IROUIND AND


iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Iabout


amous brass band pays a visit


to toivn


A rare opportunity j|, lis area to hear a famous


fcrass band is provided by ■he visit of Fodens Motor |.Vorks Band to St. Paul's Ihtirdi, Low Moor, to-


Inorrow evening. T!ie band is taking par*


■r celebrations inarkin"- the lentenary of the church and lieir programme will include luisic by Suppo_ Wagner Iranckc, Waldefeul, Bcet- loven, Priccimann and Sibel­ ius who will be represented Iv the evor-popular tone- ■aem •■Finlandia’’. In lighie’' ■ein there will bo music'from ■Mary Poppins”.


J‘r collection will be” taken l i aid of a new parish hall.


"ributes to


librarian Warm tributes were


I'.iid 10 the work of Mr. Inluir Hanson, the bor-


lugli librarian, when the |)wn council met on Tues-


|e:i|, on hcallk grounds from line la. The tributes were Id by .Mdrinan Clifford Clnit-


ay. riic council received with arci hi.s notice of retire-


Jirn tind -'tldernian Tom loihnson. Mr. Hanson was


lici to have done "an cxccl- job’’ and hopes were


Iprosscd for his return to la'.ih.


iMr, Hanson 'vas appointed Irarian in 1946. Hi.s wider |:crc.sl.s have included ser- ? to CUtheroe Cricket club a player, secretary and


lairman. He was .also presi- Int of the former CUtheroe Icdnesday Cricket Club. Id president of CUtheroe


lo.'O of the council for a |ocl recovery in health.


lember of the .'Vdveniscr ].;! Timc.s editorial staff and add oiir good wi.she.s to


Idgo in 1961. Mr, Hanson 1-s a former


laihiecn Hilder and it l.ere.sling to note that her lofiation with the librarj’ ■>ns 3'f. yeans,


During his illness the nm- of the library has been I he capable hands of Mrs.


b i addition to Mr. Hanson. J* ha.s .served under three lier librarians; Mr. Tom Irgreaves. wlio was first


|y .5 the library was open lin 10 a.m. to 9-30 p.m. 1 urriays included.


|l-iime holder of b'e pcst; Richard Dugdale and Edith Porter. In U'esc


(ir.s Hilder’.s present lerm 1 .services dates from peb-


|try, 1963. loms


dtincers arc these days, apart


om wlien a group icoplc get togellicr part in Clilhcroc s


L procc.ssion. Even -one would claim are c-xpcrls.


■ris Men. wo groups are P- demonstrate La-w.


1 cotswold nd the North-Ea;;!


ill begin their mur n later moving 'and visiting ■ their way to Clith


■ will be their ncst re travelling cf , Langho and Biac>*


urst Green tlie


:d in a tour by Gaunt Morris Men c Newcastle-upoh'


Mav 9, CUtheroe wm


J There will be no charge for Imiorrow’.s concert bu*„ a ,sil-


slioiltl p H ...vrasab’.e impinge


ay T-^^’«®,Ap- ‘ iOs r ? com-


''■'■'ffand mr the opportunity riven me to enlarge on letter .'ought to


'■'^"i-nOTC’a! enterprise and a’-c ahvav.s laud-


••■f'unvs of'course there i.s impingemcat on


" S a l in'crcst is involved h«e is ju.'tiliable caitse then resistance


i’h. be offered. That is


at work. mtercsis should


•, qioordinated to the expies-


T ‘1v:!1 of the PCoP-e- Far me lo hneri.o.w any


bcbvecn commendable '-;^pdsc and legitimate pro-


'"mcea’s can be useful, om ,;^‘’^very co.=U.v. While the '.‘.'ij,: of aiipcal !s genciall.t


fllia e, '.vhere Uw exercise of i-rii a prei’cgauvc i.s aga'mst


fr'eio'.vlcdgct' ‘•“‘"'’'“’I


r ivic aiujiorit.V.' dccision- ij.ee r. i.' pri'i'.arii.v m the s-jnellams' iatcic.'t and ma\ be their advantage-tiic entire .rilould be borne by the


