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Show Veterans Administers Would Scrap This $14,000,000 iltsh institution - - .A-W!K-t.-i-.1'V.:.f.l ... ' ... ' . .-.".v . ?4 r - - - -.1 v I The taxpayers of the United States and the Service Men who made such heroic sacrifices for their country in World War II got full value for the $14,000,000 expended in the building of this magnificent army general honital. No "boondoggle," it was built, and built well, to fill a real need. People of Utah claim the need still ex!s's. BPJGHAM CITY, UTAH- ( Special )-All )-All Utah is joining the fight with '.he psople of Brigham City and the northern part of the state to retain .jushne!! General hospital in operation opera-tion (or the benefit of our nation's war veterans. There is desperate need for this hospital. For three and one-half years the hospital has proven its capacity and ability to -erve the sick and wounded. Its -urroundings are ideal for rest, re-rovery re-rovery and peace of mind. And its operation throughout the var has .been a model of efficiency and effec-tivennss. effec-tivennss. Announcement has been made that the army plans to relinquish use ol the hospital, declaring it sur-ilu"! June 30 of this year. There is a po-:;')ility that the army may continue to operate the hospital for time lender, perhaps leasing a number of beds to the Veterans' Administration for UGe of its patients. pa-tients. Aft-r the army relinquishes Bush-neil. Bush-neil. the Veterans' Administration 'as indicated it will take over and onerate the hospital for a time. But tis arrangement, so fir as the Veterans' Vet-erans' Administration has indicated, will be only temporary. The Veterans' Vet-erans' Administration program is to HrM new hospitals as quickly as on-ible. , Simultaneous with the announcement announce-ment that Bushnell is to be closed inie an announcement that the Veterans' Administration is planning to build a new 500-bed psychiatric honital in Salt Lake City, only 60 r''s from Brigham City. The plan to abandon one highly cHeient and satisfactory establishment establish-ment to hi-'H and occupy another, at a cost c "5.000,000 or more, is iviarch issue of House Beautiful magazine. I "This is frankly no time to get into the hose market just for the fun of it," he states. "What, I though, if you have no other choice than to buy or build? Under present pres-ent costs is a loss inevitable?" "A loss may be possbile but not inevitable. Prices are much higher than before the war and the future trend of prices is hardly clear. They may be lower in six months or a year from now. It is certainly cer-tainly a time for caution. "There are, however, ways that the cautious buyer can, to some degree, de-gree, protect himself. And there are still some compensations in owning that are not available to people who rent." As between buying a dwelling and building a new one, Mr. Colean 'eels that, if you build, you will at least have the advantage of the newer article at an expenditure that is likely to be n ogreater, ana perhaps somewhat less, than you would be charged for an oldei house. He also points out that if you 4 V t f t .iimiVt ) 1 . X ....V 4 J ' iJ -" -" ir This beautiful 137,000 swimming pool at Bushnell General hospital fills a double need the year around. Patients learning anew to use injured or prosthetic limbs, find swimming a pleasant and speedy shortcut. And in addition, the fine, big pool is a favorite recreation center for from 2,000 to 3,000 patients at all times. seen as needless waste of taxpayers' money by Brigham City and Northern North-ern Utah residents and organizations. organiza-tions. They point out that even now the Veterans' Administration is thousands of hospital beds short of its needs in caring for ex-service men, and that the need will increase steadily as the years go by. Strong representations have been made to the Utah congressmen and senators to prevent the closing of Bushnell, and the attendant depriving depriv-ing of Utah and Inter-Mountain ex-service ex-service men of the facilities it would afford through the years. build, it may be possible to save a large part of the 30 to 35 per cent of the total cost which goes into ! actual construction by doing much of the work yourself. ii-jilt of permanent brick construction construc-tion as a permanent institution, Bushnell General hospital would save the nation's taxpayers money if it were to be continued permanently per-manently in operation. With minor changes, experts agree, it would be as permanently efficient and satisfactory satis-factory as any hospital which could be built today, and in many respects more so. And there is. still the matter of the shortage of hospitalization facilities facili-ties for veterans. And the fourteen million well-spent taxpayers' dollars which, Northern Utahns feel, should not be "thrown out the window." |