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Tlie riertion. one of the most important for many is being Iicld lo select members of a district


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Urban, Blaekinirn. Bnrnley and Preston Rural councils. \lthnimb lire I'ormatiou of the new council will


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u ./oeided bv the .lane 7th election, it ivill nm parallel to tbc exi.sling councils until April 1st, 1974.


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On that date the other councils avill disappear .ronil. lianding over to the Ribble •Valley district


'"'^iicil Bat until the takeover comes into effect, the nirt- inrmbnrs will meet regularly to settle the council’s


"nlcrnal organisation. Miiong tlie tasks facing the new council will be


n iHiii"- a .site for district council oifices. arranging the j'lo ^lui times of meetings — whether afternoon t evening appointing its chief oflicers. evolving a committee structure and preparing a budget.


Of the 3S seals on llic Ribblc Valley council, six


irc unopposed — in IVards a, 8. 11. IG, 17 and 19. ‘f the six eatulidates are Conservatives and the other i an Independent. Elsewhere, the Conservative party


il still the most strongly represented, with 31 candi- dats putting up for tlie remaining 33 seats. The Eiberai and Labour parties are concentrating


(heir main efforts in Ciithcroe Borough, each with a f II list of 10 candidates for the 10 Clitheroc seats. In llie surrounding districts Labour have eight candi­


dates and li'e Liberals seven. Altogelbcr tlierc are 11 Independents, including


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Jtanager of Burnley's Lucas engineering training centre, he is chairman of Clitlieroe Scout Coimcirs training committee. He ivain.s locai youiicstcr.s for National C.vcling prolicicncy eorlili- cate.s and i.s a ciuireliwardcii of St John's, Read.


Straits Lane. Read, i.s a governor of Gawlhorpe School, Padihara, and a manager of Rend CE School.


Rural Council s Finance Committee. Cynl Law, of


Vicc-obau-man of Burnley I\Irs S. Maw (C)


ren, Sheila Maw, of Lower Clerk Hill, Whalley, was a member of Padiham UDC from 1966 to 1971, and its chairman for one year. She is treasurer of the Clitheroe division Women's Unionist Association, central organiser for the Padiham WBVS, and vice-chairman of the managers of Whilcgatc School, Padiham,


W.iRIl 9—Howland Foi'cst, Higher and I.pwer, Newton, Slaidbuni, Easington (one seat)


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one in Chlbci oe, and an Independent Conservative. IV. Kinder (Lib.)


AVAKD 12—Read (one scat)


for ' many yeans, William Kinder, of Whittam Road, belongs to the Liberal Party Council, the North West Region Liberal Parly execu­ tive, and is pa.st president and chairman of CliUieroe Division Liberal Associa­ tion. He is a life member of the National Federation of Textile Managers’ .Associa­ tion executive.


-Active in public affairs C. R. Fallows (Lab.) Mrs II. Boyes (C) B. Bentley (Ind.) l iW i Miss A. Alston (C) ............. .1. S. R. Shaw (C)


CE Primary School for 24 yeans, John Shaw, of Wood­ lands Drive, Whalley, has served on the Parish Coun­ cil for 15 years and on Clitheroe RDC for three. He is treasurer of Whalley Parish Church, vicar’s warden, and a member of Blackbura Diocesan social responsibility committee.


Headmaster of Whalley


servative party for 50 years, Miss Alice Alston, of Little- moor Close, Sabden, received an MBE in the 1972 New Year Honours. Chairman of Burnley Rural Council, she has represented Sabden for 15 years. She has been a parish councillor for 22 yeans, and is a member of Division 5 Education Exe­ cutive.^ Governor of many schools^ she is connected with Sabden Parish Churcii.


