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NIGEL LEARNS TO LIVE ON MACHINE


NIGEL COLES, the 16- ycar-old. C l i t h e r o c boy whose recent kidney trans­


treatment, - Nigel remains philo­ sophical about his illness anil looks forward to returning full­


plant operation has proved unsuccessful, is to have his own kidney machine instal­ led at hi” home. Despite the setback in his


time. to- Ciithcroc . Grammar- Schooh


. led .18 months ago by his1 illness, and-if all goes well he hopes to


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He is still-studying - for* his ‘O’ levels,.which were interrup---


take, three -GCL subjects in November;


Nigel .-underwent a kidney transplant operation, but his


body subsequently rejected the organ and. he had to undergo further surgery. .


At present Nigel is on an. in­


.travels three days a . week to Withington Hospital, Manches­ ter, to learn how.to repair and rebuild the machine. -


tensive training course, designed to enable hint to cope fully with his-own treatment:at-home. He


change the filter, to sterilise and -rebuild (he machine every time. I . have used it,, and what to do .if an alarm goes off,” lie said.


“I .have to know -how to • At the beginning of Septem­


ber, Nigel will go into Wilhing- (on . Hospital for a . fortnight to


complete his ‘ instruction, and after that the kidney machine will be installed as soon as pos­ sible.


himself- on the machine three nights a week, for 10 hours at a time. The treatment involves sticking one and a quarter inch needles in his arm, but Nigel does not seem to mind too


He will then be able to put


much. “The easiest - thing : is slicking the needles in,” he said,


■ "and I give myself a local anaes­ thetic first.” He also has to wake up every hour during the night, to check that no air bubbles arc getting into his bloodstream.


to keep to a strict low. protein diet, with no salt. His-mother, Mrs. Irene Hanson, has to buy special flour and bread, and to weigh all his food carefully, to


Since his illness, Nigel has had


make sure that he-gets the exact amount allowed. .


Nigel explained: “My weight and blood pressure have to re­


. . .


main fairly constant, so 1 weigh myself four times a day, and take my blood pressure and temperature regularly.” It will be'several years bctorc


Nigel lias another kidney trans­ plant, as he first has to have a bladder operation which .is not yet- being performed in. this


country.


dawn


2,000-plus rise in area’s


population


with 13,008 and 13,207. Skip- ton RDC: 26,308 compared with 23,327 and 23,727 in 1951.


1961 to 4,735, Bowland Rural District’s population has clim­ bed to 5,098, almost identical with the 1951 figure of 5,092. Skipton: 12,422 compared


figures were 20,332 (compared with 15,053 and 13,239). After showing a decline in


April, Clithoroe’s population stood at 13,191. This compares with 12,158 in 1961 and 12,062 in 1951. In Clitkcroe RDC the count was 9,460 compared with 8,799 and 8,668 at the previous two counts. In Blackburn RDC th e


A RISE of over 2,000 in the population of the greater Clitli- croc area is revealed in the latest census figures. When the count was taken in


NUMBER 21 Cockcnll Terrace, was a hive of activity on


Monday and Tuesday of this week, as five eager Barrow children set up shop there and swelled the Ribble Valley Baths Appeal Fund by £6—the pro­ ceeds of their jumble sale. The five, pupils of Clilh-.


Gary Gnndley, both 12, who have qualifications in organising jumble- sales (they held one for the RSPCA a couple years ago) —set up shop on Mrs. Jackson’s front wall. ' By 10 o’clock, the first cus­


eroe Grammar. Ribblesdale and Barrow Schools, spent all Monday combing the village for jumble, and their mam­ moth haul of clothes, books, shoes, ornaments, glasses — everything but the kitchen sink —spent the night inside num­ ber 21, home of Mr. and Mrs. Brian Jackson. Next morning, the quintet — directed by Alan Carter and


.11. mnc-ycar-old Tracy Jack- son and Virginia Gravcson, also nine, completed the party of busy salesmen. Said Mrs. Jackson, proudly:


Brett, Alan, Gary, Vrginia and Tracy.


