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GISBURN AUCTION MART PRICES
FIRST quality cows made to' £870 (av e rag e £722.91) a t Thursday’s sale at Gisbum Auc tion Mart, when 110 newly- calved dairy cows and heifers were forward. Second quality made to £645 (£593.06). First quality heifers made to £850 (£756.25), second quality to £600 (£577.50). There were three in-calf dairy
- T h e re w e re 271 c a lv e s forward at the Christmas Show and sale of calves under a month old. The champion came from W. N. Askew at £355. Best Con tin en ta l X bull calf: W. N. Askew £355, G. Dakin £250, F. Ward £290. Best Continental X heifer: B. Hough £200, W. N. Askew £208, G. Dakin £190. Best non-Continental X bull calf: J . Pinder £200, J . Wilson £200, J . Pinder £150. Best Belgian Blue X bull calf: 1 and 2 R. and E. Hartley £370 and £335, G. Dakin £285.• - At the Christmas Show and
2 R. Atkins £470 and £368. Best pair of bullock stirks: R. Atkins £425. Best pair of heifer stirks: 1, 2 and 3 R. Atkins £355, £345 and £340.
sale of weaned stirks, there were 54 animals forward and the champion pair came from R. Atkins at £470. Best pair of bull stirks: 1 and
Singing stars
which includes a buffet supper, cost £5 for adults and £2.50 for children. Anyone interested should contact Whalley 82 2246.
St Leonard’s Social Com mittee, will be held in the school hall on December 16th, starting at 7-30 p.m. Tickets for the event,
MUSIC and song from the “Elizabethan Singers” will be the star attraction when a Christmas concert is held in Langho. The event, organised by
cows forward and springing cows made to £690.
Calves: Charolais X bulls
made to £355 (£250.70), heifers to £155 (£122.30), Limousin X
-bulls to £268 (£176), heifers to £200 (£115.75), Belgian Blue X bulls to £355 (£27195), heifers to £208 (£183.22), Simmental X bulls to £270 (£212.30), heifers to £168 (£142.85). Blonde D’Aquitaine X bulls
made to £230 (£201), heifers to £96 (£95.50), other Continental X bulls to £115 (£86.50), Here ford X bulls to £178 (£122.05), heifers to £80 (£60), Friesian X bulls to £200 (£133.70), heifers to £98 (£85.75), Angus X bulls to £154 (£104.90), heifers to £52 (£42.35), Piedmontese heifers to £190 (£150.65). Weaned s tirks and stores:
146.2p (123.7p), heavy to 137.2p (122p).
were 1,684 animals forward, comprising 1.330 lambs, 19 shearlings and 235 ewes and rams.
(
183.Gn). standard to 228.5p (
205.Gp), medium to 232p (205.6p), heavy to 207p (196.2p), shearlings to 139p (125.3p), half- bred ewes to £36.20 (£28.05), homed ewes to £24.80 (£19.50), rams to £26.80 (£25.10).
to 90.8p, g rade 2 to 86.8p (82.9p), grade 3 to 82.8p (71.5p), feeding cows to 79.8p (66. Ip), mature bulls to 94.8p (87.8p). In the sheep section, there
medium to 140p (114.1p), heavy to 129.2p (108.7p). Heifers: L ig h t to 139.8p (119.7p), medium to 130p (113.6p), heavy to 127.8p (111.6p). Cows and bulls: Grade 1 cows
Steers: Light to 149p (117.5p),
were 632 cattle forward, includ ing 218 young bulls, 255 steers and heifers and 159 cows and bulls. Young bulls: Light made to 148.2p (126. Ip), medium to i
Charolais X bulls/steers made to £368, heifers to £355 (£322), Limousin X bulls/steers to £47( (£418), heifers to £345 (£296.15), Belgian Blue X bulls/steers to 1325, heifers to £280, other Con tinental X bulls/steers to £340, heifers to £270 (£245), Hereford X heifers to £360 (£334.30), Friesian X bulls/steers to £300 (£270), cows to £360 (£343.35). In the fatstock section, there
Article sparked memories of a visit to place of mystery
Y O U R e x c e l l e n t r e m i n i s c e n c e on adventures “Beyond the Wall” stirrea my memories of East Ber-
mterest was aroused when off. We learned later that War! A note of terror; describing a,pioneer visit, the Kroger spies were Some h o u rs la te r , there in 1954 by the much- being let out and flown embarrassed officials !°yed Wiswell figure, the home. A ll'sea ts were worked out the papers, late Miss Eileen Foster, blocked for officials. We release came and we set who was, selling Pendle left one week later,- on out for Dresden, passing
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Her four-day adventure,
ticket.to Warsaw! gave me a taste for a place ' of mystery. In 1969, as
acquaintance invited me to lead a four-person tourist journalistic delegation to write about and, report on the DDR’s chances of find-
Ribble Valley, my chance came. A close London PR
f ousmessman in the
Polish Airlines, with a Colditz and Meissen, Wei- mar, Potsdam, Leipzig,
national correspondent of Berlin m an-almost dan- tourist p T S b n s but destine operation and left
gers at East Berlin in a building little better than a dark hut.
