Clitkeroe Advertiser and Times, June 8th, 1978 9 Hospital staff rents change
CALDERSTONES hospital staff are to fight a Ministry directive which would bring their rents into line with council house rents. The staff who live im
homes provided by the Area Health Authority have sought an appeal against the rating. And they are being helped by Coun. Mrs Sheila Maw, who represents Whal- ley on the Ribble Valley Council, and by Coun. Peter Lancaster, a membei of Whalley Parish Council; Mr Peter Good, branch
secretary of the Confedera tion of Health Service Emp loyees called a meeting of tenants this week to discuss the implications of the new rents. Said Mr Good: “We want
THIS COULD BE A GOING THING AT EDISFORD
A MINIATURE railway by the riverside at Edis- ford has been given the go- ahead and the locos could be steaming around a 1,000ft. track by the end of next summer.
The scheme — using
part of a field next to the caravan site — has been approved in principle by the Ribble Valley Council’s Recreation and Leisure Committee.
B l a c k b u r n M o d e l Engineers’ Society, whose chairman is Mr Ken Taylor, of Claremont Avenue, Clitheroe.
Behind the idea is the
Blackburn site because of redevelopment.
The society has lost its Ribble Valley Council
officials are to meet mem bers of the society at the proposed site, to discuss the best length of track and materials.
Chief Technical Officer
Mr Dennis Black told the committee that the 48 members of the society would take turns at operat ing the locos. There would be a charge
be landscaped and possibly include a miniature sta tion. “The society mem bers would be prepared to do much ot the work them-
for the trips. The loco driv ers would keep a small per centage of the takings to cover running costs, and the rest would be handed to the council. The site could eventually
selves and they would meet the cost of laying the basic foundations,” he said.
Mr Taylor told the com
mittee that the total cost would be no more than £2,000. “But I’m sure it. will be a great attraction and soon recoup th e money, especially when you consider the size of the crowds at Edisford during the Bank Holiday,” he said.
Coun. John Blackburn wel comed the idea. “The soci ety stayed at their last site for 36 years. If they stay for another 36 years at Edisford, the council will recoup the cost,” he said.
Committee chairman Coun. Mrs Beryl Cas
sidy thought that the rail way would be “a great asset to the town.”
expressed delight at the decision to go ahead. “It’s a start, but there’s still a lot of things to be sorted out. The actual laying of the track and setting up of safety barriers would be two of the main items,” he said.
Afterwards, Mr Taylor
to point out to the ai;ea health authority that hospi tal staff who live in the houses differ from council house tenants in a number of ways. “The main difference is
that there is not the same security of tenure. It can happen that someone who loses his job at the hospital loses his house as well. “There is also the fact that
council house tenants can buy their homes, while hos pital staff cannot.” Mr Good added that in
provide the same services as
' a local authority experienced in housing matters. Yet they, were being asked to pay as much as council tenants without receiving the same kind of servicp. A spokesman for Burnley
District Health Management Team, which operates the Department of Health and Social Security housing directives described the suggested scales of rents as “complicated.” He added: “We will follow the scales which the Department have prescribed.”
LOTTERY MOVE IS PUT OFF
THE betting on whether the Ribble Valley will have a district lottery is still uncertain. On Monday, the Ribble
Chipping plan in
many cases hospital staff had to take homes provided by hospital authorities to be near their jobs because hos pitals like Calderstones were often sited away from urban areas. This meant that if they
wanted to buy a house near the job they would be buy ing at higher prices than would be normal in other areas. ■ Mr Lancaster said he had
been asked to help by Mr Good and he could sympath ise with the points raised by the staff. Coun. Mrs Maw said that she had written to the Area Health Authority putting forward the hospital staff’s points. She added that some of the hospital tenants felt that the Area Health Authority could not
AUCTION MART
THERE was firm trade for a light show of fat cattle at Monday’s fatstock sale at Clitheroe Auction Mart. An increased number of spring lambs met a good trade at slightly reduced rates.
Forward .were 48 fat cattle, including 18 fat cows, 96 ewes, 680 lambs and eight fat pigs. Light steers made to 75.6p per
® Local people have a
chance to see what can be done when Mr Taylor sets up a 120ft. track on Sun day at the Old Tyme Fair being staged by the Ribble Valley Sports Council on Castle field. During the aftemon Mr Taylor will be giving rides.
kg (average 72.6p), medium to 74.4p (71p), medium heifers to 69.6p (65.7p). Calf bulls averaged 72.2p, CRE heifers made to 73p (69.8p), fat cows to 58p (55.3p). Light lambs made to 176.5p
jeopardy
the Development Commis sion as a suitable area for the building of small indust rial units to stop people leav ing the area. But the Commission,
A PLAN to bring light industry and new jobs to Chipping is in danger of being called off because of a delay in negotations over the proposed site, next to the former Tweedy’s Mill. Chipping was selected by
which is funding the project, will call off the idea unless the site owners and the developers, English Indust rial Estates Corporation, agree a price within three months.
