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And the beetles were there too


left him with the ,v Uia.t i t will be


to function, t tnrra. J cease wide person^, °Z fro« .


this show should if


Hodder w a t e r s h e d i n Ulel of Britain and mai^ S Pf*


that there are lovers6^6111*'


ward to the show as a m tor‘ of gathering togeUit- ^ year where they may JL * *


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clans and would alk °fuUli ■Rho agree to give n, JT "* ffible support. more *aa-


NATURALIS^I


NIGHTMARE START TO WHALLEY COUPLE’S


HONEYMOON


THERE IS DRIED blood, a stream of ants crawls acros s the floor and thrce-inch long beetles fall from the cei ling.


Tbe scenario for i bo rror film? N o - th ough hardly the setting for a honey- raoon paradise. Yet these w ere the sights which greeted a Whalley couple on the first


two days of their dream hoh day on the sunny coast of T unisia For Mr. Julian oombes and his wife, Fiona of King ---------


Street, Whalley, an otherwise delightful two-week honey­ moon in North Africa began with a two-day nightmare of switched arrangements and poor accommodation.


lida¥ holiday fortnight in this daj


mental illness, desec-at’oli of the countryside, and rv£


the growth of popuia'lav and then reduce it.


West Bradford. (Name and add- s s supplied).


couple had not more than tm children. Student of Nature


Will they never


learn ?


COULD ANYBODY be mort illogical than our town plan, ners?


i


fully entertain projected vertical grain silos within three minutes' walk of our town centre. This, after hav­ ing spent so much ratepayers’ money on getting plans refused by no less a Government offi­ cial than Her Majesty's inspector. Now they are asked to coni


householders. They now cheer, f r om adjacanj


sider a scrap metal yard withein a stones throw of out central castle memorial part and drrectly seen by residents


of a kind appropriate to rural England, into our town by aS means, but not at any price The ratepayers have a


of Castle View. Let us encourage industry,


our elected representatives put forward in order that s# can judge for ourselves and let the press in its new found freedom report in full, for the benefit of those who are interested, but who cannot


attend. Unsightly and unsuitab.e .. .J


industry should be un<™ cover or out of signl


altogether.


town as a dormitory for those, engaged in more higmy.


whether, or not. we are realljr interested in developing our


industrialised areas.


function. A place for pw“. rest and relaxation.


Tire British. Tourist auw,


This should surely be our J


distribution and is part1^ 8.^ popular in the United States, One wonders whether Cl®,


this lucrative tourist Mans- There are problems of f® < from dust blown over countryside.


eroe is doing its best to 0 troy, rather than enreuraF,


green surroundings. t Let our town


available modern


painted to blend with - colourful landscape are se


tion to eyesores in our b e ^ ful valley and tbat^e


hat there is no further ad


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right to protest and they should do so in no uncertain manner now that they have won the right to be present at the planners' sub-commit, tee meeting next Monday, August 10, a t 7.30 pm. Let us hear what arguments


ing several proposed usages-/ a garage and repair shop for haulage wagons, a joineiy enterprise and a social club- for the old Clibheiroe laundry buildings £n deference t« objections


After, quite rightly, refus­ Tins could be done if evay .


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lows clown on the beach. I t was just awful. The smell was over­ powering. It was terrible. There was dried blood on the floor and cobwebs and dust everywhere. When we opened the door, there was a steady stream of ants disappearing down a hole. I stepped over them. I didn’t dare take my shoes off. Then— suddenly—there was this plop on the floor. When we looked, there was this huge beetle on the door. It must have been three inches long easily". "Julian had to kill it with a


Journey which included a three- jiour delay at Manchester Air­ port Mrs. Coombes described tiie scene upon their arrival in Tunisia:■Tne hotel was overbooked so they wanted to put us in the hotel next door. This was sup­ posed to be of the same stan­ dard. We had been waiting for the aircraft for three hours so vie were very tired. I t was then 11 o'clock at night and wc just wanted to get to sleep. They had bedrooms hi the main part of the hotel and bungalows on the beach.” said Mrs. Coombes. “We got one of these bunga­


After a gruelling 10-hour


shoe. I was nearly in hysterics. We complained about it the next morning and they said that they wouid clean the room. But they didn’t. When we went back the next day there were festoons of cobwebs still there. It looked as if the place hadn’t been cleaned for weeks.


tive and told her that it just wasn't good enough and that we wanted a decent hotel or our money back.”


