Clitheroe
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THURSDAY, MAY 13th, 1982 No. 5,002 Price 17p
THE Kaydee book shop, Clitheroe, is
changing hands, but
there will be no big upheaval at the shop and no jobs are to be
lost. Clitheroe Chamber of
Trade president Mr Roy Dewhurst, who has run
''the shop since 1955 with his wife Betty, has sold the business to a com pany which will officially take over on July 7th.
Mr Dewhurst (50) said that the new owners
wanted to remain anony mous for the moment. “But they ask me to stress that they are not
. a national chain and that all the local links built up over the years will be retained,” said Mr De whurst.
Manageress will be'
.Mrs Shirley Broadhurst, wife of the Rev. Ken neth Broadhurst, Rector of St James’s Church, C l ith e ro e , until he moved to Leyland in February. -
Mrs Broadhurst has
worked at the .Kaydee for 12 . years, the last two as manageress of the book section.
Mr Dewhurst said: “ I feel like a change of di rection and just want to take stock of things.”
As to his own future, Mr Dewhurst is vice-
chairman of the Black burn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley District Health Authority and will be continuing this work. When he took over the business there was
‘Fair shares’ at council
AN appeal for Clitheroe members to be given a bigger say in the running of the Ribble Valley Council was turned down
this week. ' Four Clitheroe council- town Mayor Coun. John
lors — two Independent Cowgill, and Labour coun- and two L ab ou r — cillors Harry Chapman
think was turned down at .Tuesday’s annual meeting of the council. Council leader Harry
he wanted a more influen-* tial position. Joining Coun. Ains
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worth in a protest over the proposed allocation of committee posts for the new c iv ic year. was. another Independent, new
pleaded in vain for the and Brian Braithwaite. ................................. Of 14 chairmanships and vice-chairmanships recommended by the ruling Tory .group, only one went to a Clitheroe member — Coun. Cow- gill. He was named vice- chairman of the Finance
town to be given better representation on the council’s committees and outside bodies. Their request for a re
______________________ Coun. Cowgill rejected he should apply to join complaints made at last gil) suggested that two the ruling Tory group"if
Riding (Longridge) told Goun. Bob Ainsworth that
that the Clitheroe mem- bers were being parochial. He said: “ I must stress
week’s council meeting
that I am proud to be a Clitheronian and to repre sent the town on thfs council. I want to see Clitheroe taking a full and
and General Purposes Sub committee.
active part in council af fairs. But it’s not paroc hialism that is causing such dissension, it’s petty party politics.” As Clitheroe elected a
quarter of the Ribble Valley councillors, he felt two more members should be included on the Policy and Resources Commit tee, and proposed Couns. Ainsworth and Bert Jones. In addition, Coun. Cow ill suggested that two
Clitheroe members — Coun. Mrs Beryl Cassidy
and Coun. Ainsworth — should go on the respec tive grammar school boards to replace Coun. James . Fell (girls) and Coun. Mrs Myra “ Clegg (boys).
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DOGS of all shapes and sizes, ’ from - chihuahuas to alsatians,' tackled a six- mile course with great en thusiasm' on the sponsored dog walk organised by the- Rotary Club of Clitheroe. .The six miles from Clitheroe to Grindleton
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1 the Morrell; family, of Sid- . dows Avenue, Clitheroe,-, it was quite a feat to finish. -
When John and Vera
Morrell, and daughter Debbie (seen with Tina and Sally) completed the course they received a round of applause from the organisers for the effort.
About 50 people took
part in the walk and everyone finished. The club is hoping that about £500 has been raised, which will be divided bet ween the Ribble Valley •Hospice Appeal and the Pendle Club improvement fund.
■ ' Mr Peter Nuttall, chair
man of the, club’ s com-. munity services commit- ■ tee, which organised the walk, praised the generos
ity of B. Dugdale and Son for sponsoring the event and giving a bag of dog food to every entrant.
presented to the adult and young person who raised the most sponsorship money. Mr Thomas Hoyle, of Rogersfield, Langho, raised-just over £100 and Steven Pozzi, of Barrow, £45.
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- “No disrespect is in
tended to either Mrs Clegg or Coun. Fell, but this idea would give us wider representation and would help stop this so called dissension,” he said. Coun. Chapman felt it
was unfair that Goun. Fell should be on three council committees and a rep resentative on eight out side bodies, which was overdoing it. “ I’m not trying to cause
dissension or disharmony but a lot of our represen tation is biased and should be redressed,” he said. .Commenting on Coun
Riding’s suggestion to switch' parties, Coun Brian Braithwaite said it would
not.be honest to change allegiance simply to gain a better position.
Any clues?