Valley Council’s Finance and General Purposes Commit tee deferred a decision on organising a lo ttery to obtain more information about profit and what it would be spent on. The com mittee had been recom mended in a report by Chief Executive Mr Michael Jack- son to go ahead with the project. The report pointed out
that an increasing number of local authorities were intro ducing lotteries, mainly of the “instant win or lose” tic ket type. Mr Jackson said a neigh
bouring authority had made £4,000 a fortnight from this instant ticket venture. A Liverpool firm, Com
MEMBERS of Hurst Green Youth Club held their first barbecue and raised more than £50 for club funds. More than 60 attended the barbecue and disco at Hurst Green Memorial Hall. Members built the
barbecue under the d i r e c t io n of t h e i r leader, Mr Len Hall, who is pictured on the r i g h t w i t h c l u b members.
Looking at housing needs
A HOUSING programme aimed at helping villages to retain their population is being studied by the Ribble Valley Housing Committee. In a report on the prog
Concern about the delay: vides the t ic k e ts and
petition Management Ser vices, was being used by local authorities to promote their lotteries. The firm takes 22V4% of the gross income and in return pro-
in n e g o t ia t io n s was appoints a lottery manager expressed by Ribble Valley Council’s Chief Architect and Planning Officer Mr Charles Wilson at a meeting of the Planning and Trans portation Committee. “We don’t want to lose the
deal because we believe that the creation of job oppor tunities at this time is most important,” he said.
Estates have been given permission to build a factory at Upbrooks, Clitheroe.
NOTE: English Industrial
(175.7p), standard to 169.5p (155p), medium to 160p (148.4p). Half-bred ewes made to £27.80 per head (average £24.10), horned
to £22 (£16.20). Pigs: cutters made to 60.6p
(60.2p).
Told to behave
>rational<
A YOUTH who admitted taking two cars without the owners’ consent and driving them without a licence or insurance had sentence by Clitheroe Magistrates defer red for three months on con dition he lives with his foster p a r e n t s and b eh av es himself. Daniel Terence Lonsdale
(17), who had been living at the home of his sister in Brook Street, Clitheroe, also admitted stealing a pair of boots and causing damage at Castle Castings. > Mr J. H. Houldsworth,
defending, said the offences had been committed at a time of family problems. Lonsdale’s foster-parents had offered to have him live with them permanently at their small farm, and he would try to find employ ment.
Lengthsman
WADDINGTON Parish Council is to advertise for a lengthsman. The Council will have to foot the bill itself because the County Council no longer employs them.
who finds agents, such as sub-post offices or newsa gents. The report said a lottery
must have a declared object and pointed out that the Recreation and Leisure Committee wanted one to fund the Roefield Barn scheme. But reservations were
e x p re s s e d by sev e ra l members. C o u n . Jo h n T ro o p
(Clitheroe) said that even if money was raised to fund a big project, the council would still be left with meet ing the extensive running costs. Chairman Coun. Tom Robinson (Clitheroe) said it was “ dicey” whether a figure such as £4,000 could be raised locally. And Coun. Bill Fleming
(Billington) said careful con sideration would have to be given to the project chosen to benefit from the gambling income. “I think if people are
going to take part they are going to want to know that they will receive something in return for their money,” he said. The committee agreed to
defer a decision and mean while Competition Manage ment Services, which had said it is so busy running successful local authority lotteries that it cannot run one in the Ribble Valley until at least September, will be asked to submit more details of its methods of operation.
More visits to cinema
attending Clitheroe Civic Hall leapt by almost 8,000 in the year ended March 31st compared with the previous year. A report to the Ribble
The number of people
Valley Council’s Recreation and Leisure Committee showed an increase from 31,189 to 39,177. Takings from the box office, ices, sweets and advertising increased from £16,554 to £22,359.
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PETER PLANS BIG HIKE
THE size seven-and-a-half boots of Peter Good have pounded metalled roads and lonely tracks from Malaya to the Sahara Desert. But his next big walk will start at the gates of Calderstones Hospital and finish in Scarborough. Mr Good, a 33-year-old
deputy charge nurse at the hospital plans to walk the 110 miles in four days and hopes to raise more than £1,000 for his union’s benevolent fund. For Mr Good, an experi
enced walker to whom a five-mile hike is a gentle stroll, is also Whalley
branch secretary of the Confederation of Health Service Employees. His walk to the sea at Scar borough will begin next Wednesday and finish at about 4 p.m. the following Saturday. . Said Mr Good: “I have always liked walking. I served in the Forces for
nine years and went on sev-. eral expeditions.” While serving with the
Royal Signals he became accustomed to walking in the. steaming heat of the' Malayan jungles and battl ing against the searing sun and sand as part of a desert
Avenue, Whalley, keeps in trim by weekend and even ing walking in the Pendle and Ribble countryside. His schedule for the Scar- b o r o u g h w a l k i s a minimum of 25 miles a day with the extra miles fitted in when he feels at his strongest.
