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SUNDAY will be Father’s Day, not Mother’ s Day in Dunsop Bridge.


For about 150 villa­


The next town


Mayor


COUN. Leo Wells, who would have been the next Ribble Valley Mayor but for losing his seat on the Council last May, is to become a chief citizen after all.


He has accepted an in­ vitation to be Clitheroe’s next Town Mayor — his second term in six years.


As'deputy mayor of the


Ribble Valley, Coun. Wells was in line to become civic head until he failed to retain his seat at the elections.


However, he was later


returned to the town council at the parish elec­ tions.


Coun. Wells entered


■ local government in 1965 as a member of the former Clitheroe Borough Council and two years later became an alderman.


Following reorganisa­


tion in 1974 he became the first town mayor and was chief citizen for two successive years.


Avenue, is closely’ associ-. ated with SS Michael, and John’s Church and is a


Coun. Wells, of Chester


ist Grand Knight of the Clitheroe Council


Coun. Wells, whose


wife, Alice, will be May- jress, is local superinten­ dent for Ribble Motor Services.


gers are turning out to pay tribute to Fr Joseph Francis Stoker, parish priest at St Hubert’s RC Church, who on Sunday celebrates exactly 50 years in the priesthood. Celebrations to mark


Fr S toker ’ s g olden jubilee start today when he will be guest of honour at a concert by pupils of Thorneyholme RC School. But undoubtedly the


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villagers will be reserv­ ing their biggest show of affection for the popular 76-year-old priest at a special Mass on Sunday a f t e r n o o n in St Hubert’s. A congregation of 150


— six times the usual number of worshippers — is expected at the service and at a buffet party afterwards in Dunsop Bridge village


hall. ■ “People of all denomi­


nations have been in­ vited for what I think will be a unique occa­ sion,” said Fr Stoker. Joining him the follow­


ing morning for concele- brated Mass at St Hubert's and a lunch at the Stirk House Hotel, Gisburn, will be about eight other Catholic pnests from the area. Also present will be


Fr Stoker's brother, Fr Tom Stoker, a missio­ nary who is coming from London for the service. It will be the first time the pair have met for 10


years. A n o t h e r relative


hoping to be there will be Fr Stoker’s nephew, Fr Donald Stoker, who is chaplain at Sheffield Polytechnic.


The Dunsop dS® iriest was ordainri


nis home parish o Patrick’s, Leeds, on


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March 16th, ^ 0 ; H® first posting as a curate was to a church n Selby. He also served m


Sheffield and Castleford, before being api>ointed the first parish pnest at St Columba’s, Bradford,


in 1940. H e mo v ed on to , . n


another church m =heI‘ field and to Broughton


H a ll , near Gisburn, b e fo re a r r iv in g at Dunsop Bridge nearly iu


years ago. F r S t o k e r fin d s ,. , > P“nf?P. Bridge a friend-


hntJl1 !aee’ where he .• °Pefs to continue serv-


„Ji p as long as he is ^■Everyone is very ^Shbourly, says the P^ost, who regards the


Sftp* “ % though I have


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2 C' ln® my head, wondering what all the


tuss is about. Remarkably, every-'


° ? t . ' n the village, whether or not they are


Catholics, has acknow­ ledged my achievement, which is very nice of them, he said.


Council charges go up to keep down the rate


THE Ribb le Valley Council is to increase all its charges, including council house rents, to help


ma i n t a i n the borough’s present level of public ser­ vices and balance the books.


Details of the economy


What parishes will pay


THE Ribble Valley’s new rate will be around 89d in the £, the mixed rate.(house-shop) 99p ana the ordinary rate 107p, depending on


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be added the various parish precepts which range from 0.5p to 5p. The parish figures are:


Nil — Balderstone, Dinc- kley, Downham, Horton, Mearley, Newsholme, Paythorne, Twis t on,


Worston. 0.5p — Bashall Eaves and Great Mitton, Bolton-by- Bowland, Clayton-le-dale,


Longridge, Rimington and


Midaop. Ip — Billington, Bowland Forest HD, Clitheroe, Dutton, Gisburn, Hother- sall, Mellor, Osbaldeston, Pendleton, Ramsgr'eave, Ribchester, Salesbury, Slaidburn and Easington,


Wilpshire. 1. 5 p — Chatbur.n, Newton.


