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“TIME TO GET UP”, Sue calls through the window. The words gradually pene­ trate through the swirling mists of sleepiness; I force myself to remember how to


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“Thank you”, I groan finally, and sink back on the


pillow, exhausted by the effort. I am just dropping off to sleep again when the alarm clock bell shrills out. I extend an arm to switch it off, but gel caught up in the mosquito net. I become frantic. I must stop that noise. I wrench the net and fin­ ally it comes unstuck. I


whole body out of the net, and stumble to the bathroom. I turn the tap on, and it


ian morning. I manage to manoeuvre my


switch off the alarm. Seven o’clock on a hot Niger­


makes that dreaded hollow, gasping sound. Bother Sundy. he’s forgot­


ten to pump the water again- Luckily there is just enough


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JUDITH LAMPARD , returned to iier parents’ 1 home in Downham, on , Tuesday, after spending < a tear with Voluntary , S e r v i c e Overseas in . Nigeria. Aged 23, she is an


old girl of Clitheroc Grammar School, where she studied from 1959- 63, before going to school in Keswick, from 1963-65. When she left school,


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she went to Bristol Uni­ versity, where she ob­ tained her bachelor of arts degree in politics, French and history in 1968. Another year’s study


followed, this time at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, where Judith took her Diploma in Education


in 1969. She then joined V.S.O.,


and since then has been teaching at a school in Adoka, 100 miles north of Enugu, in Nigeria. Back home, she in­


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tends to continue in this work, and is now look­ ing for a post teaching juniors. Judith’s parents are


Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Lampard, of the White House. Downliam.


boiled and filtered water in a bottle to wash in. I get dressed, collect my


JUDITH LAMPARD


school books and go next door to Sue’s house for breakfast. Here I give my first thanks


of the day for being in Nigeria: toast, honey and coffee are ready on the table for us, prepared by Michael, tile cook. He gives me a beaming grin,


see everything so personally. They catch then- breath and


grip their desks at the excit­ ing parts, gurgle with infec­ tious laughter at the amusing episodes, hiss the villain and congratulate tire hero. The love the description of


Acrisius and his men turning to stone when they look at the head of Medusa.


‘ Good morning, Miss". ‘‘Morn­ ing. Michael, Sue and Kate". We bolt through breakfast,


lege. Early energy


PE in the heat of the sun. I would never have believed myself capable of teaching so energetic a subject so early


At 7-30 a.m. I am teaching


in the morning a month ago. but now I am thankful it is not later in the day. cr then the heat would be unbear­


able. After two sessions with the


first years on the mysteries of English grammar—from which we'usually all emerge baffled and amazed at the ability of of anyone to speak correct English—I glance at my


watch. I t is still only 9 a.m., but it


break and go home. Michael lias cooked o deli­


feels as if it is at least noon. At 10.15 a.m. we have a


cious second breakfast: eggs and bacon and coffee are wait-


in®. What luxuiy. and it’s even nicer when you know that he


will wash up too. Back to history, with the


third years. The syllabus says that I am


to spend 80 minutes on the Industrial Revolution in Eng­ land. before going on to cover the history of America. Japan. France and Islam in the next


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WALT DISNEY films arc, of course, inevitable during the school holidays but as most adults are Disney addicts along with their children, this fact is un likely to make anyone too unhappy. Swiss Family Robinson


REVIE f


which is showing all next week at the Civic Hall has the necessary ingredients of a truly family film—adven­ ture. comedy and romance. Adapted from the famous


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classic it tells the story of the Robinson family- mother. father. Fritz. 19, Ernst. 18, and young Fran­ cis who is eight—after they are shipwrecked on a remote island. John Mills is Father R o b i n s o n . Dorothy


McGuire plays his wife and flic three sons are James MacArthur. Tommy Kirk and young Kevin Corcoran. Janet Munro is Roberta and the Captain is played by Cecil Parker.


