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JUST ARRIVED STRAIGHT


LEGGED DENIMS by Skippio £10.25


Good selection of DENIMS always In stock, various


styles and prices.


66-70 Whalley Road Clitheroe


ECONOMIC STORES


Tel. 22697 ^ Park a t the door.


RIBBLE VALLEY HARRIERS to be held at the


l)d away li |;p/oasaeiveefr Jiajfefo |3U tv///


UNITED REFORMED-HALL CLITHEROE


Quality items at rock-trattom prices, also jewellery stall and tombola etc.


CLOTHil^ll SALE 8 p.m., Thursday, December 15th


F A I^ T A S T iC


TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH CLITHEROE


Sunday, December 11th, 10-30 a.m. FAMILY SERVICE


Preacher; Rev. G. W. S. Knowles, M.A.


6 p.m. CLITHEROE (B TOWNSWOMENS GUILD CHOIR


Will present a programme of Christmas Carols and Readings


Preacher: Rev. G. W. S. Knowles M. A ^ 6 p.m. FAMILY CAROL SERVICE,


Sunday, December 18th, 10-30 a.m. ED


Special music by the choir, Nativity Play by the children You are cordially Invlt^ to attend those serv/ces


PARTY FAYRE LTD


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LETUS CATER FOR YOUR PARTY OR CHRISTMAS FUNCTION


ANYNUMBERS PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES etc.


Inquiries; Tel. MR SPENCER, BUVCKBURN 58889 WHALLEY 2545


BLACKBURN MUSIC SOCIETY s E '4


|.UB IS: JOHN


f^ E S S IA H


7-30 p.m. Saturday, December 17th, 1 9 ^ ,


in KING GEORGES HALL, BLACKBURN


IRIS DOWPmi Soprano ELIZABETH LAACContr^o


ROBERT DARNBOROUGH Tenor RAYMOND ASPIN Bass


CONDUCTED BY JAMES EASTHAM, aMus., M. M


ORCHESTRA, & CHORUS OF THE BLACKBURN MUSIC SOCIETY,


F.ac.0., n C K r o AVAILABLE AT BLACKBURN


uSm L.RA.M, A.aOKL


SAWLEY TAXI


TELEPHONE C L ITH ER O E 41653


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Rlmington Memorial Institute


|-00 p.m. 13th AND


CHRISTMAS WHIST AND DOMINO DRIVE


on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th, 1977 at 7-45 p.m.


ADULTS 45p. CHILDREN 25p (including supper)


CHRISTMAS FARE FOR PRIZES AND RAFFLE


SLAIDBURN VILUGE HAU ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FARE


WHIST AND


DOMINO DRIVE WEDNESDAY


DECEMBER 14th at 7-45 p.m.


TURKEY SUPPER — GOOD CHRISTMAS PRIZES Includ­ ing TURKEYS Admission SOp


CLITHEROE 26000


DEREK COE CASTLE &


A Y


TOWN TAXIS CLITHEROE


CLITHEROE FC B i N d O


for Prizes *3t th©


STARDUST CLUB


TUES., DEC. 13th 8 p.m.


ADMISSION SOp Including supper


15 p.m. lo E S IN


WHAL LE Y PLAYGROUPA


Raan'S jcedby


JUMBLE WHALLEY


METHODIST HALL SATURDAY,


DECEMBER 10th 10^ am. Admission 3p


FLOWER CLUB invite you to a


DEMONSTRATION by Gareth


“CHRISTMAS”


Friday, December 9th, 7-30 p.m. at St John Ambulance Rooms Non-members 30p


Hodder Valley Agricultural and


Christmas Whist and Domino Drive


Horticultural Society ANNUAL


Newton Village Hall on December 9th,, at 7-45 p.m.


Admission 50p Children 20p Including suDoer


NORTHERN PHI LHARMOMie DOMINO DRIVE


CHRISTMAS WHIST AND


GISBURN YFC ANNUAL


will be held In the Festival Hall, GIsburn, on Saturday,


December 17th, at 7-30 p.rn.


