CAPS OFF to “Petey's Choice”, says Rita Anne Cal- laghan as she lifts the cap from the head of Jack Bilan- chard at the first night per- formance of the play at 1

BIS Petey’

Now Choice Of 700

By ALAN _C HOLMAN

“Petey's Choice was the choice of the nearty 700 Irish- men and others who witnessed | the Benevolent Irish Society's, presentation at the Basilica Recreation Centre last evening

It is the story of a college professor. Peter Kelly (Jack Blanchard). who is rupning for the presidert of his dear old alma mater He is at. times

EASTERN BRIEFS |

IN MEMORIAL HOSP. Ira Ross of ")pper Montague is a patient in the Kings County Memoria} -Hospitai

-DIES IN NS.

Word has been received here of the death in New Glasgow. NS. of Mrs. Christy J. Sweet at the age of 81. Mrs. Sweet was the widow of Rev. WH Sweet, who served the Presbyterian Church at Murray Harbor, Mur- ray River and Little Sands from 1917 to 1920. He also serv- ed for a few years at Marshfield, P.E.1

_ CITY AREA FUNERALS

PERRY FUNERAL — The\ fu- neral for Mrs. Ray Perry thok place Monday morning from the Hennessey Funeral Home to the Church of the Most Holy Redee-

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evening Rita Anne plays those with the major parts, Jack Teddy. one of Petey’s daugh- Blanchard, Corena Steele, Elea-

; _ nor Hogan and Rita Anne Calla- ters and Jack... he's Petey. onan. settled down and when who else they came on in the second act

\they proved very capable per-

s 1 formers CONVINCING ROLE | Eileen Murray, who played

Doris, the Kelly’s housekeeper. was very convincing in her role Meek, when she obviously had to be. but ready to side with her conscience when the situation called for it

Jerry Duffy. as Florabel San- ders, a female newspaper col- helped and hindered by 2 fam umnist, initially had you dis- ily which. while always 'TYIMZ trycting her and then won you to be helpful does not alwayS to her side when she proved she end up being so though utl- wasn't a writer of smut, but was mately it saves him his job and actually seeking to find and re- gains him the presidency: veal the truth

Peety’s wife ‘Corena Steele) J Pius Callaghan, who direc?- and his two daughters. .Teddy eq the play. also had a small ‘Rita Anne Callaghan ! part, Ralph Beemis a fellow pro Jane ‘Eleanor Hogan) combin- fessor of Petey's. He showed ed with efforts of Jane’s boy- that there is no substitute for friend ‘Vaughan Marshall) al- experience. He is an old pro and most wreck his chances of the has performed many times in presidency when they find a previous BIS plays and the way record, which Petey cut to help he handled himself on stage feed his family when he was showed he was no newcomer to young high school teacher. has the boards been dug up and is making the -OTHER ENTERTAINMENT Top Ten. 15 years later In addition to the play. which Jordan French (Kevin Dow- was enjoyed by everyone pre- ling). the chairman of the coll- sent, the BIS had some extreme- ege’s board and long time ly good entertainment lined up friend of the Kelly family was for between the acts. the originator of the idea of Nine-year-old Mary Beth Hor- Petey for president. That was gan won the hearts of the au- before Petey, the singing pro dience with her tap dancing, fessor. was rediscovered and and the singing of Mrs. Vincent was back in the public eye. MacIntyre can only be describ-

; . ed as beautiful.

VERY CONSERVATIVE _ Larry Brazel. wearing one of

French is the conservative the most seriais expressions ev- chairman of an ultra-conserva ‘er seen on the stage. showed he tive board of a conservative, had the lightest feet of anyone mid-western US. college and on the Island, his feet seemed tft’s about as conservative @83 to have the metodey sewn to the you can get. When Petey be- souls of his shoes. He was ter- come a teenage idol. French rific. Jacqueline Doyle demon- doesn't want him and his pro strated her musical talent and gressive ways running his her versatility when first she college sang two sumbers and then But, as was already intimat- played two on the accotdian. ed, Mrs. Kelly and her helpful It was a wonderful night for family win out and Petey is the fhe Irish and for the one or two

new president English or Scotsman who man- The play itself, written by aged to get by the.door. Fred: Carmichael. is not the Sepa

world’s best. but the BIS pre- sentation last evening, though a trifle long. made for an enjoy- able night's entertainment

In the first _ act the players seemed to be feeling their way

Dies Aged 68 and were a little hesitant. Kel-

vin ‘“Kevvy” Dowling’s portray- Pierce Butler of Peters Road, al of Jordan French, though a died in the Kings County Mem- small part, stood out because of orial Hospital after a long ill- the confident way he handled it. ness, he was. 68.