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to the nearest town, 25 miles away—and the only difference between that and the village near the college is that it has a larger market, and a few


an industrial town is like, to girls who have lived in mud hut linages all tlieir lives? Only two of them have been


10 weeks. How can one explain what


Sleeping Beauty


and then leap on to the Hondas to go up to the col­


■.class, whose ages range from 11-15, contentedly settle down to listen to the fairy story. They try and warn the


story. I ask if they have heard about the Sleeping Beauty, “No Miss, no Miss", and the


After we have raid the


princess not to go near the spindle, they roar with laugh­ ter at the thought of the whole court going to sleep, the King snoring on his throne, and they try and tell the prince how to break the spell. At the end, we all feel ex­


hilarated and well satisfied. I haven’t enjoyed a fairy story so much myself for


hope for inspiration to come. I decide to teach them a


table. I roll up with my guitar, and


6ong called "Rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham”, play a chord, open my mouth to sing the first verse to them, when a hand shoots up. “Please Miss, I do not un­


really thought about them, 1 attempt some sort of explana­ tion. In 10 minutes, however, all thoughts of translation have


derstand the precise meaning of thee word" Foiled, since I have never


years! Choir is next on my time­


but I like it on the wall". Regina goes into chortles


of laughter at the craziness of the English.


wrapper she is wearing, which I have admired. “I sell you dis one for de


She points to a lovely


wall?" she asks, end collapses with laughter. I wander round with a dus­


ter. hoping that she may sweep, but we usually end up talking. ■ I just cannot get used to making people work for me. She looks with distaste at


a lovely piece of red stone I have found, and put on my _ bookcase, and hurls it out of 1 the window into the cactus


plants. You can’t win: she never


picks up the dead flowers on the floor, but she throws away my precious stone. “Hey Regina. I wanted


that". 1 You want dat stone


Miss?" “Yes I thought It was a


spreads over her face changes to one of amazement, which, in turn, changes to further fits of laughter.’and she goes to retrieve the stone. From 2-4 p.m. is siesta


nice colour". A look of disbelief which


while the sun blazes outside.


time. A time lo sleep or read,


Fat raindrops


black clouds are building up in the sky. towering higher and higher, and then, sud­ denly. the first few droos of rain falls: big. fat. heavy drops, which fall with a satisfying splat on t h e


When T get up. I sec that


ground. Gradually they fol’ow one


another more a n d more rapidly, the thunder roars, the iightninz Hashes from cloud to cloud, and soon we cannot hear ourselves speak for the drumming of the rain on the tin roof of the house. The road is awash in 10


as it started, the storm stops. Tlie sun comes out: the


inexperienced volunteer


Sue and Kate for supper, taking the bush lamp with me to make sure that I don’t tread on any snakes. I haven’t seen any yet, in


coloured like sausages, with ridiculously small wings and endowed wi t h remarkably


fact I ’ve met nothing more dangerous than the squat, stout frogs which sit. sleepily blinking, in the middle of the path.


house. As I switch on the lights, I


little brain. They are always bumping


About 9.30 I go back to my


duck, to avoid being dive- bombed by large insects known affectionately as “sau­ sage Insects”. They are about one-and-a- half inches long, shaped and


into things and crashing to the ground, where they lie stunned, or losing their bat- lance in flight and dropping to the floor upside dow'n, flap­ ping their wings pathetically.


Low on lizards


lizards in the bedroom to­ night—there are only five—I hope the others come back


I count the number of


BENEATH THE POSTMAN'S UNIFORM IS A TALENTED PAINTER


LOCAL ARTIST Hugh Cooper has his own special way of describing the Battle of Britain. Hugh, who lives in Carlton Place, Clitheroc, believes


that the battle was defiance on the part of the British, and has just completed a rather original oil painting to illus­ trate the point.


