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Home My WebLink AboutGrandBendTimes, 1968-08-16, Page 77 DAYS A WEEK d z 'sawn pua8 Hippies (continued from He and a friend have travelled to Toronto, London, Stratford and Windsor since then and he now is broke but not worried. If things get rough he works. _ For one week he worked on construction outside Hamilton which kept him going for awhile. Lately he and his friend have been depending on friends for food. "I told some girls I was dying of scurvy so they gave me a dozen carrots which I ate on the spot," he said. Jerry said that quite a few girls had taken pity on him and his friend but the only problem was that all the girls get together at night at the Missing Piece coffee house where he usually hangs out. Jerry gets from place to place by hitch -hiking. "We've been picked up by every type of person from doctors to bums. People who pick you up tend to be more open with you when they talk to you because they figure they'll never see you again." Back home they wouldn't open up because they would think, "What will this guy think of us?" He said that rides were easy to get but the ease with which they are attained varies inversely with the length of one's hair. North Bay was the hardest place to get a hitch. Jerry and his friend spent over 24 hours trying to get a ride south. Their first big stop was Yorkville but the pair didn't stay long. A lot of these Yorkville people just pretend to be hippies and are actually making a fortune running an Underground paper or something. Then when they are rich they'll crash the place. "Then there is the weekend or nightly hippies who return to their $30,000 homes." During his summer trip Jerry has slept almost everywhere. The first night in Yorkville, they slept on the concrete in an underground parking lot. "We told the janitor that we wanted to sleep here because it was warm and he was nice enough to sweep right around us and not bother us." He's slept under cloverleaf by-passes along 401 and one night sacked out in a cemetery at Windsor. He met a fellow near Delhi who was moving to a new house and he let the Where People Are Persons Missing Piece Coffee House Daily Open 2 to 5 Nightly 8:30 to 12:30 page 1) lads sleep in his old one in exchange for helping him move. In Yorkville it was easy to find a room to sleep in and on cold nights in Grand Bend he sleeps in a friend's car. "It's a great life," said Jerry who expects that by the time he gets home the whole summer will have cost him $10. "But I know I can't get anywhere without an education. If I were 40 years old I couldn't do this." This fall Gerry will enter Grade 13 and Gerald, 17, will be in grade 11. BOOKS Grand Bend Public Library is looking for books. Anyone wishing to donate used books is asked to leave them at the library which is the upstairs of the town hall. "We're hoping some cottagers or people with children who have grown up will donate some," said librarian Mrs. Elmer Des Jardine. The library is open Tuesdays from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. and Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. BRUCE REFRIGERATION Sales and Service GRAND BEND Phone 238-2385 Drag WANT results ADS Competition --Doug Brinjak, London, 9.89 et, 140.18 mph; Martin Duynoven, Sarnia, 9.42 et, 147.54 mph. Street- Jim McNutt, London, 11.57 et, 121.13 mph, Dennis Wilson, St. Thomas, 12.76 et, 110.02 mph. Super Stock- John Elliot, Chatham, 11.96 et, 104.89 mph; Ev Rowse, London, 12.69 et, 107.65 mph. Middle Stock- Bob Burch, Sarnia, 14.62 et; Gary Thompson, Weston, 14.03 et, 78.25 mph. Junior Stock -John Elliot, Chatham, 13.06 et, 107.39 mph; Jim McCann, Stratford, 13.47 et, 103.68 mph. Factory Stock -Wayne Brennan, Woodstock, 14.28 et, 98.68 mph; Gary Schmidt, Stratford, 14.61 et, 92.87 mph. Sheila's Beauty Salon HAIRSTYLING PERMS - TINTING AND STREAKING Highway2l For Appointment Phone 238-2551 Russell Desjardine WELDING SERVICE BONANZA BAKE SALE Old school house at Port Franks Saturday, August 17 3 p.m. Pt. Franks Ladies Auxiliary Serendipity On 81 Cres. (Hidden Lane) Next to the Post Office NOW IN Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plates Waterford Crystal ORIGINAL ESKIMO CARVINGS & PRINTS IMPORTED PAPER GOODS Gift Wrap, Greeting Cards, Notepaper STUFFED TOY ANIMALS by Steiff Imported Christmas Cards GIGANTIC G� S10REDUCTION SALE DUE TO NEW OWNERSHIP EUROPEAN ART GALLERY - The Tindall's Main St. Grand Bend 1966 CHEVY CAPRICE -- 35,000 miles. Two door hardtop. V8 automatic. Power steering and brakes. Vinal top. $2,200 cash. At Datar's Sunoco. WANTED: Partime typist. To work 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Apply 2 p.m. August 19 or 20 to Mr. Reed, OWRC water plant, Grand Bend. ELECTRIC STOVE FOR SALE. Also 24 inch Frigidaire, $35. Phone 238-2789. PURE BRED REGISTERED liver Dalmation puppies. Male and female. Canadian championship stock. 238-2452. TWO BARBECUES for sale. Cheap. One with hood and electric spit. 238-2452. COTTAGE FOR RENT' Double unit. Quiet section of Grand Bend. Near beach. By week, month or season. Phone Exeter 235-1033 (days) or 235-2410. APARTMENTS FOR RENT. Phone 238-2068. Rent - a - Sun fish Manore Marine HOTSON PROPANE LTD. Highway 21 North GRAND BEND 238-2005 SARNIA 542-5661 PROPANE GAS AND APPLIANCES For Residential, Commercial and Industrial Trailer Propane Cylinders Filled take the family out to dinner We Specialize in Steaks, Chicken, Fish Open Daily 12 noon -1:30; 5-7:30 p.m. Sundays 3-7:30 p.m. Fully Licenced Under the L.C.B.O. Dominion Hotel Your Hosts - Marg and Ross Johnston On Highway 84, four miles east of Highway 21 Main Corner DIAL 236-4371 ZURICH Red Cross Swimming Lessons Register Monday, August 19 at back of beach house from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Beginners, Junior, Intermediate, Senior, Leader Patrol Instructor: Mike Sannella SATURDAY NIGHT DRAG RACING FUNNY CAR Don Nicholson in 1968 Cougar VS MATCH RACE Don Schumaker in Stardust Charger NEXT SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 JET CARS Romeo Dalemedes The Untouchable in Hyper Sonic Cougar VS Jet Car GRAND BEND DRAGWAY Watch for Sunday Fall Schedule f STANLEY'S FINE FOODS Main Street Across From the Police Station TANLEYS AIR CONDITIONED THE HOME OF 3£"' ARKET 1 ATS'` YOUR VACATION FOOD MARKET THE FINEST IN MEATS • RED BRAND BEEF • CANADIAN PEAMEAL BACK BACON • BARBECUE CHICKENS - None Better THE FRESHEST IN PRODUCE Summer Salads • POTATO MACARONI AND COLE SLAW Old Fashioned Canadian Cheddar Cheese Cut as you want it OPEN 9 A.M. - 9 P.M.