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It was just like “The good old days” when VVhalley Church Play-. ers held a music hall evening on Saturday night.
Standing in for Leonard Sachs and giving a- proficient and promis ing performance was the Rev Alec Harpur, Vicar of Whalley, who was chairman for the evening.
He introduced a variety, of old time acts and
rousing community singing which had the a u d i e n c e in t h e packed school hall joining in.
Gue s t a r t is t s were Whalley singer Anne Howarth, the Kay Thurston Dancers, - a barber’s shop quintet, and Eddie Bush and Harold Kendrick, who led the singing and told jokes.
Henthorn homes for Boat People
FOUR Vietnamese families will be mo v i n g i nt o Clitheroe early in the New Year, fol lowing a decision to provide them with council houses in the Henthorn area. The houses they will
call home are normally used by the Ribble Valley Council as tem porary accommodation
families are staying at the Save the Children Fund’s reception centre at Ilkley, where they are learning
for families whose properties are being renov ate d a n a repaired. At the moment, the four
the basics of the English language and this coun try’s way of life.
Decorations
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Mayor’s Parlour on Tues day evening to decide how best to ‘Yepair, decorate and furnish the four houses. But the decision to give
ing in the Ribble Valley, the committee set up loc ally under the chairman ship of Clitheroe Mayor Coun. Bob Ainsworth* is poised to swing into action next week. It is meeting in the
“Boat People,” with’ the aim of enabling them to settle in better in the com munity. Coun. Mrs Cassidy is
unhappy with the arrange ment, because it will put too much burden on people presently waiting for a
.council house in GTitheroe.- She said she had heard
houses in Clitheroe to all four refugee families has been criticised by Ribble Valley 'councillor Mrs Beryl Cassidy, who repre sents Edisford, Low Moor and Trinity Ward. She feels it would have
been fairer if Longridge had housed two of the families, because there is already a long waiting list for council homes in Clitheroe. Her suggestion, how
ever, was turned down by the Ribble Valley Council’s Housing Committee after a private discussion on Thursday.
Unhappy The committee agreed to
make all four houses avail able in Clitheroe after con sidering a request from relief societies helping the “Boat People” that the p r o p e r t ie s should be “within walking distance of each other.” This was made by the
of other authorities taking in refugee families, but housing them in properties other than council houses.
Welcome “It is not fair to tell a
young couple on the coun cil’s list that they will have to wait longer when we are allocating four houses to the refugees,” she said.
“I believe these families
are going to be offered four unimproved houses which we will decorate and make nice, but I know from people in the Henth orn area that this could well cause some resent ment,” she added.
Coun. Mrs Cassidy stres sed that she accepted the committee’s decision and would do all she could to help w e l c om e t h e refugees.
In spite of her feelings, According to Borough relief societies helping the ' allocated to the refugees. Ambitious project
WHALLEY Church Play ers are planning a meeting early in the New Year to make arrangements for their most ambitious pro ject yet — an open air production of “A Midsum mer Night's Dream.” The se t t in g for the
Shakespearean fantasy will be Whalley Abbey on Midsummer day — June 24th.
The production wi l l
require a large cast, so the Players want to hear from anyone interested in tak ing part.
Treasurer Mr Gordon 'Ons low no decision has ,yet been made on wh'ich houses in Henthorn will be
Members of the Church Players gave sketches and recitations and Donald Hartley was the pianist. Producer was Dorothy Duck worth.
Ev en the audi enc e turned up in old-time costume and the even ing was rounded off with a good old- fashioned supper of pie and peas and parkin.
Mrs Mary Jackson, the g r o up’s pub l ic i ty of f i cer, said after wards, “It was a really good e v e ning al l round. Eve rything was arranged in a month — with just five rehearsals — so th e hi tches we r e nearly as funny as the sketches.
All the tickets were sold a week before, so it was a full house and the audience joined in th e singing even be for e they we r e asked.”
Pictured at the piano is Liz Caton, of Langho, leading fellow mem bers in a rous ing chorus.
School
buses protest
ROMAN Ca tho l ic parents, priests and managers of RC schools in the Ribble Valley will be attending a meeting on Saturday morning to protest at a clause in the Education Bill going through Parliament. The clause, which will
mean parents paying for school transport, will badly hit Catholic schools which cater for jer catchment areas. Ilitheroe Divi sion
MP Mr David Wadding- ton will be at the meet ing at St Augustine's High School, Billington, at 11 o-clock to answer questions from parents.
The savoury snacks made a change from the
The playgroup made
. supported, particularly by parents, who helped to supply goods for the stalls. These offered cakes and mince pies, sweets, toys, books, Christmas cards and leather goods and there was also a bran tub.
The fair was well
Poor attendance by councillors is under fire
IS the Ribble Valley Council’s Finance Commit tee an organisation with no teeth?
That was the question
Shortage of staff led to complaints
COMPLAINTS by cus-* tomers who claimed they had to wait up to an hour for service at Clitheroe Post Office on- Monday morning were due to staff shortages.
Postmaster Mr James
Moran said that of the six- strong staff, one was on holiday, another off sick and a third on day off for working on Saturday.
This accounted for only
three, and sometimes two, of- the counter positions being manned.
were delays and I am sorry that people were incon venienced.” he said. “How ever, it was due to cir cumstances beyond my control.
“I realise that there “There should have been
four counter staff on duty, but there was no way I could find a replacement.”
Mr Moran added that
this week was one of the busiest of the year, with the Christmas rush gather ing momentum.
WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCH...
