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18 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 26th, 19S1
Whalley pupils’ SOS for a classroom
THIRTY-FIVE pupils at Whalley CE School have had to abandon their clas sroom because of fumes escaping from a faulty flue.
with the youngsters di-. vided between another classroom and an adjoin-, ing cloakroom; The conditions are de-
mission is coming
CLITHEROE’S Castle Field will be the venue in May for a “tent mission” — an evangelistic campaign using a giant portable marquee for meetings.
“Invitation to Live,” is being arranged by North ern Counties Outreach, a small organisation com m i t ted to C h r is t ian evangelism in the North of England and based near Chorley.
The mission, entitled
will take place between May 9th and 24th, with meetings nightly, except Mondays, at 8 p.m.
will be Mr Duncan Leigh ton, of Clayton-le-Woods, who founded the NCO in 1973. The campaign will also
Evangelist in charge The Clitheroe campaign
Clitheroe, who is using her home as a temporary campaign office. Treasurer Mr Gordon
tecostal Church, under its minister, Pastor Dale Mason, has contributed £ 100. Mr Onslow stressed
Onslow, making an appeal for donations, said that about £800 would have to be raised by interested churches and individuals in order to finance the campaign adequately. Already Clitheroe Pen
Lessons are carrying on:
scribed as “cramped and unsatisfactory” by head master Mr Colin Arm
: He is trying to find al ternative accommodation in the village for the class because it could be some weeks before the flue can be repaired. It is con nected to an oil-fired cent ral heating boiler, which cannot be switched off and inspected until the weather becomes warmer. Mr Arm strong ex
strong.
Jail for ‘mocking’ community
service order
A CLITHEROE man who twice failed to fulfil the terms, of a community service order was jailed by the town’s magistrates.
Whipp Avenue, was given two concurrent three- month sentences. Stevenson had reported
plained that intermittent smells had been noticed in the classroom — one of eight at the school — at the end of last year. “But two weeks ago the
the school hall proved such a disruption that some of the youngsters eventually had to join another class, with the overflow being accommo dated in a cloakroom. The school governors
fumes became really bad and I had to make other teaching arrangements,” he said. “I have been as sured that the fumes were not toxic and there was no danger to the chil dren.” Teaching the class in
include children’s meet ings, to be held in the tent on Monday to Friday between 6 and 7 p.m. The main Tuesday and Friday meetings will also be specifically for young people. A committee to co-ordi
nate planning for the mis sion locally has been set up under the chairman ship of Whalley Methodist minister the Rev. Graham Vickers. S e c re ta ry is Mrs
that no collections would be taken during the tent meetings and no team members would receive a salary. A pre-campaign service
for anyone interested in the mission will be held at Trinity Methodist Church on April 4th, at 7-30 p.m. Mr Leighton will speak and slides of previous NCO missions will be shown. Local prayer meetings
Brian Stevenson (21), of .
for work on only three out of seven occasions and Mr .- David Yorke (presiding)' told: him: “That is not good enough. It amounts to a mockery of the com munity service.” The bench withdrew
jail sentences as an alter native.
two community service orders and imposed the
ficer Mr John Chapman said two orders were , made last October. Both
Community Services of
were for 240 hours’ ser vice over a period of 12 months, to run concur rently, for stealing bicy
cles. Only 20 hours had been
completed and he asked for the. orders to be re voked and for Stevenson to be dealt with as for the original offences. Mr Stephen Barker (de
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The Lancashire Coil cil have made t| Order under Secticl Road Traffic Regil 1967, as amended T of which will be:
i) To revoke the t | (V a r iou s Clitheroe) (Red Waiting) Order insofar as it rele| length of the side of York Clitheroe, from i| with Back York | point 123 mefi yards) north-el junction with! Street.
have agreed that the clas sroom is not fit to use and Whalley Parish Council has written voicing con cern about the situation to the Ribble Valley’s Dis trict Education Officer, Mr David Staton.
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Christine Ormerod, of 14 S om e rse t . Avenue,
and special counselling classes are also being ar ranged in connection with the mission. Further de tails can be obtained from Mr Vickers (Tel. Whalley 2130).
RIBCHESTER man Dr Kevin Pavey has a date in the big city on Sunday, when he competes in the London Marathon run with 7,500'competitors. It will be good practice
FORTY youngsters in Whalley CE School’s choir hit the high notes at the Skipton Music Festival. They won the junior school section and brought back the TSB Savings Bank Cup to show off to their class mates. The success comes
for Dr Pavey’s 26-mile sponsored ran in May to raise money for sports facilities for the hand icapped.
soon after having to be content with second spot in the same section at the re c en t Burnley Music Festival.
composing mainly third and fourth-year pupils, are drawn from the 70-
The festival singers, \
strong school choir. Conductress is Mrs
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Dinah Winterbottom and accompanist Mrs Ann Osliffe and Mrs: -Pat Duxey. ■
cal theme, a party of 50 children and parents from the school are going to the Palace Theatre, Manchester, today to watch a per formance of “ Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Continuing the musi
Church bequest will buy new sound system
at least — its back to rehearsals for a festival at Wigan in a fortnight.
