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Does not cost


town money AS a 19-year-old resident


of Clitheroe I would like to reply to Mr Parsons


whose letter, due to many sweeping statements and generalisations, is very vulnerable.


vides me with an oppor­ tunity to point out to Mr Parson, and people of the same mind, a few hard facts.


Therefore, the letter pro­


the town any money. Sponsorship, yes, but no loss has been made. There­ fore his rates arc not being spent on this function.


The festival does not cost


a credit to the people who have organised them. Why else would the council agree to the fourth? Mr Parsons also criticises


Past festivals have been


festival outlet young


IN reply to Mr Parsons’s letter about the “ pop ” festival, may I point out th a t it is only one day In


the year, and for the rest of the year. aS far as most of the young people of this town are con­ cerned, the town could be likened to a cemetery.


8 p.m. most days including weekends, with the excep­ tion of a few youth clubs


The «uly recreation after


are the public houses. Am I to understand Mr


fo* the 12 to 16 age group,


Parsons is condoning under­ age drinking and hooli­ ganism, because this seems to be the only outlet left for young people who are too old for youth clubs and too young to drink.


tival, the word is guarantee and in three years never once has there been a loss. In fact an increase in pro­ fits has marked every fes­ tival.


As for subsidising the fes­


council would subsidise a loss-making venture run by


Does Mr Parsons think for one minute that the


the quality of the music. But I wonder does he really know anything about it. Classing all the listeners as morons is hardly fair and I feel be should know better than to Judge people by appearances only.


few things the town has to offer its youth as most of the entertainment has to be sought out in Blackburn, Burnley, the surrounding villages, etc. So come on. Mr Parsons,


JOHN TAYLOR, 21 Secdall Avenue, Clitheroc.


of the town's attributes. He is quite right, but where is there a mention of ameni­ ties for the youth? He seems to be totally unaware and intolerant of youth and, let’s face it, they are what the festival is about. This festival is one of the


Mr Parsons also lists some


an outside organisation such as the Young People’s Recreation Committee?


GENUINE


(own do not write in com­ plaining of the lasses made at the castle fete every vear, or the money last on the ill-fated “ Jazz” festival.


The young people of this


for a section of the com­ munity. Maybe he is forgetting that the young people arc


P’-obably because he person­ ally did not object, to these ventures and neither do I. They were genuine attempts to provide entertainment


Neither does Mr Parsons,


ALTHOUGH it is not our policy to lower ourselves to the level of public mudslinging, we find it


necessary to reply to Mr Parsons to set the record straight before


any


also part of that commu­ nity.


you must have been young once.


nothing? That the festival has to be planned months in advance, that many miss the festival through taking


that all the members of the Young People’s Recreation Committee work


for


Joy of keeping in touch


Isn’t it remarkable how one cart be kept so much


in touch with one’s home town or village through the medium of a newspaper? I find this particularly so with the Advertiser


and Times. Being a regular reader since 1928 J do really enjoy following the day to day happenings in


and around Clitheroe, and of course in my own special village, Rimington. So. as we say goodbye to the old year and welcome


the new, may I thank the staff of the newspaper for providing such pleasurable reading. May I also thank those kind people of Rimington,


particularly the members of the Women’s Institute, for their unforgettable welcome when I returned to the village to see them. I trust th a t 1973 will be a very happy year for you all with many more happy meetings in person


and through our ever faithful contact the Advertiser and Times. MRS E. W. DANIELS, 628 Southend Road, Filton, Bristol.


Does Mr Parsons know


other misguided citizens climb on to his shoddy bandwaggon. The point of the festival


. something they can enjoy and appreciate. All the work involved in


young people of this area. for the


ever, is totally untrue. The shopkeepers and publicans of tlie town do an enor­ mous trade on festival day.


is not satisfied with simply criticising the festival, but that he would like to intro­


It seems that Mr Parsons


is to provide some kind of entertainment


organising the festival is done by lis (the YPRCI so that any eomplaint regard­ ing wasting the council’s time ran be ignored. We also do it. for absolutely nothing and ha.ve never been in any way rewarded for our efforts. Mr Parsons claims that


duce some kind of discrimi­ nation between himself and his “ tiny minority" and the young people who come to the festival, the vast majority of whom are equally


human being could publicly and without any justifica­ tion accuse us of being " morons.” and not the ’’ sort” of people that he wishes to live with, defies any credible understanding.


as “ respectable " a s himself. How any socially conscious


Young People's Recreation Committee.


DAVID BARLOW


bish ” and that he is asked to subsidise it. However, if he eared to


that one and a half days a year (counting the concert in the evening of the Onstle


get things into any rational perspective, be would note


fete) could never be called continuous or even fre­ quent. He would also note that


the festival has always made a considerable profit and that it has therefore, theoretically, become self- sufficient and no longer subsidised by the rates, which Is more than can be said of such things as the Castle fete or the drama


festival. He states that Clitheroe


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ticket money, helping back- stage, a.nd with organisa­ tion. and do this to provide


entertainment for thou­ sands of others? TASTE


sons. As for litter, there is more left at the castle fete or torchlight procession, but I wonder how many offered to help clear up after those events as I heard quite a


Yes, thousands Mr Par­


kind of place do we want OUR town to be.” Is he


few do after the “ pop ” festival. Mr Parsons says: “What


•sure he doesn’t mean “MY” town? As for “Music for Morons,"


I personally welcome any attempt hv any organisa­ tion or group of people to provide entertainment for the people or this area, young or old, whether t0 my personal liking or not T. MATTISON,


surely this is a matter of personal taste, and I think Mr Parsons is dismissing all pop “ music out of hand. In closing may I say that


7 Faraday Avenue, Clithero'e.


Payments for groups


too high I BELIEVE that Coun. Ains­ worth will have many sup­ porters in his protest against adventuring a further £500 of ratepayers’ money on a pop festival so dependent on weather for its success. The alleged expenditure of


£1,400 on three performers sounds outrageous, if true. Coun. Sharpies can scarcely


II young people were taken to court last year for drug offences on a day when at­ tendances were reduced by the weather. Coun. Taylor has good reason to be wor­ ried when a special drug squad has to be drafted in­ to the town. To Coun. Nelson I would


It is no advertisement that


the time to cut down is when one makes a loss is like shutting the stable door after the horse has gone. Stand to your guns, Coun.


