The new state of Alaska hopes to announce the completion of its first state mental hospital sometime in 1960. The six-and-a-half-million-dollar structure, to be built in two stages, will be located four miles from the center of the city of Anchorage. Its function will be to serve as an integral part of the total mental health program in which the social forces in the community will be utilized to the maximum by means of mental health clinics where early treatment will be instituted and hospitalization prevented.