“We went to the representa­


not the only people who had to suffer similar conditions. Also at the hotel were another honeymoon c o u p l e and a couple with a three-year-old son who had booked their holiday at Christmas. “We all went to look at this


Mr and Mrs. Coombes were


other hotel and we were quite happy with it but then the re­ presentative told us that we couldn't move into it after all because it wasn't officially re­ cognised by the government.


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Christine meets Hilda Ogden


13-year-old "star in the mak­ ing”, who is to appear on Yorkshire Television’s "Junior Showtime”, was thrilled by her


Christine Morris, Clitheroe’s


recent meeting with a Corona­ tion Street star. While on holiday in Scandi­


navia, with her parents, she met Jean Alexander, who plays Hilda Ogden in the twice- weekly serial.


passenger aboard their ship. She showed a great deal of


Miss Alexander was a fellow


ells us. Christine also met several other celebrities—including two


t interest in Christine, her father


former world ballroom cham­ pions. Incidentally, Christine went


were talking to some other re­ presentatives and they said that the travel company was losing out on tiffs because the hotel was costing more. StiU, we lost two days of our holiday," said Mrs. coombes. “They shouldn’t be allowed to


CUTHEROE Young Farm? s ‘ put their heart and soul (a nd their backs) into the tug- of- war at the Blackburn Show.


.__________


when you get there you find you’re not going there at all. A plane-load of people must have arrived in Tunisia with us to be put in other hotels. I don’t think that any of them ended up in the hotel into which they had been originally booked.”


carry on like this, i t ’s ridicu­ lous. You book a hotel tlireo months in advance and then


HAGGLE


of law to prevent this kind of thing happening. Apparently the hotels depend upon a can­ cellation rate of 20 per cent, and, of course, if this doesn’t t happen then they are in


“There ought to be some sort


again? “Yes.” replied Mrs. Coombes. “But I ’ll be prepared to haggle with the traders next time. They always ask for twice the amount that you can buy the article for,” she said.


rouble,” she said. Would she go back to Tunisia


WHEN A Clitheroe policeman called out to trespassers who had barricaded 'themselves in a bedroom of a house in Wad- dington Road, a man cried: “I have a knife. If you come


in here 1 will kill you.”


force the door open and a panel broke. A man inside threw a chair at him and it narrowly missed PC Ireland’s face. He again looked into the


PC Norman Ireland triled to


pleaded guilty to both charges, He was remanded for three


door and PC Ireland stepped back. He reasoned with the man and persuaded him to give him­


self up. The man, Mr. Michael Hol­ t h e n p a s s e d


lingsworth,


cut-throat razor and a hammer. He moved the barricade and


through the door two knives, a


PC Ireland went into the room and arrested him and a 15- year-old girl who was with him. On Tuesday they appeared


room and saw the man bran­ dishing a knife. Hie man moved towards the


Mr. Dewhurst and his family went away on holiday on July 25 and his father, Mr. Thomas Dewhurst, was looking after their shop in Waddington Road. The family also live on the


weeks for medical reports. Insp. T. J. Sumner said that


premises regularly and some days after the family had left, he found a step ladder against the kitchen window and noti­


premises. Mr. ■


Dewhurst checked the


court that PC Ireland had gone to tile house and found it occu­ pied and had successfully app­ rehended the defendants,


fied the police. Insp. Sumner then told the


before Clitheroe magistrates on charges of entering premises in Waddington Road as. tres­ passers and stealing therein cigarettes, chocolates a n d various foodstuffs worth £8 9s. 6d., the property of Mr. Richard Dewhurst.