“U was all their own idea. They have worked very hard and had a lot of customers”. And we picture them here, hard at work from the left:


Colorado beetle scare


BRIAN the big bad black beetle is dead. He passed away on Sun­ day when workers in the press room at Ncotechnic spotted him making an expedition across the floor and mistook him for one of his American cousins— the infamous Colorado.


DESPITE the poor weather, a collection held for LEPRA on Clithcroe Market on Saturday raised £40.95. slightly more


than a similar collection last year.


eights of an inch long, with orange stripes across his back) and sprayed him with an acidy substance.


They cornered Brian (five-


the body in a plastic bag and presented it to general manager Mr. K. Wilmot, who reported


Then the executioners placed


respects—“You can have it if you want it—it’s an ugly-looking thing,”—and prepared to give Brian a pauper’s funeral and throw him in the dustbin. And still no-one knows what sort of beetle he was.


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kinson,. of Eshton Terrace, Clitheroe, lost her engagement ring on the Castle field, she thought she had seen the last of it—until a Whalley man came to the rescue with his metal detector.


called in on' Tuesday, after Mrs. Wilkinson and her hus­ band Richard had spent two and a half hours searching in vain on the previous evening. It took him only half an hour to find the ring with the aid of the metal detector, and he also discovered that the Wilkinsons were old friends.


Mr. Terry Edwardson was BENT DOWN


how she had lost the ring: “1 went to fetch my little boy Gary, who was playing on the Castle field. As I bent down to -pick him up, I felt the rings slipping off, and when I looked, the engagement ring had gone”.


Mrs. Wilkinson explained


'and that didn’t help the search. The ring has great sentimental value to me. and I am very grateful to Mr. Edwardson”.


Mr. Edwardson managed to find ith”, se added “The grass was being mown on the field,


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is quickly


decided that Brian was not a Colorado beetle at all. They arc smaller than Brian and have stripes running down the back instead of across. ' So' Mr. Wilmot paid his last


the find to Clitheroc’s Health Inspector, Mr. W. Grange, be­ cause Colorado beetles arc acknowledged potato pests. However, Mr. Grange quickly


tomer were arriving, and a brisk trade continued for most of the morning. Brett Jackson,


patrol upsets residents


RESIDENTS of the Castle View, and Kirkinoor Road district of Clitheroe are to protest to the Council about the disturbance being caused by heavy traffic using the area. They claim that: @ Lorries waken them up at. 5 a.m. @ There is a hazard to health from fumes ® Foundations of houses shake with the vibration ® Children and pedestrians are in constant danger ® Lorries travel too fast for safety


The complaints h a v e and we have a job to get back


been building up for the past year, since a local haulage firm, J. FI. Myers, Ltd., opened up a garage in the former gas works yard, and a petition is being or­ ganised. The route along Castle


View is also used regularly by the Corporation, which keeps its transport fleet in


had an outlet through the gas. works yard and into Wadding- ton Road, via the Recreation Ground, it now has to return by the same route. Allegations of speeding traffic


a yard adjoining the garage. But whereas traffic formerly


were refuted by a spokesman for the haulage firm, Mr. S. Cox, who told our reporter: “If anyone sees a lorry break­ ing regulations, he has only to take its number and report it to us, and we will certainly take action”. Mr. Cox claimed that lorries


moor Road, said that there had already been a petition, which had had no effect. ‘“If we want to move, we will never sell the house”, she said. ‘“We arc used to the traffic from the Cor­ poration yard; and the trains, but these lorries are far too heavy, and the state of the road is not very good”.


to sleep again'. Mrs. Dorothy Hope, of'Kirk-


t-\Speed


to the situation: “ It is no good complaining—you only get a lot of cheek. But we ought to get a reduction in rates”.


Mrs. Dugdale, also of Kirk- moor Road, seemed resigned


Monica Royle, of Chorley House, complained about the hazardous speed of the lorries, which swept round the corner, assuming they had right of way.


