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[Letter from B. H. Peacock to Truett Latimer, January 23, 1957]

Description: Letter from B. H. Peacock to Truett Latimer discussing the Legislative Budget Board's decision to increase the Abilene State Hospital Budget by $20 million instead of the $41 million they requested. Peacock writes that the funds are necessary to care for the thousands of mentally ill patients in the state and that the funds could be raised through liquor and tobacco taxes. He recounts his own experience receiving treatment for a nervous breakdown at the U.S. Public Health Services Hospital in F… more
Date: January 23, 1957
Creator: Peacock, B. H.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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