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The Evening Citizen Radio Want Ads Second Section OTTAWA, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1948 Pages 17 to 32 Rates At Civic Hospital Being Increased On January 1st Sports Comics One Dollar Per Day Mayor Lewis Presides At Filial Of Meet Boost Decided Upon levy assessed by the city there was Town's Entire Population Moves For Winter By The Canadian Press BELLE COTE, NS The entire population of nearby Rear Belle Cote, in northern Cape Breton Island, left town yesterday for the winter. Two-fifths of the citizens Mr. and Mrs. Arsen Leblanc moved to Margaree, NS. Another two-fifths headed for Sydney.

The other one-fifth? He came here. no recourse but to increase the rates. There was no possibility of adding further charges for "extras" Effective January 1 rates at the Ottawa Civic Hospital will be increased by one dollar per day the hospital board decided at last night's final meeting of the year. The new schedule of rates after January 1, will be: Private, $9.00 daily; semi-private, $6.00 daily; semi-public, $5.00 daily; public, $4.00 daily. The present rates for the above classifications are: private, seni-private, semi-public, $4.00 and public, $3.00.

Rates for infants will also be the superintendent said, since that was now at the highest possible level. Dr. Piercey said it was hoped additional provincial grants might be secured next year, and also further grants for indigent patients. But only $50,000 could be expected from this source and was not sufficient to meet the costs. "It should be remembered, Dr.

G. M. Geldert, Board chairman, commented, "that in the event of Nepean being annexed the people from that section will be able to come into the hospital at city rates and we will lose much revenue from that source." "Let's not anticipate things," C. E. Pickering said.

"Nepean hasn't been annexed. We can afford to leave that with the Board of Control and the city council." The care of chronic patients increased on January 1. They now are: private, semi-private, public, 50 cents; and will be, after Jan. 1, private, mayor. "During the past number of months it has been my task to carry on in your place and I have done my best and I have been only too glad to render what assistance I could.

also, join in the wishes for your improved health and continued happiness." "I join in wishing you every possible happiness, and wish for you many long years of good health. I am glad you are able to be with us today," Con. Finlay McRae said. In thanking his confreres Mayor Lewis said: "Over a period of years it has been my good fortune to be associated with you and it has been a very happy period of my life. Under Con.

Bourque and his Board of Control I know Ottawa will have good government because they constitute the elected government of the people. "I pay tribute, too, to Dr. Geldert, who carried on in my absence. He did so in an extremely fine manner and on behalf of the citizens of the city I wish to thank Dr. Geldert for the service he has rendered in my absence.

"The Board of Control has been served most efficiently by Edgar Pearce, its secretary, and he has given the best possible care to every matter before him. The city Mayor Stanley Lewis presided at yesterday afternoon's final Board of Control meeting for 1948. It was his first appearance in seven months, following his being stricken last May, by a heart ailment. He was named a freeman of the city and will receive the emblematic key of the city at a later date. The Mayor appeared at the city hall to have his picture taken in conjunction with Mayor Raymond Brunet, Hull, and Mayor Donat Grandmaitre of Eastview.

All three are retiring from civic life this year. But since the first magistrates of the adjacent municipalities had not appeared by three o'clock Mayor Lewis took his customary place at the Board of Control table. It was a quiet and thoroughly appreciative board that took places beside him and soon department heads, learning of his presence in the city hall, filed in to pay their respects to a man held by them in extremely high esteem. Routine Business Eight items of routine business were quickly transacted and the controllers got down to the business of saying how greatly they appreciated Mayor Lewis' appearance at the final meeting of the year. "I cannot begin to express my sense of real pleasure at your being here today," said Con.

G. W. semi-private, and public $1.00 daily. The rates for patients outside oi ine city win oe suoject to a surcharge of 25 per cent over the prices effective at the beginning of the year. Increased cost of administration, salaries, water and other rates were the reasons given for the in Barbara Ann Voted Top Athlete By The Canadian Press TORONTO Barbara Ann Scott's sharp-edged skates which have sketched international fame for her on ice surfaces from Sudbury to Stockholm, last night brought added honor to the pert figure-skating Queen from Ottawa.

She has been voted Canada's outstanding female athlete of 1948, the third time in as many years. Sports editors in the annual Dominion-wide year-end poll conducted by the Canadian Press took one look at her record-breaking performances and decided she belonged in the No. 1 slot. The award makes her the first triple winner since the poll was inaugurated 16 years ago. Professional Debut Announcement of the award creases, effective on the first day of 1949.

