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BUtt THIRD SECTION LIVELY ARTS, LIVING TODAY VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1971 41 UBC students skip exercise HUNTER Portrait of a river: At Vanderhoof, some gallons of sewage are flushed into the Fraser. The river flows on At Pinchi Lake, another 000 gallons a day are added. At Fort St. James, the river picks 190,000 gallons each day. It flows on to McBride and gains Twenty rows of chairs were, empty Wednesday as fewer than 40 per cent of eligible graduates showed up to accept degrees from the University of B.C.

The congregation exercises had the usual pomp and ceremony, a student who kissed the feet of UBC chancellor Allen McGavin, and applause for two blind But it also had an expression of regret from director of ceremonies Dr. Malcolm McGregor who noted that only 514 of the 1,358 eligible- students turned out to receive their degrees. "It's bad, down from past years," he said. "But so many of the students are travelling these days they have' more money than students used to. "And also many of them, go to work in the field when Jhe classes end." The loudest applause came for the blind graduates.

Carol Thiele, who last year received a BA in English, this year earned her BA in library science, the first such degree to go to a blind student at UBC. Albert York received a BA in anthropology. There was applause, too, for retired professor F. G. (Freddy) Wood, who received an honorary doctor of literature degree from UBC president Walter Gage.

The 84-year-old professor joined UBC when it opened in 1915 and worked there un- til 1950. Freddy Wood Theatre is named after him, in honor of the work he did for drama on campus. The one brief hitch in the ceremony came when David a 1 1, of 3768 Dunbar, swooped swiftly down on chancellor McGavin's foot, kissed it, then gave the startled chancellor and Gage leaflets attacking the education system and unemployment. The 23-y ear-old history 1 1 mi i PROUD GRADUATES Albert York, left, and Carol Thiele, right, both of Vancouver, relax in their seats after receiving their degrees in ceremony at University of B.C. Wednesday.

Both students are blind. Audience loudly applauded them. DAVID CARRELL stoops to protest graduate said later he has been unemployed since graduating last August. A half dozen persons in the stands chanted "yip, yip, yip" during his brief encounter with the university officials. "I have my name in at every, conceivable employment agency," Carrell said later.

"My BA is irrelevant as far as a job goes. I didn't know that when I started." He said he realized the foot kissing had been done before at last year's Simon Fraser University graduation ceremony. "But I couldn't think of anything else to do," he said. The leaflet he gave Gage and McGavin was the same as one handed out earlier by the Alma Mater Soceity. It attacks the education system, and says 10 per cent of BA and MA gradates in Canada were unemployed in 1969-1970 and that 26 per cent of UBC graduates with PhD degrees in the past two years are without work.

another gallons of mainly human waste daily. Prince George contributes 2.5 million gallons. Fraser Lake offers 60,000 to 75,000 gallons daily. Quesnel flushes 350,000 gallonsbut at least the sewage here receives secondary treatment. A break for the river.

One of the few breaks it gets as it moves down to the sea. Now it passes Williams Lake. Into its currents surge another 500,000 gallons of waste each day. We may imagine that the river is moving more sluggishly as it approaches 100 Mile House. Certainly it is thicker, more like stew.

And now it gains another 175,000 gallons of waste. Daily. Clinton dumps 100,000 gallons. Lillooet kicks in 125,000. At Ashcroft, the river gets its second break.

Some 54,000 gallons of waste but this gets secondary treatment. DO CHOKED MYERS gasp with relief? Probably not, but at any rate the relief is short-lived. Reaching Lyt-ton, it finds itself being slushed with another 55,000 gallons of ghuk. Merrit dumps 300,000 gallons. Each day.

Lucky for the Fraser, this stuff, too, is pro-, cessed in a secondary treatment plant. The luck runs out at Salmon Arm. Another 300,000 gallons of waste are shot into the vein of the river. And now it comes down to Tranquille and picks up an additional 100,000 gallons. Arriving at South Kam-loops, the river comes close to staggering under the impact of 2.8 million gallons of flowing wastes.

North Ka loops piles "roughly 550,000 gallons on top of that. Hope squirts out another 200,000 a day. NOW THE FRASER IS flowing heavily down through the Lower Mainland. It reach- es Chilliwack and receives a burden of 850,000 gallons. Harrison Hot Springs holds its contribution back with secondary treatment.

But Maple Ridge lets loose with 385,000 gallons. Port Coquitlam unleashes a total of 1.3 million gallons. Abbotsford dumps roughly 800,000 gallons. And now the Fraser, brown and turgid, loved neither by fish nor men, comes down into the home stretch, passing through the great urban cluster of New Westminster, South Burnaby, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Fraser Mills, Sur- rey, Langley, and south east Vancouver, and into its filthy trough pour another 52 million to 65 million gallons per day. The ordeal is not quite finished.

