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Sidelights Of The Parade Comments, Color...Rain!

By NANCY WHITE

It was a soggy day in Char- lottetown yesterday and the re. sult was in evidence everywhere as the Gold Cup and' Saucer Parade. dragged its way through the streets.

First, crowd size was down from the past few years; it was quite easy to find a place to get a good view of the proceedings. Stitt, people stood in funny spots — like the tops of trucks -—— and .on the second story’ of the un- finished building on the ‘Kent- Great George intersection .. . and they waved from windows . .. and dress shops had live dummies peering out at the sidewalks.

Then, there was choice. There were scads of um- brellas ‘covering all shapes and

sizes, and the shapes were us- |

ually covered in bourgeois old plastic or more suave draperies. Swamp coats abounded were blue, but one man sported an s. b. green one bought

store that .appropriately, sched- uled a sale of them yesterday.

Even the paraders were pro- tected. The little majoretts with -

the “grim expression —on— their |

,fa¢es wore plastic bags

garment}

Most |

es- | pecially forthe occasion at a.

over, their uniforms. And some bands wouldn't come

out and walk for the people be- | (2777) Well, what isthe mat- Richards.

cause they didn't drums to get wet. |

Children's laughter ... at the clowns .. .and at the Big Bad Wolf batting away at three at-; tacking little pigs...

A man yelling “‘Are you look- ing for market. square?"’ when an old-fashioned buggy rolled down Grafton Street .

Bad .taste on the

want their

float — a great flapping Red En- } sign on the top of it. Time for | some good PR work about .our emblem dear.»..

Walking —_Hamburgers—. aaaaghghghghghgh and So: before my very baby blue eves, the baby burger SAT DOWN — yes! — on the front of the car behind it. Aha, said we traffie court coverers ... ‘ten and costs or four for allowing another per- son to ride on a motor vehicle in a manner unsafe or danger- ous’.

Policemen dazzling red coats, -_being ._ terribly. —. official ‘what—with — trafficand"

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FOUR JAYCEES LEAD THEIE FLOAT TO MOST ORIGINAL TITLE

The coment Seen. Foster hasn't got his sunglasses on to- day — what's the matter?’ ter?

Four children looking the te tal image of boredom and dis- gust — illustrating the sag

“AND WE DO HAVE FU Hey, a living Nebbish .

“The only private-owned band in the world,” tion from a spectator as the Lo-

provincial | vat Scots Pi B j ymn: | building - Confederation Centre | _ oo ST aberd aot bine With Mae

“The float with the yellow tele- phone on it leaving its place of business at 2.00 (scheduled de- |Parture time) to go line up on North River Road. tsk tsk ... the shame, to keep all we cul- ture-starved citizens waiting in the drizzle ...

A child's questioning remark ‘‘Maybe there's a fire’ as’ the inevitable fire engines brought up the rear of the parade .

Johnny Wayneyvhamming iit up for. the crowd, twirling a just-in- case unbrella ..,

Color ...

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Western and Central Districts The Guardian, Charlottetown, Sat., Aug.

| Local MP.Charges Pearson With Useless Gamesmanship

| Heath Macquarrie, Queena jtion called, may, if he chooses, MP, has charged Prime Minis- | |have an election ‘“‘when Canada ter L.B. Pearson is playing “‘an | lis in the midst of the most far unnecessary and reprehensible reaching distribution of parlia- lgame~ of disillusion ~ ducks and | mentary seats since Confedera- drakes’’ with the Canadian pub- | tion.

‘he chooses to hold on hopefully juntil- a date nearer to 1968- elec-

EASTERN ito | FUNERALS |

|tion deadline, that is also his i

“But in publicly exposing his +uncertainty -before~ the-Canadian people and deliberately raising

Antic ids & uukes vas CITY AREA | FUNERALS

was held Thursday from the

Murray River Funeral Home to the United Church, Murray co er, where services were con-

a by Rey. wae sob :

bee ev. Ewen ac gall.

