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THE parish council elec tions in the Ribble Valley produced a couple of dead heats but only at Billing- ton did this have any sig nificance.
There were 10 candi
dates for nine places and Mr Raymond Gibson and his uncle Mr John Hindley had to draw lots to decide who should fill the ninth spot. Both polled 357 votes and it was Mr Hind- ley who was the lucky man.
In Hothersall Mr John
K. Mercer and 'Mr Brian K. Walker each polled 45 votes to fill the bottom two places.
In the Clitheroe local e le c t io n s the Town
Mavor, Coun. John Cow- gill repeated his triumph in the borough elections
More people troubled to
by having the largest indi vidual success, topping the Ribblesdale Ward by 128 from Mr E r ic Bracewell for the Conser-
. vatives. The distinction of pol
ling most votes of any candidate in the four wards fell to Mr R. Howell-Jones who re tained his Grammar School seat for the Liber- al-SDP Alliance with 994 votes to the 939 cast for former Town Mayor Mr Leo Wells (Con.). Mrs Patricia Hall held the third seat for the Conser
vatives. Coun. Bert Jones had
the satisfaction of topping
the poll for Labour in the Edisford, Low Moor and Trinity Ward with 796 votes, with Mr Lawrence McEntee (Ind) coming second only 36 votes fewer, and Mr John Nut- tall taking the third seat for the Conservatives.
In St James’s Ward, Mr
Edward Newhouse (Con) returned to the political scene by topping the poll, with Mr James McGhie (Lab) taking the second seat for Labour by a mere four votes from Mrs Irene Oxford (Con).
Longridge Tories had a
field day taking all five seats in both wards.
vote than four years ago when the parish elections were divorced from the borough. The average poll was around the 50 per cent mark.
The highest figure was
81.8 per cent in the tiny parish of Bowland-with- Leagram; Hothersall had 77.6 per cent, Pendleton 69.3 per. cent and Chip ping 60.7 per cent.
^Lowest turnout was 21
per cent in Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley. Whalley had 27.3 per cent. B e s t tu rn ou t in
Clitheroe was in the Grammar School Ward with 53 per cent. Ribbles dale had 49.5 per cent, Edisford, Low Moor and Trinity 46.3 per cent and St James’s 40.3 per cent.
Your full parish results St James’
EDWARD NEWHOUSE (Con)......................................324 JAMES McGHIE (Lab)....... 2S2 Irene M. Oxford (Con)..........274 Bruce H. Dowles (Lab)........ 235 Alan Daniels (Lib-SDP)........ 203
Ribblesdale
JOHN H. COWGILL (Ind)..704 FT?TC RP A rFWFT,1 Con)
ERIC BRACEWELL (Con)
Richard K. Baker (Con)........ 319 Ethel Penny (Lab).................299
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R. HOWELL JONES (Lib- SDP)...................................... 994 LEO WELLS (Con)..............939 PATRICIA M. HALL (Con).....
Robert Penny (Lab).............260
Edisford, Low Moor and Trinity
BERTRAM JONES (Lab)... 796 LAWRENCE McENTEE (Ind)..............................'........760
JOHN NUTTALL (Con).....731 David J. Buttenvorth (Lib-
RICHARD B. THORNTON (Con) 801, JOHN D. CLIFF (Con) 777, FRANK PRIEST (Con) 738, JUNE KIERMAN (Con) 645, DAVID J. MOON
SDP)..................................... 668 Rowland E. Penny (Lao)..... io7 L o n g r id g e (A l s t o n ) :
{gDp. Li^ 497“ Gordon L. Con) 577, George E. Metcalfe
Ronan (Lab) 287. L ong r idg e (Dil w o r th ) :
DAVID COULSTON (Con) 965, CATHERINE M. HOD- KINSON (Con) 880, MARY A: M E L L IN G (C on ) 814, MORRIS D. LOVATT (Con) 760, LAWRENCE PYE (Con)
995 Gwendoline Gerrard (Lab) 350, Doris Peters (Lab) 316,
Susan ' M. McCormick (Lab) 314, Alison E. Ronan (Lab)
293. Hothersall: Harry Kinder
65, Laurence Dobson 59, Wil liam W. Margerison 57, Henry
P. Walker 49, James T. Stock-
dale 47, John K. Mercer 45, Brian K. Walker 45. Not elected: Elizabeth Pearson 31. Pendleton: George E. Cow-
perthwaite 77, Wm H. Holgate 73, John G. Whitwell 68, Madge Nutter 55, Ruth L. A. Munay 45. Not elected: Rose York 41, Sylvia Taylor 39. West Bradford: Ellelene
Bashall Eaves and Great Mitton: Bashall Eaves —
Henry Backhouse, George B. Barnes. John Spurgeon. Great Mitton: Philip J. L. Hardman,
John T. Wilkinson, Margaret Williamson.
