The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 31

he LIVELY ARTS, LIVING TODAY THIRD SECTION VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1971 31 Sun Bob HUNTER By my calculations based on figures published in the Eraser River Report some 87.9 million gallons of sewage are pumped into the Fraser every day- Only 704,600 gal lons of this stuff can be described as having been a quately treated before entering the river. In all, some 32 billion gallons of inade quately-treated waste flows down to the sea each year. And that's just for openers. In addition, three pulp mills at Prince George release 75 million gallons of effluent each day. Plus again each day 31 tons of pulp fibre.

This stuff is cellulose and breaks down only very slowly. It chokes the river so badly that by the time the water reaches Vancouver some industries are unable to make use of it. The three mills at Prince George incidentally also dump into the Fraser 3,750 pounds of resin soaps, 75 pounds of sulphides, 75 pounds of mer-captans and 75 pounds of residual chlorine. Each and every working day. A fourth mill at Kamloops dumps 90 tons of solid wastes, mostly pulp fibres, into the Fraser daily.

But the chemical portrait of the Fraser is not quite drawn, for on top of sewage and wastes from pulp mills, there is an unknown amount of other industrial effluent. Such as the stuff that gels dumped by the food processing industries between Hope and the Port Mann bridge. becomes difficult task when camera. Two-week-old jay, saucy very tame, nonchalantly takes his place anywhere around bird is who is home of Steven Anderson, 5715 Forglen, in Burnaby, Young bird's Ken Oakes Photo one of three born on sundeck of house. Steven has won favor with regular hand feeding of worms.

ON B.C. TEL SERVICE Lumberman wields big stick WATCHING THE BIRDIE bird perches on a fellow's FISCHER AGAIN? Mop-up in chess By BILL RAYNER Another mop-up operation appears in store for Bobby Fischer today in his chess match with Mark Taimanov. As usuel, the fifth game in their world championship quarter-final was adjourned Thursday night, and as usual, the U.S. grandmaster held the upper hand. At adjournment after the 41st move, Fischer was a pawn up and held the initiative.

In a tactical confrontation of queens and rooks, he controlled more space and had forced, the Soviet grandmaster to go on the defensive. Leading 4-0 in the 10-game match, Fischer decided Thursday on the Gruenfeld de. fence. It was a departure from his usual King's Indian as black in previous games here. Taimanov, who knows a little about the Gruenfeld, too, went into a long-discarded variation he had resurrected last year at the U.S.S.R.

-World match. 1 Play centred around a fight for control of the queen's file. Both players moved cautiously and had used up most of their allotted clock time when the 40th move arrived. Taimanov had a tempo for most of the game, but just before adjournment, his pres THIEVES RAID LIONS' DEN Thieves stole 27 pairs of special low-cut football boots valued at $705 from an equipment room occupied by the B.C. Lions at Empire urn.

The shoes, worn on artificial turf, were stolen some time between May 1 and May 21, police said. Meeting set by UNICEF The annual meeting and conference of UNICEF of British Columbia will be held Saturday in the lounge of the Kwakiull residence, Totem Park, University of B.C. The voluntary organization, under patronage of the United Nations, raised over $200,000 last year to help children throughout the world. V- "We hope to double that an- nual amount in the next 10 years," said Al Tarter, publicity director of UNICEF. "Even at that, we will barely meet the demands on our finances." Speakers at a panel discussion following a dinner at the Faculty Club will be Daniel Spry, representing the Canadian International Development Agency, David Descovi Bennetts, University of Santiago, Chile, Miss Lyle Creelman, formerly with the World Health Organization and J.

G. MacKinnon, technical advisor for CIDA. By JES ODA.M Bert Schrader is one of about 100 lumber wholesalers in Vancouver. The business depends largely on the telephone. From his fourth-floor office above West Hastings, Schrader calls mills in the B.C.

Interior and prospective buyers in the United States. "Practically every carload or truckload of lumber sold in Canada or in the U.S. has several telephone calls involved in working out price and spec-. ifications," he says. It is the price of those calls and the service he gets on them that has Schrader disenchanted with the B.C.

Telephone Co. "My average month's bill here is $1,400," he said in an interview. "To dp the same amount of telephoning from our California office costs about S900." Schrader, who works out of a wheelchair, said he has had a lot of experience with telephones. "I've spent eight to 10 hours a day on the phone for the last 25 years, in California, Washington and now B.C." He puts Washington state's Pacific Northwest Bell at the top of his efficiency list, followed by General Telephone's California operation. B.C.

Tel which is controlled by General Telephone is at the bottom with "a other inefficiencies," he added. ''Monopolies are notoriously overburdened with help which as time goes along produces less and less." Schrader said his answer is not a government takeover of the phone company or a succession of higher and higher rates passed on to the con-, sumer to ensure profit. Instead, he said, the Canadi-a Transport Commission should order a reduction in rates. "Maybe a 20-per-cent cut would shake some of the deadwood oif the tree," he added. "It is possible that given the choice between losing a few.

