Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, October 1st, 1998 Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)


Silver coin sparks poignant echo of a warm wartime friendship


> by Ben Carlish


WHEN the coin dropped^ not even a gap of 50 years was a bridge too far stopping Billing- ton war veteran Mr Ted Green from making a Dutch connection


with his wartime past. For he recently received a


letter from the daughter of a Dutchman who had pre­ sented him with-an-out? lawed solid silver two-and- half guilder piece during the war. I t was discovering the' coin in his late first wife's personal effects that-prom­ pted him to write to the family after all these years, thus opening the doors on his own war time memories. In December, 1944, Mr


Green in his Bren gun carri­ er and with the rest of his Rifle Brigade unit rolled into the little Eindhoven suburb of Gelderandplein


and were hailed as liberators by the Dutch townsfolk. In the week th a t they


army in Germany. -With a keen interest in


were there, Mr Green became friends with a Dutch Philips' factory . worker, Mr Leendert Hen­ drik Huyser. The Dutch­ man presented Mr Green with a solid silver two-and- a-half guilder coin, some­ thing of a rarity, as the occupying Nazis had decreed that all indigenous currency was illegal and should be seized. Mr Green kept in touch with the Huy- sers for many years after the war, but after his first wife,


!. Edith, died, the correspon­ dence ended. Several weeks ago, how-


, ever, Mr Green was looking through some of the effects of his late first wife when he came across the coin, attached to a silver chain and a Dutch Happy Christ­ mas and New-Year card from the Huysers sent in 1946, when Mr Green was still serving in the British


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E X P E R I E N C E D mountaineer Alasdair Shaw is to scale new heights on a fund-raising trip to Nepal to helpi dis­ advantaged children


Nepalese adventure


and young people. Mr Shaw (20), of Page-


field Crescent, Clitheroe, will set off on a six-day trek in the Himalayas in Novem­ ber, 1999, as part of the Nepal Challenge The trip is organised by the Youth Hostels Associa­


- to treat’disadvantaged chil- , dren and young people to a i holiday at a youth hostel. . Mr Shaw, who is in the


medical staff, and Sherpas; and hopes'to’raise his target - of £3,000, which will be used ,


tion and Mr Shaw (pictured) applied to take part after seeing it mentioned in the association magazine. He will be part of a group of more than 80 fund-raisers,


middle of a four-year physics degree at Clare. College,


Cambridge, is president of the college's climbing club, and was first encouraged to take up mountaineering by his late father, Mr Alan Shaw. Since then, he has climbed in the Lake District and Snowdonia, from where he returned at the weekend, and he has also trekked in


the Alps. He has just spent his sum­


mer break from university working at the PGL outdoor activities centre, where he


was an instructor for 14 to


18-year-olds. Before embarking on the


Nepal Challenge, Mr Shaw will have to prepare himself for the gruelling 100km trek ahead; which will include up to seven hours of walking a day at an altitude of between 2,000 and 2,500 metres. The route uses tracks only acces­ sible by foot, with knife-edge ridges and steep climbs, and the temperature will range from around 20 to minus 10 degrees centigrade , He said: "I am used to


walking at that kind of alti­ tude, but I have strict train­ ing targets to ensure I don't let down those who sponsor


.me. • ‘s'/X will need..to .doisome


steady, walking, .which I lean do at home in Clitheroe, but nearer, the time Lwill have to do lots -. , of stamina training, for several hours a day, to accustom myself to the alti­


tude, which I- can do in the Lake District or in Wales." Mr ShaW is hoping to


recruit some of his fellow uni­ versity climbing club mem­ bers to take part in the event alongside him, and each member of the trip has already pledged td raise more than £2,000 before


departure. He is hoping to gain spon­


sorship from local companies and organisations and any­ one wishing to contribute can contact him on 01200


426103.


Hotel duo’s bid to save life of lethal drug cocktail man


THE proprietor and duty manager pf the Stirk House Hotel tried to revive a guest after


he took what proved to be a lethal cocktail of heroin and cocaine. He had smiled at his part-


ner and then fallen to .. j


the floor. A Blackburn inquest


heard how Mr Malcolm Weaving and Mrs.Yvonne Oliver worked to resuscitate Simon Cotzec (35), of Redruth Street, Burnley, until paramedics arrived five minutes later. Mr Cotzec and his girl


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friend, Miss Elaine White (27), went to the country hotel with their 11-month-, old baby to try and wean themselves off drugs. But the last occasion on which they took drugs proved too much for Mr Cotzec. Coroner Andre Rebello


recorded a verdict of misad­ venture after hearing med­ ical evidence th a t i t was cocaine which was most likely to have caused death, although there were also high levels of morphine in


Hp Hp»d man's body. Miss White


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inquest th a t they checked into the hotel for a week for her to withdraw from hero­ in and him from cocaine. They had both taken cocaine and valium th a t night and smoked heroin the following afternoon. "When we had finished I went to the other end of the room, turned round, and Simon ju s t smiled a t me, then fell to the floor," she


told the


said. She tried to pick him up


and threw water in his face, bu t did not call an ambu­ lance straight away because there were court bail condi­ tions which meant he was hot meant to go near her. Miss White telephoned a friend and then contacted the hotel reception after noticing Mr Cotzec's lips had gone blue.


