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Show Bushnell Awaits Truman Decision With the $12,'000,000.00 Bushnell Bush-nell General Hospital, orginally scheduled to close this spring, doing an "about face" and suddenly sud-denly operating to the full capacity capac-ity of her 3500 beds, individuals and organizations of Northern Utah fighting to make the institu-ion institu-ion permanent were considerably heartened this week when veteran vet-eran administration plans which called for closing Bushnell at Brigham City and rebuilding a S5, 000.000.00 hospital in Salt Lake City struck a serious financial finan-cial snag in Washington. In addition, it seems that the house appropriation committee is ' asking a review of the matter because be-cause of the great amount of protest pro-test received against abandonment abandon-ment of Bushnell and the expenditure expend-iture of five million dollars for another hospital onlv 50 miles to the south. Individuals, firms, organizations or-ganizations and the majority of the citizenry of Weber, Box Elder, El-der, Cache and Rich Counties contend that it is a waste of tax payers money to abandon a twelve-million dollar hospital to build another one almost in the same neighborhood. The entire matter boils down to this: that President Harry S. Truman will decide whether Brigham City retains Bushnell, or the vetrans administration gets their way and builds a- new hospital at Salt Lake City. In the meantime, the whole project is at a standstill and the veterans administration must await the president's decision. |