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The party man had gone home, leaving our visas firmly locked in a drawer. Nothing party officials
Fog had caused delays. ,.e IJlane stopped off in
also a businessm^i in tho us and six other passen- 'Buchenwald. 1 my
ing visitors.
and visas would -be given armed guards up the on arrival. The departure ■ Unter Den Linden, past
The time was November Alas, we were taken by
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in jail! Try that in the Cold- .................
trial'plan seemed :tb; be ;lished the Press_ release. finance within the indus-
available' from central; funds. Privately '!! was
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Unreliable figures on the
poll tax THE real Mr Disraeli
diplomatic ties, the type of would have been much en terp rise one . would • more enterprising than expect here to be pic was your.: correspondent, both VEB there and the' rest m making sure of his facts private.
If the owners did not . t i ty , if th a t was the make “waves,” adequate purpose. . .
and concealing his iden- . Perhaps, had you pub-
your Disraeli and the real Ribble Valley Tories
Karl Marx
Stadt.Thurin- • Wittenhurv (Luther’s
days provide an interest ing insight on today’s events. I was surprised to find so much private enterprise — the state enterprises all have a VEB prefix. At that time in the Cold War, with no
Setting record straight THERE is a possibility that members of the public, schools and local Lambs: Light made to 184p
made by Mr Oswin Hop kins, Chief Executive of the Ribble Valley Borough Council.
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get on with the job of rais ing the rest of the money needed and we look forward to the continued support of all sections of the community and the release of the veiy gener ous contribution from the Ribble Valley Borough Council.
M R S D O R E E N EUINTON, Chairman, Ribble Valley Sports , and Recreation Association.
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literally coated in cigarette ends and all the windows
babies could talk, I’m sure they, would prefer their peaceful.local amenity,, rather than the faceless and rione-too-clean alter natives in the big towns of ANTHONY M. PERRY East Lancashire.
the hi-tech urban centres that Ribble Valley mums will be shuttled into, then I, for one, wOuld give only two cheers for “progress.” I f Bramley Meade
dirt. Hurst Green.
JANALCOCK, Hodder Court, Stonyhurst.
Meade, which has long been noted for the relaxed atmosphere and unpres sured helpfulness of its' staff. The other- is Edith" Watson at Burnley, which I visited recently. The s ta irc a s e was
I offer you a tale of two maternity units. One is a t Bramley
. Roefield Leisure Centre' ment committee would like
vatised funds, freedom from the county Labour would flourish. •
I find my notes of those fered was . because its which it nad determined
and’ most of all, argued that the reason Government's. announced . Czechoslovakia had. suf- .spending levels, upon
Ribble Valley arid, at the time, my DDR reports received publicity, after being serialised in one leading newspaper. Local friends accused me of hav-
lltJ , „ firms, who have been and are now actively supporting the fUnd-raising mS,8one, Ked-
for the Roefield Leisure Centre Appeal, may have been misled by the. in& t fn e count™-R^s front page article of last week’s issue of this paper.
easy to become brain washed and seeming to accept its ideology.' Look ing back at my articles and conclusions then,, against what we know now, I' think ! can offer interested comment.'
interesting country, it is
regime had not allowed the support grants to local the proliferation of free government services, enterprise. Even now, in ' Every local authority 1989, this may be critical association has consis- to what pro-democracy can. te n t ly and regularly achieve m each country. . informed the Secretary of I returned to life in the State that the expenditure
obviously not aware that the top rate tax is already at 40p in the £.
p ro v id in g e x i s t in g services. Your Mr Disraeli is
Changes
patterns chosen are £1.6b. • below the present costs of
finance spokesman at County Hall, chooses to be selective with his figures, as the starting point. His budget increase last year would have meant a county rate increase of '. 4.62%, whereas the actual
Coun. Bailey, the Tory
^A V - f i0 - butchered at Buchenwald - and treated in ways that
Communists and others of belief, many Jews, too. Leaders of East Germany refined their thoughts as they fought for survival as prisoners of Buchenwald.. Ernst Thalmann, the Ger
were smeared with sticky undignified prone position, ’ of- pi fingerprints and general
one night in the 1969 visit, the Party invited me to interview the Soviet Geor- gian. Minister, of .Tourism, a well-clothed tubby Mafia figure of jolly abaridon. : He offered my friends and me Soviet cognac. What hap pened next I cannot say, until I remember picking myself up from'a rather
If this is typical of ud.”
upr- Today, with new open access and cheap flights from Manchester to Berlin now approved through the GTF company, East Ger many has become what it always was — an interest ing and intriguing place to see the past and learn ■ about the future.