STOLE FROM


entering the Parish Church as trespassers and stealing one pen, three bail-point pens and four altar candles worth £2 5s.. the property of the Vicar and Vicar’s wardens. The magistrates remitted the


CHURCH They were also charged with


to Leeds on Wednesday of last, week, for rehearsals for “Junior Showtime", and the show was recorded on the following day.


on Thursday of last week, the verger at the Parish Church


OBSCENITIES He then went on to say that


discovered brown paint on tire altar cloth and cross and the name M. Hollingsworth daubed


on the walls. A surplice was torn and there


was red ink on other clothing in the church. Obscenities had been written on a page in the parish register. This was reported to the


MAN, WITH GIRL, 15 THREATENED POLICE WITH KNIFE


Margaret is music graduate


Miss Margaret Robinson, 20, ' Femleigh, Railway View,


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60 YEARS SINCE • LADY FROM


AMERICA SAW


CASTLE It is 60 years since Mrs.


Rachel Pallatrioni last saw I Clitheroc Castle. Mrs. Palla-1 trioni lives in a former whal­ ing town on the coast of the I American state of'Massachu- setts and this week she was paying—in her own words— “a sentimental visit” to Lan-1


cashirc. "I would say that the coun­


tryside is just at beautiful as when I saw it last, but there seem to be lots of buildings I going up all the time just like in the United States," said Mrs. Pallatrioni. as she admired the panorama of the hills around Clitheroe from the vantage of the castle keep. Also with Mrs. Pallatrioni a t


Clitheroe, a member of a family I pretty and aiso liked the fash- having a long association with


the castle was Mrs. Margaret Keville. of Cleveland. Ohio. She thought that the houses around Clitheroe were particularly


e - ^ a r ^ s om and an Associate of the R0>ai


music has become a graduate j 0j,n spent some time looking Century eastle. peering through


of the Royal School of Music round the recesses of the 12th . ,


M. Robinson and the late Mr. Joseph Robinson, and, since


Manchester College of Music. | time to go. She is the daughter of Mrs.


leaving Notre Dame Grammar School, Blackburn, she has spent three years at Manches. ter. She plans to spend another year there, studying the violin,


garet has equalled the success erg are destroying the country of her sister Josephine.


By gaining the degree, Mar- . _ ,,


ber of the London Symphony County Fire Brigade. Orchestra.


DEGREE ADVICE


Forty local advisory officers


and 19 colleges in the North West are taking part in the


locally-based “Further Educa­ tion Information service" for school leavers which comes into operation this week. This service, which is a com­


girl’s case to the Juvenile Court in Hull, where she lives, and while her case is pending she will stay in a remand home. Mr. Hollingworth, who is 23,


43-YEAR-OLD ENGINEER


BECAME A STUDENT NURSE


A gratifying experience at Calderstones Hospital is the number of men who, having worked in the hospital in other


capacities, have now transferred to the Male Nursing Staff. One is Mr. Albert Sayward,


who had worked there for seven years as a skilled engineer. At 43 he became a student


readjustment to his way of life but he finds his new work both interesting and satisfy­ ing. His studies have given him a mental stimulus and the scientific aspeots of many nurs­ ing techniques fascinate him. "I should have done it years ago", is his comment, and Mr. Sayward, who has recently passed his first nursing exam­ ination, also enjoys the many social activities at the hospital which are arranged at times


nurse and after 12 months he has no regrets. I t has meant considerable


to fit in with the nurses duties Another man to change to


nursing is 23-year-old Mr. Geoffrey Whittaker, a married man with one child, who was a former chauffeur - ambulance driver at the hospital.


•at the hospital are to follow their colleagues’ example and will shortly enter the Nurse Training School as student nurses.


the Nurse Training School and knows that, all being well, in three years time he will be a State Registered staff nurse, with excellent prospects of early promotion. He too feels that he has taken “a step in the right direction". Latest news is that three members of the painters' staff


He is enjoying his studies in


police.When Mr. Hollingsworth was questioned about this by the police he said he and the girl had gone in there to sleep. Damage in the church has


senting Mr. Hollingsworth, said that his client wished to ex­ press deep regret for what had


been estimated at about £25. Mr. Edward Slinger, repre


tinued, was one of a family of 12 children and is a native of Colne. When he was still a child, the


happened. Mr. Hollingsworth, he con


came familiar with Clitheroe and had friends who lived in


family broke up and lie was put into an orphanage. During his childhood he be­


the town. He returned to Clitheroe to see his friends and to look for


Hollingsworth committed the damage in the church during a fit of depression.


