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Show LAVA AS A NATIONAL-HEALTH NATIONAL-HEALTH CENTER Too much cannot be said of ike efforts being-made being-made by 'the Associated Civic Clubs of Southeastern Southeast-ern Idaho toward the establishment of a National Health Center at Lava Hot Springs. The drive has developed almost spontaneously after it was started fathering momentum daily until it now looks like such a project is destined, to the highest degree of success. Nor can too much be said for the two Preston men, officers of the Associated Civic Clubs, who have been largely responsible! for its present success. suc-cess. Ben Johnson as president . J the organization and Charlie Cutler as secretary have done a line job a3 have other members of the organization from other communities in this area. Column after column might be written regarding the advantages of a National Health Center located in the Pacific Northwest for there has been and will continue to be a great need for just such a humanitarian hu-manitarian institution, but the thing that strikes us as particularly significant is that all elements of inter-community rivalry and competition was drop-'. drop-'. ped and a spirit of cooperatioil developed that speaks well of all concerned. -The program drew the cooperation of all the civic clubs in this area, then throughout the state, and as a crowning climax from the governors of the slates in the Pacific Northwest and the Intermouniain ' states. As a direct result of this, it is quite likely that the promotion will receive national consideration considera-tion from the Foundation for the Prevention of Infantile In-fantile Paralysis, along with a substantial financial contribution. ( To us the growth of the movement is an excellent object lesson in inter-community cooperation. The field, to be developed along this and other "line's is vast and the far-reaching benefits to be derived are too much to calculate. |