Show Speeding Approval o oNava of Nava Navajo lo School coo Plan an anThe The speed with which the administration tion and the congress appear to be acting acting act act- ing on the plan of Utah's Senator Arthur V V. V Watkins to turn Bushnell General hospital at Brigham City into a school for Navajo Indian children is highly gratifying to all The senate passed Watkins' Watkins bill last Thursday without without with with- out debate It is believed house approval will likewise be given to the proposal with little delay The scheme has won full fulI administration support and the Indian bureau is already drawing up plans for alterations necessary fo permit utilization utilization tion of the hospital plant for school purposes It is somewhat surprising t to o note estimates estimates esti esti- mates of a cost of around to change facilities at Bushnell and add others so it will be suitable for school use According to reports from Washington Washing Washing- ton it is is deemed necessary to build a number numbe r of new classrooms an auditorium auditorium audi audi- an additional gymnasium ium and andt t provide on campus living lhing quarters for school personnel Of course it must be remembered that the institution was initially built for a hospital and not for a school Facilities which for instance might be ideal for fora a clinical laboratory might not be at all suitable for a science laboratory Anyway Utah is glad to see this excellent excellent excellent ex ex- ex- ex project moving along so smoothly We Ve hope congressional action is completed completed completed com com- in the near future and that conversion conversion conversion con con- version of Bushnell for use as an Indian school will ill not prove too expensive It will be of great benefit to Brigham City to Utah and to the educationally underprivileged underprivileged underprivileged under under- privileged Navajo Indians to have bave this plant turned into inlo a school |