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qIRDENING DEPARTMENT


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ul hue Mr. Thomas Garnett Ult cerely thank all 7 e\L s‘n- '-icnds, neighbours, the


3i GARNETT.—'Hie family of


agemcnt and workmate.,' Castle Castings Ltd f0- 01 sages ol sympathy ana


ACKNAVLEDGMENT.s man-


b tributes received in thei,. 0ra: •19 Whallcy Road. Cllthcrnr


ereavement. H'TCIIEN.-The sjstc,, 7 — ur sad


and floral tributes rcccl-M ■' f s their, bereavement: a’ln a ,<n 1 heir kindness.


brother of the late Mu* 7.nd Hitchen wish to thank relatives. Xricnds. noicruu ali and the members of Low \^U:,S Methodist Church f0-V ^ kind expressions of syTO


»vi5,;r


atall of Castleford. tiitL™ 1 tnd the Rev. E c. Jose S '1.0';


C'lih^c.1 Strcct* Lo*v Moor.


SLATER.—Mrs. Slater and i'.y desire to thank everyone £ then- kind expressions of «£,' pathy and for IctteiV™; condolence received j, T their sad bereavement.


Gile Lodge. Gisburn Park isburn..


WHITE.—Tile family of tbTTTv. t Miss Muriel Joyce Wlm0 or expressions of sympathy £


o thank most sincerely ai' l lives, friends and nclghbo^ s floral tributes received in ti p'-


dad loss. Also the family ioc o-'


octors and nursing staff Accrington Victoria HosTtv


11. Westfield Drive. West Bradford.


and the clergy for their 'kins ministrations.


IN MEMORIAL


BARKER.—In loving memory o' a dear lather Jack, passed aivav 16 April 1969.


With farewells left unspoken You quietly slipped away A golden heart stopped beatir.c Two loving hands at rest I God broke our hearts to Drove


God's golden gates stood open One year ago today.


fe only takes the best. Will always bring regret


" ai u crash


TWO LORRIES were in­ volved in a head-on collision in | |iC Whallcy-Clitheroc


[Mj at Limchousc last


Thursday morning. Mr. Henry Pritchard Mor- . of Bilsbcrry Cottages,


To think we couldn't even say goodbye to you


—From daughters Mavis and Maureen.


DOWNING.—Treasured memories of our darling Julia Lesley, died 9 April 1967.


—Gran, and Uncle Edgar


“And a little child shall lead them.”


DOWNING.—In loving memory of our daughter Julia Lesley died 9 April. 1967.


—Mum and Dad.


WELLS.—In memory of my dear husband Thomas, father and grandfather, died 13 April. 1968 Some day. some time we wiii meet again.


—From his wife Sarah Emily and family.


WHIPP.—In loving memory of u dear father and grandad IWi’llaim who passed away 12 April, 1969. Always smiling, always content. Loved and respected wherever he went.


Violet.Goodnight, God bless grandad : —Tracy.


From his loving daughter APPRECIATION


SMITH—Mrs. Ernest Smith. 22, Quen Street. WliaUey. wishes to t express her heartfelt thanks to


Mothers’ Union, Whalley Abbey Senior Citizens, many friends and neighbours for prayers, flowers, cards, transport and so many useful gifts received during her rceent illness. God


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STAR RIDER at last Satur­ day’s Pendlc Forest and Craven Hunt Point-to-point Steeplechase was Miss Ann Greenwood who rode two of the live winners. Our picture shows her re­


ceiving the Massey Gold Cup from her mother, Mrs. Alfred Hall-Davis. Full report: page 4.


Alan Haworth, of Lower Fold Farm, Langho; William Holt, of Whitehalgh F a rm, Langho: Joyce Hopwood, of Whitehalgh Lane, Langho: Justin C. Jutig- bluth, of Larkhill, Brockhali; Jessica Lofthuuse, of York Lane, Langho; George Nickson, of Laycocks Farm, Langho.