-million a year, B.C. Tel will institute a little efficiency to, make for the betterment of all, especially the customers." B.C. Tel is seeking a gener- -al rate increase under which monthly exchange rentals will be increased about 15 per cent, long-distance rates within the province will be increased up to 300 per cent and charges for installation and special equipment will be upped by 50 and 100 per cent in a number of cases. Hearings into the application ordered by the CTC, are due to begin June 7 in the au-. ditorium at Vancouver public library.

The commission has said it -warns to hear views for or against the proposed hikes. Peter Hulbert Photo making a call I busy circuit and she auks you to place your call again. You do this and the next number is busy. "Succeeding attempts give you wrong numbers, wrong area codes He blamed the difficulty he finds on inefficiency on the part of B.C. Tel.

1 "It stands to reason that if this company does this hap-hazard job dealing with its customers, it must have many BEET SCHRADER long jump from California down to the level of service given by B.C. Telephone." He said the difficulty he finds in completing a longdistance call from B.C. gets to be a joke after a while. "How would you like to pick up your telephone, dial 0 and wait 20 to 30 rings before the operator comes on the line and takes the details of your "Perhaps first you get a FRASER VALLEY FROST- ed Foods in Chilliwack flushes untreated vegetable and human wastes into Luckakuck Creek which end up in the Fraser. Fraser Valley Milk Producers dump untreated detergents and milk wastes in the same creek.

The Royal City food processing plant at Chilliwack lets go with vegetable wastes. Snowcrest Frozen Foods in Abbotsford as pointed out in the Fraser Eiver Report "turns Marshall Creek green when peas are processed and yellow when corn is." In addition to millions of gallons of hot effluent, Pacific Milk unleashes untreated milk wastes. The small stream beside Clappi-son Meat Packers "contains blood and decaying animal remains which eventually wind up in the mighty Fraser," There are also rine producing mines in the Fraser watershed, mostly open pit. These use enormous quantities of xanthates, cyanides, frothers, accelerators and oils, all of which are toxic, and all of which overflow to some extent into the Fraser. Still, our portrait is not fin- ished.

For no, one knows how many tons of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, miticides, rodenticides and so on are used on the farmlands and along the roads and tracks near the river, and no one knows how much of this, along with chemical fertilizers, drains into the river. THE FRASER RIVER RE- port contains a few specific figures. For instance, the Canadian Pacific Railway admitted using 7,000 pounds of Atra-zine along its right of ways in the last two years. Plus 25 gallons of and 25 gallons of CN conceded to using what amounts to 11.25 pounds per acre of Atrazine along railway tracks. This is five times the safe dosage recommended by the provincial department of agriculture.

Then there are the private users of these poisons. Woodward's in Kamloops sold 2,000 cans of last year. And the B.C. department of highways in Kamloops used 45 gallons of last year, as well as 400 pounds of Zomo- gen, 180 pounds of Tordon pellets and 30 gallons of Tordon liquid. And then, of course, there are the 105 industries located along the North Arm of the Fraser.

All but two refused to answer specific questions about what they dump into the river. Yet "chunks of meat and casings bubbling to the surface of the water" have been seen at Pacific Meats, hundreds of gulls feed in the water near Swift's, pieces of meat float out by Dr. Ballard's Dog Food, dead plant life and bleach smells as well as "gaseous bubbles" rising from the slime at low tide can all be seen near the various chemical and plastic industries located In this area. Salmon no longer even attempt to pass through the North Arm. Too poisonous.

As for the South Arm their last escape route to the sea there are fish processing -plants, food processing, forest products and chemical industries. They dump every, thing from potato peels (which use up oxygen in the water) to, in one case, as much as 12,500 gallons of boiling water per day. More tomorrow. time match sure on the queen's file faltered and Fischer managed some counterplay. Pieces were exchanged and both players went pawn hunting for a while.

Fischer came out of it with the more active queen and a 3-2 pawn majority on the kingside. If Fischer, wins in the adjournment today, the fifth straight, he will need only a half-point to advance to the semi-finals of the challengers' round. Eventual winner of the elimination series will meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title in 1972. Meanwhile, in the Canary Islands, East German grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann defeated Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen the eighth game of their match. Larsen now leads, 4V6-3V4.

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On Sunday, Michener will take the salute of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada during the regiment's annual church parade to St John's United Church, 1401 Comox. Later in the day he will fly to Castlegar for a four-day tour of the Interior, when he will present more medals to B.C. young people. Mission man dies in bridge plunge The body of a 23-year-old Mission man was recovered from Burrard Inlet Thursday afternoon after he plunged from the Lions Gate Bridge. A deckhand on the tug La Lutte saw Jack Burnett drop from the bridge about 2:40 p.m.