A DM IS S IO N 5 0 p INCLUDING REFRESHMENTS


CHILDRENS DOMINOES (10 years and under) 30p


Over 20 prizes Including Turkeys, Christmas Fay re etc


Dangers of public access


with some pride states that he has, by ignoring gates and barbed wme, advocated trespass because he “would hire to go round the reser­ voir legSly.” If this attitude is not


encouraging the all-too- common idea of indifference to law and order, then what is?


almost Communist princi­ ples are wonderful, but I wonder if Coun. Gretton would share the same view if a city dweller, deprived of a walled-in g a rd en and privacy, demanded free access to Coun. Gretton’s own property whenever he thou^t fit? Unfortunately, he is


who are supposed to know better and, being in office, they should realise that we are experts in destroying, the irreplaceable. These, I say, are the real enemies of the people. Of course, such idealistic,


cates are to be likened to a spoilt child who, in revolt, stamps his feet because he wants to go a particular way in defiance of a parent with h in d s ig h t as well as foresight. Yet these are the ones


I would say such advo­


the value and threat to the Dale Head area, while Coun. Edwin Gretton and his followers were obviously in hibernation, I find his more recent pronouncements alarming. He openly and evidently


HAVING repeatedly drawn attention in these columns to


jdetters to iLe i/Jitar


Principle is the thing


completely out of touch with natural and conservation matters. Wherever his plan has been operated, disaster follows. All very nice, Coun. Gret­


riding any degree of public support for the contrary view. I shall continue to oppose capital punishment, for instance, even if 90 per cent of the electorate, or more, wish to introduce it. Mr Lawrence’s letter contains two fallacies: that a largely rural constituency has a majority of genuinely rural voters, and that the majority of rural voters necessarily support blood


ton, to be an idealist as you say, but before you reach the peak or the ideal, there are many dangerous rivers and bogs to hinder your prog­ ress. Ideally the lamb will he ' with the lion, but what fool in this practical age would try such philosophy in prac­ tice? So before you let them all


in, try some education, or the general public will destroy what it pretends to love. Coun. Gretton would


ise that half the electorate are women, who are not noted for devotion to either of these popular blood sports.


serve his generation and posterity by helping to main­ tain at least one fragment of unspoilt wilderness for the rejuvenation of man. Let the public in and you will have the inevitable parrot’s cage.


HORACE COOK, 13 Castle View, Clitheroe


FRANK WILSON, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Clitheroe Division


LETTERS for publica­ tion are accepted only on the understandiiig that they may be edited or condensed at the Editor’s discretion.


Not gone back on agreement


MY d i r e c t o r s we r e concerned to read in last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser ■and Times a report that there had been some misun­ derstanding over the rent fo r the Auction Mart premises. It is stated in your report


that Mr Michael Jackson, the Chief Executive, told the Planning Committee that a figure of £1,000 a year had been agreed between the Ribble Valley Council


HANDOUT


LOCAL pensioners’ groups are to benefit from a Cluist- ihas handout by the Ribble Valley Council. Monday’s meeting of the


LOW MOOR CLUB


Sunday, December 11 th


COLIN BARRY SOUND


WINNING Nos.


90136, 87710, 89184, 88089, 89912,88228,88443/87923


F in a n c e and General Purposes Committee agreed to donate £10 to the same eight groups that received donations last year. Any other apphcations will be considered by committee chairman, Coun. -Tom Robinson.


£25 fine


FOR permittmg a car to be used with a defective tyre, Frank F. Bnggs, Greendale View, Gnndleton, wasfmed £25 by Clitheroe magis­


trates. . ' .


and the Auction Mart Company at a meeting earlier this year. _


ning Committee meeting where the matter Was discussed and, although I agree your report of the deliberations is correct, I can state without reserva­ tion that no <such agreement has ever been reached. • The company has never


I was present at the Plan­


gone back on any agreement with the Ribble Valley B orough Council nor is it ite intention to do so. This makes the suggestion that this had in fact happened aU the more alarming. I understand that our


professional advisers have spoken to Mr Jackson who confirmed to them that there has never been an agreement between the company and the council relating to back rent of £1,000 a year. It would take up too much