Kentish born Hugh took


a white horse—the symbol of the county of Kent—and set it against a background of the White Cliffs of Dover and the London Blitz with a man in the foreground,


minutes: the bushes are bat­ tered by rain and wind. Then suddenly, as quickly


road dries out immediately: the sky is turning orange and red as it sets behind the


from photographs, because he only paints at certain times, when he feels that he is in the mood. Hugh, feels that his love cf


representing the people. He likes to work mainly


Reporter: Anne McDougall


in Berlin I taught drawing and painting to the soldiers' children,” he said. Before demobilisation, Hugh


art is an inherited gift, because many other members of his family have been


silhouettes of the paw paw and palm trees in the garden About 20 minutes after the sun begins to set. it is pitch


fled. Intcad, ther is a mass of


th e ' house in semi-darkness, since the generator is not


dark. From 6.30-7 I grope around


brown bodies swaying and clapping in perfect rhythm to the lusty singing. I pity poor Willie next door, who is trying to teach science. After an exhausting 40 minutes we all have beads of


sweat on our faces. "Please Miss, may we help


more mud huts. One girl has seen a tram. The nearest telephone to the


college is 25 mies a.way. No wonder they are baffled.


remember one tiling about the Industrial Revolution. I t does seem incredibly re­


they mutter. Perhaps at least they will


mote from their lives, as I wntch them walk out of the classroom after the lessen, tlieir bocks and bottles of ink carefully balanced on their


•heads. One ccmes to me and curt­


Sister?" (It is a Catholic college, and


sies, asking “May I help you,


they tend to forget I am not a nun).She carries my pen and bock


to the staff room. Soon I shall forget how to


do anything for myself. English literature with the


first years follows. We are reading the stony of


"The Head of Medusa”. I t is marvellous studying


literature tilth African child­ ren: they feel and hear and


cern is on every’ face: they shake their heads in sorrow. "Hh no Miss, that’s bad Miss",


There is dead silence; con­ 'That's bad Miss'


children working in mines and factories and the sweep boys.


I tell them about women and Grace and poise


at one point, to see my guitar being regally borne across the compound on the head of my helper, no hands to held it on. but by now’ I have com­ plete faith in their ability to balance anything on their heads, while they walk with beautifully graceful poise. The 1.30 bell rings, and the


I go on ahead, and turn back


cooked by Michael in the garden, on an old range which puffs away consuming wood which Sundy. the gardener,


school day is over. We go back for lunch,


cuts Regina is wandering round


of bliss on its face. Regina leans on her broom


carries a tiny baby whose eyes are beautifully made up with blue lines of antimony. The baby sleeps with a look


with a duster. Strapped to her tack she


in my sittng room and looks at the large piece of locally


dyed mateial.-I have phoned on my vraU as a hanging. She helped me buy it in the


local market. “Missic dat meant to be on


nice pattern. Don’t you like it?”


meant to wear". “Yes, I know it’s a wrapper,


MITTON’S PROBLEM - LOO OR LAV?


IT'S rather amusing, but but thaie arc certain words


the lavatory, and gave it euph­ emisms such, a.? “the smallest room in the house".


which we hesitate to say. For years, we tried to ignore


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great source of amusement to Her Majesty, and she probably hides a little smile as she is carefully steered past camou­ flaged ’ buildings by various


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reading Charlotte. , Bingham’s “Coronet Among The Weeds’’ ant', coming across a delightful


Lords Lieutenant. I remember, a few years ago,


I t was about that tune, '.hch this charming word came into


word—"loo.” .


use, particularly among younger generation.'■ . It is stiff being Jised,.taKUias


obviously proved acceptable.


Mitton villagers are probably pleased that Bowland Council have asked


While we are on this subject, Rural


, . . . . them to


poses. are not the sort of thing one allows one’s Sovereign to see. and through the years, railway stations throughout the country have taken great pains to shield the "unmen­ tionables’’ from tli„ Queen. I suspect that this has been a


whether they "wanted to wash their hands", and very often got the reply: “No they are quite clean thank you." Public conveniences, one sup­


And we asked our guests


choose a site for some public lavatories.


meeting held earlier this year, that during the weekends, par­ ticularly in summer, visitors were pestering residents in the hotels and garage by asking to use their private lavatories.


