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COLBORNE CHRONICLE Successor to The Colborne Express (est. 1866) and The Colbome Enterprise (est. 1886) Thursday, January 4th, 1968 7c per copy -- $3.00 Canada -- $4.00 U.S.A. and Abroad REPORT ON E.N.D.H.S. Oollborne's representative on the Bloard of Easlt Northumberland District Higlh School for fine past six years, Mr. Jack Armstrong recently presented a comprehensive report on the ' work of the Board to the Council of the Village of Collborne. For the years 1965 and 1968 Mr. Armstrong served as cltair-mian of the Board. Taking inlto alccount the expansion plans for 1968 and the possibility of there feeing a County Board of Education in 1969, Council re-appointed Mr. Armstrong as their representative to the Board for 1968. His report follows: Gentlemen: I should like to outline very briefly the growth and development of East Northumberland Secondary School1 during the seven years it has been my privilege to represent this Village on the Board of Trustees. If memory serves correctly, in 1961 our School population was about 500 students, 28 teachers, 2 caretakers, 2 cafeteria workers, and aout six buses served the Township areas and the Village of Oollborne. With the completion of the Technical wing at a cost of over a milion dollars for building and oijiiipmeint, many new areas of r$Jucationail opportunity were opened to all aspiring young people. East Northumberland is now on a par with the best Secondary Schools in Ontario, with no broadlooim or frills. This expansion' was completed under the Dominion^Provincial Grant Plan, which made for no direct tax levy on the municipalities served. It has been gratifying to note the substantial dldleerease in the number of so-called high school drop-outs since these new areas have been in operation. Of particular interest to me are the Occupation Glasses, where young young ppeople of limited learning ability are taught less somplicated trades and skills, enabling them to become useful wage-earners, where heretofore they have been forced to drop out of education at the elementary level, with little or no potential for employment jfe the streamlined life of today. Presently the school has just over a thousand students, 58 teachers, a fulMime school administrator, maintenance atid careitaking staff of six, plus secretaries and cafeteria personnel. Fourteen busu are now required to transjort student The largest growth area has been, and still is, Muray Township. The school facilities are now taxed to the HFmdt, with many areas overcrowded or inadequate, for example, the Library space and book ratio per pupil is very much below standard Biased on the present enrolment :n the elementary schotSfS served, the projected secondary enrollment in the years 1969-70 is 1600 students. The Board is now forced into an expansion program to accomodate this 1 ever-increasing school poputa-titani. Months of preliminary study have well established What the minimum requirements must be. At this point a nuimfcer of architects have been CRAMAHE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL Cramahe Council met in t!le Council Chamber at Oastleton at 1.30 p.m. on December 15th. Memeber's were all present, Reeve Cochrane in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. Correspondence was read and filed. It was moved by H. S. Oliver and setoonded by R. BIyth, that the Council of the Township of Clramahe authorize the Ontario Hydro to install four fltoures'cent lights from Lake-port Factory east. Carried. Moved by Harold Bedford, seconded by H. S. Oliver, that the Council of the Township of CranHabe, after having reviewed the exepend'iture of the present dump, our decision is to close it not later than May 1st, 1968. Carried'. Moved by J. A. McComb, seconded by H. S. Oliver, that all accounts to date be paid. Carried: Orders were (then drawn cn the Treasurer, as follow: W. J. Troop, Secretary S.S. Ool'borne, $7,162.39; Brighton TSA 1307.94, plus Sec. 53 248.95 $1,556.89; HaUdfcmaind-Alnwiek Area 413.51; Percy Township Deb. 572.03, Main. 1.97, 574.00; Cramahe T'wip. TSA 4389.78, plus Sec. 53, 57.32, 4447.10; ENDHIS 30620.92, plus Sec. 53, 274.33, 30,895.25; Counties Troas., County rate 37480.68: plus Sec. 53 241.60, 37722.28; Corp. Village of Brighton re fires, 300.00; Municipal World, supplies, 2.18; Thompson & Thompson, legal, fees, 260.00; J, E. Cooriey, stock valuator, 26.00; G. R, Beavis, postage, etc. 10.75; Leslie Rice, salary as truant officer, 82.50; Cities Service Oil Co., hall, 4,1.211; Lome Darling, postage, 10.35; Corp. OoHborne, re fires 1750.00, dump 534.20, 2284.20; Newman Co.. suppplies 'hall 58.59; Grand & Toy, supplies, ; Wm. S. Brown rebate 1967 taxes 28.40; Mel-vile Dudley rebate 1967 taxes 90.88; Road's, Art Moore 216.80; B. Moore 228.00; O. Taylor 199.