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Susan is voted Sports Queen


A BEVY of 10 beauties lined up to compete for the title of “Ribble Valley Sports Queen 1978.” The competition took


place in the Ribble Valley Mayor’s Parlour on Fri­ day. The Mayor and Mayoress, Coun. and Mrs Har ry R id in g , were judges, along with coun­ cil chairman Mrs Mary Bridge, Press officer Mr Bob Shepherd and Mrs Ann Cowgill. Mr John Cowgill added up the scores. The girls took part in a


parade and had an inter­ view in front o f the judges, conducted by Mr Bill Taylor, of Clitheroe. The panel chose 17-


year-old Susan Lansdell, of Aureol House, Sabden, as the winner and she received the trophy and £25 from the Mayor. Susan, a pu p i l at


Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School, will now rep­ resent the Ribble Valley in the Red Rose Festival beauty queen contest at the Astoria Ballroom, Rawtenstall, a week on Saturday. She will be competing against three other girls for a first prize of £100. Runner-up in the Rib­


ble Valley contest was another 1 7 -y ea r -o ld , Susan Rawlinson, of Pimlico Road, Clitheroe,


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also a pupil at the Gram­ mar School. Third was Wendy Hazel, of Bil- lington.


A f t e r the c o n t e s t


refreshments were served and the girls were able to chat with the Mayor and Mayoress. NOTE: Tickets for the Red Rose Festival beauty contest at Rawtenstall are available from Ros- sendale Recreation and Leisure Committee, St James’s Square, Bacup, or at the door on the night.


£5,000 in grants


EIGHT parishes will share in a £5,000 hand-out by the Ribble Valley Council towards recreation facilities.


The grants were agreed


by the council’s Recreation and Leisure Committee. The biggest sum, £1,500 goes to Rimington towards the £24,000 sports field project. Other parishes to benefit,


are: Whalley— £1,000 for Queen Elizabeth II playing field; Mellor — £1,000 for the community centre, Lon- gridge — £300 towards a football club changing hut;


Read — £600 for changing and washing facilities for Read FC; Downham — £200 for a new heating boiler in the village hall; Ribchester — £200 for play equipment; Waddington — £200 towards electricity supply to the playing field. Applications turned down


were: Clitheroe — recrea-' tion facilities at Salthill; Chatburn — fences for the playing field; Wiswell — buying of a new playing field; Mellor Brook — a new kitchen and heaters at the community centre.


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Public meeting on lorry ban


A PROPOSAL to prohibit vehicles of over five tons unladen weight from roads through Ribchester and Hurst Green will be consi­ dered at a public meeting in Longridge Civic Hall next Monday evening. Other roads affected


would be in a zone bounded by a line from Dilworth reservoirs to Lower Hodder Bridge, then on to Brockhall Hospital, Oaks Bar and back to the reservoirs. The only exceptions would


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No mirrors


STATED to have used a van in Chatburn Road when it did not have two mirrors, Robert George Lavin, S h a w b r i d g e S t r e e t , Clitheroe, was fined £10 by Clitheroe magistrates, He pleaded guilty.


Martin hands over


awards GUEST of honour at Chat­ burn Football Club’s presen­ tation dinner and dance at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Sawley, on Friday was Mar­ tin Dobson, of Everton FC.


He was introduced by


chairman Mr E. Bolton and after speaking to the 120 geusts he presented the Ashley Smith and Dan Seed trophies to the first and sec­ ond team captains respec­ tively.


' Martin also presented club K J *


awards as follows: First team players of the year, Tony Dobson; second team, Howard Dinsdale; presi­ d e n t ’ s t r o p h y , Paul Bretherton.


Various other awards to slater fowler Miss Marian Fowler,


daughter of Mr and Mrs J. G. Fowler, of Bolland Pros­ pect, Clitheroe, was married at Tr ini ty Methodi st Church, on Saturday, to Mr Ian Slater, son of Mr and Mrs R. Slater, of Shireburn Avenue, Clitheroe.


The bride, given away by


her father, wore a gown of white nylon organza over satin, featuring, a small train. It was trimmed with seed pearls and diamante. She had a shoulder-length veil with a headdress of seed pearls and a bouquet of red. roses and stephanotis.


Matron of honour Mrs


Lynn Flemming, the brideg­ room’s sister, wore a dress of pale blue silk with a white picture hat, and carried a spray of white chrysan­ themums with blue ribbon.


Other attendants were


Miss Jeanette Maher, the bride’s niece, and Mis Nina and Miss Cher Slater, the bridegroom’s daughters. They wore ice-blue satin dresses with matching mob caps and carried pomanders trimmed with blue and white ribbon. Mr Frank Slater, the


bridegroom’s brother, was best man. Mr Danny Maher, the bride’s brother-in-law, was groomsman and Mr Martin Faulkner was usher. The Rev. G. W. S.


Knowles performed the ceremony and a reception was held at. the Edisford Bridge Inn, Clitheroe. Mr and Mrs Slater will


live in Taylor Street, Clitheroe, after a honey­ moon on the West coast. Photograph: Audr ey


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players and supporters were made. Secretary Mr R. Read thanked everyone for their support during a highly successful season. To great applause, man­


ager A’lan "Scott announced that he is to continue his good work at Chatburn and that next season the league titles will be his objective. The club’s appreciation of


Mr Dobson’s attendance was marked with gifts to him and his wife, presented by Mr Bolton. The evening concluded


with dancing to “The sound of light” disco.


Health office


A TENDER of £4,542 has been accepted by Lancashire Area , Health Authority for work on a small office exten­ sion to the Clitheroe Health Centre. Work will begin shortly and is expected to last for 10 weeks.


