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Show Utah Citizens Committee Working For Amendment 8 j That Constitutional Amend- j ment No. 8 merits the favorable ! consideration of Utah voters in the forthcoming election is the urgent reminder of Glen S. Humphreys, chairman of the Utah Citizens committee working for its adoption. The amendment is a proposal to give the Utah legislature legis-lature authority to specify the locations of all state institutions except the seat of government and the state fair, which must be located in Salt Lake City. Amendment No. 8, if adopted by the voters, will make the purchase pur-chase of Bushnell hospital at Brigham City a feasible proposition, propo-sition, since the 100 brick structures struc-tures with full equipment may then be utilized to house such state institutions as the mental hospital now at Provo, the training train-ing school for the sub-normal, now at American Fork, the State Miners hospital now at Salt Lake City and the 500 elderly people throughout the state that are charges of the state department of public welfare. Bushnell hospital has been declared de-clared surplus property and the federal government has the first right to purchase, and the state government the second right. The federal government has waived its right and it is now up to the state of Utah to decide whether or not it wants the $14-million hospital. It can buy Bushnell for a mere token payment perhaps as little as If. But, unless the amendment is passed, the property prop-erty would be useless to the state and the state would even be ineligible in-eligible to make an offer. "There is nothing to lose in voting for Amendment No. 8", Mr Humphreys pointed out, "but there is a great opportunity to acquire Bushnell an opportunity opportu-nity that will never come again." |