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GRANDMOTHER Mrs Margaret Wilkinson used> to be scared stiff
■of seeing a baby born. But she had no time for such inhibitions when h e r - youngest granddaughter arrived suddenly a fortnight
early. Mrs Wilkinson acted
w - • "T P & & MRS WILKINSON and early arrival Cheryl s in a n am e ?
, .VILLAGERS at Whalley and Billington have , been buzzing since the new Blackburn area . telephone directories arrived at their doors.
; For the new look “phone book” has a glossy artists’ impression on the cover, captioned “Whalley, near Blackburn.”
But locals have been quick to point out that
the picturesque house featured on the front, The Marjorie, lies in Billington — not
Whalley! However, British Telecom says there has
j been no slip-up.
| A spokesman explained that while the house f does lie in Billington, it was decided to caption ! the impression as Whalley to make it more ‘ recognisable to people on the outskirts of the
; i He added: “We even, spoke, to ,the owner o f . : ’ The Marjorie/-who's uses* Whalley -asv'his • ad*
>' dress!” ,,..-:.. - t /-‘r1
I The Blackburn area is only the second in the,' 1 country to redesign the directory. It has been . | given a brighter appearance to make it easier ; to read and now includes local, national and
international dialling codes.
THE Forestry tv
111U Commission’s Bowland division has won an
order to supply timber to the new pulp mill being opened at Shotton, Deeside, early next year.
The three-year con
tract — \vorth £125,000 a year — not only pro vides a big boost for the Commission’s workers, based at Dunsop Bridge, but also has a spin-off for local hauliers and
drainage contractors. To ensure full produc
tion, at least one extra man is being taken on and a £60,000 process machine has been or dered from Sweden. This picks up the felled
trees, lops the branches and slices the timber into lengths. About 60 hectares of
woodland in the vicinity of Stocks Reservoir has been earmarked for.
felling. The trees are not as
mature as the Commis sion would have' liked them, but district man
ager.Mr John Voysey is confident that they will1 more than meet the re quirements of Shotton. The new deal is in ad
dition, .to the division’s contracts to^supply pulp-
wood to^hame3jBJQJu,.djia. Worl3ngton,-,'and.tiniber to Olitheroe mills. ’ " The continuous, pro
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ESTABLISHED OVER SO YEARS . V For at six o’clock, villa
gers were raised from their slumber by the, clat ter of clogs and the tinkl
ing of bells as Clitheroe Morris Men “danced in the May.”. :> , ■
May Day is traditionally
the most important, day of the year for Morris danc ing and the Clitheroe dan
cers felt an’ active village like : Downham, .. rather than a
commuter..dormit ory, should'be the. setting for the event.. ' A few villagers turned out to
support.the dancers
on the’ small- green at the top of the village and
'everyone enjoyod t spectacle. ■
COUN. Howel Jones and his wife Maxine. will be installed as. Mayor and Mayoress o f C l i th e ro e on Tuesday. After the ceremony in
the council chamber, the' Mayoral party will pro cess to the Swan and Royal Hotel, for luncheon.v
. Rut, unlike previous years, all the traditions of
Dancers up in the morning
Mayor-making, including the drinking from the colts cup and the toast “Prosperation to the Cor poration,” will be incorpo rated into this occasion, instead, of taking place at an evening dinner. Coun. Jones, who took
early retirement last summer, was. for nine years headmaster of B ro o k s id e ■ S ch o o l , Clitheroe. Bom in -Liverpool, he
worked in a bank for seven years before going .to Westminster College, London, to train' as teacher. ■ , He first taught in his
native city for five years and then , went to Kenya for four years as an. edu cation- missionary. • , On returning - to this
country, he taught in Kendal, before being ap pointed deputy head of St Jam e s ’s CE School, Clitheroe. He was head of DaisyfieldSchool, , Black- bum, for two years before coming to Brookside. ■ Chairman of the-Ribble
Valley SDP;. Coun.- Jones has been a member , of Clitheroe-Town Council and also the Ribble Valley authority for two years. Both he and his wife
are'closely connected with Trinity Methodist Church. He, is a lay preacher which takes him round : the villages in the locality
r.and Mrs Jones- .is ;tne; .leader of Trinity’s church .choir. -
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.children, i,Helen >(26) 'Richard (24), M a rk (22) and Hilary ( 1 9 ) . ,• .*
* former players with a - pyjama party ‘ at the • Brown Cow.
friends • and supporters o f Chatbum Football Club paid tribute to dwo
NIGHT attire.-. was the order, o f .the day , os
About 80 p eop le > .
turned out-for. tKe party, held- to benefit
tNadin ■ 'and Johnson.
Keith", Bobi
•I Chatbum a few' weeks a'gOj.- and has,..hald.1 to .
