Clitheroe: Advertiser and Times, December 18th, 1975- 5 >d cheer at


•nonth o f a strange


phenomena ch is not


my medical the human perceptibly


unique know- iac functions, Dr Christian at have noted


; is demonstr- time the 12th year comes


ian heart gets enerous, more ring. Regrett- nstances, this


irns to normal iy the 31st of ver, but thank 5 not true in senior citizens


each Christmas morning. Thin excellent custom continu'd -i


annually until 1813, but why h ’ th en terminated I have not


b e e n a b le to a s c e r ta in rPerhaps the poor people grew


eluctant.to leave their be^


chambers at that early hour or more probably the money ran out — inflation is not


purely a 20th century innova- tion; it s been going on a long longtime.


' - • Equally unusual was the


charity instituted by Thomas Tuke, who lived in ,Wath in Yorkshire, in the early 1800s Thomas died in 1810 and being


a g re a t lover of children directed that each and every


child who attended his funeral should receive a penny piece.


Some 600 or 700 bright-eyed yo u n g s te rs availed them­ selves of this opportunity — Thomas was royally mourned Furthermore this kindly old


man made a provision to benefit the children of his par­ ish — he directed that 40 dozen penny buns be thrown from the church tower at


noontide every Christmas Day.


s eople who have


to very special Christmas will


omenon is not century origin, s my re c en t


lecifically to ibution. lot so in Mel- byshire, for in Greene of that ficient money to poor women of of Castle Don- Melbourne each waistcoat. Each to be decorated ce. These were edon December Day) and to be


/e confirmed. I n of Whalley e, and generous were, none of to have been


Christmas Day. f made certain our ladies in his be very smartly he occasion and ; would be per- e colour of their


ltleman with his Christmas was


irkyns, who as a of manly sports


r for the promo- istling match to annually on


th at Bunny, in lire. Risborough in


hire there was nusual demonst- Hhristmas big- There, the Lord provided a bull,


k of malt and a at to be distri- poor at 6 a.m.


This ritual, too, was faith­


fully observed until the cere­ mony became so rough and noisy, with shouts of triumph from those who were success­ ful in the mad scramble for buns to groans of disappoint­ ment from those less fortu­ nate, that in due course only six or seven dozen of the cakes were thrown to the winds and the remainder were distri­ buted in more seemly and decorous manner. Finally, let me record the


-for death


t AST week the House of Commons decided on the Question of the death I penalty for murderers


1 (vho are also terrorists. The propos a l, was rejected by a majority of 129. A year ago, to the jay a similar motion was rejected by a majority of


152. It was not a vote on party


lines, though the majority of the Labour Party was to be ound in the “No” lobby, and


the majority of those who voted “Aye” were Conserva­ tives. Mrs Thatcher voted for the death penalty, Mr Wilson, Mr Thorpe, Mr Heath and Mr Powell against. Back-Bench members of the


Liberal Party were in both lobbies. I myself voted this time, as I did last, for the death penalty for those who (ommit “terrorist offences


causing death.” It was not without consider­


kindness of Edward Porter, of Alresford, in Essex. In 1558, he decreed that the milk from two cows was to be given to the poor each morning from Whitsuntide to Michaelmas, with a special bonus of 3s. 4cl to' each poor person on Christ­ mas Day and Good Friday. The five examples I have


given are, I think, definite proof of the theory prop­ ounded in my first few sent­ ences. Today, of course, benefac­


tors are less eccentric in their testatory wishes, but despite this I am quite sure that as Yuletide 1975 approaches,' many local people will awake one morning to receive sur­ prise gifts they never really anticipated.. Many of these will be quite


anonymous and the generosity of the well-wishers will not be recorded in parish registers or on a n c i e n t documents gathering dust in the parish chest, but they will all spring from the same source — those hearts that grow bigger every year at this most blessed of seasons. I t is, I suppose, all due to another manifestation of that special Christmas


magic. F


able thought, for I have previ­ ously voted against the death penalty for what I might call the “ordinary” murderer. Customarily on this question MPs talk about “a matter of conscience.” I try not to use that phrase which comes so readily to the tongue as I am not opposed to the taking of human life in any circumst­ ances. In print that looks rather horrible, but it is the truth. I am not a pacifist, if I had been I should have refused to serve as a soldier in Malaya, Aden or Borneo; all places where the post-war British Army was engaged against terrorists.


