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community and so there is little opportunity to test stated policy of <br />priority to the disabled or nio=_t needy veterans. There are simply not that <br />many new applications due to the well kept secret of Big Island Veterans <br />Camp. <br />0 <br />OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE <br />It seems fair to say that the Big Island Veterans Camp.cannot and should not <br />cor'inue on its present course. The facilities ar.- degenerating and the statutory <br />purpose of the camp, to serve disabled and needy veterans, is not being fully <br />realized. <br />The first option would be to close the camp and dissolve the Board of Governors. <br />This seems Ge rticularly undesirable because the State now has more disabled and <br />needy veterans as a result of Vietnam and t ,use of the age of loe World War I <br />and II veterans. There is still a genuine ntud for this type of service. Further, <br />the land was purchased and the camp has been operated recently without state aid. <br />It would seem far better to put the camp back on the right track, especially <br />in regard to making the physical improvements necessary, tiohte ',iq up the <br />admission procedures, ar' making the camp more widely known and available to <br />all veterans. <br />