Further down the road, Mrs.


been warned to be as quiet as possible, but an empty eight­ wheeler could not be prevented from banging . . . especially on a poor road surface.


travelled at a speed of five to nine mph. With regard to the emission of fumes, their lorries had to comply with the law. or they were likely to be prose­ cuted. He said that the drivers had


“Doing best”


times came round the corner from Castle View on two wheels were discounted by Mr. Cox. “If someone will come and show me that it’s possible to drive an eight-wheeler on only two wheels, then 1 will give him anything he likes”. “We are doing our best to


Suggestions that lorries some­


it’s impossible to breathe, and the children’s bedroom gets full of diesel fumes”, she said.


of Castle View, the last 12 months have been a nightmare. She is a foster mother with eight children, who now have to play inside in the front room. “I daren’t let them go outside, as I am frightened they will be under the lorries”, she said. They all have bikes, but they are not allowed to use them any more”. Mrs. Walton is also wor­ ried about the danger to health from the fumes. “If the win­ dows are open for half an hour,


For Mrs. Raywyne Walton,


safety has made Mrs. Walton very nervous. “Every time an empty wagon goes over the dip in the road it sounds as if


it has hit someone”, she said. ‘“I am flying to the door every few minutes”.


Mr. William Marshall, said: “You really have to live here to appreciate the annoyance. The road is in a disgraceful state, and apart from the dirt and noise all this heavy traffic is not doing the foundations of the property any- good. We have lived here for 12 years, and although this is a residen­ tial area of the town, there is more traffic than ever before; People are getting sick and tired of the situation, but is no good complaining as an individual— you get nowhere. “We are continually awak­


consider the feelings of resi­ dents”. he added, “but we can’t stop progress. People will have to get used to it”. A resident of Castle View,


ened at the unearthly time of four or five in the morning,


Congestion


residents was summed up by Mr. Horace Cook, also of Castle View, who described the road as “the biggest, noisi­ est, self-created cul-de-sac in the north of England”.


The feeling of many more


other towns were concerned with getting traffic away from the vicinities of town centres. Clitheroe. it seemed to him, was encouraging them to come into such districts.


Mr. Cook added that while Worrying about the children’s which could only add to the


latest complaint would be treated more seriously by those


general congestion. Mr. Cook hoped that the


in authority because previous complaints appeared to. have been ignored.


Hectic


programme for MP


THE first few days of Septem­ ber arc going to be hectic for Clitheroe Division MP. Mr. David Walder. For ho will be holding 10 meetings in the con­ stituency to explain Britain’s proposed entry to the Common Market.


at Worsthorne. on August 31. with another the same night at Wheatley Lane. On September


1. Mr. Walder will be at Foul- ridge and the following day at Padiham Town Hall.


Friday, September 3, sees


the first of the meetings on this side of the division, at R o ­ chester Parochial Hall. This meeting will start at 8 o clock as will others at Great Har­ wood Lecture Hall (September 6). Chatburn C. of E. School (September 7). Whalley C. of E. School (September 8), Long- ridge Congregational School (September 9), and St. Mary’s Church Hall. Clitheroe (Sep­


tember 10).


Stonyliurst’s new head


Stonyhurst College for the past eight years, is to leave at the


other proposal to allow a trans­ port firm to use the former railway goods yard, off Parson Lane, for the maintenance and servicing of goods vehicles,


He was concerned about an­


FATHER George Earle, SJ, who has • been headmaster at


end of the year. The new headmaster will he


Father Michael Bossy, who is at present in charge of the senior boys in their final year. This is his sixth year at the College.


volunteers will be delivering to every house in the division a leaflet outlining the date and times of the various meetings and giving space for individuals to express their views on entry. The opening meeting will be


And starting on Monday


200-YARD JOURNEY INVOLVES DETOUR OF FIVE MILES


CLOSURE of the private.road through the former


■gasworks has also posed problems for the Cor­ poration Lighting Department. It is no longer possible to get from the gas­ works site to Chester Avenue via the recreation


ground. And because the department’s tower wagon


is too high to pass under the railway bridge in Waddington Road, a five-mile detour via West Bradford and Waddington has to be made to ser­ vice some street lamps between the bridge and the borough boundary at Brungerley . . . lamps about 200 yards away from the depot. On Friday, the detour had to be made so that


a lamp near the gasholders could be serviced. “Fortunately”, said a worker, "this does not hap­


pen too often”. Some years ago, the Borough Engineer, Mr.


