> ae wee COLD CUP and Saucer girls for 1966 are (FROM LEFT) Caro) Foster, Lorna : Vessey, Patsy ‘Lappin, Paulette Burke, Trudy Callbeck ‘Miss Cold Cup and Saucer,.1965),-veda Marie . ‘By RALPH CAMERON Tt is not. a~ national holiday, ‘even though we think it should be, ‘but it is certainly a red let: “ter dav on the calendar of every Islander. We.. mean~ August °19 when the marwellously beautiful Gold Cup -and Saucer Girls are ~unveiled-as-thes ~ year’s outstanding-event..--- Yes, -it is Gold Cup and Saucer Parade time again and already “an air-of excitement is. beginning to. pervade this capital. city as people get set for the biggest show of the year. Friday the 19th {s the time of the start of the par- © ade is 1M otclock in the morning But don’t leave jf till then. to star? fooking for a place from which to ‘view #. You can eith- er be early— or unhappy— the ehoice is vour own. ; They are successors to a. long -Hne of beautiful gals who have worn the silks of the famous Maritime harness racing event, the great Gold Cup and Saucer racé to be held that night. The “Anniial championship pace at- tracts the best horses in the the the: .. Maritimes: the parade before -it ~vattraefs-evervone. - . “Literally one Hundred thous. and “people have «watched past ‘parades since they hegan asa small shiny with the eight girls i riding: to" % Hall in. convertib- les, Now it has, to some- | thing almost unBelievable for a ~ @lty as small as thite- GORDIF TAPP COMIN‘ In other years great names of the entertainment world have taken part: this vear it will the same with the great CBC ~ Alberton = Council = Meets ALBERTON Routine town - business. was carried out last might at the regular meeting of Alberton) town counci! Mayor Roy Leard presided aiid. all coun cillors except councillor Gordon were. present Bis amounting to $286 AR were erdered paid, The poice report listed five eases under the Criminal Code, three under the highway traffic act and eight smder the: liquor |, eontro! act. _ Estimates are to be requested for the paving of two. sections of town streets and also for the instalation of mercury vapour lights on main Street leading to Alberton South ‘ Former on . -Tignish Woman Dies - TIGNISH — Mis, Arthur Robi “phaud passed away at her home in Chelsea. Mass ,/on Monday “Mrs. Robichaud was a daugh- ter of the late My and..Mra John B Gallant of Tigaish Be @ides her husband and. four children; all .residing in. Chel gea. she leaves to. mourn two Brothers, Henry Gallant. Char fettetown, Ceofred of Chelsea) so a sister, Mrs Andre ‘Pa- el, ‘Tignish 2 “The funeral will beheld Wed- fiesday from Saint Rose Romas Catholic Church, Shelsea_ ree TTL Pada Storey Electric Ltd. eat the“day and yarade with the greatest num- “floats as m Waller, Ghery! Paquette (Miss P.E.1. - of 1963), Rosemary Brown. One of these girls will be the 1966 Miss Gold Cup and THIS AGRICULTU RAL INDUSTRY Saucer after the big Old Home Week harness race. : _ —National Holiday ‘To Be Declared? | \star, Gordie Tapp, on hand to} jgreet the watching thousands. | Of course there will be plenty | other girls in ‘addition to Dhe /Gold-Cup and Saucer—lovelies.-| Some of them wil! make. y ou | least. and ‘the flop.’ was caused. | wonder why they, too, are notin “Tracing silks. They will be seen | jon ffoat# and on horseback and | ion foot, “they will be waving,’ marching or playing, whatever | jthey are doing people will watch |{Welightedly. e It will be another tremendous iber- of. bands ever. heatd in“one }show in this city-as no less than 112 of them will he in the parade. | Highlighting this .musical ex)! travaganza will be the fantastic | _B¥ NEIL A. MATHESON -" The registered steer class will be one of the features of the Provincial Exhibition here next | week. At least I hope it. will be’ a feature. It was a- flop last year. That's my observation at when the buyers were so low in their--bids=that—the- qwners -got theirheads together and--with-|— drew their animals from auction. ~ This time it will be different— _the | again I add the words ‘‘I hope’. |The timing’ was. bad last year. The timing is mich better this |year. ‘The steer show .will be held. in the Coliseum immediate- rly after the vaudeville on Mon- day evening. The hour {#, set will follow immediately. Ivan Kerry. who impressed Steer ! . from memory—invited news- | men, some of -their friends, — \ and some.top heef fanciers, .. for a most unusual night. ~So far as I know they are | the first: Maritime people-te . try such a colorful sunt, though it had been tried in “one or two other places prev- You--ean_he—_-sute—__the + Franklin Farm steer will be a good “one, but he'll be up against a