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PAGE 6, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1973, WHITBY FREE PRESS BIRD 'S EYE VIE. *W BACK TO NATURE That's what the trend seems to be during the warm summer months. In fact, I would even venture to say the average back to nature fan is a fair weather camper. On a rainy Sunday you can see them streaming back to the city early with their tents and tent - trailers ait packed up. Mind you, four bored and howling kids, packed into a hot and muggy tent with two aduits is not my idea of back to nature either. From what I've seen of the camping crowd they are divided into two categories. First there are those serious back to nature buffs who seem to have forgotten that we have such things as electricity and hot water. These are the type that pack salt pork, cheese and dried bread into an old army duffel and head out into the wilderness complete with a few necessary tools and a canoe. This type is not to be confused with the hippie type strewn att along our highways. The serious camper will condes- cend to drive to the edge of the wildnerness area but after that he forgets civilization completely. No bed rolls and portable television sets for this type. The species is hard to sex at a glance because with the heavy hiking boots and the rugged appearing clothes covered with a pack the differences between the male and female are hard to spot. And this type is also dedicated to the movement of women's liberation. The female is expected to work and hike just as liard as the male. Such things as cigars and booze or lipstick and haircurlers are never included in t- lie pack and I'm sure some of the liardier types even hate to pack matches. Kind of odd in a way. For centuries man has been fighting to advance civilization to our present point of success where we have such conveniences as pollution, inflation and dwindling natural resources and here is this type reverting back to the old ways. For them life is simple. Hike, rest, eat a meat and then chop down a few cedar boughs and make a bed and sleep. Tomorrow....sane thing only further north. No stock market reports or gasoline bills, just nature and the problems of how to dry out your clothes in the middle of three weeks of pouring rain. Personally, I don't get much kick out of a cedar bough bed. Actually al I got from the last one was a crick in the back. Not to be confused with a pain in the tibia. And rain doesn't turn me on much either. Despite rumours to the contrary, I've been known to come in out of the rain, even after only five minutes. My idea of camping is that it should be fun....not an army type endurance contest guaranteed to knock ten years off my life. I'm more like the second type of camper who takes everything including the kitchen stove so that roughing it is really just getting a liernia while trying to untoad the car at the camp site. t find that with my truck I can take ail sorts of goodies to camp, such as full scuba gear, 200 pounds of ice, three barbecues and a portable electric generator to run the television and stereo. I have some friends in Port McNicol who know how t rough it. They shalt remain nameless because the police chief doesn't know where they moved to but when they sec me putll in their driveway, my truck loaded to the hilt with my roughing it supplies, they immediately start their 'we're not home routine.' This consists of hanging a 'quarantined because of rooster - pox' sign on the door, sicking the dog on me out the back door and turning out al the lights and throwing sheets over the furniture. Sometimes for added effect they phone the guy next door and get him to come over and tell me they have gone to Europe for twelve years. What the heck!, if a guy goes camping, why should lie suffer? Now I don't have to know the stock reports but I like to browse through a paper now and then just to see whether Canada has joined the States of not. I may go camping this year on my holidays, but my truck is getting a little small to haul my stuff. I think l'il look in the paper and see what kind of a deal I can get on a used transport trailer, Look out Port McNicol. Fantastic. I CARPET SALE NYLON AND POLYPROPYLENE tEMNANTS e MILL ENDS e FULL ROLLS * BOX ENDS a RUNNERS -3 to 7 sq. yd, LARGE ASSORTMENT OF COLORS SHAGS - COTTAGE SPECIALS ETC- I every week is fanfare week T at Dines steak house where quality fôod is atwayof-e 375 King St. W. 723-6301 BOB'S Carpet Sales 799 PARK RD. S. - Corner of Malaga JUST SOUTH OF BLOOR ST. 576-7834 .a CANADA MA NPOWER From our Canada Manpower Centres in Oshawa and Ajax, we have the following report of job opportunities. Trade listings this week include electrical repairmen, a serviceman for large appliances, a refrigeration mechanic, an offset pressman, a tailor, a pastry baker, and a cutting torch operator. Still in demand this week are tool and die makers, machinists, welders, auto mechanics, auto body repairman, a diesel mechanic, a metal pattern maker, and a plant maintenance man. Construction trade listings for non - union jobs include plasterers, carpenters, painters, cement finishers, bricklayers, plumbers, electricians and heavy equipment operators. Service trade requirements this week include an instit- utional cook with a Department of Labour Certification, a cafeteria cook, bondable janitors with chauffers license, experienced suit and dry cleaning pressers and licensed hairdressers. Looking to the clerical field listings are still available for fully experienced stenos and secretaries. Also required are a legal secretary, shipping and receiving clerks, and experienced bank tellers. Currently we have some openings for typists to fill - in for holiday periods in the Ajax area. Sales opportunities continue to remain for persons experienced in sales of men's wear, home furnishings, and photographic supplies. Executive and professional listings include a construct- ion superintendant, a mechanical engineer, a chartered accountancy graduate, various draftsmen, a dental assistant and various nurses and nurse aids. For more information on these and other job opportun- ities, contact your Canada Manpower Centre in Ajax at 942-1273 or in Oshawa at 728-4631. _