Before it may reach the sea, the Fraser must pick up one last surge of waste from Ill" 'ZMZ STTfTT" CN's freights in B.C. running after book-off Canadian National's B.C. rail operations were back to normal late Wednesday after a mass book-off by Jasper, train crews had blocked all freight traffic in and out of the province for 24 hours. 1 1 i. I nn nt i a 1 a A union officials and CNR management were meet man, two trainmen ana an en-gineman for allegedly taking their freight train into Red Pass junction four weeks ago without proper signal to proceed.

They claimed they had been given the signal and that CNR's new traffic control system operated from Kamloops is faulty. The four men remained under suspension today. Passenger trains were not affected by the book-off. ing here today to discuss the dispute over suspension of a four-man train crew that led to the stoppage. In Jasper, a union spokesman said crews started to book on again at 2 p.m.

Wednesday "after a tentative understanding was reached on the suspensions." They had booked off Tuesday in protest- against the 90-day suspensions of a fire- Dan Scott Photos LONG LINE of caps and gowns moves solemnly along Chancellor tion exercises Wednesday. More than 3,000 students will formally Boulevard toward War Memorial Gymnasium for UBC congrega- receive degrees in three days of ceremonies which end Friday. Fischer mastery crushes Taimanov Allan POTHER INGHAM THE NUT HAS BEEN CRACKED. Within the next few days, George L. Murray, QC, will go to court to overthrow the Four Seasons complex.

The "nominal plaintiff" he will be acting for is the attorney-general of British Columbia, Leslie Peterson. The object is to' challenge the validity of City of Knapp never produced. Harbor Park, which inherited the zoning privileges, never produced and then peddled the lease to Four Seasons. One of the amendments to be challenged in court not. only changed the use of the site to include a hotel but also increased the density.

Mr. Peterson has given George Murray, who has handled so much government major legal work, authority to launch court action provided the attorney-general is indemnified as to costs. Murray has given his undertaking that he has a trust fund to cover such costs. Some of the influential people in town who oppose the Four Seasons have made that no problem. As soon as the confirming letter is received from Victoria, the case will be launched.

"Ffc'f Vancouver bylaw 4065, plus three amending bylaws. That would take it Fischer, leading to the inevitable Fischer win. All four games to date have been adjourned. Of the two which needed overnight analysis, Fischer alone has out-thought Taimanov and bis three Russian advisers. As one oDserver put it, one wonders whether the Russian style of chess by committee is valid anymore.

Fifth game of the match was scheduled for 4 p.m. today at the Student Union Building theatre. Fischer now needs 1V4 points in the remaining six games to advance in the elimination series to pick a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. In other action Wednesday, Bent Larsen of Denmark and Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany drew on the 44th move of their seventh game in the Canary Islands. Larsen leads the match, 4V4-21A.

1 In Moscow, Soviet grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Yefim Geller adjourned their seventh game on the 41st move. Korchnoi leads, 3V4-2Mi. him to throw his support to Winters but Hellyer, alone with his pride, insisted on staying in until it was too late and Trudeau couldn't be caught. That stubbornness his strength as well as his weakness was what enabled him to crush those admirals in unifying the armed services and presumably it's what's behind this lone-wolf political "movement." One thing was clear to several of us who had watched him that night in the ice arena: if he had been able to deliver the type of speech he delivered yesterday he could well have been prime minister today. He had this Canadian Club booking for some months but shrewdly scheduled his announcement of the Action Canada organization in Ottawa for Tuesday, to give him prime Western Canada exposure the next day.

Still, there's that constant question of his judgment. One of his allies for some weeks in preparing this campaign has been Ted Workman, the Montreal Moral Rearmament advocate. Why, since his resignation from cabinet as the senior English-speaking ister and deputy prime minister, has Hellyer refused to use his prestige in the Commons to speak out and to offer himself as a rallying point for other Liberals who might share his views? He's waited so long his reputation has almost dissipated. Why now and with this fuzzy "movement?" A puzzling man. all the way back to 1963 when the Coal Richmond.

Another 16 million gallons each day. IN ALL, THE MIGHTY Fraser must carry each day at least 87,960,000 gallons of waste. Of that, only about 704,600 gallons can be described as having been properly processed before entering the river. In a year? Something like 32 billion gallons of inadequately-treated sewage. And that's only a part of the portrait.

For we have been dealing only with sewage. Much, much more than this goes into the river. But before turning to the non-human wastes, the industrial sewage, it is important to understand that while much of this waste has been chewed up into smaller pieces, it is still essentially raw. This incredible tide of waste contains 12,000 toxic materials. None of the treatment procedures used anywhere along the river do anything to neutralize these materials.

More tomorrow. since no one, as yet, wants to be stuck with his label. When he finally did appear for a drink, a prominent Tory lawyer upped to him and said, "I'll forgive you your unification of the forces if you'll continue your disintegration of the Liberal party." And there was the problem of the head table, Canadian Club officials had asked Hellyer who he would like on it. He specified three Liberals. Alan Campney it turned out he was out of town.

Glen McPherson, the Okanagan Helicopters chap he, too, turned out to be out of town. And George Van Roggen, who was Hellyer's B.C. campaign chairman for the 1968 leadership race. Out of town, too. So they went with pure Canadian Club people at the head table and the audience the Shrums, Gundersons, Liberal lawyers and Tory businessmen had to do its own guessing.

