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tt SUU LIVELY ARTS, LIVING TODAY Bob HUNTER THIRD SECTION VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIAFRIDAY, MAY 14, 1971 29 In a recently-published book called This Good, Good Earth, Our Fight for Survival, Ralph O. Brinkhurst and Donald A. Chant make some suggestions about how to deal effectively Similkameen to be clean with pollu-' tion and en-v i ronmental collapse. We need solutions now more than we need warn ings. These propo-s a 1 are worth consid-e i 2.

So here they are: sewage and a low flow of water," he said. 1 The department plan calls for the sewage to undergo pri-' mary treatment and modified secondary treatment. Kiernan said that an alternative to the present septic tank and disposal field at the lodge must be found because of expansion now under way. He said his instructions to an engineering firm commissioned to come up with an at--ternative disposal system were that the sewage should receive "full treatment" as at Mount Seymour Park. The minister said the ef--fluent from Mount Seymour Lodge, "although it might be esthetically displeasing, you.

drink (it) without any harm." "The matter will be fully aired before there is any decision and I will personally not approve anything less than full treatment," Kiernan said. Provincial parks director Bob Ahrens said the sewage system, including a treatment plant and chlorination unit, is to be built in conjunction with a 40-unit lodge replacing one that burned last year. Dr. Clarke suggested the' recreation department should spray the sewage on to plants in the area as fertilizer Or else build a ground disposal, system. Sun Staff Reporter VICTORIA r- Recreation Minister Ken Kiernan promised Thursday he will hold out for a full sewage treatment program in plans by his department officials to dump waste in the Similkameen River.

"I will personally not approve anything less than full treatment," he said in an interview He was referring to a recreation and conservation department plan to release up to gallons of effluent a day into the slow-flowing river which has aroused the ire of Okanagan and Similkameen residents. The South Okanagan Health Unit, several irrigation districts and the municipality of Princeton plan to oppose the department's application to the Pollution Control Board for permission to dump the sewage from the Manning Park headquarters area. Health unit director Dr. Dave Clarke said the high bacteria count in the sewage could pose a serious health problem downstream, where there are eight intakes for drinking water systems. He also complained the sewage would be discharged at the height of the summer and in mid-winter both times when flow in the river is low.

"You'll have a high flow of Church seeks housing for 500 "Traditionally, we express the well-being of our society in terms of money the ubiquitous, all-dominating dollar. Inevitably, we have extended 1 this standard to issues of environmental quality is well. This method has proved inadequate in this area, perhaps because we employ a simplistic approach. "We analyse the costs of producing necessary products whether they be newsprint or electricity or pollution control i devices. "But we pay little or no attention to the environmental and social costs of polluting processes.

Thus, the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission objects to the higl.er cost of generating electricity with low-sulphur fuel, but never considers entering into its calculations the cost to our society of the thousands of tons of sulphur dioxide with which it pollutes our air costs for health, dry-cleaning, car depreciation, home repairs, and so on. "Two solutions suggest themselves. One is to take the traditional dollar standard and use it as a measure of the broader aspects of pollution just mentioned. Such an approach has weaknesses: it is a dangerous over-simplification to encourage the belief that all facets of our environment have a monetary value "The other solution is to abandon the dollar standard completely in the sphere of pollution, and to devise a new standard as a complement to it. "It might, for example even now be possible to divide the Canadian environment into Survival Units and to deter-; mine approx i a ely how many of them can be compromised before the point of 'no survival' is passed.

Sur- vival Units could be hoarded or spent, or perhaps even earned by reversing degrad-" a tion trends. "At any rate, the idea deserves consideration and the attention of ecologists and others who are involved in the protection of our environ- ment." SURVIVAL UNITS! THE idea has a workable ring to it. And it would have the advantage of bringing the critical issue clearly into focus. If anything is obscured in all the curent talk about pollution and environment and ecology it is the central issue which is nothing less than that of survival. Survival as a species.

And more specifically, the survival of your children and mine or at least our grandchildren. So long as we are thinking in terms of cost benefits and production and "saving the taxpayers' money," we are avoiding that central issue. What good will it do to save the taxpayers' money if it means you lose the taxpayer? Or at least future taxpayers. Survival Units. Right.

If it was finally determined that Canada had, say, two billion Survival Units left, we would know exactly where we were. From there, we could go on to calculate how many Survival Units it would cost to build a pulp mill (One pulp mill equals 750 Survival Uuits) or a parking lot (one acre of parking lot equals 60 Survival Units) or anything else. Instead of being focussed on The Metropolitan Council of the United Church is looking for temporary homes for 500 transient youths this summer. Svend Robinson, a University of B.C. pre-medical student who is working with the council, said an appeal for accommodation was made through the churches but did not receive a very good response.

He said the council now is appealing to members of the public to open their homes to the 2,000 transients a day who are expected to be Hi Vancouver during the peak summer season. Robinson said the residents will be paid $2.50 per day per person and will be expected to provide a place for a sleeping bag, breakfast and one other meal. "People can have someone staying there every day, or only four or five days a month," said Robinson. Robinson said the transient program will operate from a central referral office in a trailer at Seventh and, Pine, opposite Alexandra House. Most of the transients will be housed in the 1,500 beds available in hostels, but Robinson estimates that another 500 will be needed during the peak time.