group of good steers here: like ‘a really top” show; It'll be ja top sale~too, if the buyers get | into the spirit of the “occasion | . Nobody -expetts—at least 1 | don't—a_ price like the $4.75 per! | for 8:30 pm. The sale of stéérs~ pound they paid for the grand ._| champion at Halifax last -Nov-| }ember, but premium.prices are Estevan (Saskatchewan) High | Many people with his handling | expected for these steers that School _hand_of 55-pieces and the | of 200 head of cattle for: Horace | have heen_fitted up—for this | mternationally- |Drum’ and Bugle Corps from |Milford, New Hampshire, which | was heard as it'took a big part | in the Miss America Beauty Con- test down in the United States: | This musical group is‘75 strong. | rs _ There are 15 of the finest steers In the province en- tered, Glen Cotton tells me. ‘And ‘one is coming’ from Saint John. . Topning the Hist of Island stee And of coursé there will. be | exhibitors are such well clowns and ponies, marchers, known beef breeders as Ful- and saddle horses and a fine representation of automobiles of another era as fhe Antique \Car Club puts eight of its more }famous models on. display. Interspersed through them all | will be a wonderful display ’ of erchants and manu- |facturers, governments and jclubs have filed 30 entries. | The parade will start out | at) Queen Charlotte High. School on! (North River Road and follow a two-mile route‘as it winds its y through city streets in ord- Rive every citizea, and es- ;peciaty hospital ‘patients, a ichance to see it. Don't Migs ‘the big show. ‘them. really good breeders ton Sanderson and Sons of York Point who topped the ~ steer class at the Atlantic Winter Fair for the last two years. _ Mr. Justice R. R. Bell had. the steer that topped the ex- hibition steer show last year. He’s back this year. James Cudmore, Winsloe had the grand champion steer at the Easter Beef Show two vears - ago. He's in this one too. -Irving MacDonald, York had the best steer on the hoof__at__Halifaxlast_vear. He's In this one with one of his Angus heauties. MANY GOOD BREEDERS There are many others. all known Sparton| Willis recently, will auction the | special show. Mr. Cotton, heef-fieldman for | the province, expects that+ the | show and sale will be ‘completed | early in the night, so that people |who stay In the Coliseum for | the performance will have plenty | of time to take in the rest of | the features that are present on opening night-at the hig fair. POTATO CONFERENCE | T don't think P-E.1 | an entry _in_ the competition—for | the National Potato Queen—at | least I haven't heard of a can- | didate. And we really -should have one of oir attractive, young ladies in that_one. : | The competition is to be | staged as a part of the &th An- nual Canadian Potato Industry Conference. at Wolfville. NS. next week The dates are Aug ust 15 to 18 and the sessions will be -held in, the Acadia Univer sity” build | John Mahone? ig program chairman and that indicates the | program will be in good hands. eerLontes Seen Feat ul e, National Potato Conference will have fi, - “tatoes by.fixed wing aircraft are type of spraying economical- _ ly which reminds me that Horace ~ Willis wilt have potato rows, or drills. one and one-quarter ‘ miles in “fength, and that should be ~ Jong’ enough, Whether Mr. Willis. will..go for this new type of aerial spraying, ‘or not, is something—1-_don't— - know. I haven't discussed it with him. = A release. from the conference | headquarters notes that 67 per- jeent-of all aerial spraying in ~'From this distance it. looks |the United Kingdom is for late |blight- of ‘potatoes, -and that 4,000 acres of potatoes in New ; Brunswick are under aerial «spraying ‘contracts this year. The aerial spraying routine ‘is becoming popular with some orchardists, the release adds. BACK TO PARIS GREFN And this development is a long, long way away from the man who went down the potato row with a can that. sprayed | Paris Green on the tops to kill potato bugs. That is the earliest jpotato spraying I cam recall | And, about. .the same time; I think, was the can with -holes | punched inthe bottom. It was | used to shake powdered poison jon the tops. 5 This was hefore the days when the potato growers used the old Bordeaux,~mixture of bluestone {lime and water. This was a | most’ effective treatment for late | blight, but it clogged the spray- er nozzles, and was hard’ on the patience, and the temper. One reason why sprayer noz! zles clogged so easily was the |l6w. pressure that could be de | veloped by the old hand-pumping operation. Then came the power. sprayers, so called, where the Thorses pulling “on the sprayer also suplied the oumping: pres- sure._ Today, of course, -t-h-e growers have really powerful of Mr. Mahoney. looked after the Sprayers. There's so much pres ee Island fobacen growers when | Sure on the nozzies it would be > Oshawa ~ Island. News Page | 2 The Guardian, Ghariottetown, Tues., Aug. 9, 1966.. § Potato Conference At Acadia U. August 19 “Quality pays in potato “pro ker through the wholesaler,” duction from theyfarmer right retailer and finally to the. con- - } or ; j through to the consumer, states sumer. Speakers on these topics 'J.F. Mahoney, program chair- will come from Ontario, Quebec man for the eighth annual pota- jand the Maritimes and they will ,to_industry conference,schedu!