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     "whom will be absent from the 
     
    
   
   
    
      several others. « 
     
    
   
   
    
      of the most modern sec- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tuesday Event To Mark 
     
     lSchooI's Official Opening 
     
    
   
   
    
     my actual use extending 
     
     ,,.,§o the third month, Birchwood 
     
     High school is to open its doors 
     
     officially on Tuesday afternoon, 
     
     with me placing of the corner- 
     
     W” by T. E. McNutt, former 
     
     Secretary of the Charlottetown 
     
     schdol Board for 33 years. 
     
     " other dignitaries scheduled to 
     
     mend inclde HIS Honour, Liue- 
     
     ’wnang.Governor F. W a  t e r 
     
     "Hyndman and representvatnve of 
     
     the premier and mayor, both of 
     
    
   
   
    
     my tomorrow. _ 
     
     The new high school is a three 
     
     ry brick structure containing 
     
      classrooms. Although two or 
     
     " 99 of these classrooms have 
     
     not yet been put into use, the 
     
     _pI~mcipa.l, L. F. MacDonald, has 
     
     "indicated that the full facilities 
     
     ‘ - be employed nexrt term 
     
     "‘ J in September, with up- 
     
     'fi;.r,t11:gof 700 pupils filling the 
     
     jwhml to its operating capaci- 
     
     "lies. 
     
     ‘MODERN FEATURES 
     
     7 The school is equipped with all 
     
      features, including sec- 
     
     fims "devoted to industrial arts, 
     
     ‘home economics cadet training‘ 
     
     ‘ma and gymnasium. Along with 
     
     these are teachers’ rooms, ad- 
     
     ministrative offices and a health 
     
     ' ‘c. 
     
      are plastered and 
     
     Painted in pastel shades. Floors 
     
     “ire tiled while ceilings are of 
     
     “jwugtic tile. Each room is equip- 
     
     with two slates measuring 
     
     “eight by sixteen feet. The gen- 
     
     “eral science room provides a 
     
     “wide range of special equipment. 
     
     ~’ The mdustrial arts department 
     
      complete working facilities 
     
     in woodworking and dralfiting and 
     
     provisions have been made for 
     
     expussion to include a sheet 
     
     meg] . In the wood- 
     
     "working section are the basic 
     
     ‘inechanized tools including 
     
     bandsaws, drills, sandstones and 
     
    
   
   
    
     noun ECONOMICS 
     
    
   
   
    
     7-tlons is the home economics 
     
     cook-mg department, were facili- 
     
     ties are available for 16 girls to 
     
     “advance their cooking slnlls at 
     
     “one time. There are four elec- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tric ranges and drawers Cup- 
     
     l£)i(r)l:I‘d;'sr0f.3lll “matched sets of 
     
     sories Inltlilb ah'needed accesi 
     
     five elect ' e Sewnlg department 
     
     on the OFICE machines are kept 
     
     own sag . ach student has her 
     
     . Parate drawer for stor- 
     
     mg Work. In the weaving de- 
     
     partment, six looms are used as 
     
     the girls weave their own 
     
    
   
   
    
     material for dresses, scarves or 
     
     dorlies. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SEATS FOR 1,000 
     
    
   
   
    
     The cadet _area includes a 
     
     pguéldproof rifle ‘range where 
     
     th“_9 boys at a time can take 
     
     ‘?‘'1' tum and a store room for 
     
     ulilforms and rifles. The com- 
     
     blned gymnasium - auditorium 
     
     seats more than 1,000 for stage 
     
     performances and 200 for athle- 
     
     t1°_DI‘0gI*ams, when fans are re- 
     
     stricted to the bleachers. 
     
     A’lZl1-l6T,iC facilities are avail. 
     
     able for most of the indoor 
     
     sports «including gear for basket. 
     
     ball and volleyball. Along with 
     
     gymnastic equipment. 
     
     The spacious library .1 s ex. 
     
     Deched to be ready for use by 
     
     next Séptember. In addition to 
     
    
   
   
    
     the kitchen in the home ecbno- 
     
     rnics department, two smaller 
     
     kitchens are situated just off the 
     
     gymnasium and library, to he 
     
     used for various functions held 
     
     in them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WORK ON GROUNDS 
     
    
   
   
    
     The g e n e r a 1 contractors, 
     
     County Construction Company of 
     
     Charlottetown are at present 
     
     completing the Landscaping 
     
     around the school and the city is 
     
     completing the construction of 
     
     a sidewalk along the Longwonth 
     
     Avenue side. The paving of the 
     
     school ‘yard is expected to be 
     
     completed early in the fall. 
     
