According to the shrinks, if we're to maintain some amount of sanity we have to have a hobby. The idea is that a hobby will take your mind off work and even if you bring work problems home with you it won't be long before you'Il get so involved with your hobby that you forget all about the nasties of work. I work in the field of communications and my hobby 18 horticulture, or raising tlowers and plants. The worst of it is that some days I corne home and take out my work frustrations on the plants. I often talk to my plants as is recommended in many books. The main reason I talk to them is because the little rascals can't talk back and especially because they can't pull ut) their little roots and walk out in the middle of a conversation. I have a captive audience to go home to from work and explain how frightening it is to work beside our paper's historian, Brian Winter, and his pile of unreturned Dr. Pepper bottles. I live in constant fear of building tremours and a major slide. I had a nice little chat with my begonnias about this one night but I don't think they got a good grasp of the situation. After all, what does a begonnia know about Dr. Pepper? - One of my ivy plants and I came to the conclusion that Brian Winter is not one of the homo sapien species. We think lie is really some kind of a robot or a machine sent here to earth to coisume all the Dr. Pepper in the world. The theory holds up well when you consider just how many of hundreds of gallons Brian has WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1976, PAGE 5 tucked away. Ani, ot course we all know how well Brian gets along with traffic at the BrQck and Dundas intersection in Whitby. When he would take a kick at the odd passing car or, on other occassions, when a car would go far out of its line of traffic to nearly miss Brian, I thought it was just that Brian was lucky in love but unlucky in traffic. Now I am beginning to think it is a case of war between two different race of machines. Then again maybe not. Brian does show some pretty warm human characteristics. Like the other day when he allowed me to use bis typewriter. (The darn keys were so close together I couldn't type a thing, caught heck from the boss for not getting my assignment in and jammed an index finger between the keys trying to type on the darn thing and nearly had to have a finger amputated to get free.) On many occasions, I have come home and complained to my fern about Blake Purdy and how he proof reads my copy making little slashes here, corrections there and all cont'd on P. 9 This week, I'm taking time out to take a closer look at the travel industry and at the various offers they have come up with-to make my leisure life more pleasurable. But, these luring offers have left me more confused than ever before First of all, there are so many countries on my travel list, but most of them too far away for my pocketbook. I doubt Il ever see Australia, Africa or Singapore. However, I do have some choice: Europe, South America, U.S.A., Mexico, and Canada, of course. Travel agents, along with PR people who are responsible for luring me away'from my typewriter and camera, are definitely doing a splendid job in advertising some of the better known sun spots around the world. Some of the brochures I was looking at use the most descriptive and glowing adjectives one could find in any literary work that could have been produced by Hemingway,. Miller or Fitzgerald. These carefully chosen adjectives are, in most cases, augmented by color pictures. Perhaps, it is the clever photography that really "sells" a certain country and more specificially, a certain tour or a charter flight. Speaking of first-class photography, I must single out two glossy travel brochures put out by Club Mediterranee, an organization which is getting bigget and better every year. In fact, Club Med lias been arotind for almost 25 years and is doing a landslide touirist business. One day, i paid a brief visit to Royal Travel to find out in what health Club Med is today. An elderly lady looked up to me, shuffled a few papers and then gave me this advice: "Young man, if you are interested in one of the Club Med winter tours, you better make your reservation now. We are ailmost sold out til the end of Decenber. We have not received a single conplaint from our customers who embarked on these specially arranged tours. And, 1 might add, the Club Med vacation is usually an expensive proposition. People pay a lot of money just for a couple of weeks of sunshine, good food and entertainment". The lady was right. Prices are steep. Normally, the minimum price