Near the end of the first act Surviving are his wife, the

Pierce Butler

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‘Eastern And Central Districts

(The Guardian, Charlottetown, Wed.. Mar. 17, 1965. 5

Awards Are To Local Blood

With the, first series of Red

‘Cross biood donor clinics for the

area just two the semi-annual presentation of awards to the different groups which came out on top at last fall’s clinics was held at Red Cross headquarters, last evening

Not only representatives of the winners, but of the “run- ners-up” attended this function which took the form of a supper prepared by Mrs. A. J Haslam and Mrs. Fred Macmillan. }

A. Fremont Archer, chairman

Charlottetown

‘of the Red Cross blood donor |

committe for the area,

at last night's “Kick-Off” get together in preparation for the series of clinics to take place at

the Confederation Centre in| | Charlottetown March 30, 3 1 and April 1

Mr. Archer was assisted in his duties by two members of his) committee, Reginald Gay who

which

Presented Donors

78.7 per cent result in the Inter Service Clubs competition trail ed by the Parkdale Lions’ Club which was a close.second with a 66 per cent response Also Larry for’ the Main Brace Naval Veterans’ Associa tion which had a one per cent lead over the Charlottetown Wing of the RCAF Association Leigh Walker representing the Riverside section of the depart- ment of health which edged out runner-up, the department of highways by a small margin in the P.E.I. Public Servants’ Asso- ciation tion; Ray Peters on behalf of the entomology and plant pathology division of the dominion t of agricul- ture, and Pius Smith for the post office of the Domin jon government department topped the department of transport by a small percentage COUNCIL TROPHY

Alex MacLean, president of the

arranged the awards, and James Charlottetown and District Labor

Coles who

made the presenta- Council made the presentation of

tion of the trophies to the follow-|@ new trophy again donated by

ing: pointed chairman of the blood donor committee for the PWC Students’ Council who accepted the trophy on behalf of the “boys’’ who won over the ‘‘girls’’ last October; Betty Lou Doyle| (this year’s Carnival “‘Queen” at SDU) for the “Juniors”. at SDU; Dwight Nowlan for the Bank of | Montreal which again achieved a 100 per cent result with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Com-

merce as the runner-up with a} 93.7 per cent response; Allison |

Gill for the Lions’ Club with a former Ethel MacKinnon of Brooklyn: two daughters and five sons living at home. Also his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Butler, Road; and four brothers three sisters

The remains are resting at the Murray River Funeral Home. with funeral notices to be announced later.

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province | the blood | residents. . | The chairman challenged the

LEAVES AL Howard A. G who has been a patient in the Chariotte-

town Hospital for the past two weeks has returned to his home in Rusticoville.

EGG PRICES Dealers were quoting prices for grade A eggs delivered at Chartottetown yesterday 26 cents per dozen for A large, 23 cents for A medium and 20 cents for A small.

CH’TOWN MARINE OPEN negotia-

‘tions to -havethe -recently-clos-

ed plant of Charlottetown Mar- ine Indusries resume opera- tions are underway. Nothing de-

finite could be learned, but it is stimulate the announcement |the cond would be made following the out- AS y6 co"; come of discussions by parties

expectec that an

John Andrew, newly-ap-| the council to Jack Brown, presi

dent of Local 1432, TBE W ‘Mari time Electric) which again came out on top in the race for blood donor supremacy among the various unions. Runners-up in this division were members of Local 282, UPWA_ (Canada Packers).

The special ‘Centennial Year” blood donor trophy which was up for competition between SDU and PWC became the permanent

y of SDU when it was ted to Stephen Joyce, this year's blood donor chairman at the university. St. Dunstan's won

jthis trophy at both the spring

and fall clinics in 1964 with an average attendance of 45 per cent of eligible students against PWC’s 35 per cent result.