A worker for the Con­ I mm \ W - smm I'. E. Green (C)


lias farmed at Lower House Farm, Paythonie, for 32 years and is chairman of the council’s liousing com­ mittee and a representative on the Ri’oble Valley reorga­ nisation committee. He ts associated with Paythorne Methodist Cliapel.


clected chairman Thomas Kayloy has served on the authority for 10 years. He


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Bounty Inn, Slaidourn. Peter Hey is ?.b and marned, with t'vo children. Educated at Colne Grammar School and Salford University, he has "oraed ia oneineering for the Noi'.ii VVe.Aicrn Elec­ tricity Eoard lor tiie past 20 ye.ir.s. He leccntly resigned to concent ! 'on local busi­ ness acuviia.;;.


Uindlord of llie Hark to E. Newhouse (C) A fanner, Edward New.


house, of Robinson’s Farm, Newton, has been a member of Bowland Rural Council for nine years. He is the


current vice-chainnan of the finance and general purposes committee and is also a mem­


J. D. Slater (Lib.)


ber of Newton parish coun­ cil. He has previously lived at Tosside and Cowark.


W..\Rtt !5—Rowland and Leagram, Cliippiiig. Tliornlc.’y with Wheatley (one scat)


Slater, of Ricidings Lane, Whalley, has been a member of the United Committee for the taxation of land values. An old' boy of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, he h.as beexr presi­ dent of the National Union of Teacher.s. Ro.ssendale branch, and twice chairman of the Lancashire Schools Cricket Association.


Retired headmaster James D. IVarburton (Ind.)


Pendle Street East, Sabden, is one of those people who firmly believes that politics should play no part in local government. He is there­ fore contesting Sabden as a ratepayers’ candidate, and making his first appear­ ance at the polls at district level.


Lancashire County for 12 vea'i-.q. Derek Warburton. cf


A clerk of works witn


dington, of Park View, a building contractor there for 20 years, is.44. married, and has three childi-cn. A sides­ man, he served five years on Bradford Diocesan Board of Finance. He has been chair­ man of Gisburn Young Con­ servatives, and senior branch .treasurer for nine years^


II. T. IVaddington (C) Gisburn-born Harry Wad


WARD 5—Clayton- le-Dalc, Salesbury (one scat)


m F. Sharratt (Ind.)


17, Isle of Man, Ramsgreave. has been on Blackbura Rural Council for two years. On the board of mana.ge- ment for his firm’s pension scheme, he is also a volun­ teer helper in the geriatric ward at Queen’s Park Hospi­ tal. He is married with a son.


Printer Fred Sliarratt. of IV. J. Harrison (Ind.)


Harrison, of Woodlands. Waddington, h.as lived in the’ village for more than 10 years, A parish councillor for seven year.s. he is a member of Bowland rural council, of Bowland educa­ tion sub-committee and a governor of Brennand's Endowed School, Slaidburn.


Retired farmer. Walter


committees of Blackburn Rural Council, Mrs Margaret Mayes, of Sharpies Farm, Osbaldeslon, also represents the council on the. Division 5 Healtlr Committee and the Division 1 Social Services Committee. She has been a council member for .six years. A parish councillor, she is a manager of St Leonard’s School, Osbaldes- ton.


Mrs M. L. D. Mayes (C) Serving on all the major


Fred Green, of Whalley Road, Wilpshirc, is a retired master-printer. He was general manager of the Blackburn Times for 34 years and of the ClUheroe Advertiser for nine, years. Mr Green is prominent in Rotary and golfing circles and was a chorister at Blackbura Cathedral for many years.


A Blackburn magistrate, P. J. Webster (Lab.)


