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12 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 23rd, 1978 MARCH 27th to APRIL 1st


WINDOW CLEANING CAR CLEANING CARPET BEATING DECORATING DIGGING HEDGE CUTTING


WOOD CHOPPING SHOE CLEANING ERRANDS WEEDING


JScouts^W S S K


THE WEEK WHEN SCOUTS LEND A HAND WITH ODD JOBS


TIDYING UP EXERCISING DOGS


These are just a few of the ]obs_ the Scouts will be happy to help you with


Every year Britain’s Scouts have a national fund-raising week but they don’t just come and beg for money. They put in hard work in exchange. It is about the fairest fund-raising operation there is. This year the needs of the Scout Association are more pressing than ever before. A big — and growing — ^ organisation like Scouting requires money to provide and maintain pre­ mises, equipment and worthwhile activities. Inflation has hit hard and cash is needed more urgently than ever


. before. iiMMlirfV fAlIrkiAi inor r l id * in c y i i t e h A r l h f l i e in A e c A C B


ROCK AND ALTY Monumental Masons


7b MARKETPLACE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 24277.


BRIAN DOOTSON LTD


VICTORIA STREET GARAGE,


CLITHEROE CASTLE RESTAURANT


STATION ROAD, CLITHEROE. Tel. 24587.


Chartered Surveyors, Estate Agents and Valuers


WOODWARD KERR and


MOOR LANE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 24970.


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KING STREET, WHALLEY. Tel. 2564.


JAMES THORNBER LTD I B I ^


HOLMES MILL, CLITHEROE. Tel. 23601.


ERIC DUGDALE MERCHANTS


PENDLE TRADING ESTATE


CHATBURN. Tel. 41597.


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P. HARRISON & CO.


TYRESAND BATTpRIES


Tel. 41216 or 41482.


TRUTEX LTD Head Office:


GRINDLETON, CLITHEROE.


Tel. Clitheroe 41621.


KEN TAYLOR Electrical Contractor


FAIRVIEW,


24 CLAREMONT AVENUE,


CLITHEROE. Tel. 22326.


BATEMANS


Boyswear Specialists and Cub and Scout Uniform Stockists.


CASTLE STREET, CLITHEROE. Tel. 23425.


KAINE & RAWSON


DISCOUNTBED CENTRE


79LOWERGATE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 23444.


MORTONS for MODELS


PLASTIC MODEL KITS MODEL RAILWAYS Sales and Service


18 MOOR LANE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 22420’


B. M. SHEARER LTD


The Tyre Depot, Chatburn.


BRENNAND STREET GARAGE,


CLITHEROE. Tel. 23750.


D. LORD & SON Footwear Specialists


5 MOOR LANE, CLITHEROE.


Tel. 22488. BLACKBURN


CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY


CLITHEROE BRANCH


TEL. 22611.


WADDINGTON FELL QUARRIES LTD


WADDINGTON,


NEAR CLITHEROE. Tel. Slaidburn 275.


NORRIS ELECTRICAL


BARKER TERRACE, WADDINGTON ROAD,


CLITHEROE. Tel. 22789.


CASTLE CASTINGS LTD


BROOKS WORKS, CLITHEROE. Tel. 22511.


G. CALVERLEY & SONS LTD


Builders, Joiners, Funeral Directors


CHATBURN ROAD, CLITHEROE.


Tel. Day 23297 — Night 22017, 25978.


HARGREAVES


MOORLANE & WOONE LANE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 22683.


ECONOMIC STORES


66/70 WHALLEY ROAD,


CLITHEROE. Tel. 22697.


S. J. MOORE AND SONS


Heating Engineer and Plumber


6 RAILWAY VIEW, CLITHEROE.


Tel. 23389,24151 or 25725.


A. E.


This advertisement has been kindly sponsored by the following distinguished businesses:


B. DUGDALE AND SON LTD


WATERLOO CORN MILL,


CLITHEROE. Tel. 22571.


GRIMSHAWS Ladies’ Wear & Accessories


9 CASTLE STREET, CLITHEROE. Tel. 22293.


ASPDENS


26 KING STREET, CLITHEROE. Tel. 22681.


J. COWGILL & SONS


MARKETPLACE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 23587.


GEOFFREY


TAYLOR & CO. 8 CHURCH STREET,


CLITHEROE. Tel. 23252.


Also at Preston, Burnley and Blackburn.


RUFUS CARR LTD


CENTRAL GARAGE, RIMINGTON


and BAWDLANDS GARAGE,


CLITHEROE. HaEB


LUBRICATING OILS


TOWNSON BAILEY


LUBRICANTS


CLITHEROE 41542.


lEIII! FUEL OILS


TOWNSON BROS (FUEL SERVICES LTD)


CLITHEROE 41542.