“‘’Itfrli'icpavcr slioiiltl not be -.ifiid. Like Uiai of the Lio-,' (iccision.s by elected


coriicils should be final and


h> lesiiectcd. This is not to or to inipl.v. that local


.virclusive. ■rlie voice of tiie people mu.si


Mihci'itics are iniallible. \-evertliele.ss. the expressed


--;i of the people should pre­ vail and no compromise with commercial interests lor busi- r^ss expediency .should be poi - ,,";Ted - certainly not when .i'l'ere u ample jiislification for pWie.st against encroachment


50'jeals. but definitely opposed i.j encroachment of industry iifo what arc clearly residen- iiai areas. The two should be


c". the I'ighis of others. One need no: be averse to


feevegated.


arc flouted and cannot bo put ■Ito force, then it ceases lo


\Vhcn a council's decisions . .


S an authority in the true sase of that term, and the elector becomes fnislraled. The principle of democracy -covernment of the people


bv'thc iicople for the people— ■


J shailcred. Councils must


democracy, a c o unc i l s s'jtliority and cilirens’ rights, jietmit mo a word or two to •he electorate. Forty per cent polls tell their own lalet ajiathy among a


fovern. While on the subject of


,.i5..atmateti pc i


IGNORE THEM AND THEY'LL GO AWAY


“IGNORE TH E HUN­ GRY and they will go away”—This has been the cry of the last week, with reference to world need and organized help and aid given through Christian Aid. .Mthongh, .at tills time, it is


by the CUtheroe and District (jouncil of Christian Con­ gregations, for tlieir generos­ ity and iinfaiUng support of the year’s efforts.


able, if an all-out effort was made. If anyone was feeling we


Tlie sum seemed conceiv­


impossible to assess accurately t.hc response to Christian ,\id Week throughout the district, ;t i,s fairly evident that we have every rea.son to bo en­ couraged.


manv house-to-house collec­ tors'who have played a pm’t


Our thanks go out lo the


in this great effort, and atso to the ptiblic for their res­


ponse. This voar. the work of Pro­


ject Tractor has most cer­ tainly .stimulated and infor­ med our town of the need to help the people in under­ developed countries. The national "sign-in’’ at


responsible for organismg the project, and tbs various inter­ denominational groups round the town, who have worked ■so hard to make the project known and also to raise the These efforts, I am sure,


will bring glory to God- as they arc backed by Christian love and prayer.—K. Broad- hurst


Christmas, helped to focus world need as a national and international’, problem, as well ji.i; being n Christian respon­ sibility. .May I thank those who are


were aiming too high their fears may soon be laid to one side. Alosg with one or two more


efforts which are being plan­ ned in the near future, the target sum is now well within reach and wc trust will be surpassed. At the close of Christian


Lelters tb'fthe Editor


REG.ARDING the forth com­ ing municipal cleotions, on May 7, your last week’s edi­ torial stated; "As a news­ paper, we will do our best to whip up intere.st.”


election You'


Mr. Editor, sir, it you can


whip up interest in CUtheroe, you should be rmgmaster at Blackpool Tower Circus, bu t how I wish power to your pen. ■you mu.st fully realise what


you arc up against, when many of our voters express the opin­ ion “They arn’t worth turning out for”, perhaps they have a point; but staying away from the polling booth doesn't help change the situation. But it does, provide one


reason for the low poll. ’Till recently, many people


£2.000 target. When the project was first


started. discussion ranged round the target figure and the sum of £2,000—inclusive Of the Cafod target figure— was finallv decided on, as tliis paid for the tractor which was needed in South India.


were under the impression they had to use all their votes or their paper was void. “•Vote solid", they were ad­


vised by the main political parties but they found great difficulty in finding four they considered fit to represent them in council. Quite understandable, f o r


the political parties appear to f i n d increasing difficulties.


