The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 37

he sun LIVELY ARTS THIRD SECTION VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1971 Bob HUNTER Downtown. A smell in the air that Makes me feel good. Strange. It is one of those good feelings you find you can attribute to nostalgia. Compromise reached, airport firemen return asked to determine whether this is true.

The Edmonton men simply ignored the new hours Sunday and reported at their usual time, but were sent home by management. The sympathy protest by the firemen here and at Goose Bay, Fredcricton, Halifax, London, Windsor, Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg was organized informally. Legislation governing unions in the public service does not permit union officials to authorize work stoppages while a contract is in force. Still to be settled is the question of whether the Edmonton firemen will lose pay for the three days they were not working. Firemen at Vancouver International Airport were back at their jobs at 3 p.m.

Tuesday as the cross-Canada book-off at nine airports ended with a compromise worked out in Ottawa. The federal transport department relented on the introduction of new work shifts at Edmonton, which sparked the mass book-offs, after an all-day meeting with union officials in the capital. "That's all we set out to accomplish," local firefighters' spokesman Dave Lowdon said late Tuesday. Because of the cast-west time differential, the book-off by the 38 men at Vancouver Fischer scores 6-0 sweep in world chess match airport lasted only seven hours. Firemen at the other centres returned to work as soon as they got word from Ottawa.

Lowdon said the issue is now up for collective bargaining when the union's contract expires Sept. 30. A statement by both sides in Ottawa said the Edmonton men will return to work on their traditional 10-hour day shifts and 14-hour night shifts and that the department has agreed to postpone introduction of eight-hour shifts. The firemen had charged that the change in hours was in breach of the current contract, and the public service staff relations board has been successfully a theme that ran through all six games. Taimanov once again lost his way in the pawn infighting.

Fischer always had a move that was just a little bit better and entered the endgame with marked superiority. A draw Tuesday was all Fischer needed to win the match, but he was not about to offer it to Taimanov. At adjournment, all the ingredients for a Fischer victory were present: pawn superiority, mobility and tempo. He had a rook and knight against Taimanov's rook and bishop, and was in the process of demonstrating that a bishop does not always have superiority over a knight especially when the knight belongs to Fischer. By BILL RAYNER The formality ot a handshake today closed another chapter in the chess career of Bobby Fischer.

For U.S. grandmaster Fischer, the handshake from Mark Taimanov signified the resignation of the Soviet grandmaster in the sixth game of their world chess championship quarter-final match. It also signified a stunning 6 0 sweep by Fischer of the 10-game series and qualified him to meet Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen in the semi-finals of the challengers' round. Fischer, two pawns ahead and in the process of breaking a pawn through to the queening rank, had Taimanov in a hopeless position on the 43rd move Tuesday night. But Taimanov, following the Russian game plan of delaying every decision as long as possible, asked for adjournment the sixth straight in the match.

Taimanov, playing the Sicilian defence with the black pieces, made some slight errors in the opening which allowed Fischer to slice open his kingside pawn formation. However, he maintained a strong centre and had room for a direct assault on white's king. The attack came, but was half-hearted and easily rebuffed by Fischer. Taimanov then tried a foray on the qiiecnside but lacked the resources to carry it out If Fischer gets by Larsen in the semi-final match, the Russians (either Tigran Petrosian or Viktor Korchnoi) will get another chance to deny him his ultimate aim: a title match with world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. l-'isrhiT Tnlnmnov While Blark Taimanov 1.

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The men, in their early 20's are being investigated in connection with a breaking and entering a short time earlier at the Prairie Market grocery store on St. George Street. ROYAL CITY HOSTS CHESS FESTIVAL The New Westminster chess festival will be held this weekend at New Westminster Community Centre, Sixth Avenue and McBride, This B.C. Festival of Sports event is open to all classes and will be a five-round Swiss tournament. Classes are open, junior 18 years and under, and junior 14 years and under.

