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i Bob HUNTER LIVELY ARTS, LIVING TODAY i THIRD SECTION VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1971 c39 Fisheries Minister Jack Davis has just effectively moved to block the voyage of the Greenpeace up to Anichitka Island this fall. The Greenpeace will he sailing to protest and hopefully somehow prevent the testing of a five megaton atomic sun ti. bomb smack s2l in the mid WW Jj YOUNG ARTIST, nine spiration for her latest Ken ffikps Photo year old Francis Pickett, awaits in- her. work in school art show held Wednesday and today in Way, in Burnaby. More than 400 pupils from kindergarten effort.

Francis already has some of auditorium of Douglas Road Elementary School, 4861 Canada to Grade 7 have their works of art on display. RITES JUNE 7,735 BCIT Food, drink-arid follow in wake of chess match Hypocrisy' hit on 4 Seasons By PAT MOAN Cily council will inflate the value of the Four Seasons property in order lo ensure the defeat of the June 23 money plebiscite, Minister Without. Portfolio Grace McCarthy predicted Wednesday. FRASER FERRY BACK AT WORK FORT LANGLEY The Albion-Fort a 1 ferry went back into service today after being laid up for three weeks in annual overhaul. The ferry is the only link between the north and south shores of the Fraser between the port Mann and Mission bridges.

It makes the three-quarter-mile crossing on a half-hour schedule from 6 a.m. to midnight and is on call between midnight and 6 a.m. Lathers hit graduates Sun Staff Reporter BURNABY Premier W. A. C.

Bennett will give the convocation speech to 1.135 students graduating from the B. C. Institute of Technology at 8 p.m. June 11. The graduation ceremonies will be held in the new student activities centre, which Bennett will also officially open.

This year's top student is Tim Shing Seto, of 531 East Georgia, winner of the Governor-General's Silver Medal with an average of 91.4 per cent in his final year. The 20-year-old student specialized in the two-year instrumentation and systems technology course. A native of Hong Kong, he moved lo Can ada in 10(i9. RCIT's citizenship award winner this year is Edgar Rhombcrg, of Burnahy. William Charles Rogers, nf 470 West.

Fifty-eighth, and Laurie Michael Jack, of Surrey, received the principal's awards. Annual meeting set The annual general meeting of the Children's Foundation will be held at noon on Wednesday in the Biltmore Motor Hotel, Twelfth and Kingsway. Fischer's next step on the road to a showdown with world champion Boris Spass-ky of the Soviet Union is a semi-final malch with Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen. Larsen, who earlier this week defeated East German grandmaster Wolfgang Uhl-mann, will play Fischer in July somewhere in the U.S. Most observers feci Fischer will get by Larsen and then meet either Tigran Petrosian or Viktor Korchnoi, both of the Soviet Union.

The Russians themselves feel Korchnoi will be Fischer's final opponent in the elimination scries. Faced with the very real prospect of not having a Russian world champion for the first time since the Second World War, they insist that Korchnoi or Spassky has the resources lo beat Fischer. Taimanov was not expected to win, but Fischer's handling of this highly-ranked Soviet grandmaster makes the U.S. player a solid favorite to break the Russian grip on the world title. If he does, his price will go up (Fischer made $1,250 by winning here, Taimanov $700 for losing).

Fischer sees himself making $100,000 a year as world champion. That's a hefty chunk, but Fischer, as a professional chess player, figures he is worth every move of it. dle of a geologically-unstable area. The test could result in leakage of radiation which might find its way over Canada, earthquakes and possible tidal waves. Davis the man who is going to be the first federal minister in charge of protecting our environment against pollution and contamination has notified the organizers of the Amchitka protest voyage that insurance for the Greenpeace is going to be withdrawn.

The insurance is provided fur fishing boats, such as the Greenpeace, by the federal government. It is needed in case something happens to the ship so that the owner, John Cormack, will be able to pay back the money he still owes to the people who loaned him money to buy it in the first place. And he got the money from (he Industrial Development Bank, a Crown corporation. The "shareholders" of the interest in the Greenpeace are therefore the people of Canada, whose interests are presumably being represented by the Industrial Development Bank. So it is really on behalf of the people of Canada that Davis is acting.