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On the queen of diamonds lead.


South is able to discard his losing spade.


WLW


BRIDGE -C L U B -


TWELVE tables were in play at Clitheroe Bridge Club’s duplicate game. Winners were: NS — Mr W. L.


Wilkinson and Mrs J. Martindale, Mr and Mrs Cornfield. EW — Mr Pendlebury and Mrs Littlewood, Mr F. Walker and Mrs Russell. Handicap winners were: NS — Mrs Murgatroyd and Miss Aldred. EW — Mrs Boot and Mrs Hargreaves. The following hand was played


in a spade game contract by all NS pairs. No pair tried for the small slam, which makes on any lead but a spade.


Love all. S dealer


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Traders prepare for debate on new town hall


CHAMBER of Trade representatives will have plenty to say about the Ribble Valley Council’s proposed new town hall, when they attend next week’s meeting of the Clitheroe Town Council Consultative Committee. There was a division of


Mr Cowgill told his


views when members of the C l ith e ro e and district Chamber of Trade discussed the proposal at their annual meeting.


The Chamber’s new presi-


dent Mr P e te r Field, immediate past president Mr John Cowgill and secret­ ary Mr Bill Cooper will put their views to the committee and report back to the Chamber for members to decide on the stand they should take.


members that as far as he could see, plans for the new town hall development were a “fait accompli.” Plans were already drawn up for phase two.


But this was not the way


former Clitheroe Mayor Mr Sidney Moore saw it. He pointed out that the council had yet to agree to the plans and that the Chamber of Trade and anyone else would have the opportunity to put their views. He thought they should have the full facts before making any decision.


Mr Moore said he was not


against the idea of a town hall. Some day the town was going to need a central office and there would be colossal savings on telephone, heat­ ing, lighting and caretaking bills.


Several members were


concerned about the prop­ osed siting of the town hall. It was suggested that it would be better away from the town centre, leaving room for a car park. A co l le c t in g of f ice could remain in the town.


Another suggestion was


to forego the idea of includ­ ing a tree and courtyard in the plans, leaving room for at least another 30 cars.


Mr R o y D ew h u r s t


commented that members would have a bigger grouse if they were in Longridge Chamber of Trade, paying their share for the town hall without the advantages. Clitheroe traders had the benefit of being in the “capi­ tal,” he said.


KITS by TAMIYA, BANDAI, ERTL, AIRFIX, REVEL, HELLER AMT, HASEGAWA, MONOGRAM, MATCHBOX.


MORTONS FOR MODELS


18 Moor Lane, Clitheroe Telephone 22420.


WOMEN from Methodist Churches in the Clitheroe circuit joined forces for a missionary market at Trin­ ity Methodist Sunday School, raising £105 for the Women’ s Missionary Society. The market, attended by


about 200 people, was opened by Mrs G. A. Vickers, wife of the Whal- ley Methodist Minister. Mrs G. W. KnowlesjWife of the Circuit Superintendent Minister, presided. A variety of stalls


offered goods including cak e s, jewellery and produce. The stalls were manned by the ladies of the different churches. Children from the cast


of the recent Trinity pantomime, "Aladdin,” entertained. '


Walking in the rain


MORE than 20 members of Sabden Youth Club braved the rain on Sunday to complete a sponsored walk and raise about £80 towards equipment. The youngsters, aged 12


to 17, completed the 20-mile walk from Sabden via Higham Tops to Read and back in three-and-a-half hours. They were led by youth


club leader Mr Bob Atkinson with help from Mr Nick Ingledew and Mr John Fairhurst, who manned checkpoints. After the walk Mr Atkin­


son said: “We had a smash­ ing time even though it poured down for the last 10 miles. We stopped for packed lunches and that kept us going.” He said it had not yet been decided what piece of equipment to buy for the club.


Soft line on piece of


AS Members of Parlia­ ment are only human, it was with an almost audible sigh of relief that the Commons saw the termination of the Committee Stage of the two Bills which propose separate Assemblies for Scotland and Wales. It is rumoured that the


House of Lords will not take too long over their passage, no doubt for good reason because the final test will be when the whole matter is put out to referendum later in the year. I am, as you see, a little


vague about the actual, timing, but then so is the Prime Minister and so is the Government. Perhaps prin­ cipally because the Cabinet has not yet made up its c o l le c t iv e mind as to whether a General Election should come first. Anyhow, in the last week or so Parlia­ ment has returned to some­ thing like normality. This week, on the eve of


the six-day break for Easter, there has been the full-scale debate on the Government’s Defence White Paper, and, after the break, the Budget and the subsequent debate which customarily takes a full working week. The two subjects, at first


sight unrelated, and particu­ larly because they attract very different sorts of experts as speakers, are, especially this year, very closely connected indeed. No Chancellor of the Exche­ quer, in a sense, wants to spend money, all Secretaries of State for Defence want him to do just that. A nice exercise in schizophrenia for Denis Healey who, of c ou r s e , has held both offices. Of course, in fairness to the Defence Ministers, there


