The Semiahmoo
¢ White Rock Weekly

Serving White Rock, Sunnyside, Ocean Park, Crescent Beach,
Panorama Ridge, Colebrook, Newton, and Surrounding Districts.

White Rock, B.C., Thursday, November 7th, 1957
DAE NS ce ea A Ea

OPERATED

SUPER-VALU

“where Quality Costs No More”

$2.50 per year. Copy 7c

“Vol. 19. No. 45.

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Want Chance To Water Improvement Sought 2

White Rock To Have swim"... Reservoir Circulator To Be

your singing or dancing abil-

B -L ws Shortly Her White Rock Players’ (
SS bagel “omer Installed By Water Works

4 d i ULATE and female singers or dancers
SA a Se Ne ba regulate, but for the annual Christmas Pan-

subdivision bylaws.

A new circulator will be in- improve the water quality the present time.

|
Council instructed City Clerk |
John L, Jones and City Soli-
citor Lorne Jackson, Tuesday,
to draft a new set of bylaws

and present them for approv- stance,’

al at the earliest possible date.

Controversy as to the legal-!said a public hearing would |

ity of the present bylaws arose

among Council members and /could express their v

cannot prohibit building on

any lots,” Mr. Jackson said.
“The bylaw must be precise

and be enforced in every in-!

> he added.

City Clerk John L, Jones

be hela at which the public |

|production of ‘Bluebeard,

tomime to be held at Semi-

ahmoo High on Dec. 5, 6 and 7.
If you would like to try your |

skill (or luck) in this year’s

call Franklin Johnson in the |
evening or at weekends at
WI. 8-6881

stalled in the White Rock re-|White Rock Water Works
servoir in an effort to improve |Company can be forced by bed with brushes, washed
the quality of water being | Council to roof in the reser- |with acid and washed again. A
supplied

{cil learned Tuesday.

“It has been emptied, serub-

homes in the up-|Voir at a cost of $50,000 orjnew circulator is in the pro-

ser region of this City, Coun- | $60,000, cess of being installed,” he
These points were brought ‘said.

forth at a joint meeting be-! ‘This circulator forces the

tween Council, Major W. L. | water to rotate at such a

Should this circulator fail to

Hough, Engineer and Manager! speeqg that the small fly can-

officials when the zoning by-|the matter then Council de-
law amendment and the build-|termines whether to amend}
ing bylaw amendment came |the blaw. Allowance could be
up for first, second and third |made in special circumstances, |
readings. he felt.

Council decided Oct. 22 to y clause allowing for
amend the zoning and build-|special circum would
ing bylaws in White Rock to override the bylaw, M' Jack-
allow homes to be built on/son said.
isting 33 ft. lots. | After

City Solicitor Lorne Jackson |Counc!l decided t would be
maintained Council could not | more actory to draft]
amend the bylaw and then put |their own b
in a clause which would give |subdivision by
Council the prerogative to}amend the
make exceptions in certain | ones.

le

gthy discussion,

But Company Pays

City To Clean Up
After Natura! Gas

City public works depart- ved constantly
ment will take over the main- the condition of roads, d
tenance of roads damaged boulevards.
when natural gas lines w CONTRACT WITH B.C.
installed ‘but cost of the oper- Ald. Alex Mitchell pointed
ation will be paid by Craig & out tho City’s contract was
Ralston. with the B.C. Electric and not

Mayor W. (Bill) Hodgson Craig and Ralston and said
was informed Wednesday by Alan McDonald, the Com- 2nd 13 year old Lloyd Porter
A. P. McLean, district mana- pany’s Fraser Valley repre-|ig in July, 1956. A tr
ger for the B.C. Electric at sentative at Abbotsford should | WS On hand for the pr
White Rock, that Craig and ‘be contacted immediately, |Kinsmen Dance and fun.
Ralston had agreed to pay the| Craig and Ralston had pro- |
cost of repairing damage to mised to send a work crew in- |
City streets, to White Rock last Friday to
City Council voiced their dis-|\clean up the streets. No crew

| Honoured by the Canadia

Mr. and

son who preser

Ralston, contractors for the r un Wednesday
BC. Electric, had left streets he had been assured by Mr.
following installation of nat-|McLean tha
ural gas. F\ ston represe

Sunnyside Ratepayers are
a Craig and Ral- complet satisfied with the
e would be present sct-up for fire protec-
Public Works Superintend- jin White Rock that afternoon|tion under the combine
em Bob Howse told Counc th a work sheet for the White Rock and Sunnyside
complaints were being recei- City. Department.
“We are not concerned
with who runs the fire depart
ment but we do want it to be
carried on in the future as it
has been in the past,” one
speaker stated at the annual
ting and election of off!-
held in the Community
on T lay night

The feeling was strongly
expressed that the ratepayers
of the area were fully sat
fied with the protection given
to them in the past.

Centennial Meeting

Citizens Get ‘

White Rock Centennial
Committee will meet Friday
in an effort to bring forth

City’s 1956 project for presen-
tation to Council, i
The meeting will be held at

80 be welcome,

Kinsmen Halloween Dance Thursday was 14

sunnyside Satisfied
my othe manner Galg and| Mayor “Hodgon told he WWath Fire Set-up

further proposals on this

7.30 p.m. in the City Hall, All

eervice clubs and organizations | completed.

