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IT’S a two-tone election in the Ribble Valley today — white ballot pap ers for those seeking dis trict council office and. green for those with ambitions to join a parish council. But unlike some parts of the
country, where counting will not take place until tomorrow, the 135 candidates in nine Ribble Valley borough wards and 13 parishes should know their fate by about 11-30 tonight. And this will be quite a
feather in the cap of the Rib ble Valley, for although it has the smallest population of any district in Lancashire, it cov ers the largest area, with all the attendant problems. The speedy service is being
achieved by having eight counting stations, all of which will telephone their results to th e central control at St James’s School, Clitheroe.
St James’s, in addition to
being the “nerve centre” for the valley,.will also handle ballot papers for Glitheroe’s four wards and the Bolton-by- Bowland district council seat.
Some 54 people will have
the job of counting the votes — dealing first with the dis-
' trict elections. At Longridge County Sec
ondary School, .12 people will count votes for the town’s two wards, as well as those for Chipping. In some wards both district
and parish council seats are being hotly contested; in others there are no contests at all. Some wards have just par-, ish elections; some only dis trict elections. In Clitheroe, people in all four wards will be marking
•their crosses for the parish council, while district council voting applies only to electors in the Edisford, Low Moor, Trinity ward, and the Ribbles- dale ward.
Votes for Chatburn, Grind- leton, West Bradford and
levels in Mellor, Wiltshire and Sabden and these will be counted in the: respective vil- •lages.
come through from . Mitton, which has just 109 possible parish voters.
Quickest service should But when the officials finish
tonight, that doesn’t mean an end to things, for the ballot boxes will have to come out again within 42 days. This is because the law says that in- those parish, councils where there were not enough nomi nations for vacancies, the election process must be gone through again. This applies in the Chaigley ward of the Aighton, Bailey
.Waddington parish councils will be counted at Chatburn CE School. Schools at Gisburn and Slaidburn will also be vote counting centres for the par ish elections. There are elections at both
and Chaigley parish; Bolton- by-Bowland and Sawley w a rd s ,o f th e ;.,Bolton-by-
: Bowland, Gisbiirri Forest and Sawley parish; Read Parish Council;,the.'Easington ward of the Slaidburn and Easing ton parish; and the Little Mit ton'ward of. the Whalley and Little Mitton parish. Returning officer and Rib
ble Valley Council .Chief Executive Officer Mr Michael Jackson said ; that in places where district council elec t io n s /w e re being., held, e v e ry o n e sh o u ld h av e
received poll cards. . In wards where only parish
councils "are being elected, voters do not receive poll cards and should simply attend their polling stations, where they give their name and address.
Although this is the second
time elections for the whole of the district council have been held, it is the first “real” situa tion.
Last time the elections
were held when the council was to operate ,for nearly 12 months on a “shadow” basis, prior to the former councils becoming extinct as a result of reorganisation.
Since then the Ribble
Valley Council has taken on new stature, emerging from the “shadow" status and gain
ing more local powers because of extra functions being dele gated to it as an “agent”
of.the county council.
In many districts, the sys
tem of a third of the council lors being required to renew their' mandate at the polling
, booths in three out of every four years is being used. ■ But Ribble Valley has opted
for the alternative system of all its councillors — both dis trict and parish — serving for four years. This means that the next
local government ejections in our area will not come around until 1980.
Rent rise for HQ shocks old folk
Rotary Club leader stands down
HEEDING medical advice, 72-year-old Mr Emrys Mor gan has decided not to take on the job of president of the Rotary Club of Clitheroe from July. He will be succeeded by Clitheroe sports goods outfit ter Mr Noel Cook. Mr Morgan, of Smithy Cot
tage, Newton, told club mem bers that there was nothing wrong with him clinically, but he had been advised by his doctor to take things easier.
A CLITHEROE pensioners’ group is in danger of losing its only meeting place, unless it can come up with a £196 a year rent increase for its present “home.”
For nearly nine years the
300-strong Clitheroe- branch of the. National Federation of Old-Age Pensions Associa tions has been meeting at the Catholic church-owned Stan ley House, Lowergate.
lease expires on May 31st and the branch was ready to renew it for another seven:
MR MORGAN
In the circumstances he did not feel he could meet the demands of the president’s job and it would be . unfair
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MR COOK
to the club for him to try to do so.
Mr Cook, of Pinder Close,
Waddington, was first vice- president and would normally have taken office in July, 1977.
His family has owned one of
th e lo n g e s t-e s ta b l ish e d businesses in the town, their Castle Street shop being started in 1831 by his great grandfather.
He himself has been man
ager of that shop for the past 12 years, having been in charge of a Blackburn pain ters and plumbers merchants business for 35 years before that.
