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CLITHEROE teen ager Patrick Ander ton is making giant strides forward on the athletics circuit this season.
Newton Street, has won a whole string of middle- distance events, battling his way back to fitness after his running hopes had been hit by illness.
P a t r ic k (14), of
Patrick was growing at such a • remarkable rate
About 18 months ago,
— he shot up, from 5ft. 3in. to 5ft. llin. in just a couple of months — that his doctor warned him to stop running. ; “l was told that I was
outgrowing my - own. strength,” said Patrick. “I became very weak and the more training I did the worse things seemed to go.” The medical advice
that Patrick was given meant him cutting out all sports for a year, which left him “heart broken.”
'at the Mid-Lancs cross country championship and’ running for the county schools’ athletics team, but that went right down the drain,” said Patrick. However, Patrick, a
.training during tn w in te r , he has
pupil at-. Ribblesdale School, has proved he is big enough to pick up the threads. Since being given the all-clear to start light e
not
“I was looking for ward to having a crack
tion to join Blackburn Harriers and has won six competitive track events at 1500m. and 3000m. A further triumph fol
looked back. He accepted an invita
problems, behind him, Patrick is now hoping he can continue to cut his athletics rivals down to size.
lowed when he came home first in the Junior Harriers’ section of the Whalley Nab run. With his growing
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MEASURING Patrick’s height after a different kind of inch war is his mother Mrs Jane Anderton.
Safety with a song
ROAD safety lessons for Ribble Valley children could go with a song in the future. For new road safety officer Mr Dennis Ravell sings and plays the guitar and believes the children might enjoy learning about safety if they could sing about it. Manchester-born Mr
Ravell, who took up his duties in the Ribble Valley last week, has spent the past year at Lancaster. As well as- road safety work, his duties included the pro duction of project mate rials for use by teachers and pupils.
Andrea, are currently house-hunting in the area.
Mr Ravell and his wife,
visited his first playgroup, at SS Michael and John’s, and showed ’“road safety films to the children.
He is anxious to contact local schools before they break up for the holidays. Mr Ravell yesterday
been without a safety of ficer since Mr Neil Cunlif- fe left two months ago, although other officers have been visiting the area.
The Ribble Valley has CO-OP ,
Bus fares bill shocks parents
Swimming lessons charge
deplored
THE county council, is also , under fire from a local teach ing union for its decision to make school swimming lessons voluntary and to charge for them.
The. lOp-a-session charge for school swimming will save the county council £100,000 a year — but the Ribble Valley Association of the National Union of Teachers says it will cost children their lives.
PARENTS in a Ribble Valley village this week hit out at a new. county council regulation which will mean them having to pay up to £20 a term, in advance, to send a child to school by ous.
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autumn term, the parents of children of eight and over who travel less than three miles to school will have to pay £20 in adv ance to secure a seat in' transport provided by the county, often mini-buses or taxis.
a re ann oy ed a t an economy measure decided by the County Education Committee to lower from 11 to eight ;years the age limit for youngsters elig ible for free school trans port. From the start of the
The parents at Newton Widespread
The association has sent letters to the county education authority, District Education Of ficer Mr Fred Calvert, and county councillors r e p r e s e n t in g the Ribble Valley, saying it deplores the deci sion to class school swimming lessons as a voluntary activity and to make a charge...
’ With the closure of more rural schools in prospect, the Newton vil lagers consider the prob lem one which could affect many parts of the valley. Since closure some
under eight travelling less than two miles, will have to pay £12 a term in adv ance. Some parents con sider the charges “extor tionate” and others, with two children at school, say it is unreasonable, to expect them to find up to £40 at the start of each term.
Parents of youngsters
“We believe that this, is a backward step and will, in fact, cost chil dren their lives,” it says.
The District Liaison Committee for Educa tion also strongly op posed the decision at
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■ part of the curriculum and parents should not have to foot the bill. They have also passed on their comments to the County Education Authority.
