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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 8

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The Vancouver Suni
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8 The VANCOUVER SUN: May 18, 1971 Gravel trucks lose No talks bus wfut HAMILTON (CP) A The strike by 400 drivers new road skirmish strike that has put the city's 223 buses out of service moved into its second day today, with indications that agreement is at least a week away. John Speranzini, a mediator with the Ontario labor department, said he had not intention of calling the two sides together this week. "What's the point?" he asked. and 100 maintenance men, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union, began at 3 a.m. Monday.

The workers have rejected an offer from the Hamilton Street Railway for salary increases of 42 cents an hour for maintenance men and 52 cents for drivers. The workers have been asking for increases averaging about 93 cents. Sun Staff Reporter COQU1TLAM Gravel truckers and concerned parents clashed loudly but non-violently again today in the Battle of Woodland Drive. About 100 trucks hauling gravel from pits up Pipe Line Last Big Day Wednesday! WORLD CHESS Fischer has edge in match U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer has both the lead and the white pieces today for the second game of the world chess championship quarterfinal match here.

Fischer took a 1-0 lead Monday in the 10-game match with Russian grandmaster Mark Taimanov when Taima-nov resigned their adjourned Sunday game without futher play. Winner of the match will advance in the challengers' round for the right to meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title. i 's vital opening game victory came as a result of his King's Indian aeience as black against Taimanov's queen pawn opening. When the game was adjourned, Taimanov was in a lost position. Today's game was to start at 4 p.m.

in the Student Union Building movie theatre at the University of B.C. Meanwhile, young Robert Huebner of West Germany continues to hold his own against former world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union in their quarterfinal match in Seville, Spain. Huebner, 24, holds only International master rank, but drew Monday for the fourth time with Petrosian. Both have a 2-2 score. In other action, Russian grandmasters Vicktor Korch-noi and Yefim Geller drew in the third game of their match in Moscow, Korchnoi leads 2-1.

At Las Palmas, Canary Islands, the third game was adjourned between grandmasters Bent Larsen of Denmark and Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany. That match is tied at 1-1. Road were prevented from using their usual route to Lougheed Highway by about 70 parents, members of the Parent Teachers Association and ratepayer groups. Centre of the noisy dispute was Glen school where the parents picketed two crosswalks by leisurely walking across each one, stalling the trucks. Five RCMP care were on hand, their officers moving the pedestrians out of the way to allow one or two trucks through.

However, Lloyd Kupillas, 1126 Westwood, Coquitlam, one of the protest organizers, said that as soon as the marchers were herded aside, others followed and took up their places. Kupillas said there was no violence, although the scene was noisy from the blasting of horns by the truckers. The demonstration was another in a long series of protests by Glen school parents and residents of the immediate area, who contend the heavily-loaded gravel trucks should not be allowed to use a residential area. The question of access has been in and out of Coquitlam council for months with no apparent solution which would please all parties. The parents and residents want the trucks to be routed over a road which would be built above Glen Drive and would run west and then south crossing Glen Drive and connect with Lougheed Highway west of the crucial Woodland intersection.

Kupillas said the truckers appeared to be conducting their own form of blockade on Woodland, preventing anyone from entering or leaving the small disputed area. Israelis shelled TIBERIAS, Israel (AP) -Arab guerrillas from Syria crossed into the Israeli-held Golan Heights today and fired a number of shells at the Nahal Golan settlement, the Israelis said. Kaslo between Grandview Hwy. Broadway. 9-30 to 6 Wednesday May 19th Kevin Mldgley Photo JIM JOSEPH, WIFE JUDY suid CHILDREN hosts to hikers on West Coast Trail Indian prefers his ancestral village Hundreds of Home Furnishing items taken from our regular stocks along with odds and ends of floor stocks NOW ON SALE AT CLEAN-UP PRICES: By JOHN TWIGGS the trail this summer.

50-mile West Coast Trail from B.C. forest fires cool it Color IV Radios Stereos Sporting Goods Furniture Mattresses Floor coverings Appliances Swimming pools The forest fire situation throughout B.C. continued to simmer down today, with problems only near Dawson Creek and Quesnel. A B.C. Forest Service spokesman said recent rain, high humidity and cool weather have brought down fiie hazards in most areas and that the situation is basically good.