MISSING from home is a pea hen whose usual resi dence 'is C l ith e ro e ’ s Roefield Hotel at Edis ford. ' The bird, one of several
bred by Mr and Mrs Neil Campbell,, has not been seen for three days. Mr and Mrs Campbell
would be grateful if anyone noticing the nine- month-old pea hen strut ting around will let them know.
one part-time assistant and he has seen the shop expand until it now has a staff of 10.
■ During his time at the Kaydee he has seen a dramatic growth in the sales of paperbacks, par ticularly those for chil dren and those popular ised by television.
x “When I started there
was a six-foot shelf for paperbacks. Now they take up hundreds of fe e t ,” said Mr De whurst.
The shop was started
in 1946 by Kathleen Bul- cock and Doris Brockley. Mr Dewhurst took over after working as an ac counts clerk at Tint ex, Grindleton.
The. next few weeks
will see the establish ment' in Clitheroe of another new business. ‘ Brothers Adrian and Martin Gobbi, from Wigan, have bought the former Whittaker's iron monger’s shop in Castle Street, Clitheroe, and are carrying out exten sive alterations.
The ironmonger’s bus iness closed 18 - months
ago, after being in the Whittaker family since 1914.
Although he declined
to comment at this stage on exactly what kind of use the property will be put to, Mr Adrian Gobbi confirmed that it would be a retail shop.
Initially operations
will be concentrated on the ground floor, with the intention later of opening up the first floor and basement.
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Give these lads a chance
SPORT in the Ribble Valley has been adopted by the borough’s new Mayor, Coun. Mrs Myra Clegg, for her theme during her. 12-month term of office.
The increasing amount
of leisure time available to many people has to be put to creative use if social disturbance is to be av oided, she told Tuesday’s annual council meeting.
“Sport-in any .form cre
ates a healthy mind and body,” she said.
The borough’s newly in
stalled chief citizen said the council had a policy of supporting the district’s sporting organisations and clubs for both the disabled and the able-bodied.
It was her wish Jto en
courage these and poss ibly visit them to gain a greater knowledge of their activities.
succeeds Coun. John Walmsley, explained that in her role as chairman of the Planning and Trans portation Committee she had attached great im portance to boosting em ployment and prosperity.
Coun. Mrs Clegg, who
Local runners marathon effort
“We must not forget
that providing leisure facilities creates employ ment, which is y e t another example of how one council activity has a bearing on- another,” she added.
Paying tribute to Coun
Walmsley, she said he had done a wonderful job as an ambassador for the Ribble Valley.
Though she will con
tinue to support Coun. W a lm s ley ’ s h o sp ice appeal, Coun. Mrs Clegg will have as her main charity the Christie Cancer and Holt'Radium Institute Women’s Trust Fund, having been chair man of the Clitheroe com mittee for nearly 30 years.
The proposal to elect
Coun. Mrs Clegg as Mayor and her husband Charles as Consort was •put forward by Coun. Mrs
Sheila Maw. Coun. Mrs Clegg was
now graduating with first
.class honours after work- . ing her way up through the “schools” of Wiswell Parish Council, and the borough council, she said A p p o inted Deputy
Mayor and Mayoress were Coun. and Mrs T e ’ Boden, of Chatbum. '
ELEVEN Ribble Valley runners were among the thousands of athletes who took part m Sunday’s London marathon.
The first of the local
contingent past the post was Mr Alistair Patten, of Shireburn Avenue,' Clitheroe, who clocked 3 hours 2 mins. Four minutes behind
was Mr Roger Dewhurst, of Bolton-by-Bowland, with Ribblesdale school teacher Miss Maureen Hurst finishing shortly af terwards — despite col lapsing twice through de hydration. i- “I was disappointed be
cause I wanted to break three hours, but it’s all experience,” she said. Another teacher from
Ribblesdale, Mr John Kelly, was nine minutes behind his colleague. - Mr Edward Hill, of The
Alleys, completed the 26 miles in 3 hours 13 mins, closely followed by Mr Edward Hoare, of Chat- burn Road. They were among six
20 mins — 12 minutes better than his run in last year’s marathon in the capital. His wife, in her first 26-miler, was just over an hour behind him.
Local practitioner Dr
Patrick Hoyte was also tackling the distance for the first time and ran 3 hours 50. mins. “I ^
wards. • The final two members
of the Harriers group — Len Farnsworth and George Brass — finished
Either side of the four- hour mark.
Mr F a rn sw o r th , o f
Kemple View, was spon sored by Whalley Lions to raise’ money for the Hos pice appeal and Lepra.
think
I’ll stick to
cy.cle racing in future,” he said after
WORKERS on a Ribble Valley community enterprise programme who finish their scheme at the end of the month are disillusioned at the prospect of drifting back into the dole queue.
Dedication pays
TWO years dedicated work has -earned Katherine Thompson the most coveted award of the Guiding movement, the Queen’s Guide Badge.
Katherine (15), of Bal
moral Avenue, Clitheroe, is a member of St James’s
Guides. To earn the badge she has done community service at Castleford, camping and research into the British Common wealth. .