They complained, at a public


sidents were ever amused by the phraseology of the requests? Once Mitton has its “public


I wonder whether Mitton re­


conveniences", let us hope that they will not be subjected to vandalism. Ciithcroe Town Council have


a long experience in dealing with this sort of vandalism, which has invariably been a painful experience, because it has involved paying for the


damage. In one part of the town, van­


dals had actually taken imple­ ments along with them to cause damage. Another incident was when


are some of the vandals mem­ bers of the “fairer sex”, or have the males gone, under cover of darkness, to do their dastardly deeds? I t may be an injustice, but I


damage was caused in a ladies’ lavatory. That presents quite a picture:


JOHN DOROTHY. STARKINU JAMES


TECHNICOLOR’ FIXED W PAN AVISiON’


Directed by KEN ANNAKIN Also


THE WIND IN THE WILL0W3 (Technicolor)


am inclined to plump for the latter—but if by some chance, I am mistaken, I certainly with­ draw my “fairer sex" descrip­ tion. After considering all that,


it’s perhaps the vandalism and the shocking condition of many of this country’s public con­ veniences, that makes us hesi­ tate to call them just that. Anno McDougall


RECIPE CORNER SEAFOOD always makes an soiling and sprigs of water-


everyday snack a little diffe- Method: Wrap each large rent, and prawns are no excep- scrubbed potato in foil, and t,;on


One mouth-watering 1 oz. of prawns plus 2 far gar­


is prawn and cheese potatoes.For each large potato use:


nish 2 oz. of grated cheese, few chopped chives or spring onion tops a little crushed garlic (optional), a little cream, sea-


recipe jacket


■ place in hot oven for l-l i ' hours or until potato is cooked. Mix the grated cheese


with a little cream, prawns, crushed garlic, chives and sea­ son to taste. Out the potato while still in foil and fill with prawn and cheese mixture. Garnish with sprigs of water­


cress ,and two shell-on prawns to each potato.


A fast and funny featurette with Toad of Toad Hall and his friends.


Please note: matinee Wednesday a;t 2-15. Comprising SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON and CARTOONS


CLITHEROE SOCIAL CLUB WELLGATE


Tel. 3585 . SATURDAY, AUGUST lst


BARRY NORMAN SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd JOEY DEAN


DOUBLE (won) 17


20 £30 this week TREBLE (not won) ■ ' 17 3 ■ 4' ; £50 this week


Roclicld hotel Cdisford Bridge


CLITIIEROE’S ONLY TOP CLASS RESIDENTIAL HOTEL ami RESTAURANT


RESTAURANT OPEN TO


NON-RESIDENTS EACH EVENING


. 6-30 p.m.—8-30 n.m. Saturdays:—


6-30 p.m.—9 p.m. Bookings for


Small Parties accepted FOR TABLE RESERVATION


Phone Clitheroe 2010 — FULLY LICENSED —


de wall?” “Yes Regina., it’s such a


“Yes Missie, it’s good,-but it’s I f ® V


TH E G R EA T E S T ADVENTURE O F THEM A L L !


WALT DISNEYS


you?“ Or.c girl takes the guitar, to deliver it to the staff room.


CIVIC HALL Tel: 3278 (GRAND K1NEMA)


Friday and Saturday at 7-15 p.m. 101 DALMATIONS (U) Technicolor


RIDE A NORTHBOUND HORSE (U) Teohnicolor


Monday to Saturday at 7-15 p.m, Wednesday at 2-15 p.m. ANOTHER GREAT FAMILY PROGRAMME


Tel: 3278


CHIPPING AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL AND


HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY CHIPPING SHOW


Saturday, August 22nd, 1970


Schedules for Cattle, Sheep, Horses, Horticultural, W.I., Y.F.C., and Poultry Classes Available from the secretary Robin M. Addyman,


Clitheroe Auction Mart, Railway Road, Clitheroe Tel: 3325


Best kept garden in the pari­ shes of Chipping, Thornley, Leagram, Chaigley, Little Bow- land and Bleasdale. Entries by Sat.. August 8th to T. Rich,


Entries close Sat., August 15th Garden Competition


15 Kirklands. Chipping.


Hurst Green Village F E T E


SATURDAY, AUGUST~8tli


at MEMORIAL HALL and FIELD to be opened at 2-00 p.rn. by Col. A. P. F. Shaw, O.B.E.


