Board of Directors Meeting, March 5, 1953 2
fairly reasonable, and we all registered and paid a certain amount and a certain amount for each social function. It was a very nice meeting.
Dr. Kohl thanked the Board of Directors for hearing him, and asked to be excused from the meeting.
Dr. Rudolph stated there is no report from the Insurance and Industrial Relations Committee.
Dr. Manning reported for the Building Committee that at the last meeting of the Board of Supervisors the other day one thing had been accomplished--money had been obtained from the Supervisors to bring our reports on building requirements up to date, an that young Mr. Miller would be asked to do this work. He said that his (Dr. Manning's) feeling in the matter is that it is going to be a political football; that Mr. Lamb is one hundred percent for it an that at the last meeting he had wanted to bring it out in the papers that hospitals should be A-1 priority, but got sat on properly. Dr. Manning said that he knew of no way to combat this except by putting out publicity ourselves, that when this material is brought up to date we should contact the publicity man we know to have something appear in the paper every Sunday; that the Society is in no position to do anything else with two Supervisors against us. Dr. Manning said he thought the hospitals would among the first two or three items, but that it would still be political, and that nothing much could be accomplished unless it were done by the Society and put before the public.
Discussion:
Dr. Hill--I pay Chamber of Commerce dues and many of the rest of us do. They have always contended it is their baby to push a project once it is established. The Chamber can foot some of the bill on this more effectively than we can, if we will put pressure on the Chamber instead of on the Board of Supervisors.
Dr. Manning--If you will recall, that Committee will be formed and probably in the next week. I plan to go before that committee to put the pressure on this Tax deal if I can, and get on the ball with the publicity.
Dr. Rudolph--It might help if more of us joined the Chamber.
Dr. Hill--A doctor claiming we need beds is not the same as a business man claiming we need hospital beds. Monte said this morning, "All we want is some facts to know where we stand."
Dr. Hayden reported no further action by the By-Laws Committee.
Dr. Rudolph reported for the Blood Bank Committee, which has had a recent meeting. He said that it was agreed unanimously that the Red Cross Bank was the instrument which should be supported here, and that a lot of figures were presented indicating the difficulties the Blood Bank is having. The Committee, he said, made a few recommendations to try to correct these difficulties, and the interesting thing to him that was brought out was that the regional Blood Bank, which comprises a population half as large as Phoenix, is using about the same amount of blood as they are using in Phoenix. The resulting difficulty is that at times there is a shortage of blood, and the answer to that difficulty is either to recruit more blood or to use less. Dr. Rudolph reported that there was quite a heated discussion as to whether this Committee should go on record as saying the group here is using too much blood, and he thinks the problem simmers down to trying to obtain more blood. Inasmuch as the Medical Society rather sponsored the Blood Bank in the beginning, it was the feeling of the committee that some
