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LOVAT SCOTS

EVER POPULAR P.E.I, REGT. BAND

(Twelve bands sc heduled

‘to take part. in parade

Evervbody loves a parade and Stampede and have made ie

.for a lot of people a. parade jeral television appearances in ~ means —— bands. If you're one \the western provinces. _ 70f those who thrill te the sound! For their trip to PEI. this

of martial musie the Gold Cup hand received a travelling grant and Saucer Parade will be your | from the Centennial Commission “cup /of tea” land .will be spending almost a Twelve bands_ will be taking week in the province. ~ “part in this year’s parade and) Back “again for the parade for: bandsmen number over 400 — #0 those who love things. tinged

whether its the skirl of the hag- with the skirl of the pipes, will

pipes vou “like, or the swing of @/he the Balmoral -Girls Pipe military band. or anything else Band from Stelleraton, N.S. This band-music wise, you'll be sure 95 member, :all-girl, band « has

to’ find it on Gold ‘Cup Day in appeared in Maine and the New.

Charlottetown: \England States, as. well Headlining this year’s list of \¢hroughout the Maritimes bands will be the ‘Spartan. Junior | jthey hold several awards

Drum and Bugle Band from- Mil- |¢neir performance

as and for |

ford, N.H. and -Estevan City | From New Brunswick comes egg Band fom Estevan, | ithe 50-member Fredericton Air

The 75 ‘ecdee-Soarlan ans ‘Cadet Band, which was also here

for Band. heard about ,:the Gold last year and which is the. Cup Parade and ‘festivities frora ae evens Bad in Canadz members of the Katadin Rang- {the second year in a, row

ers Band. of Millinocket. Me., Eight local bands will be tak- who performed in the Gold Cup ahd Parade in 1964 and ‘65. Officials which |

top for

ling pa-r-t in-the parade. P.E.J. Regiment = Band,

this band will ales be performing in front of the grandstand at the |Driving. Park in connection wirh the ‘big race’ pagentry on Fri- day night.

{| The RCAF Band from. RC \F Station Summerside will’ te tak- ding part, as will the Summerside

|Presbyterian Pipe Band: Also”

\representing the western part of |the province ‘will be the very co- Horful-= Kensington—~ Lions Youth Brass Band, which ‘has performed at several fun¢tions in: the province im recent years, lineluding . previous. Gold) Cup Parades,

“The the Queen Charlotte High School Band and two-pipe bands, that are well-known — for their many previous ‘appearances in parades Burke's Lads and Lassies-and the Lovat Seots | Pipe Band. es

The final band hails acréss

the Strait-in Pictou, N.S. — IT IS THE Heather Belles Pipe Band:

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\where the pipe jusually is acquired.

From Charlottetown, there will!

d ted Gold has taken “part ‘in every Gold And so — ‘“there will be music pas Suge oeakaba ta Cup Parade, will be back to add | wherever - -you ~go"’ — on Gold Charlottetown this spring, and. color, lo the day's events” and} Cup-Day. se ' asked if they could take part. | —————— chart ain a

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Pipe smoking \gains favor

NEW YORK (AP)—An Amer ican: industry ation, of customers because of the Second World War is mak- ing a comeback.

It is the pipe and tobacco industry. i

The war called into’ military service ‘millions of younz men at an age when they might have Started ‘moking a pipe. There

was little time in the armed forces_for—leisurely pipe smok- ing and. neophyte. smokers |

turned’ to cigarettes.

Now, 20 vears after the war ended, swarming to college campuses, smoking habit

Manufacturers and -importers of pipes -and smoking tobateo are gearing for one of: their big- gest sales years in history.

In 1940, 205,000,000 pounds of smoking tobacco- was consumed in the Wnited States. Two years later the industry sold 176,000, 000.. pounds. Following these years there was a Steady de-

‘cline. to a point where poundage

remained fairly constant at the 70,000,000-pound level.

In 1954, when salea were

that. lost a gener-

smoking +

_the sons of veterans are |

‘dustry formed the Pipe and ‘To-

fe.

n> sete ‘Work of committee

»

has sparkling results

+ Since ‘its institution. in 1961 “Gold Cup Day’ andthe Gold Cup Race have grown in

That first ‘parade’ and that's an exageration, consisted of the |‘ eight “Gold Cup” girls ‘and one float, a re-enactment of the 1964: Confederation meeting. - sponsor- ed by the City of Charlottetown, But people were so impressed’! with what happened ‘that vear

that the ei gh t¥sland beauties |

and the float wéht . to Toronto that fall, to hecome the first Maritime entry ever taking part

size * ‘land importance at.an almost un- --believablepace,

in the famous rade",

So with this small success be- hind them, a small committee of Charlottetown started work in earnest on ‘Gold Cup" although some changes have ta-

“Grey

‘Gold | present

jed for, five years helping ‘ ‘Cupy Day’ grow its size.