     _ Sub-contractors for the 
     
     include several Halifax firms. 
     
     Power Brothers looked after the 
     
     plumbing and heating; the paint- 
     
     ing contract went to Parker 
     
     Brothers; ceilings to Dominion 
     
     Sound; sprinkling system to 
     
     Nova Scotia sprinkling; terraz- 
     
     zo floors in the washrooms to 
     
     Nova Scotia Tile and Terazzo 
     
     and pl-atstenintg to Maritime 
     
     Asphalt of Summerside while 
     
     Burke Electric of Charlomtetovvn 
     
     had the wiring contract. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Scotia Light and Power Company 
     
     is studying prospects for bring- 
     
     ing hydro power from the Hamil- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ton River in Labrador to Nova 
     
     Scotia. 
     
    
   
   
    
     May Bring 
     
     Power To N.S. 
     
     From Labrador 
     
    
   
   
    
     rington told the company's an- 
     
     ~ nual meeting of the proposal here 
     
     Wednesday. 
     
    
   
   
    
     remains to be solved but there 
     
     HALIFAX (cp) ._ The Nova have been interesting suggestions 
     
     from the British Newfoundland 
     
     Developm ent Company, which 
     
     has large holdings in the area. 
     
    
   
   
    
     River are considered one of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     General Manager A. R. Har- 
     
    
   
   
    
     He said the problem of cost 
     
    
   
   
    
     Grand Falls on the H-amilton 
     
    
   
   
    
     but atomic energy is still too 
     
     costly. 
     
    

    
     He called for use of federal 
     
     sulbventions to bring the cost of 
     
     coal in line with oil for steam- 
     
     generatecl electricity. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Negotiations were reported go- 
     
     ‘ ing ahead for the connection of 
     
     Nova Scotia and New Br-unswick 
     
     power systems. Nova Scotia Light 
     
     and Power Company, the Nova 
     
     Scotia Power Commission and the 
     
    

    
     “This would assure a ma} ma,-_’ New Brunswick Electric Power 
     
     =ket for local mines and any 
     
    
   
   
    
     in our Moncton. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Annapolis Valley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Nova Scotia Light and Power 
     
     plans to open a 100.000 kilowatt 
     
     steam—powered generating plant 
     
     at Dartmouth, N.S., by 1963. New 
     
     hydro plants are proposed in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     greatest potential sources of hy- benefit in reduced cost could belbuilding s 1.38.000-volt lransmls—‘°["he Guardian Page 11 
     
     dro power in the world. Mr. Har- passed to power customers by| sion line between Halifax and‘ 
     
     rington said all possible sources fuel escalator clauses 
     
     of electric power are under study rates.” Mr. Harrington said. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Monday, June 2. 1958  
     
    
   
   
    
     Company Limited. “"35 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHRISTEN SHIP 
     
     PORT WELLER, Ont. (CPW - 
     
     Commission would co-operate in The Frank A. Sherman, new 681- 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Great Lakes 
     
     Lawrence River. 
     
    
   
   
    
     foot flagship of Upper Lakes 
     
     and St. Lawrence Transportation 
     
    
   
   
    
     tened and commissioned Satur- 
     
     day. The ship becomes thc third 
     
     largest Canadian bulk carrier on 
     
     .141 the St. 
     
    
   
   
    
     chris- 
     
    
   
   
    
     job ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     OFFICIAL OPENING 
     
    
   
   
    
     BIRCHWOOD H 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHARLOTTETOWN 
     
    
   
   
    
     The public is cordially invited to attend the laying 
     
     of the corner-stone and official opening of Birch- 
     
     wood High School on Tuesday, June 3rd at 3 o’clock. 
     
    
   
   
    
     R. G. LEA, M.D., C.M.: CHAIRMAN, 
     
     Board of School Trustees. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IGH SC HOO-I. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘GLAZING by 
     
    
   
   
    
     PLATE 
     
     6'7 King Street 
     
    
   
   
    
     CARSON 3. BIRT 
     
     CONGRATU LATIONSA 
     
    
   
   
    
     to _the administrators of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Birchwiood High School 
     
    
   
   
    
     on their opening occasion. We are 
     
     honoured to have participated. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CARSON 3. BIRT 
     
    
   
   
    
     GLASS 
     
     Dial 8043 
     
    
   
   
    
     WE EXTEND 
     
    
   
   
    
     CON GRATULATIONLS 
     
    
   
   
    
