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Show Veterans Administration Would Scrap Thi 514 000 000 Utah Institution - . v - - . ,: :. : , .......... v.: ' : r.i . .. ...... . ..... ... . - STOvvi-r " St. 'I "fcs The taxpayers ofThe United States and the Service Men who mad- such heroic sacrifice , f or their countr, in World War II got full value for the $14,000 000 expended m bg-tt" c,aim hospital. No "boondoggle," it was built, and built well, to fill a real nee. v exists. BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH-(Special )-All )-All Utah is joining the fight with the people of Brigham City and the northern part of the state to retain Bushnell General hospital in operation opera-tion for 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 serve the sick and wounded. Its surroundings are ideal for rest, recovery re-covery and peace of mind. And its operation throughout the war has been a model of efficiency and effectiveness. effec-tiveness. Announcement has been made that the army plans to relinquish use of the hospital, declaring it surplus, June 30 of this year. There is a possibility that the army may continue to operate the hospital for a time longer, perhaps leasing a number of beds to the Veterans' Administration for use of its patients. pa-tients. After the army relinquishes Bushnell. Bush-nell. the Veterans' Administration has indicated it will take over and operate the hospital for a time. But this arrangement, so far as the Veterans' Vet-erans' Administration has indicated, will be only temporary. The Veterans' Vet-erans' Administration program is to build new hospitals as quickly as possible. Simultaneous with the announcement announce-ment that Bushnell is to be closed came an announcement that .the Veterans' Administration is planning to build a new 500-bed psychiatric honital in Salt Lake City, only 60 miles from Brigham City. The nlan to abandon one hicrhl-"ffieient hicrhl-"ffieient and satisfactory estaWish-"-"Tit to birM nn'i orcupv anothe1" at a cost of 55.000,000 or more, is I- ' t: - Ct , - , r ,j Lt ' . jt ' J fc m "'A( ' ? - , jsir 2 jiM- This beautiful .137,000 swimming pool at Bushnell General hospitt fills a double need the year around. Patients learning anew to use injure or prosthetic limbs, find swimming a pleasant and speedy shortcut. And fc ' addition, the fine, big pool is a favorite recreation center for from 2M to 3,000 patients at all times. J 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 ot Utah and Inter-Mountain ex-scivire ex-scivire men of the facilities it would afford through the years. Built of permanent brick const tion as a permanent inctituti: ! Bushnell General hospital iyol ; save the nation's taxpayers m; " j if it were to be continued p; manently in operation. With mh changes, experts agree, it would : as permanently efficient and sal-factory sal-factory as any hospital which co' be built today, and in many respr more so. And there is still the matter the shortage of hospitalization ; ties for veterans. And the fouri( million well-spent taxpayers' dolt which. Northern Utahns feel. she. I not be "thrown out the winJot I |
