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RELAX... DURING OLD HOME WEEK

ISLAND GRILL for food as you like it.

Delicious Chinese and Canadian Food

While enioving the Fair come te the

always was @ tremendous as but this year it promises to surpass anything ever offered to Maritime harness racing pa-, trons The reference of course is the “Old Home Week"’ racing program which goes ev- ening, startimg Aug. 16 and running through Saturday, Aug. a1 If the weatherman behaves, and Charlottetown Driving Park officials are sure hoping for the fullest. co-operation, that means 12 race meetings in the space of | six days. No spot in the world is

to

harness |

jis that the visiting speed is

as race ambitious as they are)

the always-efficient clerk of the jcourse, Mrs. Ida Yeo Ida _ has leverything at her finge*iips and she has hundreds of questions fir ed her way these days. She has answers for all of them FREE OF VIRUS

Horses appear in excellent shape at the local oval and word just as robust. The virus tha! plagu- ed Maritime tracks in 196i is missing this year and horsemen and track managements are grateful for that

Stable space wil! indeed be at a premium during Fair..Week Talk about getting space for

these days. Entries are numer-| same problem and nobody is for- ous and the classifier has the) gotten. huge job of lining up suitable; The first big event of the week

Soe,

Racing patrons guaranteed biggest lineup in history

thur holding the réins, Milton! that’s a few of them -— have Downey's Royal Salute, Border-| some great trotters and pacers view Roy, owned by Ferguson ready for the opposition. You and MacDonald, Sydney, Guy | can expect many rea! battles -- Dibbon’s Huckster from Dart/ROYAL RIGHT FROM M mouth, Harry Hirseh’s Queen's! through Saturday night

Newton from Sydney and) A few of the invading headlin- P.E.l.'s great favorite; Elmer erg are Time To Go, Adios El-

Ferguson's Hurrah, co comets, Richilieu, Killar- : ney organ Chief, Sir MORE TO COME mpson, Whirlawick, Oi! Capi-

| Sa

By race night there'l! be a cou- ple of others in this one and ei. | a, eee, — — ther of the added ones could |i, now being made of the entries grab the lion's share of thi Bi 556 the gréatest of all classics, great Inviattional, |The Evening Patriot Gold Cup

There'll be a large number of | and Saucer, which goes Friday well-known drivers coming from | night, Aug. 20. This event has

Mauger will have some high! Right now, there is every in- class speed entered. |dication that race ‘ans will see Of course, Island drivers will| the most interesting cards ever

World reaction {spans the scale. -

Reaction te Gubseuell seces- |

sion from the two-year-old: Ma- laysian Federation ranged to- day from shock and dismay in Britain to jubilation in Indone- sia and satisfaction in Russia.

In London, the independent Times comments:

“The departure — and emer gence as an independent state of so politically conscious and economically active a unit throws the whole future of the federation into doubt and with it British policies in Southeast Asia."

The Times agrees with The Financia! Times and The Daily

Sketch that Britain might have. lognize the new state.

to consider transferring the cen-

And in Wellington, New Zea. land's Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, announcing his coun- try’s recognition of Singapore, said New Zealand's interest was in the progress and stability oe

ithe area and its defence against

aggression.

“We must continue te work for those goals with Malaysia and an independent Singapore just as ip the past we have worked for them with Malay. sia,’ he said. «

In Tokyo a foreign ministry spokesman said the Japanese’ government had decided to ree- iF

tre of its Far Eastern military | Minister Etsusabure Shiina

In. Paris, the withdrawal a success for Communist China and Indo-

. at the Charlottetown oval. |tourists at motels. Well, finding other tracks. Fellows like Ruffin | become the greatest racing spec- ISLAND GRILL Classifier and race secretary, spots for all visiting horses will Barrieau, Frankie Daniels, Burt |tacle east oP thee There'l| operations from Singapore to earlier me oe believe Singa- F. Frank Acorn is the busiest be equally as tough. However, MacLaren, Don. Ratchford. Tke | be plenty of publicity on this Australia or an island in the In- pore wou! an toward Indone Queen Street Charlottetown man on Prince Edward Island|CDP officials always solve this Moreside and George ‘Titter’| one come early next week dian Ocean. newspapers -term wy Moscow a commentator for

the Soviet news agency Tass

+ said Monday:

“Those who from the very be- ginning have considered Malay- sia an artificial creation set. up by foreign forces received today one more weighty proof thet

nesia.

The independent sawopafer | Combat says a breach has been opened in the not-too-solid flank separating Viet Nam from Aus-

do their-utmost to outelass_ the offered Old Home Week patrons. | visitors. Fellows like Walter Nothing is being left undone to Craig, Joe Hennessey, Emmet | insure the race public of the tops Bernard, Dave Wisener, John in entertainment.

Buddy’ Campbell, Don Mae-|- Plans to take in each and ev-

suitable programs for each per-|-will. be: The Evening Patriot formance. It’s a herculean task $2,500 Invitational and this pro- but by now it's old stuff to Mr, mises to be a real humdincze:

Acorn. He's been doing it for; Race secretary Acorn has |in- list

much longer than he cares to re- ed up a honey of an entry

Keeping pace with Prank tj Dee's Bey ith rn” Mach. Sek’ Fergus, Can bone => eee Se GOOD LUCK

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