Valley frontiersman., 1952-01-03

aajor triumph. therefore, when
 he women of the Presbyterian
 church enthusiastically adopted
 he hospital as its l952 project. On
 the strength of this, the NPBM
 pledged Sl07000 and advanced S50.000 of this for planning money 10 get the hospital started imme- diately.
 Rev. Armstrong emphasized that the new hospital is not a Presbyterian hospital, but is a community hospital.
 We do not own the hospital. he said. We do not operate the l hospital. All hiring and termina- tion of personnel is done on the local level and the final decision lies with the board.
 l Our part in it." he added, "is pure, crystal clear charity"
 Local Funds
 Ed Smith, chairman of the To- cal Valley Hospital Fund Raising Committee, reported. We've just started on this thing. We've just reached about one-eighth of our final goal of $50-$60,o00." The , committee treasurer, Hugh John son, announced that $7856 had been raised up to the evening of December 20, and broke down that mount according to , amounts received from the sev- eral sources.
 New Valley Hospital Assn.
 The reasons for incorporating a new Valley Hospital Associa- ton were given by Paul Robison, i Anchorage attorney who is the present associations legal coua- sel. The present association, he said, was incorporated for a life term of five years, expiring in May, 1852. The fact that there are several hundred stockhold- CTS whose one dollar membership entitled them to a life" member ship makes it virtually impossible to get a quorum for the annual meeting. The present association has a debt limit of $100,000. Un- der these circumstances, Robison said, it is necessary to form new corporation, with the new asso- citation taking over the assets and liabilities of the old one.
 In discussion of the new cor poration and it's membership, it was suggested that the member ships be renewed annually at S5 per member per year. The board of directors would be increased to Il, according to the mandate of the sixty people present at the Thursday meeting. Two of these members would be the minister of the United Protestant Churhc in Palmer and the Alaskan field representative of the NPBM. Nine members would be elected locally with the suggestion that the fol- lowing areas be represented ac- cording to the discretion of the nominating committee: Jones' vile, Eklutna, Wasilla, and Pal mer.
 Financing Explained Edwin Crittenden, architect of the hospital, explained the financ- ing of the new hospital as follows: From the National Board of Pres byterian Missions, $1070O0; from the Territorial Department of Health, $1O7,O00; from Palmer, the originally pledged sum of $6, 800; from Federal Hill Burton fund, matching funds for the pre- ceding $22O,500, for a total of he explained. Of that total, ESQ., $441 ,000. But this is not enough 900 must go for fees and equip ment, thus leaving only $351,OOO for actual hospital construction. The hospital itself will cost in ex- cess of $400,000. In view of in creasing labor costs for 1852, the
 "excess' might be considerable. The community must raise the
 balance, and whatever is raised
 will be matched by Hill Burton funds.
 Rev. Armstrong told the group | that the Hill-Burton committee
 had already approved the appli-