Williams Lake Tribune - Volume 26 — Number 6 TWO SECTIONS Williams Lake, B.C., Wedne: day, February 5, 1$ 14 PAGES Single Copy 10¢ —~ $3.00 per year 3 \ ; As Water Source 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