The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 3

WHY IS A WATER TOWEBT The recording dfal on the left started turning yesterday at 3.30 p.m., recording water pressure In the mains in the vicinity of Island Park Drive: At 4.00 p.m. the new (and much-discussed) water tower was dedicated. At 4.10 p.m. a valve was turned and in the space of a moment the water pressure line shot up 25 pounds and leveled out: (arrow). The chart on the right shows-the pressure- fluctuations "before-the-tower" which caused broken water mains and poor service in the district.

The inner line is pressure in the. mains coming into the Carling Avenue Pumping Station, and the outer circle the boosted pressure needed for the district. Yesterday wildly climbing and instantly diving without notice, the pressure today draws a steady circle as the dial turns. (Journal -Staff Photo.) Islaftd Park Tower Cut Into City Water System Ottawa's new elevated storage tank, towering ISO feet above Island Park Drive, was cut Into the city water distribution system at 4.21 p.m. Thursday, raising the water pressure in' a large area of the West End, providing an emergency reserve in the vital hospital area and greatly improving Are fighting facilities.

As Controller Tardif control- ler in charge of water works. assisted by Controllers Picker ing and McCann, turned the large valve wheel at the base of the palisade green monster, filtered water flowed for the first time into the surrounding v- Froud Day for As proud as any father. Water Works Commissioner I MacDonald watched while' his brain child was put to work. I Benefits 'Of the new storage tank, which floats on the system The Ottawa Journal FRIDAY, jtlNE 16, 1950. Th'e THir'd Page Hardening of Seven Traffic Arteries Slows Five O'Clock Rush for West End to Crippled Crawl Wellington fed 1 is Overpass Bottleneck Longest Route pfKn, Tiym.xi i s1' I -1 ROUT17 1 I I lll'U'l scotT ST- y.ourr -In Distance Shortest in Time Ottawa, bulging at it annexed Kimi, already Is too big for its new breeches.

IU the traffic routes, frayed and inadequate, can't stand the strain. Every, week-day evening, some 40,000 workers swarm to the streets. All are in a hurry to get borne between 4.30 and p.m. By, five o'clock, "Op eration Rush Home" is in full awing. lopsided City.

Since more then two-thirds of Ottawa's -population lives West Bank better than 15,000 workers are West-bound the rush hour. Of Ottawa's 30,000 privately registered automobiles, almost 6.000 are headed for the West End at the same time. Ottawa's "suspenders' Just csn't take 1C" The city chokes on many traffic But the one that has the cork driven 'in the -tightest, by actual. time tests, is the Wellington street viaduct Shortly after five o'clock there Is an unbroken line of -cars on Wellington street, bumper to bumper, from Lyon to Bayvlew, the first street West of the over-pa u. This mile-long, single-laned caterpillar of vehicles crawls along at an average four miles an hour.

Tempers flare, gears clash and radiators boil. Seven Ways Home. The map here shows that there are seven main arteries to the West End from Centre Town. It also shows that the snonesi distance between two Cooler, Wet Week-End Threatening- A week-end of uncertain weather mostly cloudy, with showers was forecast today toy Rockcliffe weather office. A break ln-the current stretch ef warm and humid" was called for Saturday night s.s a flow cool air moved down from the Northwest displacing the blank et of stagnant air that covered the country most of the week.

A minor disturbance would bring a few showers tonight. and more would come late bat. urday with the advent of the 0 0 r- -Time Oirtence Stops tiowts rWe VStANOrVUMO vV oumi I MM i i cgqf -I Hrf3 as' i si 5 4 I vl ourf4 ii- 5 I mp noun 7 tr 4 a 3 r-' 1" points in this case is not the route .10 uae. Take the Avlmer road route for instance. It is more than twice as far as the direct route via Wellington or Carting, yet it takes from (v 4n tK minutes less time.