Wilfred Ball, of Pasture- lands Drive, Billington, is 48. and married with three children. Born in Doncaster, he became an apprentice en­ gineer, served for a short time with the RAF, and was production engineer for 20


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Waddingfton, Bashall Eaves, Mitton (one seat)


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Officer since 1968, Alan Bassett is an Oxford gradu­ ate. Aged 33, married, with two children, he lives at Villa Alassio, Langho. Active in conmiunity relations work, the National Associa­ tion of Probation Officers,


years with an aircraft firm. Senior Preston Probation


Blackburn Rugby Club, Clayton-le-Moors Harriers


and Pendle Forest Orien- tcers, he is keen on current affairs. A paper stock and metal


T. R. Yates (C)


Party for 15 years and h. fought elections in Londo He has al.so taiien an acti' part in politics in Sum and the South-East, ai held various parly offict Hi.s support for Ribfc Valley tourism is we known.


ley Avenue Road, has bet a member of the Liber


time Mrs Je.an Vickers h sought election, she h. long been interested in locj government and is vie chairman of Darwen Di' sion Conservative Associ tion, having been secreta and chairman of tl Langho and Billin ton branch. Resident Dinckley 20 years, .she liv at Greenhurst Cottages.


Although this i.s the fir


merchant, William Fleming has been the Billington and Langho representative on Blackburn Rural Council for two years. He is also a mem­ ber of the No 5 Division Educational Executive and a governor of Ribblesdale School. He is married, and lives in Hillcrest Road, Langho. Mother of one. Margaret


Mason, of Little Lane. Longridge, worked as a sec­ retary in Clitheroe before her marriage. She is founder and .secretary of the Long- ndge branch of the Brittle Bone Society, and is con­ nected with Longridge Lions. Born in Whalley, she attended St Mary’s School, Langho. Hurst Green hotelier Anthony Perry, of Chaidg-


Webster, 22, married. Clayton Row, Langho, is trainee-manager and fc merly worked in Cotin Hall treasurer’s departmei' He has always lived local and . attended Clithcr Grammar School. Interest in politics and curre ' nfl’airs. he is active in Dt j wen Labour Party and );1 trade union, USDAW.


Young Socialist Phill


Terence Yates was born Lancashire and returned i this area about 16 years as He now lives at Hilloc! Farm. Whalley Old RoJ Billington. He has no pi vious experience in loc government, but feels ve strongly against damage the environment, pollutic violence and vandalism.


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and sub-postmaster Bertram Bentley, of Sycamore, Gis- bum, is a member of Bowland RDC. He has served on Gisbum parish council for 20 years and is a founder of the Festival Hall. For many years lie lias been sicle.sman at St Mary's Church and umpire at the cricket club.


Retired station m.ister


on Blackbura Rural Council for the past five years, Mrs Hilda Boyes. of Higher Commons Lane, is a widow, with two sons. Connected with St Leonard’s Church, Baklcrslone, .she is a mem­ ber of the Mothers’ Union, an I.s active m I he WI. She has always lived locally.


Member for Balderstone


topher Fallows, of Hollow- head Lane, Wilpshire, serves on various local committees on behalf of Blackburn Rural Labour Party. Aged 52, he is marned and has lived in the Blackburn area for 18 years. During the. last war he was on active ser­ vice with the 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment.


Electrical engineer Chris­ A. M. J. Perry (Lib.) Mrs .T. I). Vickers (C) " 7’- ,, ’if J. n. Fell (Ind.)


RESIDENT in Wiiallev for over 40 years, James Pell, of Limefield Avenue, is the


IV. II. Bowker (C)


present chairman of Clith­ eroe Rural Council and has served on Whallcy Pari-sh Council for 11 yeans.


Married, with two children, he recently completed 40 yeans’ work at Caldenstoncs Hospital, where ho is special duties officer.


lor for nearly seven years, Mary M. J. Brown, of The Dene, Hurst Green, is present vice-chairman and a Division 5 Eclucalion dele­ gate. She h.as been a pan.sh councillor for 21 yeans and IS vice-chairman of CliUicroe Area Parish Council’s Asso­ ciation and of the Lanca­ shire Parish Councils’ Asso­ ciation. She has also been


Mrs M. J. M. Brown (C) A Clitheroc rural council­


WARD 13—Sabden (one scat)


Mrs P. R. Perry (Lib.)


treasurer of Hunst Green Village Hall for 14 years. Hotelier Patricia Perry, of


M. IV. Bolton (Lab.)


Shireburn Cottages, Hurst Green, i.s 32 and has one child. Before marriage, .she was .a jounialisl and a mem­ ber of two choral societies. Sli3 IS a former Liberal party branch secretary and took an active part in old people’s welfare work in the south east.


