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Show Formal Opening Of Lava Hot Springs Resort LAVA HOT SPRINGS, Idaho With N Y A youths accelerating extensive improvement to facilities facil-ities at the natatoriums of the state- sponsored mineral water spa, the foundation board is preparing pre-paring for the annual formal op. ening of the resort Eastar Sunday, Sun-day, April 13, Superintendent W. B. Hunt announced Monday. Under the N Y A project cur-recently cur-recently in operation, stone dressing dres-sing booths are being fashioned of native rock quarried near Lava Hot Springs. The booths are supplanting sup-planting wooden dressing roms. The crews also have placed new drains in the indoor and outdoor pools and are aiding in redccora-tion redccora-tion throughout the resort, said Mr. Hunt. Other improvements recently completed include repairs to pipelines pipe-lines feeding mineral waters to the pools, extensive landscaping on the 100-acre plot of the foundation grounds, installation of a sprinkling sprin-kling system serving the state prop- erty, erection of barbecue pits to facilitate use of the state park by picnic grounds, repairs to the sew age disposal system and installation installa-tion of a chlorination plant to treat spring waters entering the pools. Facilities at the pools now will oomfortably accomodate 1000 persons per-sons at a time, said Mr. Hunt. More than $10,000 worth of new equipment was installed last year and the spa Is being placed In readiness read-iness for the anticipated increase in number of infantile paralysis victims. The equipment, said Mr. Hunt, is similar to that which hai proven beneficial In the Warm Springs, Ga., sanatorium. In the 1939-40 biennium, 76,25 persons took the mineral water baths and paid $8468 In admission fees, compared to aproximately 55,000 in the 1B37-38 biennium and $6275 In fees. "We have every reason to believe attendance at the baths will reach an even greater high this biennium bien-nium and look for a corespondln increase in the Bumber of patrons at the swimming pools," comment-I comment-I ed Mr. Hunt. ' Nataorium admfeion fees in the 19:7-33 biennium wore $13,216.80, and in the lfir:9-40 period, $15,602. Approximately 59,000 swimmers, BOtiO more than patronized the pools in 1937.23, attended the 1933 and 1940 seasons, record3 EhoT. |