Show CITY ITy CLOSES WASATCH PLUNGE III Pool to Remain Idle Until Full Rei deling g By THOMAS MAThEWS lATHEWS Salt Lake k City commission at ata a special mccU meeting g Friday noon O lt unanimously agreed to close immediately the city owned an and operated Wasatch Springs plunge N. N 2nd West until thee the entire installation can can be remodeled modeled to o meet public pubU health standards The closing is effective Friday evening All pools are in in eluded in the order orde which shuts ts the north pool used primarily primarily- for therapy as aa well aa th tho othere others T The e plunge has hu run up a laUve deficit of ot i almost niost in the 25 years it h has s been operated opera ed by the city During 1946 the tha deficit was wu according to Otto R. R Maas Mans chief deputy auditor An auditors auditor's report last September I listed the deficit at During the last bust four or live years according to Mr Ir Maas Mass the es establishment es cs' has hu either made mede i a little money or come com out even eveni with th the exception of last lut year Fred Tedesco commissioner o of parks and public property made the notIon to shut doors of the tho plunge Inasmuch as my depart depart- department ment has lisa exhausted every po and effort to get some lome con con tractor to fix the pool I X move mayO we close it until remodeling can can cani be completed latheS D Comment All Allf c commissioners assented to td th the motion except pt John fohn B B. Math Mathe I Ison son commissioner of J streets street t Ah Al though consenting g to the l lof of operations operations' at the pool M Mr Matheson maintained the for tor aa th the order res ed cd With th department ct of 1 health ea We are tt jetting i tUn tUng Thi ma if telegram egr i close us us objected He concurred with the tha rest reat of ot the com commission Ion when they the unanimously opposed further de lay We W are an autonomous unit of at government t and 88 as such have the right to close the pool if we see lee fit Mayor Earl J. J Glade stated in opposition to Mr proposal The decision was taken after Commissioner Tedesco explained to the group the efforts of his de department dc to obtain someone t toT ti accept the contract f for r changing the pool which has been pro prat a public health menace by the state department of ot health tho the city board of be health and the University of Utah medical school laboratories S Plans Flans for Pool Fool Mr T Tedesco desco said bids for the tha work were advertised recently af aft er en receipt of pla plans and specifications tiona from the Landon London Standard P Pools ot Inc Van Nuys CaL Tha The plans call for fresh heated water to be filtered and chlorinated Th The Tho present mineral ral water cannot bo be chlorinated because of its It chemical properties As a result tho the wat water r. r Is contaminated with organism from the skin the tho nose and throat and th the urinary and Intestinal tract of the bathers Nothing in the water prevents tho the growth and activity of the bacteria with tho tim result that tests teats by public agencies ah showed wed the pool to be dangerously short of ot minimum standards set et by Iy the United States public service No Noone one one answered the city's re rc quest for bids Mr Tedesco JAl said There the matter rests he explained ex cx adding h he could give n no guarantee the pool could be ba brought up to standard within f fow or five months Prior to the me meeting of ot the commission com mission Dr James Z Davis Salt Lake City public health stoner sold said The city board of health has hu time and again mended the place be bc closed or re re modeled Our attitude very vcr def deZ deft hasn't changed Family Bathtub Ho He compared the pool to a aIly tam ly Ily bathtub and said No reasonable reasonable reason able family fills its bathtub once leaves eaves the plug In and then pr pro proceed to bathe all in the same water In principle that Is b what is Ie being done at Wasatch Springs A check of the city board 0 of o health records records' Friday showed it 16 tests teats made since Jan Jari 8 of ot thia year tho the latest being last Jut Tues Tues- day lay colon bacteria were wert found 1 12 times Imes In the main pooL The bac bac- teria erla teria count ranged from t to td in the same pool poo the latt latter number being tho the count Tuesday The acceptable minimum for pub pub- lie health safety tyis is Commissioner Tedesco said raid the tha city at Wasatch Springs would be given two weeks weeks' vacation T vaca C Lion tion and then discharged |