Halifax Herald August 7, 1967 Three persons died over the weekend in accidents on Nova Scotia highways. Two of the deaths took place in Cape Breton, bringing to five the number of people killed there in the past week. Dead are Eric Colburne, 46, Collingwood, Cumberland County; John F. MacCalder, 24, Orangedale, Inverness County and Debbie Jean MacLellan, 11 River Denys, Inverness County. Mr. Colburne, the lone occupant of his vehicle, was rushed to Colchester Hospital, Truro, after a head-on collision at Wentworth Saturday at 6:30 p.m. He died four hours later. Surviving Mr. Colburne is his wife, Jean; two sons, Brent and Bruce; one daughter, Valarie, two brothers, Walter and Eugene, both of Collingwood; a sister, Mrs. Francis Atkinson, and his mother, Mrs. Whylie Colburne, Collingwood. The driver of the other vehicle, William MacKnight, CFB Greenwood, escaped uninjured, but his wife and daughter, Ellison, were taken to hospital. A spokesman for the hospital said last night that the child was in serious condition. Mrs. MacKnight was in satisfactory condition. An employee of a Port Hawkesbury construction company, Mr. MacCalder died in Inverness County Hospital Saturday. Police said he was seriously injured earlier in the day when! a piece of heavy earth moving machinery he was driving had a wheel drop into the ditch, pitching him out of the driver's seat directly into the path of the moving vehicle. Surviving Mr. MacCalder are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacCalder, Orangedale; two sisters, Ena and Margie Bell, at home; four brothers, Alexander, Orangedale, and Gussie, Ian and Dale, at home Miss MacLellan, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil MacLellan, River Denys, died in a North Sydney hospital early Sunday morning as the result of an accident Saturday afternoon at Melford, Inverness County. RCMP said she was one of three occupants of a half-ton truck that left the road and went over a 15-foot embankment into a pile of boulders after a collision with another vehicle. Police said the girl was thrown out of the truck. Name of the driver of the second vehicle was not available. submitted by "Gerry Mattinson" <gmattins@rogers.com>