The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 39

Utt LIVELY ARTS, LIVING TODAY THIRD SECTION VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1971 Trevor LAUTENS of principle! The world, as always, has need of you. It appears that international injustice is likely to Truck fighters defend park Sun Staff Reporter COQUITLAM Picketing residents stalled construction today on a gravel truck diversion planned through Glen Park. About 20 residents who are opposed to the project turned out at 5:45 a.m'. determined to stop a municipal work crew from carving up the park. Municipal officials said no work was being done on the diversion this morning, but would not say whether they had intended to send the crew out.

Inquiries were referred to minicipal prosecutor Doug Reid, who would only say: "The situation is pretty fluid." A start on the work had been expected after Port Co-quitlam agreed to suspend its bylaw prohibiting gravel truck traffic on Woodland Drive. The suspension, for six weeks, would allow the diversion to be built in a move to solve a running dispute about use of Woodland Drive by the gravel trucks. The diversion, through the south edge of Glen Park, will allow the trucks using Coquit-lam gravel pits to stay within Coquitlam without passing Glen elementary school. Lindsay Bickford, of the Coquitlam Scientific Pollution and Environmental Control Society, said residents in the area and SPEC are determined to prevent "desecration of the park." He said council has not given proper consideration to alternative route which would be more expensive and take more time to construct. Bickford said residents will block construction of the diversion, which will involve the cutting of about 200 trees, CHURNING HOOVES send horse around sharp corner dirt Hying as woman rider in barrel race at Cloverdale brings her Sunday.

Annual event attracted crowds Rodeo on favorites on in many and varied events. 5 canoeists safe after river spill 37 until there is a public hearing into all aspects of the situation. "We'll be there to say good morning to the workmen if they show up," he said. "There are people keeping an eye on the park and if the men come the phone will start ringing and there could be 50 to 70 people there." Ballard said he had "no idea" how municipal crews which were stopped in an earlier attempt to start construction would cope with the opposition. He said the Glen Park diversion is the only solution to the problem- short of closing down the gravel pits "which would put 600 men out of 'work." The dispute began in April when Port Coquitlam passed a bylaw closing Woodland to trucks.

Coquitlam diverted the trucks past Glen school. Angry parents set up pick- ets to stop the trucks and truckers countered with road blocks. 1 Coquitlam tried at that time to build the diversion, but got only as far as marking the trees to be cut before protesters stopped them with pickets and human chains around individual trees. Opponents of the park roadway also announced today they are circulating a petition demanding the resignation of the entire Coquitlam council, except for Aid. Bob Boileau, who opposes the roadway.

The petitioners are aiming for 5,000 signatures. Said Ballard: "Me resign? Good God, man, no. This has got to be ridiculous. The thought has never occurred to me." Stancombe got into his car and drove lVa miles down the river to reach the canoe. Stancombe, who was wearing a bathing suit, swam out to the canoe only to find out there was no one else to rescue.

"It was all white water and I didn't realize until I reached the canoe that there was no one hanging on to it," said Stancombe. "So I swam ashore again and it was so rough that I got smashed against a rock and broke two fingers. "I had seen the men in Princeton earlier in the day and warned them not to go through the rapids they are like a raging canyon there. The men are lucky to be alive. "I know those men didn't mean to go through the rapids but they should have had a look at the river before they started canoeing and then they would have known the location of the rapids.

Young, of 797 Goldstream Place, said he and his four friends had no intention of going through the rapids but went into them suddenly as they rounded a bend in the river. "We had intended to beach the canoes before we got to the rapids but got some misdirections," he said. Young, Robinson, Cowling and Bryce are all teachers at Daniel Woodward elementary school, Richmond, Sweet is a student teacher. All five men are in their thirties. religion, leaving only two games scheduled for this week.

However, with Fischer leading 3-0, most observers expect him to wrap up the match in the minimum six games. Winner of this quarter-final will advance in the elimination series to pick a challenger for world champion Boris Spas-sky of the Soviet Union, Meanwhile, West German international master Robert Huebner, 24, withdrew Monday from his quarter-final match in Seville, Spain, vita ex-world champion Tigran Pe-trosian of the Soviet Union. Huebner, citing frayed nerves, withdrew after Pe-trosian defeated him in 40 moves Sunday in the seventh game. The first six games were drawn. In Moscow Monday, Soviet grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Ycfim Gellcr drew after 27 moves.

