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Volume 26 — Number 6 TWO

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IF CONSTRUCTION EVER STARTS

Increased Federal AidForNew
Hospital Could Top $86,000

ILLIAMS LAKE War Memorial Hospital could
receive $86,250 more from Ottawa when the new
hospital is constructed, as a result of increased

Engineering Report On Town

Water System Released \-

ieee is only sufficient water in the Williams
Lake storage tank for two and a half hours’
supply at peak demand, and. this is cut back to a
mere three-quarters of an hour if a fire should occur
during the peak demand period.

Thus states a voluminous

grants announced by Federal Health Minister Hon.

J. Waldo Monteith.

No official notification has
been received as yet by hospital
adminstrator Hugh Lousley, but
mews reports quoted Mr. Mon-
teith promising the following
increased payments to aid
hospital construction:

For acute-case beds, $2,000
instead of the present $1,000.

Nurses’ residence beds, $750
instead of $500.

In tle case of War Memorial
Hospital, present plans call for
a 100-bed eventual hospital,
with 70 beds completed.

Since the present rated capa-
city is 30 beds, this would mean
a 40-bed gain. (Federal grants
are on this basis). Under the
old grant system, $40,000 could
be expected from Ottawa, while
under the new system of grants,
this would be increased to
$80,000.

hospital does not own one now,
but rents quarters, this number
of beds would be all gain. The
new grant set-up would mean
$18,750 available instead of
$12,500 under the $500 per bed
formula.

In addition to bed-gaiti grants,
there are grants for bed equiva-
lents, such as the. present com-
putation of three new baby
basinettes equalling one acute
hed, $2,000 instead of $1,000.
Larger out-patient “floor space
also figures in the grant struc:
ture, considered as “bed
equivalents.”

Whatever the total involved
in the increased grant structure,
it will mean a substantial
ing to district taxpayers when

Club, shown here

Lee Skipp after

Proposal is for a 25-bed
nurses’ home, and since the

and if hospital constraction is
approved,

stalled as pre:
ceremonies. In

NEW PRES.
Joe Borkowski (right) immediate past
president of Williams Lake Kiwanis
congr
the latte
ident at last Thu
the centre is Bill |

= SS

Rathbun,

day’s

IDENT TAKES OVER
of Penticton,

hat presented to him by the local club.

report on the state of the town’s
water supply prepared by
Walker and Webber, Vancouver,
consulting engineers,

The firm was commissioned to
prepare the report by the Village
Commission last year and has
just submitted the facts.

Of a long list of things that
require attention, the four
salient features which should be
done at the earliest opportunity
are:
1—An extra supply of water

must be made available;
—The eight-inch wooden main

coming into town from the
tank on the main highway
must be replaced;
3—The wooden pipes which still
extensively cover parts of
the town must be replaced;
Lieutenant- |4—A 350,000-gallon tank must

Governor of District Five, Kiwanis be put in at the 2,250 feet
Wulating International, who was installing level, preferably in the
was in- officer. He is wearing the Western vicinity of the airport

e SUPPLY FROM WELLS?
— Tribune photo

Up in Williams Lake last

periodic visit was Len Smith (right)
Inspector of C Division of the B.C,

Game Department. He is

with Game Warden Joe Gibault, look- | the

ing over a government ga:
tion. Inspector Smith

assumed his

INSPECTOR. VISITS

week on a present post in September_of last year
Originally in the provinciai police, he
joined the Game Branch in 1949
serving mainly in the north. He lef
service in 1954 and managec
Twilight Lodge for a year, returning
then to game work — Tribune photo

shown here

me publica-

Firemen To
Drive For A

IRST organization to take the lead in offering

all-out support for a
have artificial ice in the

Williams Lake Volunteer Fire Brigade.

Firemen have committed
themselves to organize a series
of money-making ventures

throughout the year, with the
proceeds from all of them, ex-
cept their annual St. Patriek’s
Day dance, going to the War
Memorial Arena as an outright
donation.

Although the brigade has nov
yet set any pledged goal, there
is a feeling among members
that they might make as high
as $5,060 through the year.

To kick their fund-raising off.
the brigade will hold a bottle
own Wednesday after-

drive in t
noon, Febr' 12.
Homeowners are asked to

have their empty beer bottles
and pop bottles in front of their
homes ihat day to assist iu
speeding collection.

In speaking of the decision of
the brigade, Fire Chief Sid
Pigeon said it was the feelin

Spark Fund-Raising |

rtificial Ice Plant

fund-raising campaign to
War Memorial Arena is

makings of a well or;
Juvenile league went too. The
boys have been raring to 2o
adult coaches were anxious to
interest.in an artificial ice funa|help the youngsters—but now
drive, public response would be|the equipment will have to be
much more spontaneous. put away for another year.

PLEDGES MADE NOT AN ICICLE
As it is, intérest so far shown| The old curling rink annexe
by individuals has resulted m|that was to provide a skating|
pledges being offered to pur-|surface for the v ung
chase $7,000 worth of bonds. “|Skaters, never produced an icicle
Artificial ice has often been*f Betural ice. More confined
spoken of in relationship to the |*#49 the large arena surtace,
arena, but. there would still the témperature in the old ecurl-
have been no move made in that inbjok has up to this week
direction it it hadn't been for|B¢Ver dropped below freezin:
Mother Nature's gift of a record-|_ That is the way the artific
breaking mild winter. ice proposal stands today. The
Doing need is there, and the firemen
are ready to star
lie support.
on the plant haven't been
the drive is|

Without their hock +
was bad enough for town sports-
men, but when they finally saw
the Stampeders in action and|°”.
Tealized they had the makings|Ceived Yet, but th
of a better club than has been|&!ne ahead anyway.
iced here for some years, talk ~
changed from “it would be nice] Margaret Tate, well-known
to have artificial ice,” to « weve locally for her singing talents
Just got to DaveseriMeiatcs list net Priaay to take. up an

of the firemen that if some
organization outside of the
Arena Society took an active

edit Be ane hockey | appointment as physical trai
gone by the Woards this season, |instructress at Cranbrook Hi
but what looked like the Sehgat

‘supply the con

|} Due to lack

Raudus

Hospital District Chairman
Resigns In Protest Move

ESIGNATION of Alex

Williams Lake Hospital Improvement District
Committee has-been forwarded to. Victoria in a moye
¢ jolt government las 3s into action.