-k Fete Queen Selection and Crowning ■k Children’s Fancy Dress and Bonny Baby Contests


★ Round the Village Pram Race ★ Tug of War and Slippery Pole Contests ★ Children’s Races for All Ages t*t Swings—Stalls—Sideshows etc. ★ Refreshments at Moderate Prices k


This weekend including Sunday


THE GRUMBLEWEEDS, JOHNNY DUNCAN AM> THE BLUE GRASS BOYS, JUNE ARNETIt. ROY MACK, BILLY REDMAN.


Tuesday, August 4th for Six Days The Queen of the North


BUNNY LEWIS assisted by Top Manchester Comic


JACKIE CARLTON


Two Top Slars who have always played indepem here before. . .


dentil' ,


You’ve never seen anything like them on stage: to|d ( Be warned they are positively X CERTIFICAD-


Also return of a Brilliant Sound ^


UNCLE ROTTERS PIGBIN BAND . and . .


' SHEILA RYAN... More Besides. ; • " Public also admitted to the


CABARET C L U B , ROSEGROVE. 7/6 (except Sunday). Tuesday 5/-


LORD DENNIS WITH RUSTV ; and .


This Is a fop priced show. Cabaret charge is 6/- •>!'' (except Tuesday 3/-). Members and Guests.


the sig| sued “AT YOUR SERVICE”


DAVID WALDER, M.P. will be pleased to meet constituents and discuss any problems they may have, at Clitheroe Conservative Club, Castle Street,


Clitheroc, on Wednesday, 5th August, from 12 nooon—l p.m.


S ub .(STAMPS ISSU DIVIDE!


FOOD AND F WE OFFEI


lblaocbubh DRAPER^ HARDWARE- N.B. CASH Dili


Y0U BENEFl AVAILAI


HURRY MARTIN TOP, RIMINGTON


ANNIVERSARY SERVICES


Sunday, August 9th at 2 and 7 p.m.


Preacher: Rev. G. W. Curry, former Dales Minister.


MANOR GOSPEL HALL


SALEM CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL


TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH


Sunday, August 2nd 10-30 a.m.


Rev. N. D. Walton Holy Communion


2-00 p.m. Ladies Class


Mrs. C. Bradshaw 6-00 p.m.


Mrs. Cowperthwaite


Milthornc Avenue, Clltheroi — o —


Sunday, 2nd August


GOSPEL SERVICE 6-30 p.m.


Mr. Warren Preston


CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH


CLITHEROE


Rev. Kathleen M. Hendry. B.A., B.D.


Sunday, August 2nd 10-30 Family Worship


Holy Communion 6-30 p.m.


Service at Barrow


turned on till 7 p.m. A bush lamp and candles


throw out pools of mellow light.


Around 7, I go across to


architect in the New York shipyards, and Iris aunt was always interested in art. When he left school, he


artistically inclined. His uncle was the chief


stonted to study signwriting at Rochester Technical College of Arts and Crafts, where he won a year’s scholarship. But his studying was inter­


rupted by the war, and, after going into th e Armoured Corps, he took up work as a regimental signwrvter. “During occupational service


was fortunate enough to go to the Georgia Augusta Uni­ versity in Gottingen, Ger­ many, to study art and Eng­ lish. He also drew cartoons for an army magazine, called “The


