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Miss Pamela Stewart. Char- lottetown. is pictured at Doug‘s Service Station, Mon- tague, with the Confederation Centre ticketmobile. M is Stewart will be touring Kings County c e n t re 5 weekly to
make it more convenient for residents of the county to pro- cure tickets for the then
e keep' herself busy as driver of the van and the sell- er of tickets. Douglas Coffin. owner of the service station.
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the summer program at the new theatre,
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History, Politics Not Dull Proven By New Play Here
Tommy Tweed’s ‘John A. Beats the Devil" opens in the Confederation‘ Centre Theatre this evening, and its director. Leon Major, hopes it will cre- ate a new image of this coun- try‘s history.
"I hope the play can help de- fray the image that Canadian history and Canadian politics were dull," the Neptune Thea. tre artistic director said in a weekend interVIew.
He commented that Canada’s history is ‘incredibly exciting."
Tommy Tweed’s play. con-A missioned especially to offici- ally open the Charlottetown the- atre, is "dead on, historic-ally," Mr. Major said.
He commented that this was not difficult because ‘the events in John A’s life are dramatic and exciting.” “The only his
torical inaccuracy is the dev- il." he said. (The devil, represented in
this play as one Belial Burns. is portrayed as the cause of certain actions which really
ink it's very funny. 1 hope we'll be able to play it with humor." said the director. admitting that he felt a little “twitchy” because it would be "a new play in a new theatre.‘ MET WITH AUTHOR
The plays cast of is spent a week going over the play with the author at the beginning DI the six-week rehearsal period.
. a or, who termed the meeting “an exciting thing" de- scribed it as follows:
“He read the play to us, then we read it back to him. mmy lcd talks on the historical back- ground to the period and char-
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'ro CONDUCT EXAMS Miss Hose Goldblatt, noted pianist and teacher of Montreal arrived in Charlottetown Sunda evening to conduct Mcc Gill local center examinations in the city today.
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Alan Campbell. London. Our, an accountant with the Canada Trust. HumvErle, has been ascep inspection branch of the bank. He is the son of r. s rs. Samuel Campbell, Prince Charles Drive. Charlottetown.
HUGHES FUNERAL — The funeral of Chester Hughes took Place Saturday morning from his late residence. Promore. to St. Patrick's Church. Fort
ed the servzce at the grave. Rev, Vincent Murnaghan. Rev. Clifford Murphy and Rev, JOI- eph ncLeod nt in the sanctuary. Pallbearers were Seymour Hughes. John 3. Col- lag‘han. Clifford McGuirk. 'lho- mas O'Brien. Patrick Kelly and George Mitchell. Interment was in the cemetery.
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Mass was celebrated by Rev George MacCormaclt. who also conducted the oraveslde ser- vice. Rev. W
, oncv Rift, Harry Leslie, \ernon Mackinnon. Peter Dou- cctte, Grover Coffin and Wil- "am MacDonald. Active pall- bearers were: .1. l. MacEach-
acter analysis. He drew us into the period, ade us aware it. had been a living time.” This type of players-author meeting is unusual in Canada for, as Mr. Major put it, “We don’t have very many authors. ' and few companies producing new plays have the time to no
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Staging is another thing about "John A."
Mr. Major said that, although the technique is not new, it is one which Neptune has not uuo before. -
The actors sit in a semicircle each with a piece of furniture, a chair, a desk, etc.
en the scene is to played they all get up, move their own furniture. and play the scene then move back to the semi- circle. Mr. Major explained.
“There are 32 scenes in the play and we can move from one to the other without really de- laying the progress of the play."
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“A REAL TEAM" ' Most of the people who Will
perform in “John A." this evc-
ning. and throughout the re-
mainder of its two-week book-
ing in Charlottetown. have been
with Halifax's Neptune Thea- tre since its formation last year.
After 13 plays in nine months, the 40-member company is "a real team”. Mr. Major said. commenting that there is “re- markably little friction" among them. and that the technical crew is as good as one could find anywhere.
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GRANT FUNERAL — The funeral for Daniel A. (Dantie) Grant, was held Saturday morn- ing from the residence of his brother. Sife Grant, Peakes Road. to St. Cuthbert’s Church.
eresa's, where Requiem High Mass was celebrated by his pastor, Rev. Eugene Mur- ray who also conducted the ser- vice at the grave. Rev. Preston Hammill was present in the sanctuary. Pallbearers w e r e: rnest Clarkin, Vincent Grant. Everett Fisher. James Hughes, Samuel Johnston and Sylvester Trainor. Interment was in the church cemetery.
Largest Class In History Confirmed
The largest class in the his- tory of Holy Redeemer Giurch. Charlottetown was confirmed last night at services held at the church.
A total of 209 was confirmed in the ceremony conducted by Most Rev. Malcolm MacEach- ern, bishop of Charlottetown as. slated by Very Rev. . . a- loney. CSsR. rector of the church a , W. Doucette, 6553.
Service began at 7.30 and the church was full for the service.
Pastureland Maintenance To Be Shown
Recognition of the increasing importance of maintain- ing grasslands at their peak at all times is seen in a demon stration planned for the Star.- monds Farm at York Point thIs afternoon.
Designed to show local dairy— men how pastures and mead- owlands can be made to pro- duce more feed for dairy herd. the demonstration will he has ed on the tremendous advan- tage to be gained by sub-soiling to permit the retention of ore:- ent moisture for future growth Keeping the moisture in the ground rather than permitting it to evaporate from the sur face provides for a future 'dlet for the pasturelands.
