Northwest History. Aviation 8. Bureau Of Indian Affairs, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Alaska towns; new hospitals; Anchorage; Alaska; construction program; Bethel; Western Alaska; H. R. Stamm; architect; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Point Barrow; Kanakanak; Tanana; Kotzebue hospital; Unalakleet; Kodiak; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Indian; Pacific; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86243

Alaska Towns Will Get New Hospitals. Alaska Towns Will Get New Hospitals ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Thursday, May 20.—(/P)—Plans for an extensive construction program, including a $150,000 hospital to be built at Bethel in Western Alaska next summer, were disclosed yesterday by Dr. H. R. Stamm, architect for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Stamm, on a tour of Alaska, has visited twenty-five communities, including Barrow. The Bureau will also build hospitals at Kanakanak and Tanana, enlarge the Kotzebue hospital, remodel the one at Unalakleet and construct a nurse's clinic and quarters at Kodiak at some future date, he said.