     To 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Board of School Trustees 
     
     , and the 
     
    
   
   
    
     GENERAL CONTRACTOR 
     
    
   
   
    
     County Construction Co. Ltd. 
     
     on the ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     OFFICIAL OPENING 
     
    
   
   
    
     I Birchwood High School 
     
    
   
   
    
      Building’—i-Specialties 
     
     '1 PLYWOOD PL: , " 
     
     CHARLOTTETOWN P.E.i. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     HllRDWllRE 
     
     Supplied By 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE ROGERS HARDWARE 
     
    
   
   
    
     co. LIMITED 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wears proud that Rogers Hardware was selected for the 
     
    
   
   
    
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     I 
     
    
   
   
    
     beautifully clppolnted new High School. Our congratula- 
     
    
   
   
    
     lng of your new public school. 
     
    
   
   
    
     "IF IT'S HARDWARE .  . WE HAVE IT" 
     
    
   
   
    
     tlons 1-0 the citizens of Charlottetown on the official open- 
     
    
   
   
    
       THE ROGERS HARDWARE CO. LTD. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHARLOTTETOWN. P.‘E.I. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
      Grain 
     
     Frospeds Good 
     
    
   
   
    
      Tsy rm: CANADIAN panes 
     
     ‘:_"A dry spring followed above- 
     
     nomnl winter precipitation on 
     
     the prairie mrainwtmwll-D8 Irwl. 
     
      all regions except southeast 
     
      and eastern Man- 
     
     itoba show above-normal  
     
     for the nine months ended April 
     
     Statistics prepared not-\ The 
     
     Canadian Pres by the meteorol- 
     
     ogical division oi the department 
     
     of transport show that the carcass 
     
     ranged from 89 per cent In the 
     
     . Peace River region of Alberta to 
     
     live per cent in southwest Sas- 
     
    
   
   
    
     »__; lnatohewnn. 
     
    
   
   
    
     _. This spring, the llalck of pre- 
     
    
   
   
    
     .cipitatt1’on has been most marked 
     
     .in southeast Saskatchewan and 
     
    

    
     eastern Manitoba. Below-normal 
     
     agprecipitmtion in March and April 
     
      been tidllsowed by continued 
     
      weather in May. In south- 
     
     east Saskatchewan there was a 
     
    
   
   
    
     .,-malolt the end of April and in 
     
     -namrn Manitoba the deficit was 
     
     ,l0 per cent. 
     
    

    
     For Albenta as a whole the ex- 
     
     “-goess was 26 per cent at the end 
     
     :5“ April, compared with an ex- 
     
     ..~.~,.,c’ess of 32 per cent at the end of 
     
     February. ,, 
     
      all Saskatchewan, the ex- 
     
      was reduced from hive per 
     
    
   
   
    
      per cent at the end of April. 
     
     .,...'l‘he entire province of Manit- 
     
     Albe was reduced to normal, fi- 
     
     ~8l1'res at the end of April, com- 
     
     .~,.D&red with an excess of seven 
     
     Per cent at the end of February. 
     
      The ofiflicial figdrets do not in- 
     
     ..~.9lude the month of May, but the 
     
     «-‘-Wort notes that rainfall was 
     
     is-Werywhere below normal inrthe 
     
     -lmst two weeks of the month. In 
     
     Manitoba and southeast Saskat- 
     
     'a:¢heWan itwas less than a quarter 
     
     :9‘ norrnall precipitation for this 
     
     -'»P._El‘l0d. 
     
     _ Temlpenatures in excess of 90 
     
     degrees were reported in Saskat- 
     
     alzhewan and Manitoba on May 12. 
     
     *4‘-b0Ve-normal temperatures, hack 
     
     Of rainfall and high winds have 
     
     ‘iilready produced dust storms in 
     
     llartis of Manitoba. . 
     
     =:.For the full nine months from 
     
     ville end of last July to the end 
     
     f”°f -‘¥l>I‘i1, all regions of Alberta 
     
     >‘;l;0W an exicess of «precipitation. 
     
     ‘ Per cent in the Peace River 
     
     ‘and 35 per cent in central Al- 
     
     "W8; 17 per cent in the north- 
     
     " °°“t“9«‘1 Pant of the province and 
     
     12 IP61‘ cent in the south. 
     
     .thN‘0rthvvest_ S-alsl-ratchewan for 
     
     in” M1 lllemod had an excess of 
     
     ,W 1”” ctnt; in the northeast it 
     
     ~ *5 Seven per cent above nor- 
     
     ‘Mr and in the s-outihwest fvive 
     
     fimeent, compared with the de- 
     
     eal °f 24 her cent in the south- 
     
     - st. 
     