Sire of the pups was Allendale Athentis Bruce, owned by Mrs. H. Mac Donald of 382 Hilson avenue. (Photo by Phillips) PROUD MOTHER Bonnie Abergelder Sable Lady presented her owner, Stan Haggerty, 162 Geoffrey street, with no less than nine pups. $200,000 Increase The anticipated increase in costs, according to Hospital Superintendent Dr.

Douglas Pier-cey. would amount to between $200,000 and $250,000. Unless this sum could be secured through tax has wise and efficient department His toric Broadens Of Service From Nazareth By The Associated Press ed a blue chip as the golden-haired skater stacked title on title in her spectacular three-year climb to heights reached by few athletes. She took every amateur honor in sight and there wasn't an opponent, anywhere, to match her skill. World Titles Goodwin.

"We are highly honored that you have seen fit to join us for this final meeting. board will soon reconvene with new heads and with a sound elected Board of Control and council the city cannot fail to advance and become the best capital city in the world." Department Wishes also came up for discussion last niiht and on motion of C. E. Pickering it was decided to advise members of the medical staff that if they abused privileges of the hospital, and sent in as emergency patients persons suffering with chronic illness, they would be refused the hospital's facilities. There are now 80 chronic patients at the hospital, the board was advised.

Many have been there three months and more. The normal patient's stay is about 10 days and it was estimated that the care of chronics prevented the admission to the hospital of "active" patients in need of immediate care. It also meant the hospital patient turnover was cut by from 1,200 to 1,400 patients yearly. 2 Hospitals For Chronics In Ottawa there were two hospitals, where chronic cases could be cared for, Dr. Piercey said.

There were also two hospitals that took convalescent cases. He suggested that consideration be given members under a new mayor and I know they will do all possible to TEL AVIV The Voice of Israel radio will broadcast the Christmas Eve service from the Church of Annunciation in Nazareth, City Solicitor Gordon Medcalf She took North American cham maintain the high standards you have set and I know they will work an Israeli' government spokesman announced yesterday. KC, speaking for the department heads, expressed his joy at once pionships with ease, went to Europe early in 1947 and added The broadcast will be the first in history from the church in the town of Galilee where Jesus grew to manhood. the European and world titles. Christmas Mail Bags Lost In Fire By The Canadian Press HALIFAX An undetermined number of bags of Christmas mail burned yesterday when fire broke cut in a Canadian National Railway baggage car at Elmedale, about 32 miles from here.

The train was en route from In all other parts of Israel facilities have been provided for This jaunt was the signal for one holding, religious services. the the city to the Arab side and join coincided with the 20-year-old ice ballerina's professional debut in an ice extravaganza at New York's Roxy Theater. Asked to name the three individual performers among women, in order of preference, 26 of 27 participating editors gave her a first, and many didn't bother to record second and third choices. On a 3-2-1 point-basis, the European, Olympic and World figure-skating champion received 78 points, 69 more than her closest rivals. the pilgrimage to Bethlehem.

of the most sustained personal-stock booms in sports history. It reached a peak early in 1948 when she returned to Europe, retained her titles and added the Olympic Gold Medal first to a to carry out the plans for She beautiflcation of the city you have helped create. "I think it is only fitting, also, that as a token of our esteem that we should present to you sir, the key to this city and confer on you the freedom of this city." "That is a splendid thought," said mayor-elect E. A. Bourque, and the board quickly concurred.

Only two other persons have keys to the city and are enrolled as official statement said. In Jerusalem Israeli authorities gave permission for about 100 religious dignitaries, monks, nuns nrrl crime ntViorc tr rrncc iYtr lirtps: The traditional Jerusalem -Beth lehem road will not be used. The mum ciiLuiiuua iuuie u.juuku and by some competent authority to Moncton, NB, to Halifax again seeing Mayor Lewis presiding at a Board of Control meeting. He wished on behalf of the department heads and the city hall employes to wish the Mayor and Mrs. Lewis long life and happiness in the ensuing years.