“more men fish than attend football matches,” without mentioning' those who do neither — who, I suspect, may well be in the majority. Nor does he seem to real­


sports. Further, he says' that


importance, however, I regard principle as over­


prohibition of blood sports, except those involving the most blatant cruelty. Public opinion must take its course in this matter; at present there is no majority support for such strong measures, any more than there is for the anti-dog regulations in Burnley (wluch, m principle, are quite correct). In matters of major


I am not “campaigning” against blood sports. I am not a member of . any orgah- i s a t i o n s p e c i f ic a l ly opposed to blood sports (although I sympatiiise) and do not place this issue on the highest level of importance. It was the sitting MP for Clitheroe who gave it prior­ ity. Whether the “pros” or the “antis” are the fanatics in this case is open to ques­ tion. I do not support, legal


IT would be fruitless to answer in detail Mr Mark Lawrence’s letter on blood sports — I am entirely happy to let his sentiments speak for themselves. I wish, however, to ask for a little of your space to correct him on a few points of fact. It must be made clear that


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Matter for council


the council, not me or Parlia­ ment. My personal opinion is therefore irrelevant. In writing to the clerk to the council all I sought to do was to bring to the council’s attention the views of a number of residents of Hurst Green which they had already expressed to me as their constituency MP.


DAVID WALDER, MP, House of Commons


THE latest council house to be sold by the Ribble Valley


House sales


authority ’ in the past two years has brought the sales total to 27. Borough Treasurer Mr


Gordon Onslow told the Housing Committee that the house had beeri sold for £5,800, at a discount of £1,450 because of the length of tenancy. Since the scheme to sell


clear that I am not an objec­ tor in the personal sense; as an individual I cannot be, not being affected by the result one way or the other. Planning decisions are for


I WONDER if I could correct a misapprehension which might arise from the Hurst Green planning appli­ cation considered by the D e v e l o p m e n t Siib- Coramittee of the Ribble Valley Council in your last issue. I should like to make it


Cut staff to fit


offices


s o the Ribble Valley authority is apparently


been the ambition of the too numerous officials and if such administrators suffer from delusions of grandeur, why should the public foot the bill? If the present buildings


their elected councillors into action it they share my view.


are too small, why not cut the staff to fit them? The public should goad


MRS S. J. DOW, White Hall Cottage, Grindleton


Challenge to young people


A PERSONAL challenge to spend three weeks in an


service, Lancashire Educa­ tion Authority is organising a thre e-week- s t ay in Iceland, in August next year, for a party of 20 with five youth leaders. The trip will give young


unfamiliar and sometimes hostile environment is being offered to young people between 16 and 21 years. Through the locm youth


people the opportunity for e x p e d i t i o n planning, because part of the visit will be spent on an ice cap. The remaining time will be taken studying people and customs of the coastal communities. Discussion on the trip and


determined to build, at vast expense, council offices incorporating all depart­ ments under one roof. Such a project has long


Cemetery chapel to be


pulled down


A PROPOSAL to save part of ■ the Clitheroe cemetery chapel from demolition has been turned down.


has decided that the building — which is structurally unsound — should be demolished and the site used as car parking space for visitors to the cemetery.


The Ribble Valley Council


Fin a n c e and General Purposes Committee consi­ dered a plan to retain thi'ee feet of the outer wall and the tile floor. 'The scheme — proposed in a report from the technical department — was to allow an area for cemetery visitors to sit and place flowers.


Monday’s meeting of the


ARTICULATED TIPPER...............£1.00 £9.955 DUMPTRUCK................................£1.00 £7.95


f ARMY TRUCK — BREAKDOWN CRANE I • TRACTOR DIGGER — ALL AT £7.95 |


that retaining part of the wall would not serve any useful purpose. Coun. Bill Fleming (Billington) said: “There does not seem any value in creating a sort; of Cromwellian-type ruin.”


But several members felt


ways of sponsoring and help­ ing the individual to raise money, will take place. on ■Wednesday, at a meeting at Clayton-le-Moors Youth Club in Moor Street at 7-30 p.m.


