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A COPY of the. Clitheroc Advertiser and Times left on the summit of Britain’s highest mountain reached our office on Wednesday, four days after it had been left there by three Venture Scouts as proof of their


climb the Scottish mountain be­ fore having to abandon their attempt not through exhaustion, but because^ of a breakdown to one of their cars which were driven by Duncan McDonald, Bill Honevwell and Barry Philips.


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Lakin, of Ribblesdade View, Chatburn, was given treatment at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, after his machine had been involved in an accident with a


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Coach demolishes front of Gisbum hotel


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Skipton, Mrs Harris has been afraid that one day a vehicle would , crash into the building. On Monday, her premonition came true. -


the lounge bar when a coach taking day trippers from Keigh­ ley to Southport crashed through the front bay window after a three-vehicle pile-up involving


Mrs. Harris; Was working in


Mclnnes.of Keighley, was trap­ p y by his legs in the wreckage. Emergency workers had to use cutting and jacking equipment to free him. It took them 90 minutes.


a soft drinks lorry and a car. The coach driver, M,r Brian


But despite the extensive


damage the premises were open for business again the same night -


came and cleared away all the rubble. Then the joiners boarded


Said Mrs Harris: “The council


up the front and a temporary window was fitted.”


three o’clock and we were ready to re-open at six. Custom was not much different from any normal Monday night.” The brewery have promised that the damage will be repaired


as soon as possible, but until then the boarding will have to suffice.


.........


.. "Tm.quite certain something like this could happen again,” said Mrs Harris. “Ever since we


moved in 15 months ago I ’ve been expecting something to come through the front wall.’ PICTURE, shows the scene


outside the premises after the driver had been: freed.


there could haye-been people in for coffee an hour later,” observed Mrs Harris. “The whole of the front wall next to the entrance was broken down. “But it was all cleared up by


9-30 a.m., there was fortunately no-one Yn the front bar. “But


At the time of the accident,


quest to post it to us in Clith- eroe, was found by members of the 1st Huntley Boy Scout Troop, who have been camping m Glen Nevis, under their


last year’s record of 224 hours was first threatened by floods near Callander, and then by the breakdown. The newspaper, with a re­


Their attempt to beat their


Scouts, Mark Bateman, Peter Friend and Michael Bond had intended also to leave copies of the paper on top of Scafell and Snowdon during an attempt to climb all three peaks in under 24 hours, But they, managed only to


thene bag, was found on Satur­ day on the top of Ben Nevis by a party of Scottish scouts from Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire. The Clitheroc. Venture


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emergency squad' swung into action for the first time to help in the search for a little boy missing on the moors near Slaidburn.


scheme was launched three years ago, after the Dunsop- Bridge floods. The plan is for


searchers from all over the North. The Rotarians’ : emergency


the search.by members of the Round Table and Venture Scout group, who hurried from Clitheroc to help more than 300


The Rotarians were joined in Clillieroe Rotary Club’s


the., president to telephone members who. could . be of assistance, and' they, in. turn, notify, other members of the emergency.


the search on Sunday when four-year-old Ian McNamoe wandered away f r om his parents’ car after a family picnic. The Clithcroc volun­ teers were called in during the evening, when it was feared the


volunteers combed a wide area of rocks and wild moorland for nearly eight hours, and a


boy might be stranded over­ night. Police dogs and. the 300


West Riding police organised


McNamce, who heard'the news, from 'the police radio control .van, said: ‘The eight hours of waiting have been, jost a blur.” After a quick'medical'check


helicopter from' RAF Lccon- field, Beverley,’Yorkshire, was called in 'to:‘join’ the hunt. ; ' Shortly after 9 ‘pan., the heli­ copter pilot,FlyingOfficer Pete Norton, 26, . spotted' - Ian's turquoise T-shirt, and, found him sitting near' a- -plantation of small spruce trees, two miles from the spot where he - bad vanished. Ian’s father, . Mr. . Dennis


by Clitheroc , Rotary ' Club president, Dr. Cyril Roylc, Ian


EMERGENCY SQUAD


was taken t o ‘join his mother and sisters at " nearby Birk


Knott Farm,-and given a hot bath and a meal ,


Before flying back’ tt the


RAF base, the helicopter pilot told an Advertiser ‘and. Times reporter: ‘•


‘The-rescue was all


part of our job.vWe only wish we had been called in earlier.”


