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Happy memories of 1955 vintage ‘Oklahoma’
SEEING the adverts for the musical “Oklahoma" this week in the l’arish Hall brought back
memories of the production in the King lame Hall in lDoo.
ing to the programme which I have dug out from my archives. I was the "assistant producer." I had
forgotten about this — can’t think what I did, but it looks nice in print.
The producer was Laurence Hardy and, accord
of you will remember him; later on he became famous with ITV.
litt, Raymond Grice, Jennifer Hazlitt, John Hig- son, John Walmsley, Michael Green, Jean Houlker and Geoffrey Scowcroft. The dances and dream ballet were arranged by Mary Waddington. I remember going to the show in Manchester
The principal parts were played by Gwen Haz- Bryan Cowgill was our stage manager and some
Three by-election words dear to my heart
JUST in case Mr Wells and any other people have missed the point, I am standing as a LOCAL INDEPENDENT CON SERVATIVE and all three words are dear to my heart. Local — because I do
L e t te r s ... to the Editor!
from an independent standpoint. Conservative — because
not think it right that someone who knows so lit tle about the area should seek to represent us in Parliament. Independent — because
I feel that it is only right that any person should try to say what they mean and mean what they say and this can best be achieved
when it had its premiere at the Opera House. This would be early in the ll)o()s. No one knew any thing about this musical and the tunes were not known at the time. All the cast came from America, as did the costumes and scenery. For the first two nights the scenery for the show was held up at the docks in some shipping dispute. The show played for about two nights with cur
tains only, instead of the wonderful settings which should have been there. When we saw the show on the Saturday night we were absolutely thrilled and could not help being transported into a lovely musical world. Oscar Hammerstein, who wrote the lyrics for
Residents
“Advertiser and Times, you say that David Brass is the only Itibble Valley candidate' contesting the
the show, said after the opening night in America, in ISMS. . . "the glow was like the light of a thou sand lanterns . . . you could feel i t . . . it was that bright." Those were the words I wotdd have like to have said. In the Manchester production, and also in Lon
don, the leading role of Curley was played by Harold Keel, who later on became famous as a musical star and changed his name to Howard Keel. My reference book says that the show was a
or not? COULD you please settle a query for me On the front page of th,speek’s
this “tag” most accurately reflects my political beliefs and I must be most open
Conservative Government to be returned at the next General Election because, in my opinion, the only
about this. I desperately want a
other alternative, i.e. a Labour Government, would be a disaster, given their very poor record in
People’s hard work has been squandered
by-election. Doesn’t Josie Farring
ton, the Labour candidate, live in the Ilibble Valley? Please can you put the matter straight.
BARRY SINGLETON, Dunsop Bridge.
recognised landmark in the evolution of the American musical theatre and was the initial col laboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. (In all, they wrote nine Broadway shows together.) “Oklahoma" is based on a story written in 11)31
called “Green grow the lilacs.” The simple tale is mostly concerned with whether the decent Curley or the menacing Jud will take Laurey to the box social. Though in a fit of pique Laurey choses Jud, she really loves Curley and they soon make plans to marry and, of course, ride away to their honey moon in'"The surrey with the fringe on the top."
EDMOND CAMBIKN. •15 Bolland Prospect, Clitheroc.
inferring that all the others come from outside the area. This is not so. Halldora Ingham, candidate for the Green Party, was born in the Ribble Valley and has continued to reside in this Parliamentary constitu ency for most of her life. Perhaps your leader
I REFER to last week’s front page coverage of the forthcoming by-election, in which you referred to David Brass as the only Ribble Valley candidate,
article was meaning Rib ble Valley Borough. If so, the borough boundary has NO relevance to the Par liamentary constituency!
IF.
If you are thinking "interest rates will fall", If you consider markets low withal, If what you need is income, safe and constant, If future capital values are important, If you are paying more tax than you oughter, If capital value's running away like water, If only big, safe names appeal to you, If you can take a five year "money" view, If local, expert guidance fits your bill, If eleven per cent or more gives you a thrill,
If you phone us some details (two or one!), Then we have just the plan for you, my son! Apologies t o M r. Kipling
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H E A D O F F IC E - B U R N L E Y : S 5 5 S S
JAN HARDY, Green Party Election Committee, The Dene,
Hurst Green.
O Let’s not beat about the bush. Both Josie Farring ton and Halldora Ingham,
graphical quirk, they may live in the Ribble Valley constituency, but that is another matter. The key to it is, as far as we are concerned, that if their bins are not being emp tied, to whom do they complain? The answer, from an administrative
not Ribble Valley Borough Council! — Editor.
