The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 43

Bob HUNTER he THIRD SECTION LIVELY ARTS, LIVING TODAY VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1971 43 sun A couple of years ago, when word first came that the great Fritz Perls was planning to move up here Deni Eagland Photo advantage of bike, he says, is no time spent on saddling up and there's no feed bill for idle days. MECHANIZED COWPOKE 90-acre spread with 70 cc Lyle Ringkmd rides herd on his Vans Enterprises mini-bike. Ringland, operator of his 106 head of Farm, 21258 Fortieth Avenue, Surrey, checks French Charolais cattle twice daily. Great VALLEY SYSTEM SET WORLD EXAMPLE Librarian has but one wish-more books from the States, a lot of people were talking about trying to get up a meeting between Perls and Dave Pellin, founder the Activator Unit on Fourth Avenue. Now that would have been something to sit in on.

Not only were there common themes running deeply through Perls' gestalt philosophy and Pellin's Activator philosophy, but both men were brilliant, charismatic and strong. Very strong. They had moved, each in his own way, into the very heart of the confusion lying over this century like a bank of smog. And each had emerged with a way of dealing with the world which was somehow nourishing. Each was able to help others to realize their own strength.

Both men, in their individual ways, were teachers. Even gurus. It would have been some meeting. But it didn't have a chance to happen. Last year, after being here only a matter of months, Perls died.

And last week, walking home late one night, Pellin was struck by a car and died a couple of hours later. IF VANCOUVER RIGHT now is one of the Western cities where a kind of renaissance in humanism is taking place, it is largely thanks to the coincidence or was It a coincidence? that these two men were doing their work Both have left strong, active organizations and plenty of people trained in their methods. And Pellin has left a large imprint on the lives of the thousands of people he came in contact with. He was slightly gargantuan. A big man, usually wearing a wrinkled white shirt at least, that's how I saw him he spoke with the kind of authority that has almost vanished in this overdeveloped, regimented, pigeon-holed society of ours.

It was a natural authority. Here was a man who knew. He never believed for a that his philosophy was the One True Path or anything like that. All he was able to say was, look, here's one way of handling all the confusion and misery that comes down on your head. It works for me.

I can help make it work for you. Simply, he was able to look into people, to see what was turning them off. He understood the dynamics of behavior in a unique, powerful way. It was almost as though he had x-ray vision. (And in this way, he was very much like Perls.) This week there are a lot of shattered people in Vancouver.

Pellin's death was like having the largest stone in the foundations of your life blast ed away. But there is no doubt about it, Pellin built well. The Activator Unit at 2150 West Fourth will keep on going, and so will the Activator House at 4164 West 12th. As Dr. Brock Fahrni of UBC put it: "Dave's death marks the end of the first chapter in the Activator Society's story.

The rapidly-growing Activator Philosophy of Human Behavior will be carried on by more than a score of members especially trained for this task, as well as by hundreds of others who have experienced and are convinced of its effectiveness in dealing with many problems of life today." I COULD NOT EVEN BE-gin to do justice to Pellin's work by trying to encapsulate it here. All I can say is that it helped hundreds, of other people to see a bit more clearly through the confusion all around. It made sense out of things that seemed sense-less. Pellin saw that rejection kills. He was able to rejuvenate very old people who were withering away from lack of love.

He was able to reach young people who had overwhelmed their psyches with floods of drugs. He saw the rehabilitation had to be a 24-hour business or it would never work. He was one of the first people in this society to clearly understand that you can't treat the body as being separate from the mind. And he developed a method of geriatric treatment which is used in hospitals here and elsewhere. It's a cliche, but it's the truth and there is no way around it: Dave isn't really dead.

No more so than Perls. Go down to the Activator Unit or the Activator House and that's what you'll find. The nourishing force is still there at work. mond, Delta and Surrey be split off within five years and added to a new regional district comprising Greater Vancouver and environs. With the loss of its three biggest municipalities, the district would shrink to about 100,000 people, and the Greater Vancouver Regional Library Disrict or whatever it would be called would be vast.

The Greater Vancouver system would be federated, with each area retaining its own autonomy. The carved-up Fraser Valley district would continue to be integrated, in a family sense, sharing together, fighting together. He believes Surrey, Delta and Richmond probably needs all that an urban library system can provide, which, by distance, and lack of money the present FVRLD cannot provide, and which the less populated rural areas couldn't afford. In a smaller Fraser Valley district, fewer people mean more problems, mainly money, and although he won't be around, Ley said: "Oh yes, we could function. The smaller unit could function.