Entry fee is $3 for the open event and $1 for the junior events. No B.C. Chess Federation membership is required. The junior events will be held on Saturday only. Prizes will be awarded for winners and runners-tip in all plus special prizes for novice players finishing high In their category.

Registration is Saturday at 12 noon. Some association with a pleasant lost part of your life. Now I have it, London. Downtown a ncouver, the smell of it, reminds me of Lon don back in the early 60s. My innocent Winnipeg nostrils had never encountered dense masses of carbon monoxide before.

The smell was vaguely exciting. At first I didn't know what it was. Thought it was just a London smell. And now Vancouver has it. You know, it may be that we will never get rid of pollution.

This is just a theory, you understand, but suppose it turned out that the smell of pollutants was in someway addicting. Everybody knows that nicotine is addicting. But no research has been done, so far as, I know, into the issue of whether or not exotic chemical items like carbon monoxide, might be addicting. What would we do if carbon monoxide an addictive drug? The same set of responses which, have been worked out to deal with nicotine would no doubt 1 be brought to bear. Which: is to say: Nothing would he done at all.

There is obviously a big psychological difference between city people and country people. City people are somehow numbed, insulated, almost shell-shocked. All along, everybody, has assumed that the anaesthetizing of city folk the dulling and blanking-out of our nervous systems has been caused by congestion, pressure, speedy schedules and overstimulation. I'M NOT SAYING THESE forces aren't at work. But it is possible that in addition to these factors, another factor might be considered.

And that's the extent to which the chemical processes in our mind.s, are altered or stimulated or depressed by the weird chemical mixture, called city air, which we ingest at the rate of about 10,000 lungfuls per day. The machines squirt this stuff out. We take it in, day after day, night after night, and after a while our bodies and brains get so used to it that in ''some unrecognized fashion we become dependent on it. That would go part of the way towards explaining why we are so apathetic about doing anything to end the poisoning of our air. Now I realize that nobody wants to admit that they might be hooked on chemical like carbon monoxide.

It's just a diabolical thought. Cities populated by zombielike c.arbon monoxide freaks. People crawling from their air-conditioned rooms down to the streets to get a bit of good old The stuff does link up with the hemoglobin in our blood. Well, there's not much point pursuing the thought. If it's true, we're doomed.

Aren't we? The Romans, it has been suggested, hecame decadent and lost their vigor partially because the walls of their aquaducts were lined with lead. They took in so much lead that it messed up their chemistry. First thing you knew the upper classes, who were the main users of the new water-carrying technology, had turned into degenerate slobs. And down came the empire. I can't help feeling that something very much like this is happening to us right now.

Look around. It's evident that people are developing a host of dependencies that tie us ever more tightly to our technology, making it less and less possible to break away or to turn and fight the thing. It's like junkies trying to gel a mountain-sized mechanical monkey off their backs. TAKE MUSIC. FOR IN- stance.

Even the kids who are most turned off by technology and carbon monoxide and all that still show signs of being hooked on the civilization that spawned them in ways that they can't resist. Go out lo some isolated corner of the province where there is a commune with no electricity or squatters' shacks along a beach. Drive up in your van, like I've done several times, with your tape deck playing, both speakers blasting nut quality stereo sound And first thing you know, you've got a flock of stereo music-starved people gathered around poking their heads into your van to get between the speakers just like kittens scrambling to get milk from their mother. Visions come to mind of good citizens rushing back to the city after a weekend in the country, and why arc they in such a rush? Sniff. Knilf.

Ah. Good old carlxin monoxide. Gets them off, it does. And me wondering for years why 1 lived London so much. And why I love Vancouver so much now.

Probably I'm just hooked on carbon monoxide. Water lots report urged Aid. Art Phillips gave notice of motion Tuesday that he wants city officials to report on the status of water lots on liurrard Inlet from the Bay-shore Inn to Burrard. He said the information might he helpful in avoiding a situation similar to the one that sparked the Four Seasons controversy at the entrance to Stanley Park. The city should be prepared to take advantage of any situation rather than have an organization such as Webb and Knapp put together a real estate package based on National Harbor Board water-lot leases, Phillips said.

