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Show ANNUAL MEETING FORECASTS MANY MEMBERS OF B.C. Pointing to the enrollment of 30,000 members as the outstanding outstand-ing achievement of the Inter-Mountain Inter-Mountain Hospital Service during dur-ing 1945, J. H. Jenkins, president presi-dent of the board, told member-hospital member-hospital representatives that he expected a total of 75,000 mem-ben mem-ben to be reached by the end of 1946. It was the annual meeting of j the Inter-Mountain (Blue Cross) j Hospital Service, held in the li- brary room of Holy Cross hos- J pital in Salt Lake City, with 21 hospitals represented, four of them from Idaho and one from Wyoming (St. John's at Jackson). I Election of board members for I 1946 resulted in one new mem-1 ber, Paul H. Ray of Salt Lake 1 City, a prominent attorney, and the reelection of Stewart Cos-griff, Cos-griff, vice president of the First ! National bank, Dr. Ray T. Wool-1 sey, president of the Utah State Medical society, and Dr. Claude L. Shields, chairman of the Utah Medical Bureau, also of the six incorporating hospitals' superintendents; superin-tendents; J. H- Jenkins, of the Dr. Grove's LDS hospital; Mrs. Olive Wardrop of St. Mark's hospital; hos-pital; Sister Mary Virginia of Holy Cross hospital; John H. Zenger of the Utah Valley hospital hos-pital (Provo); A. George Raymond Ray-mond of the Wm. Budge Memorial Mem-orial hospital (Logan) and Lawrence Lawr-ence H. Evans of the Thomas D-Dee D-Dee Memorial hospital (Ogden). One vacancy in the board from the 1945 election was left vacant at present to allow for Idaho representation re-presentation at a later date, explained ex-plained President Jenkins, thus making the board as now constituted con-stituted hold six hospital representatives, repre-sentatives, two medical society representatives, two community representatives, with the third members to be elected later from Idaho communities. Presentation of the film "Every Two Seconds" was a public service ser-vice feature of the University of Utah's extension division. It told the story of Blue Cross hospital service in United States which now has enrolled more than 20,000,000 members. Looking to future enrollment in the intermountain area. Pre- sident Jenkins pointed to Jackson, Jack-son, Kemmerer and Evanston in Wyoming and to Las Vegas, Ely and other eastern Nevada centers cen-ters as areas yet to be served by the Blue Cross plan here with headquarters in Salt Lake City. Member hospitals in these centers cen-ters will be added during the coming year, he explained, extending ex-tending an invitation at the meeting for , them to join at an early date. Additional hospitals in Utah are also being added every month to Blue Cross, he j stated. (Jackson is already being served through the St. John's j hospital there.) Director Wight reported to the ! board of directors, after the elec-! tion had been held, and a special spec-ial meeting of the board and assembled, as-sembled, that the Blue Cross organization or-ganization had qualified as a training unit in the government's ! Veteran's training program, and had already admitted Glenn L. 1 Peterson of Shelley, Ida., as its I first trainee, to be the Idaho field representative. He is located at Shelley, where he will serve both Idaho Falls and Pocatello areas. Other veteran's may be accepted for training in the near future, Mr. Wight explained. Division of the secretary-treasurer's position formerly held by Mr. Zenger was made at this special board meeting, retaining Mr. Zenger as secretary and ap-pointing ap-pointing Mr. Cosgriff as the new treasurer. Other officers of the I board were reelected, leaving ! Mr. Jenkins as president, and : Mrs. Wardrop as vice president. I A special resolution authorizing any officer of the board to sign checks with Mr. Wight as direc-! tor was adopted. Previously only ! Mr. Jenkins and Mr- Wight had authority to sign. Examination of the financial statement presented by President Jenkins showed a net reserve of $12,115.29 during the year 1945, with $36,755.50 as payments to hospitals for hospital care given i to members of Blue Cross during . 1945. It was pointed out that i ! these figures will be revised j j somewhat by the auditors when ; all the Blue Cross hospital cases have been received and tabulated tabulat-ed for the total business of the i year. Beesley, Wood and Com- |