Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - November 4, 1976, Winslow, Arizona at ion Salt 04^115 1894 Volume 83 Number 38 > WINSLOW Class Postage Paid At Arizona 86047 November 4, 1976 Win In Navajo u- JIMMY CARTER of Georgia was elected as the 39th President of the United States at Tuesday's general He won a very narrow victory over President Gerald who issued a statement of congratulations to Carter yesterday The margin of victory was believed to be the closest in a presidential election in this century as final tabulations were being completed decorations will go up in Winslow on Nov. 9, and will be lighted about Dec. 6, if plans proceed as laid down by the councilmen Tuesday city street department crews wUl install the lighting the electrical work will be done by councilmen have been notified that a representative from General will appear at a meeting in the near future to discuss a 15 year permit for the with a call for a rate in is discussing rebuilding the cable system iri Winslow with increased station Holbrook football has reportedly stated that if his team doesn't play any better against Winslow in their game tonight than they did against need a score The game will be played in Roadrunner time is 7 old 1954 Seagraves fire engine has received a fresh coat of and looks like according to members of the Winslow Fire Winslow Christmas Parade is beginning to take with 41 units pledged to date for the festive This Paul and lot of President Ford's including this were being gently ribbed a little all in good Jimmy Carter's victory in the general photo below shows a bag of along with other awaiting me as we got to work to put out this edition will be new faces in at least four and possibly five Navajo County offices at the beginning of 1977 as a result of Tuesday's general elected are Norman District 1; Johnny District 2; Jay V. county and Stuart county superintendent of Aii are A. also a holds a 10-vote lead over LeRoy the incumbent for the office of county supervisor from District 3. of the closeness of the it is almost certain that a recount will be conducted in the All of the results are unofficial until the Board of Supervisors conducts the official canvass of what observers considered one of the most interesting county supervisor races in some Butler jumped off to a lead in the first returns from Winslow and was never incumbent District 2 M.J. a had waged an intensive write-in campaign after losing to Butler in the primary The district vote 1797; 776 write-in and W.R. 729. the first the race Norman Turley and Jefferson B. a for the District I supervisor post was Then Turley began to pull away to win by a 3643 to 1763 margin as the votes came in from the heavily Democratic precincts on the Navajo had thought that the race would probably be but no one probably believed that the final unofficial total would be only 10 votes with Patterson leading 2583 to 2573. race was nip and tuck all Patterson surged ahead to stay when the Apache reservation votes and the ballots from Linden came in early yesterday H. the incumbent county who is a pulled out to a substantial lead over Jay Flake in the first but as the votes from the Navajo Reservation began to come Flake zoomed ahead to win going The final totals were 7474 to 6236. J. Meinke jumped out to an lead Results Navajo Ford Carter L. McBride McCarthy DeConcini Steiger Norwitz Field M. Feighan party District 4 Mason Rudd Harper District 2 J. McDonald Jarrell District 2 to be Wettaw A. McConnell Jr. District 3 J. Hubbard Jr. District 3 to be Hanley Peaches District 4 V. Hardt District 4 to be C. Rosenbaum G. Guerrero Hawley Mine C. Romero C. McCutchan Weeks Waldo DeWitt W. Jerome of the Supreme Court James Duke for retention in against retention in of the Superior F. of District 1 B. Hunt of District 2 Butler J. R. Petersen of District 3 Palmer A. Patterson M. Hall V. Flake Superintendent of AND HAND crafted gifts galore are being prepared for the Winslow Senior Citizens Center to be held Saturday Nov. 6. Preparing for the event are the from Celestine Mabel Kate Pauline Beaulieu Mary Ginger Molly Baca Natividad Padilla from and Fela Among those who have helped with the project but were not present for the photograph are Leah Pearl Opal Helen Baxter and Agnes Approves Special Tax Sets Election modifications and shades of meanings of words such as fixed and occupied the attention of the Winslow city councilmen for about one hour after a special meeting convened Tuesday evening for the discussion at the councilmen approved Joel motion to adopt Ordinance 464, levying a two percent sales tax on restaurants and the sale of alcoholic subject to the J. Meinke H. Sahne Assessor tion was set for Dec 21 and Cecil R. Tuley hon H. Turley Sheriff Marlin F. Gillespie H. Randall 100........................................Yes: 5962 4340 101........................................Yes: 5858 4248 102..........................................Yes: 5935 4177 103..........................................Yes: 5770 4284 104...........................................Yes: 5751 4209 200...........................................Yes: 2515No: 9828 300...........................................Yes: 