” Christmas day is going to be


a busy one for Mrs. Standen in any event. After the pleasure of seeing her three sons open their Christmas presents she will spend the rest ol the morning helping her mother, Mrs. Nora Gornall prepare lunch at her Bleak


House Restaurant, Kemple End. ''But then I'll be free to


spend a real family Christ­ mas. . „ . always supposing


someone accepts the offer,” she said.


JANET SMITHSON SABDEN HOTEL’S


£15,000 EXTENSION IS LAUNCHED


THERE was an old-time'-atmosphcre at the opening of the £15,000 extension to the Wellsprings Hotel. Sabden’—the


only pub in England with a ski club attached. The Pendte ski club held a


Tyi’olean evening to mark the launching of popular licensee Mr David Hamel-Cooke’s new


party room and restaurant, the latest development in the hotel's amenities.


guests danced to Austrian music on the new dance floor while club officials cumulated arranging skii-ing trips to Scotland and the Continent.


Over 150 members and their


joy some of the finest club facilities anywhere in the country


Tlie new club house onening 'Mmm T V m . w Skiers in the area now en­


next month will provide sport­ ing members with a place to store skis and make essential repairs while the hotel con­ tinues to be the club’s social headquarters.


“Thinking back to the early beginnings when club mem­ bers planned in a group at the hotel bar, it is now wonderful to see the progress made. The club and t-hc hotel have come of age together”, he added.


Mr. Hamel-Cooke said, m . :> v '


Quarry road link comes nearer


CLITHEROE is a l)i" step nearer lo getting the much needed link road from Pimlico lo Chathurn Road. The County Council favours it and have asked for the observations of the Ministry of Housing


and Local Government. Richard Briggs and Sons, Bankaeld Quarry, and


Tenders for baths


TENDERS for the swimming baths c“ the Edisford Road site are now in the hands of the council’s consultants and they have asked the two lowest tenderers for bills of quantities, Mr. John CowdaJl, Town Clei’k, reported to the Planning Committee. A special meeting of the


Ribblesdale Cement have submitted plans for the link road, and for quarrying limestone and drift material from specified areas of C'hatburu Old Road which they own.


committee to receive the con­ sultants' report will be held after the meeting of the Town Council on December 15th. But Coun. Robert Ains­


worth in an "eleventh hour” appeal against the scheme declared that the baths would be “the biggest white elephant Clttherce has had.”


have submitted a report on the pi-oposed landscaping of the quarries adjacent to Chat- bum Old Road and a copy of this has been sent to the Divisional Planning Officer. The Town Clerk, Mr. John


also submitted plans in respect of a second area owned by them. In addition, the two firms


Ribblesdale Cement have


were published first in the Advertiser and Times, in June, when the companies announ­ ced their wish to quarry away the rock which they owned under Ohatbum Old Road.


receive either approval or notice of a public inquiry.” Proposals for the link road


A NEW DECIMAL stamp machine has been installed at Clitheroe Rost Office, in readi­ ness for ’D’-day February 15th.


Cowdall. told Clitheroe Plan­ ning Committee this week that the county had intona­ ted that they were willing to grant permission although the scheme was a substantial departure from the present town map.


referred it to the Ministry. Mr. Cowdal] added: “We shall


The county had therefore


subseuently gave support and Clitheroe Rural Council gave qualified support, Bowland


Rural Council opposed the scheme. About the same time, hopes


afterwards hand it into public keeping. Mention was made of a tree-planting scheme to screen the quarry workings and, in the long term, the creation of a lake of 240 acres for leisure purposes. Clitheroe Town Council


would build up the link road at their own expense and


The companies said thev O p p o s i t io n


towns are having these new machines installed. Blackburn also received one on Tues­ day, Burnley the week before, and Rochdale gets one on Monday.


Until then it will dispense stamps in current use. All the larger post offices in


ent mechanism from the pre­ sent ones. Instead of the coin immediately releasing th stamp it, triggers a catch, which knocks down a weight, The stamps are then re­


This machine has a differ­


were expressed that Lanca­ shire County Council would find it possible to build a bridge over the railway and continue the link road to the Whaflley-Clitheroe by-pass.


P l e a to r e s t r ic t p a r k in g


PARKING restrictions in Clittieroe’s Woone Lane, be­ tween the entrance of the Stalwart Dyeing Works and George Street, are to be con­


James Newton-Bell, said that he had been requested to ask the committee about the pos­ sibility of restricting parking because, as the lane was very narrow, difficulties had been experienced in getting vehicles through due to others parking by the wall side.


sidered by the highways committee. The Borough Surveyor. Mr.


lane under observation and discuss the matter next month.


“I have noticed this. I t is the heavy vehicles which cause a problem. The lane is hardly wide enough for two commercial vehicles to pass”. I t was decided to keep the


Coun. John Troop added:


leased but do not appear through the aperture until the flap is lifted. When the machine is not in use, the opening is automatically sealed so that foreign bodies cannot be jammed into it.


