Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - February 14, 1980, Winslow, Arizona St. Class Postage Paid At Arizona 86047 USPS 686-960 1894 Volume 86 ' Number 52 February 14, 1980 Copy 20 Serves As Tribes Attempt Negotiated house solicitations for the Heart Fund will be made on Feb. 17 in the volunteers make their they'll be carrying information on Crime Stop and packets of literature on crime provided by the Winslow Police will be properly of the house to house campaign urge all residents to a give to the Heart Winslow Post Office will be closed Feb. 18, for Washington's banks will observe the 18th as city offices will be closed Feb. 22, in observance of the traditional Washington's will remain in session both Girl Scouts will be selling their starting Feb. 16...This is the big money-making project of the you are call Mickey Chaney at 289-5943, to place your sale will end Feb. 24... PUMP STATION at the new Hospitality Golf Course arrived Monday and installation started The station will be operable when it gets Water from the sewage plant will be used to irrigate the golf greens and Overseeing installation of the pump are Keith McClain with Moore Golf and Tom his A number of local residents are working on the golf course The pump has a capacity of 2,000 gallons a under 130 pounds by City of Winslow Water Filed Against an adult and a bave been arrested in connection with the burglary at the Humane Society Animal Shelter last 19, was arrested and charged with count of one count of grand theft and cruelty to charges grew out of the investigation of the break-in at the animal in which four dogs were At the same one puppy was killed and another so seriously injured that it had to be put to grand theft charge was filed following an investigation of the theft of tires and wheels at the Navajo Body according to Police Chief Walter was arraigned before Judge M.L. of the Navajo County Justice Court and the case was taken before the grand jury was no grand jury session because of the He was placed under WPD divi sion carried out the and the two arrests were made by Sgt. Sterling Made To Street Lights In customer service representative for Arizona Public Service Company in Winslow reports that the cost of replacing broken and smashed street lights in recently amounted to said that the company made repairs to 20 different mercury vapor fixtures that had been or shot reflect the replacement of Garner and are figured into the rate base for APS customers to is a problem which faces us It is a special problem for the small who finds that it is hard to run fast enough to keep up with the rising is another side to the issue which few of those not in business may That problem involves the difficulty in convincing the public that a real bargain is a real value these of the general rising cost of everything we many of us fail to see a real bargain when it is offered to example a clothing store could offer us a jacket today at cost and we might think that this was a The if compared to what the store might have charged a year might appear but it could very well be a false businessman telling me the other day that the wholesale price for some clothing items now is higher than the retail price only a year And he could not see any end in if this merchant offered these items even at his some people would wonder how much of a the store was it would be lucky just to be trading is a problem that helps only one part of society that I can that is the federal As our incomes we must pay more income even though the really buy can we do about We can sit around and Or we can get to work to elect men and regardless of who will deal with the issue of inflation in a realistic And shoot square with candidate who tells us he or she can get us something for nothing needs to be asked to explain how this magic is to be we may be in for mighty difficult days Let's hope we have the courage to face up to the problem of inflation and defeat WINSLOW Daniel Jill Bernie Matthew Sylvia Barger and June Class postage paid at Arizona 86047nnder Act of Congress of March 1, 1879. Official newspaper of the City of SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES in IN NAVAJO Six One Two OUTSIDE NAVAJO Six One Two 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Margaret of the Navajo and Hopi tribes are meeting with Senator Morris Udall in an attempt to negotiate a settlement in the century-old land tribes have been attempting to resolve continuing problems related to the former Joint Use after nearly 2 million acres were awarded to the tribal members living on lands that were awarded to the Hopis have been ordered to and the Relocation Commission has been charged with helping the families Relocation is planning a budget hearing next according to Paul staff member of the Flagstaff has not been passed regarding the Navajo Tribe's request to acquire additional land to make up for lands awarded to the Hopi Tribe when the JUA was Tessler a report to the School Board last Wayne assistant said that he has working with a committee formed here in Winslow to study the impact of relocation to the border told the board members that some 6,000 people may ultimately be and many of them will choose the towns bordering the Navajo Reservation for their new Some estimates have been made that 800 Navajos may relocate in relocation would not only the but all city Peters Community Counseling Center and the Santa Fe Railway are also looking at the relocation and its possible effects on Damage When Flood Hits was no damage at the Clear Creek Dam construction site when a of went over the top of the project recently when a flash flood hit the spokesman for Halec Construction general contractor at the dam says that wet warm days and a little rain caused the flash The water came down through Clear Creek and over the present The water was within 5 feet of where the Little Miss Shelley Hartman gets a lot of help addressing her cards from twin brothers Jeffrey and Mr. and Mrs. David Hartman are the parents of this trio of Snarls Investment dam will Lane Some of the water was pumped out were a few but there was no loss to any he contractors report that they have a continuing problem with water in the underdrain system at the Lane that the company has spent some to on a to correct the critical part is Lane Hydrostatic pressure is one of the major explained that pumping cement to plug the fissures