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he un THIRD SECTION LIVELY ARTS, LIVING TODAY VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1971 29 Bob HUNTER To begin with, let's face it, he H. R. MacMillan Planetarium looks weird. It looks like a family of Martians had come down in a homes' in vain' Rest ploy flying soccer version of a VW van and had set up their equivalent of tents. Of course it's all very Outer Space and shockingly future.

And that giant glitter By IAIN HUNTER Sun Victoria Bureau VICTORIA Greater Victoria rest home operators cannot get out of accepting welfare cases by turning in their licences, the government said today. A health department spokesman called the move by the rest home operators irrelevant under the terms of legislation governing community care facilities. The legislation makes it clear that whether the rest home operators have their licences in their possession or not they will still be regarded as rest home operators and therefore required to allocate 15 per cent of their accommodation to welfare cases. John Hanrahan of Victoria, vice-president of the B.C. Rest Home Association, said Thursday that operators were turning in their licences and would operate their establishments as guest houses which require only municipal licensing.

He said Rehabilitation Minister Phil Gaglardi would be given an ultimatum to remove welfare cases from the homes or pay the full cost of their upkeep as determined by the rest home operators. The operators have demanded that the government increase its payment to the homes for care of welfare cases from the $174 a month per case authorized by Gaglardi. Hanrahan said that the latest tactic of returning licences to the government would mean that the threatened eviction of welfare guests by the rest homes would be avoided, and the onus placed on the government. The government spokesman said today that the operators' tactic is like a driver returning to the superintendent of motor vehicles his licence requiring him to wear eyeglasses while driving and then expecting to be able to drive without the glasses. The legislation states that an establishment is a rest home if it gives any type of care to its guests.

This includes assistance such as helping guests up and down stairs, bathing them, cutting up their food, or portioning out their medication. FRANK WALDEN heads group Walden UBC alumni president Public relations man Frank Walden has been elected 1971-72 president of the University of B.C. Alumni Association. Walden, of 3914 West Thirty-seventh, was elected Wednesday at the annual meeting of the association held in the Hotel Vancouver. The 1971-72 executive, also elected at the meeting, in-elude: first vice-president Mrs.

Frederick Field, second vice-president George Morfitt, third vice-president Elio Azza-ra, treasurer Donald Currie. The five members-at-large who complete the executive are: Mrs. Bridget Bird, Kenneth Brawner and Robert Dundas, Harry White and David Helliwel. ing Silver Surfer of a crab having a shower out in front of where the saucer has landed, well, one does have to admit it looks like a Space Crab if there ever was one. It's interesting, you understand.

Even beautiful. I like it. It's just that it is a bit far-out' for a city where the mayor would have been considered reactionary even in the Dark Ages. What prompted me to start thinking about the planetarium was the remark made the other day by a friend who is now convinced that the place isn't the summer campsite of a family of Martians. He is the only person I know who is certain about this.

The rest of us have doubts. This friend says he has discovered the Secret of The Planetarium. He's going to write a book about it. I can't reveal this friends identity at the moment, because he insists that once they know that he knows the secret, they'll come after him and drag him back into the Negative Zone. He won't tell me who they are, but he did admit once that he was getting coded threats against his life which were being printed in every third issue of Spider-man, the Marvel comic book.

The threats, he said, usually appeared in the second-last word bubble on the fifth page. My friend is 25 years old (hence the combination of two and five) and he was the third child in his family (that's why every third issue) and he is a Pisces. Pisces, as everyone knows, are always afraid of spiders. Now do you understand why he feels justifiably uneasy? (I don't.) This friend is what we call a Paranoid III type of individual. If you cough when he's around, he pulls out a knife and warns you not to try that again.

I think he suspects you're trying to breath some of that Andromeda Strain stuff on him. At great personal risk, I am now going to reveal the Secret of The Planetarium. (My friend says they'll come and drag me off to the Negative Zone, but it's a chance I'll have to take. Captain Guts, my kids call me.) The Secret of The Planetarium is that it's not a planetarium at all. That's just the cover.

Actually, it's Trans-Dimensional Interceptor Station. (TDIS. I don't think that stands for anything in particu- -lar, at least not in this language. In Martian, or some other tongue, "tdis" may mean anything. It may be a dirtv word for all I know.) There.

I did it. I told the Se-' cret. This friend of mine tells me that creatures from other dimensions are always pass ypass planned i avei aiSDure Ken Oakes Photo 15, stopped to make friends with filly and its mother, purebred Arabian named Sabi-Sue, owned by Tillie Andrew, of Surrey. TETE-A-TETE in Surrey farmyard brings look of bewilderment to week-old filly, which still hasn't got a name. Louise Hewitt, WORLD CHESS MATCH It was the bylaw closing Woodland which caused all the trouble.