Left-over


council houses to tenants began, there had been 149 inquiries and the council had carried out 58 valuations.


f T I s


1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (7)


4. (5) 5. (4) 6. (8) 7. (14)


8. (17)


11. (9) 12. (16) 13. (12)


'9. (—) 10. (6)


14. (—) 15. {—) 16. (3) 17. (10) 18. (20) 19. ( - ) 20. (—)


THE sum of £3.25 left over from the DeLacy Street Jubilee party has been do n a t ed to Clith eroe Physiotherapy Centre.


T W E r U


“I will” — Ruby Winters. “Egyptian reggae” — Jonathan Riehman. “Daddy Cool” — Darts. “Don’t it make my brown eyes blue” Gaze.“Yes sir, I can boogie” — Baccara. “Put your love in me” — Hot Chocolate. “Rockin’ all over the world” — Status Quo. “Name of the game” — Abba.


“Mull of Kintyre/Girls’ school” — Wings. “How deep is your love” — Bee Gees.


“Love of my life” — Dooleys. “Goin’ places” — Jacksons: “Dancin’ party” — Showaddywaddy. “She’s not there”— Santana


“Floral dance” — Brighouse and Rastrick Band.


be useful for future projects such as council house estate maintenance. He said the stone was worth about £2,400 at present-day prices. The council will also keep


however, to a proposal from Deputy Chief Technical Officer Mr Norman Turner that the 120 tons of dressed sandstone and limestone from the demolished build­ ing should be kept by the council. Mr Turner said it would


(Chatbum) said: -We h p e already agreed on principle to demolish the chapel and we should go ahead.” Member s did agree,


And Coun. 'Bert Boden 1: K?


■umi "'I i i jm


w/ !


— 36 chairs, an altar table and lectern — will also be kept by the council until a buyer can be found; ■The committee’s present


a stained glass window from the chapel — worth £175 — in storage until it can be used somewhere else. And the chapel furniture


Two Sets are available — PULLMAN as Illustrated (with oval of track) and FREIGHT SET with oval of track and two points with sidings as Illustrated. TRACK PROFILE — both at £31.95


Train Sets — Coaches — Wagons — Points — Tracks — Underlay — Track Pins — Track -


Stencil Sets — Fencing, etc., etc.


NEW DELIVERIES — BRITAIN’S FARMS, complete with animals, £5.25. KIDDICRAFT Bullda i Helta Skelta — Clatterplllar and Trall-a-Truck, etc., etc.


MECCANO MOGULS ROBUST STEEL TOYS


No. 200............................................£1.00 £2.75 No. 300............................................£1.50 £5.45 No. 400........................._.................£2.00 £9.95


[P U Y PACKS................ .......................£1.99 I PLASTIC MECCANO. SAVE PAY STANDARD MECCANO SAVE PAY


No.1............................................... £1.00 £1.99 No. 2 ............................................... £1.00 £3.95 Clock Kit........................................ P5.70 £5.50-


Super Tool Kits............... Gear Sets.......................... Mechanisms Sets............


Pocket Meccano..............


.....£2.99 .....£4.75 .....£8.20


THERE ARE STILL CHRISTMAS BARGAINS ATASPDEN’S


Standard Range For children aged 7 and over. A


. INFANTS TAKE A BOW


teddy bears figure in an operetta entitled "Christ­ mas Eve’s dream,” which is being presented by the infants of St Leonard’s CE School, Langho.


SOLDIERS, fairies and


p ic tu r ed at the dress rehearsal, will be giving U^eir final performance tonight in the school hall.


The children, who are


BOUNDARY MILL SHOP (LADIES’ FASHIONS)


DON’T MISS THIS


10% CHRISTMAS DISCOUNT off all purchases (+ big reduc­ tions on many garments)


From Friday, December 9th to Saturday, December 24th


It will be followed by the J u n io r s ’ n ativity play,


Skirts, Jackets, Coats, Samples, etc., now arriving to add to the 1000’s of high class garments already in stock at unbeatable, prices. Come and browse and tiy on at your leisure.


featuring a 55-strong choir accompanied by Mnstru- menls and ending with a tableau of kings, shepherds and young children.


Open Tuesday and Wednesday 10 am. to 6 p.m., Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.