Westminster Viewpoint by


DAVID WALDER Clitheroe


Division MP


are plenty of other Ministers who want to spend as well, on roads, hospitals, social services, education and the like. Nevertheless, especially


in a Labour Government, with 75 Tribune Group MPs and their allies going on record as being against nearly all forms of defence whatever, the dilemma is particularly acute. And above all this year,


because 1980 is absolutely the last year in which the British Government has to make a decision about one expense to the taxpayer. It is an expense w'hich very few taxpayers ever see, except fleetingly and occa­ sionally on the television — four submarines following secret courses under the water off our shores, called Renown, Repulse, Resolu­ tion and Revenge. They carry the Polaris


nuclear missiles and their combined armament could destroy about a quarter of Russia’s industrial cities. Put like that it sounds very crude and horrifying, and of course it is. But these submarines are where they are not with any aggressive intent, but as the ultimate deterrent. It is a deterrent to a nuclear strike upon these islands by an enemy, or perhaps more likely the


threat of such action. Now the Labour Govern­


ment, though not all its supporters in the Commons, is in favour of retaining them. The catch is that the boats, the actual hulls, are 20 years old and need replacement. A replacement prog­


ramme would have to start by, at the latest, 1980. Which means the decision will have to be made very soon by this Government, or the next. Each year the Govern­


ment spends, in round f ig u r e s , £ 6 ,000m. on defence. To replace the submarines and their missiles would cost 5 per cent more on that figure each year for the next 10 years. A colossal amount, no


doubt, but it is well to remember that we are spending less than 5 per cent of our GNP on defence, less than many of our allies, and considerably less than any potential aggressor. However, this year the


Labour Government, having previously cut defence expenditure in all directions, is now pledged to restore some of those cuts, mainly because of requests by our NATO allies. Yet those four submarines are given exactly three lines of print in


the 86-page Defence White Paper. There are two obvious


reasons for that apparent neglect. F ir s t ly , the Tribune


Group, which is opposed to all increases in defence expenditure, at least in the West, and is prepared to ignore the Warsaw Pact’s vast increase in all forms of m i l ita ry might, would scream even louder if the Government gave even a hint of considering the effi­ cacy of our principal deter­ rent against attack.


Secondly, because after


Easter Mr Healey intends to introduce a so-called “give away” Budget, no doubt as a prelude to a General Elec­


tion. Therefore, the contents of


the Defence White Paper are not to be allowed to cast even the smallest shadow over the provisions of the Budget statement. Thpe- fore, awkward questions will not be answered, and difficult decisions will not be made. Very well, you will say,


that is only one aspect of public spending. I agree, but I happen to believe that it is, literally, vital. By the time of my next


article it will be possible to consider the actual provi­ sions of the Budget, how much of what was once our own money we shall have returned, and Parliament, and the public, will be think­ ing of other things than four submarines. I am sure that is Mr


Callaghan’s hope. I am sure that he is also hoping that he can put off a difficult deci­ sion for as long as possible. He may even, occasionally, think that he won’t have to make it at all. That problem, by no means an easy one, will be Mrs Thatcher’s.


Founded WI at


Sabden


THE daughter of a former vicar of Sabden and a co­ founder of the local Guide and Brownie movements. Miss Lucy Mary Boden was buried in St Nicholas’s Chur­ chyard, in the village on Thursday. Miss "Boden (77), who


lived at Pendle Cottage, died four days earlier in Burnley General Hospital. Her father was vicar of


Sabden for 33 years and she and her late sister, Doris, were born at the old vicarage. In addition to forming the


Guides and Brownies, the sisters were devoted animal lovers and for many years ran a branch of the People’s Dis pe n s ar y f o r Si ck Animals. Miss Boden was also vice-


president and a founder member of Sabden Women’s Institute and a member of the village Over 60s Club. For most of her adult life she was an assistant at Sabden baby clinic. Prior to interment, there


was a funeral service at Sabden Baptist Chapel, which Miss Boden had attended for more than 40 years.


Luncheon club LOCAL WRVS organiser


fo r the meals-on-wheels service, Coun. Mrs Beryl Cassidy, will be the speaker at a meeting of the “caring professions” Luncheon Club on Wednesday. Held at the Starkie Arms, the meeting starts at 12-30 p.m.


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