Test runs were made from the Wellington and Bank street Intersection to the Carling avenue circle during the rush period. Two of the routes made use of the Wellington street nn a 1 i. a. through to Holland avenue, and w.cr vun-r using scott street 1 Fine Ontario Youths For Impersonation VANCOUVER, June 14V-4Cn Two Ontario youths yeterdy were fined 2g each ior Jmper. sonating police officers.

Frank Guthenberg of Toronto and David Dale of Alexandria, both 18, were arrested Saturday after a United States naval shore patrol told police the pair identified themselves to them as special American operatives looking for They flashed metal badges and a toy gun and worked with the patrol for two days before it caught on. cooler air. Cloud today and tomorrow would keep the temperature from rising past about 78. TT1 1 giving re vi talking shots of fil tered water whenever needed, were graphically demonstrated by a recorder attached to nearby tree. Spectators saw the red Inked needle record the pressure jump in the West End system as the valve was turned.

They saw, also, the unsatisfactory extremes of high and low pressure straighten out into on flat line. This, said Mr. MacDonald, saved wear and tear on mains, pumps and householders' Ha Special Lights. Squatting on 11 tapering legs of steel, the huge radial con type container has been equipped with special aircraft warning lights and an electrical purifying system.5 The tank's design won first place In a competition with world-wide entries. Costing $210,000.

the -new The Somerset, Gladstone, Carling and Driveway routes were approached along Branson. To use Kent or Lyon would give similar time results. None Satisfactory. The important feature of the time tests is that none of the seven routes is adequate. The best time of 18 minutes, recorded on what might have been a lucky day, is much too slow for a distance of three miles.

A letter appeared in The Journal recently which, put the blame of the congestion on Ottawa drivers themselves. They would also be necessary, to patch up the road surface of the overpass. As it is now, drivers do not want -to steer as close The Bear Rolled Off and Slowly Walked Away' Must Be Driving Car to Be Guilty TORONTOrJune owner of an automobile can not be guilty of careless driving if he is not driving the car himself. Mr. Justice D.

C. Wells ruled in a decision handed down yesterday. He quashed a conviction on. a careless driving charge -of Irving M. Lockie, London, Ont The appeal was submitted as a stated case.

Lockie was convicted last Summer. Evidence indicated he was not driving his car when the offence occurred, but as the registered owner, he was ruled responsible for the -offence. i tank is the first of three In out lying areas scheduled for eree tion to serve xspidly expanding Ottawa. It was constructed of elec trically welded steel plates and painted to blend as as possible with the sky and back ground along the Drive. The tank is protected from corrosion by the cathodie protection system utilizing alumi num anodes.

Prior to being put into service the giant bowl was scoured out sluiced out with clean water and then filled again with the addi tion of 100 pounds of chlorine, Filtered water was used to flush the tank out time and again until the filtered water in it tested for five consecutive days. One of the great benefits of the-new storage tank is that water main extensions as far west as the McKellar area will now be possibla this year, have a "one-lane it said. There is reason, for-it. A motorist finds himself scooting along merrily on an inside lane and next thing he knows he's bang up against a parked car. By the time he's allowed to ooze out into the centre again, he has lost his original place in the lineup.

Space Available. The photograph here shows that an extra lane on the Wellington street viaduct is easily possible. To add the extra It There Is a grandfather bear In British Columbia who can gather the wide-eyed cubs about him and tell them how he went for a' ride in a car and got his name Tnentioned-fn -the- House of Commons 14 veam after. never did a bear nave such an adventure. 1 I r- ory-as-ausi recoras ol the iieasuryoarownicn.pasietonl The memory of the bear was honored in the Commons this week when Agricultural Minister.

Gardiner remembered him when the House was discussing the liability on cars driven by Government em ployes. Mr. Gardiner recalled a where the Government had to pay for damage caused a car in which food had been placed. A bear tried to pick a hole in the roof, refused to be chased away, and a Government employe undertook to shake It off by starting the car and running it down the road. He was so intent on setting rid of the bear that he' rammed the car into a tree and the Government agreed to pay the repair bill of S35.

