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he uti THIRD SECTION LIVELY ARTS VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1971 Bob HUNTER Downtown. A wmr-11 in the air that Makes me fi'i'l good. Strange. It is one of those pood feelings you find you can attribute to nostalgia.

37 Compromise reached, airport firemen return ooiiie 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 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 hy management. The sympathy protest hy the firemen here and at Goose Hay, Frederictou, 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 stoppage! while a contract is in force. Still to he settled is the question of whether the Edmonton firemen will lose pay for the three days they were not working. 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 Firemen at Vancouver International Airport were hack 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 east-west time differential, the book-off hy the 38 men at Vancouver Only a handshake needed for Fischer chess victory If Fischer gets by Larson in the semi-final match, the Russians (either Tigran Pclrosian 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. wiiiib miM Willi HM'htr Tiltiiiwi'iv I iM h.T Talmnnnv p-on4 1. P-K4 'J. 4.

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I'l. (J-K2 OO -Ql I'll NN4 0114 IM! B-K2 IJK4 an. iMt N-lv! 4TI. HP A'ljuuin By BILL RAYNER Only the formality of a handshake today is needed to close another chapter in the chess career of Bobby Fischer. For U.S.

grandmaster Fischer, the handshake from Mark Taimanov will signify the resignation of the Soviet grandmaster in the sixth game of their world chess championship quarter-final match. II will also signify a stunning 6-0 sweep by Fischer of the 10-game series and qualify 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 kingsidc pawn formation.

However, he maintained a strong centre and had room for a direct assault on white's king. The attack came, hut was half-hearted and easily rebuffed by Fischer. Taimanov then tried a foray on the queenside but lacked the resources to carry it out s'fSk- jsa ROYAL CITY HOSTS CHESS FESTIVAL The New Westminster chess festival will be held this weekend at New Westminster Community Centre, Sixth Avenue and McBridc. This B.C. Festival of Sports event is open lo all classes and will bo a five-round Swiss tournament.

Classes are open, junior 38 years and under, and junior 14 years and under. Entry fee is 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 ruuncrs-up in all classes, plus special prizes for novice payers finishing high in their category. Registration is Saturday at 12 noon. Water lots report urged don back in the early 00s. 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 some way 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 was an addictive drug? The same set of responses -which have been worked out to deal with nicotine would no doubt be brought to bear. Which is to say: Nothing would be 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 SAVING 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 minds are altered or stimulated or depressed by the weird chemical mixture, called city air, which we ingest at the rale 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 ho 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 tiglies like carbon monoxide.

It's just a diabolical thought. Cities popidated by zombie-like carbon monoxide freaks. People crawling from their air-conditioned rooms down to the streets to get a bit of good old CO. The stuff docs 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 Komans, il has been suggested, became decadent and lost their vigor partially because the walls of their miuadurts 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 technolo. gy, had turned into degenerate slobs.

Ar.d down came the empire, I ran'l help feeling that somclbmj! very much like this is to us right now. around. It's evident that people arc developing a host of drprfulrnrlrn that tie US ever more tightly to our technology, making it less and less possible to break away or turn ami fight the thing. It's like junkies trying get a mount mechanical monkey off their bucks. Tki: Mtsic, for in- Maine, Kvrn the kids who are Hunt turned off hy technology and rultxiii monoxide and all that Mill show signs of being honked on the civilization that spawned them lit way that Ihry can't resist, (in nut tu Home Isolated corner of the province hrre there I a rummum vlth no Icctrlrily or ntpiiittrrs' shack along a bench In tvo tip In your van, like I've done several limes, villi jour tape deck playing.

IhiIIi speakers Maiding out tpiiililv stereo sound And thing know, M'e Kl Hoik of sleirn tnuMr slarvnl people cath rted around kliig their In iids intu oiir mt to I'i'l between Uio just like kittens St -rambling to gel Inilk I mil Iheir mother Visions come In mind of 1'im i Min ns ll' hing hm to the iiiv after a weekend in the country, and why ip Ihev In mii a ush'' Sniff. Noil! Ah Good tihl mloii inmmv ide Gels them lf. It And me wondering lor years whv I lived I oivl'ii mi iiiiii Ii. And why I Jvr Vancouver so mm now. Probably I'm lust Hiked run iallnm monoxide.

