Show I 4 Letter Leer To the lIte Editor a CJ Readers Seek Hospital News Dear Editor Why dont don't you list the people who are patients in our county hospital We on this side of the county help pay the expense so think we should d know who gets the benefit of It I 1 WOULD BE BE the last to complain of the expense but would like to know when my friends are there so I can visit them and shop in Vernal for lor a change I In 1962 I was in Vernal only once and wont won't be there thereat thereat at all this year if I dont don't have something to go over for Your merchants are losing a lot of business when you ceased to report the hospital news JOHN HASLEM Roosevelt Utah REPLY Y Dear Mr Haslem We have received a num- num number number ber of letters and phone calls since we no longer published the hospital news particular particular- particularly ly from people cople who had friends In the hospital and didn't know about it and were disappointed that they hadn't visited them WE PUBLISHED this news for many years but finally the hospital declined to give it to us When we pressed for fora fora a reason we were told that some patients had complain complain- complained ed as they didn't want people to know they had had surg surg- surgery ery and the hospital board therefore had ruled that the patient list would no longer be published other than a list of births We We are most willing to con con- continue continue publishing the hospital news providing vie can get it Perhaps if sufficient peo- peo people people made their wishes known to the hospital board we could obtain this information again |