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Show , f - simp c ; k g & j(c by ,.., U I 1 Mv A Call & w - y& i "T - i' i& ? tty to junk food junkies 03 f r?H . 1 i if v'-- '- i f fei . ' ? -- v 5 f 3 ofw 1 . , c cii , r f, j ;i 1 1 i .. -- i ; r w UOffito foutfe BUJ( Davis rr y os j ., PAJD Permit no 5 tatQf t h4 D RATE xj jr kL NUMBER FORTY VOLUME EIGHTY SEVEN ZZ&Z Wednesday March6,i985 LIGHTER SIDE A THE CABBA6E PATCH LOVE AFFAIR humorous look at serious topics Grunt And Wheeze, And Youll Be A Hit ' CYCLOPS Guest Writer While watching the Grammy Awards last week, I remembered a short newspaper story from last fall. It was headlined Concert Cancellation Frustrates Rock Fans and told of the hundreds of fans disappointed when a Salt Palace rock concert by Billy Squier was cancelled just hours before show time. The story quoted a teen-ag- e girl who cried, We came 300 miles just to see this. And it told of a mother who said, I brought my daughter and her friends all the way from Gunnison to see this and Fm angry. 1 feel for the lady. If I drove 300 miles past all those be jackrabbits, Id angry, too. But what I can't understand is why Squier didn't show up and it demonstrates my feelings on rockn roll music. The singers manager was quoted as saying, Billy incollision with a guitarist jured two ribs in an during the taping of a rock video segment one week ago in Philadelphia. Last night Billy started wheezing and couldnt catch his breath. on-sta- What is the fuss? So what is all the fuss? Ive seen rock stars wheeze nd everytime they wheeze on stage, they get a standing ovation. Thats what todays hard rock music is fall about: Making guttural noises in between 10 minutes of a guitarist slapping his instrument. If a guy can wheeze, he'll hit the Top 40 charts. If he can sigh, hell become a teen-ag- e heartthrob. If he can grunt, he'll be Top Ten. And if he can moan., good gracious, the man can have a Gold Record. Now I grant that you can hear the same wheezing and grunting and moaning any given day at the Hogle Zoo. But the animals dont have as much hair as todays musicians-a- nd its hard to fit a rhinoceros in black leather pants! The animals would also have difficulty relating to the lyrics, too. Twenty-fiv- e years ago Pat Boone sang Love Letters Stroke Me. in the Sand; today, Bill', Squier sings Romance has obviously cor..e a long way. And another thing puzzles me... When we grew up, a lot lly on purof my friends collided with each pose. Collision was very common, especially if you called somebodys mother a name. But it never took a week to recover. You would simply pick yourself up off the ground and vow to get even at a latei date. Billy Squier apparently isnt too strong. One lick from a guitarist and two wheezes later his manager is rearranging his calendar. before-a- CABBAGE PATCH CRAZE: Diana Duerden is known as the "Stork" to thousands of Cabbage Patch dolls throughout Davis county, a backorder list tailing 1,500 dolls, she has probably sold more dolls than anyone else In the state With other-usua- Didnt miss anything fans really missed But Im not sure all those stood-uanything anyway. Some students from Woods Cross High School told me they like Squier because he jumps around and rips his shirt off. They can see the same thing for free in some high school parking lots following a tough football game. So I'm not bothered that Squier didn't appear. What does bother me is the narrow message of these Stroke a Me giants. Only two days before Squiers band named ''Twisted Sisters appeared at the Salt Palace. Closing his main act. he asked the 7,000 fans, What do you want to do with your life? And the answer came back loud and strong: We want to rock! If thats their main goal in life, then I pray that other rockn roll singers have collisions. Its enough to make a grown man wheeze! p no-sho- four-ma- n OUR APOLOGY: We apologize for line humor and bad fine between over the crossing statement taste in last week's inferring that people can Hill Air Force Base and retire with full sleep for 30 years at pension. We recognize the diligent work of HAFB and its employees It Is not on ly an efficient military Installation, but contributes vital functions to Davis County and our country. important is their work, that we have assigned HAFB as the main area on one reporter's beat. Please accept our sincere efforts to congratulate those In people who contribute to a better life Davis county. not Our purpose is to unite, antagonize, We wholeheartedly welcome any response you have So ( Tine CaWsase Patella Staurik BRIAN GRAY Feature Writer The woman in Fruit Heights received the telephone call at late-nig- ht 1 1 p m. YOUR DAUGHTER has arrived, said caller. Drive around to the husky-voice- d the back of our building and a police officer will meet you. streets, the woman Despite snow-packe- d plowed through that cold December e emng to a darkened hardware supply, where the caller noted, she was met by a tall, blonde officer of the Kaysville Police Department. HE DEMANDED her name and a foim of identification. And five minutes later she returned home with Kathy Julia, and smelling of fine powder It was two years ago. . .and the woman had just received her first Cabbage Patch Doll. THE HUSKY-voice- d caller was Diana Duerden-a- nd more than one year later she is still The Stork to thousands of women in Davis County. As the manager of her Coast to Coast Hardware outlet in Kaysville, she is singly responsible for the Cabbage Patch craze continuing unabated in the northern end of the county. Im frankly surprised that this phenome-nohas continued as heavy into this ear, says the Duerden; Its not a I dont fad its become a love afTair--an- d think anyone has sold as many Cabbage Patch dolls in Utah as our store." freshly-diapere- d family-owne- d account on the hope that they, too, will receive a telephone call in 1985. Some weeks there are no calls placed at all. secrets of our ONE OF THE worst-ketime was that the truck arrived on Thursdays, laughs Diana. It still does, but often there are no Cabbage Patch deliveries Ab p out twice per month, though, the tiuks comes with from dolls, and then I have to match each one up with the older and begin making telephone calls " Its easier nowadays than it was in Christmas of 1983. 200-40- 0 see CABBAGE PATCH LADY Awarded Master Publisher Dean S. Stahle, editor of the Davis County Clipper since 1954, has been presented with the Master Editor Publisher Award by the Utah Press Association. THE AWARD - given to only one newspaper editor each year - was presented to John Stahle Jr. in 1974. He is presently publisher of the Clipper. A beautiful plaque is inscribed to Dean S. Stahle who has worked hard, lived honorably, thought soundly, influenced unselfishly, and is entitled to the highest honor in his profession. -- -- m THE REASON is "The List" which currently numbers 1,500 names from cities throughout Utah as well as Los Angeles, Calif., Phoenix, Ariz. and Las Vegas. Nev. Prospective Cabbage Patch parents have placed .some $45,000 in Dianas escrow next pg MR. STAHLE IS mayor of Bountiful, having served for more than three years. He also served as city councilman for 3 A years, was on the power department board of directors seven years, and served on the Bountiful Planning and Zoning Commission nine years. He and his wife, Maur.ne, have seven children and 11 grandchildren. Most of the children have worked or still are employed at the newspaper. city-own- ed X |