QUEEN Susan receives the trophy from the Mayor, watched by the Mayoress, Wendy (left) and Susan. Back, from the left, are Mrs Bridge, Mrs Rawlinson, Mrs Jean Manley (council executive member) and Mr Shepherd. •


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Songs and comedy


GUESTS at the annual open meeting of Clitheroe Even­ ing Townswomen’s Guild, in the Parish Hall, included 14 members of Selby Townswo­ men’s Guild.


Everyone was welcomed


by chairman Mrs Margaret Kendrick, who conducted a short business meeting.


Entertainment came from


the choir, which sang a selection of songs, and the drama group with a comedy show. Tea and biscuits were served. The Selby chairman


thanked the Clitheroe ladies for their hospitality and in particular Mrs Lilian Coul­ ter, for providing tea before the meeting. Mrs Edith Childs expressed the thanks of other guests. Raffle winners were: Mrs


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P. Pickering (brooch), Mrs A. Wilson (hankies), Mrs E. Pinder (tea towel). On July 6th Mr W. John­


son will speak on “The life and music of Ivor Novello.”


Trio in the big league of self-delusion


EVEN after some time in politics I must con­ fess that the speeches and actions of my fellow politicians have not lost their capacity to sur­ prise me. It could be naivety on my part, but sometimes I suspect that fault lies with them.


Let me take three recent


examples. First of all Mr Callaghan who has been lec­ turing almost everyone in sight on the subject of Rus­ sian expansionist aims in Africa, and on the need for NATO to preserve its strength in the face of the growing military strength of the Warsaw Pact nations.


Nearly two years ago Mrs


Thatcher made the latter point and was christened “the Iron Maiden” for her pains. Since then, under a Labour Government, Bri­ tain’s defence forces have been further run down, and now the Prime Minister becomes stern and patriotic. Can it be that the imminence of a General Election has pushed him towards a change of attitude? Perhaps he has conve­


niently forgotten that the last reduction in our forces and our defence spending provoked justifiable criti­ cism from our allies in West­ ern Europe. Now appa­ rently he has started to bang the drum and blow the trum­ pet in order to defend West­ ern Europe, but to the last American or Luxemburger. Now to the second part of


Mr Callaghan’s new-found belligerence, with regard to the state of the African con­ tinent — a situation which causes profound concern to every thinking person. The aftermath of Euro­


pean colonialism has not been happy and many emer­ gent nations would appear to


be simple military dictator­ ships, their rivalries and internal discontents provid­ ing a prime opportunity for interference by Russians, Chinese and Cubans.


Of late, of course, the


Americans have a ls o reacted, as witness the con­ stant t r a v e l l in g and negotiating of their ambas­ sador at large, Andrew Young. Most recently both France and Belgium have taken limited military action to preserve European lives.


What, however, does Mr


Callaghan propose? Is it some sort of European “fire­ fighting force?” He doesn’t say. Is he expecting the Americans to shoulder the burden of peace-keeping or are the Western nations to band together to prevent further Communist infiltra­ tion? Again he doesn’t say. Worse, he doesn’t say one word as to" how it might be done or with what. Personally, I would have


thought that Suez and Vie­ tnam, for good reasons or ill, marked the end of overseas adventures for the United Kingdom and the United States, and surely Mr Cal­ laghan recognises this, too. He knows as well as I do


that his own policies have deprived us of the means, and that his own Govern­ ment doesn’t possess the will even to mount the sort of military operation carried


out by the French and the Belgians.


So I must dismiss his


recent utterances as mere huff and puff, convincing no one, friend or foe, and least of all, I hope, the British public.


I would now like to turn to


a very different type of politician, Mr Enoch Powell — out of office, at least, consistently opposed to Bri­ tain’s membership of the EEC. His latest pronouncement


on that subject is to tell us to vote next year for any candi­ date in the elections to the European Parliament, of whatever political party, who is opposed to our being partnerS ’ in the Common Market. ’ I wonder if he has forgotten that the British held a referendum on that issue, and that we voted almost two to one to stay in? Very well, you may say,


Mr Powell is just being con­ sistent in his opposition. Yet where would that consis­ tency lead if enough people obeyed his injunction and sent to Europe a delegation of which a majority was pledged either to obstruct at every turn, or get out? Would we not become, and rightly, the laughing stock of Europe? Criticism and co-opera­


tion will no doubt be blended in the attitude of our rep­ resentatives in the Com­


Westminster V_


\ Viewpoint by 1 DAVID WALDER Clitheroe


Division MP


munity, as in those we send to Westminster. But I do not think many of you would vote for me if my only slogan was “Walder for the Chil- tern Hundreds.” My last thought on Mr


Powell is whether he will put his sentiments to the test and stand himself fo r Europe. Finally, to Mr David


Steel, who seems to envis­ age a permanent future of hung Parliaments. Seem­ ingly the untold damage the Lib-Lab Pact has done to his own party has escaped him, despite the evidence of bye- election results. Conve­ niently, at about the same time as Mr Callaghan has decided on his election date, Mr Steel has given notice of withdrawal of support. So, the lists having been


cleared, Mr Steel must be, at that election, putting the following propositions to the British electorate. Do not vote Conservative


because we don’t want a Conservative majority, gov­ ernment or policies. Do not vote Labour


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eral, so that there will be just enough Liberal MPs to hold the balance so that we can have, not Liberal policies, but Conservative policies, or of course, Labour ones. All this of course is to


apply only in the event of as near a draw as possible, and dependent upon whether the Conservatives or the Labour Party want however many Liberals are actually elected. If Mr Steel believes that


will inspire even his own party, in one respect at least he has entered the Big League. He is capable of just as much self-delusion as Mr Powell and Mr Cal­ laghan.


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