Korchnoi leads the match 3V4-2Vi following a victory Saturday. Sunday, Danish grandmaster Bent Larson defeated East German grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann in the Canary Islands to take a 4-2 lead. take place; is in fact, already taking place. The surprising thing is that the men of prin-ciple who spoke out so forthrightly on a parallel matter, unceasing in their labors for many years, have been silent on this one. But surely this is a mere oversight.

To assume otherwise would be to insult them as men who hold principles only at their convenience which is what the unprincipled do. And are they not men of principle? The issue involves the diplomatic recognition and membership in the family of nations of a certain state. There are a number of abhorrent characteristics of this state. It is not, certainly by Western standards, democratic. Its government is basically a faction which simply seized control of its territory, pretty well heedless of the wishes of the inhabitants.

Furthermore, this state is war-like and expansionary, constantly threatening to invade at least one neighbor state and hostile to others. Finally, this state refuses to have anything to do with states that do not share its views on certain matters. It rejects diplomatic relations with such states. But have we not heard this argument countless times? all of this is totally irrelevant to the issue. The Issue is simply whether or not this claimant state is really a state.

NEVER MIND WHETHER it's democratic or totalitarian, peaceful or belligerent, friendly or unfriendly, or whatever. For as the men of principle never wearied of reminding everyone the sole question that should be asked in the diplomatic club is: does the claimant state have effective control of its territory? For governments, Western governments especially, have no business weighing the moral worth of other governments. Or, in its simplest form: recognition does not imply endorsement. So the argument went in another time, another place, another case. So it is remarkable that those who so arduously appealed to these principles in the one case, concerning the recognition of the People's Republic of China, have not prosecuted with equal zeal and the same principles the case for continued recognition of this other state, which of course is the Republic of China, or, shred of pretension, Formosa.

This state and its 14 million people stand in danger of being cold-shouldered out of the family of nations. Yet its government certainly meets all the tests enunciated by the men of principle. REMEMBER THAT under these principles, the authoritarian nature of the Chiang Kai-shek government, its militancy toward China, and the control of the 10.5 million natives of Formosa by the Chinese minority are quite irrelevant. It is also noteworthy, but equally irrelevant, that the state now under such pressure is the second most prosperous in Asia, with a yearly growth rate of 10 per cent over the last decade. Of course this state owes its existence largely to having a patron nation.

But what of that? Almost all small states are client states in one way or another. In fact, Formosa last received direct aid from the United States in 1968-a pittance of $461,000. True, the great problem involves Formosa's claim to represent all of China. This is an absurd claim but understandable in that, in the idiot world of diplomacy, the stakes are all-or-nothing. It is also a dangerous one for Formosa, because in agreeing with Peking on this one point, that there is only one China, it accepts the rationale of a confrontation between an elephant and a mouse.

One would, think that the men of principle would be striving bolh to keep Formosa in the club and to dissuade it from its hapless claims. Of course the Peking gov-ernment must also be persuaded, as much as possible, to accept the patent realities of the situation. Where then are the men of principle who marched, paraded, petitioned, propagandized for the recognition of China in the sacred name of principle? All aboard for the Demo Special to the Chinese embassy in Ottawa! The line forms well, naturally to the left PRINCETON Five men reached shore safely after their canoes were overturned Sunday in rapids on the Simil-kameen River but a Vancouver teacher broke two fingers in his efforts to help them. Princeton RCMP described the rescue attempt by Geoffrey Stancombe, 26, a teacher at St. George's School for boys, as "heroic." The five men pitched into the Similkameen between Princeton and Hedley were in two canoe.

The first canoe overturned just above rapids and Tony Cowling of Richmond, Peter Bryce of Port Coquitlam and Robert Sweet of Vancouver all reached shore safely without help. However, Barry Robinson, also of Richmond, who was in the second canoe, was almost exhausted when he reached shore and Stancombe climbed down a steep bank to help him. "I grabbed for him but he could not close his hand on mine because he was so cold," said Stancombe today. "But I managed to get him up the bank." Stancombe thought that the other man in Robinson's canoe, Kim Young of Richmond, was still in the river clinging to the overturned canoe. He did not know that Young had been swept into a back eddy and got safely ashore by himself.

So, after helping Robinson, of enthusiasts to cheer kets for apples and other fruit such as apricots, which he said are rarely grown in the Okanagan because they can't be sold. (All fruit growers in the interior belong to the associa-. tion and must market their crops through B.C. Tree Fruits.) Tavender said the existence of "fruitlegglng" illegal individual selling of fruit by growers is a measure of the ineffectiveness of the central selling agency. The caucus, third in a series of meetings in which the party's MLAs listen to local problems, also heard business agent Alma Faulds of the B.C-Interior Fruit and Vegetable Workers Union.

