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No change of stance over offices
CLEARLY the letter by ex-councillor Fleming, “Prestige projects not appropriate,” and the parting^ remarks of ex-councfllor Yates , were primarily intended for the electorate of Billing- ton,, in an attempt to discredit the Independent councillors of Bulington who opposed the new
; offices project and to ingratiate Mr Fleming .with the voters:
stance on this matter. Along with other Inde pendents I did everything possible to effect a rever sal of the project, but the previous council, under the leadership of ex-coun- cillor Fleming, had left this irreversible. . Only, at great cost to
I have not changed my
method by which it was achieved, almost on the eve of election day. This was a despicable way to treat the electorate. The enormous cost, in
Now is time to campaign against schooS closures
THE people of Bolton- ■
by-Bowland • have every sympathy with the people of. Bashall E a v e s. Bolton-by- Bowland village school is also under the . threat of closure by Lancashire County Council. A meeting for the pa
'and Mr Yates expect me to do under the circumst ances? The new council of fices are built, so I have to accept this. I use the offices frequently and since I am helping to pay
for.them I have no com plaint on this score. However, I do complain
the ratepayer would it have been possible, even with the consent of the new council, to reverse this decision. What do Mr Fleming
about the' timing, which was years too late and the
volving large interest pay ments over many years, must be slen as a mis take, more so with pre-, sent Government cuts and the prospect of more to follow,, along with the in troduction of legislation which tends to reduce the need for decisions to be taken locally. Although I am at pre
sent one of the Indepen dent councillors for the parish of Billington, I am also one of the electorate. To the rest of the electo rate, to coin a phrase, I commend to you the saying “Lest we forget.” COUN. FRED ELLIS, Whalley Road, Langho
Damaged three windows
A CLITHEROE girl who admitted damaging win dows was sent to the Crown Court by the town’s magistrates. Gillian Margaret Dar
ment of Employment valued at £25.66. She asked for a case of
nell (18), of Peel Park. Avenue, pleaded guilty to throwing a brick through a window in Castlegate valued at £300 and throw ing milk bottles through a window at the Depart-
d ama g i n g an o t h e r window, worth £150, in Castlegate to be taken into consideration. The magistrates stipu
ance. . .
rents, teachers and school managers with the Educa tion Sub-committee has been fixed for October 8th, but the local district councillor is not allowed to attend. ’
popular man
Tribute to a
HAVING read the report of the inquest into the tragic death of Mr Martin Bialecki, I trust that people who did hot know him, as I and many others connected with Wadding- ton Football Club knew him,' will not get a wrong impression. As president I know of
the tremendous amount of work he did for the club since he first became a player. I knew Martin for 10
v ! In spite of assurances; that nothing is -yet de
cided, t there aVe those who feel that the decision, has already been taken.: and. the meeting is only- paying lip service to the rules and observing the formalities.
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ise but say that it is now too late to save the village schools (and there are some' who say it who should know better), may I add that this country has not survived by the grace of. their negative sympathy.,
To those who sympath
‘ To those whose' village' , P a r t of _ our ..English schools are small-in num-,. heritage.
bers of pupils,' but who have not yet been ear-, marked for closure, please ■ do not be naive enough'to think you are secure. : The time to - start yout\ cam paign is now.
annual cost of running our; village school is £20,000. • Incidentally, Lancashire County Council spent something in the region of £30,000 to modernise it
I am informed that the Letters to the Editor
Bureaucracy has run
AS one of those who- voted for a blanket welfare state many years ago, may I remark on two current issues which illustrate why . I and, I’m sure others, now feel that we were wrong.
bureaucracy has run wild. We have spent more than £lm. on offices for the Ribble Valley Council and the school at Bashall Eaves is about to be closed.
Thanks to our idealism,
lated that Darnell must live with an aunt and fulfil certain conditions until her Crown Court appear
years and a more geniune man I have yet to meet. Maybe on the night of the accident he had a lot to drink, but he was no drunkard or layabout, rather a very hardwork ing father and husband well liked by everyone who came into contact with him. I am sure the coroner
years found it easier to make the customer pay rather than say no to the pay demands Of its work forces, is now learning the lesson the hard way.
Industry, which has for
not seem- to comprehend th e need to reduce bureaucracy.
The Civil Service does %
was not aware that the night of Martin’s accident was four years to the day that he and his wife, Patsy, lost their son in a tragic cot death. The almost full church
sadly missed by myself and many others.
at Martin’s funeral could be seen as a guide to how highly he was esteemed in this town. ■ Martin Bialecki will be
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A DIRECTOR of Dutton Transport, Whalley, Mr Joseph Keighley has died at the age of 74.
Nook, Dutton, started his career in the haulage bus iness at Ribchester when he was 19, with his own wagon.
Mr Keighley, of The
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He had been at Dutton
organise old-time and se- quence dances and amateur football matches in the Ribble Valley in aid of charity.
