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Show Need for Bus Brings Plea for Funds By Utah State Hospital Recent trends in the care and treatment of persons suffering suf-fering from mental illness and severe emotional problems includes in-cludes having these people engage in a number of activ-ties activ-ties within the community. The Utah State Hospital subscribes sub-scribes to this philosophy and makes every effort to encourage encour-age its patients to participate in community events. One problem frequently en- . countered is that the buses presently owned by the State Hospital are getting along in years and are in bad need of replacement. A number of ' more urgent" expenditure requirements re-quirements force the purchase of new buses to a low priority. As a means of remedying the situation, the recreation department de-partment and volunteer services ser-vices of the hospital have or-ganized or-ganized and carried through with a number of projects to raise funds for the purchase of a new bus. Because of the importance of buses to the successful functioning func-tioning of the recreation program, pro-gram, many patients and former patients of the hospital hospi-tal along with hospital employees em-ployees have very willingly helped to make these projects successful, but buses cost quite a bit of money, and this small group cannot do the job alone. Those in charge would like to give all Utahns an opportunity oppor-tunity to help in this very worthwhile project. Won't you help too? Just rend your contribution to BUS PROJECT, UTAH STATE HOSPITAL, PROVO, UTAH. No amount is too small, and you can help this dream become be-come a reality. Your help is needed now! |