!• , - Bob broke, his leg in a- ;; tackle ■
while; playing for
', Keith)' a goalkeeper with the ' club fo r 21 yearsstopped playing, over • a;-> year - ago v after injuring his foot in.: an accident at work.
retire from the game. ■ * f l
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On -the-night, Jack ie * Jf *
■ Pratt ■ won the . ladies’ ! fancy; dress: prize rand John Ridgway was voted ' best among the men. i ; > Clutching the ■
crutches
’ ’Keith-(right); pictured ’ with their suitably-dres- ,< sed supporters. K - .,r>-
• ; ore Bob ■ (centre) and
cess of replacing the trees will be stepped up, although this is going to mean increased culling among the Roe and Sika deer which frequent the area — because they are very partial to the leaves of replacement saplings. '
The big order comes
in the wake of reorgan isation which has re sulted in the;loss of an office clerk’s job at Dunsop Bridge.
However,1 the. person
concerned, Mrs Carol Priestley, and her family
■are shortly moving to the South of England because the damp condi tions have aggravated her arthritis.
: But while Mrs Priest ley'unfortunately does not find the climate to her liking, the same cannot be said of the great spruce beetle.
The pest is keeping
the foresters on their toes, though as:yet the damage is not bad
'enough to warrant the introduction of a foreign killer beetle to solve the problem. .
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on in s tin c t to ease Cheryl Louise, now 12 days old, into the world a f te r she began to make an unscheduled entrance shortly after, midnight at mum’s Marion Fowler’s home in St James’s Street, Clitheroe.
It all happened after
Marion, Mrs Wilkin son’s daughter, - unex pectedly went into labour and husband Glyn brought grand mother to the rscene from her bed.
Glyn rang the ambu
lan ce and Bramley Meade maternity home . to say Marion was on her way but Cheryl weighed in at 71b. 7oz. on the kitchen carpet before outside help could arrive.
Mrs Wilkinson, of
T a lb o t C lo s e , e x plained: “Marion was having the baby more
or less when I arrived. I just had to get on with the job.”
The birth took about
15 minutes. Mrs Wil kinson then wrapped up Marion and the baby and waited for the midwife to arrive.
“I used to be frigh
tened s t i f f o f even watching a birth on the television screen,” Mrs Wilkinson later told our reporter.
Sh e d e s c r ib ed
Cheryl’s birth as a mar vellous experience and said modestly, “Our Marion did a ll the work.”
Shot in arm for Bowland
Said Marion: “With
having three children of '..her own, she.'had some idea of-what was, going on . . . it was an ; easy, safe delivery.” Glyn, an accounts
clerk at Ribblesdale Cement, was so pleased that he placed a special th a n k you to his mother-in-law in the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. Mother and > baby,
meanwhile, are doing fine. Had Cheryl ar rived on time, she would have shared her two-year-old s is te r
Helen’s birthday on May 7th.
Methodist leader to preach at Trinity
WHEN the President of the Methodist Con fe ren ce , the Rev. Amos Cresswell visits the Ribble Valley, on Sunday, it will be. .a return to the area where he began his ministry.
Mr Cresswell, who now
lives in Exeter and is Methodist chairman of the Devon area, was minister at Chatbilm in 1949. On his four-day visit to
North Lancashire he will open the new “Wesley House” housing complex at Lancaster on Saturday, a project towards ‘ which the Clitheroe Circuit
'raised over £900; Among local people at
the opening will be Mrs Freda Gordon, of Pimlico Road, Clitheroe, who is the local treasurer for the Methodist ' Homes for the Aged, and schoolboy Paul T a y lo r , o f rDe Lacy Street, Clitheroe; who raised monejt’for'. the pro-
j.e£t^itteihXsponsofed w a ik . in ,M a r c h e .| > On Sunday, links ‘with
Chatbum will be re-estab lished when members of the village Methodist con gregation join in morning s e rv ic e a t T r in i ty , Clitheroe, where Mr Cresswell will preach. Also at the service will
,'rgfe^T •S fjv g g p a fftf* , ............... WAYNE and Daniel (left) admire Sooty’s unusual family
Sooty adopts new family
IT’S a feline story that takes some licking . . . for Sooty the cat, of Stables Cottage, Closes Hall, Bolton-by-Bowland, is the proud mother of two Easter bunnies..
The two orphaned rab- Ingham, had her first
bits-live with her in her litter at Easter. But when cosy basket in
the.kitchen Linda could not find and are making feline his-; homes for the kittens, tory by feeding from their they had to be drowned. furry step-mother. Sooty, who-belongs to Michael and Linda
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be: the Mayor and May o r e s s , of the Ribble Valley, Coun. and Mrs Ted Boden. Mr Cresswell, who is
58, is a well-known preacher, in Britain and the United States, and one of the church’s lead ing evangelists.