And on our behalf, what is he doing? Evidently, he Is trying to prevent the sailing of the Greenpeace. This decision has the effect of aiding no one except the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Whose side is Davis on? In a letter to Paul Cote of the Don't Make A Wave Committee, Davis staled: "As Section 5 (1) (c) of the Fishing Vessel Insurance Rcg-isration stipulates that the vessel must be operated in commercial fishing, we cannot insure his (Cormack's) vessel on this voyage. We will be happy to reinstate Mr.

Cormack's coverage when he returns from the voyage and starts fishing again." That means, because the boat will presumably not be out fishing while it is sailing up to Amchitka, the minister in charge Davis has decided to exercise his discretionary powers to veto the trip by cutting off coverage, The effect of the move is to make it impossible for the Greenpeace to sail, unless the Don't Make A Wave Committee can raise a bond to the tune of roughly $28,000. (The ship is valued at $40,000 but the committee has already poured about $12,000 into it in order to make it possible for the owner to lake it up there.) The question is; Why did Davis decide to do this? He didn't have to. He could have chosen not to exercise his power to cut off coverage. Or he could have simply let the ship go through the motions of fishing in order to comply with some fine-print detail of the Fishing Vessel Insurance Registration regulations. The federal governmenl has lodged two protests against the blast.

At the time of the last A-bomb lest at Anichilkit a much smaller blast than the one proposed for this Or-Inber External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp said thai Canada had done everything it could to prevent the test. Well, that was debatable then. And it is more debatable now. For now it is the protest, not the test, thai the govern-meut is moving to prevent. Ottawa did not even bother tn send an observer tip In the recent hearings in Alaska run-rrrning the blast.

Us only dr risjve action has been throw ft monkey wrench into the one concrete effort being made In prevent the thing from happening. The government appear tn be playing dirty pool, On the one hand through Sharp II is doing a Judical Chic rmi 1 1 nil by flaying, we're against the blast, but honestly there' not i damn tiling ran dn to prevent It. And then through Davis tripping up the only determined Canadian opposition. If thin Is the kind nf "environmental protection'' we ran expert from Jark Davis, Ihrn forget it With fnrnds like Hint, who need enemies like Hie Atomic Energy Commission? Pollution problems A slate ff candidates will present proposals for rninha! ling North Shore pollution problem at Ninth Vanromrf SPEC meeting and election o( officers, m. Mm- the North Mar School.

Jim West hint; the meeting Is Open tn the public it is hypocritical to ofler a plebiscite that will be nothing more than blackmail when city council is obviously going to load the plebiscite so it will not pass," she told about 40 members of the Vancouver Little Mountain Social Credit Association. "When council finally decides on the price of the land it will be exaggerated beyond all proportion in order to negate the vote," she said. "They've been mentioning figures like $10 and $12 million of course nobody's going to vote for it." In 1909 the assessed value of the block between Chiko and Gilford, exclusive of water lots, was $354,140. This year's assessment of the whole project is S4.7 million, a Four Seasons spokesman said. Park commissioner George Puil earlier charged that the value of the land which almost certainly must be bought by the city if the controversial apartment-hotel complex is to be stopped is less than $1 million.

In April, city administrators said the value was S6 or S7 million. Mayor Tom Campbell said $10 million. City council is currently planning to announce an as sessed value for the property before the plebiscite. "It's all part of the shocking history of the Four Seasons development," Mrs. McCarthy said.

It would he a "waste of public funds" to hold the $26,750 plebiscite without waiting for the results of a court challenge of the validity of city bylaws allowing the development. "There's no point in holding a plebiscite when the issue will still have lo withstand a court case." The date for the money plebiscite has been reaffirmed by council despite appeals of the park board lo defer the vole until court action is complete. Attorney-General Les Peterson, who also attended thp meeting, is nominal plaintiff in the court case. Although Mrs. McCarthy is opposed lo council action on the controversial waterfront site al the entrance to Stanley Park, she does not support the people's park set up on the site Saturday.

"It's illegal, it's shocking, it's disappointing and it's not a good thing for the whole project," she said. By BILL RAYN'ER The winner and the loser in the world chess championship quarter-final match here relaxed Wednesday night over food, drink and the ubiquitous chess set. Grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and Mark Tai-manov of the Soviet Union earlier in the day had completed their match when Tai-manov resigned without further play in the adjourned sixth game. Despite the result, a stunning 6-0 sweep by Fischer, both players insisted that the match was tougher than it appeared.

