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SHARK NETTED wher fouled in mouth held ajar by a piece of driftwood B.C Hospital Constructoin ': Aided By Federal Grants OTTAWA 5 Prince Rupert Daily News Monday, July 7, 1952 ts meshes at Horse Cove, Nfid Two hospitals, a| A youngsVillager } looks at the deep sea menace, the three-ton monster's gaping | | | (CP Photo) In the same area, a federal Red Cross nursing station, two|grant of $2,000 has been ear- health centres and two nurses’ marked for a two-bed outpost residences in British Columbia} nursing station at Hudson Hope have just been awarded federal | Construction of this station was | health grants to help them meet completed by the British Colum- | their building costs according to | bia division of the Canadian Red, an announcement made here to- day by Hon. Paul Martin, minis- Cross Society two years ago, but no request for federal assistance ter of National Health and Wel-| was received until recently. This fare station serves a small popula- Communities affected are Sal-/|tion scattered over a wide area mon Arm, Pouce Coupe, Hudson} around Hudson Hope. Hope, Enderby, Kamloops, Van- | couver and New Westminster. Largest single grant more than $167,000—goes to the Van- couver General Hospital to assist with the costs of completing the eighth floor of its present nurses’ residence and adding two new wings to the building to bring its capacity to 407 At the Provincial Mental Hos- pital, New Westminster, (recent- ly renamed Woodlands School), | a new unit is being added to the accommodation far nurses. It will have rooms for 99 nurses and a seven-bed infirm- ary. The federal grant will be $56,500. with the remainder of the cost being met by the prov ince which operates this hos- pital At Pouce Coupe, River district east of the Rockies, a hospital has been under con- Struction since 1947 as money became available and with the assistance Of labor donated by the community. Construction is now more than 75 per cent com- preted, and it is hoped that the building will be finished this year. It will have space for 24 | patients. On the basis of the con- struction not yet completed when the federal government’s health pr@gram canve into effect "| in 1948, a federal grant of about in the Peace | met (and providing At Salmon Arm, the General Hospital is increasing its bed capacity by completing work on the ground floor of its east wing. This will provide space for seven additional beds, bringing this hospital’s capacity to 38. It erves an area with a population of about 8,000, The federal grant of More than $4,400 meets one- third of the cost of this project. A sub-office for the North Okanagan Health Unit is being | built at Enderby. It will contain a clinical room and offices for the resident public health nurse and for the visiting medical of- ficer, sanitary inspector and dentist, Construction is being financed by federal and provin- cial grants of $2,600 each, with the remainder of the cost being by a local service club (Lions) which is donating labor building supplies ‘at reduced cost A federal grant of $11,490 has been earmaked for the new Health and Welfare Centre be- ing built by the provincial gov ernment in Kamloops. It will contain clinical and examination rooms, a laboratory, a dental operating room, and office spac fo; the health unit director, pub lic health nurses, the sanitary inspector, dental officer and his $20,700 has been approved to as- | @Ssistant. Construction is sched- sist with this work. uled for completion this fall , tation ____|Hobby Becomes Fortune in Jewel Trade For Top Diamond Handler In Far East KUWAIT (AP)—A man walk- ed into the dusty little office of | the Middle East Diamond Com-} pany the other day, laid a bun- die of rupees worth $40,000 on desk and said he wanted that amount in small diamonds He left his name and address and walked out. He didn’t ask for a receipt. None was offered. ihats the way the diamond trade is conducted in this. oil- + tile “rich desert town on the mranian Gulf, where a lot of diamonds ue vougnt and sold. | Kingpin of the precivus stone business in Kuwait is William de Mouche, 36, “Bill” to his friends and customers. In fact, Bill de Mouche of Portiand, Tex., is tne kingtish in the gem. trade in the whole Iranian Gulf and vhe of tne biggest operators in aiamonds in tne entire Middle GaSb | “Very little of the gem trade! in the Middle East is recorded and receipts are seldom given,’| said Bill explaining that $40,000 | deal. “You trade on