Dance raises £105 for Mayor’s fund Then —4 for, the choir
A FORMER Clitheroe woman’s £500 bequest to the town’s parish church will be used to pay for the new sound amplification system, the PCC has decided.
— sister of Lancashire au thoress Jessica Lofthouse — died last year and left similar bequests to St L e o n a rd ’s Church,; Langho and Blackburn Cathedral. The Lofthouse family
Miss Annie Lofthouse
lived in Brennand Street, Clitheroe, for many years and was always actively involved with/ the parish church — the sisters’ father as a bell ringer for many years and their mother as a teacher at the Sunday School. They left the town at
GISBURN AUCTION MART
AT Gisbum Auction Mart on Thursday there were 63 accre dited newly-calved cows and, heifers forward in the dairy section.
Prizes for accredited cows
went to R. Drinkall £635) and G. Moorhouse (£580) and heifer prizes to T. Shu tt lewo r th (£530) and M. Smith (£535).
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SOME 100 members of the Ribble Valley Coun cil, the local branch of
Nalgo and guests at
te n d ed th e second annual buffet dance, jointly organised by the council and the union, at the Sandpiper, Whalley.
sounding success and raised £105 for the Ribble Valley Mayoris charity appeal fund.
The evening was a re The Mayor, Coun.
Miss Agnes Melling, is pictured with a group of the guests.
Planning controls to be
relaxed MEASURES allowing greater freedom to build extensions to houses and factories without planning permission comes into effect from April 1st. The relaxation of con
■ church, which is due to be re-opened at Easter.
To coach Unider-23 side
ASSISTANT bursar at Stonyhurst College, Mr Richard Greenwood, has been appointed coach to the England underr23 rugby team. A wing forward, Mi-
garages and coachhouses only count towards any restriction on extensions if they are within five metres of a house. For industrial buildings,
thority will be needed for extensions covering more than half a garden or higher than four metres. From April, private
trols will mean th a t houses can be extended by up to 15 per cent with out permission. (The pre sent limit is 10 per cent). At the same time, au
Greenwood (39) was capped five times in 1969 u n t i l an eye in ju ry brought his international career to a premature end. This week he is in
"Lane, Langho, continued to maintain an interest in the church’s affairs. . Canon John Hudson, vicar of Clitheroe,. said everyone at thd church was very grateful for the bequest and a new am plification system would give a great boost to .the
the beginning o f 'th e second world war, but the sisters, who lived in York
Prices for Friesian, covj-s
went to £650 and averaged £493 and Friesian heifers made to £635 (£494).
Six accredited animals were
forward in the in-calf section, BW springers making to £498 and BIV April calvers to £490.
mals forward. Friesian bulls made to £90 (£38.90), heifers to £55 (£30.60), Hereford X bulls to £115 (£59.30), heifers to £72 (£35.90), Charolais X bulls to £162 (£105), heifers to £86 (£58.10), Angus bulls to £75 (£35.20), heifers to £41 (£31).
The calf section had 33 ani Weaned Friesian bulls aver
aged £140 and beef X heifers averaged £il0.
At. the sale of in-pig gilts,
sows and store pigs, there were 52 animals forward, with s to re pigs making to £27 (£25.06).
Forward in the fatstock sec
tion were 238 cattle, 509 sheep and 17 pigs.
■ Certified clean cattle: Light steers made to 105p (91.7p), medium‘ to 98p (91p), and heavy to 92p (86.8p). Light heifers made to 107p (90.3p), medium to 99.5p (89.5p) and heavy to 93p (90.8p). Uncertified and previously
certified cattle: Young bulls made to 108p (92.4p), light steers! to 88.5p (85p) and medium to 92p (87. Ip). Light heifers made to 88p
charge of the college team competing in Rosslyn Park’s national schools’ sevens. Said’ Mr Greenwood,
who s t i l l plays and coaches Preston Gras shoppers: “I am flattered to be offered the job. I regard it as highly impor tant in the preparation of future England teams.”
nificantly cut down plan ning applications for small extensions, give individu als more freedom to extend their own proper ties and reduce the burden on planning au thorities.
Flower Club
THE ladies — and one gentleman — of Clitheroe Flower Club . raised £67; for their funds when they; held a coffee morning in the Mayor’s Parlour., •);, Organised by the com
mittee, including sole male member Mr Norman Newby, of Sabden, stalls sold bric-a-brac and cakes. There was a tombola, a
raffle and a guessing com petition, won by Jill Coaiv Coffee was ser-ed by Mrs Esther Aubin.
, the pub’s football team, which plays in; the .first' division of. "the 'Ribble Valley Football League:. ..