Mr. Gardiner left unanswered the question of what happened to the bear, but In response to a Journal inquiry he had a file It showed the hero of the occasion was H. A. Richmond, employed by the Vernon, BC, Entomological Branch Laboratory. Mr.

Richmond's camp at Kootenay National Park was pestered by the bear which tried to get in the food stores and was determined not to be driven away. The report to the Treasury Board recited how Mr. Richmond could not bear to see the bear, tearing at his car. flung open the door, and darted into start engine while the big beast continued to claw at the roof. The car started off with very natural jolt because' Mr.

Richmond did not, stand on the order of his going. The bear's trip -was short The reoort ends undramatically: "The bear lost his balance, rolled oft, and walked Four Young Irishmen P.Ian to Circle World ROSSLARE, Republic of Ire land, June 18. (Reuters) Four young Irish students, out to circle the world in a 40-year- old 38-foot yacht the Ituna, sailed-from her last night on the first leg of their trip, across the Atlantic Cheering crowds lining Rosa-la re oler watched the craft edge out to sea in a northwesterly breeze. Anthony Sl-year-old son of a Rosslar farmer, is acting as navigstor. The others are John Kenny, 21, Desmond Dal- ton, 20, and Kevin FarreU.

21. The four youths plsn to spend a year in the United States, then continue their journey round the world. as they might to the railing on one side, and the sidewalk curb on the other, due to the rough surface on each side. The old bouses at the Northwest end of the bridge have been torn down so that sooner or later a sweeping approach to and from Scott street will be constructed. Room for Three.

The bridge, as it stands now. will allow no more than three French Plane Losses tfotaUOl rABis. June id. Here is the three-day score on Big French plane losses: Madagascar -military fnht 0 Tsnanarive to aboard still missing, Persian Gulf Air Franc C-S4 Skymaster, Saigon to Paris, crashed early Tuesday off Bahrein Island, landing strip: 48 killed, five survived. Persian Gulf Air France; C-54 Skymaster, Saigon Paris, a Wednesda; night off Bahrein landln strip; 39 killed, 13 survived.

Total Killed, 101; survlvo: 18. Department feature known as "Dietary Mr. Smith In particular asked for the author of the following: "When work piles so high youn can i see, ana you reel you'v been shoved up a tree, You won't lose your wit or fly into a fit if you're eating your vitamin 'At hot Summer sun bakes the lawns to a parched yellow and fastens the attention on more flamboyant blooms- Not again this Summer Is the close-cropped grass likely to burgeon with the same verdant beauty that conies from kind rains and a tolerant sun. Vying with the Iris for June supremacy, though still not at their peak, banks of hardy "bush rose will be seen winking their a -1 WELL DONE, MR. SUN Unofficial word Is that delegates to the 7th Imperial Press Con-'ferenca will be 'pardoned with a wink from an envious chairman's eye if away from the world's toil and trouble to catch a glimpse of grandeur laid on by Nature and the Federal District Commission along Ottawa's beautiful Driveway and at the Farm.

This view along Patterson creek, where rolling lawns, majestic elms and poplars are touched with the glory of golden flowering shrubs, is balm for convention-halt weariness. (Journal Staff Photo.) Driveway Wearing Finery of Iris and Roses June is bustln' out all over. At her ravishing Summer best in her green finery of lawns and trees and shrubs she will be ready for week-end natur lover- At the Experimental Farm and along the FDC driveways, the lovely and delicate Iris will be the floral piece de resistance garlanding border- flower beds in probably the last verdant Spring-like week-end bef or the 1 lanes. If the extra' lane is added, the heavy traffic, depending on the time of day, could use two of them. Then, in the evening -rush -inside Westbound lane could swoop down on to Scott street The flow would be continuous.

