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Show i . ' . Casualty Station Nears Completion - AAA I AAA AAA eee Within a few weeks lower Bingham district civilian defense casualty station, with facilities for 25 beds, will be completed and "Frogtown" will have accomplished ac-complished a major wartime project, pro-ject, one requiring a minimum of cash outlay but made possible through persistent efforts of a group of 25 men willing to utilize their special skills on a strictly volunteer undertaking. Lower Bingham decided on the old Royal laundry as an ideal site for a defense center at a public meeting conducted by Dr 1. t.. Sttaup early in 1942 From a number of possible locations a large majority voted for the aundry as their choice if obtainable, obtain-able, because it may be reached from five directions, from Main street up and down canyon, from Dixon avenue, Railroad avenue or down the trail from Heas on Heights. On. the other hand, the Civic Center, suggested as site of the casualty station lies m one of the narrower portions of the canyon, is built close against the mountain and faces a high cnb- bAnother advantage which many saw in the laundry over other Sossibilities, is that a roadway ES to a side basement door and an elevator runs from the oase ment upstairs. The elevator has been completely overhauled, tested test-ed andi retested, and has operated with as many as 25 persons as paBign&antage of the Royal laundry was the immense amount nf labor required to maice xne & was badly in need of repair. Prospects of a lot of hard wprk did not daunt the men who conceived con-ceived the idea. They were ad-m ad-m ttedlv "tired of hearing, vague S k o Patriotism" and "wanted SinPthinB to do besides attend SSo hear about the ser- i0UWh5f the casualty station is planned as an emergency hos- WWW .www nital, the men responsible for its being hope that Bingham Canyon Can-yon is never visited by a calamity calam-ity which would make its use in that capacity necessary. If Such an exigency, presents itself, the four months hard work and $97 expended for lumber will be well spent. Harvey L. Garrity, chairman of the protection division of civilian civ-ilian defense, approved lower Bingham's plan for their casualty station before the work was undertaken. un-dertaken. Dr. M. Smernoff visited visit-ed the building and his suggestions sugges-tions were followed in drawing up plans. When the building is ready for use it will not stand idle. Women of lower Bingham have been active ac-tive volunteer relief workers since the outbreak of the war. Large amounts of clothing were made or gathered and put into repair for Greek relief, the Civilian Defense De-fense and the Red Cross. Another drive was conducted for Bundles for Britain. Also enough bedding for 15 beds is made and ready for use. These women and the Bingham Red Cross will be offered offer-ed the building for use in their activities. The men who have made the casualty station a reality are not. as might have been expected, the appointed heads of -civilian defense, de-fense, alone, but are rather, workmen work-men who have been willing to work six nights a week after their own working day had ended,, just because they wanted to be "doing something" for defense. This is what lower Bingham has: A big men's ward, entered from an outside door, 12V4 feet wide, 26 feet long, well-lighted by four windows and skylight; adjoining is the kitchen, 7 feet wide and 12 feet long, with two doors and a window; The women's ward is 13 feet wide and 22 feet wide, with ample amp-le light from two windows and a skylight; the operating room is 18 feet long and 13 ft feet w;de, three windows, four doors and a large sink; the scrubroom and doctors' room is 13 feet long and 10 feet wide, with plenty of cupboard and storage room, a sink, a sterilizer and three windows. win-dows. If materials are available a nurses' room will be added later. One convenient thing about the floor plan is that the scrubroom and operating room can be shut off and can be entered without passing through another room. There are two lavatories, one downstairs, which has yet to be cleaned, and one upstairs. There are four electric outlets and a skylight in the operating .room. To give an idea of the immense im-mense amount of work that has been finished, this is. a partial list: the roof tarred, a large a-mount a-mount of laundry machinery moved from the top floor; the hardwood flooring repaired; the ceilings washed and painted; partitions par-titions erected; all rooms papered and wood work painted. Yet to be installed is the plumbing. plumb-ing. There are chimneys for four stoves; two are on hand to be put into place. Needed are two more sinks, a few water faucets, any hospital equipment. Utah Copper company has given eight hospital beds. Other credits go to Royal laundry, laun-dry, which has promised use of the building "for the duration"; Utah Power and Light company for power; Lawrence West, sink; Harry McNeely, electric stove; Aimer A. Berg, a percolator which will be used as sterilizer and a stove; Jenny Mattson, sewing machine; Utah Copper company, beds; Pete Vosnos, paint and doors; Adderley ' and Nichols, battery-operated light; John T. Bogan, wall plugs; Bingham Radio Ra-dio shop, repair of radio donated by Mrs. George Brocklebank and wall plugs; water faucets and plumbing equipment, town of Bingham; stove pipe, Bingham grocery. |