tag is in the neighbourhood of $600 for a single person like myself, but I can go as high as $3,000 for two weeks of fun in the sun. After a careful study of facts and fancy, I found my place in the sun. It has to be the newer Club Med addition called "Playa Blanca" in Mexico. The price quoted sounded to me quite reasonable, but, I suspect, it was the geographical location that won over many other worthwhile travel factors. Besides, I know that I can depend on Mexican weather - a lot of sunshine. But, in case something goes wrong with my travel plans, the second choice has to be the sun drenched island of Martinique. Again, I'm told it is a great place for a single guy. Women galore, sunshine every day and food-the best French cuisine-ail to my content. I also plan to look into the "singles" aspect (fun and games) at Club Mediterranee, should I be so lucky to discover a truly single person of either sex. Animals are affected by it, birds are affected by it. so are plants -- and so are you. Music, friends, music. I do not possess records of musical history, but l'Il bet never in the history of music have so many groups, duets, trios, quartets and singles delivered so much alleged music. Whatever our personal opinions are of today's music, be it classical, jazz, pop, rock or country, it's interesting to note that the main varticipants are either young or old. DAVIDSON, SMITH AND CRAVEN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 110 GREEN STREET WHITBY, ONTARIO L1N 4C8 TELEPHONE (416) 668-7788 DOUGLAS A. DAVIDSON, C.A. PARTNER H. HOWARD SMITH, C.A. PARTNER KENNETH R. CRAVEN, C.A. PARTNER Starting in November JEANETTE will be working Tuesday aftemoons for your added convenience LA CONTESSA BEAUTY LOUNGE 119 Greeà St. 669-922 ý Whoever heard of a middle-aged or old rock group (corne to think of it, it might be a good idea). But I want to move swiftly along to bands -- the big bands. The two that corne to mind in the year 1976 are Count Basie and Lawrence Welk, both of whom are in their 70's. Basie lias it but Welk is issuing sweet, syrupy, acceptable, but, certainly, not fantastic music. No, I believe and I know there are hundreds of thousands, naybe millions, of people across the world (and nany in the Whitby area) who would love to see, hear and appreciate, once again, the outstanding talents of the big band sounds of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, IHarry James, Artie Shaw -- although we can still hear an echo as it were of Stan Kenton, Lionel Hampton and the great Count Basic. But, of all the big bands in the past half-century, none lias left such an impact as the ailmost immortal Glen Miller orchestra. I say this with deepest of apologies to Duke Ellington lovers, because Lllington's interpretation of "The A Train" as well as many of his other distinguished pieces cannot be matched. OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT BARKER - DUNN DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC A COMPLETE DENTURE SERVICE OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTIMENT 111 DUNDAS W. WHITBY 668-1464 M Come in and pick up our new brochures RUSSELL TRAVEL LTD. 116 Brock St. S., waitby 668-5000W Mon. - Set. 9-5 rouft 7h elIIs h8Ow ne" For your protection runder '0-vi en.-o12998 But, Glen Miller and his orchestra playing "Moonlight Serenade" and "Tuxedo Junction" alerts the ears of people around the world. And, the loss of Glen himself, in a flight over continental Europe, December 15, 1944, was to say the least a tragedy. Many of the big bands, the great bands, and certainly Glen Miller's orchestra have fan clubs in different countries of the world. But the fans are not ail older folks. They are people of ail ages, because his music had the sound of great music. A lot has been said about Glen Miller and perhaps the greatest compliment that can be paid is to be copied. Glen has certainly been copied. If you're a fan of Miller music, then listen to Enoch Light and his orchestra. l'Il swear that you'il believe tliat it is Glen and his orchestra. Should the big bands return, will they have conductors in their 20's? It's possible, but not probable. Great music belongs to older folks (sorry). Right now, I guess the hottest 'music-maker' on this continent is Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops and he's in his middle 80's! Watch him go. It's all the same to him --Rock, Country, Classical, Pop - whatever. Yes, this time; age wins. AI MORITGAGES I I, M t T E O ist & 2nd Arranged1 Bought and Sold at Prime Rates cauPeter Kade 668-1536 ANU BIS INVESTMIENTS Ltd. 149 Urock St. N., WhItby Umar