4Hymns were The Lord's Bty | ,, MACKAY econo eae

Shepherd and Abide With Me.) Uae") Ot cGoy Aug. 20. 1965 |

Palibearers were Willard Mac- | rr = Es Ue

|Lean, Clifford Keenan, George rom the MacLean Funeral Home |

where service was conducted by |

A. E. Piercey. Pallbear. |

oe were: Cyril Toombs, Horace

B. Willis, William Stevenson,

John MacLean, John Jardine

jand Angus Mack achern. ~Inter-

Ferguson, Peter MacLean, Sim- | | ment took place in St. Mark's

on_ Buell and Harry MacLeod. Flower bearers were Daniel Munn, Bert MacLeod and James Interment took place in Murray River cemetery. MacPHERSON FUNERAL — |Anglican cemetery, Rustico. The funeral for. Donald Hector’ - 2 : | ‘MacPherson of Bellevue was DINNIS FUNERAL — The fu- | held from the Valleyfield Uni- "eral for Wesley R. vinnis was | ted. Church Thursday, Aug. 19 held Friday, Aug. 20, 1965 from | at 2 p.m. The service. was ‘con- oa MacLean seas cert where service was conducted-by}{ ducted by Rev.-Graente Fraser | | Rev. T. R. Goudge. Congrega- |

eee ee oe White- | tional hymns were: ‘The Lord's |

|My Shepherd" and “‘Unto The} Hills.” Pallbearers were: Wal- | ter Bearisto, Lester Johnston, | Everett Wakelin, eat pea Mac-

Neill, Earl Hume and J. Hor- companied by Mrs. Prestom /ton. Interment took Ss in

Pearon- on the-organ. The paill- } people's.

bearers were Hugh MacKinnon; in ni wnt ON Stanley MacKinnon, Albert Ma- | theson, Stanley MacPhee, John N. MacPherson,”A lexan der J. MacPherson. Flowerbearers were Malcolm MacPherson, Lyn

wood rson, John F, Mac

Pherson, Russell MacPherson,

Alvin MacPherson. Alexander Whiteway, John Whiteway and | Max Cooper. Interment took

| place “in. the Valleytield ceme-

| tery.

Shepherd and . Abide ‘With Me were sung by the choir. The selection Beyond The Suriset was sung by Lioyd Martin ac-

21, 1965. 3 ducted elections.

But Not Spirits For Gala Gold

DOGS LIKE PARADES, TOO

election fever, he is playing a

trole which is utterly unbecoming - to anyone who desires to wear the mantle of responsible states- on

“The most important feature lor a democracy is the voters’ right of choice at properly con- To make a game of the peoples decisive act in the political process, reveals an attitude which should cause deep concern to Canadians who are becoming more —and__more worried by the manner in which their national government is be- ing carried on.

“A Prime Minister is not only the leader of one political party, he has, by virtue of his office, a responsibility to the general pu-

blic which transcends his par-| @md S tisan role. By his present indul- |

gence in gamesmanship Mr. Pearson may weaken himself in both his political and publie | role.”

One Injured

On Euston St. |”

{entry in yesterday's

THIS HOME-BUILT DRAGSTER GETS FREE RIDE

large amount of traffic, a result!

of the large crowd attend the Old Home Week exhibition, de- tails of the accident were not available last night. The inves-! tigating officer hadn't the time to file his report.

The large crowd at the track caused the authorities .to be cautious and they had two, in- stead of the usual single am- bulance on hand '‘in case of an emergency.

Are Announce

The National Employment Ser- vice won first place in the in- stitutional class for its float

Parade.

Second in the class was the float entered by Charlottetown and Parkdale Lions clubs.

- _the commercal class, Hol-

s of P.E.1. placed first and Jewel s Country Gardens. sec- ant original float was judg- ed to be that of the Charlotte- po Junior Chamber of Com-

Two honorary mentions went

An accident on Euston<Street | to the Island Development Com- | at approximately 8:30 last even-; Pany and Rustico Golf and

ing sent one man to hospital. As the

track .and

police were tied up| with the ceremonies at the race | Putnam; in controlling the! and F,B. Pritchard.

Yacht Club floats.

Malcolm Moncrieff - Williamson

Judges were Mrs.

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CBC Programs Feature Island

Television viewers here will see’ two CBC programs featur- ing Prince Edward Island this weekend,

Today at 6.30 p.m., the gar- dens of Mrs. Gordon MacMillan, Cornwall, ‘will be seen on the CBC show; Country Calendar.

Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock,

\the province's Old Home Week

Float Winners

and Provincial Exhibition will be featured on the farm pro- gram Countrytime.

DEATH NOTICES

CURLEY Thursday, brose

At Charlottetows Aug. 19, 1965, Am- Curley, Charlottetown Royalty, in his 84th, year. Rest- ing at the Charlottetown Fu- neral Home from where the fu- neral will be held Monday morn: ing, leaving the funeral home at 8.45 for Requiem High Mass

at St. Dunstan's Basilic. at § o'clock. Interment in the Catho lic cemetery.

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