0 Dog flushes out three suspects PORT MOODY Three suspects in a breaking and entering were flushed out of bushland at 3 a m. today by police tracking dog, The men, in their early are being investigated in cmi nection with a breaking and entering a short time rarlu-r at the Prairie Market grmi-ty store on St. George Street Aid. Art Phillips gave notice of motion Tuesday that he wants city officials to report on the status of water lots on Burrard Inlet from the Bay-shore Inn to Burrard. lie said the information might be 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 officials to report on the property bounded by Georgia, Chilco, Cardcro and Alberni. He said the four blocks are currently zoned C-3 commercial. The area is now zoned for a density even higher than the Four Seasons' development, he said. i aii.a,i ki'n Oiikes Photo LONG, BLONDE HAIR flying in warm afternoon swing.

She paused to enjoy pastime during stroll breeze Joyce Warcham swoops through air on park through Mahon Park in North Vancouver. Flexibility urged to cut dropouts Allan FOTHERINGHAM hy the way, whatever happened to that independent valuation of Ihe Mil ordered by city hall? The less plebiscite Is three weekj away and city halj has yet to tell hAt its Independent cvprrt nays (he site is worth. who arrive individually to observe the ritual. Automatically, to the right ro the real estate interests, the architects, those seeking favors from city council. It is uncanny.

The arrivals take on the coloration of their stir- THERE IS INTERESTING 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 'Imgs. They group protectively bciiiiui the civic bureaucrats they supplicants arrive, the mere spectators, the time-fillers, the real estate lobbyists, Ihc power-brokers and the curious. It is Intriguing the subject, perhaps, for a sociology student doing his Tennant were to give lectures lo this group.

In fact, they've already been given. Poor NPA, on show could muster only three of its six aldermen and even His Worship didn't know why Aid. Wilson and Aid. Sweeney were absent. Headmaster Street, his clucking chickens about him, could hardly hold this up as responsible coiuicilmanship.

It will be interesting to sec how far the NPA carries this nursery school and how many of these pupils show up on the ballot in 1972. SOME FOlll SEASONS PEOPI are dreadfully upset over Ihc suggestion here that CNR pension money (i.e., mc 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 putting up a lonely hotel unless it had the necessary financing (i.e. CNR pension fund) to develop the massive apartment section of the project? Is Four Seasons now cluing-ing its previous stated view that the project is economically viable only if Ihe full development 33 slorey apartments and a hotel is allowed on that 14 acre site? Is, in fact, Ihc financing (as yel, unsettled) for the hotel not greatly affected by the fuel Hint the CNR pension money is assured (or the massive Apartment complex? We would he most Interested In replies.

The Four Seasons local troops are also terrified, now that Ihry didn't kick those Yippie types olf the site quickly, that the massing force of transients will adopt the site as the local shiiiiheiland-on lhe-waler. And High-school graduation re-(iiirenieiiis must be made more flexible if the dropout rate is to lie reduced, the Ignited Community Services said Tuesday. The board of directors derided at their general meeting that a letter be sent to the provincial department of edu-cat urn's curriculum committee supporting changes "which would nvoid the highly Mnictured curricula in the last two years of high school," A disk force on education, headed by Mrs. Betsy MncDonald, made the recommendation. liurinu a lengthy debute, hevenil Imnrd members were opposed to Hie UCS becoming involved In edurntion.