The traffic light at the West end of the overpass would have to remain, but a fixed turn-right arrow could Deinstalled for. inside lane. A safety island on the renovated Western in clined would split the two West bound Janei In the meantime, however, Paul Protects Poetry When Departmental Oti civil servants write poetry for the, Government on theirown time and It's appre- ciat was brought out In the Commons Thursday when Health Minister Martin an- ered a question by A. L. th, Progressiva Conserva- ve, Calgary West about who eeaJutndelfairhjrintmgedittyrbeM OTTAWA'S BIGGEST FAIN IN THE BOTTLENECK The Wellington street viaduct, whetstone of the keenest profanity ever honed, is seen here clad in its cloak of five o'clock confusion.

Eager motorists approach the overpass with unconcerned bravado three lanes no less. But courage dwindles when cars arrive at the Incline. Here three lanes of traffic can be seen merging to form the most snail-pace procession in Ottawa. The artist has suggested that an extra lane could be added with a minimum of whitewash. Two lanes one way, one, the other, to be reversed morning and evening.

'(Journal Staff Photo.) West-Enders must suffer. As the West End expands, so does the confusion. Equally affected by the congestion are the countless who ride the The Production Ditties Derided Mr. Smith asked for the cost of the poetry. Including accom panying picture.

Mr Martin repliedJhejlitOes. were written by members of the Nutrition Division staff usually on their time. The cost of each illustration was about $20, and it was impossible to estimate the cost of was a very small fraction of the cost of printing a page of the Many requests were received for permission to republish the ditties. They had been praised as an interesting method of teaching nutrition lessons by the United States National Public ity Council for Health and Welfare Services, Mr. Martin claimed.

i. regal splendor aV the Experimental Farm and along the main Driveway. Many more are along the Lady Grey Drive while a heavy plantation lie in the rockeries at the end of Acacia avenue in Rockcliffe. Iris and rose and June's best blush of beauty await the weekend wanderer. The gardeners' boast awaits your pleasure, but not too long.

This week-end is the time. w- speed of the fleet is the speed' of the slowest street-car. The only one free from car is the lowly pedestrian, that is, unless he tries to' cross the street H.WJ. Farmers Wife fi CORNWALL, June 18. (Sp-, clal) Mrs.

CyrlUe St Pierre, 27, was electrocuted, her hut-band severely burned and a youth escaped injury yesterday -when a metal pump which they were installing came in contact with a hydro wire carrying 1,100 volts. Th accident occurred oa the St Pierre farm In Lancaster township, 20 miles northeast of Cornwall. Fernand Vernier, 15-year-old neighbor youth who suffered only a slight burn on the hand. credited his escape to th rubber overshoes ha was wearing when the pump contacted th wire. i "Mrs.

St Fieri was knocked to the ground by th Vernier Said. St Pierr froze' to the pump. I saw a flash, felt a shock and stepped back from the pump." Vernier said he andtiW-St Pierres wer Installing a pump on the front lawn. They had raised it in order to place th cylinder part in the welt- Th top of the pump struck the wire 25 feet overhead. Vernier ran to the nearby home of Elezear Dubeau for assistance.

A rope was used to pull the victims free of the pump. Dr. William Llngard, of Lancaster was summoned, but Mrs. St. Pierre was dead.

Mr. St Pierre, 33, was rushed to Hotel Dieu Hospital in Corn wall. His condition today was reported as fair. The accident was investigated by provincisl constable L. R.

Giroux, of Mrs. St. Pierre was the former Anne Levac, of St Zotique, Que. -She is survived by her husband and three children, Guy 8. Denis 4, and Lise, eight months.

Serv ice will be held St St Zotique. RELAX SHOOTING BAN. 1 COPENHAGEN. June 18. Denmark has "tentatively re quested" British authorities in Germany to relax the law forbidding Germans to hunt with that they can help de feat an invasion of rabbits across the Danish-German border.

Danish farmers describe the rab bit invasion from Germany as "serious BAN ON WAR-LIKE TOTS. fBONN. Germany. June 18. Tin soldiers and other warlike toys Will disappear from West-German homes if parliament accepts a resolution tabled by the parliamentary committee lor internal affairs.

The resolution has asked the government to ban the manufacture and sal of the toys in West Germany. 4 A.