Lane, Langho; Jack Carr, of Billington Gardens, Billington: James Cox, of Meadow Close, Billir/yion; Norman Eddleston. of York Lane; Keith Ellis, of Billington Gardens; William Fleming, of Hillcrest Road. Langho; Albert Greenwood, of Whalley New Road, Langho:


Billington will elect their parish councillors. The candi­ dates a re: Fred K. Birkett, of York


PARISH POLL On Monday, May 4, voters in


1’ - d


Loved in life, and living vet. j In the hearts of those who — never forget.


:f c ‘ V ’ ,


Loved and remembered even1 day.


iirn Green, was driving a ;.-ven-ton lerry which was in jo'ssion with 'dial driven by M


' 3o:h drivers were taken to Accr.ngton Victoria Hospital. ' Mr. "Mortimer was trnns- fe::?:! the same day to Black- tern Royal Infirmary where w-erday lie was said to be ‘Satisfaciory and comfortable."


C'Olv. M


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TORY MAJORITY GOES UP NEARLY FIVE


TIMES IN LOW POLL


CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE Mrs. Mary E. Chatburn retained her seat with a 959 majority ovcrLabour’s James Waterhouse when the Lancashire County Council


election "as held in Clitheroc on Thursday of last week. There was a poll of 34.63 per cent.


_____________________ I A former Mayoress of Clithcroe Mrs. Chafburn is the


Limelioiise -on


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wife of the leader of Clitheroe Town Council, Aid. Clifford Chafburn. She began her political career three years ago, when she was elected to the county council with a majority of about 200.


Education and Children’s Com­ mittees, and is a member of the No. 5 Divisional Education Executive and the Health Executive. The actual result was: Mrs.


Mrs. Chatburn serves on the


M. E. Chatburn (C) 2.150; J. W. Waterhouse (L) 1,225. In the adjacent Settle and


Bowland division of the West Riding County Council. Thomas H. A spin, Conservative,


retained his seat with a 1,291 majority, when the pol; was held on Saturday. His opponent, Liberal can­


lived at Eaves House Farm, West Bradford, for more than 40 years, but is now semi- retired. The farm is run by his son, Jim.


Meadowcroft. West Bradford Road, Waddington, is the chair­ man of Bowland Rural Coun­ cil. and has been returned unopposed for several years. A native of Grindleton. be


County Ccun. As-pin, of


didate Mr. P. Jordan polled I. 366 votes. There was a 47.8 per cent poll.


resentative on the Fylde Water Board, and is also a member of the Bowland Road Safety Committee and the West Rid­ ing branch of the Rural Dist­ rict Councils’ Association.


Secondary School. He is Bowland Council’s rep­


FEW BUDGET CRUMBS FOR LOCAL AGED


PEW of Clilhcroc s over-70's would benefit from the lax concessions lor old people announced in this week’s Budget,


lor most did not have jobs and their income was already too small to be taxed. This comment came yesterday


from Mrs. Ethel Penny, .secre­ tary of the Clitheroc branch of the National Federation of Old


announced that 106,008 old people would he freed from tax and another 300,000 would have their liability reduced.


Age Pensions. On Tuesday, the Chancellor


£425 for single persons aged 65 and over is being raised to £475,


Present exemption limit of


and for married couples from £680 to £740. But Mrs. Penny is disappoin­


ted. "Of those who have gone out to work a number have lost their jobs because of SET. Wo


thought that the Chancellor would have dropped SET tor working pensioners.” she said.


tills tax for only a few hours’ work.


Mrs. Penny added that em­ ployers did not want to pay


Remanded


address, was remanded in cus­ tody at Clitheroe yesterday charged with entering a shop in Market Place and stealing four radio sets worth £36 15s.


Alan Taylor, of no fixed


“IT WAS JUST like getting oul of bed,” These were Howard Mather’s words, immediately after he crawled from the Ford Corlina wreck, above, on


Monday. From a police point of


view, Mr. Mather was ex­ tremely lucky. Such a wreck


seldom leaves no-one even siighty injured.