Con. Goodwin felt that if the department heads were consulted the incoming Board of Control would have the benefit of sound advice and experience in the handling of the various departments. To mayor-elect Bourque he said: "You will head the council of a grand and beautiful city. I believe it will be a great city in the years that lie ahead and I feel sure, aided by your Board of Control, you will continue to work for Ottawa. I do sincerely hope that you and your Board of Control will enjoy every possible success in carrying out these things so essential to the welfare of Ottawa, as a city, and as Canada's Canadian in figure-skating at the winter games in Switzerland.

There was nothing else to take in the amateur field and Barbara Ann turned professional. She is a hit on and off the ice in any language. Newspapers in Europe hailed her triumphs with front-page pictorial displays. She was "Barba" to Czechoslovakian fans, "Barbeli" to the Swiss, "Champ" to the French and just "B.A." to Britons, Americans and fellow-Canadians. World Wide It was the same wherever she went Copenhagen, Davos, Stockholm, Zurich, St.

Moritz, London, Paris, Oslo. Prague, Lausanne. Newspaper men and photographers haunted her; movie and ice-extravaganza scouts shadowed her; crowds jostled for her autograph; strangers stuck presents in her freemen of Ottawa. Thpy are Viscount Montgomery and Barbara Ann Scott. Key Presentation Later When the elaborate golden key will be presented was not stated yesterday, but it is anticipated it will be done at some civic function the date of which will be announced.

"I only wish you were back in the chair as mayor of this city for the next two years," mayor-elect Bourque commented. "But fate has ruled otherwise. But we join in you every good wish of the holiday season and wish for you, also, and for Mrs. street corners. Two sour-grape incidents were injected at the height of her career and both added to her fame.

Doting Ottawa citizens gave "B.A." a canary-colored automobile in 1947 but she returned, it when there was a howl she might lose a chance of competing in the winter Olympics if she held it. A few months later a Swiss instructor in London lampooned her with the title of "weakest skater to hold a world championship in years." Canadians were highly indignant over both but "B.A." was unruffled. The Swiss instructor was on hand to see her win the big titles at Prague. St. Moritz and Davos and she got the car back this summer when she joined the Arab-held territory.

An Israeli spokesman said the Arabs refused to open the traditional route to Bethlehem, which is under Egyptian occupation. The midnight mass will be celebrated as usual in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ. Christmas services will be held also in Haifa and Jaffa and in several Catholic monasteries in the Galilean and Judean hills. Curfew will be lifted on Christmas Eve in Arab-inhabited areas of Israel where it is still in force. Arrangements are also being: made for priests to hold services for Christians i prisoner-cf-war camps in Israel.

A government spokesman said additional food rations have been allocated to Christian communities. tne enlargement oi tnose Hospitals to care for chronic and convalescent patients. It was felt by the board that the province should carry the major cost of such enlargement rather than the city. Mr. Pickering that a committee should be set up at once to consider the problem and to make recommendations from which might come a solution.

"We cannot let this go on," he said. "It has cost this hospital over a million dollars in the last five years and is costing $146,000 every year it continues. We must find some way of carin; for chronic patients, but it is not the function of a hospital such as this." Dr. Geldert believed the problem was one for the incoming 1943 council and Board of Control. many of trie bags contained Christmas mail from a large mail order store in Moncton.

The blaze was discovered by conductor B. J. White, of Moncton, after the car had been sealed at Truro. Some mail had been unloaded at Truro and more loaded. Number of bags lost was not known, but about 900 bags were aboard at Moncton and another 735 bags were loaded at Truro.

The flaming car was shunted near a water tank and streams of water played into the car. One official said "not too much was saved it was a pretty bad fire." Post office inspectors were called to investigate. Rhona and Rhoda WurteJe, Montreal's indentical-twin skiers who were bracketed as one entry by editors, placed second with nine points and Viola Myers, Toronto track star, ranked third with eight. The one-two-three places thus are filled by Olympic athletes. Thirteen names were mentioned.

One editor, apparently a horse-lover, nominated Victory Gift, Winnipeg-bred mare and winner of the Canadian derby and other big stake races for three-year-olds, as his choice. This was a "Barbara Ann Scott year" just as in 1946 and 1947 when she dominated the women's sports scene. Every twist and turn of her skates in the highly-complicated business of doodling on ice spark- LONDON Parking meters on London streets have ccllected I $18.70 during the last week. And they don't even start operating, officially, until Thursday. Lewis many happy years." "It is a great pleasure to have you attend this meeting." observed Dr.

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