Let’s make 1991 year of
honesty AS a moderately suc cessful business man, I feel that a few comments should be made on the s tories tha t fill your pages. 1. Parking fees. Putting ide the r ig h ts and
twice! David — during the past
decade, investment in sci entific research has almost disappeared, many of our best brains emigrating to Canada and the USA, hospitals are closing down all over the country, men tally ill people are being sent out of care with the minimum of support. The country’s schools and uni versities are in crisis, the pound is worth half an American dollar, the beg gars on our city streets are a daily affront to us all and we export only a frac tion of what we now import.
starved of cash that old rolling-stock has led to a number of serious acci dents and continues to represent a threat to pas sengers. Many council ten ants are condemned to liv ing in decrepit and squalid housing and old people eke out inadequate (or at least ungenerous) pensions in a degrading and penny- pinching system.
Our railway system is so
are NOT Ribble Valley' looking after it. The only esidents. By some geo- thing it seems to me these
buildings, heritage and landscape suf fer an increasing onslaught and the Government has com pletely failed to discharge its duty to the rest of us in
Our national treasures,
people do well is wage aggressive war. And that is because money is no object in such a cause. (What was Tom King’s phrase? All necessary resources will be forthcoming?) But we all know people who have waited many
point of view, is certainly years for important opera- ..................
I'outrh tions, we all have childrer•en
in classes of 30 or 40, we are (most of us) aware that North Sea oil and the hard work of the people of this country has been squan dered over the past decade in what has to be one of the greediest and most incompetent 10 years of
opposition, which has in part given rise to the very complacency to which I am objecting. If any Conservative can
put hand on heart and tell me sincerely that they believe the policies and their presentation and the candidate chosen for them are the best available, then I will apologise. If not, then I say now is the time to stand up and make a p ro te s t v o te and together we will try to change policy before it is too late. I want my children to
Springtime delight will not appear this year
TURNING into Langsliaw Drive now, the impression is of a bleak, unwelcoming road, the rea son being that new kerbs have been laid and the footpaths resurfaced.
will not be so this spring, because all the trees have been uprooted and apparently there is no intention to replace them. Yet these were trees which the resi dents clubbed together to have planted.
In the spring, this road was a mass of blossom. It
„ . I WAS surprised to read in David Brass s but it MUST BE A CAR- . ie t te r 0f the “significant improvement” ING AND RESPONSIVE
. . _ , Great back into Britain,
achieved by the Conservative Party past decade. I had to re-read that paragraph
thfi Conservative Party over the C O N S E R V A T IV E government outside the
Third World. I know that Clitheroe is
PARTY. Any suggestions that I
a fairly nice place to be — OK, there’s a bit of yob- bery in the town centre on a Friday night, but basi cally no real problems — but" there’s a whole world outside this borough and some of its inhabitants have REAL PROBLEMS. I actually know some
do not welcome people from other areas frankly beggars belief. I have always been willing to talk to anybody and everybody and welcome the oppor tunity of local or political discussions with people of any political persuasion. On the issue of being
families for whom life must offer very little chance of improvement and to whom talk of “sig nificant progress" must be very hard to comprehend. No doubt David, as an aspiring Member of Parlia ment, would welcome the opportunity to explain what he means.
RICK GRAVES, 39 Park Avenue, Clitheroe.
grow up in a better Britain and, yes, there is so much more work still to do. It is my firm belief that a Con servative Government is best equipped to put the
old and attractive stone kerbs, nicely weathered, (with nothing whatsoever wrong with them as far as anyone can discern) have been replaced by new, concrete, highly unattractive kerbs. In the process, the wide grass verges — carefully
In Claremont Avenue, similar work is underway,
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Day 6 Half day excursion to KiUbuhol or Kramsach opon air farm museum. Day 7 Gontle walk with guido. Tyrolean musical evening.
Day 8 Full day oxcursion to Salzburg for SKjhtseomg and shopping. There are spacious squares and old, narrow streets. Palaces, a castle and many old Churches The surrounding countryside was tho setting lor tho Sound of Music. Good shopping and cafes.
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mown and tended by the residents — now look like a ploughed field. Compare the completed side with
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the one apparently to be devastated next. Very considerable sums of money must have had to
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be found to carry out what seems to be either unnec essary or very low priority work. Yet no money can be found to provide an effective traffic warden or to take two people from the unemployed register to keep the streets clean. This is the same incredible group of councillors who accuse the county council of wasting money! Roll on local elections!
PRO BONO, Clitheroe.
Mayor, I was merely responding to the issue of a few years ago, when it was suggested that coun cillors did not want to have the honour of being our first citizen and Mr Wells had suggested that the Clitheroe Mayoralty should be scrapped. I said then that I believe in respecting traditions and ceremony and the colour they bring to our lives. My views remain the same.
DAVID A. BRASS, 26 Castle Street, Clithcroe.
How cynical!
IN last week’s "Advertiser and Times” Mrs Jean Entwistle described as cynical the sudden concern shown by the Liberal Democrats for local issues. Her attitude is disingenuous, to put it at its most
and yet David Waddington never bothered to ask his “grand” constituents what they were most worried about while he was in office and, arguably, actually in a position to do something about those worries. (But then the Tories never worried about losing this seat’s five-figure majority while he was in office).
