The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-08-09
|CDuN7Y MAKES APPROPRIATIONS
FOR SANATOR|UA AND HOSPITALS
RESOLUTION OFFERED BY COM.
MISSIONER EPhLiN is
ADOPTED
Ohio Valley General and North Wheel
Ing to Get SIS 900 Each and Sanl-
torlum Receives $1,000.

Charles O. Ephlin. Republican mem
Der Of the board Of county. commits
| sioners, sprang into the breach that
was gradually drawing away the pos
slblity Of obtaining. county aid Tor
hospitals and the View Point Sanator'
ium, yesterday, and succeeded IN get,
i ting a resolution through the BOARD
! providing that S5,00U each be appro,
! pria;ed TO the Ohio Valley General
j Hospital and the North Wheeling hos
; pital, and $4,000 10 the View Point
; Sanatorium.
/ Despite the opposition OF President
Lou i. Halter. Sir. Ephin was able
! 10 bring his resolution before the com
missioners, favorably, and secured the
vote Of Commissioner Garden, giving
il the required majority for passage
The resolution originally read TO dp-
propriate $4,000 10 each hospital ana
| the sanatorium, but Nr. Garden asked
| that the latter's appropriation De naue
/ larger, Commissioner Ephlin accept.
| ing the amendment. which insured MS
resolutions passing.
| View Point will reopen, Just as soon
. as the "Pewiky" stock transfer from
| the county 10 the Pennsylvania raif
roal company Is made. The goal was
reached after months OF agitation IA
|
CITY, led BY the Rotary Club, look
! prominent part. At the start the Or
ganizations gained the ear OF CommlS-
sioner Ephlin, who has been a cham
pion Of the cause.
The Resolution,
At the meeting yesterday morning,
Commissioner Ephlin presented the
! following resolution, which was ADOPT
ed:
Resolved, That the sum OF $S,O00,.
I 90 be appropriated for the purpose or
having for treatment OF patients IN the
! View Point Apti-Tuberculosis Sanltar'
ium, provided said santarium is re-
established said sum 10 be spent un.
der the direction and by the order or
the board of county commissioners:
Second, That the sum OF $lOo0G.OO
shall be appropriated for the payment
OF treatment In emergency cases IN the
Ohio Valley Hospital and the Wheeling
Hospital. said sum in ooth cases 10 De
spent under the direction, and by the
order OF the board of county commits
sioners.
Each OF the above appropriations
10 be made by the board OF commls'
sioners provided the County ot'Ohlo
shall sell the Pittsburgh, Wheeling X
Kentucky Railroad stock for the sum
of $500 10000 and receive said sum OF
money on or before the lst day OF oc-
tober, 1916.
I'm offering this resolution, il. is the
desire or the maker thereof, hrst %
recognize the demand for more general
and more liberal charitable work IN
the community, and, second, 10 make d
heeinnine OF an organized aid for III 25e
institutions, and of extending ASSIST
ance to them In the case of emergency
charity cases. with view or ascer-
tanning exactly how the extension VI
public aid in this manner may af1ect
the other charitable work carried on
in the county"
The commissioners agreed that nc
more worthy work could be undertak
en- that the assistance, OF the count!
to the hospitals. They will guarantee
the permanency OF the View Point san
atorium and will not permit It's CLOSING
again. Just as soon as the transfer o.
The railroad stock is made, and the
place reopened, the tubercular patients
now being treated in the infirmary hos
Di,al will be raken 10 the hill. Inc
board in it's resolution clearly states
That il shall supervise the expenditure
of the money in each case, that the
hospitals will receive financial reward
ionly in caring for emergency cases
and they shall pass upon eacn case "
decide whether or not 1t shall De ilSt
ed against the county.
Wants Issue Submitted
County Commissioner KILLER whc
cast his vote against the resolution
stated that be favored county aid, oul
did not believe in combining 1t to the
hospitals alone, but TO every charlta
BILE institution in the county, SUCH as
the Florence Crittendcn home, the
Childrens' Home. etc. He said that nc
believed the appropriation should DC
plac ed large enough and that the whole
matter should be laid before the PEG
pie and allow them to vote on the
proposition. - $500
The commissioners then took uT
that question and voted 10 ask the PEG
pie 10 pass on the question at the cleo
lion in November. 1t will be taken uE
, with Prosecuting Attorney d. A: Nc
Kee al once and Il ruling obtained, ano
he will also be asked TO draw up.
form of appropriation covering all IN
situations. II is thought that the res
nlution adonle ed vest erQay is merely