Coquitlam had to divert the trucks past Glen school. Parents protested that move and set up pickets. The truckers protested the pickets and set up truck road blocks. Meantime, Coquitlam tried to build the cutoff through the park and were met by more pickets protesting the cutting down of trees and use of park land for the short bypass. Said Ballard today: "I suppose the pickets will be out again as soon as we try to touch the trees.

We don't want to touch the park but it's the only way to, go. We are hooked." COQUITLAM A joint meeting of the councils of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam sat until early today to try to solve the great gravel dispute but decided only to try the same move over again. The move: to build a block-long bypass through the south edge of Glen Park. Sighed Coquitlam Mayor Jack Ballard: "It's a ridipu-lous exercise. We'll get a stronger protest than ever.

"We- don't want to go through the park but the only other alternative seems to be close down the gravel industry." Only new move made by the joint meeting was Port Coquitlam agreeing to relax its bylaw for six weeks so that trucks can Woodland Drive while the bypass is being built. While Fischer fidgets, Taimanov adjourns sian to part with his queen in exchange for two lesser pieces, and began stalking the black king. Taimanov played on for several moves in a lost position. At adjournment, his king was in check, and his bishop and knight peril. Fischer leads the match 1-0 by virtue of his victory in the adjourned first game.

Winner of the match advances in the elimination series designed to pick a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Mean while, in Seville, Spain, international master Robert Huebner of West Ger By BILL KAYNER Frustration combined with satisfaction was U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer's lot out at the University of B.C. Thursday night. This unusual emotional mixture came about on the 42nd move of his world quarterfinal chess game with grand- many and ex-world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union Thursday drew their fifth straight game.

In Moscow, Yefim Geller defeated Viktor Korchnoi. The two Russian grandmasters are tied at 2-2, while the Huebner-Petrosian match is also tied, 2V4-2V4. WHITE BLACK WHITE BLACK Tftlmnnov Fischer Tftlmaiinv Fischer Allan FOTHERINGHAM insisted on the adjournment, and sealed his 42nd move while Fischer fidgeted. When Taimanov does resign, probably without resuming play today, Fischerl will hold a commanding 2-0 lead in the 10-game match. Thursday's game, the third in the match, is scheduled for resumption today.

Also scheduled for today is the adjourned second game, now in its 73rd move. In Thursday's game, Taimanov took his white pieces straight into the same King's Indian defence that Fischer threw at him in the opening game. For a while, he played more aggressively. He gave up a pawn and broke his rook through on the queen's bishop file. But an attack that looked promising actually suffered from too loose a deployment of white's pieces.

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R-N6 Adjourned point. He is a fine man and probably the most honest male I know. A couple of years back, two to be ing through the Station on their way to different universes. We don't see them because our eyes are arranged the wrong way. Apparently, we are only the only second -level intellect creatures anywhere who have only two eyes.

The place that they pass through, my friend says, is what the rest of us know as the "dead sound" area right at the centre of the saucer-shaped lobby in the planetarium. It's not really a "dead sound" area at all. It's really a dimensional tunnel. When humans pass through it, we aren't swept away to other di-m i simply because we're only second-level intellects. We haven't evolved far enough.

Only humans who are mutants are in any danger of being caught in the tunnel. My friend, of course, is a mutant. I have no way of knowing whether he's kidding me or not. But I'm inclined to believe him. Certainly, if he was a mutant that would explain a lot of things Like why he keeps changing color depending on what kind of music is playing Tomorrow we'll personally Investigate the inlcr-dimcnsional tunnel hidden away at the so-called H.

R. MacMillan Planetarium. Cyclist dies after collision A 36year-old youth died after his bicycle collided with a trailer-tractor unit Thursday afternoon. John Thiessen, of 5324 Windsor, is Vancouver's 17th traffic fatality of the year. Police said Thicssen's bicycle collided with the tractor, driven by Robert James Quaylc, 27, of 411 East Forty-fifth, as the large unit was turning off Fraser on to' Fort) -first shortly after 6 p.m.

master Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union. There was Fischer, attacking vigorously, with Tai-manov's king reeling and a bishop about to fall on the next move. But the Russian exact, we wrestled with affairs of life in a yellow cottage in the Laurenlians and I asked him Jean Drapeau, as something out of Dickens, lecturing the public at the time of the October crisis. THE ONLY QUEBEC POLITICIAN this lawyer can see as credible is Levesque. "He doesn't lie." Leves-que, he points out, has taught the radical, separatist movement to "politicize" itself within the system and to work at the ballot box not elsewhere for the cause of the Parti Quebecois.

