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Show COUNTY VOTES $10,000 FOR NEW HOSPITAL $5000 Operating Deficit Voted To Care For County Patients A sum of $10,000 towards construction of the Commonwealth Common-wealth Fund hospital here, together with $5,000 for first year operating deficit and $4,000 each year thereafter for four years these were resolutions adopted by the county commission late yesterday afternoon. The operation deficit appropri-ationn appropri-ationn will go towards charity and indigent case hospitalization in Utah county. The county's 510,000 contribution contribu-tion will substantially aid in assuring as-suring the amount which must be contributed locally to bring the Commonwealth Fund hospital to Provo. Under terms of the contract, con-tract, approximately $BO,000 must be raised here to balance the $210,000 appropriation to be advanced ad-vanced by the hospital. Provo citv has already acrecd to nut $15,000 up towards the project. Acting Chairman of the Boar Sylvan W. Clark announced that the fund's provision that one-quarter one-quarter of the total cases handled be charity patients, would work very well here, inasmuch as need is deeply evident for care of poor and indigent sick. At present only the Utah county coun-ty infirmary is available to the county for hospitalization cases, and here facilities are not available avail-able for all treatments. Chairman Clark noted that the appropriation for charity cases may be much less than county expenditures ex-penditures at present each year for hospitalization of such. This $10,000 amount is the anly actual appropriation the county is presenting, pre-senting, it was indicated. Amounts for the first year are to be paid from 1937 budget funds, but if these are not available, avail-able, 1938 budget fun ",s will be used on or before January 10, 1938. according to th resolution. The sun and the moon appear about the same size to oberver.s-on oberver.s-on earth, but the sun actually has a diameter 400 times thut of the moon. Since the moon is only about 239,000 miles away, and the sun is about 92,900,000, the enor-hous enor-hous difference in size is not readily apparent. |