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MANY people look upon the Royal British Legion Club in Clitheroe as just a place to go for a pint a f t e r work er for a friendly game of snooker- and darts. But behind the comfortable


club atmosphere a dedicated band of workers spend hours of their spare time looking after the needs of elderly ex- Servicemen and their rela­ tives.


the Legion is to care for old soldiers in distress and, without this charitable side to its activities, there would be no social club. .This is something, few


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accept charity of any kind.' Trying to persuade them to accept help is often as difficult ris finding the needy cases;” he explained.


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\ The list of help the Legion ■: can provide is seemingly end- less. It ranges from bags of coal a't Christmas time, to homes fo r e ld er ly ex- Servicemeh who need con­ stant, attention. '


lit tle. personal touch which means so much to the elderly. This, Mr Martin believes, is invaluable in making them realise they are not receiving charity in 'the strictest sense of the word.


Much of the work has that


people know about and this very anonymity causes some real problems for the club. • Says chairman Mr Dick


Martin: “A lot of people think that all we do is to go round once a year with our collection boxes for the poppy appeal. "Perhaps if people knew the


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only helpers that the club is short of. Probably the great­ est problem is finding people who need help. “We have to rely on people


But paradoxically, it isn't


coming to us and asking for assistance or telling us about someone who needs help. But often we don’t find out about someone who is in difficulty until it is too late. “Old folk in.this town are very proud and refuse to


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Clitheroe-| couple’s wedding


the United Reformed Church,' •Clitheroe, on Saturday, of Mr Raymond Joseph Dawson, elder son of Mr Harold Daw­ son, of S a l th i l l Road, Clitheroe, and Miss Kathleen


The wedding took place, at


Hall. The bride, the youngest


daughter of Mr and Mrs O. Hall, of Queen Street, Low Moor, was given away by her father. She wore a full-length Georgian style gown of white silk with a full overlay of white Nottingham lace, and a full-length treble veil trim­ med with white freesia. Her waterfall bouquet was of white silk freesia. In attendance were the


they are receiving help from friends, not an impersonal body like the Social Services often seem to be.


“We try. to make them feel Coal


amount of work done through­ out the year, they would be a little more helpful to us.”


man is in hospital in Black­ burn, it can be difficult for his wife, who may be in poor health herself, to visit him using public transport. “So we arrange for one of


“For example, if an elderly


SIX of the men who help make life a little easier for Clitheroe’s elderly ex-Scrvicemen are pictured. From the left, back: Mr Jim Garlick (secretary), Mr Roy Mantle (treasurer), Mr T. U. Liddle (president). Front: Mr Eric Wilkinson, Mr Sid Parkinson arid Mr George Hasken.


our members with a car to drive her to and from the hospital whenever she likes,” he said.The club is at its busiest around Christmas, when the most requests for help are received. This year alone the club


spent almost £300 on pro­ viding coal for people having difficulty meeting extra fuel costs.


Five bags of coal are given to all needy cases and those


with central heating receive equivalent help with gas or


electricity bills. Food vouchers for essential


commodities is another way the Legion assists former members of the armed forces. Depending on the circumst­ ances, these are usually to the value of £3 or £4 a week. Last; year £170 was spent on this work. The Legion nationally also runs holiday homes at South-


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FIVE days after a Longridge man had “put down” a cat with a .22 rifle, the animal turned up at its home with a shattered jaw and missing teeth. At Clitheroe Magistrates’ ing unnecessary suffering to


Court, James Edward Croft, of .Cardwell House, Lon­ gridge, was fined £15 for caus-


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bride’s nieces, Tracy Hall,- Lisa Marie Hall, Amanda Jane Stringfellow and Joanne Stephanie Stringfellow. They wore full length Victo­


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rian style dresses of satin silk, two in rose pink and two in crimson pink, trimmed with, self-coloured Nottingham lace and with matching headdres­ ses-of bands of roses. Their circular bouquets were com­ posed'of pink and white freesia and lily-of-the-valley. Best man was Mr Keith


THE wrecked Capri, its front section crushed.


S ab d en m a n killed in m y s te ry c ra sh


Tomlinson and groomsman was Mr Christopher Holden. After the ceremony, per­


A READ man is seriously ill in ho sp ital following a weekend car crash which claimed the life of his pas­ senger, 23-year-old David Swannick, of Sabden. Henry Davies (22), of


formed by the Rev. J. Salsbury, a reception was held at the Starkie Arms Hotel, Clitheroe. The bridegroom, a building


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Greenacres, was taken to Burnley ’General Hospital with multiple ihjuries when his Ford Capri demolished a stone wall in Whins Lane, Simonstone, on Saturday night. Yesterday his condition was said to be “quite satisfac­ tory.” The dead man, a bachelor,


re g u la r ly went around together. They were on their way from Read Constitutional Club, where they had been playing snooker, to Mr Swan- nick’s home when the accident happened. Mr Swannick’s mother regularly prepared supper for them on a Saturday night and had done so on this occasion. His father, Mr R. H. Swannick, is well known in Sabden as organist at St Nicholas’s Church and at the Pendle Witch Hotel. > Mystery surrounds the_


was the son of Mr and Mrs R. H. Swarinick, of Whalley Road, Sab'den. He worked with his twin brother, Peter, as an upholsterer for C. D. Pierce and Son, the Accring­ ton firm of furniture manufac­ turers. Mr Davies is also an upholsterer by trade. The two men had been friends since schooldays and


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cause of the accident, at the" junction of Whins Lane and School Lane, Simonstone, near the Higher Trapp Hotel. Burnley police are appealing for witnesses. This is the third time that


the Davies family has been involved in a road tragedy. Another son, Brian, was 20 when he received fatal injuries in a road accident.


attended the second Lenten meeting arranged by Whalley Christian Action Group in Whalley CE School, to hear Methodist local preacher Mr Dennis Fowler, of Colne. He told how God had con­


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the animal, and Robert Cum- berbatch, of Accrington Road, Whalley, was fined £15 for aiding and abetting him. The men, who denied the offences, were each ordered to pay costs of £30. Mr J. L. Lumley, for Cum-


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berbatch, said his client had kept the cat while he lived at Winckley Hall Nursing Home, where his wife was a nursing sister. The cat had been given to


fronted him with miraculous healings, changing him from a purely rational and intellec­ tual'Christian to one with a deep personal faith. The chairman was the Rev.


