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Lollipop lady Eileen bids pupils farewell


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children. She has never failed to have a friendly and cheerful face, even on the coldest of days, and always supported school activities. To mark her retirement, Eileen was presented with a barometer from the chairman of the governors, the Rev. John Salsbury. She is pictured


with her gift as the children and Mr Brooks wished her well. Eileen will not have far to walk if she wants to visit the school and see


her old friends, however . . . for her home, Hawthorne Farm, is only 10 yards away across the road.


Record entry


CLITHEROE Methodist Circuit’s 16th Festival of Youth from November 12th to 17th has attracted a record entry.


have submitted 800 en­ tries — 100 more than


About 150 young people


last time — for the 24 classes, which range from


poetry and music to photography and Christ­ mas decorations.


two years, is for those aged up to 16 who attend Methodist Sunday Schools or youth meetings in the Clitheroe area, which in­ cludes Chatburn, Wad- dington, Grindleton, Whalley and Slaidburn.


The festival, held every


chairman of the organis­ ing committee, said the festival was designed to encourage young people to express themselves through music, song and handicrafts.


Miss Ida Dugdale,


During the week the children’s work will be on view at Trinity School­ room, Clitheroe, where the music, Bible know­ ledge and elocution clas­ ses will be judged from 7 p.m. each evening.


with a grand concert of finalists and the presenta­ tion of certificates and the Rev. Eric


The week winds up


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Designs by Eric find favour in USA


A SABDEN company^ design expert, Mr Eric Stephenson, returned to America this week only two months after repre­ senting his employers at a woodworking machinery fair in Atlanta.


Grinders, received so •many orders for its grind­ ing machines that Mr Stephenson had to cancel a scheduled visit to a trade exhibition in Jakar­ ta, Indonesia, in order to return and install them.


The company, Autool Honour Mr Stephenson (55),


who has worked for the company for about seven years, arrived in New York on Monday and will drive 900 miles to Geor­ gia, stopping in .many towns en route to install four profile grinders and follow up sales leads.


week tour with a seminar in Georgia, taking some of the material from a book he is writing about grind­ ing and cutting machines.


He will finish his four-


interest generated during the fair should lead to more orders, particularly now that the pound was encouraging American businesses to buy British.


Mr Stephenson said the


plans, the company is now sending a sales executive, Mr Paul Varley, to In­ donesia. His trip to the country’s 2nd Internation­ al Agricultural and Prim­ ary Processing Exhibi­ tion, is being organised through a British Over­ seas Trade Board joint venture scheme.


Following its change of Bonfire bonanza


for Clitheroe’s big Guy Fawkes night celebra­ tion at the Castle field.


THE fireworks, the plot toffee ingredients and the potatoes have all been ordered ready


needed to make things go with a bang a week on Monday is plenty of m a te r ia l fo r the bonfire.


A l l th a t ’s now


readers can help, by taking anything suit­ able for burning to the Castle field. It can be left at the Eshton Ter­ race end a week on Saturday or Sunday, or on the Monday morning.


And that’s where


ised by the two local Rotary clubs and the Rotaract Club of the Ribble Valley. As a supervised occasion, it has played a big pail in recent years in minimising November 5th mishaps.


The bonfire is organ­


for Chipping textile chief


A CHIPPING man, Mr Edward Gillespie Smalley, of Wolfen Mill House, has been appointed the first- ever British president of CEMATEX — the Euro­ pean Committee of Tex­ tile Machinery Manufac­


turers. Mr Smalley, a compan­


ion member of the Textile Institute, who has lived in the Ribble Valley for about 20 years, is the managing director of Platt Saco Lowell, Accrington.


CEMATEX, formed 30 years ago, Mr Smalley will represent the inter­ ests of manufacturers in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, West Ger­ many, Italy, Switzerland and Spain.