But it will cost more money to run a smaller service." In sense, Ley's last job will be recommending the reduction of the huge library service he built up and recommending how it can then be made to work as well again. And who knows, that soft job he's looking for after retirement might be still with the regional district library helping someone else to make it work, without enough money, of course. By BARRY BROADFOOT Sun Staff Reporter ABBOTSFORD "Mr. Ley, what do you want most?" "Money," he -said, emphatically. "How much money?" "Oh, I should say about half a million more." "What would you do with it?" "Buy more books." Not unreasonable answers or reasoning when you consider that Ronald Ley is a librarian, although he considers himself by the nature of his large and complicated job an administrator.

But the money would be to help his successor, for Ley, 58, director of the Fraser Val- ley Regional Library, is retiring in two years on the theory that he still has a few good years left and he'd like to try his hand at other things, although other things could also involve libraries. Ley, grey, pipe-smoking, reflective, make-sure-you-know-what-you're-saying-before-you-say-it, has never considered the administrator's job, supervising B.C.'s second largest public library, as dull. In fact, he says he's always found it interesting even when dealing with elected and appointed politicians which is part of his job. Learning and libraries, like oil and water, sometimes don't mix too well in the reasoning of politicians. As Ley, sitting in his small office at Abbotsford headquarters, says: "There is legislation that there must be schools, so there are schools.

There is no legislation, no law Dent Eaglsnd Pholo, some of the 325,000 books when I began reading books." He was in the library service in England for 18 years, served in the Royal Air Force, came to Canada in 1948 and worked for the Public Library Commission for two years in Victoria and joined the regional district system in 1950. Ley considers himself an administrator. The district board makes policy and he carries it out. But there is more to it than that. Members of the board, in many cases, may not know much about li brary management.

Therefore policy and management are wound together, inextricably, in Ley's duties. And he is concerned that the board should get a good man to replace him "a good administrator, a top-calibre man." But before he bows out, his last job is to supervise the construction and moving-in this year of 10 more libraries, four of them new, and six being moved to larger quarters. This will bring the valley's total to 38 branches, and he feels it can't be done adequately, on the present financing which amounts to a tax rate of .6 mills. He thinks the present $525,000 is inadequate. "We need a million," he says, and he believes the people would vote for a mill rate increase but the board members, who have the final say, won't go along.

Money for the physical facilities comes from the regional district members, but actually most of it comes this year from 1971 centennial grants and federal funds. And what are the advantages of regional libraries, Mr. Ley? Very simple. Efficiency and economy. But more important, he says, "very few places could afford to have a decent library as they have now if it weren't for their membership in the district." His next, task, after breaking in his successor, will be to work for a year or so on a survey of the valley for the provincial Library Development Commission which is recommending that Rich- Fischer was off the stage and gone for dinner.

As white, Fischer entered today's play with a one-pawn edge on the queenside. He could not capitalize, however, gave up the pawn and shifted sight to the kingside. Taimanov did just as well over there, managing to simplify the position to where Fischer had the only pawn left on the board. With other material equal, Taimanov stood a better chance of drawing than when play began. Fischer leads the 10-game match, 1-0.

Third game will Ferry-ramp fall victim identified GANGES A man who died here last Friday after falling from a ferry ramp at Long Bay, while disembarking from the ferry Sechclt Queen, has been identified as John Joseph Sharkey, 62, of of the land, that there must be libraries. So He doesn't mean there are no libraries. He means there could be better libraries if there was more money, and politicians must vote the money. Money and books, like oil and water, sometimes don't mix too well either. In fact, Ley heads a good system, comprising 28 branches, in the miles of the Fraser Valley from Hope to the sea, from Richmond and Delta and Port Coquitlam east to Agassiz on the north side of the Fraser and to Hope on the south side of the river.

This makes it the largest regional library district in Canada. Historically, it was the first in the world. Librarians have come from all over the world to study the set-up, and the concept has spread across Canada, through the United States, and into South Africa and other lands. The FVRLD with 325,000 volumes is the second largest in the province, topped, only, by the Vancouver public library system with 645,000. About two million books are circulated each year, compared to Vancouver's total of about four million.