He also gave notice of motion that he wants city olfi-cials to report on the property bounded by Georgia, Chilco, Cardero and Alberni. He said the four blocks arc currently zoned C-3 eommercirl, The area is now zoned for a density even higher than the Four Seasons' development, he said. LONG. BLONDE HAIR Hying in warm afternoon breeze, Joyce Wareham swoops through air on park Ken Oakes Photo swing. She paused to enjoy pastime during stroll through Mahon Park in North Vancouver.

Flexibility urged to cut dropouts Allan FOTHERINGHAM THERE IS AN INTER coloration to the audiences that attend city council. The main public gallery consists of three rows of wooden benches, divided by an aisle in the middle. Each Tuesday the supplicants arrive, the mere spectators, the time-fillers, the real estate lobbyists, the power-brokers anil the curious. It is intriguing the perhaps, for a sociology student doing his Tennant were lo give lectures to this group. In fact, they've already been given.

Poor NPA, on sliowi could muster only three of it six aldermen and even His Worship ditln't know why Aid. Wilson and Aid. Sweeney were absent. Headmaster Street, Ins clucking chickens about him, could hardly hold this up as responsible councilinaiiship, It wil) be interesting to see how far Ihe NPA carries Ibis nursery school and how many of these pupils show up on the ballot in SOME IOIR SEASONS PEOPLE are dreadfully upset over the suggestion here that CNR pension money (I.e., me and thee) is being used to ensure the erection of a concrete curtain of a hotel smack on the Stanley Park boundary line. Well, let's put It this way.

Would Four Seasons in any way be interested in putling up a lonely hotel unless it luid the necessary financing (i.e. CNR pension fund) to develop the massive apartment section ot the project? Is Four Seasons now changing ils previous staled view that Ihe-project Is economically viable only if the full development 33-storey apartments and a hotel Is allowed on that M-acre site? Is, In fact, the financing (as yet, unsettled) for Ihe hotel not greatly affected by the fact that the CNR pension money is assured for the massive apartment complex? We would he most interested in replies, The Four Seasons local troops are also terrified, now that they didn't kick those Ylppie typos off Ihe sile quickly, thai Ihe massing force of Iransirnls will adopt Ihe site as the local slumhcrland on-tlic water. And by the way, whatever happened lo that independent valuation of the sile ordered by city hall? The meaningless plebiscite is three weeks away and city hall has yel to tell us what its independent expert says the site is worth. THE THREE STARS RATING FOR Ihe $25-a plate C. Sports Hall of Fame dinner last night: 1.

Tommy Trindcr; 2. Rudy Pilous; 3. Babe Pratt. As Babe said. "If I attend one more of these things, they're going lo put my knife and fork in the Hall." Trindcr, Ihe Cockney chairman of the Ftilham soccer club, with a face like an elongated George Formby, was forced to follow two hours of such frustrated vatiilevillians as Bud Poile, Frank Cnup, Pilous, Jim Young, Dan George and Pratt plus such amateurs as Eagle Keys, Orland Kurlenbach, an engaging Bobby Orr and an ever-politicking Premier Bennett, Despite it all, he knocked them dead with a professional barrage of one-liners (hat would only fatle In Ihe retelling, Aid.

Art Phillips, filling In for who's-lhe-mayor, got off some nice at Bennett, explaining thai the province was going to be not only debt-free but sin-free and "as of Sept. 1 all TV shots of Derek Sanderson will be blanked out, lo be replaced by a picture of Leslie Peterson." Acknowledging Phillips, Pratt said it "was nice lo see there's another comedian at city hall." Babe quickly got on lo Punch Imlach, "ihe only coach in hockey who can strut silting down." Punch, he revealed, thinks he's the Pope. He lets his players kiss his ring after each win, "The only problem is, Ihe ring is In his hip pocket." High-school graduation requirements must be made more flexible if the dropout rate is to be reduced, the United Community Services said Tuesday. The board of directors decided at their general meeting that a letter be sent to the provincial department of education's curriculum committee supporting changes "which would avoid the highly structured curricula in the last two years of high school." A UC'S task force on education, headed by Mrs. Betsy MacDonald, made the recommendation.