Like all his family, Mr Cook
is an old boy of 'Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and his sons, Malcolm and Derek, were the fourth generation to follow the tradition. They are both honours
graduates and live in Cromp ton and Sandbach. Mr Cook has been a Rotary
Club member for the past 12 years and has held many offices including assistant sec retary, sports officer and foundation officer. Much of his time is taken up
with his family and business interests, but in his younger days was a keen' golfer and badminton player. He was a member of
Clitheroe Golf Club for more than 30 years, first at the old nine-hole course at Horrock- sford and then at Barrow. His wife Edna is a former
president of the Inner Wheel Club of Clitheroe.
Festival programme v
ALL organisations involved in the Red Rose Festival, or which would like to join in this programme of .events taking place in the Ribble Valley and Blackburn bet ween May 19th and June 20th, are invited to a special Festival meeting in the Rib ble Valley Council chambers next Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Already more than 60 dif
ferent events are planned for the. Festival month, but there is plenty of room for more and Festival secretary Tony Perry, of the Bayley Arms, Hurst Green. (Tel: Stonyhurst 491) is the man for organisers to contact if they want events to be included in the programme.
To be mentioned in a spe
cial Advertiser and Times feature on the Festival, to be published next week, events must be notified today.
.Hawaiian flavour to this .year’s: group meeting of Sawley, Downham and : Grindleton WIs.
.GRASS skirts, garlands and guitars gave a distinct '
For, part of the entertainment — provided entirely by Sawloy members — was a South Sea Island scene,
complete with, hula-hula dancing and Hawaiian singing.. The members, who made all their own costumes for.
the various sketches, -have been rehearsing their acts for about the past-three months.
• / - The group meetings are held once a year and each
WI takes it in turn to be either host or entertainer. -• ■ This year Downham ■ members were hosts at The village hall. •
' • . ^ - .................. . ■ - Among, the,Items on Sawley’s programme were a
Sand Dance (by Mrs Francis Pye and Mrs Gertrude Benson), two monologues, “Cherry Cake” and “Wooden legman’ all” (Mrs Margaret Dyson), a Can- Can sketch (Mrs Rose Fcrnie, Mrs Hilary Ingham, Mrs Vera Giles and Mrs Eileen Jackson) and-a Lancashire dialect sketch entitled “My Constitutional” performed by Mrs Doris Giles, Mrs Barbara Pye and Mrs Dyson. Mrs Margaret Cradock and Mrs .Francis Parker
joined the chorus for the South Sea scene. ' Mrs Susan Jury made'the scenery and stage man-
, aged the entertainment, while Grindleton member Mrs Betty.Hodgson' helped out by providing piano accom paniment. ■ Guest speaker'at the meeting was Lancaster univer sity conference manager' Mr M. E. Ellacott, who talked about university life.
I ts current seven-year B u£'^thA'^Darlihgte'n':B3kgd
agents acting on behalf of SS Michael and John’s Church has offered to renew the lease for 12 months only, and at a cost of £300, an increase of nearly 200 per cent on last year.
" If the branch cannot meet
the new terms, the pensioners will have to vacate the two meeting rooms which they have used as their rendezvous and venue for fund-raising efforts over the years.
DISASTER The pensioners do not pay
subscriptions for membership of the Federation, and the branch survives only on the cash it raises. Branch secretary Mrs Ethel
Penny, of Hayhurst Street, Clitheroe, describes the situa tion as “disastrous” for the old folk.
- “If, we have to leave Stanley
House we will have nowhere to go and as we haven’t much
money I can’t see how we can stay there" Mrs Penny explained that
when the branch moved into Stanley House it had not been used for 18 months and all the furnishings and fittings were rotting and mildewed. . “The then acting parish
priest,. Fr Francis Hannan, said so much work needed doing to the_.h9use that jre .
’cotlld renf itTpr 10 shillingsla week,” she said/ "
“After nearly two years at
th a t rent someone became interested in buying the prop erty and the parish priest, the late Fr .Dillon, suggested we draw" up a lease for seven years.
“In view of the work we
intended doing to the prop erty , seven years was not long. But we were faithfully promised that we would have the option of renewing the lease for a further seven years.” Mrs Penny said that her
husband R o be rt, who is branch chairman, and their son Malcolm had put in a tre mendous amount of time and money w o rk in g on the building. They had replastered rooms
used by the branch, replaced a lot of floorboards, fitted a new sink and units in the kitchen
• Continued on page 3 South Sea
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A break through for the ladies
STAND BY, lads, for a break with tradition! The last bastion of male dominance in the ancient town of Clitheroe — the customary Mayor’s dinner — is about to fall prey to equality of opportunity..