Leaving an exhibit'on, in


Manchester, at five o’clock, Mr. Mather—tenant of the Victoria Hotel, in the centre of Clitheroe—was passing the Spread Eagle, just before Barrow, at 6-20 p.m. "I imagine it must have


been a tyre burst,” he told an Advertiser and Times reporter. "She suddenly dipped, on


the fro;:, nearside, and I went straight into the wall. “It was one of those loose


stone walls that are common around hero—you know what I moan?—and stones went flying through the cottage The cottage, of course, was


one of those on the left- hand side of the road just


belt,” Mr. Mather told the reporter, "but, for some rea­ son, 1 hadn't bothered this time. "Thank God I hadn't. "The car turned over and


after the Spread Eagle, motoring north towards Clitheroe “I always wear my safety


skidded for a way. Luckily, the driver’s door flow open


and—you know how a door catches on the kerb when you have heavy passengers? —acted as an anchor. Other- w'se sue might have col­ lapsed on top of me. "When the police arrived,


the sergeant said this was the sort of accident, with no bodies lying around, that they didn't mind attending. "I toid hir.’ how easily l


had got out of the car. 'It was just like getting out of


bed,' I told him.” Mr Mather declined an


offer to take him, by ambu­ lance, to hospital for a check­ up. ‘Tin more worried about


this poor old dear whose house I bit," he said. This was Mrs. Grace


Exton, an 89-year-old widow, who lives alone in thc house in Bramley View, She was taken by ambu­


bour, sa’d that all the debris went through the window into Mrs. Exton’s front room. Mrs. Quinn cleared the


lance to Accrington Victoria Hospital, and was admitted suffering from shock. Mrs. Mary Quinn, a neiglv


room but on Tuesday after­ noon there were still a lot of stones and glass outside the house. Mrs. Extun h a s recently


been ill, and had returned to her homo only at Easter, after spending a month in an Accrington nursing home. A spokesman at Accrington


Victoria Hospital said yester­ day (Thursday) that Mrs. Exton was “very well.”


Seven seek town


clerkship


SEVEN applications have been received lor the post of


Clitheroe’s town clerk. To reduce this number, to a


short list of not more than four, a sub-committee of five mem­ bers of the town council has been appointed.


Tom Robinson, Aid. Clifford Chatburn, Aid. William Sharp­ ies. Aid. Sydney Hardman and Coun. Harry Pearson.


The five members are: Aid.


affairs. Coun. Aspin is a mem­ ber of Bowiand District Educa­ tion Sub-committee, and is a governor of Bow-land County


Keenly interested in public BHB •A:-/'


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CANDIDATES - I N ' RURAL AND


PARISH LINE-UP


A METHODIST minister, a woman barrister and a local worker lor cancer research are included in the list ol nominations for the Clitheroc Rural Council and parish elections to be held on Tuesday, May 5. They arc Liberal candidate the Rev. E. S. .loselin and


barrister Miss Monica Stalker, who arc seeking election as Whalley parish councillors. Mrs. Myra Clegg, who works for cancer research is seeking election to Clilhcroc Rural Council as the Wiswell representative, and to Wiswell


Parish Council. Polling begins at 12 noon and ends al 8 p.m. Candidates are:


R u r a l


vac i—Coup. E. Hoyle. Chatbum (two vacs)—Coun. J. G. Sharp and Coun. F. Clay­


(one vac)—Coun. Mrs. M. J. M. Brown. Bowland-with-Leagram (one


Aighton, Bailey and Chaiglcy


Mrs. I. E. Bee and Mr. H. Gor- nalt.


ton. Chipping (one vac) — Coun.


vac)—Coun. W. E. Spensley. Pendleton (one vaci — Coun.


Downliam and Twiston (one


E. Holgate. Thornley-with-Wheatley (one vac)—Mr. W. Pye and Mr. H. E.


jram Ward (three vacs)—Coun. E Hovlc, Mr. E. Rich. Mr. H. Parkinson (retiring members), Mr. C. W. Blundell and Mr. C. A. Harrison. Chatburn (eight vacs)—Coun.