The family formerly lived in 'Sabden and it was there that a five-year-old daughter, Pat­ ricia, died about three years ago after an accident on the way home from school. Mr Swannick’s funeral, at


St Nicholas’s Church, Sabden, at 2-15 p.m. tomorrow; will be followed by cremation at Accrington.


Jeffrey Butcher and the pian­ ist Miss Muriel Kay. After a break for tea, the company of over 70 divided into groups to discuss topics associated with


the talk. There is an open invitation


to attend next Monday’s meet­ ing, when the Rev. A. T. Hubbard, superintendent of


the NW Association of Baptist Churches, will speak.


Let’s talk, says Liberals’ new man


IN ADDITION to speaking at public meetings, Mr Frank Wilson, the Liberal prospective Parliamentary candidate for the Clitheroe Division, is looking for­ ward to meeting individuals, groups or societies to discuss political questions, and Liberalism in par­ ticular.


selection was a meeting of the NW Region Liberal Party at Carlisle. Says Mr Wilson: “It was made quite clear that the party is now evolving a new system of electing its leader and is unwilling to be stam­ peded into a hasty decision by cheap personal accusations quite irrelevant to the real issue. “A change of leadership is


His first engagement since


to change society, not just keep turning it upside down. There must be developed a form of society that is neither capitalist nor socialist. “We hope the virtues of pri­


Liberals, he declares, want


vate enterprise will be devel­ oped without the vice of capitalism and that the virtues of public service and patriot­ ism will be fostered without the vices of universal state


relevant only so far as it may signify a more positive direc­ tion for the party in the future; to confirm it as a radi­ cal movement for social change.” Liberals, Mr Wilson says,


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must not fall into the trap of adopting an attitude of moder­ ation, of occupying “middle ground,” which is nothing more than a no-man’s land between the opposing armies, of the class war. He aims to increase still


political condition of the nation, Mr Wilson says it would be disastrous if, at the next General Election, a Tory government were returned with • overwhelming but unthinking support, only to set off another sterile round of confrontation; .which is no way for Britain to be gov­ erned.


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further the Liberal .1974 Gen­ eral Elections vote inihe con­ stituency, which was well above the national average. But, says Mr Wilson, “It ’


than a compromise'between . Cooper, 'Clitheroe Division the forces of private and state .'Liberal: Association secretary I nnnitnlism ”


would be less than fair to the 10,000 who voted Liberal to offer them nothing better


at Chorley ; 4465. Messages may also be left with Mr Tony


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Liberalism can move only towards an authoritarian form of government,” he says, “and I should be glad to respond to any matter raised concerning Liberalism.” Mr Wilson can be contacted


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him by a farmer and had proved impossible to tame. When he moved house to Whalley, he could not take the cat as it was wild, and because of the t raffic problems. Cumberbatch asked Croft to put down the cat as he was squeamish, and could not do it himself. Cumberbatch told the


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port and Weston-Super-Mare where ex-Servicemen can stay for a week or two to recover from illness. All their needs are catered for and they even receive a little spending money. The club also helps with


the month and one of the items this year’s committee hopes to discuss soon is the setting up of a liaison commit­ tee for all organisations caring for the elderly. Virtually all the money for


"for ex-Servicemen. The branch committee meets on the first Monday of


funeral expenses and numer­ ous other matters including arranging various pensions


charitable work comes from the annual poppy appeal in November. Last year £850 was raised in Clitheroe, but the person who has been


organising the appeal for many years, Mrs Ethel


Penny,, feels that far more could be collected;


once the money raised locally has gone to London, that is the last we see of it,” she says.


“A lot of people think that


from •' the truth. When we want money for some work, we just apply to headquarters and' get it. Nearly all the money we raise in Clitheroe comes back to be spent on people from this area.


“Nothing.could be further Workload


money was disbursed I am sure they would be more generous both with donations and help. The same few people do‘the collecting year in year out, but if there were more people to help I am sure we would do better,” she says.


“If people knew how the


ing an ever-increasing work­ load, but in the coming 10 or 15 years this is bound to grow.


Mr Martin explained that


people who served in the last war. were approaching retire­ ment and all the illness and financial worries associated .with it.


“There are a lot of people in


Clitheroe who still suffer from wounds and other disabilities caused during the second world war. Old age will make these people more susceptible to sickness, and that is the time they will need the most help. “We ow,e these people a


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magistrates he understood Croft had shot the cat and buried it in a wood. At no time did he or Croft intend the animal to suffer. Mr Jeffrey Davies, pro­ secuting for the RSPCA, said that five days after the animal was shot, it was found in a very distressed condition by a member of the staff at the hall. Its jaw was shattered in


several places, teeth were missing and its right eye com- pletly clotted with blood. Treatment was impossible and the animal was put to sleep. Veterinary surgeon Mr


Roger Westhead said he removed six pieces of lead from the animal’s head. One could only guess at its suffer­ ing during the five days before it was found.


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