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A CLITHEROE doctor certainly found a “holi day with a difference” when she spent nearly three weeks trekking round the Himalayas. For Dr Aqne Huson
where she was asked to treat a boy with a badly cut head, she had the whole village look
was th e . official tour • doctor for her party in Nepal and had to cope with quite a few minor emergencies from both injured walkers and Himalayan villagers. In one small place,
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ing on as she adminis tered the bandages. “There. was such a
friendly community spirit in these tiny vil lages that when any thing happened every one came to watch. “It was the first time
I’ve had such an in terested audience,” said Dr Huson, who is based at Clitheroe Health Centre ,and lives in Grindleton Road, West Bradford. Dr Huson and her
friends had to cope with heatwaves during
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PG John’s save of the season
GOALKEEPER John Barber made the save of his life on Saturday . . . and, thanks to him, team mate Ken Mantle is alive to tell the tale.
It happened in a match
’ knocked unconscious and lay choking on his tongue. It was then that John
— the village PC at Newton — dashed upfield to take control. He winded Ken in the stomach to try and re lease the air and, when that failed, he put his fin gers in Ken’s mouth to free his tongue. The incident has led to
League officials for better first aid facilities at local amateur games.
PC Barber (31), who
learned first aid as part of his police training, said: “It was just lucky that I was playing at all — my duty shift was cancelled at the last minute.”
increased pressure from Ribble Valley Football
at Chatburn, when 30- year-old Ken, of Newton ^Street, Clitheroe, was
Back at his job with a
packaging machine man ufacturing company in Burnley and none the worse for the experience, father-of-two Ken said: “I am lucky to be alive. “All I remember is
going up for a high ball and being elbowed in the face. Everything that fol lowed is a blank. “When I woke up, I
was being earned into an ambulance. X-rays were taken at Burnley General Hospital and I was al lowed home the same
evening. My face is quite sore, but thankfully there is no permanent damage. Ken, a former pupil of
Ribblesdale School, is in his first season with West Bradford after playing for Clitheroe’s Waggon and Horses pub team since its formation. PC Barber has played
IT’S “thumbs up” from Ken (right) and the man who saved his life, PC Barber
for West Bradford for four seasons.
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vice-chairman Mr Ralph Aspinwall said he dreaded to think what would have happened if PC Barber had not been there when Ken started choking. “No- one else had a clue about’ what to do,” he added. .
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m m . m m “We are all very grate
ful to PC Barber for hiS prompt action, but such emergencies could be av oided if team trainers had a basic knowledge of what to do in such circumst ances.
Staff
ball Association runs reg ular instruction courses and Hopefully this, incident will open trainers’ eyes to the fact that they need more than a damp sponge to look after a team prop erly.”
“The Lancashire Foot
that first-aid staff should be provided by the Ribble Valley Council, in ex change for part of each team’s £6 annual subscrip tion.
Mr Aspinwall also felt But Borough Engineer
Mr Dennis Black said that he had never heard of a local authority providing first aid staff in such cir cumstances. ’
Modest
recreation centres such as the Ribblesdale Pool are fully trained in first aid, but at soccer matches it is up to the league or teams themselves to . provide such facilities. As for the annual fee, all that is taken up by the cost of pitch hire and training fees."
“All our staff at public
his life-saving technique, PC Barber agreed that there was clearly a need for people with a basic knowledge of first aid to attend matches.
“The LFA courses are
an • answer to the prob lem,” he said, “as would be a course of basic in struction at school.”
• It was not all good
fortune for PC Barber on the afternoon of the match, however. The scores were blank when the incident occurred and play was held up for about 15 minutes while an ambulance was called. •
But West Bradford
ended up losing 4-0 to a Chatburn side which is well on course for the first division champion ship.