"The games were much more difficult than the final results showed," said Taima-nov. "But I have not made such mistakes since my childhood." However, he congratulated Fischer on his well deserved success, and ruefully commented, "Although it is a sad situation for me, in chess as in life, there is sometimes defeat." lie wished Fischer luck in his next malch, "but nol the one after because then he will be playing with my countryman." Taimanov saiil lie was not really in form for the match, although he regards Fischer as one of the strongest chess players in the world, and maintained that ill health contributed to his poor result. As for the prevailing view that the four-man Russian tram only confused Taimanov during the match, he had this to say: "The Russian have these payings: Two minds arc better than one, and you ran'l spoil porridge by putting butter on II." lie added that only one of his three countrymen actually helped him with the games. sixth site Pickets of Lathers' Union Local 207 appeared at a sixth construction site in the Vancouver area early today. Union members went on strike at the Geological Sciences Building under construction at the University of B.C.

The Lathers are conducting strike action in a bid to get back work on studding and drywall operations that was assigned to the Carpenters' Union last year in its contract with Construction Labor Relations Association, They are also on strike against wall contractors working at the Pacific Centre, two Vancouver area office bui-dlings, a medical centre al Tenth and Commercial and a service building at Simon Fraser University. Fischer, intense and candid, was still playing the games well into the evening. With the help of his pocket chess set, he and Taimanov recreated some of the positions in the match and conducted brief postmortems on where the Itussian went wrong. At one point, Fischer also recreated from memory a position he had in a 1958 game against another Russian player. He said he did not expect six straight wins when he began play, but of course was happy with the result.

"All games were difficult," he said, "and were nol onesided over the hoard." Fischer felt he and Taimanov were equal enough that he expected only a 5'-2-2 a decision in his favor. Fischer said he was satisfied with the arrangements a contentious point at the he-ginning of the match and praised the Canadian Chess Federation organizers. The 800 fans who showed up for the six games and adjournments were a shock to both Fischer and Taimanov who arc used lo playing before much larger crowds in Europe. Fischer also noted the lack of radio and television coverage nf the match and complained about one newspaper account of the fifth game, Quoted as saying "My gosh." the deeply religious Fischer pointed out to The Sun that this term is a form of blasphemy and he did nol say it. Taimanov now will accept a tournament invitation from either Sweden or Holland in July.

"On one hand I would like to exclude thoughts of chess from my lilc, but on the other hand I would like to rehabilitate myself in the eyes of the chess world," he said. from the dr.slroyrr Reasnner, built for the U.S. Navy by Ihe Lockheed and Cfimlrurtion Co. of Seattle. The vessel has not yet been delivered tn the navy and was under Ihe rommand nf a civil-Ian aklpper, A Lockheed spokesman said Ihe spill was apparently rained by a valve malfunction during a transfer of oil be-twern tanks on board the fliip There were no reports on Ihe nf wildlife in the area nf the spill.

Hut Wayne Campbell, curator nf Ihe University nf UC. vertebrate museum and an authority nn wildfowl in Ihe arra, said Rare flocks are In-habilrtl by glaucous-wincrd gulls, rnrmoranta and pigeon Biiillrmots now In their nesting period. He said the cormorants would be most likely to be af-frclrd by the oil since they spend mni nf thrir time tn the water. Allan FOTHERINGHAM LADIES DAY TODAY. FIRST, AN Interesting (and prophetic it turns out) letter from Mrs.

A. F. Black that, was received a month ago: "Tell me, Mr, Fothcringham, how is it in a city like Vancouver thai U.S. Navy ship spills oil in strait has known many patterns of success and failure, in a country like ours that has produced a small miracle even keeping a country like this together, how is il we should get a mayor that is completely out of scendants of these wonderful people know in their hearts how much of the human spirit falls into these value judgments, "Let me point this out, if Ihe plebiscite is left the way il is and turned down I expect there will be violence, because ynung people are fed up with personal judgments and aesthetics being tied up with properly rights. "Think on this A POINT FROM Kl'NICK Bennett: "I enjoyed as I usually do the article written about the imminent departure nf the Stale of Quebec from nur humble Dnnilninn.