Top salaries for key council officials


FOUR employees of Ribble Valley Bor­ ough Council earned more than £50,000 in the year to the end


of March. The council is forced


by law to disclose the number of £40,000-and- above staff. I t must be done in a £10,000 band form, giving only a rough guide to total pay, and the identities of the four are a confidential


matter. They are all in the


£50,000 - £59,999 band, with expenses and the estimated monetary value of all other bene­ fits included. The council's financial


statistics must also dis­ close how much it spent on publicity in the year - the total was £57,587.


World War I I - he is cur­ rently working on a person­ al memoir of the war - M r ... Green tentatively, tried to


get in touch with the Huy­ sers by writing to them at their previous address. He was not surprised


to have received the infor- mation and I wrote to Mr Haas to thank him for his interest. I thought that was the end of it,” explained Mr


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Green. . So he was flabbergasted


when he received no reply, but then he mentioned the subject to a fellow member of the Blackburn Probus Club, Mr Van Dyk,- a Dutch ex-director of a Philips' plant in Lancashire. He suggested Mr Green should write to the equiva­ lent of the Eindhoven town , hall, of which he provided the address in Dutch. Mr Green was amazed


when he received a reply within a week from a Mr Maas, a town hall official, explaining in Dutch th a t reg rettab ly Mrs.Huyser and his wife had passed away many years before. . " I t was sad to learn of their deaths, but I was glad


- Mrs Hetty Nanta-Huyser, : the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Huyser. Unbe­ known to Mr Green, Mr Haas had contacted her about his letter. She, wrote to say that she remembered Mr Green and his comrades arriving in the district when she was just four years old Mrs Nanta Huyser's let­ ter brought the memories


several days later on receiv­ ing a fu r th er le t te r from


: flooding back for Mr Green, an ex-Desert Rat, although they were not all pleasant


ones. He recalled: ”We were


sopping wet through when we arrived in the town. I t had been pouring with rain and it was decided by some of the locals th a t the best thing to do was to fetch


some mattresses down­ stairs, so we could sleep in front of their fires. I t was a welcome change from the Bren gun carrier, which had become my permanent


« •» fvneaoc i home. "We 'liberated' a small -


motor car and took off , around and about the area. Because of rationing, all we had to eat was bully beef and all the locals had was vegetables, so we clubbed together and made a feast. "Mr Huyser worked a t


the Philips' factory and said he could get hold of a hand-held torch. But when he was unable to get me one, he gave me the coin instead and said it would last a lot longer as a memento than a


torch. "When Mrs Nanta-


Huyser got in touch with me, it gave me a great deal of satisfaction." He has written back to


her and perhaps a a second generation of Dutch corre-


spondence is in the offing two-and-a-half guilder piece for Mr Green.


given to him by the late Mr


Our picture shows Mr Huyser nearly 54 years ago. Green with the solid silver (280998/13/0)


Jail for man who argued over a pint of beer


DESPITE being under a conditional dis­ charge for assault, a Ribble Valley man attacked another near a public house after an


argument over a pint of beer. At Preston Crown Court John Stevenson (34)


was sent to prison for nine months, with a consecu­ tive four-month sentence for the previous incident. Stevenson, of Pendle


T e r ra c e , R im in g to n , whose wife is expecting their second child, plead­ ed guilty to assault caus­


ing actual bodily harm. P re s to n Crown Court


heard th a t he kicked his | v ic t im , .B c te x ,.Jam e s Townley, in- the head-after d rag g in g - him - -to th e


ground." Mr Paul Sheridan, prose- | ; '•


curing, said th a t the men originally met in the Key Street pub, in Clitheroe, where the first argument took place. Some months later, a t the Dog Sports Bar, also in Clitheroe, Stevenson and Mr Townley saw each other in the toi­


lets. Stevenson said he was


owed a pint and asked Mr Townley for £1.50. Mr


I Townley gave him 50p and made a derogatory remark | about Stevenson before


walking back into the pub. Stevenson then came out


of the urinals and punched Mr Townley in the mouth. Mr Townley struck him


back twice before rejoining his friends and leaving the pub: As he walked away he was aware of someone run­ ning after him. Stevenson ] struck him to the floor and then kicked him while on


the floor. Mr Sheridan said: "He


punched him on the left- hand side of the face and then kicked him on the top


of his head". Mr Townley suffered


bruising and minor lacera­


tions from the attack. Miss Kath Johnson,


defending, told the court that on a previous occasion Mr, Townley had th re a t­ ened to cut off her client's head with a machete. The court heard th a t


Stevenson was on a condi­ tional discharge and had to be re-sentenced for the pre­


vious offence. On that occasion he had


punched someone in the face for making a gesture at him while queueing to get


into a club. Judge Peter Smith said:


"You set about his head with your foot. Luckily his injuries were only moder­ ate,"


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