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Show I : State Heads Seek to Salvage U. S. 82,000 Sanitarium Grant Pipeline to Site Urged to Save Fund; Ogden Chamber's Suit Awaited OGDEN. Nov. 1.1 (API The Ogden chamber af commerce board of directors today ordered Robert H. Hoggaa, president, ta sign a petition (or a writ of mandamus to force construction of the state tuberculosis sanatorium in Ogden, and directed that the petition be lied with the state supreme court this after-aooa. after-aooa. Desperate attempts were being made Monday by state officials to salvage a PWA grant of 182,000 for a state tuberculosis sanitarium one plan being merely to break ground and install a service water line. R. K. Brown, superintendent of the stat building commission, said I h would undertake thie plan should j th commission authonx him to ! do so. Meanwhile, filing of a state au-preme au-preme court action to force the commission to carry out orders ofj the legislature rsti build a rrnita-j rium at Ogden - -as awaited. I The cooimui.on was to have met! Monday afternoon ta make an at- tempt to proceed with construction which, in a motion adopted last week, it refused to do until the legislature leg-islature makes available at least 1510.000, the minimum amount the commission deems necessary for an "adequate" institution. Threat of the court action came from the Ogden chamber of commerce.' com-merce.' which donated a 33-scre. Ogden Og-den site which was accepted by the tCeettftu-4 wi pr atveaf " 4Cyaa One . 4 STATE STUDIES -HOSPITAL M1XUP (OontlntMd tnm Pas One) atatt tuberculosia eanitarium alte commiaaion. . Delay in construction, as decided by the commission, would cauae loaa ' of the $82,000 grant. It waa agreed, because of a P W A provision that work must atart by December .24. JAr Rrfm-n laid. hnwwr thm grant probably could be aaved by the mere technicality of breaking ground and installing a water line, Ihus putting part of the grant to use. Governor Henry H. Blood aaid he had "strong hope" of finding a way to aave the grant. The grant waa to have been uacd with $100,000 appropriated by the 1937 legislature, which directed construction con-struction of an "adequate" aani tarium. The building commiaaion took the atand it was not obliged to proceed with only $182,000. on grounds an adequate hospital could not be built I with that aum. The commission found it likely it might not be able to meet during the afternoon, as all members could not be contacted. In that event, a meeting waa to time, Deputy Attorney General John D. Rice having ruled the com-miaaion com-miaaion must meet again if it ia formally to ratify its action delaying delay-ing construction. Mr. Rice ruled the motion adopted last week was not official since the stste board of health attended the session and voted along with - building commission members. . Coarse Defended Meanwhile, the building com mis- sion, through . Arthur McFarland, a member, issued a statement showing show-ing that the commission had expended ex-pended or allocated a total of $857-294.47 $857-294.47 in Ogden, including the $182.-000 $182.-000 for the sanitarium and work at ths state industrial school, school for the deaf and blind and Weber junior college. 1 Action of the commission in de- 1 laying ssintsrium work, brought a storm of protest from the Ogden 1 chamber of commerce, which an- I Bounced it would file mandamus ' proceedings to force construction. No proceedings had been filed up i - to early Monday afternoon. 1 It was pointed out that unless ' ttorneys "caught" the court at ' noon or at night, they could not get action for at least three days 1 on a petition for temporary writ ' of mandamus. The court is in ses- ' sion for three days, with a full calendar. Attorneys for the chamber could ' file the petition with the court clerk. ' but no action could be taken for three days, after which a date would be set for reply by the state, providing the court granted the petition. After the state's reply, hearing date would have to be act. Meanwhile, the governor and other officials were scanning all state funds for a possibility of tap- ping them for at least $100,000 to ' add to the $182,000. McFarland Laahea Back Arthur McFarland. member of ' the building commission, was in-Idignant in-Idignant at action of Mayor J. 'Bracken Lee of Price in aending . congratuistions to the Ogden cham- ber for its announced intention of suing ths commission. Of 17 P W A projects pending at the time of ths order hslting new P W A construction, three projects were saved, including the "sanitarium." Mr. McFarland aaid. 'The other two were the Carbon . Junior college and an addition to Weber college at Ogden. Price geta the Carbon college, Ogden geta the Weber college work and. hence, these two cities are the only two -to benefit by what could be saved IJrom the works program." ' It waa recalled Monday that Governor Gov-ernor Blood, In his message to the -1937 legislature, cautioned that an adequate 100-bed tuberculosis sanitarium sani-tarium would cost $750,00 |