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Show '- - m J,'!1 '!? 4r "' -i frli MEMORIAL MEDICAL DREAM COMES TRUE Just finished and with doctors and dentists moving in, the Memorial Medical Center of Sugar House became a reality this week. It was the dream and the accomplishment of Willard B. Richards Jr., who did a lion's share of the work himself, despite his 74 years of age. Memorial Medical Center Opens, Monument to Four ' . J f I - 1 i L LZA WILLARD B. RICHARDS JR. His idea built a memorial Doctors, dentists and laboratory technicians, together with a large number of clerical folk, this week were moving, bag and X-ray into the new Memorial Medical Center In Sugar House. Located in the 2000 block on Ninth East street with a convenient con-venient Windsor street entrance, the new center was conceived, planned and built by Willard Richards Rich-ards Jr. and Dr. Paul Richards. Complete from emergency hospital hos-pital beds to ultra-modern X-ray units, from dental laboratories to iiet kitchen, from filing cabinets to spacious and sunny sitting rooms, the Memorial Medical Center Cen-ter is a practical monument to the progress of public spirited men and women of Sugar House and the medical profession. The building, constructed at a cost of more than a half million dollars, provides offices, laboratories labora-tories and other necessary facilities facil-ities for a score of physicians and rsurgeons and dentists, making it the largest of its kind in the south east area. The center is a memorial to four early-day Utah physicians, Dr. Willard Wil-lard Richards, a pioneer of 1847, and his sons, Drs. Heber John Richards. Rich-ards. Joseph S. Richards and Stephen L. Richards. No detail has been lefl undone In the planning of the center, from the richly landscaped grounds to the elevator, from the hermetically sealed dark rooms to the brilliantly illuminated operating rooms. From general practitioners to highly skilled and specialized surgeons, sur-geons, the staff of Memorial Medical Med-ical Center will be complete for treatment of every health problem brought there, Willard Richards said. There are reception rooms in each division. Patients may enter Continued on page 4 " ""' I ) ... J : DR. PAUL RICHARDS He's senior consultant at Center l' 'j I sr- - t ; I BUSINESSMEN 15 E HIND WELFARE FARM FROLIC Mickey Hurt, left, Paul Pchrson and "I5ud' I5rain, triumvirate of Sujcar j louse husinessinen who will spark the Wilford LDS stsike welfare farm proffram July 23 and 24. A Kifjantic carnival will he staged and funds derived from the affair wi.il be used to buy equipment for Wilford stake's big farm. liam H. Bennion, James F. Orme, Donald E. Smith and Ralph L. Tingy, internal medicine; Drs. John L. Siddoway Jr., L. Clark Aaron-son Aaron-son and James E. Boyland, pediatrics, pedi-atrics, and Drs. Feno Shafer and L. Reid Shepard, dentists. There also will be consultants in pathology path-ology and radiology. 1 1 -ci I r I 5 I ,: , i ........ j i l'KKTTY VESTIKULE View of Memorial Medical Center lobby at main entrance, beautifully arranged. FiEVV MEMORIAL CENTER Continued from Page I from Ninth East just south of 20th South or from 21st South via Windsor Wind-sor Ave. Spacious parking, calm and serene grounds and a cool stream of canyon water mark the center with beautiful surroundings. Built of red brick and rustic stone, the building itself is monumental. mon-umental. Inside, use of rich woods, chipped stone and windows make it a thing of beauty. The private rooms of the doctors and technicians are plain, but convenient, con-venient, with adequate closet and shelf space provided for the many things doctors, dentists and tech-1 nicians must put aside and out of sight. Very latest in X-ray equipment, so arranged that even a badly injured in-jured person will not have to be moved to examine his injuries from any and every angle. Dark room, laboratories for testing test-ing of specimens and other technical tech-nical conveniences are included in the overall building. Grand opening of the center will likely be within a fortnight, or at least within a month, Mr. Rich ards said. The technical personnel and doctors doc-tors and dentists will all be in during the first week of July, he said. It is located in what used to be known as the Stravell property and is set back from 9th East by several sev-eral hundred feet, with lawns, trees . and gardens. Parley's creek flows through the grounds and under a corner of the building itself. The two-story structure is divided di-vided into seven clinical divisions, each with its own waiting room, in addition to the general reception recep-tion room. It contains a surgical division di-vision laborafores, offices and library. li-brary. Among the equipment is multi-e plan flouroscope in the X-ray department, de-partment, the first of its kind in the west. The building can be approached from three sides, and parking is being provided for more than 100 cars. Members of the Memorial Medical Med-ical group are Dr. Paul S. Richards, industrial medicine and senior consultant; con-sultant; Drs. Paul D. Keller and Lenore Richards, general surgery; Dr. Burke M. Snow, orthopedic and traumatic surgery; Drs. Richard G. Barton and Richard E. Johns, ob-stectrics ob-stectrics and gynecology; Drs. Wil- |