His crew, . navigator Jan


Booth, 29,;and winchman Bob Davies, 2*, .added: “We have


kids of our. own, and. wo were glad .to be able to help.” -


. As Ian: settled down to watch


television at the farm, none the worse- for . his ..’ordeal, his mother, Mrs. Maureen McNa-


mce. of.Romncy Road,’ Barrow-


in-Furness, "described how he had disappeared.- . (‘After.. our picnic, - he - was


playing on some rocks with his sister, about 150 yards from the car. A . mist came down sud­ denly, and, when'it lifted, 20 minntes later, wc could not find him anywhere.


with-all our hearts everyone who ’ has helped to find Ian.” -


climbed a wall, and then laid down and went'to sleep for a while. All. he said when he saw us again was ' “1 thought mam would ’be worried.' ' “Wc‘ would like to thank


“Ho told us that he hod


back at the moorland base, one of the leaders, Mr. Reg Hains-


worth, of Ingieton, praised the good co operation between volunteers. “There has been a wonderful response from rescue teams and . members of the public,” he said. “Even passers- by joined1 in.”


herds and West Riding. police cadets joined fell and moun­ tain rescue teams from Kendal, Upper Wharfedale, Haslingdcn, South Ribblcsdalc, Gigglcswick School, B e d f o r d Modern School, and the Colder Valley, in the search. . As searchers sipped hot soup


. Farmers, gamekeepers, shep­


Cafe shortage spotlighted in survey


ESCAPE FOR


CLTITIEROE people are being given a chance to air their views about tlie town’s shopping and other facilities in a survey being carried out this week by the Chamber of Trade, After a brief look at the


FARMER AS WHIRLWIND BRINGS DOWN


POWER JUNES A GRINDLETON farmer narrowly escaped death on Wednesday when a 33,000 volt power cable was brought down by a freak whirlwind several hundred feet high, only seconds after he had driven his tractor


the newly-mown hay lying in the field caught fire. Mr. Sam Dixon (39) of Wal­


under the line. As the cable fell, there was a fash and an explosion and


lace House Farm, said he was working in the field when he saw the whirlwind lifting hay high into the air.


“ROASTED”


PAY-TRAINS NOT ECONOMIC, SAY RAIL CHIEFS


A SUGGESTION that the rail line, through Clitheroe might be re-opened for pay-trains has been stopped in its


£14.10 £18.15


rRCv ' ,Ao a 'Priuat? meetinS with officials of local councils, British Rail chiefs stated that it would be uneconomical


to operate passenger trains on the. Blackbum-Hellifield line;


Mr. Green’s unusual score!


£6.35


AN unusual score was knocked up by Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School master, Mr. Dudley Green, on Sunday, in a staff cricket match against Giggles- wick-School.


of York Street, Clitheroe was 35 runs—and a clinically de­ pressed zygoma.


’and another player ran to catch i t ,’and collided.


cer—his other‘score,''of 35, helped , the -.- Grammar School team to an easy win.


Footpath plan '


NOW


FOOTPATHS may at- last -be provided-on the road, to Wad- dington School,, if a plan for­ warded by the village’s Parish Council is approved by the West Riding County Council. The plan, if approved, will provide footpaths on both the


Waddington and West Bradford side of th e school.


.. The other player was unin­ jured, but Mr. Green has had to-spend a few days in hospital, undergoing treatment. He has one consolation, how-


a cheek-bone injury, was caused when an opposition batsman ‘skied’ ttie ball, and Mr. Green


The latter, better known as The total score of Mr. Green, , .


If such a service-was to be introduced: then it. would - have


to -be’ subsidised by local auth­ orities.


Representing British Rail at the meeting, at Clitheroe' on Tues- day, were Mr. David’Harrison, Divisional^ Passenger Manager, and Mr. E. M.Wand,'Ration!