Bowland-with-Leagram: Lea-


F. Clayton. Mr. C. Field, Mr. G. P. Womersley, Mr. E. Frank- land. Mr. H. E. Boden, Miss G. C. Freeman. Mr. T. Hudson (retiring members), Mr. H. Townson, Mr. J. Shackleton


'


J. H. Fell, Coun. A. Westwell. Mr. J. S. R. Shaw and Mrs. C.


Airey. Whalley (three vacs)—Coun.


Horsfall. Wiswell and Little Mitton


vac)—Col. H. Eastwood. Parish


(one Vac)—Mrs. M. Clegg. Worton and Mearley (one


lcy: Hurst Green and Stony- hurst Ward (seven vacs)— Coun. Mrs. M. J. M. Brown, Mr. D. Lakeland. Mr. B. Rawcliffe, Mr. V. J. Wilcock, Mr. J. R. Lynch. Mr. John Kay (retiring members) Mr. R. Wilkinson, Mr. K. Bolton and Mr. W. Jacques. Aighton, Bailey and Chatgley: Chaigley Ward (one vac)—Mr.


Aighton, Bailey and Chaig­


land Ward (three vacs)—Mr. J. Hoyle, Mr. T. E. Smith and Mr. A. E. Leece (retiring members).


Mammoth Christian Aid collection under way


CHRISTIAN AID WEEK started on Monday and empha­ sis is being placed on the house to house collection, Thc money raised this week will go to Project Tractor, and thc target figure of £2,000 must be reached by the end of July,


Wednesday, as part of Christian Aid Week, n.t the home of Mrs. A. Foulds, in Albemarle Street, Clitheroc, and a coffee morning will be held tomorrow Saturday in the Mayor’s Parlour.


publicity officer, said this week that up to now £1,800 had been collected. In previous years. Christian Aid Week has raised between £300 and £400. A coffee evening was held on


Mr. W. McColl. the Project's BENTHAMS


benefltted by almost £70, the result of two efforts, a mile of pennies and a flower arranging .•demonstration, both lidld ill Clitheroe;


are already collecting the 9,000 envelopes t h a t we r e put through letterboxes to Clitheroe Whalle.v, Barrow. Pendleton, Chatburn, 'Waddington, West Bradford, Grindleton and else­ where. Last weekend Project Tractor


About 200 voluntary workers


APPEAL GROUP FORMED


IN OUR VIEW.


MORE THAN SIX people in every ten did not bother to vote in last week’s County Council election. Of course, Clitheroe has no particular reason to feel ashamed about this: the whole country is equally apathetic when it comes to choosing who will spend the ratepayers’ money. . There is a temptation to argue


that this kind of apathy proves the impracticability of thc Maud Report’s ideas on the future of local government. One of the main argu­ ments put in favour of the proposed unitary authorities is, after ali, that people will take more interest in authorities that are large enough to wield real power over a wide field of public affairs. “The greatest power in local


government, at the moment,” objec­ tors may well argue, “resides in the county councils—and we have seen just how much interest people take in them!” This is a dangerous argument. It presupposes that people will show more interest in something that is less remote. Well, we will soon have the


chance to put that theory to the test. On May 5, thc electors go to he


polls to choose Clitheroe Rural Dis­ trict Council. Two days later, a third of thc borough council come up for election. Then, on May 9, there is the Bowland R.D.C. election.


These are grass-root authorities,


intimately concerned with the every­ day lives of their constituents—as arc the parish councils whose elec­ tions are also crowding in on us.


So we can expect the electorate to


flock to the polling booths in their thousands. Or can we? As a newspaper, we will do our


best to whip up interest. Election activities will be fully reported. Notes on the candidates will appear. The parties will be given space to expound their policies. Our corres­ pondence columns will be open to everyone with something to say about the elections.