C/V/C HALL LOSS NOT MISQUOTED


(Rev.), Chairman,


Cliristian .'lid Committee. • .‘\id Week, may f therefore, as cliairman of the Christian -'tid Committee, vn’ite this open letter of appreciation to all the organisers, workers and the residents of areas covered


TWO YEARS AGO, 1 strongly supported the in­ troduction of politically independent candidates at the municipal election. I believed tha' their unaligned opinions would strengthen ultimate argument in the Council Chamber and help to produce more balanced results. Partly through my efforts, I


independent- ©r cursed ?


part oi protest againsi prejudice and Ci'vic'lHairfor 1969-70 showed an tains no figiues whatever relat-


to note that, relates to the year which ended ' ‘^ ^ 'S b s t r a c t o f ^ c o tm t s whereas our estimates for the on March 31. 1969, and con-


V.4m are eliminated from expected loss of nearly £80 per mg to the present financial aniian politics shall wc have week, it is now nearer to £65. .year, and a totally wrong im-


ftiue and veal democracy, but and in the coming year should prcssion is given m the article a ^ In l t e iv ' lc a S ip


present issue of the


montation. - HAROLD R. they they are not in keeping BROUGHTON, Pimlico Ro-ad. witli the Abstract of Accounts


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flgur^ are those


w- 'tlicre bo lc=, oi biased culales in this area, disputes be confii-med by reference to !^doc:Suon mid party regi- these figures, and


pVpei-'onaliiv before partv. Liberal News Letlcr, wliich cir- which I quoted and these can borough treasurer,


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3,375


Estimate 1970-71 10,650 7.600


671 3,050


draw the suggestion that either the Abstract was wrong or that I mLsled the public. T. Robin­ son, Finance Chairman, Clith- eroe Borough Council.


I hope the Liberals will with­ 61 Prize


Crossword ACROSS:


1 Slogan suitable for suc­ cessful fishennen? (9).


8 As a European he’s almost in bondage (4).


9 Didn’t take a straight route to the sea (9).


11 One of the soldiers for the dance (6).


13 and 17 Ac. Ibsen play suitable for puppets? (5,5).


15 Frank to get the proceed­ ings going (4).


16 Vessel belonging to groups of seamen, we


17 See 13 Across. 18 Paved area where you’ll find the Irishman before


hear (5).


19 The boss requires end­ less mental application


ten (5).


20 Slow people don t make it (5).


(4).


22 Polished round for ex­ ample precious stones


2 (6)5 A place to anchor—where you may find broken dates by Uie way (9).


27 About to stage a .show and act as agent (9).


ment (4'l • DOWN:


2 Top copy more (4).


3 Vessel not going back to part of Switzerland (6).


needing ten , , .


4 Revolver seen on the road (5).


10 See 24 Dmvn. 12 What a team of surgeons


7 On top of the principal's expenses (9).


a cute fault (9).


13 Passing places (5-4). 14 Hugo’s upset by the noise of the wind (5).


do?. (2-7).


5 Wind up the film (4). G To be inconstant could be


17 Poet not affected by wan­ derlust, presumably (5).


19 Announces the condi- . tions (6).


21 The man at the back of this tree is a civic digni­ tary (5).


26 In the pamphlet I deplored a current move­


24 and 10 Dn. Suitable relaxation for the hay­ makers? (4-5).


23 In need of companion­ ship. being trodden underfoot (4).


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am presumpluous to believe, one candidate was returned and the other came fifth.


I was right. For a time, I felt justified in


I am now wondering whether


attributing Coun. Ainsworth's outbursts in council and Press to inexperience, an d th e natural frustration of being a ‘loner’.


one feels that he should have become accustomed to his


After a full year, however,


isolation, and learned discre­ tion in respect of Standing Orders in council, and not be too ready to dash into print with inadequate homework.


if their oppo-sition has nothing more to conunend itself than sheer cussedness.


Independents arc misguided


his not very mature articles in the local Pre.ss concerning a matter of -so small .signific­ ance as an allegation that our road sweepers spend iasuffici- ent time cleaning up Beverley Drive, seem scarcely worth space.