The. parade, the race, and the jother | features that surround

“Gold Cup Day" take no small — of organization. (The

to

re down to 84,000.000 pounds and threatening to go lower, the in

baccé’ Council. Then it intro- duced higher grade smoking to- baccos—pouch packages which sell for abové< 30 cents retail The. results were almost in- stantaneous and _ heartening The industry now ‘sells approx- limately 40 per cent of its ‘total output in these better and more costly blends

Manufacturers, and _ retailers —are-——making greater profit- From a average of less than $1 a pound jat retail, the industry now sells its tobacco at $182 a

pound—a total

ibuSsiness of $130,000,000. °

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At the same time manufacturers and importers, | faced with increasing costs of | production and some scarcities of briar—the most popular pipe |

product—also traded up their!

SUN RESEND

jcustomers.

14,400, ithe | which throughont

distributors s jail business amounts to about

Today the pipe. in- stimates annual sales at

“pipes = vexclusive of less: expenive;corn cobs sell 10,000,000 amts the world--approx- limating $60,000;000.

This combined figure of nearly $200,000,000 is the ‘only source of revenue for the almost forgotten segment of the ltobaceo industry. The total re-

ustry

not

4 }$25.000,000° with the “addition of

1954 < accessories ‘such. as pipe light-

ers, pipe cleaners, pouches, racks, humidors and other para-

an average ofy|phernalia. gross’ |) It, 000,000 ‘ pipe the Pipe |

i estimated there are smokers _ in United States — smoke only a pipe The industry is~ optimistic labout expanding this number as a generation of war babies reaches. smoking age.: '

the

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16,-"

9,000,000 who |

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_|work’ in September -planning the tackled every year 1s looking af- tackle |;

next vear's parade,

ing, .they” work

maintain interest, ganize various -events, grams, see to the

of other: things. But

‘done cheerfully, ‘ist attraction.

ifor every ‘ybody.

« ENSECT

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they ever-present -problems of financ- to create and they must or- plan pro- feeding and Cup’ Pa- accommodation of. visiting bands and: personalities and do*a host these are for the €ommit- businessmen tee knows that “Gold’ Cup’ Day™ the /has become an important event and this committee; on the Island calendar, as a tour- » as a commercial ken place’ in. its ranks, has werk- | \incentive, and as just plain fun,

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papas ahache $<: “ioe ‘of the biggest sachtores | The hand members ane bene some a

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fed in Montgomery the and for lunch on Friday. all the band -members will needing lunch. over 490 per: will have to be served Members of the 1966 Ged ( WR Ed

ter the accommodation and feed- ‘ing for members of visiting bands, keeping in mind the ever present problem of a budget The bands are being housed tn the gymnasiums of Birchwood and Queen Charlotte’ High Schools, with the boys from al! ithe visiting bands in one school and the girls in another * This solved the “problem of-hmisine: but. then there was transporta- tion and getting the bands toge- ther again for the parade and other activities me ‘

Committee include

cox, Roland Taylor. Wright. John Butler, .Duck=..Acorn,._.Marilun...Kane, Guy Fichaud. Roger Charles Moffatt cliffe. kins, Walter Cox and A.W _ det... i

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PAGEANT FEATURE. ...._...

This band has beer featured inthe ‘Miss America’. pageant | jm Atlantic City, New Jersey and ‘m the spring of this year played | 2 concert at Symphony Hall in’ Newark, NJ. They have also eut a long play record on the Fleetwood label.

The Spartan band, te eonipets: ed of teenagers. features its own | eclor guard and is an accom- plished formation drill band.

The Estevan Collegiate Band is alsn a teen-age band and com- prises 55 members. plus its own eight-member. majorette corps. Within. its ranks the Estevan Band has a smaller dance Band and a concert hand. They have been featured at the Calgary

Concerts scheduled by bands

The tuélve bands participating in the Gold Cup Parade won't be finished their day's work, when the parade is over at noon on Friday.— they'll be spending the afternoon giving concerts in var- ious eity squares and at the hos- epitals and other institutions so

i that the patients will have an op- portunity to further enjoy "Gold Cup Day” ‘acivities....-

The two featured hands, the Estevan Collegiate Band of Es- tevan. Sask. and the Spartan Ju- nior Drum and Bugle Band from Milford. NH will be giving*con- certs on Friday afternoon from the terrare of Confederation Cen- | tre__In_addition to this the Spar | tan Band will be performing a drill in front of the grandstand | prior to the racing card on Sat- urday night at the Driving Park,

just before the horses

re ore ong Hhang <n drive ... the sound of pounding hooves across the finish line... Yeo .all Sai ane ; of-this-is part of the thrill-of-harness— racing on Prince Edward Island. The Balmoral ‘Girls Pipe And you enjoy the: Island’s largest spectator spor{ more .because of

Bard will be giving a concert. in i electricity, front of the grandstand at 7.30 pr om the night of the biz nas

re concert line-up for Friday is as follows: 2.30 p.m. Confed- eration Centre terrace — the Es- tevan Collegiate Band followet by the Spartan Junior Drum and Bucle Band. 230 pm PE! — The Balmoral Girls’ Pipe Rand; 330 pm Riverside Heepita!’ — The Fredericton Air Cadet Band, 2.30 p.m. Charlotte- town Hospital — The Lovat, Scots Pipe Band; 2.30 p.m. Pro- vincial Sanitorium — The Hea-

ther Belles Pipe Bard.

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