■ and will not forget. CHARLES MUSSON. 15 Pimlico Road, Clithcroe.


SETTING THE RECORD


say that of course we ex­ pected a faithful report. This is no commendation and a very poor reason for sup­ porting the increase. Cotin. Jones’s remarks that


be commended for his spite­ ful remark in public, what­ ever his secret thoughts.


A chance to quiz experts on countryside


MEMBERS of the public will have a chance to quiz experts about the future of the local countryside, at a special any questions session in Clltheroe.


at the Ribblesdale School a week tonight.


being presented by the Clitheroe Naturalists' Society


The free-for-all quiz is


nised by the Society under the auspices of the Adult Education Centre. Admission will be free and all those in­ terested in the subject are invited to attend. It is hoped that local


farmers and landowners will be there to put their point of view.


The session is being orga­


A story of love


Experts in special fields will form a panel to answer


questions under Mr Stanley Wcsthead, JP, and as the


Ainsworth, a great number of your fellow townsfolk are watching you with interest


title suggests the audience will be free to put questions to tiie panel. These may be posted or


DURING one of the most dramatic scenes in “Ryan's Daughter,” at fihe Civic Theatre, Monday to Satur­ day, an Atlantic hurricane buffets the Irish coast. The crew filmed 12 ihoure a day for four days in winds gust- ing up to 90 m.p.h. and so strong that just staying on their feet was a major effort.


David Tattersall, of the Lan­ cashire County Planning office in charge of environ­ ment; Mr Frank Law, chief engineer, Fyldc Water Board; Mr E. Clay, director of the Lancashire Rivers Board; and Mr K. A. Dob­ son, head fovester of the Forestry Commission for Bowland and Gisburn. As Ciitheroe Advertiser


left at the Advertiser and Times office, marked “Free for All,” by next Wednesday. The panel will include Mr


Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills and Leo McKern are the strong supporting cast.


nearly a year to shoot be­ cause of David Lean's high standards of film making, but it may be the best film he has ever made.


“Ryan’s Daughter" took


and Times columnist "Naturalist" pointed out in an article a few weeks ago something should be done to sort out the problems involv­ ing the authorities and the public and the land we live in.


it should be possible to gain a better understanding of the problems which beset both the public and the authori­


By questioning the experts


reasonably balanced pro­ gramme for the future. Country-lovers — among


ties and so bring about a


whom are naturalists, ramb­ lers and most of the public — are. or should be deeply concerned about conserva­ tion, pollution in i,ts many forms, the demands on land for increasing water supplies, the amount of land being used by the Forestry Com­ mission all over the country, and the policies of the com­ mission on tree planting, the type of trees and the usual amenities.


CORONER’S AWARD TO WIDOW


MRS IRENE MOON, widow of L^Cpl David Moon, who was killed in Northern Ire land, has been awarded £14,000 compensation by the Londonderry Coroner.


the son of Mr and Mrs Frank S. L. Moon, of Church Street, Clitheroe.


David, who was 24, was


Army Aviation Squadron and was killed when an IRA mine blew up his Land Rover in the Sperrin Moun. tains, between- Londonderry and Belfast, last June, truck was also blown up and two other soldiers were killed and four injured.


He was serving with 664


film is an original love story with Sara Miles in the title role of a passionate young girl who expects more of life and love than her narrow world can offer. Robert Mitchum, Trevor


Set in Ireland in 1916, the Popular


character among


farmers .


A 'WELL-KNOWN and widely respected figure among the local farming community, Mr Thomas G. Porter, died on Monday, some eight years after his retirement.


;


quently moved to Middle Lees Farm, Whitewcll, which they farmed for 53 years.


a family of six children, all born while their parents lived at Mearley Hall, Pend­ leton. The family subse­


He was the only son in


and one of his sisters died within this • period, and were buried in Whitewell churchyard. For a number of years at Middle Lees, a nephew, Mr J. G. Ripiey, and his wife also lived and worked with the Porters, while Miss Clara Porter kept, house for them all. Mr Porter attended


Both father and mother,


church at Whitewell and his sister was for many years a member of the PCC and took an active part in many parish and other local activities. The family was greatly


missed when they left . the district eight years ago to retire to Rishton, not far from another sister, Mrs Lily Seed. But they have constantly kept in’ touch with the old place, .and former friends and returned frequently on various occa­ sions to the old haunts. Mr Porter was often to bo


seen at Clitheroe among iiis old farming friends on numerous of the auction days, though not nearly so much in more recent months due to indifferent health. He was quite a likeable


character, and he will cer­ tainly be greatly missed by all those who knew him well.


Watchnight service


at Whatley


ably well attended, with as many people from Rishton and Grca.t. Harwood in the c o n g r e g a t i o n as from Wha.lley itsplf. ft. was conducted by the


W H A L L E Y Molhocji.'t Church was one of the few places in the area to hold a watchnight service on New Year’s Eve. to welcome 1973. The peiwiee wa„s reason­


Rev. E. S. Joselin, and Mrs M. Manley was the organist.


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