Show S. S L. L VETS VETS' HOSPITAL ANNEX PLAN AIRED t Praises Unit for Which He Chose Site ir h n. n c k IIi A i Sr c 5 S VETERANS ADMINISTRATOR TELLS OF BUILDING PLANS Brigadier General Frank T. T limes Hines right and E. E A. A ld I GENERAL HINES STRESSES NEED FOR EXPANSION EXP Administrator Tells of Project on Visit Here A combination recreational recreational ional and administrative building may be constructed soon as an annex annex annex an an- nex to the Veterans' Veterans hospital in Salt lake City Brigadier General Frank T. T Hines of Washington administrator administrator adminis- adminis of veterans' veterans affairs said Wednesday during a visit to the in in- The addition would make room for 45 more beds in the main buildIng building build- build ing ng bringing the total to said saidi i General Hines I do not know how I soon an allocation of funds may be obtained but I do know that as elsewhere in the country more beds and hospitalization are needed for veterans The general said he took a special interest in the Salt Lake City hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital because he chose the site for fort forIt forit it t declared it was one of the finest in n the country a and d expressed satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction with the continually Increasing in increasing increasing in- in creasing improvements He w was s staken taken aken on a tour of the institution by its manager E. E A. A Littlefield Among facts divulged divulge by General Hines were these There now are 81 hospitals s with th O. O p beds f for veterans A It sum 01 oi 1 IS Os being spent yearly yearl for veterans' veterans compensation and hospitalization One thousand beds are being added yearly for the mentally unsound Construction of several new hospitals hospitals hospitals hos hos- will be started this year year Under under under un un- der th the program m begun several years ago General Hines will attend the Utah Scottish Rite reunion which opens Wednesday night at Masonic temple and will take the fourth to thirty-second thirty degrees He then will wil I continue his natiOn natiOn- wide nation ide tour of in in- in tion |