VOLUNTARY work, canoeing, taking a patrol on a weekend camp, swimming and rugby are
just some of the activities undertaken by Paul Wors- wick (13 ) , who has become one o f the youngest boys in the dis trict to gain the Chief Scout’s award.
Usually Scouts are at least 14 before they |
qualify Paul, of King Street,
’i One of the scheme’s
supervisors, Mr Jim Allen, .of Conway Avenue, Clitheroe, is so concerned at the workers’ plight that he is contacting local firms in an attempt to find vacancies for them. The workers have been
involved in a 12-month Manpower Services Com mission scheme. Mr Allen’s team-of four men in their early twenties from C l ith e ro e has worked in Bolton-by-Bow-, land, Chatburn and Sawley. Their refurbishing
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attends St Augustine’s ! work, cobbling and tidy- School, Billington. He is a j ing up has attracted- tne
Now Katherinejia.,pupil.J. member of .the Loyola praise, of -the—Ribble
of RibblSsdale School,’ pack. In his spare' time he) Valley Council and indi hopes to become a young plays badminton and j vidual councillors, leader with the Cub swims competitively fo r ; “Despite all the good Scouts.
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j work they have done, j they will have no incen- j i tive a t . the end of this
month. I just hope some-
j one will take' them on per manently- because they are well worth it,” said Mr Allen. As his team of workers
tackles its last job in the scheme — painting Chat- burn’s assembly rooms — Mr Allen says they are all disillusioned by the situa tion. “The ' lads had hoped they might, be taken on
■ for another 12 months — anything to keep them off the dole. But this week they have ail received their notices,” he added. A council spokesman
-explained that it was one of the Commission’s rules that workers could only spend a maximum of 12 months on a scheme. “The idea is to give as
many people as possible work experience.
“We hope, of course,
that they find permanent posts, but there was no question' of the workers being led to -believe that their .. scheme was being e x ten d e d ,” said the .spokesman.
Plea for help
local athletes who went to London with a party of Clayton-le-Moors Har riers. The husband and wife
team o f R o g e r and Maggie Westhead, of Shawbridge, both finished the course comfortably. Veterinary surgeon Mr Westhead clocked 3 hours
FOUR people are needed to give up just a few hours of their time to help the WRVS in Clitheroe run the books-on-wheels
service. All that is entailed is
picking up the books local ly and delivering them to
about 10 p eople Clitheroe on a Wednesday once every six weeks. Two people must be drivers.
Anyone in te re sted
should contact Mrs Joan Myers (Clitheroe 22822).
SDP to fight ward
FOLLOWING her with- drawal as Mayor of Clitheroe, Coun. Mrs Bar bara Speak has resigned from both the town and
Ribble Valley councils. She has represented
Grammar School ward on both as an Independent since 1979. This means there are
two vacancies for the ward for each council, the other being caused by the death 'oUCoun.' Tom Robinson. Already the SDP-Liber-
al Alliance has named a candidate for both coun cils — Mr Howel Jones — and if-there are further nominations there •will be an election on June 17th. Closing date for nomi nations for both councils
is May 21st. Mr Jones (53), who is
headmaster of Brookside County Primary School in Clitheroe, is the first SDP candidate to fight an elec tion in the Ribble Valley. Married with four chil
dren, he lives in Warwick Drive, Clitheroe. '
Royalty's seal of
approval
THE' project, to install facilities for disabled people at the Clitheroe Pendle Club has been given the Royal seal of approval. For Prince Charles has
personally approved a £250 boost for the appeal from the Royal Wedding Fund. Mr Brian Haig, chair
man of the Old People’s Welfare,Committee which runs the club, said that application for a .donation had been made late last year:
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received a letter contain ing the cheque and saying that HRH Prince Charles has personally approved the donation. The club has to send off a photograph of the project when com pleted.
The committee has now 10,000 at
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THE biggest crowd for 15 years — 10,000 — turned out for the Pendle Forest and Craven ' Hunt meet ing, on Saturday, at Gisbum. • The excellent, going re sulted in some exciting races which the big crowd, basking in the sun: shine, greatly enjoyed. “We have not have a
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and parasols, added to more than 15 songs, are the features of this popu
lar show. . • ■ •
mostly staff at the hospi tal —
Nearly 60 people — are involved either
on stage or behind-the- scenes with the produc tion, which ends its five- night run on Saturday. . Four members of the
group, John Turner, Stuart Hi l l , David Lloyd and Margaret Dil- worth, should luive no problems remembering lines . . . for each of them has appeared
before in the musical. Anyone requiring tic
kets shoiild contact the society’s PRO, Mr John Simpson (tel. Whalley -
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rehearsal are some of the principals:-from the £
left, standing — Bill
Taylor, Jean Pells, Stuart Hill, Susan Fry
and John Turner; front —
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