THERE was plenty of hot air about at Waddington Social Club on Saturday night, as seven teams of diehard ‘blowhards made sure that a football tour nament with a- difference was a full-blown success. Blow football was the
'name of the/_game"'and four-foot pipes were in op eration as the teams fought their way through
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three rounds of keen com petition. ■
, Eventual winner was a
’N u t ta l l and David Burgess. Referee for the ’ final w'as Waddington FC first teamer Eric Geldard. . Organiser Mr Campbell
team skippered by Helen Swift and including Ian
• Barker, chairman'of Wad dington FC’s . social com- . mittee and donor of the
,“a laugh a second”, and said that it . was hoped to have further such compete itions later in the year. Pictured getting the
champions’ trophy, de scribed the tournament as
wind up for the competi tion are: (from' the left) Campbell Barker, ’Eric' Geldard,' Chris Stewart,' Ian/ Nutjtall, ■
■ David Burgess and John Hosty.
On display at library
PAINTINGS by Black, burn artist Mr J. L._ Riley and a display by the Pre ston Society for Genealo gy arid Heraldry are on show at Whalley Library until a week on Saturday.
Although modest about
Canoe trio look on bright side
THREE Clitheroe teenage canoeists had some thing of a disastrous time when they rep resented England in a white water youth inter national in West Germany.
Michael Bentley (16), of
Salthill View and Wendy Wilson (18), of Pimlico Road, both capsized in their respective under-18 three-mile races and 16- year-old Mark Mashiter, of Langshaw Drive, had the misfortune of losing the spray deck off his canoe
just a minute after the start.
PRESIDENT OF SHOW
A READ man, Mr Jack Bell, is the president of this year’s Great Harwood show,
Clitheroe Division MP Mr David Waddington, who held the office in 1979 and 1980. The show takes place on Spring Bank Holiday Monday, May 25th. One of the classes which has been rein troduced is for heavy horses.
su c c e ed in g But, although disap
pointed at their lack of success, the teenagers were this week far from despondent. - “It was just one of those things,” said Mark, “We were very disap pointed to fare so badly, especially Michael, who was up with the. leaders when his canoe capsized. But we are looking for ward to further competi tions in Europe later in the summer.”
Mark is studying at
Ribblesdale School and Wendy at St Mary's Col lege, Blackburn, Michael is an apprentice bricklay er with a , Clayton-le- Moors firm.
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They are all members of the Accrington club of the British Canoe Union and practise regularly on C lith e ro e ’s Primrose Lodge.
RIBBLE VALLEY coun cillors are not quite- sure how to mark the Royal Wedding in July. After considering tree
planting and an essay competition for school children^ the Policy and Resources Committee is to “think again” before its next meeting. Chief Executive Mr
the d a y . and below freezing temperatures at night, when they slept in sleeping bags and tents. Their Sherpa guides
did the cooking as well as leading them along the narrow, rocky paths of the mountain ous Himalayan terrain. ’ Most of the 18-day
tour was in the Lang- tang Valley, north of Katmandu, and Dr Huson .was so impre ssed with the breath taking scenery and fr ien d l in e s s o f the
people th a t she is hoping to return next year. Other highlights of
the trip were visits to Buddhist monasteries and a tiny cheese fac tory where she stocked up with the local deli cacy — yak cheese. She also spent some
(enough during her one night’s stay in Agra to see the Taj Mahal by moonlight.
time in Katmandu and the holiday1 ended with a brief visit to India, where she was lucky
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CLITHEROE Town Council’s annual meeting on Tuesday will see Coun. Bob Ainsworth — Mayor from 1977 to 1980 — in stalled in the office for the fourth time. He wall head a proces
sion from, the Starkie Arms Hotel to the Town Hall for the meeting at noon, returning to the hotel for lunch after the ceremony. The present Mayor,
Coun. Leo Wells, who would normally have com pleted a second year, is stepping down because of work commitments. His deputy, Coun. Mrs
April snowshowers bring a weekend of chaos
IT’S hard to believe, but just a week before this photograph of the snowbound Nick of Pendle was taken, Easter holidaymakers were basking there in the sunshine. Last weekend’s freak
turned, blocking many of the elevated country roads and for a short time the A59 at the Coronation Hotel, just outside Gis- burn, was impassable. At Sabden, the only
blizzard left Clitheroe comparatively unaffected, but some outlying villages were completely cut off, hundreds of consumers were left without .electric
way in and out of the village was by 'Whalley Road, other routes — over The Nick, Black Hill
and White Hill — being all deep in snow, which was not cleared until Monday. Most ■ youngsters at a
ity and farmers were counting the cost of night mare conditions at the height of the lambing. Clitheroe people woke
on Thursday to find the surrounding hills blank eted in white, ■ but the snow soon cleared in the
disco in Slaidburn on Friday managed to reach home safely, though some had to stay with friends in
the village. The Whitewell-Dunsop
sunshine. On F r id a y th e snow r e
Bridge route remained open' and by Saturday, the other roads were clear. Workmen were ■ hoping to clear the road
through the Trough of Bowland on Tuesday. It was a nightmare
weekend for Norweb. At one time there were 230 electrical faults in the Board’s area — more than Customer Service en gineer Mr Colin Shaw can ever remember. In the struggle to keep
ful when people tele phoned to tell us where overhead lines were down,” said Mr Shaw.
