The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., September 5, 1930, page 1
HOSPITAL ON HILL IS NOW ASSURED
City Council To Deed Site To Hospital Association
MODERN UNIT TO BE BUILT
Fine Natural Site Will be Developed to Make Hospital Location One of Most
Beautiful in State - Mace Baldwin, Leader in Project, Outlines Plans Before
City Council - Restriction to be Complied With
The last obstacle to the building of a splendid modern
hospital on the beautiful site of the former chautauqua park on the Heights
was successfully surmounted on Tuesday of this week, when the city council
unanimously agreed to deed the site to the hospital association, after the
Mace Baldwin, who has played a prominent part in bringing this issue to a
successful termination, had fully outlined the plans of the association to
the city fathers. It developed that, not only will the new hospital be of
great value to the community, but the plans call for the further beautifying
of the already ideal natural site.
While some opposition developed at the outset to this
site, it was finally decided that there were too many advantages to permit
a few details to stand in the way of the project. However, the question of
danger of pollution of the Coe spring, which is held by the city as an emergency
supply should anything happen to the fine Cold Springs supply, was raised
by opponents and the situation was made more acute by a news story sent from
Hood River to a Portland newspaper. Finally, it was decided to obtain the
views of Dr. Stricker, state health officer, who visited the site last week
and gave the hospital project a clean bill of health, stating that if ordinary
requirements were met in building the hospital, there would not be the slightest
danger of the spring being polluted.
The new hospital, according to Mr. Baldwin, will be of
25 bed capacity, with uptodate operating rooms and all other necessary
departments of modern type. Construction work will be in hand at the earliest
possible moment, Mr. Baldwin states.
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