During a lengthy debate, several board members were opposed lo the UC'S becoming involved in education. "But. if a student becomes a dropout and then is unemployed and becomes a burden to society it, is our problem," one argued. "By reducing the dropout rate, we increase the number of people who become constructive members of society." Mrs. MacDonald, a.

past chairman of the Vancouver school board, said her task force solicited the opinions of educators and students before the final recommendations were made. She referred to a previous research report by the UC'S social polity and research committee which showed that a system of streaming deprives many secondary school students of a wide variety of experiences and causes some to drop out in frustration. Another resolution from the (ask force asking the UCS to endorse a proposal for 18 community school committees was approved. It stressed the importance of selecting citizens at an open meeting was to involve all parts of the community. The board also received a report from the policy and research committee on the Vancouver Opportunities Program, recommending that the program be continued.

"There's no question in my mind that it's a worthwhile program," said Dr. V. S. Pendakur, of the University of B.C. school of community and regional planning.

"We should encourage all levels of government to keep it going." The program, designed to help people on social assistance to help themselves, pays a monthly incentive allowance of $50 for 30 hours of volunteer services, This is paid by the city social service department and does not affect the individual's eligibility for other benefits. The committee recommended that those who successfully complete the program arter six months should move into paid jobs in community services. II also recommended that volunteers who are chronically unemployable should continue to receive honoraria. The committee said a full-time organizer within the program should be appointed lo co-ordinate activities and help participants move on to training or employment. who arrive individually to observe the ritual.

Automatically, lo Ihe right go the real estate interests, the architects, those seeking favors from city council, II is uncanny. The arrivals take on the coloration of their surroundings. They group protectively hchind the civic bureaucrats they musl deal with. There's a funny little Berlin Wall that divides those below the salt and those in Ihe know. So yesterday, as the city clerk asks the Lord that "their deliberations be fruitful," there is a strange new lemming group tucked in behind Ihe respectable rigid side of Ihe offensive line.

It is Ihe NPA's kinder-garlen for candidates, Former alderman Bill Street is headmaster. Seated ii round him one of them with his plastic niinie liig dutifully affixed arc those among Ihe 34 registrants for the NI'A course in how lo become a future alderman. His Worship welcomes the visiting students from Windermere school who are present to view democracy in action. Winder-mere sit in Ihe gallery above, The NI'A nursery school sils below, name tags securely sewn on Ihe back of Ihe neck, mittens sewn on a siring. John Council, the NPA's resident office manager, scurries about 'with a briefcase in the hallways, following former alderman Street, who knows his way around and then some.

Aside from two or three, there seems little danger that Ihe NPA is going to Mound Ihe world with a young man's program. It was slated hero the oilier day Hint TKAM acolylcs Al.m Emmolt and Paul PhD how they divide themselves. For some reason, the mere drifters, the watchdogs for tenant groups, the mildly interested housewives who have heard of the zoo and enn't quite believe it, rather automatically sift off to the left side, behind the minions of the press. The front, echelon on the right side is armed with chairs and mikes for whatever civic spokesmen from the various zoning, traffic and planning departments may be required. This is what is Interesting.

In a lemming like Instinct, organized dele, gations which arrive at council come in and are drawn, as if by osmosis, to the right set of benthes. Each Tuesday I glance behind me in naip expectation, dreaming In vain of a variation In the pattern. Some homing Instinct defeats me. To the Jeft uneasily shift the long haired types, Ihe ones without ties, (hose Individualssome well-dressed some not.