Image 15 of Albuquerque morning journal (Albuquerque, N.M.), June 18, 1922, (CITY EDITION)

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June 18 1922 ALBUQUERQUE MORNING JOURNAL Page Five NEW HOSPITAL BUILDINGS A T FOR T BA YARD N M ARE DEDICA TED MORE THAN 800000 EXPENDED TO CARE FOR WORLD WAR VETERANS 4 fvMTfe Kwf sLfis Panorama view of two new infirmary ward buildings and mess hall costing over 800000 just completed at U S Veterans Hospital No 65 Fort Bayard New Mexico Insert ia adobe entrance building and ware houses built over 30 years ago when Fort Bayard was Army Post These old buildings being razed to provide site for new edifices Note contrast between ancient and modern style of architecture S SPIOIAL DttPATCM TO MORNtNfl JOURNAL Silver City N M June 17 Featured by one of the largest gatherings ever assembled at Ft Bayard a group of new buildings costing over 1800000 were form ally dedicated today at United States Veterans Hospital No 65 A program of exercises opening at 10 oclock this morning and con cluding at 10 oclock tonight made the day a gala occasion at the fa mous frontier military post which In the past year has been trans ferred Into the largest and most modern hospital for the care and treatment of tubercular exservice