The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., August 15, 1930, page 1
HOSPITAL MAY BE BUILT IN HILL PARK
Board Asks Council For Old Chautauqua Park
SITE IS BEAUTIFUL ONE
Others Would Have Ground Converted In Children's Playgrounds - Hospital Board
Believes New Plan Would Be Best For All, Especially Hospital Patients - Council
to Pass on Project Later
The plan of securing from the city the site of the old
chautuaqua park for a modern hospital, which was formulated a few days ago,
is apparently not going over with undivided support.
At the meeting of the city council on Wednesday night,
when the project was presented by Mace Baldwin and Kent Shoemaker, in behalf
of the Hospital Association, Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Crew, who reside on 12th Street,
spoke in favor of converting the tract into a children's playground, and
presented a petition favoring this.
Shortly after, Mrs. L.M. Bentley, also spoke in favor
of the children's playground project, a plan which found support with Supt.
L.B. Gibson.
The plan of using the site for a hospital, once suggested,
had found much favor, even within the few days it had become public, and
as the plan becomes better known it is obvious that it will find many supporters.
For the acre or more of park above the reservoir, lends itself particularly
to a hospital site. The location is removed from heavy traffic, there are
plenty of fine shade trees and there is a splendid view of Mount Adams and
the Columbia from the ground. Just below it, too, is the fountain, lawns
and flowers maintained by the city water department.
A canvas of members of the council reveals that they
look on the suggestion that they donate this land for a hospital with a favorable
eye, and the matter is now under consideration.
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