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than by a duly licensed instru­ ment Mr. Gordon Whalley, of Bay tree Road, Clayton-le-Woods,


For taking trout otherwise


near Chorley, was fined £4 by Bowland Magistrates on Mon-


day.Mr. James H. Jacques, of the Lancashire River Board, saw Mr. Whalley fishing on the batik of the River Hodder at Slatd- bum and he asked him to pro­ duce his licence, whioh was not the required one. In a letter to the court, the


defendant said he thought his coarse fish licence allowed him


to fish there. . He said he had no intention


of fishing when he left his homo for a drive in his car but had his tackle in the boot be­ cause ho had recently returned front a fishing holiday in Ire land.


V ? f ’ ' " ]


Fire Chief appeals for care


A brother, Martin, is a mem- chief officer of Lancashire In a message, addressed par­


Children, tourists and srnok- side, warns Mr. P. H. Darby,


ticularly to touring motorists, he says: “Better roads and more cars mean more people able to visit and enjoy more and more of Britain’s remote countryside, but, hand-in-hand with this, goes an ever increas­ ing fire risk. ‘The Forestry Commission


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and the National Trust have done their utmost to open up the countryside to tourists, and, as a thank-you. last year 500 fires—most of them started by the public—devastated no less than 1.600 acres of Forestry Commission land.”


bined operation on. the part of the local education authorities, polytechnics and technical col­


leges, and the Department of Education and Science, oper­ ates throughout August and September to provide A level school leavers with up-to-date information and advice about vacancies in tho full-time deg­ ree and higher national dip­ loma courses in the 26 poly­ technics and some 86 technical


colleges. ____


Mr. Darby points out that children start about 10,000 out breaks of fire every year, in­ volving grassland, hcathland and trees, the smoke from which is very dangerous when drifting across heavily u s e d roads.In addition, careless smokers were known to have started over 3,000 countryside fires last year, with discarded matches and cigarettes.


Giving more telling statistics Dangerous Conservation main


topic of Arts and Grafts Exhibition


work. Mr. Siinger said that Mr.


bition being held tomorrow m the Catholic Hall, Whalley, one of the exhibits will be a project prepared by Whalley Womens Institute in connection with European Conservation Year.


At the Arts and Crafts Exhi­


view at the Royal Lancashire Show where it attracted wide­ spread attention and interest. By means of models, paint­


This has already been on


ings and photographs, the exhi­ bit graphically illustrates how the industrial Revolution changed the River Calder from a sweet flowing river, alive with salmon and. trout, into its pres­


Chatburn bull second


only lo Show Champion


Messrs. F. and M. Clayton, of Laneside Farm, disappointment in being beaten into second place at the Royal Lancashire Show was tempered by the fact that their entry- was only beaten by the show champion.


For Chatbum cattle breeders


Hereford bulls born on or after July 1 last year and they took second place • with "Winter- well”.


This was in the class for


was a repeat of the judges’ decision at the recent York­ shire Show, and Mr. Frank Clayton was quite happy with it. the champion being a very


This Royal Lancashire result


good animal indeed. Mr. Clayton was delighted


bull’s unusual growth rate, having put on 1.030 lbs in 360 days compared with the aver­ age 994 lbs expected for 400


and Livestock Commission rep­ resentatives at the show. They, were impressed by the


that his bull had attracted the favourable notice of the Meat


days. Another successful compet­


ent nauseous and polluted state. A great deal of work and re­


search has gone into t-he prep­ aration of the exhibit and Whalley Parish Council are pleased to have the opportunity cf giving it its first public show­ ing in -this area at the Exhibi­ tion. where it will have pride of place.


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