Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 3

Ksnntboc Jour ml Augusta Friday January 2V 1VS2 3 With what mmu HktaaadkM pilaaf wood still tsgn Gabriel Dmtteqttz wood at Ms term oa the OM Belgrade Read la Aagarta Deetie waited eutride durteg the eeM eO bat be mid he was thaakfol far Thunday'i (KJ phafe by Jay Better) New headmaster wants to attract moresruaents rates vary A student boarding school seven days a week will a year The Cost drops to 65-400 five-day boarders and to 63100' students in high school gradft school students in grades six eight pay6260ft is' finaidal help available said from a 680000 scholarship 48 students now take ad van- acher to eight or nine pupils One of Hanson's goals however is to raise the population to 150 and to see a better mix of day and hoarding students Day students come from Water-ville Vassalboro China Palermo Winslow Gardiner Augusta and Belgrade Asked if the school is experiencing the same financial crunch as a lot of othenvsteichools tage of: Tuition a the pay 66000 for for day 'Middle though There Hanson fund that dents and faculty ia far greater because it carries over after school" added Hanson who draws regular dorm duty himself Among new propams Hanson is undertaking is one he thinks will appeal to both working parents and their children The arrangement would give students achance to live at the school five "days a week and reiurn'io their Tami- Hanson sfldT lies every weekend The school has 36 of the younger itu- That he aqya' would give stpdents dents in its middle school and Hanson the best of both worlds the personal says the arrangement has been wort-attention and low stude-it-teacher ing well ratios of a boarding school and contin- The school has a total population of ued relationships with their own faml- 106 students most of whom are day ate-lies dents The school's small population He said eight of the school's 12 fac- means the students get more individual ulty members serve as house parents attention: an average class size is one once a week and every fourth weekend The school also has two part-time fac- ulty members Wbea they aren't on dorm duty faculty members are in their own apartments at the school -Oak Grove-Coburn accepts students from the sixth grade through grade 12 unlike most boarding schools which do not -take Junior high achool students By BETTY POTTER KJ Staff Writer VASSALBORO With tuition running up to 16000 a year the Oak Grove-Coburn School may not be for every-' one but tbe achool's iiew headmaster is an enthuHaatic aaleaman for private education Dale Hahaon named to lead the (mail private achool juat lix montha" ago hopea to increase a tudent population by nearly SO1 percent while embarking on a new recruitment "program biggest difference between a student going to public achool or being a1 boarding student is the fact the students live with the faculty members" he said rapport between boarding stu Hanson who came to Oak Grove-Coburn from a much larger prep school Kimball Union Acdemy in Meriden NH where he served as assistant headmaster cays he wanted the chal- lenge of being piut of making Oak Grove-Coburn successful Hanson has a' few more challenges facing Mm The building which houses classrooms dormitory dining room gymnasium and auditorium is old and not energy efficient' The school already has received a federal grant to install a new furnace and storm window and hopes to get -another grant to cap the building Hanson is a 1961 graduate of the University of Maine Orono a nd has a master's degree from the University of New Hampshire He and his wife have two daughters IN mem6riam In Loving Memory of Shirley Ann Blaia Who passed eway Jan 291961 It's been a year ago today Since' God shoes to take you away I have yearned for your return But I know it can nevu be So til we mast on that distant shore I atm low you ever more jjQ might come waste noted that not close to Stream or River so could pollute DEP 'control set- think as long as the school stays the size it is now there will always be Hanson plans to conduct an active recruitment program this year to attract students from Maine and other states' The school offers students a college preparatory coursi with emphasis on music ait and drama Farmer wants to use sludge CHELSEA A former poultry former is seeking permission to use treatment plant sludge to fertilize his crops Wixon Street! of Dondero Road- has applied to the Department of Environmental Pro Dental health a priority in Monmouth inants that industrial Street also his land is either Togus the Kennebec no run-off either stream regulations tection for permission to hacks from water roads and'wells Many of the planned activities are being paid for with a 6658 grant the school received this week from the state and dental health office Susan Anthony dollars donated by Monmbutfi merchants will be prises for the best porter in each clan Businesses will display the winning poster Planning for the sdgar-free Valentine'S Day party has already begun said Cunliffe It's been decided she said that the kindergarten children will cut out' hearts of cheese rather than chocolate' children's dental health more seriously "We can teach them in clan year after year hut we have to have par- ents follow through" she said dental care is not a priority to the patent When I call parents and tdll them their child needs to see a dentist they often say sorry we don't have the money! "But some of the families have three snow machines and two CBs' For some reason they feel they have to live with dental Maine has the worst rate of decay in the country By the time kids hire 13 98 percent have had at' lefst 10 decayed teeth Cunliffe said During the month all grade school teachers win be instructing