Hellyer himself was impressive. Fit, far more relaxed than previously, speaking with conviction and vigor on what we all know that government has got too big, that inflation must be curbed, that the quality of life must be improved. Three years ago, on a Friday night in the Ottawa ice arena the night Martin Luther King was murdered Hellyer went into his candidate's speech a strong second to Trudeau. His aides had drawn up a tough speech to overcome his essentially plodding style. At the last minute, Hellyer alone decided to toss it away and he went through a dull recitation of, among other things, agricultural statistics.

He bombed and some senior men on his staff who had slaved for months actually cried. The next day as the voting started the crush of TV cameramen pushed some of us reporters right in on top of him and we watched, voyeurs pore to pore, as he whistled nervously as his gaffe the night before dropped him down in the voting and made Robert Winters the only one with a chance of catching Trudeau. His aides pleaded with By BILL RAYNEJt Robert J. Fischer is not like yea and I. And he's not like Mark Taimanov either, as the Soviet grandmaster found out Wednesday in" their chess match out at the University of B.C.

The U.S. grandmaster proved once again that he is no ordinary chess player, taking a tranquil adjourned game and turning it into his fourth straight victory over Xaima-, nov. In a tour de force that was brilliantly consummated in 30 moves and l'a hours, Fischer once again proved the worth of a bishop over a knight and the power of the passed pawn, i Up to adjournment on the 41st move it had been Taima- nov's best game of the match. But some slight inaccuracies Wednesday allowed Fischer to send his bishop on wide-ranging forays and to transfer bis king to the queenside. Then, on the 62nd move, Fischer sacrificed his bishop.

In compensation he received two passed pawns that were convoyed by the king toward the eighth rank. With his remaining piece, a knight, out of position and his king helpless to halt the advance, Taimanov resigned on the 71st move. Taimanov now has lost twice each with the black and 1 white pieces, His trusty Sicilian defence as black Tuesday and Wednesday once again failed in the endgame. He 'seems mesmerized, as have most other players before him, by Fischer's style. Any little error he makes brings swift punishment by Flsrher Taimanov Fischer Taimanov R-Q3 K-Ql K-B2 KxR N-K2 Harbor property was first rezoned for massive high-rise development.

This silly upcoming plebiscite now becomes academic. The whole basis of the plan to erect a concrete curtain next to Stanley Park will go to the courts and the senior law officer of the province has thrown his iame to the cause. What has happened is that the opponents of Four SeasonsHarbor Park plan have done their homework. They have provided the evidence as to why the curious action of various city councils over the years should be queried in the courts. The names of the "relators" actually pressing the case are Mr.

and Mrs. L. H. C. Phillips, who live on Alberni just across from the Coal Harbor site.

Because of the many legal technicalities dictating; why they should not have their case heard in court, Attorney-General Les Peterson has agreed that his name be used to launch the suit. Bylaw 4065 was enacted back in those hectic days when financially-troubled Webb Knapp was pressuring council since it couldn't borrow the necessary money unless it got its requested re-zoning for the site. A compliant council granted that rezoning. Webb K-Q4 K-U3 57. K-RS 58.

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B-B3ch TALK ABOUT A CAT ON A HOT Tin Roof. You should have seen some of those Liberals at the Hotel Vancouver yesterday, greatly intrigued as to what Paul Hellyer was up to, but careful not to get too close, to him for fear of guilt by association. I mean, if there's one thing Canada does not need, it's another political party. What with the Libs, the Tories, the NDP (with or without the Waffle wagging), Social Credit, Creditistes, the aborning Committee for an Independent Canada we are quite sufficient, thank you, in shades of the political hue. Is Hollyer to be taken seriously, or is this Action Canada just another of his sulking diversions on his way back to another crack at the party leadership? So here were some of the boys, sipping a gin in the hotel boardroom before HcUyer'a noon-hour speech to the Canadian Club, debating as to who waj going to nip up to room 610 and escort him down.

There was much discussion but few takers K-B3 K-N2 N-Bl K-B2 N-K2 K-N2 K-I12 K-N2 K-B2 UBC PROF HONORED A University of British Columbia professor has been named a distinguished lecturer by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. In his capacity as distinguished lecturer, Dr. Harry-Warren will give about 30 lectures during the next year to scientific audiences across the country. LAST NIGHT THE "NON-PARTI- san" Association had the second session of its training school for political candidates. It's part of the long process to find a better class of candidate than the NPA offered up on a platter last time round.

One lecturer was predictable: John Oliver, the former city commissioner. But two future speakers will be interesting: Paul Tennant, the UBC political scientist who has been an executive of TEAM, and Alan Emmott, the former TEAM mayoral candidate. Nelson man jailed NELSON (CP) Luigi del Puppo, 38, of Nelson, was sentenced Wednesday to 32 months in penitentiary when convicted of illegal possession of explosives after dynamite was found beside a court building in Creston..