How cynical can who get?
JAN HOLDEN, 18 Pimlico Road, Clitheroe.
Sincere group
READER Mrs Jean Entwistle is amazed that there are paid-up members of the Liberal Democrats in the
Ribble Valley constituency. We are a sincere, loyal little group who ponder on
is all to the good. Cl VITAS.
wrongs of the situation, I find it is ill-timed and almost crass stupidity to bring up this matter at this time.
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Pay something — and then make a protest
totally unaware of the cur rent economic situation and its effect on the wealth generation of a community? 3. Do the councillors
think that the current development programme in the borough will not
have just the slightest effect on plans regarding
Is the Town Hall even consicier that nothing new can possibly be written on the
subject. However, the real dif
ference in this letter is that a compromise is sug gested which, though it might offer only a tern-
car parking — perhaps they are clairvoyant? 4. When officers express
porary solution to the those people who declare aggravated situation, that they have no inten-
doubts as to the security of some car parks, should that not be sorted out b e fo re c o n s id e r in g changes? Statistical information
could constitute the first part of the bridge which will have to be crossed eventually. It must he accepted by all reasonable thinking
according to the common yardstick which is in force at the time. But I simply do not accept the attitude of
people that some form of remainder of the local may be many more people “rating,” subsidised where authority to bear the bur- prepared to sympathise necessary, is an essential den alone.
tion of paying at all. They are crying for justice on one hand, whilst being unjust towards others by p aying n o th in g and thereby expecting the
start and THEN carry out your representations and protests if you feel so strongly about it. There may be many more people
alone, which is often quoted, needs to be tem pered with far more important considerations, i.e. Can 1 park? Who pays for what? Is the system for visitors or residents? It would appear that
this is yet another public relations cock-up! When, oh when, will
people wi th publ ic accountability learn? Clear, simple and honest explanations are what is required. They may be unpopular, but they will give the electorate a chance to make up their minds with all the facts. I am not saying they are
charge to be levied on This is as unfair as the point of view if you adopt every family or individual system about which they with an earning capacity. are complaining — a sys- It follows that the actual tem which asks the lord
with your actions and your
amount of the payment of the manor to contribute should depend upon a per- the same amount as the son’s capacity to pay. Once butler in the basement, the financial allowances Nobody really thinks that have been taken into con- the owner of the castle is sideration and the amount in the same financial of charge has been deter- bracket as the tenant of a mined, there is a duty on cottage, that individual to pay, I wish to suggest a step- either in full or by instal- ping-off point to enable ments, or to make repre- those who have so far paid sentations if the charge is nothing to make a stand considered to be unreason- which will give them a able when the individual’s measure of sympathy and particular circumstances a higher standing in the are fully taken into eyes of those who have account.
dishonest, but they should remember that the less educated have just as much right to opinions as the professors and they both have equal voting rights. So why use gobblede-
gook and civil service lan guage? The same vein
appears to be used in the lines of attack by our can didates for MP. How about making 1991
already paid a number of My proposal is that you instalments of the current work out what you would system of charging for local services. I wish to make no judgement here on the wisdom or other wise of conforming with the system. My comments are intended only to bring a little more understand ing to the way in which responses have been made and been seen to be made. Many objections have
Many people have tion in part or in full,
a year of honesty, simplic ity and unselfishness? It would be unique, I know, but we live and work in, a unique area, so let's prove it to the re s t of the country.
BUSINESSMAN.
been made on the grounds that the charge has been much too high in relation to income, whether this be for a residence or a busi ness. The objections should be given a sympa thetic hearing and then the charge be either modi fied or allowed to stand
already made a contribu-
to pay nothing at all, you put yourself in a quite indefensible position. There are always those who will not pay rates or community charge, road fund licence or bills of any kind if they can avoid it. They have no conscience
such a course of action. However, if you choose
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Where is the justice?
WHAT has happened to the statues of justice and industry which were above the entrance to the King Lane Co-operative Hall (Hillards)? I was there the day the wall came down, but the statues had not been there for at least two weeks
prior to that! I personally think that they should have been put
in the Castle‘grounds (the rose gardens or above the museum entrance), as they are part of Clitheroe’s his tory, and I am sure that a short mention of their his tory added to the museum information sheet would
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A vote of thanks for a change
IT is often that your columns are filled with our complaints regarding the Ribble Valley local authority, but seldom that one sees the opposite. I feel' it is only fair that we should offer a few
words of congratulations and thanks, in particular to the teams of conscientious workers who have kept our roads so clear and our dustbins regularly emptied, in spite of the adverse weather conditions winch we have experienced over the past two weeks. It is very comforting when lying warm in bed at
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