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Show Contract Let for New Milford Hospital Carter Brothers of Monticelio, native sof Minersville, were awarded contract to build the new Milford Valley Memorial Hospital after bids were opened Tuesday by the Board of Trustees of Beaver County Service Area No. 2. The Carter Brothers bid was $278,000, about $5,000 under the next lowest bidedr. High bid submitted was for $313,000. Nine bids wera received for construction of the building, a 'dream" of many Milford residents resi-dents for many years. Included in the structure will be ten patient rooms and wards, administrative offices, storage and dining rooms, waiting rooms, pediatric and maternity wards, and 'all the needed facil-' facil-' ities of a modern hospital," ac cording to, Russel Mayer, chairman chair-man of the board of trustees. In the next issue of The Beaver Bea-ver County News we will publish pub-lish architsct's drawing of the building, as it will look when completed. After being awarded the contract, con-tract, Carter Brothers announced announc-ed Lhat they expected to employ "local labor" in construction of the building. |