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| he Deligh tul characters Here are some of the cast members who will be appearing at MSS next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening at MSS in Bayview Public School Drama Club's production 'Charlie and Earrings -for- men latest craze Down Under The latest fashion for young men in Australia is to have tattoos on the arms and body and as manv as four earrings in one ear, says Mike Odesse. He also reported on his return from a Rotary Club sponsored visit there earlier this year being shown a lake the size of Penetanguishene Bay that will drain of water overnight and fill up again after an interval. No explanation has been found for the freshwater lake's unusual workings, he said. ° Odesse, who was part of a six-man group that visited south-east Australia, said that part of Australia has been verv dry for two years. A farmer that the group visited was preparing to sell his 300 head of cattle and cut off the tops of trees to feed his 5,000 sheen for as long as was feasible. His land was totallv bare of grass. Australia's generous holiday provisions, four weeks holiday in the first vear of a new job, plus one day off a month. is proving to be an economic headache. Some people save their holidavs and take three months at once. Others take the month of December, the height of Australian summer, for I a holiday. The Japanese, the Australian's greatest competitors, work a six- dav week, Odesse said. TAX TIME GOT YOU IN A SQUEEZE? If tax time puts you in | the squeeze, remem- | ber, last year the | trained specialists at H&R Block took | the pressure off for | over three-quarters | of a million Cana- dians by preparing accurate income tax returns at an average cost of about $20. That's a good return for the money. And a lot less pressure. This year be sure. THE INCOME TAX SPECIALISTS TT i TT, HéR BLOCK Child tax credit only? Ask about the special price. MIDLAND 517 DOMINION AVE. (next to post office) Open 9 a.m.-9p.m., weekdays 9-3 Sat. Phone 526-3001 PENETANG 75 MAIN ST. Open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., weekdays 9-1 Sat. Phone 549-7101 OPEN SAT. NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY Page 2, Friday, April 10, 1981 Alice" the school's freely adapted version of Alice in Wonderland. From left to right are: Walter Stewart, David Wackerlin, Sue Mink, Alana Walker and Pamela Lynn. Budget Plan o* 26th annual Drama festival continues Tonight will be the second night of the 26th Annual Georgian Bay Drama Festival to be held at Midland Secondary School. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. with admission set at two dollars per person and there will be no advance tickets sold. Tonight's perform- ances will be by MSS with their '"'Garden of Varieties", Huntsville Secondary with "My Proud Beauty" and Collingwood Collegiate with "'The Monkey's Paw". There will be ad- judications after tonight's performances as there were at last night's performances, attended by a large crowd of play goers. Tomorrow night, Huron Heights MIDLAND on Hwy 27_,next to Zellers Plaza 526-4231 Secondary will perform [A WMP One o. VS te Theresa's High School of Midland will perform "Clearwater, Ontario" and Orillia District Collegiate and Vocational Institute will perform "The Sand- box."' That will conclude the performances' with awards being handed out after the evening's proceedings. Awards will include two best productions, four acting awards, one adjudicator's award, one technical award and 15 merit awards. Adiudications will be done by Myra Friedlander. Car knocked gas pump off its base One gas pump was struck and a second gas pump knocked off its base Tuesday afternoon at Garm's Sunoco Service Station on Yonge Street by a runaway car. ' Town police say Sylvia Dwinnell, of Johnson Street, Midland, was waiting to get gasoline for her car when her foot slipped to the accelerator from the brake and the car moved forward. An employee quickly shut off the gas pump. The fire department washed away the-small amount of spilled gasoline. Damage to the gas pumns was set at $2,000. BARRIE on Bayfield St CARPET LAND... opp. Georgian Mall 737-5662 --e a oe