"Hut If a Minlcnl becomes a dropout mid then is unemployed nnd becomes a burden to noeiety it Is our problem," one argued. "By reducing the dropout rate, we? increase the number of people who become coitNtnirtlve members of society Mrs, Dmiiilil, a past biiii'in in of the Vancouver liiml board, Miid her task Imie miIiiiIiiI the opinions of educating and stiiilenH Indole the lliiiil I were luade, She referred to a previous reeiii i i i port by the I CS nut Inl policy and 1'cscai cli committee which shotted that slcm of Mrciinung le-jiiive iniiny secondary school sliitlntU of a wide variety of evpeiiences nnd causes snine In drop out in frustration. Another resolution from the task 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 hoard also received a report from the policy and research committee, on the Vancouver Opportunities Pro.

gram, recommending that the program lo 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 $.10 for 30 hours of volunteer services. This is paid by tho city social service department and docs not affect (ho Individual's eligibility for other benefits. The 1 1 1 recommended that those who successfully complete lie program niter six months should move into paid jobs in community services. Il also recommended that volunteers who are chronically unemployable continue to receive honoraria, The committee said a full-time organizer within the program should bo appointed lo co ordinate activities and help participants move on to training or employment.

THE THREE STARS It ATlNfi I OR the $25 a plate II C. Spoils Ibd! el Fame dinner last I. Tommy Trindcr; 2, Rudy Pilous; 3. Pratt. As Babe mui), "If mtrml one more of these they'tp going to put my knife nnd in the Hall," Trindcr, the I'oi krry vlmir.

man of the Fulhiim Min er iluli, ith a face like en rlnngntril Fortuity, was forrrtl In follow twit hours of such frustintnl vouilrvilluht as Itud I'oile, Kr.iiik tiimp. 1'ilmn, Jim Young, Dan (Inirie and I'rutt-pins such amateurs I Krv. Orland Kurtenbnth, rncntinS Hubby Orr mid an rvrr pohiii kirg Premier Bennett, DrM'ite it all. knocked them dead with slotial barrage of nor Inu-ts would only fade In Ihe relellintf. Aid.

Art Phillips, filltni! in fur tmibe mayor, got off some Mr thf, it Itcnnrtt, expllilnllty thiil ll.p ptnlmr was going to be tM tuilv il. br but sin free and TV shuts of llcirk Smidi i.n il If blanked out, to be 1 tr a i tuie of Leslie I'cte rind Arkiiowlclrinu Phillip. Prult Mui it "was nice to se llinr's aimihff conieillnn at City hull." Untie qui. klv Rut mi In Punch Imlmh. "Ihe tmtv rnarh In hockey who rait imt ling down." I'limh, he rrtrulM, thinks he's the pope.

He rts hi players kiss his tintf after ruth in. "The only problem Ihe ring i in his hip poikef must deal with. There's a funny little Berlin Wall that divides those below the salt and those in the 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 Ihc respectable right side of the offensive line. It is the NPA's kindergarten for candidates. Former alderman Bill Street is headmaster.

Seated around him one of them with his plastic name-tag dutifully affixed arc those among tho 34 registrants for the NPA course in how to become future alderman. His Worship Welcomes the visiling students from Windermere school who arc present to view democracy in action, Windermere sits in Ihe gallery above, The NPA nursery school sits below, niiine tags securely sewn on the bark of the neck, mittens sewn on a string. John Council, Ihe NPA's resident office manager, scurries about with a briefcase in (he hallways, following former alderman Street, who knows his way around nnd then some. Aside from two or three, there seems lillle diniger that the NPA Is going to astound the world with a young mini's program. 11 was stated here the other day that TEAM acolytes Alan Emmolt and Paul PhD-how they divide themselves.

For some reason, the mere drifters, Hie watchdogs for tenant croups, the mildly interested housewives who have heard of the zoo und can't quite believe it, ralher automatically sift off lo the left side, behind the minions of the press. The front echelon on the right side is armed Willi chairs nnd mikes for whatever civic spokesmen from the various Boning, trafllc and planning departments may be required. This is what is interest ing. lit a lemming like instinct, organized dele-gations which arrive at council come In nnd arc drawn, as If by osmosis, to the right set of benches. Knch Tuesday I glance behind mo in naive expectation, dreaming In vain of a variation in the pnltern.

Some homing instinct defeats me. To the Jefl uneasily shift the long haired types, the ones without ties, those Individuals some well-dressed, some not.