CLITHEROE head master Mr Howell Jones wanted to cap ture
j.ust the right atmosphere for nativ
ity scenes at Brook- side primary school’s Christmas carol ser vice . . . so he bor rowed a donkey and some sheep. The animals will not
actually be appearing at the service a week today, but slides of them will be projected in the candlelit nail while the pupils sing . their carols. In order to set the
mood,; Mr ■ Jones took shots of some of the 160 pupils “on location”.- The shepherds went to
Barrow- to watch their flock, loaned by Mr Bob . Ti l lotson, of -Piml ico Road, Clitheroe, and Joseph and Mary — Andr ew, and' Karen McGurk, of Salthill Road, •:
Clitheroe — found the donkey they required at Mr Geoffrey Dmsdale’s Cuttock Clough Farm,
T
Waddington. Mr, Jones tried to make
the slides —' which also
showed.-s.children. round.
the crib — as’authentic as - possible by avoiding glass windows; and ■ televisi'-n aerials. , -
... .
from Coun. Geoffrey Ains worth (Clayton-le-Dale) when his fellow committee members were being criti cised for not attending meetings or arriving late.
For the second meeting
in succession the commit tee had to wait for mem bers to arrive to make a quorum.
Ev entua l l y the 14
member committee got under way wi th eight members.
Af t e rwa r d s Coun.
Edwin Gretton (Grindle- ton) said: “VVe have to con- s ide r ve ry s erious ly whether this state of af fa ir s .continue s or whether we should re-form the committee. I am disap pointed by the amount of interest shown by the 14 members.”
Coun. Fred Singleton (Longridge) added: “In nearly 33 years of local government I have never before known two meet ings together with insuffi cient members.”
Commi t tee chairman Coun. Ainsworth said
they should look at the reason why only half the members turned up. “Is it because we have no teeth? Does this committee serve a purpose, or is it just apathy from members?”
He said some councillors
attended infrequently and they should find out who and why.
First for Prince
■Friday. : The meet was at Coppice
Farm, Gisburn, the home of Mrs Alice Hindley, from
-where the field rode to Great Dudley Farm, Saw- ley,- tot be joined, by the Prince.
. , It was the first time the
Prince had hunted with a pack , of harriers and after the first kill he was pre sented with the pad; Mr Robert'.Napper led
the hunt ’around the Gis burn, Rimington and Brog- den area.
On the previous evening
the Prince stayed with the Hindley family at Gisburne ’ Park.- ■
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PRINCE1 CHARLES extended his tour of the North West for a day out with the Pendle Forest and Craven Ha r r i e r s on
Chipping vicar's
new post
Rev. T. W. Baverstock, who was vicar for 16 years. Mr Green, who made the
AFTER seven years as Vicar of Chipping, the Rev. Thomas Green is moving to become Vicar of St John the Bapt ist , Pilling. He will succeed the late
announcement at Sunday’s services, will take up nis appointment early next year. Both Mr Green and his
wife Irene are looking for ward to the challenge offered by the move, but will regret leaving friends they have made in the village. The couple have two
sons, Phillip and Martin, and a daughter, Janet. Trained for the priest
hood at St Aidan’s Bir kenhead, Mr Green was ordained in 1967 and was for three years at St Paul’s Church, Scotforth, Lan caster. Before moving to Chip
in farming areas such as Chipping and Pilling, as for 20 years he was a sheep and dairy farmer in York shire’s Aire valley.
Witnesses sought
POLICE -are appealing for witnesses of the road crash at Sawley 10 days ago in which Mr Harry Busfield (65), of Cononley, near ~ < ip ton, was killed. The accident occurred
near Sawley abattoir when Mr Busfield’s Ford Escort was involved in a collision .with, a reversing cattle transporter; Police are particularly
anxious to interview an elderly couple who drove past the' scene towards Clitheroe shortly, before the accident:..
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ping he was priest-in charge of St Nicholas’s, Marton Moss, in the parish of Holy Trinity, South Shore, Blackpool, where he was also curate. He is well suited to work
home on his knee arc Mandy Dawson (4) and her brother Simon (2), of Eastham Street, Clitheroe.
Sure with the tiny tots. iking themselves at
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Ruth rules cls queen of clubs
READ teenager Ruth Varty is the “queen” of Lancashire’s youth clubs.
Ruth (16), of Singleton
Avenue, won the title at the annual Queen of Clubs dance at Chorley. Her prizes include a
book token, cuddly toy and jewellery.
It was a just reward, for
of Notre Dame High School, Blackburn, will hold the title for a year. During this time she aims
to he lp PHAB, the
Physically-handicapped and Able-bodied group at Borwick Hall, Carnforth. In addition to commun
ity service, her, hobbies include dancing, drama, pottery, art, swimming and skiing. On the contest night
Ruth was also in action with her club’s disco danc ing team, which gave an exhibition. Runner-up to Ruth was
Jan Grainger,- of Whalley Road, Barrow, a member of Whalley Youth Club. Jan (17), an art student,
is interested in drawing, community service, sport, discos, records and hair dressing.
Town hall cuts warning
MEMBERS of the Ribble Valley branch of Nalgo
are to support town hall workers in the region in their protest against cut backs in local authority staff and services. At a special meeting of
the North Western Provin cial Council for Local Authorities last week,emp- loyers cold-shouldered the union’s concern over the effects of' the - Govern ment’s directive on public- sector spending. Now th e uni on is
threatening a strong reac tion to the treatment it received, when the council — a joint consultative
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“Although none of us are
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it is thanks to Ruth that the Read and Simonstone Youth Club exists. Three years ago she and her' friends presented a peti tion to the Parish Council which led to the club’s for mation. Ruth, deputy head girl
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