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measures were given by council leader Coun. Fred Green (Wilpshire) in his budget address to a spe­ cial meeting of the council on Monday, at which the Ribble Valley’s rate of 11.25p in th e £ was ap­ proved (an increase of 1.09 p). Actded to the county


council's precept, the av­ erage domestic rate in the borough will be around


89p:' cent,


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with The ordinary ’ rate ' will


be about 107p (95p county, plus 11 to 12p Ribble Valley).


jump — rates throughout the, country are increasing on average by 27 per cent — has been made possible by pruning the district council’s spending to the bone, together with the introduction shortly of the


The relatively small


. revised charges. These include an aver­


age rise of £1.50 a week in council house rents.


Also going up — from April 1st — are rents for stalls at Clitheroe market and charges for meat in­ spection, rodent and pest control, trade refuse, septic tanks and entrance ticnets To the Ribblesdale Pool, Longridge Sports Centre and all recreation­


al facilities. In addition, the council


I l lU d L m a n e w » v must make the first-ever V


2p — Aighton, Bailey and charges for applications Chaigley, Bowland-with- under building regulations Leagram, Grindleton, Read, Sabden, Wiswell. 3p — Chipping. Thomley-' with-Wheatley. 3.5p»— "West Bradford.


4p — Whalley and Little Mitton, Waddington. 5p _ Bowland Forest LD.


Last year the district . .


rate for the Ribble Valley was 10.16p, which added to a county rate of 84p iroduced a total rate of 75.66p in the £.


Meals rise ‘expected’ by elderly


OLD people in the Ribble Valley who use the meals on-wheels service will


have no grumbles about a price increase of 5p which is to come in at tn< beginning of April. That is the opinion of


local organiser for the WRVS, Coun. Mrs Beryl Cassidy, who said: “Old people have been expect ing the rise for ages and they will have no com­ plaints. They feel that by paying the'increase they are doing their small bit for the country." The rise, passed by the


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Ribble Valley Council’s- Finance and General Pur poses Committee, means that each meal will cost 35p instead of 30p. _ Mrs Cassidy said she


felt the increase was fair one, in view of the present financial climate.


and for planning applica-


tions. On the credit side, Coun. Green announced


an increase in bus tokens from £6 to £7.50 in towns and from £8 to £10 in the countryside. will


The also grass be cut ting u u uisvuums.


paying in


the


parishes and will continue to offer council houses for sale, to tenants at attrac­ tive discounts.


council for


figure was expected to be within one per cent of its target.


Thanks to income ex­


ceeding expenditure by £160,000, the council’s re­ serves • at the end of the current financial year would amount to £200,000 more than original ly


)p; in, therJE, a:.12;8: per Summarising,; the past a contribution towards the snt increase,.compared * financial--year,'VCoun. '-.cost ofVthe^iew.aoffices;. ith last y e a r . G r e e n * disclosed thatl’the ^


hoped for, he added. This thoroughly credit­ able situation enabled the council to


coun aKft capiuu !wiiv 1 council’s final spending/ W/continucd on paf?c 11? . <, ► -


N a l g o h o ld s u p t h e a c c o u n t s


R IB B L E Va l l e y Council NALGO staff have stopped prepar­ ing the 1980-81 rate accounts as part o f a national campaign for an imp r o v e d pay offer.


Their action also in­


c lude s b o y c o t t ing work'handled in con­


junction with private c o n s u l t a n t s


and


agency agreements such as those with the North-West Water Au­ thority.


As well as delaying


the shock o f higher bills for ratepayers, the move could crip­ ple local authority fi­ nances at the start of


the accounting year. A l o c a l NALGO


spokesman said they did not lightly take action against their employers,' but they felt badly let down over the outcome of a national comparabili­ ty study. NALGO had made


the study a .condition of its acceptance of a 9.4 per cent pay in­ crease last year. The union felt the


study should have re­ sulted in a pay in­ crease of between 20- 22 per cent, back­ dated to January 1st, but the offer was one of only six to 12 per cent.


