HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1973-08-22, Page 2WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1973
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My wife cannot understand why any-
one wants • to travel, when he can sit
in his own backyard and commune with
the gods. I'm beginning to agree with
her.
Getting ready is kind of a pain in
.the arm, eLpecially if you must have a
vaccination.
Obtaining a passport sounds *easy.
Heck, it's more trouble than getting
married or dying.
All you, have to do is fill in a form.
The form is slightly more complicated
than your income tax form.
Then, you must find someone who
will swear that you are who you say you
are. This person IS called .a guarantor
and can be practically anyone except
your neighbour,
Then yott must obtain a birth certi-
ficate, This is fairly simple if you
know where you were born. If you don't
or you happened to be born in Zilch,
Yugoslavia , it can be CompleX.
You Mutt have passport photoS taken.
You can't just use an old snapshet in
which you look your beat. passport
photos are an old joke. They usually
make you leek like a zombie. Strangely,
ours Wiled out well. We didn't pose
for them, because we kneW they'd be
gruesOme, to they came out relaIed.
Besides passports and birth hertiti
CAWS, there is A myriad of Other pother
to look after , and you could use a hill-,
time Clerk for a Week or two. Air
tickets, money arrangements, hotel re,
Set-Vittoria, and who,s going to feed the
gat. '
A travel agent is almost a most in
these days, when half the. world seems
to be on the move. He or she can smooth
a lot of WrinkleS and give valuable tips
Oh how to Win at least .the OCCaSierial
round in the game,
Many :people go to big teen:dee in
the Ott, • My travel agent, a per,.
goalie young ideal ohap,nouldnit: haVe -
been More helpful and efficierit‘ „(ASide
to Bill. Mainly: everything, by golly, had
better be right, after that.)'
He told MO- something aboilt air fares
that it aittiest unbelievable. A return
ticket to the tiok, can run all the wiy
from a Christmas Charter at $181 to a
regular flight at $8t6 (Wider two Weelt0.
I ;Shudder to think what a first-olies
ticket Would. coat in the latter ditegoryi
of toured, a WM:tient Mari can Write
oft the espenSeili itiid to the little,
, ..,t1-•
old lady going back for a visit after fifty
years
'
that $187 special might represent
months of scrimping. Even so, something
smells, in the ,discrepancy.
Travelling is not cheap, unless you
want to swim across, which I've con-
ternplated a couple of times as the bills
mount. Only reason I haven't developed
the idea is that My wife is a good swim-
' mer
'
but only for about thirty yards.
I'd hate to see her go down thirty yards
off the Halifax docks, and haVe to do
all the rest on my own, with nobody to
tell me I. was steering the wrong course,
Not Cheap! GOod gravy. Just looked
over the items before we even left the
houie. Air ticket - $332; passpert photo
$3; passport $10; birth certificate -
$3; limousine to airport y $8; Britrail
pass - $70. TheSe are just the basics.
Multiply by two if you're a couple.
Then there .are the ever-present
extras; new clothes, expenses to get to
city to get passports, and the inevitable
sundries , too numerous to mention,
as the auction sale ads pit it.
That's before you get on the plane.
You 0411 haVe to eat and sleep for three
weeks after you get there. However,
I've exit the Whole thing rdown quite a
bit by cancelling our two daily paper
deliveries for three Weeks. Saved about
$6.50 right there,
OUT Britrail pass allowS us to go
anywhere, in the V,k. It may come in handy.
we may be riding trains all night, every
night, to save hotel bills; And we're
taking along' art eight-pc:Mid salami and
Mk loaves of bread, to We Might COMB
titre-114h,
I haVe "vague idea that this column
will not go dOWri as One of the greatest
pieces of erotic' travel literature' eVor
written. '
Hilt it IS a little hectic around here.
Six hotirS to, takeoff, my Wife is just
starting to pack, haVe to go down
arid sell my' soul to the bank manager,
get up to the iiiehool and: look after Some
Aetna ior $epteinberi see yoting Wilson
heitt, door About feeding the tat, Call the
boy about Meowing the laWit, Diek up the
dry-cleaning, get the books. balk to the
library`, and, somehow iii there, try to
have a shower and ShaVei We might'
Mike it, het I. titehldth be higher than
'yeti motley.
to de better next Week,, when
haVe despatch from tie Nag s
Ittiadr Middle Wailetii Enid:04
. Where am 1?
A visitor from Toronto complained
recently that she was completely lost,
with her Ontario map useless and no
signs ih sight, as soon as she ven-_
tared off one of our main provincial
highways.
It-is just as bewildering for
those of us who have grown up here
to reach an intersection in an un-
familiar part of the county and see
a sign marked County Road 26. Not
very enlightening is it?
The problem, of course, is that
most maps do not indicate the number
allotted to .country roads making the
numerical designation of little or
no value.
Surely our county roads and some
of our concession roads could be
provided with signs that name names
and tell tourists and natives, alike
they are and where they are
heading. It would be encouraging
to see a sign saying Wi-nthrop 4
miles or Belgrave 6 and pointing the
direction than a useless County road
14, when we come to an unfamiliar
road.
Road signs with names instead of
numbers would aid in ending frustra-
ting drives, often miles out of our
way, often in the wrong direction,
just to find out where we are, while
searching for the hamlet which is
our destination.
Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley
II.
Lunch time ,Help!
On cutting grass
We have some good news, or at
least the possibility of good news,
in a daily paper The Science Mani-
tor concerning two Scientists at
Rutgers University in New Jersey
who are hard at work on the develop-
ment of a variety of grass which
never needs mowing. They are col-
lecting grass seeds and hope to
develop a type that will never grow
long enough to be mowed.
The New Jersey Highway Department,
Which spends about one million dot-
1ars a year on molding grass, is
sponsoring the research, The beSt
wishes and fondest hopes for 811C—
sass of those of us who only spend
two or three hours a week in mow-
ing grass, or an increasing number
of dollars which 'e pay our child-
ren or neighbouring kids to M.014
the grass, go otit to these enter-
prising scientists.
our enthusiasm for grass which
doesnt need mdwing is eoeeded
orgy by our wish for snow that
never has to be thovelledi