Bugle". Arriving back in England,


he spent one whole day in London searching for work, and eventually b e c ame employed as a display and lay­ out artist with an advertis­ ing firm. At that Lime, he was living


Kent paper mill that he drew for the firm's magazine called “Papyrus”, and one of his cartoons was reproduced on the front cover of a Canadian magazine. Another of Hugh’s jobs


ter. as a coach painter and signwriter. It was when he worked in a


in his home town of Gilling­ ham, and, after a few years. Hugh started .work in the neighbouring town of Roches-


what the subject or medium, the completed article is a reflection of its creator. “So it is with famous artists


He says that, no matter


like Constable or Picasso," explained Hugh. "You can easily recognise their work without looking at


entailed teaching signwriting to apprentices in the Chatham Admiralty dockyards. To Hugh, art is a personal involvement.


in which to express himself. “He cut out the perspective,


favourite artists. “I admire him very much. “In the beginning he was very conventional and ■ after­


the signature.” Picasso is one of Hugh’s


ures of a woman's face are her eyes and her lips,” said Hugh. “If one took the rest of the


are of women’s faces. "The most important to!


face away, and was left with the eyes and lips, you could still see her mood or tempera­ ment”.


wards he wanted a new way


and a lot cf his work was in solid colours.” Many of Hush’s paintings


soon, since they eat the in­ sects which abound. I ’m getting quite fond of :,lie baby lizard in my ward­


robe. I make a collection of the


things which I may need in bed: insect spray, book, torch, possibly books to finish pre­ paration for to-morrow’s les­ sons, and then negotiate the mosquito net, taking my booty with me, and install


but it’s best to be prepared for all eventualities, especi­ ally since the generator is switched off again at 10 p.m.


myself in bed. I t can get quite crowded,


haven’t Woe


betide you if you a torch handy, after


that. I t can be tricky if you are


caught in the shower at this stage, particularly if the water- also chooses to run out just when you have got up a nice lather all over yourself.


I am just settling down to sleep, when there is a sound of footsteps outside my win­


dow. A brown face, lit up by the


light of a bush lamp, looks through tile bars.


I have no weapon more powerful than my insecticide


handy, so I grab thai “Manio”, says the face ,


breathe a sigh of relief


put the insecticide dom... "Manio, Una" I say " It is the night guard ...


ing goodnight, as he wjf on, humming a wailing tu!> to himself, lashing outY4 sects with li:s fly swat, Yl’ from a horse's tail car-f­ under his long, flowing cw: a bow and arrow to keen 4 traders away if necessa- fr The crickets cheep and 'ti,, The next thing I hea- i-


ogs croak.


voicc calling: “Time‘t iV up”.


L w la n d r u r a l co


I ? government. At the s I l0Clpulation should be tl


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farmers’ National Insurance


bill to f f i n a l


I committe, preliminary dra filiations, intended to remo


Lain occasional workers in ag [ culture and horticulture.


' beans the lifting or planti of potatoes, or the harvest! of corn, has .not normally quired the payment of the e ployed person’s contribution , Tiie limitation of the re: jation to particular crops a operations has made it men


picking of hops, peas, fruit


■ .planting, sowing or harvest: of crops of all kinds, and ciliary operations, such loading or topping. This should remove the pH


singly difficult to applv fail and it is therefore proposed replace it by’ one which cov


sent difficulties, and acccf inodate any future changes [


yisorv Committee will consil representations from any r |


croos or methods. The National Insurance


Ton or body affected by change, and report to the


through any bookseller. p:| 6d„ and anyone wishing make representations to National Insurance Advis Committee should write to Secretary. 10 John Adam London W.C.2., by Friday. A


ust 21.


rotary of State. i The preliminary draft plations can be obtained frjj Government Bookshops. I


[he liability to pa-y employ berson’s contributions for a


j present National Insurarl Eflheme, occasional work m tl


Since the early days of t |


. cnciai services, Sir Kei inseoh is submitting, to fa Insurance Advise


be eased The secretory of State f


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