. • ’ in the spirit of “bottoms
inspiring place. Yet their sufferings were, as I con cluded in my articles in 1969, a guarantee that one day those. 10,000 tanks would go home and cer tainly would- never fire in anger. - As if to underline that,
man Red leader, died there. It is truly the most awe
10,000 Russian tanks Bailey is not able to state pointing across the border how he would achieve the at the heart of West Ger- reduction of expenditure many. Two miles from., of £56m. to come to the Weimar my group paid Government’s required homage to the. 250,000
Near Weimar I saw increase was 4.89%. Coun.
makes Auschwitz seem, your Mr Disraeli secure mild. These were Christians,
the necessary savings from the actual present costs of £340 poll tax. Home -helps? Education? Police? Rural transport? Highways? Street cleans ing? Public lighting? Even the font of Tory
cial officer. in November 1989, advising that the District Council's expendi ture was some. £200,000 higher in 1989/90 than the figures announced by the Government for next year’s budget. The Government's
riecessary to maintain the quality of life of millions of ordinary British residents. Disraeli was instrumental in the repeal of the Com Laws ana we shall make sure that this breadline poll tax is ultimately defeated.
rieces minlii
RON PICKUP, C l i t h e r o e C o u n ty Councillor, 9 Lingfield Avenue, Clitheroe.
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SOME weeks ago you pub lished some of my wartime memories and I mentioned that, during part of my RAF life, I worked for some time with an officer called Sir Donald “Joe” Ross, a man with theatrical. conections.
• Through him I met several
• ENSA artists who were overseas entertaining the Forces. One of these was an actor called Billy - Milton, who I noticed died on November 22nd, at the age of 84, at Denville Hall, a home for retired actors in the South of England.
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■Milton, who wrote most affectionately— about his friends Ross and Douglas Byng. He also included a photograph of himself taken when he was a: young man, with a caption on it which read - “to Edmond, a souvenir of yesterday." He was an actor, singer and dancer. ; and composer of popular, songs. He was .: bom, in London1 and after-a brief.and/;, unenjoyable time as a champagne - salesman in Rheims’ broke into films in - 1926, appearing with Dorothy Gish and Ivor Novello in Alfred Hitchcock’
s.first i thriller, “The Lodger." His first West End success was in ■:
never heard of the gent, but since then, " of course, have-read about his career with interest —.what a career — a sort of theatrical “Who’s who.” - We, kept in touch and only in April ■ this year did. I get a letter from Billy ;
/ Prior to meeting: him in 1945, I had
1927 in the revue: “White Birds,” in t which he appeared with Maurice Chev- . alter, Jose Colline, Anton Dolin. and. ■ Ninette de Valois.
the New. York production of Coward’s :: revue -/‘This-year of .Grace,” along with’- --
■He
was-chosen.by Noel Coward for ■ k
long past her prime,, forgot the words o th e r most famous song, “Mon Homme, . and Milton held the stage, effortlessly ad-libbing for half-an-hour, until she regained her composure. .In later years he became a successful
and Maggie Smith, as well as various I Vprogrammes.
ma'de. f e r J5rst British debut at the age of, 72. The great French star, then
performance was at the London Casino m -December 1947, when Mistinguette
Beatrice Lillie and Florence Desmond, and when Coward fell ill he took over th e 'lead—• thjs resulted in Coward including him in the original cast of ‘Bitter Sweep’ in"London, inl929. - _ Throughout the '30s he was one of the busiest international performers, starring in cabaret in New York and Australia and appearing in films with Cicely Courtneidge and Bobby Howes. During the war he joined the RAF and toured for ENSA with Anna Neagle. Perhaps his most gallant post-war
figures are being shown, week in week out, to be most unreliable and Tory Ministers are more deter mined to buy off their friends iri the city with sweeteners in the sale of public' assets such as Jag u a r £40m., Royal Ordance £300m., water industry £1 .6b., rather than the support provision public local services
are extending the area! covered by a previous licence to a new public res taurant planned for the ground floor of the build ing, now undergoing extensive renovation.
CLITHEROE magistrates approved plans for struc tural changes to The Old Post House Hotel, King Street, Clitheroe, at a licensing court on Monday. Austin and Lynn Ball,
The CzecH: invasion was county treasurer, advising still in mind;'DDR friends the consequences of the
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