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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1973
in my window
The other morning at the
breakfast table, the radio in
the kitchen was playing softly
as I was dining with me eldest
son. Very deliberately be rem-
arked at the conclusion of a
certain musical offering, "I
don't like what Paul McCartney
is doing these days. Since he's
married, he's beginning to
sound like an old man."
It was a general remark but
one which set me to thinking.
How time flies and how things
change over the years!
I remember when the Beatles
with Paul McCartney was the
wildest thing to hit television.
Maybe you remember, too,
when Ed Sullivan show headlin-
ed the way-out quartette from
England which had the girls
screaming and fainting in the
aisles.
Do you recall the long hair?
The tresses which sickened
moms and dads across the nation
and gave the kids of that era
new insight into the world outsid
their hometown? Do you rem-
ember that crazy, loud, pulsat-
ing music which left the young
set weak but their parents deaf-
ened and angry?
Actually when you look back
on it now, the Beatles weren't
really that wild. It was just that
their style was so new and so
radical that they seemed part-
icularly offensive. But now that
we're more accustomed to that
kind of performance, the Beatle
of that era were quite tame....
and surprisingly talented.
When the group broke up...
and when the members went
their own way to do their own
thing...the entertainment
world was bombarded with imit-
ations of the famous Beatles as
well as performers who added
something or took away a bit
to develop a new sound.
It is almost 10 years now
since the Beatles first became
popular and they have all aged.
As my son remarked. "Paul
McCartney must be over 30!"
And whether you were a Beath
or not, when you are 30 you
usually change your views on
things. You aren't that same
youthful free -agent you once
were and you certainly aren't so
boistrous and exhuberant as you
once were. You begin to mell-
ow as all things do with age...
and I guess it is only natural
that it shows up in everything
you do. In Paul McCartney's
case, it is evident in the kind of
music he's producing these days,
I thought back to when I was
a youngster and Frank Sinatra
was the hottest thing in Show
Biz. As far as I'm concerned,
Sinatra is still the greatest male
vocalist in North America...
and my heavens, the man is
retired and out of circulation!
What does that make me?
I also remember the hey
days --those first weird and
wonderful days in the career of
Elvis 'The Pelvis' Presley. I
remember what were considered
his obscene gyrations on stage
and his sexy facial expressions,
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
tousled hair and open shirt col-
lar and all, look at Presley now.
if you will. Subdued, still and
sensual.. but different, . and
older.
So it appears that it is true
that performers change, as we
all do, with age, But whether or
not marriage is the prime factor.
as my son believes, is yet ano-
ther question.
Going back to the Beatles,
let's look at the prime example
of marriage in the raw from that
group. It has to be John Lennon '
who is married to the Siren of
the East, 'Yoko Ono. From the
newspaper accounts I've read
from time to time, John may
be getting older and wiser but
as far as his marriage is concern,
ed he's rather immature.
The same goes for Sinatra and
Presley. Sinatra has been mar-
ried so many times I've lost
track of all his wives and I
understand from the movie mag-
azines I read while I'm at the
haridressers each week, that
Frankie is still looking for the
love of his life. And Presley's
lost his Priscilla to a South
American with an Afro haircut
and from Hollywood reports,
Elvis is alleycatting again like
a teenager.
My conclusion would be,
therefore, that it certainly isn't
marriage which stabilizes a
performer... or takes away his
appeal to the young set as far
as his music is concerned.
It is something far less glam-
orous called aging, a process
which catches up with all of
us, sooner or later. I'm glad
too. Aren't you?
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I limed for
conser'v! ii n
The Ausable-Bayfield Con-
servation Authority headquarters,
located on Thames Road, West,
Exeter, will be officially open-
ed on Saturday, June 9. The
building, formerly owned by
Kongskilde Ltd., was purchased
in 1972, and the Authority took
occupancy in July of that year.
During the past winter the build-
ing has been renovated to suit
their purposes.
Open House will be from 1:00
- 5:00 p.m. with the official
opening ceremonies taking place
at 2:00 p.m. The Minister of
Natural Resources, Mr. Leo
LaTurnell, federal and provin-
cial members of parliament,
and area municipal councils
have been invited to attend the
opening.
Besides the official ceremon-
ies, the program will include a
tour of the buildings, a contin-
uous slide presentation, a tree
planting demonstration with the
Authority's tree spade, plus
other displays and exhibits,
Light refreshments will be serv-
ed.
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SURPRISE! I'M ABOUT
TO BE A
GRANDFATHER
One minute you are a Dad,
in your prime, just a broth of
a boy taking a breather after
raising a family. The next, you
are a Grandad, doddering,
heading into the lean and slip-
pered pantaloon stage.
That's what happened to me
this week. Over the phone,
long-distance, a familiar and
dear voice asked with a giggle,
"Hi, Dad; how'd you lilte to be
a grandfather?"