As p re s id e n t of


round & about


Increasingly


popular MORE children than ever before will be taking part in this year’s Clitheroe Dance Festival in the Civic Hall tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.


dance teacher Kay Thur­ ston, is expecting about 650 entrants from all over Lancashire to compete in the 45 different sections, which range from classical ballet to tap dancing.


The organiser, local


have increased from 250 to 650 and last year’s fes­ tival had to be extended from two to three days to cater for the demand.


Over the years entries


ween three and 17 years, will be judged by Miss Elsie Smith, a member of the Royal Academy of Dance.


The children, aged bet­


starts at 9-30 each morn­ ing and goes on until early evening, is open to the public. As an added attraction there will be an exhibition of ballet photo­ graphs by the Mid-Pen- nine Association for the Arts.


The festival, which Helping tree week


wards the total cost of £259 for providing 63 cataract and glaucoma operations and treat­ ment for 548 other pa-


WHALLEY Parish Coun­ cil is doing its bit to help in national “tree week” by planting a tree in the parish churchyard.


a tree and shrub planting project there and was


The council already has


asked on behalf of the Tree Council to incorpo­ rate this in the special week, which commences on November 17th. The ceremony will be


performed by the chair­ man, Coun. Miss Pauline Wilkinson.


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THERE can be no doubt that, in the ear­ liest years of Method­ ism in our village, as elsewhere in the coun­ try, adherents to this “new faith” suffered a good deal of persecu­ tion and were dis­ criminated against in numerous ways. They were far from


STRICTLY SUPERVISED Whalley


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popular with the Establ­ ishment; Dr Whitaker railed against .them in many of his sermons, the Rev. Richard Noble, who succeeded him, even threatened them with legal action.


the Americans who have contacted me in recent years in search of. their antecendents emigrated froni the village during the incumbencies of the aforementioned clergymen and in the early rules.of the. Wesleyan Sunday School it is emphasised that “the children must not be released from school until all the church children have gone in.” But it transpires, there


The forbears of many of


onwards when the Rev. R. N. Whitaker became the vicar. He was far less censorious and biased than his more disting­ uished father and the ig­ noble Mr Noble, he gave generously to the Method­ ist cause in the late 1860s when a new church was contemplated and even loaned banners from his church when the founda­ tion stones of the King Street Chapel were laid a later. He


year or two Large sel


tions of importance in later life. Mr Raweliffe believed


lighting —f LAMPS,! shape;!


in corporal punishment; none of this modern non­ sense of “no canes in school” where he was con­ cerned, and he was a devout churchgoer.


wrote: “My father often spoke of how much he owned to the instruction of Mr Raweliffe.”


My co r re sp o n d e n t


' the : Father of Ecumenism before the class . and; Mr in the village.


tages of being a Method- much to the delight of the ist, of which I spoke. These were indicated to me'in a reader’s letter to hand this week.; In 1894 the late J; M.


But now to the advan-. with considerable vigour,


were advantages in being a Methodist — particular­ ly for the youth of the village — as the years rolled on, as you will learn anon. ,The situation improved considerably from 1840


Raweliffe became head­ master of the then Na­ tional School in the village and he may still be re­ membered by the older local residents. Clearly, he was an ex­


cellent headmaster; a firm disciplinarian who turned out some first'rate scho­ lars u;ho attained posi­


ng . .


might well. be; considered • v They- were brought out \ •' Raweliffe applied the cane-


. . .


rightly I think, that the headmaster kept a strict, eye on the conduct of his boys at the Sunday ser­ vices and, if they were unruly or misconducted themselves in any way, the following morning they paid the penalty.


Now it appears, quite


Methodist pupils. “Good old Raweliffe," they prob­ ably said to themselves. No member of the teach-: ing staff attended the Wesleyan Church and so the boys were spared the Sunday supervision. An interesting anec­


dote, I think, and I am grateful to my Broughton reader. It is another snip­ pet of our local history and, as the man said, “You live and learn.”


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