Crew members pulled his body from the water. Burnett was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Paul'i Hospital. Mission of mercy delays Michener Allan FOTHERINGHAM DURING ALONG; BUSINESS meeting Thursday, Andrew Saxton, one of the principals of Harbor. Park Developments was interrupted by a phone call, He rushed from the meeeting to chase down a copy of The Sun which contained the news that the attorney-general of B.C..

was throwing his name behind a court thai-lenge to the bylaws which form the basis of the whole saved Castle Combe, who is to tackle the Nahanni Valley in July and may yet save the B.C. Centennial from the blahs. THE NERVOUS CITY HALL types can relax on their worries on who would operate that imaginative parking lot under the planned civic square on Block 71 that's the one bounded by Nelson, Hornby, Smithe and Howe. Four different private parking concerns are interested in bidding on the underground scheme, which would provide parking for the Bennettscraper on the adjoining' block. Tom Ardics, bolstered by Doubleday accepting his second book based on private eye Charlie Sparrow, is quitting his p.r.

job with O'Brien Consultants for full-time writing. His spot will be taken by John Olding, who's moving over from his spot as editorial writer at CHQM. Those NPA political candidates expecting that scheduled lecture from UBC (and TEAM) political scientist Paul Tennant may have to go a long way. He left last week for a year in Malaysia. Expected row at the weekend B.C.

NDP convention at Totem Park will not be, for a change, between the Ray Hayncs' union forces and Dave Barrett's non-union followers. The challenge to the leadership will come from the cockahoop Waffle wing which is riding high on James Laxcr's national leadership showing. that top spot in the province, cannot be unaware of those benefits. FURTHER INTELLIGENCE IS AT hand regarding Capt. Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, third baronet of domiciled at Stickledon, Severalls Road, Bepton, near, Midhurst, Sussex the chap wot just might save B.C.'s Centennial from complete boredom.

Both the BBC man who was out here for Royal Aldermanic Tour 1971 and Alexander Sutherland Christian, MC, CD, late the Fort Garry Horse (Regular), have informed me that Sir Ranulph's most recent incursion into the world headlines has been forgotten. It came, and you'll probably remember this now, when Twentieth-Century Fox descended upon Castle Combe, celebrated as one of the prettiest villages in all England- The Hollywood types planned to alter the town's appearance to conform with the requirements of the movie Doctor Doolittle wherein the town was known as Puddlcby-on-the-Marsh). There was the usual outraged reaction, manifesting itself mainly in letters to The Times of London. Others write letters. Sir Ranulph acts.

On a surprise night raid on the Twentieth-Century Fox film location with three others, the outraged Sir Ranulph created wide havoc and dunked various film types in the village pond. He was ordered to stand 'trial accused of conspiring with his companions to cause "a public mischief" and was fined 10 shillings and sixpence. This Is the man, who controversial Harbor Par kF our Gov-Gen. Roland Michener arrived Thursday in Vancouver after being delayed on a mercy mission in Ontario. En route to Vancouver to present awards to teen-agers and receive one from the University of B.C., Michener' made a brief stop at Thunder Bay when his plane was di-' verted to take an injured girl to hospital.

Andrea Smith, 7, was taken to Winnipeg in the Canadian Forces aircraft after she was struck by a car. Doctors feared she had suffered brain damage and called for a military aircraft to fly her to hospital. Michener directed his pilot to take the emergency call when it was discovered that his aircraft was nearest to Thunder The girl was rushed to hospital, in Winnipeg, where doctors describe her condition as fair. The governor-general arrived in Vancouver in time to dine with University of B.C. chancellor Allan McGavin at the Faculty Club on the UBC campus.

Today he presents Duke of Edinburgh medals to students at Jericho Hill School and St. George's School for Boys. Prince Philip presented gold medals to 15 B.C. teen-agers at a ceremony aboard the royal yacht Britannia during the recent Royal Tour. The medals are given for league in the Little Mountain riding is the indefatigable Grace McCarthy.

She's a former member of park board, she has watched the Coal Harbor debacle from its very start arid she has worked hard on Peterson to convince him that some rather strange things have gone on over the years. The old game of politics is always there- Social Credit cannot be completely unaware of the fact that the Liberal party and particularly powerful segments of the Vancouver Centre Liberals in the past does not "come out completely shiny white when all and sundry details of the long transactions on that site are laid out in a line. The question of conflict of interest is still very much up in the air. (By contrast, two of the influential people supporting this action to be launched by Murray are Mrs. J.

Clyne and Mrs- Frank' Ross, who are thought of as good Liberal sources.) Finally, there are the obvious brownie points to be won by any politician who becomes known as "the man who saved Stanley Park." Especially if the way to save the park entrance turns out to be not an expensive plebiscite but a court case which costs the public nothing. Mr. Peterson, who still must aspire to Seasons complex on Coal Harbor. Saxton came back into the room muttering imprecations about certain newspapers and certain newspapermen. If the news is bad, blame the messenger.

That's how seriously the Harbor Park people view the startling switch in fortunes that sees their whole dream challenged by none less than the attorney-general of the province. Aside from the fact that veteran counsel George Murray has decided there is sufficient grounds to take the whole thing to court, there are other reasons that would seem to account for Leslie Peterson's surprise entry into the scene. For one thing, his junior Social Credit col.