Land use meeting outlines Forest Service plan
About 200 residents from Payson Pine and nearby communities gathered at the Payson Elks Lodge to hear the Forest Service land use planning proposal for Mogollon Rim and ask questions. Arizona Cattlemen’s Association leader Bill Davis critiqued draft principles and urged new category names to reflect economic value of natural resources.
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Payson
Pine
Young
Payson Elks Lodge
U.S. Forest Service
Payson Chamber of Commerce
John Weittan
Jim Crosby
John B. Conlan
Bill Davis
Arizona Cattlemen's Association
Small Town Blues survey of Payson youth entertainment
ASU sophomore Penny Graves studied Payson entertainment in a sociology class. She gathered 148 surveys from adults and youths, finding disagreements and communication gaps. Adults called entertainment lacking or fair. youths saw commercial options as main activities and ranked school and booze highly.
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Penny Graves
Arizona State University
Payson
Penny J. Graves
Dale Graves
East Verde Park
Payson North Circle
ASU
Payson School
Miss Graves
Fourteen Seek Payson Town Council Seats in April Primary
Payson Town Clerk Louise Hague reports fourteen candidates filed for seven council seats. Petitions with at least 50 signatures were submitted by Friday, and all nominees completed their petitions. Incumbents Fletcher Gilbert Insche Pettet Thomas run. Fritz Taylor and Al lan Gaughter do not seek reelection. Voters must meet prior election voting or registration requirements to participate in the April 23 primary.
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Louise Hague
Payson Town Council
Bob Belk
Donald Bortell
John Fletcher
Dave Gibert
Ele Insche
Lou Landers
Walter Lee
Eddie Lollar
George Newcomb
Ted Pettet
Neal Reynolds
Richard Robertson
Bill Thomas
Dave Young
Fletcher
Gilbert
Insche
Pettet
Thomas
Fritz Taylor
Allan Gaughter
Meredith elected national SCD officer in Houston meeting
T. L. Meredith of Payson was elected treasurer of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts at its 28th annual meeting in Houston Texas last month. He became the first person from a Western state to hold a national office in the organization.
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T.L. Meredith
Payson
National Association of Soil Conservation Districts
Houston
Tex
Payson Man Receives Chest Wound After Night Noise
Jay Journigan stepped outside his Payson home to investigate a noise Thursday evening and sustained a large chest cut. He was transported to Payson Hospital by family and released Friday morning. The Gila County Sheriff's Office investigates potential charges.
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Payson
Gila County
Homer Haught
Jay Journigan
Haught
Journigan
Payson Hospital
Sheriff's Office
Tonto Village Woman Arrested After Sheriff Shots
A Tonto Village resident, Mildred Dugger, was arrested after allegedly firing through a door at Gila County Sheriff’s Sergeant Homer Haught and Reserve Deputy John Haulot at her home. Haught suffered powder burns and a cut. Dugger faces two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and is in jail on bail. A separate Payson Ranchos fruit tree pruning demonstration by Van Wilson is slated for 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Clark home and open to the public.
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Tonto Village
Gila County
Mildred Dugger
Homer Haught
John Haulot
Dugger
van Wilson
Clark
Payson Ranchos
Payson Dump Closures Begin New Landfill Opening
The Payson dump closes this afternoon as the new Star Valley sanitary landfill starts at 9 a.m. Friday. The closures, ordered by the county and the U.S. Forest Service to ban open pit dumps on federal land by July, affect Pine Ponderosa Christopher Creek Star Valley and Payson dumps. A dumping fee will be charged at the landfill run by Greg Stamper of Payson Refuse under contract with Gila County. Containers will be placed in Pine, Strawberry and Christopher Creek for residential use two days weekly with possible expansion.
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Payson
Star Valley
U.S. Forest Service
Ponderosa
Christopher Creek
Greg Stamper
Payson Refuse
Gila
World Day of Prayer Observed by Payson Churches
Church Women United hosts World Day of Prayer at Payson United Presbyterian Church on Main Street. Coffee at 9 30 and service at 10 feature a Japan themed program with international participation and a 1974 Ask Make Us Builders of Peace message.
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Church Women United
Payson
Payson United Presbyterian Church
Main Street
International Committee
C.W.U
United States
Japan
Asia
W.r.mccreary
Tian Women United
David B. Gilbert
Episcopalian
Helen Wagner
Nazarene
William H. Korte
Lutheran
Alan Slaughter
A.E. Petznick
Art Eads
Pine Baptist Church
Carroll R. Brown
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Forest Service
Mogollan Rim
Payson High School
Bob Welker
Joseph Matthews
Davis
Richard R. Robertson
T. L. Meredith
Tel
Meredith
Carl Schneider
Vercoe
Presbyterian
McCreary
Chris
Graue
Bob Law
Richard Goudie
W.R. McCreary
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