LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Mrs. Bell:
T am frequently asked two'
questions and would,like to answer them.
The questions aro:
1. "liy is the Hospital Quonset hut not fin
ished?
wV doesn’t the Hospital pay its bills?
Answer No, 1 On several occasions last
fall wc tried to rally volunteer help, and
I spent a lot of my own time try imp: to round'
up enough people to put up the Quonsot hut.
Only once did any sizeable group turn out,
and then the men who were hired to super
vise the work did'not appear and tho work
was not organised. Subsequent'appeals for
volunteer help were fruitless. When the
building was finally completed by hired
help, it became too cold to do any steam
fitting and all work had to cease until tho
weather moderated.
A short time ago we had KF^D announce
during two nows broadcasts that voluntoor
painters were ranted. A lot'of people havo
talked about the Ounnset hut, but only ONE
MAM come to work. The hut should have boon
ready long ago, but it sooms that it will
not bo done by volunteer help.
TTben I came to this Valley, I heard
quite a for people moke the statement that
the Hospital should be a Community Hospital
and for the last 4v,- years these pooplo mado
.it plain that they would bo satisfied with
nothing else. Many of thoso people wore at
the public meeting when it ras voted unani
mously to pay $2.00 a month to help the
hospital. One person offered to give $1000.
if no church organization ran the hospital.
To date, not one of these people havo given
any voluntoor help whatever, and only a
very few.of this group have given tho $2.00
a month. Apparently it is their purpose to
do nothing but criticize.
AnFC9r Ho. 2 The hospital doesn’t pay itb
bills because the people don’t pay theirs.
It’s as simple ns that. In an early issue
of this paper there will be a financial
statement of the hospital and it will be
easy to see that the hospital would pay its
bills and bo out of debt, if the pooplo
would pay for services that they have re
ceived.
People think nothing of paying 55.00
a day for a hotel room,'but hero where they
are Supplied with m6als, 24 hour nursing
care, etc.,they soom'to think that the pay
ments caii lx. put off, We cannot afford to
buy food, medicine's, rent etc., and ect
nothing in return.We don’t want to demand
pay in advance, but this is going to bo
necessary, c£ it will be impossible to pay
for our food, otc,,unless'theso items can
be paid for when received.
We paid out about $700 for hired help
in making necessary alterations in the
present buildingi If people would have vol-i
unteered to help, this money would have
been saved. The situation has reached a
critical phase-do YOU wish to have a hos
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pital here? If so, give it a boost,once it
gets on its feet it will probably take care
of itself, but the first year is a hard one
-so LEKDA HELPING HANDS J I am not in
charge of the Hospital, don’t see me—see
the manager. Sincerely yours,David Hoehn,MD