Mr Srati-portagut shat the
colimittee “has bech stalled in
its efforts to condutt a canvass,

no ‘ause of the Department
of Health and Welfare, hut be-
cause of the Water Rights

Branch of the Department of
Lands and Forests, which must

legal boundaries of the proposed

| district.

In Mr.
Hon. Brie

Scott's telegram to
Martin, he states:
of co-operation
finister of Lands and
legal de:
proposed

from
Fore
darie:

hospital im-
provement district not received

and canvass at standstill.
Have today resigned as chair-
man formation committee in pro-
test. Have had every co-opera-
tion from your department, re-

gret necessity this action
In a leiter to War Memorial
Hospital Board, Mr. Scott ex-

that last October, Mr.
tt, of the Water Rights
neh, toid the committee that
their legal department would
1dvise the necessary steps to be
This was followed in a

aken.

mittee with the} _

Probably the most interesting
question which will require re-
search is that of the extra water
supply. Most obvious step is to
re-vamp the present pump
house near the lake. This is a
costly procedure, but one which
may have to be used. The
engineers, however, have come
up with the suggestion that test
drillings should be made in the
neighborhood of the airport to
see if sufficient water cannot be

G. Scott as chairman of

obtained, from wells in that

[fey days by’ a ‘Totter stating|#¥ew. ~~ ae
} ae :

that no action would be taken|. B-C- < Equipment — Limited

already have their own supply
by well there and the crystal-
clear supplysis far superior in
taste to the lake water.

The report shows that a well
King for legal di supply would be much more
the proposed boundaries, but n0| economical to develop and main-
acknowledgenrent was received. | tain that improvements to the

On January 22, Mr. Scott ran| Present pump house.

across a canvass. form being Wells would mean that
used at 100 Mile, giving boun-| there would no longer be
aries for that area, and in view] expenses on the operation and
of this example of one-sided co-] maintenance of lake pumps.
operation from the Water Rights| There would be no need to
Branch, he decided to resign in| operate a filter plant nor
protest. engage in chlorination ex-
penses. Also eliminated
would be the need for a new
lake intake, a new booster
pump and a standby gasoline
engine, all of which will be
needed if the pumphouse is
re-vamped.

until the 100 Mile situation had
been settled. At the beginning
of December, a letter was

ten to the Water Righ

Latest development in the
issue is a meeting being held in
Victoria this morning between
Hon. E. C. Martin, Hon, Ray
Williston and William ©. Speare,
M.L.A., in an attempt to clea
jthe way for a district canvass,
The local hospital board ha

The eight-inch wooden main
asked Mr. Scott to reconsider! coming into town is an unknown
| his resignation, but he has stated menace so far as most towns-
he will make no decision until people are concerned. They
the ults of the Vietoria meet-/ will be surprised to learn that

water per day leak away in the
wooden pipe section hetween the
tank and the entrance fo Wil-
liams Lake. In other words,
the pumps at the lake are work-
ing to capacity to provide a
huge volume of water which
Tuns straight into the ground
from the leaky main.
EXPENSIVE LEAKS t
It is estimated that a further
40,000 gallons per day go to
waste from the woden pipes in
town itself. It is costing an
average of $5,000 per annum
in labor and materials for the -
repair of leaks alone.
Installation of the 350,000-
gallon tank in the airport dis-
trict is recommended whether
wells are dug or whether the
pump house is re-vamped. The
height here will give a good,
gravity feed to the whole town
Without the use of pimps in any
part of the populated area. In
addition, this source would be
ideal to supply Glendale as well
as Williams. Lake when re-
sources are available for such
a project. Cost of supplying
Glendale with water, including
mains and local distribution, is
estimated by the engineers at
about $50,000.
Findings of the consultants
have been influenced _ by
estimated increase of population.
Persons supplied with water
in the past five years is as ©
follows: 4 -
1e44 0 540

1951 = 911
1956 — 1,892
It is estimated that 1961
figures will read 2,500, while

1971 will show a population of
3.250 . . . but a lot of water
will flow under the bridge . . .
and into the ground before then

WEATHER

Although the temperature
hasn’t reached zero yet in the
valley, a raw north wind yester-
day brought the promise of
colder weather.

This morning the. airport
reading at eight o’clock was 10
above.

Here are the minimum and
maximum readings at the air-
port for the past week between
the hours of § a.m. and 5 p.m.

ing are known, no less than 60,000 gallons of

min. max
Thursday, Jan. 30 - 30 33
Friday — sae BBE BT
Saturday, Feb. 1 _. 13 35
Monday 27 36
Tuesday 16.18

Shown here is a
Mercury Produce Expres

just outside of town. T

huge transport truc

ipped off the icy Cariboo Highway and overturned

TRANS

PORT TAKES
owned by
s Limited, that last week

DIVE

crushed.

he truck was loaded with

27,000 pounds of produce and 1,000 pounds of ice.

Note the driver’s side of the cab was completely
Driver Arthur Kendall and assistant Matt
Brudinsky escaped with minor injuries,

— Tribune photo