1 Robinson said the metropolitan council of the church decided it wants to be involved with transient youth this summer and undertook the program. He said some church members had supplied accommodation for transients on an emergency basis last summer. Persons wishing to offer accommodation may phone 228-4962 between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Ken Oakes Photo has taken nearly a IT WILL NEVER FLY, admits instructor Chuck Roberts but mock-up whirlybird will teach students just about all there is to know about helicopter ground operations.

Unit year to build at B.C. Vocational School. POWER POLES PULLED Youth helper killed That's one for Russians as chess dispute solved Reorganization of the electricity distribution system in the Dunbar area has eliminated 1V4 miles of power poles and overhead wiring, B.C. Hydro announced Thursday. The reorganization, which increased the capacity of most individual circuits in the area from 4,000 to 12,000 volts, made redundant the section of overhead wiring extending north from Dunbar and Twenty-sixth to West Sixteenth and west along Sixteenth to Crown.

The wiring was removed when a distribution line from the Sperling substation at West Twenty-fifth and Arbutus was transferred to the Ca-mosun substation, Camosun and West Twenty-seventh. A man who founded a youth guidance organization has been killed in a traffic accident. David Peliin, 54, of 3118 West Tenth, was struck by a car at Tenth and Balaclava shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday and died in hospital three hours later. He is Vancouver's 16th traffic fatality of the year.

Seven years ago Pellin formed the Activator Unit, an organization at 2150 West Fourth which seeks to help unemployed and homeless young people. He also conducted numerous lectures on human behavior and geriatrics diseases of the aged to support the unit financially. ert Huebner of West Germany, adjourned their first quarter-final match in the 41st move after five hours of play. It will be finished Saturday. The second match of 10 will be played today.

Allan FOTHERINGHAM willing to play anywhere." Neither Fischer nor Taimanov have seen the theatre, on SUB's lower level. First game, originally scheduled for Thursday, will be played at 4 p.m. Sunday. By then fluorescent lighting, another condition of Fischer's, will be installed in the theatre. First player to score points wins the match (wins are worth one point, draws half a point).

He then will advance to the semi-finals of the challenger's round. Winner of the eight-man playoffs will meet world champion Boris Spassky of Russia in 1972 for the title. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Viktor Korchnoi of Russia defeated fellow countryman Yefim Geller in Thursday's first game of their quarter-final match. At Las Palmas, in the Canary Bent Larsen of Denmark and Wolfgang Uhl-mann of East Germany, adjourned their first quarterfinal match in the 44th move after six hours' play. It will be finished today.

And at Seville, Spain, Tigran Petrosian of Russia and Rob By BILL RAYNER The Russians have won the first skirmish in the Great Chess War here. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, ruled Thursday that the world chess championship quarter-final match between Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and Mark Taimanov of the S-viet Union be played in the Student Union Building movie theatre at the University of B.C. His decision ended two days' search for playing facilities after Taimanov rejected the TV room at UBC's graduate centre Wednesday. That room was selected by Canadian Chess Federation officials in deference to Fischer's request for a private playing area with no spectators.

Euwe's choice of the theatre means spectators will be allowed to watch the 10-game match. It also is a victory for the four-man Russian delegation, whose veto Wednesday forced a three-day postponement of the match. Fischer took the decision calmly. "Let's play," he said. "I'm OTTAWA THE DAY IS MADE when one can encounter a vintage piece, newly minted, of departmental jargon.

The civil service stays up nights to discover new ways of avoiding the English language. Yesterday: A gem. Talking to a ministerial aide in the department of consumer, and corporate affairs and the magic phrase functional slack fill" came tripping off the man's tongue. Non an ever-rising cost-ot-iiving index, our attention would inevitably be caught by the ever-dwindling number of available Survival Units. NEWSPAPERS WOULD then be in a position to report that Survival Unit reserves were down by such-and-such an amount, just as we now report on stocks and bonds.

It is not only an excellent idea, it is a brilliant idea. A concentrated effort by ecologists, aided by computers, should be enough to work out a scale of measurement. And if the federal government hasn't the savvy to pick up on the idea, then there are a number of organizations or universities around which could take on task. Somebody should be doing it and doing it right now. since we exchanged recognition, but the Chinese didn't like the way the wire service handled the story of those Tibet refugees who arrived in Vancouver, so they're putting the stall on the wire service from the country that now recognizes China, while cosying up to the American wire services.

CP sees its hopes for an early advantage fading. Their choice to go is Carl Mollins. New regional public relations officer for the unemployment insurance commission in Vancouver is Helen Lamont, former Girl Friday for Jack Webster. Bill Gold is leaving the Hopkins Hedlin pr. people to return to newspapers as editorial page chief at Calgary Herald.