-50; Alen Jones 189.00; Gerald Qutan 190.00; Herb Trottman 179.85; John Day 25.75; Frank McDonald 27.00; Art Bailey 16.50; Stan Pearson 18.00; Ken McCuMouigh 27.00. Council adjourned to meet Tuesday, January 2nd, 1968, at 11.00 a.im. interviewed, and a tentative selection of a firm has b^£i maide. They will begin at once to mialke preliminary drawings for further study. What of the future? If, as proposed, Elementary and Secondary School Boards as « row know them are eliminated in favour of a County-wide administration, it remains to be seen Whether or no we, as parents, will completely lose the personal contact, small as it may now be, With the future education of our young peodfe. Reeve McLaughlin is well a-ware of the complexities of the school operation as he has served, since its inception, on the Advisory Vocational Com- FORMER GOVERNOR-GENERAL VINCENT MASSEY DIES last was saddened Saturday at the news that Vincent Massey, first native-born Canadian to become Governor General of the country, had died in a London hospital at the age of 80 years. Mr. Massey was appointed Canada's Governor-General in 1952, When he was 65, an I served in that capacity until 1959. Mr. Massey died at King Edward VTI's Hospital where he had been under treatment for what was first thought to be influenza. A state funeral is being held in Christ Church Anglican Cathedral in Ottawa at noon today. Clergymen officiating »t the service will be the Most Rev. Howard Clark, Primate of t A'1'1 Canada and Archbishop of Rupert's Land, and the Rt. Rev. Ernest Reed, Bishop of Ottawa. The present Governor-Gener- i al, the Hon. Roland Mlchener, ^ and Prime Minister Lester ' Pearson wi'l be among those attending. The burial service wi'l take PIa::e at Su. Mark's■A^cafc** Church, Port Hope, COLBORNE PERSONALS Many residents of the Colborne area have been overcome by the flu germ in the past couple of weeks. Mrs. G. W. Connors spent a few days at Burlington with her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert MeOue and Cathy. Mrs. W. L. Matthews, Miss Maude Connors and Mrs. C. A. Myites spent a few days over Christmas in Toronto with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith and Barbara. Mr. C. A. Myles was able to leave Sunnybrook Hospital for a few days and spent Christmas with his family in Toron- NEW MINISTER FOR OLD ST ANDREW'S After filing the vacancy left by the departure from Oollborne many months ago of the Reiv. W. H, Baird by student and visiting ministers, Old St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in C'jlibome is once again to have s regular clergyman. The Rev. John Mackechnie who hail's directly from Scotland, has accepted the call to this (church. He will also be minister to St. Paul's in Lake-port and St. Andrew's in Brighton. A minister of many Scottish parishes, Mr. Mackechnie has an M.A. degree, B.D., and LL.B. from Glasgow, LL.B. from the University of London and M.A. from Galway, Ireland. He has taught in several universities, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Paisley. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smitft nd Barbara spent New Year eekend with her mother, Mrs. . A, Myles. and THREE ARRIVE CHRISTMAS DAY Centeniai Christmas Was a lively day at Oobourg District General Hospital when three babies were biSin there. The first New Year baby was born to proud parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bedding of 453 Burnett Drive, Oobourg. The^ little girl weighed 7 lbs. 9 ozs. She welcomed 1988 at 8.55 a.m. on January 1st. Three babies were born on Christmas Day , 1967. The first Was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Parker of Port Hope, the baby girl weighing 8 lbs. was born at 7.16 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Yee of 347 Nickerson Drive had a baby boy at 8 a.m. He weighed 6 lbs. 16 ozs. A baby boy weighing 6 lbs. 12V6 ozs was born to Mr. and Mrs. Garry Taylor, Castleton, at 11.58 a.m. mittee; this Oommitttee composed of experienced men drawn from business and industry, have given invaluable guidance to the Board in the operation of the various technical shops. I would now respectfully suggest to ail members of Council that they try to attend some of the regular meetings of the School Board with the assurance that they will indeed be cordially welcomed, and come away, perhaps more sympathetically aware of the magnitude of this business, big business, called secondary education. May I thank you for your confidence, and that of your predecessors, in the past number of years, and wish fior y*W all: Good health, wisdom and success in your deliberations. Yours very truly, Jack Armstrong. Mrs, W. L. Matthews jj^uiss Maude Connors had as ridav1 'their guests- on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Smith and Barbara, Miss Brenda Clark air* Mrs. C. A. Myles for a New-Year dinner. NO. 1 IS LATE Vol. 10 of the Chronicle did not get off to an auspicious start. Expected help with the setting of type did not arrive and it was, once again, a case of going it alone. Other problems, which arise from time to time, has also delayed its produlction. Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic Legion Hall, January 23rd ONTARIO'S NEW AGENT GENERAL.--Alan A. Roiwan-Legg, 55, is Ontario's new Agent-General in the United Kinigdtom, effective January 1, 1908, Born in Ottawa and edu- cated ia Toronto, he is a former executive in the oil and gag industry. He succeeds James S. P. Armstrong, 67, who has been Ontario's Agent General in London tor the last' 24 years.