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and CO. er firm or individual.
acknowledgments Mrs. Clara
nccrcly all rclativ£ m°si o leoUs for their kinVi . nmi
imly wish t0
1 irmary. Canon c p B°»l did. R*v. G. Camnhnii Go°d- »’ friends who Pb5 ■ »>Ui ;e funeral service at Wauffi?
nueful thanks to n ctors doctors and s,S,m»y
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t t 8S'“ PClldlc Road.
umk all friends and'T j Q urs for their m ne|sli-
nd, Rev. Goodhall, for d?f'w iroom Hill," Grlndlorrm
d ministrations
•pressions of sympathv n},n<\ Ibvites and donation 5’t?0? '
s idrew's Church. Slnltlbur,,' :o family doctors and '
v. G. H. Gaze, for th e i rA S
lc Post Oflice, -wton-in-Bowland. jM.—Mr. and Mrs Grimm^i.i
ceivcd in their bereavement ■o th e doctors and district irses and the Rev. G. C Camn . 11 for their kindness mp’
Whalley Road. Clithcroe
d neighbours for expressions c sympathy and floral tributes
rathall and family wish to ank most sincerely all rela- •es and friends for the kind pressions of sympathv and ral tributes received duriii" eir sad bereavement: many auks to the family doctor and te iff of Airedale General Hos
eleron Lane. Rlmingtoii. AT HALL—Mr.
istrations. End Cottage,
Jo hn I
'lie Nook," Gisburn. IN MEMORIAM
l From his loving wife Eafns.
10 died 29 July, 1969. thought today, a memory forever.
ORE.—In loving memory of clear mother Sarah, who died nd July. 1969. nc but not forgotten. From soil Jack, daughtcr-in- n Joan and grandaughter
ette.
ORE.—In loving memory of a ar mother, grandma and ?at-grandma Sarah, who died
July. 1969. cd. Phyllis, grandchildren and
i nily.VKER.—Mary Kate, a dear cher, died 26 July. 1935. om. Ada. Alice.
APPRECIATION
R—Mr. and Mrs. W. Slater I to thank all relatives, d on the occasion of
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NES.— Treasured memories my dear husband. Richard,
L?,° N-—Mrs- M. Wilson wlJhT, thank all relatives, friends
m Rev. Gardner for their kind
reived in her recent sad ceavement. Also the familv etor. the district nurse anil
latlves. friends and nei^1 urs for their kind expressly, sympathy and floral tributes
d family wish t6 tlmnk
ank nil relatives, friend* \ } 0, MRhbours, for their
e Mr. John Dawson wish'1 ,"
MM—The relatives oTthTT iss E. C. Camm J “ late
}> mpathy and floral tdbm01
ccived during their hV,» es ■ ent; also thanking Mr, rS vc- n-y and the stall of GreVPi'f' : ■ lrslna Home. famllvrt1 lde
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Clitheroe Advertiser Times
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THE PROPOSAL lo quarry through Chatburn Old Road was roundly condemned by viand Rural Council this week. Coun. Mrs. S. J. Dow, described the idea as “most
horrific”
Children on BBC
A combined choir of more
fan 100 voices drawn from Clilicroc’s two » r a m m a r cools "id broadcast on Radio I on Sunday morning. They "ill be taking part in
:ie BBC programme. "Sing ■Celuia”. introduced by Andrew Cmickshank. and tile broadcast is limed for 8-20 a.m. on 202 atve.s and all VHFs. The choir was formed by Mr.
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FRIDAY
JULY 31, 1970 SIXPENCE
The possibility of the road being lost to posterity was
first revealed by the Advertiser and Times a month ago, the quarrying of it being an integral part of a scheme for a link road from Pimlico to the outer bypass.
meeting.