Flora MacDonald, the glue behind the Committee for an Independent Canada, will probably run for the Tories in Kingston against Finance Minister Benson. One participant here, looking apprehensively toward an election, says the Four Seasons schmozzle is a long way from over. SOME CONCLUSIONS OF THE final Globe and Mail story on the royal tour filed by their man John Slinger who manfully went the route on the Royal Aldermanic Tour 1971: The B.C. government was criticized even before the thing began for the apparent headlong pace of the tour and seemingly infinite meeting lines of mayors, mayor's wives and local officials. Would the Royal Family meet the real people? The Queen and Mr.

Bennett made particular points in later speeches, that the real people, in fact, had been met. The feeling among members of the touring press corps who had travelled with the family in Canada and abroad before, however, was that tho B.C. visit lacked any great variety. British reporters, in particular, found little to write about until Princess Anne became ill a week ago with an upset stomach. This forced her to miss three days of the tour and meant a news story of sorts for papers over home.

"But unless the princess gets tremendous satisfaction out of trailing along behind her parents, waving to crowds, signing visitors' books and talking to Brownies, there was little on the tour that could greatly have interested a sophisticated 20-year-old in 1971 "There was a feeling that the Queen received a somewhat antiseptic view of British Columbia. City halls, main streets, airports and historic parks speak little of the whole community. it seemed that the government was unduly sensitive about any problems in the province. There is an Indian problemwhich is not to say that Indians are a problem and drunkenness is a part of it. There are problems of crowding and poverty in the city that have nothing to do with skin color.

Many young people are restless. There's unemployment. Beautiful lakes and rivers are polluted and pulp mills smell pretty foul anywhere. The Queen, possibly, and the press certainly, were protected from these problems on the journey. "So another question.

On a trip such as this, is the idea to have the Queen see or is it to have people see the Queen? By the last measure the visit was a considerable success." A good point. Is the object of the exercise to let the Queen be used by her sponsors? Which is more important, honesty or illusion? The question to ask is: Did the B.C. she saw bear any relationship to the B.C. you and I know? Can B.C. ever bf 2 boards agree on disagreeing tude in question period yesterday), those suffering from interruption of income rose to 7.8 per cent of the labor force.

ONE THING IS CERTAIN. TOM Terrific is crazy if he does not run Thanks to his antics and his tendency to put mouth in operation before engaging brain, he's an anti-folk hero in these parts. His fuzzy pronouncements on the youth question are automatic front-page items now, brighteners to leaven the heavy tedium of world affairs. A visitor back here finds that he has supplanted the original town fool, Joachim Foikis, as the weirdo subject of conversation. "Oh, yes, you come from where they have that nutty mayor." It's rather like being famous for hailing from the town that invented bubble gum.

There's some discernment here that he suffers from non-functional slack-fill, but one senses they'd be disappointed if he encountered any interruption of income. He's known nationally now, so why not run him for election? He's too good for us, really, We can't be selfish. AU those willing to sign his nomination papers please stand up. THE MAN WHO IS THREATEN- ing to run as a Tory in Toronto-Roscdale against Defence Minister Don Macdonald is none other than Norman DePoe. While the Globe and Mall recalls Norman, Webster from China and replaces him with John Burns, the Chinese remain mad at Canadian Press.

CP has had an application to post a man in Peking functional slack-fill? A standard description of certain no-no's as it turns out. Non-functional slack-fill is when you open that Henry bar and discover the cardboard thinga-mabob is an inch longer than the poor embarrassed chocolate bar. Non-functional slack-fill is when you open that bulky box of soap and find that the top third of it is unemployed air. It is understood there are three extra typists employed in the Parkinson's Law jungle of the department of consumer and corporate affairs, their entire hours consumed in typing out non-functional slack-fill, And then, the parliamentary secretary to Labor Minister Bryce Mackasey let drop a godsend: "Those people encountering interruption in income. Delightful.

You there, on the dole. You're not unemployed. You're not out of work. You're just going through an interruption in Income. A standard departmental description, it turns out.

In case the government cares (which one is inclined to wonder about after seeing its lofty atti The Vancouver school board and the park board have amicably agreed to disagree on the concept of a high-rise primary school in the West End. The school board has proposed that community facilities and apartments be built atop the school to help defray costs, but the park board says this would add to crowding in the already-congested area. Both boards agreed at an informal dinner meeting Wednesday to maintain their respective positions, but not to act on them until the specific proposals from developers are received in August. The school Is to be built on the present Nelson Park site, at Comox and Bute, which is owned by the school board and which is in the middle of about two square blocks owned by the park board. When the possibility of a high-rise was first announced the park board, which will turn its property into a park when the school is built, was concerned a high building would thwart its attempt to have an open space, School board chairman Fritz Bowers said Thursday: "There is still a difference of opinion.

I don't think the park board will ever actually agree to the development. "But we feel the example in other cities shows the way to move in the centre of towns Is to integrate schools into more profitable land Slide derails train coach SQUAMISH The front wheels of a self-propellod Pacific Great Eastern Railway passenger car were derailed Thursday by a rockslide here. The Budd coach, en route from Prince George to Vancouver, hit rocks on a curve and the front set of wheels 4.