Two fires near Dawson ered about 9,500 acres, are now being mopped up, he said. The fire that covered about 20,000 acres near Quesnel is contained with only minor flare-ups on its cast flank keeping the firefighters busy. The spokesman said it is expected the rash of spring fires will slacken when grass killed during the winter is cleared away. No C.O.D. Phone or Mail orders I Convenient I Personal I Terms I Shopping I Creek, which last week cov- llMBHBBHIHIMHHaaHHnBl sink, obviously mass-produced in Japan, said: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Jim and his 21-year-old wife Judy were doing just that, sharing their humble belongings with strangers.

Judy began peeling potatoes and opening a large can of spaghetti while Jim went to the smokehouse for freshly-smoked salmon. Soon all five of us were sitting down to a delicious meal of smoked salmon, potatoes, fresh bread, coffee and spaghetti while Judy and Jim worried if we were having enough to eat. While we ate, we talked of life on the isolated west coast of Vancouver Island. The Indians at Whyack are crab and salmon fishermen, but Jim also works as a logger on an Indian reservation operation that the band has leased out to a private company. While city people commute to work by car, Jim commutes by boat a few minutes up the lake.

We inevitably began talking about the West Coast Trail, part of the new Pacific Rim national park, and we told the Josephs that about 1,000 hikers are expected to walk Port Renfrew to Bamfield, Whyack is four day: out. All hikers must take a boat across Nitinat Lake since it is a tidal lake where the water flows extremely rapidly through the narrows. And the only boats available belong to the Indians at Whyack, who charge about $1 per person for a crossing. But when we got to Whyack, Joseph was the only man in the village, and his boat had' broken down that afternoon. So our group could do nothing but wait until another boat came down the lake to Whyack.

Joseph made the wait pleasant by inviting our group in for dinner even though he knew none of us and was naturally shy. We walked into Joseph's small cabin and immediately his two children, a three-year-old and a very young boy, began to. cry. because they weren't used to seeing strangers. But the cabin was warm in several ways.

First, the wood stove made the inside a welcome change from the still-chilly May weather and, second, the cabin abounded with hospitality. A sign above the kitchen Sun Staff Reporter WHYACK Jim Joseph likes it here in the Nitinat Indian village that has been on the Nitinat Lake narrows since before the first white man appeared on the Pacific Coast. He likes it so much that he has resisted department of Indian affairs attempts to move him and his family to the head of Nitinat Lake, where the band is more accessible to federal gobernment agents. So Joseph, 32, lives in two-room cabin with his wife and two children in Whyack, while the majority of the Nitinat tribe lives at the other end of the 12-mile long lake. It means Joseph and his family must accept 8 few hardships, such as seeing fewer people and not having electricity, but to Jim it's worth it to live in his ancestral village.

"I was born here in my grandmother's house," says Jim. "It's kind of hard for me to leave. "Besides, the new place at the head of the lake looks like a logging camp to me." Walking along the rugged "I'll have to put up a hot dog stand," says Judy, momentarily forgetting her shyness. Eventually Judy volunteered the information on haw she and Jim met. She is origi- nally from Prince Rupert, but went to Port Alberni to attend residential school.

At the school she roomed with Jim's sister, and eventually she met Jim. Now she is a happy wife in the wilderness. As we finished our dinner, a boat came down the lake driven by an occasional resident of Whyack. We had little time to re-pack and say goodbye before we had to cross the narrows. But Jim found enough time to wrap up some of the smoked salmon for us to take along on the last few days of our hike.

As we crossed the lake we looked back on Whyack as the sun was setting on it. We saw Jim standing on the shore waving good-bye. We also saw why he has so far refused to leave Whyack, the setting gave the old village an almost spiritual glow, a beautiful glow rivalled only by the warmth emanating from Jim Joseph. Club says diver didn't pull cord UlUllaJUiLb TOKYO (Reuter) A Canadian teacher who plunged to his death while sky-diving Monday is believed to have failed to pull his rip cord, the Japan Sky-Diving Club said today. Thomas Morgan Howard, of Saskatoon, obtained a skydiving licence in Australia where he made 22 dives, a club spokesman said.

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