Immediate reaction was,
"Oh, no!" Followed at once,
as I realized the enormity of
my mistake, by, "Oh yes!
Great!
The kid then talked to her
mother, but for some reason,
didn't mention themain item
on the agenda. She left that to
me,
When I'd picked the Old
Lady off the floor, fanned her
back into consciousness, and
wiped away the tears, the
whole thing struck me in its
bleak truth.
Here we are. Not even middle
aged, except by the calendar.
My wife still attracts whistles,
I still have an eye for a thigh at
the beach. And we're about to
be plunged back into a world
of bottles and nappies and colic
and constipation and talcum
powder.
At first it seemed as though
someone was playing a practi-
cal joke. But fortunately, the
resilience of human nature came
into play and we bounced back
to not only acceptance, but
anticipation.
"That girl should be right
here with me, " announced her
mother. "If she's as sick as I
always was..." And was she
sick! She threw up every day,
all day, until you could see the
insides of her heels. This lasted
for about four months, with eaci-
of them. It runs in the family.
Her mother was the sane.
I used to bring my wife tea,
and soup, cold drinks and hot,
and everything came up. You'd
thing the babies would appear
looking like something out of
Belsen or Buchenwald, But then
she'd settle down, eat like a
hyena for three months, and
produce a little fatso.
However, maybe the child
will escape this. Modern girls
don't seem to do anything the
way their mothers did. Last
night she was eating beef as
though the last steer in the world
had been slaughtered, and today
she was out raking the lawn.
Anyway, I'm now looking at
the positive side. I can hardly
wait for the kid to arrive. I've
been watching the television
commercials for those dispos-
able diapers, and am keen to
have a go at them.
I've told everybody so often
about how I won the war pract-
ically single-handed that all I
get now when I casually mention,
the Normandy campaign and
the Falaise Gap is a rolling of
eyes, which then become utterl)
apathetic. Here comes a new
listener.
And then there are the bed-
time stories. There's nothing
finer in life than to blow and
burble in the stomach of a fresh•
bathed child, bundle it into its
nightwear, then launch into a
story, with its eyes wide, the
occasional chuckle, then the
eyelids falling and the gentle
breathing of deep sleep.
So I must dust off some of
my dandies. They were a mixt-
ure of Mowgli and Tarzan and
Kaa the Snake and Munkle-
Uncle-Unky, the oldest and
wisest monkey in the whole
jungle.
They might have been a little
confusing to the adults who had
read the books, but the kids
loved them. Geography got a
bit mixed. Tigers turned up in
Africa, and gorillas in India,
but nobody cared.
Sometime I must tell you
about how Mowgli, the wolf
boy, after seeking the advice
of Munkle-Unkle-Unky, scatt-
ered a band of marauding ele-
phants by swinging through the
tree -tops and sprinkling the
ground with thumb -tacks. It
was a real gas to see those ele-
phants hopping around on two
feet, trying to pick out thumb-
tacks from the other feet with
their trunks.
Then there's going to be the
fun of teaching the little
blighter all sorts of things. If
it's a boy, I'll teach him to
fish and swim. If it's a girl,
I'll teach her to swim and fish.
Their grannie can teach them
all the other things, everything
from playing Mozart sonatas to
making out the income tax ret-
urn. She's much better at pract-
ically everything than I. So
she says, anyway.
Maybe it'll be twins. I have
a vision of the Old Lady and
me, she sitting with the boy
on her lap, I with the girl on
mine, burping them on a Satur-
day night while their mother is
out on the town.
One thing worries me. What
kind of a world is the little
stranger going to grow up in? I
hope the general outlook imp-
roves by about 300 percent in
the next ten years, or it's not
going to be a pretty place to be
young in.
There's only seven and a half
months to go, Wouldn't it be a
real bummer, after I've adjust-
ed so well and made all these
plans, if it turned out to be a
false alarm?
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Ploughing match
pia tied for
Datars fare
Huron Plowmen's Association
46th annual plowing match will
be held on September 15, in Hay
Township on the Howard Datars
farm, Lot 5, Concession 12 -
1 mile north of Dashwood.
A coaching day is planned for
September 14, when expert
coaches will be on hand to give
expert advice on the proper way
to set a plow in order to make
the best job of plowing.
Plans are completed to hold a
draw for a carcass of beef valued
st $450.00 - First prize - half
of the carcass; second prize -
hind quarter; third prize - front
quarter.
A meeting has been called of
all the agricultural organizat-
ions, fair boards and County
council for June 28th at 8:30 in
the cafeteria of Central Huron
Secondary School, Clinton, to
discuss the possibility of hosting
the International Plowing Match
in 1978.
OPTOMETRISTS
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527.1240
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CLINTON OFFICE
10 iassc Street 482-7010
Monday and Wednesday
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appointment.
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