Clitheroe Town Council backed the project at the July 3
The road is not very far
the Council, reported at the monthly meeting on Monday that as long ago as April last year, Lancashire County Coun cil had correspondence with the two firms concerned.
been asked to comment. In his view, the removal of
Now, Bowland Council has
Charles Myers, music master of ike two schools, with the co- eperation of Sir. Gerald Hood, headmaster of the Boys’ Gram- nr School, and Miss B. Bing- ;am headmistress of the Girls’ School.
recently in the Parish Church. M H
id previously curate af M
er. Tom Taylor, of Skerton, ary's, returned to play the
Recordings w e re ma d e r. Myers conducted, and the
can. Hymns the choir will be
cant by Sir S. H. Nicholson; ■ni "Rejoice The Lord is King” :o ;he tune "Gopsal" by Handel, with a descant written by Mr. livers.
hard singing are: "Tis good, lord, to be here” to the tune Carlisle'’ by C. Lockhart, des
the quarry workings to view "from our side of the river”.
restricted quarrying to not less than 20ft. from the road. Per mission was being sought to stop up Chatburn Old Road and demolish about a third of it.
Present planning permission
council chairman: “Well over a third of the length of the high way.”
County Coun. T. H. Aspin,
tion and the view would be spoiled.
object most strongly.” There would be dust pollu
Mrs. Dow declared: “We must
plex and the most horrible sight; tlie workings would be seen from every side.
There would be a vast com There would, she added, be the road and trees would expose
from the River Ribble—the county boundary with the West Riding—and Bowland Council have been brought into the discussions because of this close proximity. Mr. L. D. Telford, Clerk to
the same sort of dust blowing about as from the other quar ries.
cer of Health, said it was the extent of the quarry bottom that seemed to cause all the trouble, “and this will be an
enormous area of dust-covered rock. "The wind will carry the
area of outstanding natural beauty; it will spoil yet another lovely valley.”
C. King-Wilkinson, and passed unanimously.
BLAZE AT HOSPITAL
Calderstones Hospital, Whalley, who live on the nearby estate, hurried to the hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morn ing, to fight a blaze in a day room of one of the men’s wards.
About 60 off-duty staff of
Mr. A. Eastman, a male nurse, an armchair and a window sill being damaged.
The fire was discovered by
sent a fire engine. Great Har wood sent two and Accrington provided a turntable ladder, but
As a precaution, Clitheroe M j
than an hour, and patients were not moved from the ward.
the blaze had been put out by the hospital’s own fire service. It was all over in little more
slept right through the distur bance.
Others in adjacent wards
LEFT—Clitheroe ' C astle", photographed by Mr. P. M. Hill of Standen Road, Clith eroe, for Ribblesdale ’70, the Advertiser and Times photo competition.
B E L O W—Mr. Hill’s study of Pendleton Road. An entry form for the competition appears on page 4.
CLITHEROE MP-
.......PLEADS CASE FOR ASIANS
RESTRICTIONS on the immigration of British passport-holding Kenyan Asians into Britain should be eased, according to Mr. David Waldcr, M.P. for Clitheroe. He is one of the authors of a Bow Group pamphlet, pub
lished on Monday, which calls for immediate action to ease t h e hardship which many UK citizens arc suffer ing in certain parts of Africa, because of the “Africanisa- tion policy” of some African governments.
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They are included in the 240 signatories of a Commons
motion, which says that the Abortion Act has caused wide spread public concern in the two years it lias been in
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operation. The motion says that such
an inquiry should assess the effects of the Abortion Act on the health of the nation, as well as on its legal, social and moral life, and should recommend any change in the law which is in the public
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port for the motion, including almost all the rank and file of the Tory Party, demonstrates the uneasiness ’ many people feel at the way the Act has worked in practice. The motion’s sponsor, Mr.
interest. The massive back-benah sup
told Advertiser and Times Parliamentary correspondent Michael Toner: “I am greatly
Norman St. John Stevas. Con servative MP for Chelmsford,
Cllthcroe Advertisor and
Times photographer Roy Chat burn just happened to be watching when his three-year- old Pekinese, Scian, cautiously made friends with an orange and white gonk named "Big
Time Fred". Growling softly, Scian ner
vously sniffed at Fred, in an attempt to discover whether
he was canine. The growling and sniffing
didn’t seem to have any effect, and finally Soian walked off in disgust, as if to say: "I didn’t think It was real anyway."