Mr. Archer read excerpts from the annual report of the provin- cial Red Cross blood donor com- mittee compiled by the chair- man, F. A. §. Jones, particularly

| with reference to the fact that

about three and one half per cent of the population of this i is currently supplying needs of the Island's

representatives of the groups who attended last night's meet- ings. to go back to their organi- zations determined to make a

| better showing at this spring's

clinies in Charlottetown.

Overflow Crowd Sees

Great Damant

SUMMERSIDE For the second and final night an over- flow crowd jammed Civic Au- @torium here to see the “Great

Damant’ provide a night of laughter as he put velunteers under his hypnotic spell

An audience of well over 700

people - much larger than the first night - weren't disappoint- ed The nationally acclaimed

hypnotist kept the, erowd in stit- ches throughout the program which provided a climax more hilartous than anything seen in this town in years

Death Inquiries _ Act Approved

Second reading, or approval in principle, was given in the Legis- lature vesterday to a bill en- abling the Lieutenant-Governor- in-Council to appoint a medical

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Regional High School ee Reject Teacher Salary Pro

SUMMERSIDE —- The Associa- regional high schools across the| submitted by the

tion of P.E.1. Regional High|province or an increased taxa-| eration. School Boards last night reject- tion on the rural school districts. | ed proposed teachers salaries put The meeting was held in Ken-| forward in the new regional high | sington regional high school with) school foundation program im- over 70 trustees representing the plemented by the provincial de- 16 regional high schools in the partment of education. province in attendance.

The implemention of this sal- An amendment to the consti- ary scale actually means a re- ‘ution was passed to the effect duction for most teachers in that each of the school boards

—— —=——=——-———— we WOUld have one vote in matters ; coming before the association. magistrate to oe ae to wer Some of the main objections to supervising a} the new program were the, see-| schools of

Under the act, the cabinet can —s scale of) appoint one or more | was pointed out’ that the. qualifi- a.

practising in the province, to. ‘ ; the office of magistrate for h cation requirements \for teach-

county. gr

A county medical officer will crease in pay. have power to determine whe- ther or not an inquest is neces-

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| with time from teaching At the same time the summer {for supervision.

officer for each county of the, sary when he has achool ing Sonehene It was felt that the detailed province cause to. suspect a person has (® improve their qualifications.) tiiee: requiremeints for the Known as the Death Inquities died such causes that! mes. , operation of the schools wae Act. the bill provides that the would make an inquest neces Objection was also made to the and that items attorney general-can direct any sary. required ratio of 30 pupils per) should be grouped so that allow- oO \teacher and the inclusion of ance could be made for trans principals and vice-principals as) 1. og amounts between 8 s . full time teachers in schools of | budget

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A motion was passed support- company a delegation from the | ing the previous brief submitted | teachers’ federation which. is |to the department of education | meeting with the legisative regarding teachers’ ulate omnes * E a ; which was in aimost res- morning joint

GEORGETOWN The pre- The preliminary hearing asiso pects in agreement with nat | eunmaet to their

liminary hearing of Leonard Jo- seph Campbell, Annandale, charged with break, entry and theft of a quantity of liquor at the Cardigan Liquor Store on the night of Feb. 7 or early morning of Feb. 8 commenced at Georgetown yesterday before Kings County stipendiary Ma- gistrate, James B. Johnston,

Deputy Attorney General, J. Arthur McGuigan, QC, repre- sented the crown. One crown witness was heard, Francis She- phard, store manager at Cardi- gan. The case was adjourned to March 23, at 230 for the pur- pose of hearing further dence.

Two other cases of break, en- try and theft against Campbell involved the store of John Fran- cis of Bay Fortune and Eldon MacKenzie's store at Rollo Bay. a were adjourned to March

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commenced in the case of Tho —-——-

\dence given by Mr. Campbell |Shephard's case was in this case. Also giving dence yestefday was Cst. W. C. Rowan of the Souris ment of the RCMP. was then adjourned to Another charge of try and theft against store Rollo

involving the MacKenzie of adjourned to March 3. Also adjourned to was a charge of bre ‘and theft at a store John Francis, Bay Fortune, against Allen Jerome Bouchard. form- erly of Annandale, now station- ed at Camp Gagetown, N.B. All three accused were repre- sented by J.P. Nicholson. '

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