Racing at Gisburn
WESTBY HallFarm, Gis- bum, will be a busy place over the Bank Holiday weekend. On Saturday it stages
the Craven . Forest and Pendle Hunt point-to point races. And on Monday even
ing, Gisbum YFC will be holding a disco dance in a large marquee on the racecourse. There are six races on
the card, the first begin ning at 2 p.m., and each is sponsored by a local firm.
THE horror of a multiple road accident on the A59 near Langho in which a Clitheroe motorcyclist was killed could have been minimised if road side telephones had been available. That was the message
from Coun. Bill Fleming (Billington) at a Ribble. Valley council meeting. “It really appalls me
that there are no tele phones on this bypass,” he said. Coun. Fleming argued
that the accident’s effects could have been less seri ous had it been possible to alert' the emergency ser vices earlier. P u b l ic Works and
Health - Committee chair man Coun. Harry Wad- dington (Gisburn) said the matter would be raised at th e n e x t committee meeting.
. ; ( Collection
THE'collection of £119.15 from the united service held at Clitheroe Parish Church on Good Friday has been sent to Christian Aid.
Fate then stepped in
when a cow on a nearby farm trod on and killed a doe, and the Ingham’s eldest son Shaun (12) brought home the three orphaned baby rabbits.i ■
.v;“ Sooty.}! immediately pickedthem.' up ?.and put them in her basket. Sfie is now washing them, clean-' ing up after them and feeding them,” said Mrs Ingham.
j. One rabbit died, but the
other two are thriving, much to the delight of the Ingham children Shaun, Wayne (10) 'and Daniel, aged four! But there are problems.
The family, who also have a guinea pig, a rabbit, ducks and hens,-own a rabbit-hunting Jack Rus sell terrier called Tick. “At the moment Tick is
convinced that the rabbits are kittens and so is not bothering about' them,” said Mrs Ingham. So o ty has had a
charmed life herself, being adopted after being found as a stray, by Mrs Ingham’s father, Mr Fred Scott, the gardener at nearby Closes Hall.' : ' Sooty Is already aware
'of her. parental - respon sibilities and smacks her new offspring with her paw when 'they run- all over the kitchen. : Meanwhile the Inghams
are planning to make a clean sweep of Sooty’s chances of having any more kittens . . . and she is shortly to be spayed.
Pyjama games at Chatburn
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WHAT a , marvellous day Saturday was. for Clitheroe Football plub.'-
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Two - championships were won in >
the same af
ternoon —' the ' North West Counties> third’divi
sion and the East Lanca shire Football League.i There were jubilant
scenes at Shawbridge as a crowd of 300 watched the first team beat title con tenders Ashton Town 1-0.
Meanwhile the Re
serves were beating Whalley Arms Celtic 2-1 to make sure of the two points needed to seal their title. After the Shawbridge
match, the players heard th a t n e a r e s t r iv a ls Padiham had dropped a- point in their match and th a t Clithe ro e were champions.- Club chairman Cyril
Whiteside described the day as “the proudest in my five years with the club.” The achievement is all
the more remarkable in that the managers of the two sides are brothers, Eric and John Whalley.
Mr Whiteside added
that the double win "was a credit not only to the players and managers, but also to the faithful club servants such as Keith Lord and grounds man Bill Yates, all of whom had played their part. The club’s celebration
night will be on Tuesday when they complete-their league programme at Shawb ridge a g a in s t Blackpool Mechanics and receive the trophy from league chairman Mr Eric Hinchcliffe. '■ The Reserves will be
^League'1 chairman > ’Mr R. Little, after the match with Trawden Celtic at Shawbridge. The kick-off time for both matches is 7 p.m.
presented with their championship shield to night by East Lancashire
A welcome for sports survey
A SURVEY to find out what local clubs and organisations would like to see in the way of new sports facilities has been welcomed by the chairman of the Ribble Valley Sports Council.
“It may be a little over due but it’s better than never at all,” says Mr Kevin Fitzpatrick, who sees the survey as an ideal chance for. local organisations to push for a sports hall at Roefield.
The survey is being launched by the Ribble Valley Council in con
junction with the Ad vertiser and: Times, and readers are invited to complete the ques tionnaire on Page 3.
It should be returned to the council 'offices, Church Walk, no later than May 18th.
Mr Fitzpatrick urges as many clubs as possible to return the forms and for as many as feel able to specifically mention the Roefield project.
Coun. Mrs Myra' Clegg, chairman of the Recre-' a t ion and L e isu re Committee, emphas-. ised that the survey would not simply .be a sh op p in g . l i s t o f : facilities to be provided qut o f next year’s
' ; " r at es3- ;- . : : . v / “The--response should,
however, be of great help to the council in helping to plan its re c re a t io n ” she said. ,
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