But we fear that all this sound and


fury will signify precious little in the end result. Perhaps we are wrong. Perhaps


people really do care more about their immediate councils than about the remote bureaucracy in Preston. But they will need to improve on


last week’s 34.63 per cent to prove - it.


THE DAY that the cirous hit town is one that will long be remembered by the lads who got personal attention from one of the clowns. A circus report appears on page 7.


Fulton, of Waddington Road. Mr. Newell is chairman of


Clitheroe Liberal Association and is an assistant children's officer, employed by Lancashire Ccunty Council. He is a member of Clitheroe


Newell, of Warwick Drive, and Mr. and Mrs. Tony Cooper, of Hillside Close. The fifth mem­ ber of the team is Mr. Robert


cluded in the Liberal team to contest the Clithcroe municipal elections next month. They are Mr. and Mrs. Barry


name team Two married couples are in­


Liberals


A COFFEE evening in the Mayor’s Parlour at the end of May will • mark thc launcing of a public appeal to ratse over £20,000 over a two-year period for the pro­ posed Clitheroe swimming


around £70,000, will be found by the corporation. It was ’ hoped to start the


pool at Roe Field; The balance of the money,


Golf Club, and,is editor of the Journal of the Association of Child Care Officers. His wife, who has a degree


in sociology, lectures at a local technical college, and is an active worker in the scheme for raising money for Clitheroe's swimming baths. Head of the biology depart­


ment at St. Mary's College, Blackburn, Mr. Cooper is secre­ tary of the Clitheroe Liberal Association. He is a graduate of Leicester University. A housewife, Mrs. Cooper is


'He is also a member of Clith­ croe Golf Club. He has three children.


Greenwood, who accepted the post of honorary solicitor, it was agreed to form The Ribble Valley Appeal Association and to' submit a constitution and ntles for approval of the Charity Commissioners. Money will be raised to help provide a swimming pool at Roe Field or, in .the unlikely event of one not being built, to be used for the benefit of the youth in the area the pool would have served. , . Coun. John Blackburn was


and country people attending a meeting at the Town Hall on Monday evening was to invite the handicrafts department at Ribblesdale Secondary School to construct a scale model of the baths, the idea being that this should be put on public display. On the advice of Mr. W. D.


the mother of three children. A native of Wigan, Mr. Ful­ ton is a mechanical engineer.


appeal at the end of this month but legal advice is that nothing should be done until the Charity Commissioners: have given approval. : One of the decisions of town


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James Kay. Bowland-with-Leagram: Bow­


and Mr. B. Nightingale. Chipping (six vacs i—Mr. J. Bil'kett, Mr. D. R. Holt, Mr. M. B. Huddleston Mr. A. G. Gour- din, Coun. Mrs. I. E. Bee (retir­ ing members). Mr. L. Cookson, Mr. H. Gornall, Mr. P. Stott and Mr. W. H. Heane. Pendleton (five vacs)—Mr. W. Cowperthwaite, Mr. R. Thistle- thwaite, Mr. G. E. Cowper­ thwaite, Coun, E. Holgate and Mr. T. Whitwell. Thomley-with-Wheatley (live


J. H. Fell (Ind). Coun. A. West- well, Mr. J. S. R. Shaw. County Aid. B. Greenwood, Mrs. C. Horsfall (retiring members), Mr. A. C. Poole Mrs. D. Mur- tagh, the Rev. E. S. Joselin (Lib), Miss P. Wilkinson, and Miss M. Stalker. Wiswell: Barrow Ward (four


vacs)—Mr. E. Ashcroft, Mr. W. S. Brown (retiring members', and Mr. P. J. Mawson. Wiswell: Wiswell Ward (four


vacs)—Mr. J. E. Wilkinson, Mr. O. Hayhurst, Mr. H. Procter (retiring members), Mr. W. P.ve and Mr. J. Moon. Whalley (seven vacs) — Conn.


vacs)—Miss E. M. Foster. Coun. C. Pearce, Mr. J. Thompson (retiring members', and Mrs. M. Clegg.


Dolls talSc


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