Aspin 238, Bryan Bristol 222, Albert Titterington 204, John F. Brierley 184, William R. Iphofen 175. Not elected: Wil liam Maunders 74.
Whalley — Pauline Wilkinson 331, Geoffrey Mitchell 292, Clara Horsfall 250, Patricia M. Harper 241, Eric J. Ronnan 237, Francis W. Pope 221, Jack Guyer 210. Not elected: James M. Green 180, Andrew K. K. Pearson 166, Harold S. Johnson 160, Flora J. Smith 129, George A. Reynolds 115,, Keith
Whalley and Little Mitton:
J. Dickens 114. Little Mitton — Unopposed:
Kathleen Sharpies, Thelma Feather.
BowIand-with-Leagram: Bowland — David E. Rich 19, John A. Alpe 17, Ian L. Porter 15. Not elected: Jeanne E. Mercer 14. Bi l l ing ton : Frank Har
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greaves 733, Jack Carr 694, Kathleen A. Robinson 671, Christopher Jungbluth 588, Fred Eliis 565, Lewis G. Gollop 463, Derek Ibbotson 442, Wil liam S. Hasler 398, John Hind- lev 358. Not elected: Raymond
88, Harry T. Waddington 75, Francis H. Wrathall 70, Wil liam S. Pate 67, Anthony A. Walters 48. Not elected: Alfred W. C. Gorman 27. Aighton, Bailey and Chaig
Gibson 357. Gisburn: Alice M. Hudson
Peter Baird-Jones, Arthur De- whurst, Peter Evans, Stuart J. Hill, Kathleen Pemberton, John R. Richardson, Winifred M. Thompson.
vision — Horace Dowle, Sarah Winifred Fox, David Leedham, John Peel, Raymond Slater. Lower Division — Michael J. Alpe, Donald Baines, Geoffrey Clegg, Edmund Sandham, Christopher Spence. Cha tburn: Herbert E.
Bowland Forest: Higher Di Wilpshire: Betty Aspden, COUN. Coivgill and. ivife A nn e Mayor’s second term
COUN. John Cowgill is to be Clitheroe’s Mayor for the second year running. He will be installed for
his second term as the town’s first citizen at the annual ' m e e t in g o f Clitheroe town council on May 24th. Coun. Cowgill, who was
chosen at the council’s traditional Cockle and Mussel feast on Friday, is head of the family print ing and stationery busi ness and a past chairman of the Lancashire Council of the National Chamber of Trade. He has been a member
of the town council and the Ribble Valley Council since 1979. His wife, Anne, is May
oress for the second con secutive year. The' new Deputy Mayor
and Mayoress will be Coun. Howel Jones and
his wife Maxine. Coun. Jones, headmas
ter of Brookside School, was elected to the Ribble Valley and Clitheroe town council in June last year. Mayor’s Sunday, the
traditional civic service, takes place on June 19th, at Clitheroe United Re formed Church.
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Boden, Thomas Hudson, Clif ford C. Johnson, Jennifer J. Joyce, Ronald V. Smith, Mavis Strickland, James Whittaker. Clayton-le-Dale: Peter Ains
worth, Cyril J. Eden, Harold M. Kemp, Francis S. Rogers, Frank wade. Rimington and Middop:
Rimington — Brian Ashton, Frank m. Simpson, Allan Stott, Herbert Thistlethwaite, Isaac B. Whittaker. Middop — Con stance Ml Nicholson. Sabden: Charles R. Clarke,
Kenneth Howarth, Eileen Lowe, Alfred Parsons, Elaine D. Parsons, Marion Proctor, Thomas Stephenson. Salesbury: John Beaghan,
David J. Dickinson, William Edmundson, Charles H. Frank- Iand, Joyce Winter. Ramsgreave: Roland But-
terworth, Francis H. Collier, John F. Entwistle, Frank Highton. Read: Desiree Bottoms,
ley: Hurst Green and Stony- hurst — Roger Holden 130,' Eileen M. Mather 125, David B; Taylforth 121,* Vincent J. Wilcock 114, Mary J. M. Brown 106, William Jacques 103, Victoria M. Blackie 86. Not elected: Ann Wales 35. : Ribchester: Anthony .E. Jackson 465, Patricia A. Dick inson 376, Reginald G. Holt ’ oyce Dewnurst 338, John
M. Mallam 283, John F. Casson 263, Joseph Noblett 234. David
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son 285, Henry J. Berry 281, Terence N. Till 271, Roger Wallbank 251, William H. Heane 231, Peter Stott 228. Not elected: Hugh Gomall 123, Richard C. W. Seed 76, Mary E. Wade 58.