     ‘ fi‘}’l11i0l§a's alltpro/Vince normal 
     
     in 9 11’1ne months comes firvorm 
     
     Lwesfélcess of 10 per cent in the 
     
      In part, and a deficit of 10 
     
    
   
   
    
     M3 will in the eastern part. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,N-5- Temperance 
     
     Orker Dies 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,,‘§0*}11JFAX (CP) — E.R. Nick- 
     
     kér ahléominent temperance 
     
     V ova SE1 _l"0I'mer member of the 
     
     here .Wed°t1a Legislature. died 
     
     . ,._N.1 Eesday. He was 82. ; 
     
     lices . 9‘ erson held executive of-‘ 
     
     - isms laatronal and provincial 
     
     mem “Ting his 68 years as 
     
     long of T 0f the order of the 
     
     ‘tonal hea§mDel‘ance. He was na- 
     
     l0I%g24_ Of the order from 1922 
     
     ’°m 19251: 
     
     Ie;~va_- 0 1928 he was a Can- 
     
     llu-e ,t-10‘,:_°s'l’1‘°mber of the Legisla- 
     
     E£nt_at_an:l3bume. He was ser. 
     
     lb 193a_ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     1.1 the House from 
     
    
   
   
    
     detlcit of 24 per cent below nor- ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,-emtlitttlieendofl-‘el)rtAaryt:o_ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     CONGRA 
     
    
   
   
    
     With the opening of Birchwood 
     
     step in the field of education . . . 
     
     for the future of the Province a _ _ 
     
     today is the responsibility of every citizen . 
     
     strated, once again its faith and confidence 
     
     rests on the shoulders of our youth . . 
     
     educational facilities is vital and important - 
     
     important steps in this educa 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Cilyol Charlottetown 
     
    
   
   
    
     TENDERS 
     
    
   
   
    
     TU LATIONS 
     
    
   
   
    
      . To "5 
     
    
   
   
    
     BOARD or SCHOOL TRUSTEES 
     
    
   
   
    
     AND 
     
    
   
   
    
     , . GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLIEDGES 
     
    
   
   
    
     y ’TH|S FORWARD STEP IN ED~UCATlON HERE 
     
    
   
   
    
     "NEW BIRCHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL" 
     
    
   
   
    
     . any 
     
    
   
   
    
     J. ARTHUR GORMLEY 
     
     A. WALTHEN GAUDEL 
     
     FRANK O’NEILL 
     
    
   
   
    
     A. JAMES HASLAM 
     
     J. EDMOND ARSENAULT 
     
    
   
   
    
     High School, Charlottetown has taken yet 
     
     an important step for 
     
     s a whole. The matter 0 
     
     . . and in this. respect Charlottetown has demon- 
     
     in the younger generation. The future of Canada 
     
     thing that can be done now to further their 
     
     . . .and Birchwood High School is one 
     
     tional development program. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Edwin C. Jolinstone 
     
     Mayor 
     
    
   
   
    
     EARLE C. BAKER 
     
    
   
   
    
     GERALD R. FOSTER 
     
     HARRY E. HYNDMAN 
     
     F. WILLIAM BOYLES / 
     
    
   
   
    
     ELMER MacRAE 
     
    
   
   
    
     COUNCILLORS 
     
    
   
   
    
     the youth of the City . . 
     
     1' providing education for the youth of 
     
    
   
   
    
     another forward 
     
     . and, indeed, 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANOTHER UP-TO- DATE SCHOOL  . . . 
     
     \ FOR CHARLOTTETOWN 
     
    

    
     THE , RESULT or: 
     
    

    
     Industry . . . Integrity and Enterprise, 
     
    
   
   
    
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      A son: ACHIEVEMENT BY. 
     
    
   
   
    
         THE‘ CITIZENS 
     
     WHO BUIIDTFOR TOMORROW! : 
     
    
   
   
    
     The congratulations of this General Contractors must go to 
     
     the Board of School Trustees for their foresight in the 
     
     construction of Birchwood High School, and to the Archi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     . leclural firm of Downie. Baker and Alnern for their 
     
    
   
   
    
     wise and fundamental planning of the completed building. 
     
    
   
   
    
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       AnotI1er‘ExdmpIe of Modern Construction by ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     COUNTY CONSTRUCTION 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHARLOTTETOWN 
     
    
   
   
    
     CO- LIMITED 
     
    
   
   
    
     P. E. I.