THE MONTAGUE Regional High School Winter Carnival variety concert was the most hilarious presented in Mon- tague for some time. In the above picture the two would- be cooks using a favorite cake mix ran into trouble when try-

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Interesting

Comments ranging from bar- bed to humorous to a can be found in the visitors’ book at the P.E.I. Travel Bur- eau in Charlottetown, where over 9,000 tourists signed their names d-ring the 1964 holiday

season. Most tourist described the Is- land as “lovely”, “pretty”,

“friendly”, “sunny” or turesque”,, although a visitor |from Fredericton, N.B., asked a |Tampa, Florida, family, sum- |med up their vacation by writ-

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| To a Newfoundland family, | \the Island was “just like~ Brit-

| ain”, while a New Zealand man

] | wrote, ‘Reminds me of home.” || The book was sprinkled with

remarks from French-speaking tourists who wrote. ‘“marviell- eux”, “tres beau’, “tres joli’’ and “ta belie province’’:

One of the most curious re- marks was from a Windsor, Ont., man. He said simply:

ing to slice the cake. All other methods failing they- resorted to the use of an axe. One of the cooks kept saying “where did we go wrong? I saw it done on TV and it looked good.” The two students are Audrey Kennedy and Margie Wilsoa.

MRHS’s Winter Carnival

“Said Best Celebration

Complete MONTAGUE — The ee ee received from the teaching | .vatable on an accident . |Parkdale, where it was report- |freight assistance on

Regional High School Winter Carnival concluded Saturday fol- lowing a three-day celebration which is said to be the most suc- cessful celebration in the history of the school. |

Students said the success “of | the carnival must go to the

celebrations and who took part in every phase of the carnival. They also stood the brunt of the| fun and puns lashed at them by the students. One student re-| marked that the students did not | really know the teachers before | this carnival and all were high | in their praise for the co-opera- |

LOCAL BRIEFS

SURGERY FOR INSPECTOR

Inspector A.J. ‘Gus’ Dowling, of thé City Police,is a patient at Charlottetown Hospital which he entered yesterday for obser- vation and eventual surgery It is expected he will be in hos- pital for some time.

RCMP FLAG-RAISING

A special flag-raising cere- mony at the Melpeque Road Barracks will be held today by the Island Division of the RCMP, it was stated over the weekend by A:S. McNeil} ‘officer commanding. The cere- mony will take place exactly at noon to coincide with similar all ROMP bar-

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| No Serious | Accidents

Despite Ice

Despite road conditions made hazardous in the province by Sa- ‘s-fceezing rain,

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mishaps over the weekend. details were not

“Wonderful rocks.” Most people commented the flat countryside, trees,

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dust”, and “it's all red.”

young man from Hamilton, tario, got a first-hand look at | Soil for he wrote proudly —

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ISLAND NEWS PAGE

Eastern And Central Districts The Guardian, Charlottetown, Mon. Feb. 15, 1965. 5

Visitors Book Holds

Comments

“Hitch - hiked all the wa y (1200 miles). Sometimes, the visitors book

took on all the aspects of a wea- ther map. .Tourists praised the sun, warm water and the wind. Then on certain days remarks like, “‘wet,” “‘cold’’, “foggy”, and “I was sick’, became evi-

“pic- | dent

The opinions of visitors who stopped at the Travel Bureau and took the time to sign the re- gister can best be summed up py a bus tour patron from Drum- mondville, Quebec, who wrote — “We'll be back.”

MURRAY HARBOR — At a recent evening service in the Murray Harbor United Churca, a new Hallman organ was de- dicated in memory of the men from Murray Harbor and vicin- ity who gave their lives during the two world wars

Gerald Prowse made the pre- sentation. The pastor Rev. David Barwise conducted the dedicat- ion service.

Rev. Russell Burns, pastor of

Gov't Releases...

Freight Figures

in| A total of $334,994 was paid on shipments

On Saturday, the final day, | ed a truck slid on the icy pave- {of 23,558 tons of western grains

Bobby Ballum received the

Martin was givena

The carnival concluded with a record hop in the school audi-

Cardigan Home Gutted

MONTAGUE — Fire

ly gutted the home of Francis O’Brien of Cardigan on Saturday night about 9 p.m.

The house had been vacant since early in the morning and the cause of the fire is unknown. ..The-home.was_of wood frame and when the Cardigan Fire Department arrived on the scene it had gained considerable head- way.

The entire contents were lost.

B.C. Artist’s Paintings On Show Here

Paintings by British Columbia artist’ Herbert Siebner which have come .directly from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be on display Feb. 16 through March 14 at the Con-

the B. C. award for he was chosen by the Gal- lery of Canada to be one of four Conde ls Shoreaeounl

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parked car and truck.

Full extent of damage was not

injuries were sustained.

City police said there were no

both boys and girls. The Morell |traffic accidents in Charlotte- |048 tons;

boys also won over PVI. town over the weekend.

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Nimble manoeuvring traffic. Convenient parking spaces. Room to spare

t ball played the major roll ment near one of the service |and feed to Prince Edward Is- = on — » en The ‘om | tone in the village, bounced |land in the federal government's the Sourle players while the a utility pole and struck a girls won over the

Lee ee eed Sear ee | ernest. B was saperted mp) Regers. | ‘ween . teachers who joined in on the| ro was the winner, this includes |

last fiseal year, according to fi- gures released from provincial transportation officer Graham

imports totalled 6,323 tons; wheat, 4,328 tons; oats, 3, middlings, 8,682 tons; and screenings, 1,167 tons.

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| Auto Firm Reports Break, Stolen Car

Fast work by Parkdale Police Saturday night resulted in re- | covery of a stolen 1960 model | vehicle about an hour and a half after the theft was detected. | The vehicle was taken Satur- | day from the S. R. Johnston | Limited garage in Parkdale. The theft was discovered around 10 p.m. Saturday, when one of the firm's salesmen, on return- ing to the office, found that .he building had been entered.

Parkdale police were notified. Later the car was found on Bel- vedere Avenue. The tw cupants of the vehicle charged i. connection theft. One, a juvenile, pear in juvenile court, segond will appear in

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the keys. with which to. start the vehicle.

New Organ Is Dedicated At Murray Harbor United

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