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Youngsters given a safe place


to fish PLANS to create ing haven for


a fish- local


youngsters are in the final stages of completion by the Rotary Club of Rib­ blesdale. The club is acquiring


about 210 yards along a single bank of the Ribble near Clitheroe, where youngsters under 16 may fish free of charge. The scheme has been


thought up by the club to mark the 75th anniver­ sary of the Rotary move­ ment. Club president Mr


Barry Dearing said that one of the things which prompted the club to undertake the project was to give youngsters some­ where safe to fisji. It was felt that accidents could


• result from children hang­ ing over bridges and fish­ ing at such spots as Prim­ rose. “We also wanted to


THIS was one time when Clitheroe Cric­ ket Club players did n o t mi n d b e i n g “ slated” .


It could be said that


they are bowled over with enthusiasm to help towards the suc­ cessful completion of the new cricket-and


bowls pavilion at Chat- burn Road. The pro­ ject, the third phase of an ambitious building programme, should be ready for the opening of the cricket season.


On the ladder in a


different' captain’s role is John Boden, who is also club secretary.


Boy falls mm


A SCHOOLBOY game which ended in near disaster dealt Whalley woman Mrs Carol- Ward another devastating blow for the third time in only six months.


For her 12-year-old son,' lives with his grandfather,


Douglas, was taken to Mr Thomas Littler (64), of hospital after an accident Pendle Street We s t , with a knife.


Sabden, was injured when


Douglas, who usually playing with a knife which accidentally slipped.


He was taken to Burn­


ley Victoria Hospital with a stomach wound and was kept under observation, though he is expected


home this week. The accident happened


after Douglas had seen his grandfather clearing out a box of fishing tackle in preparat ion fo r the coming season. Mr Littler warned Douglas not to touch the knife and the box was put upstairs out


of the way. However, said Mr Lit­


tler, Douglas took the knife outside, where he and a group of friends played at splitting pieces


of wood. The knife slipped and


landed point upwards. When Douglas went to pick it up, ne tripped and it entered his body near


the liver. The accident took place


near the Catholic youth club. Parish priest Fr Leon Morris was alerted and sent for an ambu­ lance. Douglas was accom­ panied to nospital by his grandfather and one of the youth officers, Mr Steven Orrell. Douglas, a pupil of Rib-


blesdaFe School, Clitheroe, is a keen fisherman and cyclist. “He is a good lad,” said


Mr Littler. "But boys will be boys and he took no notice of my warning.” Douglas’s ^mother, who


lives in Queen Street, Whalley, lost her husband Thomas (37) after a heart attack last September and her daughter Diane (10) died in January from in­ juries received in a road accident.


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ASPIRANTS to hostess badges had plenty of friends -to judge their


skills at a Guide coffee evening on Friday.


i The function, at the


home of Mr and Mrs Robert Hetherington, in Peel Park Avenue, raised £125 fqr the 2nd Clitheroe


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(Parish Church) Guides. ' Mrs’-Hetherington,


whose -- -daughter 's , ‘ Guide,’ is training ";ltn l|


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unit as a Guider. - The Divisional Commis- sioner,- Mrs--Pat HouM-


; sworth,- and . the.-. V >, Canon John Hudson, "eie


among the guests/ Pictured ar,e some o!


the Guides who helped with refreshments and games. Fifteen ' of them were taking their hostess badge.


. , Parents also, assisted


with other attractions, which included brinp-md-


■ buy and tombola st? : ■ -


. . . The proceeds will go to­


wards camping expenses and equipment. In May, a short weekend will be spent-in camp at Bowley, near Great Harwood, and


■during .the Whit break there will be a longer holi­ day on the canals, of Der-


;byshire and Nottingham­ shire.


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A SUGGESTION' has b e e n m a d e _ t h a t Clitheroe’s Pimlico In-, dustrial 'Estate should be


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give them a place where they know they can fish, rather than have them dangling hooks and lines in becks and streams where, perhaps, they should not be,” he said. During the coming


weeks, the club will be holding fund-raising func- • tions to pay for the rights and to carry out improve­ ments to the fishing area. The management of the


stretch is still being worked out, but it is hoped that experienced anglers will giv e up spare t im e to teach y ou ng ste rs •


when clocks should he put FORWARD one hour to 3 a.m. Clocks normally go


-Saturday ' in' March and back on the day following the - fourth Saturday in October. "


forward on the day following the. third


h ow to fish and s e e that th ey s ta y ou t o f danger. T h e club ha d already had


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fishermen. As the trout season


starts on Saturday, Mr


, Dearing is optimistic that the final details can be ironed out to enable the youngsters to go fishing at Easter.


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