your nets Bill’s gem business is an cuit | growth of a hobby he noquiaeny just before the war | I've been interested in preci-| ous stones for years,” Bill said. | But I really didn’t concentrate! on them as a_ business until | CNR President Gives Message To Employees MONTREAL On being in- formed that royal assent had been given to the Canadian Na- tional Railways Capital Revision Act, Donald Gordon, chairman and president of the CNR, today sent the following message to all employees of the company rhe Canadian National Rail- ways Capital Revision Act has now become law. By it, we are now given a fair chance to show the results of each year’s opera- tions in our financial statement n Such a Way that everyone can understand them The burden ot ancient debts incurred before the Canadian National system came into being will no longer obscure the pic- ture. The people of Canada will be able to judge us strictly on the current record “Now, that we have been given a fair start, without handicap and without favor, there lies upon us more than ever before a challenge to produce the very} best results we can. Something, in fact, just a bit better than! our best. We have been given a fair share of much needed re- lief but at the same time we have been put quite literally on the spot I am sure thal, if we all work together, trying to get as much business aS we can and to oper ate aS efficiently as we can, we will prove beyond doubt that there are no better railroaders | anywhere.” Try Daily News Want Ads { Name | | Niger GF tities Enclosed Please Find ............ (3c per word per insertion—e.g. Number of words 25; cost, /5c, Six insertions for price of four. Minimum charge, 50c.) Add four words if box number required I a a ee oe 8 Phone Mo 1948. I've been out here in the Middle East for more than 10 years with the Army and the oil companies. I was a private contractor in oil when I decided to quit dabbling in stones and give them all my time. I’ve done | pretty well.” He wouldn’t say how well. In! fact he’s like diamond mer- chants the world over. He won't divulge the source of his dia- monds, nor to whom big sales’ have been made. | “That's one of the reasons a) lot of people come all the way | to Kuwait to buy from me,” he | explained. | The biggest deal he ever made was on an 82-carat Silver Cape diamond (canary stone in the trade). , He admitted the transaction involved around $250,000 ‘but identified the buyer only as an “eastern potentate” and would not say where the giant spark- ler came from. “The prettidst stone I ever handled was one of 12 carats. It was a deep blue, pure stone that just blazed with fire. I just | couldn't afford to’ keep it. 1) really was sad when I let it go! tanbul in the bazaar,” spotted a dirty necklace $20 for it to Kuwait I cleaned it up and I was When Today's Most Suspense Drama! LEO McCAREYS = My Son John VAN HAVES: MEPL WALKER. ANGER, Adaptation by JOHN LEE MAHIN Produced and Drracied by LEO McCAREY . A Paramount Picture TOTEM Players A Famous MONDAY And TUESDAY — EVENING SHOWS 7:00 - 9:09 PM, shopping Bi‘! recalled. “I brought it |found it was a5 jalds worth $300." jmade. He has a lar around!/ Weighs 52 carats. He nese opera ballet “She speaks seven Bill said, “which is even Texas.” I paid RORERT DEAN 7 ~ fheatre tring of éme Bill grudgingly admits |done “millions of dollars” lof trading in diamonds but won't talk about money he . Be stock | diamonds on hang. One away when-he married star in Ap ful) for $40,000.” | Bill relaxed his secrecy to say | that particular beauty came originally from the Russian | Czar’s crown jewels. “Until I got it,” Bill said, “it had been in the hands of a dealer.” There are no impert or export) regulations nor customs duty on | precious stones in. Kuwait. The trade flows as far east as Hong! Bill restricts his own diamond trading to the Middle and Far East. He has his own pearl- |: diving crews working in the Iranian Gulf where most first quality pearls are found. These he exports mainly to New York and Paris. | The Texan is popular in Ku- wait. Not long ago His Excellency Sheik Abdulla Murabak Alsu- bah, one of the princes of the sheikdom and possible heir to the rulership, drove up in a brand new custom-make British Jaguar and presented it to Bill as a gift. One of his most intimate friends is another prince of |” Kuwait, Sheik Abdullar Jabber! Alsubah. He's on good terms with most of the ruling sheiks of the Middle East, including King Ibn Saud. 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