So long Ihe harangues, so slow the leaving, is whal I am driven tn say, "Rut you and all writers nn this subject limit ynur evidence lo (a) a lawyer, (b) a student, and remind us of Ihe power of Ihe 14 per rent who voted separatist, I cannot consider Ihe picture complete when no one hnthera In gel the views of the remaining "fl per cent. Of course, the media enjoy Ihe spectacular and 1 am sure Ihe 7(1 per rent are dull as dishwater, hut you have dared In examine the dreary themes and unfold very provocative bits of life, What happened' Ynu found a curtain nf no French nn English? Or whal?" AM) FROM MRS, DONALD Parkinson In Hamilton: "I Jiit listened on TV In ynur riesrriptinn of the Queen'a visit In Rtllhh Columbia, I think of an nld saying I was taught as a child. If you can't say something nire, don't say anything at all, Ynu are most depressing; tn listen In, The French Canadians are Jusl awaiting Ihe day tn get rid nf nur royalty, have complete bilingualism and 'have Ihe Knglish eating wood, as they have had to do for This I was told today from the mouth of the highest source. "Ynu are not French, hut sn pessimistic and nasty, What's eating you? We, the public, have In sit and listen tn ynu nasty, hndlempered men spoiling every joy that does arrive. I know nn other person who sets a better example nf decent every day moral living and human kindness than nur Queen, certainly our highest level of government now has nothing In look up tn nr learn from, so far as human Christianity and hope for the future.

"In nlher words, nn Idol that I would wish my child In copy and follow, There has lo he something better than that. If ynu are gnins to sit and talk loud, for heaven's sake gie us something more pleasant to listen In and don't spm the one good event. "We work hard, Ion, pay Income tax tn our ears, ask nothing from anynne and don't run rnmplain. First letter I have ever written like this, but I and many like me are here, husy, have thniight and minds, and when you dn gr rid nf nur heritage and royalty thi rntintry ahall become i disaster, I Cuba. Mexico.

Egypt, ele, Our freedom and peace will disappear forever," "His son was one nf the first hush pilots that flew up north over ranges of mountains with a thousand feet of snow on them. He would put down a trapper and then pick him up in Ihe spring. Often he would search for people or other planes that had been lost in the Arctic, ollcn without repayment. All this he did without the aid of instruments nf any kind. He oflen used to declare that it would take aviation tn build this country and horse sense lo keep it together.

He was right on both counts. Later, he helped put Ihe TiCAF together. There were many of his kind al that particular time and for their tremendous effort at building this country, they rightfully should have been knighled. "But they were not knighted, In fact, in many cases people flocked in' from other countries, took it for granted while they got rich wheeling and dealing. The folk that In many cases laid down the Initial efforts al breaking the first sods In this delightfully different and frozen country went unrewarded.

"Now I will go on In make a suggestion and I count myself as a person aware nf the great sacrifices made nn all nur behalf, I think the plebiscite for the Four Seasons hotel should he decided by descendants nf Ihe pioneers that carved out this enuntry, nn mailer where they live. Since Ihe people that did II. weren't given any recognition I feel the de A Nasy dotrover undergoing era (mil mulled olnMit 4H barrels nf dirrl nil Intn the Strait nf Juan de Km Wrdnrday. The apdl a "ritht amai In the middlr" nf the Mrail and aonie of the nil undoubtedly apread Intn Canadian ater, the li l'nat Gilalil re-portrd Uxlay, A roait Eiiard apnkrsmnn Kadi the pill mnirred about I 45 l'i milr anuth ff Rate Hm ki. "We made ln flichin nvrr lb alirk.

the lal Jul before mns-et, and there eemed tn indications that natural dissipation (mm ae ami aea arliun would liike tare nf It." he aaiil. The apitl a umatl mm-pared wnli the tum barrels tlir.rl nil that kilM ildlile and fonlrH Waihrt after In-intf pillrH from 1 baree al Anarmira, Wah on April 2R. A barrel 42 gllnn. Wednedajr pi 1 1 ram touch with just how many sacrifices it took to huild this country? Would you say he had only developed one facet of his personality? Making money. "1 am personally aware of soma of the sacrifices that built this country because 1 am a descendant nf pioneers and I know how much nf their love and breath they pressed intn this land.

"One nf my nld uncles carved nut Ihe first, man-made lake nn the Canadian prairies and he let. the farmers round annul Irrigate from it and he refused to take money because he fell his Inventiveness was a sift nf God and he shared It with those around him. He designed and built his own generator and they were the first on the Canadian prairies tn have electric light. There again he shared what he had. i.