.MISTAKE No, my objection to the use


of capital punishment in the ordinary murder case was, and is, based upon my view that it had no special powers of deterrence. Further, those very murders which cause most horror in the public mind, such as the Moors Mur­ ders, are committed by men and women upon whom, because of their mental state, no deterrent would have any elfect. My third objection to the


death penalty is the danger of imposing a completely final


I'punishment by mistake upon an innocent man.


Very well, you may say,


what is the difference, why change your mind? I think that the first point is


the difference between the terrorist and the murderer. The murderer kills one per­ son, often a husband or wife, he wishes to be rid of. Or the murder arises out of some quarrel or dispute. I t is gener­ ally a single act, even the criminal who shoots at a policeman does not wish to kill all policemen. The terrorist on the other


hand is waging war on society. He is indiscriminate, it doesn’t matter whether his victims are visitors to the Tower of London, diners in a restaurant or customers in a pub.


MINORITY He is seeking to terrorise


by the very frightfulness of his actions, therefore from his point of view the more people killed or maimed the better.


In Northern Ireland at the


moment there is a body of men which is seeking to impose its will upon the rest of the community. A very small minority has token up arms in order to frighten the majority into acquiescence. In order to frighten the rest of us on this side of the Irish Channel bombs have been exploded in London, Birmingham and Aldershot. If there is a clear discernible object it is to force the British government and the British people into a state of mind where we all say “we can’t stand any more, let us surrender Northern Ireland to the IRA.” Now the ordinary peaceful


citizens of Northern Ireland voted some time back, by an overwhelming majority, to stay part of Britain. In Eire, though, of course, there are IRA supporters, the govern­


Westminster Viewpoint


DAVID by WALDER


ment is also, opposed to these violent-men. Therefore, these gangsters are not the leaders' of some great papular free­ dom movement. They are not latter day Garibaldis^


. DUTIES If the British and Eire gov­


ernments left the field clear for them they would seek to gain power, not by the ballot box, but by the machine gun. In these circumstances the .


British Government has two plain duties, firstly to defeat the IRA and secondly to pro­ tect its own citizens from IRA attacks. In practice these two duties produce a curious situa­ tion. In the streets of Belfast and Londonderry a terrorist using a weapon or planting a bomb may be shot dead by a British soldier, a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment or an Irish policeman. In Lon­ don a te r ro r is t who has exploded a bomb and killed someone as a result will, if captured and tried and found guilty, be sent to prison for life.


MARTYRS To many people it would


only seem fitting that the con­ victed te r ro r is t who has inflicted death should himself suffer death. However, I think it is necessary to go a little further than that with the argument. Will the death penalty deter? Just as it did not deter the insane murderer I do not claim that it would deter the most fanatical ter­ rorist. Nevertheless, I think it would deter som^ for not all terrorists are brave men anxi­ ous to die for their beliefs. Further, one must remember that life imprisonment is less of a deterrent to the IRA member than the murderer. Nearly all their members are convinced that one day the


British Government will sur­ render and that’ there will then be an amnesty of so- called political prisoners and so the man sentenced to life imprisonment, will only be in prison for a few years. So I believe that the death


penalty would act as a deter­ rent to some terrorists, if not all, and in addition it would have an effect which life imprisonment, in the Irish dimension, does not possess. In the House of Commons a


number of Members, opposed to the use of the. death pen­ alty, argued that its use would only make martyrs of the executed and encourage reprisals. Neither possibility can, I


must admit, be ignored. The IRA would undoubtedly seek to create hero status for their members but I think it would be difficult to make out a con­ vincing case for someone who had deliberately killed or maimed totally innocent men and women. Gavrilo Princip,who started


the 1914-18 war by killing an Austrian Archduke and his wife, may still be a hero to his native Yugoslavia, but what about killing an eminent physician in London and two women cleaning an Aldershot NAAFI? Is that the sort of record for a national hero?


INNOCENT Finally, reprisals. The last


time we debated capital pun­ ishment a year ago the IRA threatened to kill two British soldiers for every terrorist executed. No doubt they might try; but surely their threat against the use of the death penalty suggests that the IRA itself regards that penalty as a deterrent. At the moment it is a pen­


way it was, not because I wish to encourage some competi­ tion in frightfulness, but because in a war between law­ less gunmen and civilised soci­ ety, I want, as I suspect a large majority of my con­ stituents want, to see the forces of law and order armed as powerfully as their enemy.


alty they apply to their, own members and to the innocent outsider so that in Ulster even the ordinary citizen has more to fear from the IRA than the Government. So my vote was cast in the


SMILES OF ACHIEVEMENT 1 . SV


-


ilt by the road at a name having a


Even to pedestrians, the


ig on the good ch of this length Road.