Mr Keighley helped to
the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Old Boys football team. His sons, Neville, of West Brad ford, and the late Derek, were pupils of the school. - \
He also helped to run
interment took place on S a turd ay at Knowle Green Congregational Church.
The funeral service and
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Mr Keighley
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Memorial
fund A CHEQUE for . £2,086 was presented yesterday to Christie Hospital, Man chester, by :Mr- John McGowan, of Seedall AvenuV Clitheroe, in memory ■ of ■
LETTERS for publica tion must be accom panied by name and ad dress as an indication of good faith, even if the writer wishes to use a nom-de-plume.
ernment must grow in re lation to population, but this week in taking on a young man under the “Job Creation Scheme” I have had to deal with three government departments — not individuals, depart ments. At present the lad ' is still unemployed, so for whom is it job creation?
One accepts that Gov
closing village schools and „ the stupidity and expense
Does the stupidity of
" taxis justify the conveni ence for local government officials planning their budgets?
of transporting children for hours in buses and
Communities and had fewer planners.
MICHAEL McFALL, The Heaning, Newton-in-Bowland.
are the . bane of planners. It is time we stuck to the
.Country -communities
Not the way to protect
WELL done, Ribble, Valley councillors. I couldn’t agree more with the views expressed over the closure of village schools in last week’s Ad vertiser and Times. The view of Coun. Mrs
rural areas
Sheila Maw, that a re think was needed for the council to decide whether to allow more homes to be built in villages, would be
a.first step in repopulat ing country areas and pro viding more children for rural schools. The idea of some con servationists ■
cause of the joining of two cottages to make' one. Had a limited amount of development been -al lowed, our present-day problem of school closures may not have existed. ' The education Authori
allowing development in country areas is protect ing rural England — is, in my view, destroying it. • In many villages the housing accommodation during the last 15 years will have gone down-be
— that not
/ It is never'too'late to juste five> years (•ago."-' A fight for what you believe!}, small price toupay, 'I is right. ’ A .
; ' Finally, may. I , say ■ that if the. people who meet th e se c o s ts ' —, th e ratepayers — had .to
should'have thought, for a- .
• the. closure of our .village schools, I have no doubt what their choice would- be.
.choose between ;• a reduc tion in administration Or
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COUN. MRS JOYCE LILBURN, White Cottage, Bolton-by-BowIand.
Where are you now?
I AM trying to contact as many of my contem poraries at the Clitheroe Boys’ Grammar School as possible for the purposes, of a reunion later this year. , We left 25 years ago
after A levels, though of course some of our class mates left a couple of years earlier after O levels. One of the really sur
prising things about those I have been able to con tact is the fact that they have been outside the UK. Mike Hartley, who was
An honour for John
SLAIDBURN Silver Band’s conductor Mr John Cowking enjoyed mixed .fortunes in a contest at Settle on Sunday.
other local bands, the Slaidburn musicians failed to win a prize. But Mr Cowking, who is also the band’s secretary, was
Competing against 11
at the end of the contest. As a reminder of the
ucting the massed bands Drill stolen fiven the honour of con-
occasion, Mr Cowking re ceived a baton and book token from contest ad judicator Mr Richard Evans, conductor of Ley- land Vehicles Band.
Morecambe and Heysham Band.
The contest was won by
receiving the baton from Mr Evans.
Mr Cowking is pictured
head boy, is a doctor in Canada, Robin Parker, formerly captain of foot ball, was in West Ger many and another two. Terence Eastwood and Tom Wood in N’
land and the Yemen. I have not been able to
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establish any contact with any -boys still around Clitheroe and there must be quite a few. I would be most happy
R. MITCHELL, High Moor House, Green Lane, Welton, Lincoln.
TWO Slaidburn farm steads and over 100 acres o f . grassland have been sold by auction to five separate purchasers for a total of £102,000. Ramsclough farmstead
to hear from anyone wish ing to join the reunion.
A DRILL worth £400 was stolen from Dugdale’s new site at Salthill Quarry -last week. The 110-volt drill is green Bosch rotary
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with 9.308 acres of land, nearby Simfield farmstead with ju s t .over three acres, and the remainder of 103 acres of grassland were sold by Clitheroe au ctioneers John Pallister in five separate lots. The previous owner,
C.A.V. White, is leaving the area.
‘Down Under’ trip for YFC member
ty, instead of promoting these country .schools to people who may wish to send their children to schools with smaller num bers, threatens them with closure and blatantly dis courages anyone from wanting to send their chil dren to them.
Valley councillors,' let’s have some action to back your words.
So come on, Ribble
DAVID HOWARD, Fat Hill Farm, Bolton-by-Bowland.
Why all this fuss?
ONE is rather surprised at the amount of space devoted in last week’s paper to the proposed clo sure of Bashall Eaves Primary School. Why all the fuss? On page 4 there was. a photograph of a charming
Memories of
fell races needed
I AM gathering material for a book on fell racing. Any profit from it will go to the Fell Runners’ As- socialion, a ' non-profit making organisation con cerned with amateur fell racing.
garet," who died- from cancer three years ago. - i Mr McGowan started
his wife Mar
•the cheque -from" Mr McGowan.