As regards the ’near-mtsser’. Having got nowhere with


that ’select’ little cul-de-sac. he now turns his attention to a more populous thoroughfare, from which, one assumes, he hopes to cm'ry support at the approaching election.


roads are only temporarily being overrun by an abnormal number of stone and clay carrying lorries, which i.s un­ avoidable while the external bj’pass is in course of construc­ tion.


A large number of internal


residents accept them with patience as a necessary evil, confident in the belief that a reduction must come within measurable time, and are mildly enviou.s of those who live in quiet backwaters. So be patient Mr. Sain-sbury


sider 700 vehicles an hour which pass along Pimlico Road and 141611 Terrace. No-one likes them, but the


Mr. Sainsbury might con­


year after year, in finding the necessary luimber of suitable candidates. You may not agree that a


person should discriminate to the extent of only using one vote, but you must agree that they have that right. However, with the help ol


Local


interest? be lucky!


dington Road, area, one in Pimlico and one in York St.


can certainly contribute, and make the electorate realise it Is vital lo provide effective


Your paper and editorials


this column the Independent candidates, myself and Coun. -Ainsworth, were able to make people aware they had the right to select and be choosy, but this belief of using all four votes in the pa.st has provided rea.sons for people abstaining. Then there is lack of know­


oppo.sition to any type of rule. 0 r dictatorship supersedes democracy, and even demo­ cracy leaves a !ot to be desired at times.


let the public have for expres­ sing their views. Many avail themselves of


This column is the only out­


ledge that an election is to take place or has taken place. Unbelievable, you may say—


the opportunity. Often our opinions fail on stony ground, but at least we have expressed them, which is our right. Last year, a wind of change,


step outside your office door any morning and ask the, man in the s t r e e t , you’ll be astounded. In fact, ma n y believe the election took place a couple of weeks ago. when we elected the county repre­ sentative. Despite the fact your paper


Bad siting for Newton lavatories


AS THE OWNER-OCCUPIER of the two cottages referred lo m the letter to the Editor regarding Newton’s public toilets, in your issue of April 17. headed “A toucb of Clochemerle," I can fully endorse every statement made there by your correspondent.


reference to a stupid "mistake having been made in building them where they are by assuring him that it was also :i deliberate, and determined “mistake, ’ as copies of my own letters regarding these, and replies from the respon­ sible authorities, clearly show They were determined to


Also, I can amplify his


build them where they are, whatever objections I might make, or good reasons I might pul forward why they


should not be. All these have now proved


or perhaps only a .slight breeze, blew through out tovm—the votei's elected an Independent to our coimcil for the first time. Not onlv wa.s ho elected, but Coun. Ainsworth topped


the poll. This indicates that people


announced, a few weeks ago. that I wa.s to stand as an Independent candidate at the forthcoming municipal elec­ tion. people -still inquired why I did not send out any litera­ ture for the county, so lack of knowledge an d dmmright di.sinterest make low polls. Now we come to our ridi­


are -sick and tired of party aolitics in our council cham­ bers. Whip up interest in the


to be fact, and obvious even to a visitor whom I neither know, nor have met (so far as 1 know) but who expres.scs the views of visitors and pass­ ing motorists, and others for whom these should primarily have been provided. I protested strongly, over


many months,, before these were actually built, and would


forthcoming municipal elec­ tion. If you succeed, you will have performed a great public


service. B u t remember you are striking broad backs and thick


fusing to many people. Neither Tory nor Socialist


culous uon-ward system of representation, when we could have a ballot paper as long as Magna Carta, and ju.st as con­


have wished to change the .system, but it must be said in tile Liberals’ favour they have long advocated wards. We have a unique situation


at present, when ten out of eleven Tories are all resident in Avhat could possibly be one


ward, four in the Chatbum Road district, rotir in the Wad-


W


skins— .'0 hit hard.—(Jeoff Sainsburv, lndep'’ndent. Can­ didate. Beverley Drive, CUth-


croe. Her father


YOU ASK if any reader recognises anyone in your photo, in the -A&T, of the Scout Movement. The scout­ master on it is my father, the late Mr. William (Billy) Trimby. of Bawdlands. Clith- ei'oe.