A PRIZE bingo. evening a t th e Royal . Oak, Clitheroe, raised £70 for
: and,': after 10 successful-; rounds of Britain’s favour- . ite numbers game,’every-, one 'tucked into; a hot-pot supper. hey:
• Despite bad weather, there ;was a good - turnout.,
go towardsthe general running .costs of the; foot
ball team.'-'. > v? ., J ', Some of the bingo play ers • are . pictured -^before settling; down tto; the. .10-
Ttie^money-;raised-*wjll, tgame session.-;.-, -
the permitted extension is to be doubled to 20 per cent, with a new max imum increase in floor area of 750 sq. metres. The measures will sig
A threat to TV
viewing
TELEVISION viewers who receive poor signals in the hilly parts of the Ribble Valley eventually look- like -facing blank screens — or big bills to set up their own aerial or relay station!
proposed to stop transmit ting black and . white pic tures and concentrate on signals for colour recep tion.
Within five years, it is
the Newton area fear this would mean the end of viewing for them because the surrounding fells only allow th ro u g h th e threatened black and white signals.
At least two families in
just BBC1 and ITV. Said mother-of-two Mrs
Storth Farm, and their neighbours Mr and Mrs Fred Lawson, of Meanley Farm, even now receive
The Schofields, of
Sponsored sisters
prepare to step out
TWO Clitheroe sisters are setting out on a sp o n so re d '.' Good Friday trek — and keen walkers are in vited to join them. Planning to leave
June Schofield: “We only really watch television in the winter, but to lose all the programmes would be te r r ib le .” Mrs Edith Lawson added: “Televi sion is one of life’s plea sures and I would not like to be without it.”
taken up by Newton Parish Council.
Their case is to be
in the BBC’s engineers department gave . an as surance this week that there was no immediate danger to' television re- ceptioif in the Newton area.
However, a spokesman
was intended to close down all 405 line system transmitters producing black and • white pictures by 1986.
hoggs made to 174.5p (154.5p), standard to 170.5p (165.1p), medium to 171.5p (164p) and heavy to 158p (151.7p). Light shearlings made to
(8 1 .Ip ) , medium to 85.5p (81.4p) and heavy to 85p (82.6p). Fat cows made to 79p (66p) and fat bulls to 74.5p (69.7p). In the sheep section, light
But he admitted that it
Clitheroe at 9 a.m. to cover 15 miles are Mrs Esther Clark, of Salthill View, and Mrs Margaret McKen na, of Salthill Road. . Money raised by the walk will go towards the fund for the Inter national Year of Dis abled People. “We just want to.
ii) To prohibit the I vehicles betvf hours of 9 a.m. to a period not] 2 hours (return I within one houl length of road s| the schedule! Notice.
Clergymen first to sign
petition THREE 'local clergymen were the first people to put their names on a World Disarmament Cam paign petition launched in Clitheroe. "
months leaflets will be going to every home in the town explaining the campaign and this will be followed by visits from volunteers urging people to sign the petition.
and is now an officer in the local St John Ambulance. Being keen walkers,
two y e a r s , Mrs McKenna used to work at Brockhall
141.5p (140.6p), overweight av eraged 103.5p, uncertified hoggs made to £32.20 (£23.30) and fat ewes to £40 (£25.10). Pigs: Porkers made to 61p
(60.3p), baconers to 64p (62.3p) and fat sows to £95 (£7o).
plained the spokesman, the two solutions to poor reception in areas like Newton were both very expensive. One would be to site an
aerial on a hill and cable the signal down to the valley; the other answer being , a small relay station.
Full house at Royal Oak
been in use since the 1930’s and would be gradually replaced by the 625 line colour systems. Unfor tunately, ex
These transmitters had
help people who can’t, help themselves,” said Mrs Clarke (60), a nurse at Clitheroe' Hospital. ' Her elder sister by
calls on governments to halt the arms race and bring about complete world disarmament, is being handled locally by the Clitheroe One World Group.
The campaign which '
the sisters are confi dent of completing the distance. “ We have both
• session on disarmament next year.
in joining the sisters on their walk should ring Mrs Clarke (tel. 25870) or Mrs McKen- ■ na (tel. 26744).
walked many miles on the wards, so this effort should not be too much trouble,’’ added Mrs Clarke. Anyone interested
Pendle Club
WINNERS' at Clitheroe Pendle Club’s bridge ses sion were: Mrs A. Barker and Mr T. Adey, Mr C. Hill and Mr F. Walker.
Clitheroe Group, Mr Colin Scott, of St Paul’s Close, launched the petition at St James’s Rectory, on Friday, where the Rev. Kenneth Broadhurst' was ■ the first to sign followed by Fr Willoughby of SS Michael and John’s and Clitheroe Methodist' Cir cuit minister, the Rev. James Needham.
The chairman of the
working closely together in the campaign and vol unteers from St James’s are delivering leaflets throughout their parish this week.
Local . churches are
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hundreds of millions of people across the world will have signed the peti tion which will be submit ted to a United Nations
By the end of the year During the next few’
The Order will c| emptions to allow > wait for as long a| necessary to enabll be loaded onto or| from the vehicle, \ persons to board to enable it to b| connection with arl operation or dernJ the maintenance o| services. A copy of the Orde may be inspected I fices of the Ribll Borough Council Walk, Clitheroe anf Church Precinct, C l Preston during noi| hours. Any person wishing tion the validity of T may, within six wef| 30th March, 1981 a l High Court for that r
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