Midland'Region, for the-Londoo


. Clerks who attended the meet- mg included Mr. John Gowdall, ot Clitheroe Town Council, Mr. W. A. Butt, aithwoe Rural, Mr. L. D. Telford,'. -Bowland Rural, and Mr. L Gqllopp, clerk to Billington Parish Council


. Reports on the meeting will be given by the officials at the next meetings of their respective councils The officials were given figures for submission to their councils of the percentage pro­ portion of all costs that British


Rail has to bear:on another, line similar to . the Blackburn-HelU- field section.' ’;


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cable and brought it down. If it had happened a couple of seconds earlier I would have been roasted,” he said.


I could not see the top of the column,” he said. ‘Then it moved on to the


the area for over a fortnight and the hay was soon well alight.


There had been no rain in


firemen, using beaters, got the blaze under control.


were soon on the scene to inspect the damaged cable


Electricity Board officials About 300 yards of line


farmhand in the field were injured, although Mr. Dixon’s wife, who saw the incident


disappearing over the fell above Grindleton.


Traders lose


custom


•losing'- custom- to outsiders coming to the village and setting up mobile ice cream vans without • permission,


; the Council had informed the ■ police, who were making inquiries.


.where they are usually set up. The Parish Council were not empowered to t a k e steps against them, but the Clerk to


according to a letter received by the Parish Council. The vans a r e also causing obstruction on the car parks


WADDINGTON traders are


from the nearby farm, suffered from shock. The whirlwind was last seen


part of the Clitheroe-Settle cable, had fallen,' but domestic supplies were not affected. Neither Mr. Dixon nor a


eroe attended the fire and about one-and-a-half acres of hay was destroyed before the


Two appliances from Clith “It was being lifted so high


forms completed on the first day of the survey, two striking factors emerge. Eighty per cent of those questioned want to see more cafes or restaurants in'Clith­ eroe, and many also feel that car parking facilities could do with improve­ ment. Several people in the 15


sed. themselves fairly satisfied with the town, but the Chamber of Trade feels that there is still room for improvement.


his views on the town, commen­ ted: “It’s a dump—but I like it.”


One Clitheronian, asked for


are being asked are their method of transport to the town centre, and their views on recreation, entertainment, catering a n d parking facilities, as well as the kind of service they, prefer in shops. The survey was launched on


Girls’ Grammar School conduc­ ted the survey, and today it


Tuesday, when boys from Clith­ eroe Royal Grammar School questioned townspeople and visitors to Clitheroe, and man­ aged to complete 158 forms. Yesterday, pupils from the


this is to form the subject of a further inquiry by the Chamber later in file year, among the caterers themselves. Idea behind the survey i» to discover the best way of pro­ moting Clitheroe and attracting more shoppers. Among the questions shoppers


' On the question-of catering,


centre for dancing. Quito a lot of people expres­


will be the turn of Ribbles- dale School.


By tomorrow, the final day of the survey, the Chamber


forms will be discussed at the Chamber of Trade’s next meet­ ing with town council officials.


t°. 25 age group feel that are causing .concern, will" also Clitheroe'needs a recreation be raised; the demolished;pfo-


Two other problems, which


perty in the Whalley'. Road area, which makes a bad ap­


poor, visibility at Shawbridge junction.


Sign


cessful on -one front to publi­ cise- the town, .Lancashire County Council has agreed to help the publicity drive by pro­ viding an additional Clitheroe direction sign at the Four Lane Ends junction on the new by­ pass leading to Pendle Road. It is felt that this may encourage south-bound traffic to make use


The Chamber has been suc­


of the alternative route through the town. Members of the Executive


decorated sign welcoming visi­ tors to the . town, but the cost factor, plus planning considera­ tions, make it impracticable at this stage.


Committee, which met on Tues­ day, would also like to see a


members of the Chamber of Trade.


Tragedy of youth who ‘lived for his motor c


A 16-year-old boy who “just lived for his motor­


bike” was found lying next to it in a ditch at Langho. He died from a fractured skull after taking a comer too fast on a country lane, a Blackburn inquest was told.


his damaged motor bike in a ditch in Chapel Lane, Langho, by a man walking his dog at about tea ;time on June 26th. Mr,. Richard Catherall said that his son, an apprentice


former jtup.il. of Norden School, Rishton,’ was . found next - to


Mechanic, had been learning to ride a motor cycle for a few months, and that he had had this’one for about a month. : “He just lived for. if. It was


John Milligan Catherall, of Rock Terrace, Billington, a


helmet, but it was split down the front I presume he had a pretty severe blow to do that”


.


when he arrived on - the scene he noticed that the front forks , of the motor cycle were bent backwards as though he had


his pride and joyV. he .added.; PC Paul. Dixon said that’


one can only assume that he had been going too fast and that he just shot straight across into a .tree”. A jury returned a verdict of accidental death.