5162No: 6866 Turnout Number of Registered Will Hold counted and he con- Number of Voters Casting to pile up more votes That's a turnout of almost 75 percent of the registered from all over the county to voters in the win the superintendent of schools He beat Mrs. Laura H. the Republican by a vote of 7674 to 5632. Will Hold Winslow Senior Citizens Center will hold a bake on Nov. 6, at Happy's Senior between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 shoppers will find a wide selection of gift items from hand made to Christmas card will be decorative pot pad Tissue open house will be held at the Winslow Convalescent Center old on Nov. 7, from 1 to 5 p.m. Hostesses for the occasion will be members of the Hospital The public is cordially invited to and refreshments will be administrator of the convalescent says that he is really looking forward to meeting bookmarks the townspeople and invites and pincushions to the open for the bake sale will be according to Pauline center see the skilled nursing care feel we have top notch personnel BOB just so happens that I like so the bag will not go to all I join with others in an expression of congratulations to Governor Carter and other winners in the general trust that all Americans will join with President Ford in an expression of support for our new He faces many difficult decisions and he will need the encouragement of all citizens in the days and years may be Democrats or Republicans or Independents or what have but we first and foremost Americans who love our country and want the best for it and our very pleased with the the staff and he nursing care facility offers skilled nursing care to the entire Northern Arizona including Apache and Coconino there are 12 patients in the which was opened about three weeks who is leasing the building from Winslow Memorial maintains membership in both the state and national Association of Health Care specific purpose of these organizations is to upgrade health and Constable for nursing home care are the end result of regulations which on Page 7) Weather will go into effect Jan. course owners Marvin Dick Casey Gondek and Warner Leppin were present the They agreed to offer the golf club to the city for a price of without noted that the interest charges for over a period of several years at six or eight percent would be a sizeable and seemed to feel that the negotiations had been the city as a special Raleigh Johnson of who had drafted the ordinance and states that he was not to any particular as the councilmen mulled the translation and of about an hour of public Jim motioned for the council to retire to back to discuss the matter with the golf course They all left the council room for a closed conference which continued for about an the close of the executive the with a show of announced that the two percent sales tax will include all sales of alcoholic beverages sold in the city of in package groceries and convenience not just the sale of liquor in as was previously discussed get rich on the sale of Councilman Gwyn Clarke city in the spelled out the fund which calls for five percent of the proceeds from the special tax each year to go toward the promotion of 50 percent of the proceeds used for the acquisition and maintenance of the golf and 45 percent for the acquisition and maintenance of recreational facilities in the discussing the Councilman Sam Conner the other councilmen to include the purchase price of the golf course in the and the document was to include this McHood was in favor of spelling out how the percentages of the proceeds from the tax were to be and this was He pointed that the voters would be approving a total not just a golf Butler Prepares To Take Office a total of 1,797 Johnny new Navajo County District 2 Republican candidate Peterson and write-in candidate M.J. by more than a thousand votes have a good feeling about the Butler been a long and Mike and BUI were tough looking forward to working with the two new supervisors for Navajo Norman H. Turley and Charles A. and invited supervisorial candidates and Harvey Rogers to work with in any way they will resign his position as Winslow city councilman before he takes office as a county supervisor in like to resign right to rest before moving into the new he I expect to stay with the city council through Winslow's special city which will decide the future of the golf a Butler stated that he hopes to bring about a closer working relationship with the City of will try to put more information on what's happening before the citizens of I want them to know what's going on in our meetings and and hope to keep them appraised of the work that's Butler He mentioned that he hoped to publicize agendas and notices of meetings so that m ore local citizen participation could be realized at the county officials hope to be able to move into the new county complex in Holbrook in about a 49 60 67 67 28 Oct. 29 Oct. 30 Oct. 31 Nov. 1 Nov. 2 Sunny cool Highs mid 60's, lows mid 20's. There was a trace of precipitation recorded on the 28th. RECOGNITION for the city booth took fourth place at the State Hosting the booth are Mr. and Mrs. Mel who passed out and talked with those who viewed the
