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To win a hockey medal in the Olympic Games takes the practice to develop solid teamwork and the confidence to believe that you can execute the right plays, according to United States Olympic Hockey Team Coach Herb Brooks.

For the U.S. Olympic hockey squad, Sunday night’s close 5-4 loss to the Washington Capitals was a watershed. The game was an affirmation of the team’s transition into a unit that can execute the right plays. The loss was the Olympic team’s best-ever showing against a National Hockey League team.

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Hospital plans

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The Placid Memorial Hospital will use more personnel, increased facilities and new and borrowed equipment to handle the expected influx of patients during the Olympic Games in February.

The Olympics will radically effect the number of patients the hospital serves, changing it from a facility with a relatively small patient area to one that must serve the needs of over 50,000 people.

Maximizing space at the small hospital will include doubling the existing emergency room capacity. The emergency rooms will be staffed by physicians and laboratory and X-ray personnel on duty 24 hours a day. In the area of personnel, 15 to 30 volunteers and paid staff will be added to the hospital during the Olympics.

Much of the new equipment will be to update and expand the hospital’s present stock of stretchers, sinks, cabinets and soft goods like bandages.

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WIRD home

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Amid the dust and falling plaster caused by workmen gutting the Olympic Arena, radio station WIRD continued to operate Tuesday afternoon.

But how long it would operate or how long it would be housed in the same four small rooms it has occupied on the upper floor of the Arena since its first broadcast in 1961 is the question.

Don Nardiello, owner-operator of the radio station, is annoyed enough his situation to seek legal advice.

Mr. Nardiello, who until Sept. 19 rented the WIRD offices from the North Elba Park District for $125 a month, says he has become a victim of conflicting statements. Last year, he was told he might have to move from his offices so they could be used for Olympic purposes. As a result, he received a variance from the North Elba Zoning Board of Appeals to locate the offices of his radio station in a building at the sire of his transmitter on Averyville Road.

Early in August of this year, he was told that the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee did not have the funds to remodel the Olympic Arena and that his radio station would not have to move.

On Sept. 19, the town of North Elba notified WIRD, the Lake Placid Chamber of Commerce, concessionaire Ed Heim and other businesses that occupy the Arena, in addition to the Park District offices, that they would have to vacate the premises.

The LPOOC had found the money to renovate the Arena, and gutting and remodeling would begin at once.

The offices for the North Elba Park District were moved into space in the bridge building between the two skating facilities.