~-set the stage for_another_speak- ed for August 15, at Acadia Uni- jer-on the “Potential and Pro- @ jversity; “and that's: why -we*'blems of Expor Marketing’ | ;have designed a: program with | the (eme. Duality pays’ Potato Canada's potato’ industry come iproduction fas become “so’ spe- under such an intensive quality cializad for the farmer, so diver- | assessment than is planned for sified for the processor and dis- this eighth Canadian potato. in- ‘tributor-and-so-quality conscious tqistry conference; August’ t5,-to: Probably nevér before’ “fas eto the consumer, that we have ibe held on the beautiful campus” invited many of the most highly |of Acadfa University in Nova qualified experts in Canada to 'seotia's Annapolis Valley. ~ address the conference on topics |. , 0 c ranging from—weed—controt to ries about the conference trends in. merchandising." Dr. John Brown, president of Wholesalers,---who-— ts va Scotia's south shore following the conference, may be direct- éd'to-Mrs--Lorna-Smith,-confer- ‘and the optional ‘tour along No- | his early twenties. m= ”" a . : fal preacher, Dr Britten was e@ | gifted expositor..and..whiter For | many: years- he wrote the mater- ia) for the weekly Sunday School lessons for the Maritime Baptist. He also reviewed many relizious” | books and articles for a number | of publishers 2 He was married to Bilanete Coes of Saint John, N B. who predeceased him in 1947 Dr. Britten ts survived by one sister, ‘Mrs. Alfred Taylor, Van- couver. BC. a daughter Phyl- ‘lis of Summerside. and two sons, ! Douglas of Thorold.Ontario and Ret jEdward. ‘pastor of the” Tryon Baptist Church. The fu- _‘tist Church with interment in | the Central Bedeque ‘cemetery. | et REV. DR. BRITTEN , | Howard To... | Of Appeor In ‘Death Of Ree ak Dr. Britten be Rev Howard The“Turtle'’ parties, will beheld for children in the I. Dr. Charles A. Britten. Stanhope and Cavendish areas ;Summerside, passed away Sun- this week. by ‘Smart ~ Alex”, jday after a prolonged iliness Alex Eptimoff and other mem- | Dr. Britten was born in Wood- bers of the Canadian’ ~ Puppet jford, Northhampshire, England | Company : jin 1880. and~came to Canada if oy Thursday morning at 10-30 : a.m. they sill be at the Stan- He attended Horton Academy hope Campground in Stanhope jand graduated from the School and on.Wednesday—they-—willbe jof- Theology of Acadia Univer- entertaining at ‘Cavendish at nera! will be held today at 330- - “Tfrom the Bedeque United—Bap-———— also president of the Canadian | Horticultural. Council, will: deli- ver the key note address at 10.20 | on the morning of August 15 ence secretary, Box. 247, Kent- 'sity in 1912 followed-by « year ville, Nova Scotia ‘at Colgate Rochester Divinity , Ee ee |School.. Several years ago he’! the-campground in the pavillion. “The Canadian Puppet Theatre ‘\ing potatoes In every region of ; | beef cattle. Leo Mclsaac and / Sons have their farm at Mer- maid, Gerald Dollar, -Winsloe » had the grand champion Scotch Shorthorn bull at Halifax two years .ago. Hayden. Brothers. CherryVallev have. some of the best Herefords in the province f we : Portage Break Investigated SUMMERSIDE — RCMP here reported last night that they are coaducting further investigations they went on a two-day tour of | difficult to clog them. But now, | Nova Scotia's tobaceo-growing | when we have the power, we area a few weeks ago. He did don't use the bordeaux mixture a really good job. T know. for; Modern sprays-are so free of I was with the Island group een Farmers in particular will also be interested in the afternoon Symposium involving production © topics from disease -resistance of potatoes to the advantages of planting on _the_flat,-versus-hills The crowning of a National Potato Queen and a demonstra- tion. of aerial spraying of po- Japanese Student — Visits “A charming kimono-clad - vis- two other events of wide interest | itor to P.E.. this ‘week is 21- on Monday's program.:* | year-old Chizuko Okyama. She C areas