rescue team in the Sahara.. Mr Good, of Kingsmill
Faulty tyre
FOR using a van with a faulty tyre, Thomas Edward Poole (24), of Woone Lane, Clitheroe, was fined £35 at Clitheroe.
ramme,. Chief Architect and Planning Officer Mr Charles Wilson highlighted two causes of population “drift” from the villages. He noted increasing house
prices in commuter areas and the low rate of council houses becoming available in those areas as factors in rural families more often being rehoused in Clitheroe or Longridge. The report was presented
The report suggests that
Hurst Green and Gisburn should remain priorities in the programme. Hurs t Green’s case is because of local concern about housing for villagers, particularly to ensure the retention of the school. Gisburn’s priority is “because of its identified role as a key village.” The report says there are
“question marks” over Hod- der Valley, Rimington and B o l to n -b y -B ow la n d , although there has been progress towards acquiring sites for housing.
Bungalow destroyed
THREE fire units — two from Clitheroe and one from Barnoldswick — were called out early on Friday morning to tackle a blaze at a bun galow cottage at Newby, near Rimington. The outbreak was brought
under control within an hour, but the building was destroyed. It is owned by Burnley businessman Mr Frank Tyrrell, and was unoccupied at the time.
MEN OFFER TO READ
THERE has been a good response to an appeal by the Ribble Valley Talking Newspaper Group for more male readers.
About 20 men have put
forward their names to help with the “news on cassettes” service which has now been running six weeks. The Group is still anxious,
PIANISTS TALK
however, to obtain more readers, of both sexes. The duty involves attending the studio in York S tre e t , Clitheroe, one Thursday every four or five months between 6-15 p.m. and about 9 p.m. Anyone interested in help
ing should contact group chairman Mr Brian Haig (Tel. Clitheroe 24049) or any committee member. On September 13th, a cof
fee morning in aid of the paper is being held at 84 Pimlico Road, Clitheroe, home of Mrs Joan Biehler, who is in charge of administ ration. Meanwhile contributions
to the housing committee last week and will be discus sed at the next meeting.
to the project have con tinued with the latest being from: Mrs H. J. Eddleston, of Whalley (£20); Castle Lodge, Clitheroe (£20); NFU Ladies’ section (£50); Miss E. Robinson, of Chat- burn (£10); Greenside Nurs ing Home, Chatburn (£10); PCC, of St James’s Church, Clitheroe (£10) and three anonymous donations total ling £20. The St Mary’s 76 group has also bought a cas- s e t t e p l a y e r f o r a parishioner who takes the “paper.”
Memories of singer
A TALK about the late Kathleen Ferrier was given to the Ribblesdale (After noon) Townswomen’s Guild by Mrs F. Scott. Using slides and tape recordings, Mrs Scott told how she met the singer at Blackburn High School and how Kath leen Ferrier eventually mar ried her b ro th er . Miss Goodall thanked Mrs Scott. The meeting, which was
chaired by vice-chairman Mrs F. Hermon, also heard a report from Mrs Pedder about the recent Townswo men’s Guilds National Coun cil meeting at the Albert Hall.
TOP TWENTY
1. (3) “If I can’t have you” — Yvonne Elliman. 2. (1) “Rivers of Babylon” — Boney M. 3. (4) “Boy from New York City” — Darts. 4. (5) “Love is in the air” — John Paul Young. 5. (2) “Night fever” — Bee Gees. ' 6. (10) “You’re the one that I want” — John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John.
10. (13) “Making up again” — Goldie. 11. (6) “Because the night” — Patti Smith. 12. (12) “Davy’s on theroad again” — Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.
7. (8) “What a waste” — Ian Dury and the Blockheads. 8. (9) “Ca plane pour moi” — Plastic Bertrand. 9. (7) “More than a woman” — Tavares.
13. (—) “Pump it up” —Elvis Costello. 14. (17) “Hi tension” — Hi Tension. 15. (—) “Miss you” — Rolling Stones. 16. (—) “Oh Carol” ,— Smokie. 17. (—) “Ole ola” — Rod Stewart. 18. (11) “Angels with dirty faces” — Sham 69. 19. (—) “You took the words right out of my mouth” — Meatloaf
20. (—) “It sure brings out the love in your eyes” — David Soul.
took the words right out of my mouth” — Meatloaf. LP of the week: “Power in the darkness” — Tom Robinson Band. Chart compiled by Ames Record Bar.
Last week’s placings in brackets. Tip for the top: “You
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