M. Trimby (Miss), Bawdlands. CUtheroe. than Hie pen


Mr. SAINSBURY wrote on March 30, explaining that before you had lime to publish his earlier letter of complaint about the state of Beverley Drive and the bollards near the Brown Cow, the work required had been done.


with a somewhat ungracious apology, to the borough sur­ veyor and to me,-but appar- entiv could not bring himself to admit that an over-strained department, which had com-. pletCij-the - work he thought needed doing before they had


He sent copies of the letter,


any idea that he had made such a complaint—through


your letter-bag instead of to ■the 'deparitment concerned— cannot be so badly out of touch with the needs of the borough as he would have your readers believe.


aggressive and somewhat abusive terms, complainrag about the state of Beverley Drive—a cul-de-sac which, like all such roads in the borough, is swept weekly. Within three days. I had


bury wrote to the suiTeyor, with a copy to myself, in


On July 7. 1969, Mr. Sams-


—you should learn lo control y o u r vitriolic utterances, which do not become you as a prospective candidate to take part in the serious delibera­ tions in our council chamber. They have certainly made


eeding fork mighH er


Mr. Sainsbury’s running-male ip last year’s elections, by then one of my colleagues on


me that he had delivered newspapers in Beverlej* Drive a few days earlier, had secfi


tlie council. Coun. Ainsworth informed


no traces of litter, and' com­ pletely dissociated himself from 'Mr. Sainsbuo’’s com­


plaints. ■ 'Such'' ■"' assurances .'from


friends of Mr. Sainsbury, confirmed by records of scavenging kept in the department, .surety constitute rather more than “a stroll past the end of the Drive". If I am to weigh this evi­


neighbours and, presumably,


tinned complaints were cast­ ing upon liis neighbours’ atti­ tudes toward.s litter. I also showed the letter to


have taken tlie matter up at a higher level, had I not been obliged to let the matter rest for a while, owing to my then having lo g'ive my whole time


to mv business. The ownership of the


grotmd ' on which B.R.D.C.


■proposed lo build them was unknown and, I understand,


still IS, so there seemed ii possibility that, this, and commonsense. would cvenutu- ally cause a more suitable site to be selected. I was wrong! Building commenced in mid-


by the BRDC health inspec­ tor. Mr. Overende showed a small building occupying about a quarter of the avail­ able space, whereas the one now erected occupies fully half. I was assured that, althougli


October of last year, and was completed early this year. The original plan shown me


almost the only view from my small back-kitchen win­ dows is of that ground, I


wouldn't see it. Now, except for two pre­


viously existing buildings, I can . see nothing else- I w’as also assured, by the


Clerk to B.R.D.C., Mr Telford, that two full inspections had been made of the site by their Public Health Committee, yet no member of that committee, during t h e s e inspections, either contacted me, or came to see the view from my kitchen-windows, or to ask for any other information which I, as. the person mcsi likely to be aware of any other tac- tbfs they should ’ take into account, could 'readily have provided. These were


e n t i r e l y


dence aga-lnst th e crude assertions of a man who prefers to spend an hour or two concocting a letter to vou.


rather than a minute or two picking up any litter there ma.y be near his house. I think I know where the ti-uth


is to be found. Last week, I was delighted


inquired from three other resi- dent.s of the Drive as to whether they agreed with the


me tliink again, and possibly others.—Charles Musson, Pim- litw Road, CUtheroe.