UNOPPOSED
In the following parishes the candidates were returned
unopposed. W a d d in g to n : Ja ck D.
Crompton, Eric Edmondson, Kenneth Holding, Graham J. Robbins, Daphne Forbes, John I. Walmsley, John C. Watson. Dutton: Adam' T. Dugdale,
James Hargreaves, William R. Holden, Harold Piercy, Thomas
Whalley. Grindleton: Samuel H.
Green, Denis W. Jury, Jeremy P. Lloyd, Leslie J. Nevett, William Smalley, Fred Wad dington, Jack Baron. Balderstone: Ernest Bell,
' Madge Green, Thomas Loynds,. Bervl L. Sephton. Elizabeth Taylor, Jack M.JTennant, Stan ley W. Thomas'Sheila Turner, Charles Warkman, David Wain. Wiswell and Barrow: Wis-
Thomas Farrell, Cyril Law, Stuart Riley, Jack Snaw, Phyl lis Sumner, Barbara S. Totty. ' Mellor: Elizabeth A. Ains worth, Clarence Fairhurst,
well — Myra Clegg, Albert Fenlon, Eileen M. Foster, James Thompson. Barrow — Arnold Bettess, William S. Brown, Gerald L. Haworth, Peter J. Mawson. Newton: Martin Beattie,
Brian Dixon, Lionel I. Lewis, Michael B. McFall, Susan Taylor. Osbaldeston: Leslie,C. Brock-
lehurst, Florence Crook, Gerald Hebblethwaite, Mar garet L. D. Mayes, John Walmsley. Bolton-by-Bowland, Gis
burn Forest and Sawley: Bolton-by-Bowland — Herbert D. Cornthwaite, Francis S. Dinsdale, Joyce Lilburn, Alan Moorhouse. Terence Murray, Jennie Wilkinson, Henry Wol- fenden. Gisburn Forest — PauUne Brown, Jack Winnard. Sawley — Joan Craddock, James H. Porter. Slaidburn and Easington:
Slaidburn —
Henryr.Carr, Wil liam R. King-Wilkinson, Jean Lawson, George Parker, Mar-
garet Shaw. Easington — eorge Robinson, Alwyne
Wallbank. Thornley-with-Wheatlcy:
Hilda Boyes, David E. Coar, William E. Gorse, John Mar shall, Eric Taylor.
Harold E. Airey, John B. Airey, Jean I. Faraday, Joseph Moon, William M. Pye.
IT’S ALL CHANGE IN CLITHEROE
PROPOSALS fo r big changes in the Clitheroe Division Parliamentary Constituency have been approved by Parliament and now become law in time for the General Elec
tion on June 9th. The constituency will be
known as the Ribble Valley Constituency and the number of electors, at about 60,000, compares with about 56,000 under the old Clitheroe Division. The constituency will
s tre tch from Sharoe Green at Preston to Bolton-hy-Bowland and is considered by the Bound ary Commission to he more compact. The new electorate will
consist of about 25,000 people in the wards of Clitheroe, and coming in are Wilpshire, Billington, Mellor and Clayton-le- D a le , all w a rd s o f Darwen, with about 10,000 electors.
- The eastern boundary will now consist of wards of the present Skipton constituency with about
■ 4,000 electors. These; are, Gisburn and Rimington, B o l t o n -b y-.B ow la n d , Grindleton and. West B r a d fo r d , B ow la n d ,; Newton and Slaidburn. - The Preston Rural East
I Ward of South Fylde, also 'about.4,000 strong, .comes in, but the largest; addi
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tion will be from Preston North with about 18,000 electors coming into the Ribble Valley, making nearly a third of the total number of electors. The wards concerned are Sharoe Green,, Greyfriars and Cadley. Of the old Clitheroe
constituency, 9,000 elec tors will go into Hynd-
• bum, 18,000 into Burnley and 5,000 into Pendle
The' Ribble Valley Con
servative Association will hold its adoption meeting at Hurst Green tomorrow.
A top job for Geoffrey
FO RM E R C l ith e r o e Grammar School pupil Mr Geoffrey Symms has been appointed general man ager. of Peterborough Co-, operative Society’s super store at Bourne, Lines.
; Mr, Symms (40), is the . son of Mrs F. Symms, of Pendle Road, Clitheroe,
.and the late Mr. W. Symms. ' .
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worked at Brockhall Hos pital and . left Clitheroe in 1964 to join .the Rank Or
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He was a member i of Clitheroe Golf ' ‘ Club'; for
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