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Paythorne New.s- liolmc, Horton,


Gisbuni, Rimington, Mifldop (one seal)


IV. Fleming (C) Mrs M. E. Mason (Lib.) '


rural area Labour Party, Maurice Bolton, of HiUcre.sl Road, Langho, works as a clerical officer with Black­ burn Corporation. Aged 50 he has been a member of the Labour P.arty and various trade unions for 25 year.s. Ho is a former branoli secretary of the 'Tran.sport Stdaned Staffs’ A.ssociation.


Treasurer of Blackburn


firm of haulage contractors, William Bowker .of Rib- chester Road. Clayton-le.- Dalo, is marned and ha.s a family. He is very interested in local government, and i.s a former treasurer of Black­ burn Conservative Associa­ tion and served for three years on Blackbura Borough Councal until 1971.


A director in the lamily IV. E. Ball (Lab.) m A. G. lijissctt (tjab.) 1


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WARD 18—-mialley (two seats)


WARD 14—Aighton, Bailey, Chaigley (one seat)


WARD 3—Balfler- stone, Mellor,


Osbalclcston, Rams- greavc (three scats)


WARD 6—Wilpshirc (two seats)


WARD 4—Billington, Dinckley


(three seats)


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Save noi)' on Dresses, Blouses, Top.s,; Skirts, Pants, etc.


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A member ot Clitheroe w"al Cnmieil for .six .vcar.s,


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^“'Hictl. and is a manager Chinni®


f"! ihc divisional .social .services of the County


-s a member of I'Jrish cnuncil.


Comm?.'’ f’eoP'e’s Welfare ^nnuitec and the Happy


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inember of the ■ oltib, CASH AND CARRY PRICES IV. P. Preston (Lab.) The Chipping branch of


the Labour Parly was started last year by Bill Preston, of Kirklands. He has been connected with the village all his life, and works


at Berry’s chairworks, where he is shop steward for the Furniture and Allied Trades. Union. He has been on the union’s branch committee since 1965, local branch secretary for three years and shop steward for two


years.


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Westminster Bank, Whalley, Arthur Westwell, of Moor Field, has served for six


Manager of the National


years on Clitheroe RDC and Whaliey Parish Council. Aged 53, he i.s a member of Clitheroe Golf Club, and in te,rested in music, gardening and the locality. He has one


con. ,1. R. MeCrcric (Lib)


Five Further Education sub­ committee, J. Robert Mc- Crerie, of Chatburn Old Road, Clitheroe is a clerk at Bibblesesdale Cement. He was clerk to Sabden Parish Cpuneil for seven year.s, sec- reliiry of the football and cricket clubs and is present .secretary and trustee for Sabden Methodist Oburoh.


Past chairman of Number A' G. Ainsworth (C)


his family lo represent Clayton-le-Dalc on Black- bum Rural Council, Geoffrey Ainsworth, of Little Wood- field Farm, took over the seat when his father died. He has always lived in the area and his family has a long connection with the district and its local politics. H’ is unopposed.


The third generation of .1. IVhittaUcr (C)


tivc John Whittaker, of St Mary’s Gardens, Mcllor, serves on Blackbura RDC. He has been on Mellor parlsli council for 15 years and is a former chairman. He has belonged to Saline.s- biiry Player.s for 25 years and i.s warden of Mellor Parish Churdi anti Inunda­ tion manager of St Mary's School.


Retired .sales reprc.scnla- M. J. I. IValni-slcy (C)


Walmsley has been a farmer all his life. Aged 56. he has been a committee 'member of the local Conservative Association for 30 year.s, viee-ehainnan for 17 years and chairman for the pa.sl two. He has been a parish councillor for three .vears, and livRs nt Gsnnjes Farm,


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