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Show r-- f7 s I- w43St 1 6qw4 Cottonwood Hospital was bulging at the reams during a 93 6 percent "jiviarao V4.1MCW d&t.y VWUWSUJV- 1 j idle lor the year ami Srtme unit.! running over tG) percent at tirnCS. hosoHii ,... today. ofnnai v wa Administrator afoe r, ood to have the highest Sccupawy rate and shortest length of stay of any Utah hospital. During the busiest hrrett Sr.-- Cotton can-fnu- month, March, average occupancy was 98.5 percent. Oittonuvj-- surreal unit, were uOst Ciunufd, averaging over 100 percent occupan- s sase- c - s fisl g 3V3tJisC4t f & &38F During March, one unit had over 106 percent (when occupancy gars over MO wr beds mitt be put i the extra tRt, m Vittttr. ItiO emergency room had more visits than m the Salt Uke area, more thou lit a day mr a tola! of 38,4'!0, Garrett said expansion and remodeling planned to start this year should ta? the crunch. The central phase of the project is expansion of medical and surgical unit s "Pressures on our institution to p:'i iv ;ih rvtrc rn a,, expanding population continue to increase, and in lsgs kj?d VW jjAev addition, v,e are having to turn dtwrt significant ntim-U'r- s of spBations from Peking to af-- t irate with Cottonwood Hospital, Ue reason being that we cannot give them admitting pm lieges for inpatient care, Garrett said, . lie said the 1314 rates were a coptinuaden of those f post years Cottonwood has averaged over 93 percent since U10. Garrett added that combined rates can be misleading, as the medical and surgical units were more Aftviirrlorl w .. (Han (Ha Hncnift)! jc J a whole. Cottonwood and the Uni- - fifc r' DES?n Plug idea Hospital were the Salt lake are hosoitals found to have a bed deficit w the Great Sait Lake two rlsnnmg Count us recently n leased acute care fiai. Both tar limes nave H'-alt- announced expansion piai,s. S.L treasurer listed 'critical Sal! Lake City Treasurer Joseph I- - Fakler is listed m critical condition in the intensive care umt at LDb Hospital today, following a heart attack Tuesday. NFAS, WtDiSSAY, Kopi alive i JAWJAfJY p Reynolds will by I, veisdy only jn S By a 12 to Id vote, the Salt County Bicentennial Commission has kept sUv its proposal to paint fre hydrant-, wsih bit likenesses os historic figures a- paid of the Lake - country's ftlOih Cochairmn birthday. Mrs. Dorothea Ludlow said the project was recommended by the Natum-a- l Bicentennial Commission and that several ernes have already completed the project. There are, however, some 5,uoo sire hydrants in bait Lake City, Mrs. Ludlow said. isf Recycling of ,'lummuin carts has become such a big business that Reynolds Metals Co. plans to open a recycling plant, in Salt Lake City m the next 30 days. Brent Nation, plant manager ol the Reynolds recycling plant m Twin Falls, Idaho, said today he will open up a plant at about .lbv oouih on Kenwood Koad. The plant will consist of a The crushed cans lroui here ami irom Twm Fails will then lie sharped to a reduction plant in Listertull, Aia.. Nation said. He said Reynolds last year recyied 1.1 billion cans and the industry recycled 1 .6 billion cans. rrvslijng machine. magnetic sepal ators, storage aieas ami a truck leading dm-We w ill be open to take ui cns from the public and we will also take trucks to shopping centers to pick up cans. said Nation. He said the company pays 15 cents a nound for aluminum beverage cans (about 23 cans! crushed or not. We have a plant in Kan Francisco. Calif., that recycled 105 000 pounds of aluminum last month. He said Reynolds has 2i permanent recycling plants in the I'mied States, 1,300 collection center- - ami 40 mobile umis fa truck and trailer). Steel fsiio ate not worth much, he said. They are separated from the cans and thrown away. He said Reynolds pays $300 a ton for aluminum in any form. Steel cans ami scrap, he said, brings only about $7.50 a ton. Other firms now collecting aluminum cans include the Carlson Distributing Co., 1842 S. Redwood Road, and M and M Distributing Co., 995 S. mw ..... . West, Carlson is open Sa todays from 9 a m. until noon and id and M is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. until n.nv Both nay 15 cents a pound foi cans. M aixl M, which is a Coors Beer distributor, tracks its cans to Golden, Colo, where they are processed by Coors. Carlson has been giving his cans to Reynolds in Twin Fails. Confusion Hi! utdiiiu school meet ii Patrons of Salt Lake City Districts Precinct 2 preferred more questions than alternatives on school reorganization during a hearing Tuesday at Bryant Junior School Several expressed that enrollment Va Pork Loin Fryer Thighs INTO CHOPS t.1.29 Fryer Breasts Fryer Legs GRADE A Bacon A&R Meat Pies Bar--5 POUND PKG. Link Sausage doubt decline sixmo in the precinct warranted school closure. "Have you considered anything beyond just numbers and figures? asked one speaker. What about the social effect of such a move on our children? asked another. . School board president John Crawford Jr. told the group that the quality of HI- - GRADE ma . education and economic strength of the district are inseparable. If we have to spend money to maintain unnnecessary buildings, then well have less money tor school programs, said Crawford. He said the district may wind up with a bunch ol buildings that are monuments to science. The hearing, the second of seven scheduled throughout the district, was to provide the school board w;ith alternative ideas for school reorganization, said Superintendent Dr. Donald Thomas. 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