PROBLEM: 30,000 MORE CHILDREN

THE foundations of planning for Catholic education in Birminghum were laid before the war, when the population was 110,000 less than now, and there are over 30,000 more children in school.
Fr. Borynski
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FEARS are growing that Fr. Henry Borynski has been murdered, but there is no evidence yet to support them. The police do not discount the possibility.
Bradford's Polish priest has been missing without trace for five weeks.
Superintendent Thomas Rushworth, chief of the city's C.I.D., states: 'There is no clue to his whereabouts. There has never been any real clue to this mystery."
Questioning of Bradford Poles, he said, is continuing, but nothing satisfactory had been obtained from interviews.
Mr. George Craddock, M.P. for South Bradford, states that he intends to discuss the matter fully with the police. He has also written to. the Home Secretary, Sir David MaxwellFyfe, asking for information about the case.
Mr. Craddock has already said he may ask a question when Parliament reassembles.
Police have taken statements from two of the staff of Diddington Polish Grammar School in Huntingdonshire. Both are personal friends of Fr. Borynski.
Mr. George Deitrich said at a Press conference: "I told the police I knew of no enemies of Fr. Borynski's and that in my view he has been murdered by a hostile element in Bradford. I believe the crime was the work of a group."
Mr. Tadeusz de Thun said: "If Fr. Borynski were still alive and free, we should have heard from him by now. Since leaving the school he wrote regularly. He came to see us twice. The last time was in April. He was full of his work in Bradford."
Durham miSners' new president
Mr. James Kay, second senior agent of the Durham Miners' Association, has become president.
Formerly a check weighman, 58year-old Mr. Kelly, at one time a county councillor, has been agent to the association since 1945 and is a member of the National Executive of the National Union of Mineworkers.
He is a member of St. Joseph's parish, Stanley.
To extension—$1,000,000
The Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart are to spend $1,000,000 on an extension to D'Youville College, Buffalo.
a When the 1944 Act was passed the foundations were already laid on which the representatives of the education committee and the Catholic delegates could begin to build. Even then it was evident that new conditions had arisen since 1939, but it was not possible to make an accurate estimate of them.
It was not possible. for example, to estimate the extent of Irish and other immigration, nor to know that the number of children seeking entrance to sehool-14,000 a year before the war—would continue to rise to a level in 1953 approaching 22.000. That was simply because the children entering the schools in 1953 were not yet born.
More children
The new Act involved an increase in the years at school from nine to 10, and Birmingham had to face an increase in the child population almost without. precedent.
Meanwhile, it was evident that the increase of Catholics in the city towards 100,000 involved a re-examination of specifically Catholic needs.
These again could not be dealt with all in one way. Some parishes were not subject to large increases in child population. Other parishes on the outskirts were newly formed and substantial housing estates which were without Catholic school provision at all.
The central areas. including the parishes of St. Chad's Cathedral, St. Peter, St. Catherine and St. Anne. were subject to a re-development scheme which would involve a major move of population away from the area in 15 'years or so. according to the success of the city council in carrying out its plans.
Out-of-date plans
Population changes have made all plans out of date to some degree. Further, building conditions in the West Midland area have been more than usually difficult, and the necessary restrictions on building have made the provision of new schools a race against time to provide More accommodation before increasing numbers of children were knocking at the door.
At the same time, the new organisation of primary and secondary education virtually imposed by the new Act made it no longer possible to plan for new parochial schools; Continued on page 5