Dr. Hayden stated that Senator William Kimball was glad to be apprized of the need for beds in Pima County and would be happy to propose an amendment to the Bill for the Additional 100 beds in Pima County.
Dr. Rudolph remarked that Mr. William Matthews [ Mathews ] is also in favor of this. Dr. Randolph inquired where these beds were to be put, if allowed.
Dr. Hayden said that he gathers the local men do not want to go out to the San Xavier Hospital to care for the Indians, but that this matter can be decided later. He stated that the State Legislative Committee has worked very hard during the past four or five months on these various projects, and are at the moment battling about the osteopaths, who have tried to change the enabling act on Blue Cross and Blue Shield to permit osteopaths to be accepted by Blue Cross and Blue Shield with full privileges the same as doctors of medicine.
Dr. Rudolph stated that he believed that the Pima County Medical Society ought to pass a resolution endorsing these pieces of legislation, just as the State Society did.
Dr. Beaton suggested that an addition be made to such a letter to the effect that we hope 100 beds for Pima County be added in this section.
Dr. Harry Thompson thought the main thing is that they could no see any way clear to putting in Bill giving Pima County 100 beds if it was not known where to put them, and questioned if they could do more than make an appropriation; we are probably at fault, he said, for not putting forth more effort, and possibly Dr. Farness should have drafted a request and submitted it.
Dr. Rudolph said that the hope was to be able to put the tuberculosis hospital in next to the County Hospital, that if any action could have been taken on County Hospital the Tuberculosis Society would have been more active.
Dr. Harry Thompson did not think the cause lost by any means, the main point being that Phoenix does not care about taking care of their own indigent Indians, and we would like to take care of the State tuberculosis patients; that if this Bill goes through, we will be in a position to ask for an appropriation. In this event the Phoenix Tuberculosis Sanitarium [ Sanitorium ] will be administered by the Public Health Service and fixed to take Indians, and the same thing would occur here in Pima County.
Dr. Rudolph moved that the Pima County Medical Society endorse the action of State Legislative Committee. Motion seconded by Dr. Harry Thompson. Dr. Hayden moved an amendment to this motion that 100 tuberculosis beds be added for Pima County. (not acted upon.)
It was moved by Dr. Royal Rudolph that the Pima County Medical Society write to both the Senators and Representatives of the State of Arizona about its action in approving the above pending legislation. Motion seconded by Dr. George Fraser. Motion carried.
The President stated that he had been contacted recently by Mr. Robert O'Connor, representative of the Charles Pfizer & Company, relative to a plan for the entertainment of the members of the Society at a Golf Tournament. Dr. Jackman Pyre and Mr. O'Connor were present at this meeting, he said, to explain this proposition.
Dr. Pyre--"Charles Pfizer & Company want to give us a Golf Tournament, not a banquet or cocktail party. They propose to take over one of the Clubs and put on a Tournament with the works, to be followed by a cocktail party and dinner. This could probably be best held on a Thursday afternoon".
Dr. Pyre then introduced Mr. Robert O'Connor.
Mr. O'Connor--This idea originated last year in New York at one of the medical associations, was tried out, accepted and has spread. Last year we had it in Phoenix for the Maricopa County Society, where it went over so well that we are doing it again this year. We would like to sponsor a Handicap Golf Tournament, to be known as the "Pfizer-Physician's Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Pima County Medical Society. This is a handicap tournament, and anyone who has or has not played golf previously can enter. It can be held on one or two afternoons, depending on the number of men who will play. There is nothing commercial connected with it. We have discovered that most of our mail is thrown out anyway, so we have devoted a certain amount of funds for these tournaments, and the reason we are doing it is because Pfizer has grown tremendously in the past two or three