' ‘ ■ The fund has now- been closed;? The money was
, ’
•raised: thro u gh- lo c a l /events’
•amount ‘ came from :;, em ployees’ of ■ Woolworth’s, for’: whom^Mrs' McGowan ■worke'd at Clitheroe.
- and a' considerable
the fund to pay for im provements to patients’ amenities,’ - new' specialised equipment :• and ; research work. ■ ' , :. Consultant radiotherap ist Dr Deakin received
, . [ require results (and . any other material) of. the Pendleton fell• race prior to 1970, also any infor mation on the old profes sional race which 1 belive went: on to Wisivell Moor • and alternated bi-annual-
;;lu i between; Pendleton and Wiswell.
■ area; particularly j from- S la i dbur n, Neioton,
■ I -J would also be in- : terested in any other old fell races'in the Clitheroe
„Dunsop Bridge, and . High ■ Bentham, and ,in:'results . of, the Nicky-. Nook, fell race ivliich used to,be run; from the Garstang Shoiv.
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young lady whom it.was stated was educated at Moorland School, , but no mention of Bashall Eaves School, why?.
on page 4 the same gent leman who is a governor of Bashall Eaves School and is quoted elsewhere in the paper?-
Is the parent mentioned
Ribble Valley councillors done their homework? How many teachers etc are involved for the 18 pupils?
F u r th e r , have the A LOCAL
Clitheroe (name and address supplied).
tion, Mr Henry Backhouse, of Clough Bottom Farm, replies: ‘^Eighteen pupils at a school may not seem very many to someone living in a-town,' but this is 10 per cent; of our vil lage population: ■
9 The governor in ques
Fined for illegal
angling
. career at • Bashall Eaves School there were 30. The - numbers fluctuate.
when, m y : d au g h te r , Helen; started -her school
“Also, 20 years ago
, line of thought in Lanca shire County Council that •big'.is beautiful. • Educa tionally I can’t agree. But- . big is certainly proving to
There' is obviously
THREE youths caught fishing'.: illegally in the Ribble at Chatburn were each fined £10, plus £5 costs on both summonses.' ' P e te r Lapicki, of
Ju b i le e T e r ra c e , Clitheroe;
-.Derrick Pinch,
-be i powerful and .small in dividual - village. ! com-, munities are
finding.it dif ficult to remain viable.'
‘for’success.” >. !> el
.’proved ; time,.;: and ? .again that , the . oppressor, , like the- bully,,
-.relies - on’'‘size;
§ ”, “But then'history, hast
. ‘ Lapicki;and:Collins',said} in,letters to^the' piitherqe
6 f. -.T a y 1 o r, i- S t r e e t , Clitheroe; and Roger Stephen .- Collins'; , of - Hill- : crestsRoad/^Langho,;: pleaded guilty.'’ They,*also admitted gangling . m,',pri-', vate waters.
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; warning iigns ’ and . they! had been, fishing .only for- sport. There .had- been;no; intention to steal fish.' . ’ ’
court ■ thatithere t,were #no'< ‘
A MEMBER of Clitheroe Club, John Hartley, flew Sunday for a six-week visit.
with his father, Mr Bryan Hartley, at Mason House Farm, Bashall Eaves, was selected for the trip under a Silver Jubilee award scheme, because of work done for his club and the national Young Farmers’ movement. Sharing the award with
John (26), who farms
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John is Young Farmers’ county queen Linda Gard ner, of Great Eccleston. They will stay with var
ious farming families in Australia, - their first stop being Perth, where they will attend an agricultural show. John hopes to return on
October 30th. , Good wishes -to John
were ex p re s sed by Clitheroe YFC chairman Richard Whitwell at a business meeting which followed a visit to In gham’s stock feeders, at Whitebirk..
Ma r ty n B r is to l and. Andrew Jackson on suc cesses in the regional stockman of the year contest. ^ The 60 members who
He also congratulated ,
IN a sale of 212 accre dited newly-calved cows and heifers at Gisburn on Thursday, Friesian cows made to- £580 (average £445) and heifers to £590 (£435). , J. Shuttleworth and
Son showed both winning cows, which made £520 each, and the winning heifers were shown by J. Knowles (£590) and J. Howard (£540). T h e -416 accredited
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visited Inghams saw all the mill processes and were en te r ta in ed to supper by their hosts. Martyn Bristol’s vote of-
thanks was seconded by Timothy Hartley.
: (£31.30); heifers to £64 (£41.50). Weaned beef bulls averaged £155. Thirty store pigs made
calves sold as follows: Friesian bulls to £91 (£59.90), heifers to £66 (£39), Hereford X bulls to £104\ (£88.20)’, heifers to £102 (£44.10), Charolais X bulls to £140 (£107.40) heifers to £106 (£78.50) An g u s ' bul l s : to £55
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