@re invited to attend. Any

interested individuals will al-|tions should be inyited
Centennial

of White Rock Waterworks
Company, W. E. Johnson, com-
pany adviser, Dr, H. K, Ken-
nedy, director of Boundary
Health Unit and John Webb,
Boundary Health Inspector.
Samples of water taken
from a four-inch main leading

pital and another sample tak-
en from the operating room
were passed around to Coun-
cil members.

| “There have been reports
that the water is unsafe. It is
definitely not unsafe,” Mayor
| Hodgson emphasized.

|| Dr, Kennedy said there
were two factors affecting the
White Rock water: 1 Algae; 2
insect larvae.

| “Only one out of 30 bacteri-
alogical tests have shown
any bacteria in the water dur-
ing the past year,” Dr. Ken-
nedy reported.

Major Hough said he had an
analysis of water taken from
n Humane Society at the ja hospital tap about a week
ear old Patsy |ago and had received a report
Mrs, Harry Beasley, Pacific |on the water by phone prior
with White Rock Mayor W. |to coming to the meeting. He
roll to the plucky girl |handed the report to Dr. Ken-
1 she saved from drown- j|nedy.
is crowd of young people |
® and to enjoy the annual

Garner’s Studio

wi
Kennedy told Council

‘tion of any sort.’
Major Hough said there bad

algae throughout B.C. due
partly to the nice weather. He
said the Greater Vancouver
Water Board was also bother-
ed by the extreme growth re-
cently.

El

tion of officers saw the

19) 7 slate returned. They

are. Raplh Schultz, president; “The definite odour in the
Dick Miller, vice-president; | water, especially during the
|G. Cook, secretary; Vic John-|past ten days is also due to
json, treasurer, the algae,” tht manager sala,
Committee art Fire, Geo, Major Hough sald the reser-
|Cook, Dick Miller, Paul Ac-}voir was not in use at the
|carias, Oswald Renner, Parks.
|Vic Johnson, G. Oliver, Gus | ¢: ”
|Anderson. Works: Vie John-| We Do Remember.
son, R. Rothe, R, Schultz and

into White Rock District Hos- |

Inot hatch its eggs in the re-
servoir, Major Hough explain-
ed.

Major Hough felt the new
circulator plus regular clean-
‘ing of the reservoir every
three months might defeat
the problem.

He said the wooden tanks
located at North Bluff and
Johnston Road would be emp-
tied and cleaned. The mana-
ger thought this was the first
time the tanks had been
cleaned.
| Major Hough pointed out
many of the water mains had
|been disrupted recently when
natural gas lines were laid
jhere.
|, The manager said the larvae
|in the water was caused by
a small fly which lays its eggs
jin a body of water, the eggs
jsink to the bottom and the
|larvae 4s hatched from the egg.
He felt there was no chemi
cal cure for the larvae,

Dr. Kennedy told Council
the Boundary Health Unit had
|been unhappy with the water
jsituation in White Rock for
\the past six years.

“These measures advocated
by Major Hough are not new,

the test indicated the water|Mr. Johnson instituted them
was not hard and was “com- jearlier. The water was rather
pletely free from contamina-|bad for three months last

summer,” the Director said.
“It has however, been good

been an increasing growth of |over a long period,” he added.

| “There is no trouble with
the water on the lower levels,
but once the water has passed
through the reservolr the pro-
blem begins,” Dr. Kennedy
said.
Dr. Kennedy felt there were
three possible alternatives, 1.
‘o swirl the water, 2, Aban-
don the present reservoir. 3.
Cover the reservoir,
|" (continued on Page 12)

G, Cook, Soclal: Mrs, G Oli- ‘Remembrance Services

}ver, Mr. J. Mairs, Mrs, F. Hy-
jland and Mrs. R. Schultz.

tors are A. Rawlins and O.
Renmes, Remembrance Day Services |
will be held on Noy. 11 at
Semiahmoo High School _ at)
10.30 am. under the auspices
6 7) |of Branch No. 8 of the Can-
as alice adian Legion at White Rock:

ys Canadian Legion Pipe Band

led by Pipe Major Alex Fer-
guson will lead the parade

To Present Project Friday: : mse cues:

members, Army ety
‘The Committee's first propo-|Veterans and Ladies! |
eat of a Concert Bow! for the jary, Boy Scouts and | Girl
Ruth Johnson park site was !Guides,
questioned by Council after
it was pointed out the pro-
erty would be ayned by Bue ;
‘Surrey Municipality il ar- 2 a
bitratlon proceedings were |¢ast on Buena ‘Vista to

Council felt more organiza-|then to the u
to the jter Hunter has ai
Committee meeting named. seraye!

ci ‘i

The Centennial Committee |to bring forth their ideas. Par!
must decide on a project be-

fore 1958 in order to quality
for the Provincial grant,

‘As one Committee member |able at th
|put i “Friday js their last

Building: R. Ormerod, Lew | en Phe
Gilbert and A, Rawlins Aual To Honour War Dead ©

Seryice will be conduc
by Rev. E. Pitt Gi