STAMP BOOKS


one to five stamps at a time, the number being pre-set. I t is more accurate than its pro. decessor, and will not accept bent or damaged coins. The new machine was in­


The vendor -will release from


stalled under the supervision of Mr. W. McColl, Clitheroc postmaster, in a position which was occupied by a half­ penny machine until about year ago.


threepenny machines are be­ ing withdrawn to undergi modification for decimal use. However, -the machine issu­


will deliver £sd stamps ,to the value of a shilling (5P). After February all stamps will have decimal values and be sold over the counter in sheets of 200 instead of 240. Meanwhile, the penny and


Until ‘D’-day the machine


ing books of stamps will re­ main and the -price will stay at -two shillings (10P). Although the new decimal


Norway trip


Venture Scout Unit is plan, ning to travel to Arot-ic Nor­ way during next year's Clith­ eroe July (holiday. Their transport wil-l probably consist of two vans.


Tlie Clifcheroe and District Big entry for Edisford car rally


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stamps will not be officially on sale until 'D’-day, philate­ lists will be abe to obtain them a few days beforehand. In our picture, Mr. McColl is


seen testing th e machine before it was placed in posi­


tion outside the office in- King Street.


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Week o f tragedy


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Hammond, of Corporation Street, an'd her son Thomas, who recently left the army, d-ied after Mrs. Hammond’s car had been involved in an accident with a 10-ton articu­ lated lonry on the inner by­ pass.


former Stony hurst College gamekeeper. Mr. George Greasley (67). whose motor­


The second accident involved i:-'


Geoffrey 'William Haworth, of Windermere A v e n u e , Clitheroc, died in a smash on the Ml when a Jowy in which he had hitched a lilt over­ turned.


cycle was in collision with a coach leaving the college. The same day 19-year-old


• Nightmare See page 11.


on the roads.


IT has been a week of tragedy on the roads for Clitheroe a n d district families. Four local people died in accidents in Clitheroe, at Hurst Green and on the Ml and a Clitheroe man was involved in a crash at Billington in which a Newcastle driver lost his life. Fifty-year-old Mrs. Phyllis


A kindly thought


'* \ WHALLEY GIRL HEADS FOR NEW ZEALAND v,


ney with three friends from Manchester and Liverpool, one of whom is a New Zealander.


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for Austria, travelling by road in a caravette. They will share two fiats in the Tyrol with about seven other friends, spend the winter skiing and probably working until the snow melts in late March or early April. Then, Janet and her three


Oar December 16th they leave


A WHALLEY GIRL, Miss Janet Smithson, of The Toby Jug, King Street, is leaving soon on a journey which will lake her half way round the world by land and will ultimately end in New Zealand. She will be making the jour­


friends will set off for New Zealand.


in India, by July 1st because they have booked passages on a boat for Singapore on that day.


the political situation in many of these countries and so their route is adaptable and may be changed at the last minute before crossing frontiers. They will spend nine days in Singapore before boarding a


party hope to travel through Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey. Iran and Afghanistan before reaching India. They are hop­ ing to be able to go up to Nepal and to Katmandu before driving down through India to Madras. However, much depends on


After leaving Austria the They have to be in Madras,


work to save up our passage to New Zealand.” said 27-vea-r- old Janet. “We plan to be in New Zealand by this time next year.”


boat for Sydney, Australia. “In Sydney we will have to


stay with her uncle, Mr. Jack Rothwell, who emigrated from Bolton 23 years ago. He has not been home since and it will be the family’s first contact with him, apart from letters, for 20 years.


mer that she decided to make this trip. For some time she has wanted to travel this way and had been thinking about


land until she has saved enough money to come back to England. It was only in the late sum­


Once there, Janet hopes to


friend, who had been intend­ ing to go home for the past two years, told her that more people were wanted on the trip to help defray expenses. Janet then decided to go along.


going on a mini-safari. Then her New Zealand


three for the past three years. They met on a skiing holiday and have holidayed together since.


Janet will stay in New Zea­


over going away on a mini­ safari when you know none of your travelling companions”, said Janet. It will be the fifth time she


“This is one big advantage


has been to Austria and is now quite proficient at skiing. “I can come down a moun­


tain and enjoy it without being terrified,"


Janet has known the other


before but aiow has an inter­ national licence and expects to do her share of driving. They will set out with a large stock of food but it will prob­ ably run out before the jour­ ney is over and they will then rely on the foods of che dif­ ferent, countries.


She has never driven abroad


ditioned to curry,” she added. Janet is a former Guide Guider of the 2nd Whallcy Guide Company and is also a Queen's Guide so her- know­ ledge of camping will be very useful.


helping to run a guide com­ pany at St. James’s Church, Clitheroc, about five years ago. She .is a former secretary of Whallcy Church Players and


Janet also spent some time “I have already been con­


employed in th e Records Department at Calderstones


has been a member of the company for 10 years. For three years she has been


visage joining Janet in New Zealand for a holiday, Mr. Smithson would like to go over to Austria in April to see them off on the start of their mammoth trip.


Harold Smithson, regard the journey ns the chance of a lifetime. Although they do not en­


about living abroad having spent more than a year with a family in Switzerland. She helped in the house in the mornings and worked in the family business in the after­ noons, making men’s ties. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.


Hospital, Whalley. She already knows a lot


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