erley Drive is a cul-de-sac. they a-ii realised that any litter accumulated there must be left by the residents, and rather resented the aspersions which Mr. Sainsbury’s con-


complaint. None of them did. In fact, knowing that Bev­


to hear from a ratepayer, without any prompting from me. that in view of the pounding which our roads have taken during the last few months, largely as a result of our efforts to relieve an in­ tolerable traffic situation m the borough, he took off his hat to Uie way they had been


maintained. If Mr. Sainsbury would


has been achieved and what promises to be achieved in the next few months and occa­ sionally think of' wielding a weeding-fork instead of a Pcn. tliei'e might be less reason to suspect that he has. however accidentally, hit upon the cor­ rect description of himself in last week’s letter. He might even feel less sure


lake his eyes away from Bev- orlev Drive a n d Whalley Road, look at the wider prob­ lems with which wo trj* lo cope, give some credit to what


that the answer to his ques­ tion about fools is the one he so complacently assumes. I am glad to know that he


will not agaht vote for me. I should not like anyone lo


independent of my reasonable object.ons to the value of my two cottages being, deprecia­ ted. and my having public toilets as my main view from the back of these 'and, it known to the committee, were ignored—but have since been obvious to tlie waiter of the letter referred to above. Shortly afterwards, how’-


ever, one member of this committee, Mr. Harrisen, who is B.R.D. Coun. for Wadding- ton, called on me. Until shortly' before ills


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cail, I iiadn’i known Mr. HaiTison, or known of him until I met with him when he was in conversation with one of my staff who had moved to live opposite him in Waddinglon. The subject of the proposed


toilets was mentioned, and he said he would give me a call next time he was in Newton, when I could show him. and Veil him. what the official party had not apparently con­ sidered relative, or important. The result of this call was


that, at the next meeting of the Public Health Commiiiee. he voted against the proposed site, but was out-voted, so their original decision was upheld. My opinion was. and still


Sainsbury that, having known him since his schooldays and followed his antics during the past few years in y o u r columns, I am never likely to commit the folly of voting for him—J. A. Barnes, Chairman.


feel that, by voting for me. they wei'e in any way asso­ ciating themselves with him. In return, l can assure Mr.


is tliat if tlie Health Commit­ tee as a w'hole had made the full inspection it wus claimed that they' had—but I con­ sider only Mr Harrison did— they, like him, might have changed their views—and their decision. I told him no more than


has been obvious to your correspondent, but was not to the B.R.D.C. Health Com­ mittee. They cou’.d also have been


told this. In connection with my


' Highways committee. Bor­ ough of Clitheroe.


business. I travel regularly from the Trough of Bowland, through Dunsop Bridge, to Newton every fine weekend,


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and particularly on Sundays often leaving the Ti'ough packed with cars and cits- tomei's there continually ask­ ing where they can find toilets Of course, there are none


nearer than Dunsop Bridge. I find Dunsop Bridge packed


Clilhcroc Advertiser and Times, April 24,1970 7 Residents Jo not need, or


use. the present toilets enough to justifv tlieir cost of approx­ imately £2,500, yet their siting where' your con'espondent suggests would have full) justified it.


with cars and visitors, and traffic-jams tha'e because, m spite of there being ample parking-^pace near, gardens instead of a lay-by have been provided in front of the toilets. When I arrive in Newton,


however, 1 find the village centre almost deserted, yet, near the river, cars are parked wherever their owner.s can find space as their occu­ pants enjoy themselves there. Slaidburn. too, has Us


numerous visitors, and toilets there, as at Dunsop Bridge, are near where the visiors park, and gather. In Newton, however, now


they must walk, or drive, approximately a quarter of a mile if they wish to use them, even if they know there to be any in the village. The local public house, the


needed no excavation lo obtain :i reasonable building- level, and next to none to reach a sewer-connection, and with water and electricity


.A site which would have


available near, as well as more than ample parking-space, was not even entertained, yet this, being at the bottom of the village, would, as your correspondent states, have provided the service to the public which the present site never will.


Parker's Arms, is nearer, but has only inside toilets .so. after closing-time, no facilities exist there, nor are many who have been there likely to walk 100 yards to the lop of village to find them. '


considerably less to build there, judging by the tremen­ dous amount of preparation work on the present site before building could commence, and the many days’ employment of diggei's and pncumatic- drills to reach sewei'-connecticn thq ground.


They also would have cost


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