Iron County Record | 1952-03-20 | Page 2 | Public Hearing Airs Need for New County Rest Home

Public Hearing Airs Need for New County Rest Home The need for rest home facilities facili-ties in Iron county and tentative plans outlined by the board of County Commissioners to meet the need were aired at a public hearing in Cedar City Tuesday evening, after which a vote of confidence was given the commissioners com-missioners by the people who attended the hearing and heard the discussions. County Commissioner Douglas Clark, Jesse Guymon and Warren War-ren Bulloch, and county clerk W. Clair Rowley, outlined the plans for a new building to meet the rest home needs, and possibilities of financing the program, maintaining main-taining that without a heavy tax levy for the purpose the building could be debt free by the end of 1955. ' The commissioners explained that tentative plans for the rest home had been prepared by L. Robert Gardner, Cedar City architect, ar-chitect, which would provide 11 rooms that would house two persons per-sons each, two ward areas that would care for eight persons each, in addition to a caretaker's care-taker's apartment. The plan also includes a workshop, a recreation and dining room, a reading room, reception room, and kitchen. The estimated cost of such a building has been set at $150,000 and releases of construction r"-terials r"-terials for such a building has been approved by the federal government, the commissioners explained. Following considerable discus-sion discus-sion during which suggestions were made that buildings already al-ready constructed may be available avail-able for purchase at a lower cost than a new structure, the group went on record as favoring a modern building especially designed de-signed for a rest home, and a motion that a vote of confidence be given the commissioners was unanimously passed.