The Montreal word is that Levesque, his health and his nerves under terrific pressure in his efforts to keep the wilder elements of his party under control and frustrated by the gerrymandering which saw his PQ's 24 per cent of the vote translated into only 7 per cent of the scats, is ready to chuck it all. (Among French-speaking voters, the separatist PQ got 31 per cent of the vole, as opposed to 29 per cent for the Liberals.) Quebec Manpower Minister Jean Cournoyer demanded this week that Ottawa hand over its manpower jurisdiction to Quebec. Guilbault would go further: he thinks Quebec eventually must have control over immigration, too. Like many others, he hasn't bothered to work out the economics of the plan. Admittedly, it's based strongly on emotionalism but that's what always has been the French-Canadian strength.

Marcel Guilbault, an intelligent man who's changed his mind in the past two years, just shrugs and says, "It is made, Allan, it is made." Not the commonwealth. The common wealth. There is no indication any more that the mining in Ontario or the oil Alberta contributes is related to us." Quebec, he is saying, has 200,000 unemployed. There's something wrong with the present system, he maintains, if it can leave 200,000 unemployed in Quebec. THERE ARE SEVEN LAWYERS in hi'i firm.

Three, he estimates, are now separatists. When he goes up to Cooper Lake to offer guidance in the school to any students seeking a legal career, he can find nothing but separatists. The junior colleges and the universities, of course, seem to be turning out nothing but. He claims practically all the young engineers at Quebec Hydro are separatist. He is a most elementary man.

At law school, he was a bit of a bar-room brawler but he's now given up drinking. He has a feeling for the woods. He can explain to you why the elm tree is the only tree that sings. He tells how, In his canoe, he breaks beaver dams so the rush of water smooths the rapids. He explains how a deer leaves its mark In the bushes, why the moose has such large hind legs, how to skin a bobcat.

"Politicians cannot lie to the people any more. They won't take il." Robert Bourassa was eleclcd on his promise of "100,000 jobs" and now the unemployment total is twice that. Marcel is scornful of all the theorists around Bourassa and Tru-deau and docs a delightful parody of Take stand on Skagit, Brousson dares MLAs about separatism. "It is made, Allan," he says, "it is made." MARCEL'S PLEASANT HOME IS up in the Northcliffe section of the city. It is 85 degrees late in the evening and across the street two neighbors in their shirtsleeves converse across the iron balconies reached by circular' outside staircases.

Marcel is the world's most natural man. He is wearing a bathing suit under his shirt, no shoes. It's hot. There are beaver pelts stretched on the wall, good music coming forth. Marie-Claire is a beautiful cook.

"The semen is there. The seed is there. Jobs, jobs, it gets back to jobs." In two years, Marcel Guilbault, who is 41, has changed his mind about separatism. Now he thinks it's inevitable. He's a remarkable fellow, born at Cooper Lake, 350 miles north of here.

There were nine brolhers and three sisters. To survive, they trapped and ate muskrat. For 10 years Marcel was a modern courewr de bois but he worked his way to a law degree. He tells now of riding his bicycle to work in the 'fjords" between the office towers. He has a joyous, youthful face and tosses his upper lorso about as he talks but he is most subdued when he talks of why he has changed his assessment.

"You must have the common wealth. about the young men of his province who were rallying behind Rene Levesque's cry for an independent Quebec. It seems fair game these days to hang people, even friends, on their old qi'otes so I dug out his remarks recorded at the time: "These are young men. Boys. They must find their way.

They are not necessarily wrong. Young men must stretch to their limits. They must find what it is possible to do and what is not possible. They are testing. But it is up to us to lead them.

When they find that separation is not the answer, they will be looking around for leadership. That is when you and I must be prepared to show them leadership." Naturally, I'm curious to sec it he's changed his mind, in 1971, The IJC called the hearings following protests over the proposed flooding of 6,000 acres in the valley near Hope by Seattle City Light. It would result from raising of the company's Ross Lake dam to generate more power for the U.S. city. Safety group to meet The B.C.

Safety Council will hold its annual general meeting Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Sir James Douglas Room of the Grosvenor Hotel, 840 Howe Liberal MLA Dave Brousson today challenged Social Credit MLAs to stand up and be counted at International Joint Commission hearings in Vancouver next month on flooding of the Skagit Valley. The hearings are scheduled for June 4 in the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse. Said Brousson: "The IJC has said it is interested not only in technical presentations but also in the opinion of the public. I hope the public responds.

Perhaps some of the Social Credit MLAs might even have the courage to stand up and be counted.".

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