se ‘|. - | ix'a Japanese medical student in ‘omparative costs of prodic- | her last year of college She made thectrip with three Canada will ‘be discussed on other Japanese students by way |Tuesday morning, followed by | o¢ Honolulu, San Francisco and ;demonstrations_of-machinery—us—-Chicago. Then she came atone jed in modern potato production. | to Toronto where she stayed’ for |The theme ‘quality pays’ will be | two weeks. When it was discov | continued with speakers from-| ered that shé had: always dream- across Canada, dealing with va- | ed of seeing Green Gables, the rious forms -of processed pota- local Lions -Club immediately jtoes :...and even into the evening | sponsored her. Shizuko has read with a mammoth chicken barbe- | 10 of ‘the ‘Anne’. books in Jap- jeue, along with entertainment | anese and-was delighted to make designed for all. delegates and | the trip ! their families. Advance regis- | Presently staying at. Brackley |tration eonfirms that delegates | Beach. She visited Green Gables jwill be’ attending from. Alberta | Yesterday afternoon under the | | guidance of the hotel's -hostess, | Mrs" *Carotte Anne Shepherd | Also on her ore was a tour ee ; of Woodleigh Replicas that-eve- Potatoes a North. - America, 'ning. and another of the Confed- \trends tin merchandising, vas af- | eration Centre today fected_by quality: from the bro: | Chizuko leaves this afternoon ito return to Toronto for another week and then ta the United ito Newfoundland... | Wednesday's program. will-.ex- ,amine -distribution_patterns of clogging material, they're prac- tically non-existent= At least that’s what T am told. It's a long time- sire I actually sprayed potatoes. After some time there, she wilt go to the town of. Oyodo-Ku ‘Osaka, t Japan. ~ |Church for two periods totalling |North Sydney? States tn meet her friends again — MS ~ " |puts on two shows daily at Con- jwas honored by Acadia aie federation Centre and on Satur- sity with the degree of Doctor o day there are three peformane- Divinity. ; oa Dr. Britten served as pastor of, - the Central _Bedeque Baptist Eat, Drink and Be WARY... more-than-a-quarter—of—a—cen= tury and was pastor of the Bede- | Sounds-healthy, but sometimes car Bedford, Bill- town. and Hantsport, N.S In addition to being a power- cottage ‘and on trips. _ COMMODORE ~~ ROOM MAIN BRACE Coming Attractions. 2 TUESDAY — THE DOWNTOWNERS™ THURSDAY — HOOTENANNY ~~ Featuring “THE HI-NOTES"~ ~ Sportswear Permissable— No Slacks or Shorts Please! Members and Guests @ 9:30 - 12:30. TUESDAY, AUG. 9th, — 2 4 tate ° Top Go-Go ay Free Treats - © Door Prizes J. E. (lock) Peifl, chai of the wiachivery committee: FLEXALUM ALUMINUM reports fhat a plane will fly two | feet above a potato field at a into a break that occurred early Monday -mérning at -Sharbell's Genera! Store ‘in Portage, The thief or thieves were Te- ported ‘to have. stolen. a’ safe- containing a large sum‘of money, | from the ‘building, Assisting the Summerside ROMP are members of the Al- berton and Rorden. detachments along. with Cpl. Smith of Char- lottetown A a ELEPHANTS OVERBRFEED * NEW DELHI (AR) *~-; Birth contro! for elephants? It “may he .necessary hecause of ele- Phant overpopulation sxinece banned. savs a spokesman for India's inspectorate-zeneral of ts . fores ee : | ‘ 136 Prince St.. Ch’town a AES sa - FOR ALLS > YOUR INSURANC PHONE 894-6567 HYNDMAN & CO, Limited. Established 1872 ©. we" lO ftices:-——— : 57 Lower. Queen 8t. +» CHARLOTTETOWN also at Summerside — Moittacne — Alwerton : “The Old Reliable” , Pire, Life, Marine, Auto and Gilarantee Bonds -of al) kinds. | Buddy Loane, Kilmuir is one of the top men among the young. er breeders. Jimmy MacDonald, Hunter River and Lester Rankin and Son, Bunbury are other men who always put.-up. a fine; pro- duct All of these men will be vie- Ing for supremacy in the show, | and, hoping for a solid price in the sale that follows. The one mainiand steer In entered by Franklin Farms;: Saint John. This is the comp- any that put on‘such a show at. the Atlantic Winter Fair last November. They hired a largé space in one of Hali- fax’s classiest hotels, took their Hereford -bnil —T he. Heve he was reserve grand champion, thonogh that’s \ E NEEDS & « < ee en speed plying spray materials The d-monstration, incidentially, is scheduled for the Lyndhurst ; Farms at Canning, N.S. and the j.time is 7:00 p.m. on August 15. | My memory tells me that | a similar demonstration was ‘set up here some years ago, or t was to be set up. At any rate the result was the expressed primes that our * potato drills were too short of .90 miles per hour, ap-. 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