•s or maybe 30 Road will almost ind the resultant aken for granted is ever thus. >n fade, particu- age when more n one year than 0 in our parents’


be sorry at the


e of the old tree- ich gave unrival-,


over this wide Ribblesdale. It


own well over a and the overall ne carried on this road must have


almost bird’s-eye views were quite spectacular. In the stage coach days this was one of the


outstanding features as the coaches came to the end ol their journey from Skipton to Clitheroe. It was said in those d ay s th a t th e view was


high in the coach, could scan- the beauties of Ribblesdale as they stretched in an unbroken expanse to the towering heights of Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent— a wonderful


“glorious.” Here, the traveller, seated


climax before the coach drew


in through the n m w way into the yard of the Old Black Bull.


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PARISHES SILENT


HALF the Parish Councils in the area had not even replied to a letter inviting them to send representatives to the nibble Valley Parish Councils’ Liaison Committee, vice- chairman Mr J. H. Blackburn (Mellor) said at last week’s meeting of the committee.


CANDLES from 7p each


under th e new system thereby every parish council (instead of every electoral uard) is entitled to one rep­ resentative on the committee.


It was the first meeting


Jurn-up. Representation now looks worse than it was before,” said Mr Blackburn, Presiding in the absence of chairman Coun Fred Green.


“I am disappointed at the The committee decided not


to alter its quorum (four dis­ trict councillors and eight par­ ish councillors), and to leave jo the parish councils, on an ad noc basis, arrangements for


substitutes when' nominated


representatives are unable to attend.


INDOORGARDEN SETS from


£1.53


APPROVAL has been given uy the Ribble Valley Council’s olicy and Resources Com- unttee to moves to form a


THERE was an extra special cheer when cight-year-old Graham Holt stepped^ up to receive a cycling certificate o f m e r i t a t B r a b in ’s Endowed School, Chipping. For Graham (second from


the left in the middle row), a pupil a t St Mary’s RC School, was the youngest of 10 children from the two schools to take the cycling


proficiency test. The other children, aged


nine and 10,. were James Lord, Helen Freeman, Gary


Adamson, Sally Kay, Robert S c a r l e t t a n d H i l a r y W h itak e r from Brabin’s School, and Stephen Pyc, Diane Walmsley, Shirley Blezzard from St Mary’s. The c e r t i f ic a te s and


badges were handed over by District Road Safety Officer, Mr Neil Cunliffe, who told the children to remember th a t , although they had shown themselves proficient cyclists, they were not world speed riders, and must con- inue to obey the road safety rules.


Mr Cunliffc, Mr G. Bottom- Icy (headmaster Brabin’s) and Mr B. Moiling (head­ master St Mary’s).


Seen with the children are i New parish council


at a meeting this week that a resolution to form a parish council had been made at a recent parish meeting. First


Parish council in Bowland For­ est Low. Committee members heard


'elections for the council would be in May next year and there w o u ld be f iv e council


mombe-


Row over milk churns led to a fight


INCENSED at milk churns ending up, in the mud instead of being replaced on the stand provided, a | Gisburn farmer was provoked into attacking a Milk Marketing Board driver and broke his nose, Clltheroe


magistrates were told. When James Frarikland


(25), of Watt Close Farm, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on the driver, his solicitor, Mr W. D. Green­ wood, claimed the offence stemmed from the actions of the driver who was new to the


round. On two occasions before the . . ■ ' .


incident, Frankland had told th e d r iv e r , Mr, George Slinger, that he was not doing his job properly. When empty milk kits fell into the mud, Frankland and his mother were caused considerable extra work washing, scrub­ bing and sterilising them, said Mr Greenwood.


When the churns again fell ..


into, the mud, there had been a heated argument, leading to


the fight. Insp. Derek Gregory, pro­ . , ■


secuting, said that during the fight Frankland punched Mr Slinger and they both fell over .a wall: After a stone from the


top of the wall had been thrown, the fight resumed and Mr Slinger received a bro-1 ken nose, cuts to his head and behind the ear, and a bruised


eye. Fining Frankland £20, the


presiding magistrate, Mr > George Braithwaite, said that | while the bench realised he had been provoked, such behaviour could not be jus­


tified. Offices


AN offer of £8,000 from Lon- gridge Town Council for the council offices at Longridge | has been turned down by the Ribble Valley Council’s Policy and Resources Committee. ■Instead, members have


decided to put them on the open market for sale or lease — provided the town council does not make an offer equal to the district valuer’s valua-


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