J. Newton 'Bell, prepared a scheme to link Kirk- moor Road with Chester Avenue but nothing


came of it. Soon to be built is a length of road fronting


the Post Office garages on the recreation ground, but this will be a joint effort between the Post Office and the Corporation. But this roail will not link up with ihe Castle


View area.


MCE SURPRISE FOR WHALLEY


village has been under great stress arising from outside influences such as traffic prob­ lems, etc., and, in spite of this, lias performed in a yeoman- like way without quite achiev­ ing full success in the competi­ tion.” The special award of merit


goes to a village in the compe­ tition that h a s shown special effort but has not won in any class in the competition in this or previous years.


form of a perpetual silver challenge cup, presented by the Lancashire Federation of Village Institutes, to be held for a year.


The special award fakes the WORTHWHILE


revealed at last night’s meeting of file Parish Council. The chairman, Coun. J. H. Fell told our reporter: “So many people in tiic village have really made an all out effort to make their premises attractive and this award is a worthwhile reward for their efforts.


News of tlie award was


thank all those residents who have contributed to this success and hope it will be a spur to even greater success in the years ahead.”


“I would particularly like to


ticularly.pleased that the trophy had been presented by the Women’s Institute.


which he had the greatest admiration and, as he went around the district, felt that it was the Women’s Institutes which were the greatest influ­ ence in keeping alive a com­ munal spirit and local pride in our lovely villages.


It was an organisation for


WINS' A CYCLE


Road, Clitheroe, hr.: won one of 14 Raleigh ‘Chopper’'cycles, and Miss’ N. Knowles. .of- Long- worth Road, Billington, this week received' a’ Bush* 'discas- sette record player—also .one of the 14' runners-up prizes. Mrs. King will be. awarded


OUT of nearly 15,000 contest­ ants, two local Women have won major, prizes ip, .a co/npetition run by a large grocery chain. Mrs. B. D. King, of Salthill


Coun. Fell said he was par­


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her bicycle as soon • as :it’ arrives from the factory at a special presentation in the store where she got. her entry form—th a t . of Mr. r J. Myers- cough, in Chatbum Road. Mr. Myerscough also receives


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; NO unhappy faces.or holiday bines among (his group of young boys and girls. They’ve been attending the holiday club organised by the Cfitheroe Council of Christian-Congregations. The venture’has becivan outstanding success as you wifl-fmd^out by.please-tuming totpage-seven.


range eight points of safety on the ‘chopper’ cycle in'order of importance, and say why they shopped- at this grocery:store.


a ; prize—a Black ■ and Decker power tool. The contestants had to ar­


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WHALLEY has been given a special award in the Lan­ cashire Best Kept Village competition. In a letter to the parish council, deputy secretary of the competition com­ mittee, Mr. Tom Quail, says: “The committee feel that the


CLTTHEROE’S NEW


POSTMASTER


THE newly appointed Clithcroe postmaster is 47-year-old Mr. John Robson Wilson, of Pen­


rith.


' Mr. Wilson, an overseer at Carlisle Post Office, is at pres­ ent working as relief postmaster at Keswick. He started his career at the_age of 14 as a boy messenger in Appleby, and served with the navy during the war


dren, a 22-year-old daughter, who teaches in Manchester, and a- 19-year-old son, who works in a chemist’s shop.


He is married with two chil­


Mr. Wilson is a do-it-yourself .enthusiast, and enjoys watching footbalL Hc hopcs to take up his appointment at the end of the month, although no official’ date has yet been fixed. “Living In the Lake District


has made me very choosy about where I go.” he said. “Although I know very little about Ciith­ croc, I like what I have seen so far. It seems to be a similar type of town to Penrith.”


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