Working in close cooperation with the provincial departmenl of agriculture headed by Hon. Andrew B. MacRae, the Rome Plow Co. of Georgia is sending two men here. One of them is Joseph Tucker, the company Atlantic ' Seaboard agricultural representative. while the other man is rated one of the best ‘catskinners' in the United States. He will be the opera tor of the caterpillar tractor and travels widely in his own country giving similar demon
RATTRAY FUNERAL — The funeral services for Raymond D. Rattray of Lawrence, Mass. formerly of Roseneath. were held from the Cardigan Pres- byterian Church June 5. 1964 at . _ ce was conducted by Rev. Basil C. Lowery. Under the direction of Sterling Mac-Lend, organist, thymns sung were: Friend We Have in Jesus and Safe in the Arms of Jesus, as a duet Mrs. John MacCallum and Lloyd Anderson sang Dear Lord Forgive. Funeral arrange- ments were under the Monta- gue Funeral Home. Pallbearers were: Pius Henneberry Milton Poole, Leith Sanderson,
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MacDonald. Norman Macken-
zie. Maurice Johnston, B u d Fraser. Glen MacLaren. Ken- neth MacLaien. Alvin Myers,
Lynwood MacNeill. Kelso Gor- don and Harold MacKenzie. In- terment took place in the Ca digan cemetery.
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Leo Collings. Don MacOuarrie and charge of the traffic detail
Flower bear- ers were: Cyrus Martin. M00dy ience the following year while
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attendance how money can eas- ily be lost by imnrncer cutting.
These demonstrations a re conducted annually by this or- ganizatiotr.
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GEORGETOWN — The third in a series of meetings leading up to the formation of an in- dustrial development group was held in St. James Hall re- cently.
Re . LB. Dooley called the meeting to order and asked ll'IP. nominating committee to sub- mits its nominaions for officers. The following were nominated and elected by the meeting' president, Temple MacDonald. 1st. vice president, J.W. Lav- ers; 2nd. vice president. Mrs. Joan Currie and, secretary. Charles Mair.
The meeting heard addresses from Reid Sangster, director of resources and development; J .J. MacDonald, fieldman for re- sources and development, and David Smith, agricultural re.- presentative for Kings County. In the absence of the reguiar secretary, Richard Curley was appointed acting secretary for the meeting.
4 locals Have Special Interest In RCMP Ride
When the famous RCMP mu- sical Ride comes to this pro- vince next month there will he at least four adopted’ Island- ers with more than a passing interest in the big show.
They are all Mounties and all have appeared with the rid~ ing wizards in past years. The local group is headed by Sup-
erintendent A. S. McNeill who commanded the ride 1952 when the show went Angeles. With him on casion was Cpl. Jim who was constable time.
The other two members of the local division who appeared with the elite equestrian group are Cst. Myles Foster, now sec- ond-in-command of Montague Detachment. who appeared in Madison Square Garden, New York, giving an acrobatic Rom- an-type display in 1959. Just 10 years before that. in 1949, Sgt. Eric Tedford appeared with the group in the same place.
Sgt. Tedford, who is now in
here. had an interesting exper-
on his way to take up duties in this province. While waiting for the boat at Tormentine he got into conversation with tourists from Long island It develop- ed they had seen him perform with the ride in the Garden.
Development Group Formed Al Georgetown.
An opinion quiz was distribut- ed to those in attendance and the 12 questions asked were, in turn, answered by a show of hands and the questions then discussed at length. Many of the questions brought forth lively discussions and from this the opinions of all were out be- fore the meetin . MAIN DISCUSSION
The main points receiving the most discussion were tour- ism, agriculture. adult educa- tion, small industries and fish-
'es.
It was decided that the nom- inating committee composed of
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Howard S. MacLean, E a Walsh and Frank Parker bring. for presentation to the next meeting, the names of a leader for each of several committees to be formed on tourism. agri- culture, small industries and education. The members of those committees would then be appointed by the meeting.
It was alsn decided hat the date of the next meeting would be June 24.
Stores See Meat Cutting Demonstration
Lucky Dollar and Save-Easy stores held meat cutting de- monstrations recently.
On June 2 about 25 store man- agers gathered at Ellis Bros, Sherwood for the demonstrat- ion conducted by Pius Hughes. Atlantic Wholesalers, meat sup- ervisor, Moncton, NB.
The following evening approx- imately the same number were present at Gaudet's Save-Easy in Summerside. Mr. Hughes again handled the demonstra- tion. On each occasion he ex~ plained the proper cutting pro- cedure and outlined to these in
strations. The two men are:
being brought here at the re quest of Donald Barlow. agric- ultural contractor.
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SOURIS — One man was brought to Charlottetown for further treatment and another was released from Souris Hos- pital following a highway ac- cident a half mile from Souris on the way to Souris Line Road.
George Anthony Longaphie of Souris Line Road was brought to Charlottetown by errys ambulance service with a brok- en leg and a possible concussion following the accident. Percy Daniel Dunphy of Souris ,was
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' feet. rolling over six times, wit- lnesses said. i Dunphy was thrown 10 feet from the car and Longaphie (was 0 r a four foot i fence and landed in a field. The car ended up in the ditch with the, front end facing the road. The driver of the car could not be established at the time of the accident. The accident occurred at about 10.30 last night.
More Colored Lobsters Found
Prince Edward Island is turn» ing up a rainbow of colors in their lobster fishing industry as last night Earl Moore. wnu fishes out of Canoe Cove brought an orange and yellow lobster to The Guardian office.‘ Mr. Moore, whose home is in'
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