The regional board's budget last year was $525,000, compared to Vancouver's A comparison at this level would be iniquitous however, because the FVRLD's branches, the buildings themselves, are provided by the 19 municipalities and five school districts contribute funds. But it is the people who He staled the ad ban effective Sept. 1, 1971 reflected the "temper of our times." "There's been a change in the public philosophy, a build-up of feelings which reflects itself in our ecological socialism," he said. "Have you really heard the mass of people oppose the ban? Did people really get the message that there is a better life from advertising? "The average person doesn't care about the ad ban because it doesn't affect him. He's also opposed to advertising that is untruthful, misleading or not essential.

"If you don't believe me, lis- accidental Evidence indicated that Pellin, 54, suffered from bad eyesight and was struck by the car as he walked across Tenth Avenue at Balaclava on the evening of May 13. CHESS GAME ADJOURNED AGAIN It was Bobby's bad day Capozzi says government aware ad ban would cost some jobs LEY one can do it, and then one day there is the money in the budget for it, or you look around one day and the thing is done." Ley admits that much has been done in recent years. There have been occasions when he has been given a hard time, and while discussing dealings with elected officials his voice trailed off in a mutter, hidden among pipe smoke. However, he has prevailed. He has always been a book nut "I can't remember UBC GETS 2nd LOAN FOR HOUSING The University of B.C.

has been granted a $3.3 million loan for the second stage of a student housing project, the Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. announced Wednesday. The loan will be used to build a 16-storey tower and a three-storey apartment building to accommodate 501 students. The project, part of the Walter H. Gage residence, is expected to be completed in 1972.

The first stage, consisting of two residence towers and a common block, is due for completion by September. Fotheringham travelling KONALD make the system go, and Ley is very proud of this, for it is a reflection on the staff of 145. While no exact figures are kept, about 30 per cent of the Fraser Valley's residents hold ca'rds. "This is high. Very high.

It has always been high in the valley." So it is obvious that Ley's job is no piece of cake. A colleague, who wished to remain anonymous, said, "Ron is a quiet one. He gets things done." "A thing can't be done, and it will never be done, and no ten to the open-line shows sometime." Capozzi told the association its members are in for rough times ahead because they will be called upon to justify more of their products as they come under public scrutiny. He predicted that between now and the year 2000 public opinion and government action will be directed against business if the product or package is not the best even if it means fewer jobs. He said the ecological movement could ultimately lead to a drab, less challenging life because whenever an individual has choice it involves some form of waste.

"If we all used the same kinds of clothes or drank out of the same kind of beer bottle it would probably reduce waste but it would also reduce our freedom of choice," he said. "You have to meet the challenge or the alternative is more government planning and regulation." be played today at 4 p.m., with Wednesday's adjournment being picked up Friday. The match is part of a series of eliminations designed to pick a challenger to world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. In other action, Soviet grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Yefim Gellcr adjourned their game in Moscow Wednesday on the 43rd move. Korchnoi leads the series, 2-1.

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grandmaster Bobby Fischer. First of all, he failed to make any headway against Soviet Union grandmaster Mark Taimanov in the adjourned second game of their world chess championship match. After 3V4 more hours of play, the game at the University of B.C. was adjourned once again this time on the 73rd move-Fischer, 28, also was moved to complain to match referee Bozidar Kazic about Taima-nov's physical maneouvres. The 45-year-old Russian's pacing up and down the stage at the Student Union Building's movie theatre apparently did not help Fischer's concentration.

Then Fischer got hungry, leading to one of the fastest adjournments In chess history. Before Taimanov had even written down his sealed move, The provincial government was aware that the liquor and tobacco ad ban would cause some unemployment when it passed the legislation, Socred MLA Herb Capozzi said Wednesday. "They were not concerned with sacrificing jobs for a matter of principle," he told 50 delegates to the B.C. chapter of the Packaging Association of Canada. "It's a frightening thing." Capozzi recalled that 40 per cent of the Liberal MLAs and 70 per cent of the NDP voted for the bill, while he opposed it and spoke out against it in the house.

Death ruled A coroner's jury decided Wednesday that David Pellin, founder of the Activator Unit that helps homeless young people, died accidentally as a result of being struck by a car,.