But before you prepare to
mall the barricades against the invasion of your holy of holies, bear in mind that the innovation is . not due to pressure from the fair sex. Just the opposite, in fact,
for the earth-shattering prop- osal to open the door' to _ women for the very first time has come from the Mayor- elect, Coun. John Blackburn. “I know this is a complete
break with tradition,” he explained, “but in view of the Sex Discrimination Act and the fact that more women are putting up for the Town Coun cil, I feel we must move with the times.” Tomorrow night he will dis
cuss the plan at the annual Cockle and Mussel Feast, a n o th e r age-old custom whereby the Mayor meets the councillors to talk over policies for the coming year. Besides creating a prece
ritual dating back more than a century is the toast “Prosper- ation to the Corporation,” drunk by .the “colts” — men attending a Mayoral banquet
dent, opening the doors to women at the dinner — to be held at the Swan and Royal Hotel on May 26th — could pose something of a problem. For a feature of the annual
for the first time — from a silver cup of punch brewed from an ancient recipe. Said Coun. Blackburn: “To
include the ladies in this cere mony we shall probably have to refer to them as “coltesses” or maybe “fillies,” but that’s
,one_ of Jthe finer points which has yet to be decided.” The only remaining woman
to have served on the Town Council, Miss Evelyn Garnett, of Moorland C re s c e n t , Clitheroe, can see no objec tion to women being admitted now. “Women do all sorts of
things these days,” she com mented, “so why shouldn’t they go to the Mayor’s ban quet? The important thing is th a t the processions and Mayoral banquets should con tinue to be held.” Townspeople of either sex
who require tickets for the Mayoral dinner will be able to buy them next week at the Town Clerk’s office.
Coun. Blackburn, who will
be installed on Tuesday, with his wife Kate as Mayoress, succeeds Coun. Leo Wells. The Mayor and council will
process to the Town Hall for the ceremony at noon, return ing afterwards to the Starkie Arms Hotel for lunch.
touch COUN. ROBINSON
Council ‘lacks
teeth’ —MAYOR
A SWINGEING attack on the “undemocratic” use of dele gated powers in Ribble Valley Council affairs came this week from retiring Mayor, Coun. Tom Robinson. Addressing the final council
meeting before the elections, Coun. Robinson said: “The duties of the chairman of this council are somewhat of a farce. This council has no teeth. “A year ago, I stated my
views on the question of dele gation of powers to commit tees but it is only after 12 months that you fully realise the position. Over that period there have been 1,388 commit tee minutes presented to this council and, as one planning minute can cover very many decisions, the total resolutions can be in the region of 2,000 and of these only 10 could be varied by a vote of the council. “Members can speak on
them but they cannot be altered and in my opinion delegation has gone too far. Under our quorum system, it is possible for five members, or even less, of a committee to take a decision and bind the full council of 38 members. “I am not saying that the
system has been abused but to my mind it is not democratic and I wonder if the apathy shown at this coming election is partly due to our method. Other civic heads have said how they envy me — some have to face arguments on most minutes, which is the other extreme. But I, in turn, envy them and would have enjoyed, some real council debate.” Coun. Robinson commented
that it was appropriate to con sider whether or not the one year plan he had laid down on taking office had succeeded. He had accepted invitations to visit other areas whenever, possible. Mainly of a social nature, these visits had given him the opportunity of meet ing civic heads and discussing problems. “Another part of the plan
was to meet as many people in the Ribble Valley as possible and here: again I think the Mayoress'and I have suc ceeded in some measure. “We have attended many
functions, and have always received a warm welcome but it is no use hiding the fact that the Ribble Valley has a long way to go before it is fully acknowledged in. its true light in this wide area of ours. There is; in a few areas, .a measure of resistance and it is
• Continued on page . 9
THESE local youngsters certainly put themselves in the picture by entering our Easter colouring competi tion. For they are the winners
of the fun-to-enter competi tion and, on Monday, they received their prizes from Clitheroe newsagent Mr Peter Jeffreys. More than 150 entries were
received and the judge, Mrs Janice Revis, of the art department of our sister newspaper, the Burnley Express, spent hours decid ing just which were the best. The winners of each of the
and Linda Salisbury (14), Castle View, Clitheroc. Runners-up: Rachael Pur-
kis (6), Seedalls Farm, Cow- ark; Julie Ann Seed (8), Ashcroft, Chipping; Helen Denson (11), Dale Terrace, Chatburn; and Mark Sellers (13), Balmoral Avenue, Clitheroe. A special prize of a giant
Easter egg was given to eigh t-year-old Sam Westhead, of Ash Grove, Clitheroe. The prizes were donated
by Mr Jeffreys, who is pic tured here with all the
age groups received a super paint box and the runners-up found themselves with another Easter egg on their' hands.
First prize winners were:
Ann Parker (5), of Pain Hill, Slaidburn; Nicholas Barker. (7 ) , L it t lem o o r Road,' Clitheroe; Joanne Pollard (11), Woone Lane, Clitheroe;
NAMED
THE .Ribble Valley Council's' la te s t sh e l te red housing scheme at Low Moor is to be known as St Ann’s Court, the Housing Committee has decided. The adjacent family housing will be named St Ann’s Square.
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