The committee urged that swimming should stay a compulsory
Local teachers feel that making swimming a non-compulsory sub ject will lead to some youngsters opting out of swimming lessons putting' themselves in danger.
its recent meeting.-
years ago of the school at Newton, local have gone to Brennand’s Endowed School at Slaid- burn — a trip of about one-and-a-half miles which makes them ineligible for free transport. More . than ' 30 anxious
zh e rb e r t-B ro ck h o le s , Coun. Coulston admits surprise at the decision to lower the qualifying age for free transport.
families in rural areas are./, being.'subjected to in- ' creasing pressures and costs, it does strike me as rather unfortunate to sud denly turn round, with apparently the minimum of consultation, and decide to in t r o d u c e n ew charges.”
He a d d s : “When ,
as Newton is particularly vulnerable to the decision because it is under the three-mile limit for , most of the children. The public bus service, is unsuitable and youngsters cannot walk to school because the roads are “precarious,” claims Coun. Coulston.
He says a village such Penalty
was closed, transport has always been provided free for children going to Slaidburn. Not unnatural ly, parents feel aggrieved that changes are being made without full consul tation with all parties.” After Friday’s meeting,
“Since Newton school
parents in Newton, who have been notified by the county of the change, en listed the support of their county councillor, David Coulston, at a meeting in the village hall on Friday.
County Coun. Coulston
■many people would find it d if f ic u l t to pay the charges in a lump sum. before each term. “It seems we are being
one of the p a re n ts , mother-of-two, Mrs Hazel Beattie, of Brights • Close, Newton, claimed that
penalised for living in the. country," she added.
is hoping today to meet the chairman of the county Education Com mittee, Coun. Michael Fitzherbert-Brockholes, to discuss the parents’ grievances. - In a letter to Coun. Fit- .
allow them to walk about two miles to Gisburn primary school along a busy country road and, therefore, faces a bill of £3 a week for their fares. Her . neighbour, Mrs
Sylvia Peel, of Stankas Hall Farm, Newsholme, near Gisburn, faces a di lemma over her children Jonathan (9) and Rebecca, who will soon'be eight. She is not prepared to
Another mother, Mrs I l i S t fef;,
Norma "Holden,' of De- mense Cottage, claims the decision is “extortionate” because parents are being given no alternative.
Explain
would allow their children to walk about two miles to school. The only answer is to put them on the bus and pay the c h a rg e s ,” said Mrs Holden, who reckons she will have to find £1.57 a week for eight-year-old daughter Rachel. District Education Of
“No responsible parent
ficer Mr Fred Calvert ex plained that earlier in the year, following a revolt in the House of Lords, Edu cation Secretary Mr Mark Carlisle abandoned a plan to permit local authorities to impose a charge to wards the cost of provid ing school transport. However, within the
' able to make savings. Under the Act, the
existing framework of the 1944 Education Act, the Education Committee was
.committee could base its free transport allowance on children up to eight. It was , because the council had been more generous
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Cheers! At the double
PARTY guests at a Clitheroe' house on Monday could be forgiven for thinking they were seeing double when twins Harold ana Bill Green celebrated their 80th birthday.
• So they decided to cele brate together in style with a joint party at the Peel Park Close home of Bill’s daughter, Mrs Joyce Proctor, and her husband, Ken. Harold and Bill are the only surviving members
Now it’s really home, sweet home
• tion Committee took the decision reluctant ly in light of the need
Mr Calvert said: “I be lieve that the -Educa-,.
. to make economies.” . Pupils receiving, free, school meals or at tending.special schools will be exempt from' the charge.