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that, in January this year, about 3,000 Kenyan Asians were on the waiting list to come to Britain.
The pamphlet points out
is hardly surprising that des perate measures are sometimes taken, and that we are pre sented with the unedifying spectacle cf United Kingdom citizens without entry certifi cates being shuttled to and fro between international air ports", declares the pamphlet.
“In these circumstances, it
nise that the repeal of the 1908 Act. which took away from Kenyan Asians the auto matic right of entry into Bri tain, would be unrealistic.
The authors say they recog
AMONG 12 Lancashire MPs who have joined back benchers from allparfics deman ding an independent inquiry into Britain’s abortion laws, are Mr. David Walder, MP for Clitheroe, and Sabden’s two resident MPs Mr. Aian Green, Preston South, and Mr. David Waddington, Nelson and Colne.
encouraged by this dramatic demonstration of parliamen tary support for an inquiry into the working of Ihe Abor tion Act."
Pw-,"~ ,.s<a
balance of unused w o r k vouchers available under the Commonwealth Act of 1962— which amounted to more than 4.000 last year—should be re allocated' to U.K. citizens who are suffering hardship in Africa.
But they suggest that the
NEXT MONTH, Mitfoii Church is 700 years old, and an ambitious pro gramme of events has been arranged to celebrate the anniversary. This, together with historical notes on, and photographs of. vari ous aspects of the church, appear in this week’s Ad vertiser and Times, in the form of a pull-out souvenir programme.
Police seek raiders
lands district of Clitheroe may be able to help the police trace three men, dressed as meat workers, who raided Slinger’s meat warehouse in Rock Street, Parson Lane, about tea-time on Wednesday of -last week. The topside beef was worth
People living .in the Bawd-
around £2,000 and was packed in cardboard cartons, measur ing 2ft x mins, x 6ins., and hav ing “Borthwick’s boneless beef” in blue lettering on the side. The raiders’ van blocked
Rock Street, which leads to a GPO garage, and the three men agreed to move it to allow a Post Office worker to drive past. I was a plain grey van, pos sibly with £ighter-doors, similar
three letters before the figures, the middle one may have been T and the last E or P. Police describe one of the
to a 15cwt Bedford. The registration number had
three men as being well built, about 50 years old. round face, fresh complexion, bald or bald ing, who may have been wear ing glasses. The second was in his mid-
beret. The third man was in his
Attic fire
Whalley Road, Clitheroe, res cued his 13-month-old son, Dale, from a smoke-filled attic bed room on Sunday morning.
Mr. Richard Dobson, 32, of
ren, Daren, aged five, and Nigel, three, escaped unhurt. Dale was treated in hospital
Marlene, 27, who ran to a phone box and called the fire brigade. The couple's two other child
He gave the baby to his wife,
for shock and the effects of smoke.
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council oppose the idea with all the might we can muster" was seconded by Coun. Mrs. L.
Her proposition "that this
dust in every direction." Mrs. Dow: “It will spoil an
I t would be ghastly. Dr. M. Hunter, Medical Offi
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BOWLAND’S ‘NO’ TO ROAD PLAN
IN OUR VIEW
ALREADY, one Idler has been received (his! week—loo lale for publi-
1 cation — criticising Mr. David Waldcr, IMP for Clitheroe, “pleading to allow more immigrants < 'into this country”.
' It was probably inevi-'
tabic that he should be! criticised for (his—even though he has not done so!
AH that he, and four
i other members of the Bow Group, have done is to urge that, within the
' framework of the present controlled flow of Com monwealth immigration to this country, United King dom citizens should re ceive priority treatment. When K e n y a wa s
granted her independence, the Asian community, which had, like the white community, grown there as a by-product of the country’s British colonial status, were offered the choice between Kenyan or British citizenship. Now as a result of the
K e n y a n Government’s ' policy of “Africanisation”,! many of them are being forced out oE their liveli hoods. The number waiting to
come here is smaller than the number of w o r k vouchers available'for im migrants in the course of 1 a year, and the plan de vised by Mr. Walder and his colleagues—to give the Kenya Asians first crack, i at the vouchers—is emin ently practicable.
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