and cracks could have been but the consensus was that this would have been a terrific amount of a stand pipe was and a pumping system to drain artesian water from the core of the was an engineering Lane He commented that he is pleased very much with the progress of the Margaret breakdown in communications was said to have occurred when the Winslow School District failed to gain anticipated benefits from bond money county school and Jay county were present at the school board meeting Feb. 6, to discuss the problem with local hang-up on the investment procedures had apparently developed between the school superintendent's the board of and the treasurer's procedure for investment of building bond money was briefly explained by Robert administrative assistant for business Winslow School proceed by must be deposited with the county Clubbs and the district then borrows from the fund to pay for construction Resolutions are regularly wherein the district resolves to invest the telling how much has to be on whatever date or in to meet a schedule of This may be changed from time to as building schedules due to weather and production the first big bond issue sold Second In County sixth grade student at Jefferson has placed second at the Navajo County spelling Pat started out as Jefferson School's champion and went on to place fifth at the spelling He then placed third in the district spelling is in Alan Cardon's class this His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Art Tax Collections Increase Over Lasf sales tax collections for November and 1979, decreased as compared to the year but increased in January as to 1979, according to Charles finance director for the City of is not possible at this time to predict what effect the opening of the 1-40 interstate bypass will have on city sales tax as inflation fuel prices and percentage of Time To A trace of moisture was recorded on Feb. 7, 8, and 9; the reports call for mostly fair skies and slightly warmer temperatures by the that any way for a Grandmother to agent drew up the resolution for the school district with suggestions for the money to be available at a certain The local board passed the resolution and called for the money to be returned sooner than it was The money lain in Clubbs so the board passed another resolution to take the unneeded money back and it. This resolution was sent to the Board of only nothing the resolution was not acted upon as the supervisors did not meet for two or three weeks in school superintendent apparently did not realize that the process of approving the resolutions had been the local administrators discovered that Navajo County delinquent tax list is being published in the Holbrook this Copies of the newspaper are available for 20 cents at The Winslow Mail was they consulted with the county The Board of Supervisors has said that they will put Meinke on the agenda for regular if there is a resolution in process. After the supervisors the resolution will be from the board to the county treasurer's the when the county supervisor has received a a copy will be taken directly to the treasurer's if the money in the fund is he can begin immediately to process the noted that the district had suffered some losses by not having investments handled He that when you are talking about 12 or 13 percent even a few can amount to quite a bit of Mar. 3, Clubbs reports the district will have approximately available in sale of a new resolution will be drawn to whatever is left of an estimated with a schedule of needs on certain emphasized that Continued On Page 8 Shortage Part Of Hospital other factors also affect the amount of this revenue Swann The bypass opened late in 1979. city sales taxes collected from 1979, through 1980, were an increase of or 8.3 percent over the same last fiscal A projection of an increase of or 7.8 percent over last fiscal year is estimated for the period 1979, through 1980. state sales taxes collected from July 1979 through January 1980 amounted to compared to for the same period last fiscal an increase of or 15.4 A projection of for 1979, through 1980, is This would amount to an increase of or 15 percent over last fiscal Swann sales tax collections have regularly increased at approximately 15 percent each month from 1979 through 1980, over the corresponding months of last fiscal Swann is no indication that this trend will change in the near for the remaining months of the fiscal year to 1980." Margaret our said Leon Winslow Memorial Hospital speaking to the City Tuesday urged the elected officials to see if there is anything they could do to assist in physician recruitment for the The shortage of he is a prime reason why the Winslow Hospital is facing a financial he is one of Winslow's biggest as far as physicians are That neighboring which backs its hospital with a 1 percent sales is able to guarantee a physician a base with additional guarantees from emergency and other he told the Bonk Here Services of Arizona will be in Winslow Feb. 14-15 and local sponsors are hoping that 200 donors will turn out to give the of will be drawn on Feb. 14 from 1-7 p.m. and on Feb. 15 from 8 a.m. until 1 blood drive is jointly sponsored by the Hospital the Elks Lodge and the Winslow Women's Women's Club sponsors report that the last two drives have fallen short in Winslow and the need for donors is he has negotiated a contract with the Public Health Service to enable PHS to send all maternity patients to Winslow Hospital to This he would additional revenue to the he he is negotiating two additional one for general patient care which would increase the daily census at the hospital by about 10 patients a for added The third if would open the emergency room at the Winslow Hospital to Indian This would also mean additional funds which would improve the financial Haskell requesting help with physician Haskell told the council members that he had spent more than a year getting Winslow designated as a manpower shortage then was advised that there were no funds available from the National Health for physician advised the officials that recruitment often means that the physician is flown out for the the doctor expects substantial space for practice and a guaranteed income for the first few as Often it means that the recruiting city must physically move the physician and his family to the new said that some 50 percent of the local people Continued On Page 8