A happy birthday
"School/.is/ther son of Mr .and/Mrs'T. L/Carter, of /Penryiy. Barrow. Tn - his' !spare;time'he, enjoys1, playy.j ing^dhessjf walking, and ^clay-pigeon shooting.-/ ,-L"
BARRGWsstudent Alan Leslie'. Garter .was; given a very, special pre-: sent' on; hist 21st {.birthdays For he learnt that he had; gained' ;
af.BA’ honours; d eg re e /in /accounting, i from Preston’ Polytechnic; ;i Alan; a former>pupiPof; Glitheroe v;Royal v Grammar,;
Mr
CELEBRATIONS were the order' of;the d ay :a t . Clitheroe’s;. Castleford; Home for the Elderly/*; following ; the marriage of residents ( Mr;,Alfred / Green (81) and Mrs Edith Cain (75).'
homeland>!are;, to5 /continue-; living;.; there,vin', a tj speciatbed-sitter —-was conducted at'nearby: St:<
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The.service for.-the couple — iwho:met at:the’, ‘
: James?sjChurch’by-the'Rector, the Rev. Kenneth -? ; Broadhiirst/f/' *
Afterwards'the’ happy-couple were'the; centre, :, -of-attentionvat'.aireception: at;Castleford,ifor.,the f.;
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• ./centre) ,with . best/man ;:Mr": John . Louis. Atherton ■, //and matron-of-honour Mrs Ann Lowery.'/,..'-
• Majifrothy white hat, and the;bridegroom;,.attired, I ‘in.,a brown check , suit, are pictured (seated
j,.j50 residents, staff, family and friends. • |-&\The bride, wearing a blue dress and jacket and
;~$GIa{ktfMrBroadhurst, Mr,Henry Fearon and;Mr r $ James-Martin of the area Social: Services team, •’■/Divisional Officer "Mrs Joan Marshall,/relatives.*; } ^and friends!/;//i/w
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V.NIV-L. . . „ / i /■I'"'With them, are'Mr'Green’s'niece,' Mrs, Elsie > . ■
and brought up in Grind- leton, worked together at the same mill for nearly" 25 years, and have always been close pals.
The twins were born
of a family of five brothers — including another set of identical twins. ' They were brought, up
in Shaw Terrace, Grindle- ton, and went to work at 13 at the former Green Brothers’, Riverside Mill, which is now Trutex. Harold worked there
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HISTORY came alive for the pupils and staff of Brabin’s Endowed School, Chipping, when they cele brated the school’s cente nary. Decked in. Victorian
Chipping turns back the
costumes, the children as sembled on the site of the original school and walked
in procession to the pre sent building across the road.
The original school keys
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were carried on a velvet cushion by 10-year-old Richard Seed, of “Ash croft,” Chipping, and as the party arrived the cen tury-old school bell rang out a welcome.
days continued as . the youngsters played games of yesteryear — stilts, whip and top, hobby horse and marbles. There was a display of rural dancing and pupils also jigged around a specially prepared maypole. The staff and pupils of
The aura of Dickensian
ramme put together by the Brabin’s youngsters. For all the Brabin’s pupils themselves, there were centenary rosettes. The school virtually
took on the appearance of a museum and guests en joyed themselves brows ing through the exhibits and curios from the last century of education. A huge birthday cake,
complete with 100 can dles, was baked by school cook Mrs Enid Double and there were no shor tage of takers when it was sliced up. The occasion drew to a
St Mary’s RC School, Chipping, parents and education chiefs joined the celebrations. Each re ceived a souvenir prog
VANDALS caused £100 worth of damage at the
of the colourful chappies and lasses who helped make the day one to re member for the folk of 'Chipping. .
memorable close with a tea party on the school lawn, in glorious sun shine. Our picture shows some
Vandalism
Their 'main target, bet ween 6 p.m, on Saturday
Springwood picnic area, and 10 a.m. Sunday, were Whalley, at the weekend, the toilets on the site.
for 24 years before moving to Lucas’s at Burnley where he spent the next 24 years up to his ’ retirement. He now lives in De Lacy Street, Clitheroe.
spent all his working life at Green’s, apart from a short break during the war. He lives in East View, Grindleton. Their families, Harold’s
Brother Bill; however,
wife,. Alice, and three sons, and Bill’s wife, Gladys, and their two sons and a daughter, have had to put up ■ with the brothers’ antics and fool ing which caused many amusing moments for the family. “I couldn’t tell them
, still ■ can’t. • We have a lot of’ jokes about v it,'” said Mrs >Proctor.
apart at .all when I was younger, and some people
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