BOUNDARY MILL SHOP BURNLEY ROAD, COLNE


(Next to Asda, turn off at Burnley Road Sub Post Office) TELEPHONE COLNE 865229


SAVE PAY' ■•U-,


MECCANO MULTI-KITS SAVE £2 ON COMBAT. PAY ONLY E3.9S


SAVE £1 ON THE EXCITING CRANE BUILDING SET, complete with electric motor, battery box and gears.


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faculty from the Blackburn Diocese to demolish the chapel nms out on Christ­ mas Eve. So members agreed to ask for a renewal, to allow time for tenders for the work.


Crystal


Concert of Christmas music


“Belfast” — Boney M. “Mary of the fourth form” — Boomtown Rats.


“White punks on dope” — Tubes. “It’s a heartache” — Bonnie Tyler, “Really free” — John Otway/Wild Willy Barrett.


unkind’L:— Donna Summer. LP of the 'Week: “Come again” — Derek and Clive. Chart compiled by Ames Record Bar.


the choir is at Trinity Me thodi s t Church On Sunday.


the performance of singing and verse reading, and the audience joined in the carols at the finale. 'The next engagement for


UNDER the direction of Mr Geoffrey Kitchen, Clitheroe Evening Townswomen’s Guild -choir presented a concert of Christmas music a t Grindleton Methodist School. The hall was packed for


SNORKELS FROM


£6.50 SELECTION OF


LADIES’ «e GENTS SKIS


GENTS KAGOOLS £2.99


READY-MADE CURTAINS FROM


£3.50 All sizes


HANDBAGS FROM


£1.99


FLAN DISHES, four sizes


FROM ONLY’ £1.15


LARGE RANGE OF GLASSWARE


of your space to give a full summary of the facts but it would be' appreciated if, at this stage, this simple state­ ment of the correct situation could be pubhshed so that the public of Clitheroe are under no misapprehension or misunderstanding.


MR HILL SPEAK, The Chairman, Clitheroe Auction Mart.


ma


■ I t was opened by Mrs Lilian Hargreaves, chair­ man of the- Blackburn branch of the Pat Seed cancer scanner fund. She


NEARLY 300 ^people attended the holly and ivy tea in Clitheroe Parish Hall orgamsed by the St Mary’s- 76 group. ■


members of the 76 group raised £350 — half'for the Pat Seed fund and the other half, towards new curtains for the Pansh Hall stage. . The tea itself consisted of


was thanked by Mrs Kay


s andwiches, cake and biscmtSj and all' the tables


Hudson, wife of the vicar of Chtheroe. A sale of work done by


were decorated with candles with holly bases.


, ■


guests enjoying their tea — from the left, Mrs Ivy ■Walmsley, of Chatburn Road, Clitheroe, and Mrs Elizabeth Joy, Mrs Anme Tebb-and Mrs Clarice Walker, all of Pimhco.


Our picture shows four


SALE STARTS 10 ^.m. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13th^ at STARDUST CLUB


CHINA BEAKERS FROM


45p


FROG PUPPETS- AGREAT


CHRISTMAS PRESENT


£1.50


GIVE AWAY PRICES CHILDREN’S SKIS


(FOR ONE DAY ONLY) DUFFLE COATS FROM £4.99


JEANS FROM


£3.99


(West Coast, Palmers and Brutus)


CURTAIN FENTS FROM


20p a yard


PURSES AND


WALLETS. FANCY GOODS


CAST IRON SKILLETS,


three sizes FROM


85p FROM £4.99


BOYS’TROUSERS FROM


£2.99


CHILDREN'S KAGOOLS


£1.99


TOWELS — SECONDS, A


FANTASTIC BUY


Large range Of TABLE MATS,


KITCHEN SETS, TOILET SETS, RUGS, GRASS


MATS, HORSES AND CARTS.


REPLACEMENT


PIECES FOR THE “BACCHUS” RANGE BY


STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES.


GENTS BORG LINED CAR COATS


£6.99 GENTS


TROUSERS FROM


£4.99 Up to 52in. waist


CUSHION COVERS


FROM ONLY


15p each


MUSICAL- WINDMILL LAMPS £6.95


PUDDING BASINS FROM


27p Four sizes


CAST IRON AND ENAMELPAN SETS


BREAD BASKETS ONLY


30p H ’ : P :


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