pace with all the prob lems, men had to be drafted in from other areas and a helicopter was used to repair overhead lines in remote places. “We found it very help
ties, both sheep and lambs, but the true extent of the damage will not be known until the animals high on Pendle can be reached. In addition to casualties
among the sheep, the farm lost about 1,700 chicks when incubators housing 16,000 birds were cut off from the power supply. Mr Roy Gill said that the full extent of the loss would not be known for a few days, as more chicks were dying each day from the effects of the cold. Conditions were equally
. At Rattenclough Farm, Sabden, on Saturday, the Gill family had to dig out 60 sheep on the moorland.- There were some casual-
chaotic at’Tosside, where about 18 inches of snow fell. In many areas drifts were level with the tops of walls. The area’s milk
tanker could not get through and the village postman had to thumb a lift home on a tractor! Mr Peter Goodill, of
Meadow Top Farm, had a hair-raising time trying to reach home after collect ing his two toddlers from nursery in Clitheroe. • Continued on page 12.
Barbara Speak, will be reinstated in that office because she feels she has insufficient council experi ence to take on the role of first citizen.
Coun. Ainsworth's plan
ned retirement from his n ewsa gent’s shop at Shawbridge — and a six- month winter trip with his wife, Doris, to visit old friends in Australia — have been put off for the moment. Mr Alan Clarke, Station
Officer at Clitheroe Fire Station, was hoping to take over the business, but had to pull out of the deal, being unable to sell his house. Coun. Ainsworth has no
plans for a Mayormaking dinner.
NO RISE
> RIBBLE VALLEY coun cillors have ruled out a rise in their allowances.
Although the national
maximum has been raised to £14 in any 24 hours, members of the Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee recom mended to keep their allo wances the same.
to four hours and £1 for an additional hour up to a maximum of £13.28.
These are £6.50 for up
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Michael Jackson said he hesitated to make positive suggestions because he anticipated • that members would not wish to spend a lot of money to mark the big day. ' He thought that the
planting of a tree might be suitable, though he confessed that the idea vras “unimaginative.”
- Coun. Jimmy Fe ll (Whalley) put forward the essay scheme “to involve school children and make the Ribble Valley more united.”
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Chain mail order keeps Valerie’s needles clicking
SCHOOL teacher Valerie McDonald has been knitting madly'for the past few weeks to complete a ratner tall order she has set herself — knitting chain mail! The reason is that
seven sets of “armour” are required for the cast of C lith e ro e P a r ish Church Pjayers’ produc tion of “St Joan,” to be staged in the church'.on May 7th, 8th and 9th. Mrs McDonald, . of
C o n w a y Av en ue, Clitheroe, has designed and made the 'helmets, while helpers have been knitting against time to
complete the “legs.” The “chain mail” is
time. The finished work will be painted grey and sprayed silver to look like metal. The play, produced‘by Margaret Smith, starts at
. 7-30 p.m. Tickets can be obtained from- members of the cast or at the door. M?s McDonald, who is
art assistant at Clitheroe Royah Grammar School, has been designing and making costumes for the past 12 years. In Febru ary she won third place in a national competition for theatrical costume design. Our picture shows. Mrs
McDonald trying the chain mail on Rachel Scott, who plays St Joan,
'.while Miss Valerie Parker’ (left) keeps the. needles clicking.
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