The Okanagan packing house workers represented by the union have one of only seven labor contracts in Canada with a standard work week of more than 40 hours. The workers, mostly older women whose children have grown up, work eight hours a day six days a week because their employers are exempt from the Federal Hours of Work Act passed in 1965, she said. CANTANKEROUS BULL dumps aspiring rider unceremoniously to event at top reduce one man's chances of top prize money in rough and tumble the trade to BARRETT PLAN FOR FRUIT INDUSTRY Loan pool aid urged Glenn BaElo Photos B.C. rodeo. Contestants need to know all the tricks of stay on their mounts and in the running for awards.

in Okanagan TaimanovV illness delays chess match among the world's best, but they cannot compete with an unreal, subsidized, federally-sanctioned trade policy that is rooted in expediency." Claridge and his association were attacked by W. E. Ta-vender, an orchard man from Summerland, who said he came to the meeting at the request of several farmers in his area who couldn't make the trip themselves. Tavender said most of the farmers he knows are making a living only by taking other jobs. He attacked B.C.

Tree Fruits for failing to find mar- theft from boss June 3 when defence counsel John Hall and Crown counsel Kerry Smith will submit details of the theft. Suspect arrested VICTORIA (CP) Police have arrested a man in Alberta in connection with a $4,700 armed robbery of the Saanich Peninsula Credit Union last Nov, S. labor council would act as an outlet for fruit which would be sold through unions. In his brief to the" eight NDP MLAs and 30 listeners at the meeting, Claridge said cheaper competition from other countries, some of which is government-subsidized, is eroding export markets. Australia, South Africa and Japan all export large quantities of apples and oranges to Canada, but refuse to import Canadian apples on grounds that they are exposed to diseases, he said.

"Our apple producers are Manager admits The sales manager of a city car firm Friday admitted stealing $3,703 from his em-ployer. Lloyd Edward Simpson, 43, of 886 East Twenty-ninth, North Vancouver, pleaded guilty to stealing the money from Wcstport Auto Brokers, 308 Kingsway, since last January. Provincial court Judge J. J. Anderson remanded him to "And when the' fruit industry goes, a whole way of life will go down the drain with it." Barrett said later that the proposed loan pool, to be set up by the provincial, government, would stave off bankruptcy for many Okanagan farmers.

He said the growers' concern was indicated when about 25 showed up to discuss their problems at an impromptu late-night meeting in Keremeos earlier in the week during the NDP leader's Okanagan tour. The growers' association, through its B.C. Tree Fruits Ltd, marketing arm, has failed to diminish the control exercised over selling by fruit wholesalers, he added. "There are other ways to sell the fruit besides giving it to wholesalers. Why not talk to the milk producers' association and see if they can sell fruit on milk trucks?" Barrett also suggested that the association arrange an "apple week" with the Vancouver and District Labor Council, during which the By PAUL KNOX Sun Staff Reporter KELOWMA A $250,000 interest-free loan pool should be made available immediately to beleaguered Okanagan fruit growers, New Democratic Party leader Dave Barrett proposed Saturday.

He made the suggestion in an interview following a wide-ranging open party caucus session which heard briefs on everything from gravel pits to the 40-hour week. Barrett said a combination of exorbitant cuts paid to middlemen, importation of low-priced U.S. fruit and a lack of aggressiveness in finding markets for Canadian produce is slowly killing the once-prosperous fruit industry. "My prediction is that within five years you (the industry) are going to be dead," he told Allan Claridgc, president of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association, who earlier claimed that government food policies are closing off markets.

"That's what the Americans want you to do (die) and I don't see the aggressive moves within your organization to combat this. By BILL RAYNER The chess match hae between Bobby Fischer and Mark Taimanov survived a medical crisis over the holiday weekend and is scheduled to continue today at 4 p.m. Soviet grandmaster Taimanov, 45, early Sunday was put under doctor's orders to rest for 48 hours, thus forcing postponement of that day's scheduled fourth game of the 10-game match. He had complained Saturday of not feeling well, and because of faulty translation, his symptoms were first described as heart palpitations. However, an electrocardiograph at St.

Paul's Hospital Sunday proved negative Taimanov's illness was diagnosed as high blood pressure. U.S. grandmaster Fischer, 28, was noncommital about the postponement. He spent the weekend "taking it easy." Because of Sunday's postponement and an earlier dispute over playing facilities, the 10-gamo match is now several days behind schedule. It will be delayed even more next Sunday.

This normal playing date will be skipped because of Fischer's.