Castle fete is definitely on


CLITHEROE is, after all, to have a Catle Fete in-September. The future .o f the ..event. had been in doubt' because rof the cost factor and: the difficulty in finding sufficient volunteers to organise it.


tC . aftAt* .all


had been set aside by:the coun­ cil for the event—a similar sum to that allowed, a t tach of tho ‘ ’


taken at a special meeting of the fete committee this week when it >


The decision to go ahead was was:reported that £750 J.:’-;:". " A'- S'". in f a c t 6 i m f . i a a *Tt*}«


last two fetes. This continues the; policy started in 1969 after the high losses ■ of staging the evenfiri-previous years.


and, public entertainment 'com­ mittee, Coun. J. Bames, said that the idea - of the fete • was to provide a day out for local people.' “Within reason we' are prepared -to stand a loss al­ though naturally we would be very pleased if there was a jprdfitv, ho said.


The: chairman of-the libraries 1.


manship of Coun. William Sharpies will organise the fete, and attractions will include:


• A fete queen.


• A bid for stardom con- . test.


: • Children’s sports. / ' ♦ •:-V ' Bowling. . ■ 1 It- is • hoped- that* tho-first' two - and-target bowls.


0 Five-a-sido -football • Netball. DUWimg


A committee under the chair­ . . . . . . . ••


events will again he organised by Mrs. M. Scott, of Chatburn.


. . • •«« Special sale .of wines from the cellars of


J. Hindmoor will be in charge of children’s sports, and among other activities,- it is hoped to have a tug-of-war, demonstra­ tion of Cumberland and West­ morland wrestling, and Morris dancing, as well as displays of fencing and-physical training. Sideshows will include a pil­ ji>w jj&miuy cumra


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George Wightman, commented: “it seems strange that a lad who knows the road should come off in this way. “There are no witnesses, so'


The Blackburn Coroner, Mr.


front wheel was badly buckled. “John was wearing a


looked as though the machine had


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being put into effect is the dis­ tribution of car stickers, saying “Visit historic Clitheroe”. These are available from committee


Another of the ideas now proach to the town, and the


gift tokens will be awarded to the students' for the best pre­ sentation of the work. The suggestions made on the


hopes to have nearly 500 com­ pleted forms. At the end - of the survey,


SUN DA Y SCHOOL queen at Christ Church, Chat- burn, 14-year-old Sandra Harrison, was crowned by Mrs. F. Clayton, wife of the chairman of Clitheroe Rural District Council, at a ceremony in the vicarage grounds at the weekend. With • Sandra and Mrs. Clayton im our picture is last year’s queen Georgina Clark.


A full report of the


ceremony appears on page six.


Facilities


discussed by Whalley Parish Council...... -


- - r


that the state of the ladies’ toilets would count against Whalley in the Best Kept Vil­ lage competition.


Councillors were concerned


Fell, explained that it was .a matter for • Clitheroo Rural District Council, who were having difficulty in finding a


The chairman, Councillor J.


part-time caretaker for the toilets.


‘disgraceful’ A REPORT that the public conveniences in Whalley were in . a disgraceful condition was


No Zebra crossing


for inner by-pass


sing the by-pass would have to increase tenfold before a zebra crossing could be installed, members were told at the annual meeting. At the meeting, Coun. W.


by members of the Clitheroe Borough and Rural District Joint Road Safety Committee, after a survey. The number of people cros­


THE volume of traffic on Clith- eroe’s inner by-pass does not warrant the provision of a zebra crossing near the junc­ tion with Shawbridge Street. This is the conclusion reached


' ltas resigned due to ’other coun­ cil responsibilities. He was thanked for his work by Aid. Wells and by Coun. A. West- well.


Taylor was elected chairman, in place of Coun. R. Todd, who


ing that there should be more cycle proficiency training for children, and the committee should sponsor its own scheme.


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