their' pupils on dental health: how to brush and use dental floss In order to educate the teachers dental hygienists from the state Office of Dental Health held a work- shop in the school library Wednesday Brushes hnd packets of floss were handed out Hygienist PatjJones demonstrated with a pteaticmodel of teeth and a large brash wiggle it around All the students get tickled when I do that in class" MONMOUTH 'School nurse Charlene Cpidiffe says she probably sees more-children complaining of toothaches than any other problem why at the Henry Cottrell School "we are about National Dental Health' Month whlch begins Feb 1 she said Activities will Include a first grade field trip to a dentist's office a poster contest and sugar-free Val- Day patties for all classes Cunliffe is hoping all the hoopla -will convince parents to take their Eiid of Month Augusta Sale Save 20-50 On and apparel and spread solid and liquid sludge from a treatment' plant at the Veterans Administration Center at Togus' The sludge would be ueed to fertilize 31 acres of corn Street raises for beef cattle A Street said he had used hen manure on his land but whs forced to seek al-ternatives when he dropped out of the poultry business "Commercial fertiliz- er is terribly terribly expensive" he said comparison with poultry litter it's far more controlled because it's constantly monitored" Street said of the sludge "I've been told there is less danger with sludge than with ordinary cow DEP officials say sludge has hem decomposed under oxygen-free conditions so it has little odor Gary Naultof the DEP added that since the sludge going to Street's land comes only from Togus it Is free of heavy metals and conta- Calcagni said the committee will take a look at plans developed 15 years ago under the old federal Urban Renewal program that would have expanded parking in the downtown area That plan called for the demolition of a number of buildings on Main and Union streets It would have resulted in the development of a 75-car parking lot west of Union Street and an 80-car lot east of Union Street mr' Mill Stream Calcagni said WINADA may stillbe able to implement a portion of the project which was turned down by Winthrop voters in 1967 In order to finance any project Calcagni said WINADA hopes to take advantage of community development grant program now pending before the state Legislature the parking situation downtown a priority through the new committee During the last decade Winthrop merchants have lost business to shopping centers in Atagusta and Lewiston partially because of lack of parking said Calcagni "It's not just prices" he said "They charge the same prides Parting has been a big "The small businessman has always had a difficult time staying in said Calcagni "We don't' want downtown to become deserted" According to Winthrop codes officer James Catlin there are only 59 Spaces valla ble for use by the general public In the shopping district 50 in the stretch of Main Street between Green and Bowdoin streets and nine more in Union Street There are a couple of dozen stores shops and offices within the same area Several years ago a state-aponsored road-wld-Ming project took away several parking slots from Main Street WINTHROP The Winthrop Ana Development Association is looking for ways to expand parking facilities in downtown Winthrop There's been' an awful lot of complaints about parking about the lack of said James Harrington a Winthrop attorney who was appointed by WIN ADA to form a downtown revitalisation committee WINADA president Ralph Calcagni said the new committee will study the downtown area and its problems It will suggest pbssible solutions he said and see whether there are state or federal grants available to pay bn- the wqrk there are improvements that can be' made in appearance and said Calcagni "It seems like it's been deteriorating over the Last year WINADA played an integral role in planting trees beside the sidewalk along Main Street This year the development association will make 30C el ustices consider cameras in courtroom The ABA has opposed photography in the courtroom since the 1930s when a camera ban was adopted in reaction to the behavior of photographers covering the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in the famous Lindbergh baby kidnpapping case The ban was extended to television in 1952 But after taking a new look at the ban an ABA committee proposed letting courts permit such erage providing it does not become obtrusive or interfere with a right to a fair trial The proposal was considered at the ABA's recently concluded wihter convention in Chicago and is to be reconsidered by bar committees this spring and possibly by the full ABA membership at its August convention PORTLAND (AP) The Maine Supreme Court is joining the American Bar Association in considering the issue of whether cameras should be banned from the courtroom Maine currently has a ban on photographing broadcasting and televising courtoom proceedings But Chief Justice Vincent McKusick is seeking written comments by March 1 on whether the ban ahold be continued or lifted Consideration of this old subject stems from a US Supreme Court ruling last year that said criminal trials could be televised without violating a defendant's legal rights The US Constitution does not bar cameras and sound recording equipment In the courtroom' the court said in a case involving Florida's policy of allowing photographing' and televising of criminal trials 25-50 OFF Our entire stock of factory wholesale prices Now through Saturday Velour Tops 450 Running Suits $750 Velour Dresses 1200 At these prices you afford to miss our sale TWO FOR ONE ON REMAINING 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