Local AJRA Rodeo Honors Youth Winners Across Ages
The rodeo featured 5-12, 13-15, and 16-18 divisions with girls and boys competing. Winners included Miss Higgins in goat tying, Sunni Nance in barrel racing, Terri Foley and Kristy Wimberley leading their age groups, and several others in calf, team and ribbon roping, bareback riding, and bull riding. Eleven riders were injured, six hospitalized, with the event drawing 800 to 900 attendees and over 360 entries.
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Miss Higgins
Sunni Nance
Tommy Garr
Faustino Sanders
Chandler
Armstrong
Terri Foley
Tucson
Judy Stroud
Kim Berman
Scottsdale
Maranas
Art Thomasson
Art Junior
Flip Shelton
Gila Bend
Bob Garr
Chuck Rogers
Phoenix
Craig Addy
Coolidge
Kristy Wimberley
Holly van Winkle
Lianne Butterworth
Jack Paddock
Marana
Sonny Morales
Tuscon
Jeff Haas
Douglas
Tommy Barkley
Florence
Bob Hill
Apache Junction
Farrell Hoosava
Payson
Vernon Hawkins
Lazy FZ
Idaho
Roy Creach Arco
Karen Randall
Carol Wendt
Miss Catarin Contests Week Says Expenses Funded by Ads
The contest runs August 11 to 15 with travel costs covered by selling ads to Payson businesses. Ads form a brochure for Miss Catarin to pass out at appearances. About a quarter of contacted businesses have responded. help is needed. Miss Catarin is involved with music and sewing and attends a music camp July 25 to August 7. She works at Swiss Village Bakery and makes work pants. Eddie Lollar of Frontier Market sponsors the contest.
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Payson
Miss Caturia
Miss Catarin
Swiss Village
Miss Arizona
Eddie Lollar
The
Frontier Market
Payson Library Tests Weeks-Only Evening Hours
In response to rising usage the Payson Library will stay open one night weekly on an experimental basis from 7 to 9 p.m., starting Friday. Librarian Jean Smith notes the new hours aim to boost community access and engagement.
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Payson
Jean Smith
Mountain Bell welcomes new staff and church appoints three officers
The church welcomed Elder Lloyd Cook as Deacon Lucile Harrenstein and as Treasurer Alice Cook. Congratulations to all three. Tillie Tanner joins Mountain Bell staff after 16 years with Ma Bell and moving to Payson North from Winslow. Wishes for luck accompany the moves.
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John Ebner
John
Payson
Judy
Ebners
U.S. Air Force
Lloyd Cook
Lucile Harrenstein
Alice Cook
Tillie Tanner
Mountain Bell
Tillie
Ma Bell
Winslow
Payson Library Adds Thursday Evening Hours
The Payson Library extends public access with Thursday hours from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. to accommodate patrons unable to visit during standard hours. New titles include Trevor's The Fortunate Marriage Derby's The Lady and Her Tiger Miss Read's Battles at Thrush Green and Sanders The Tomorrow File. Agatha Christie novels Passport to Frankfurt Murder underground arrived from Richard Kuntz.
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Nan Pyle
Trevor
Derby
Miss Read
Thrush Green
Sanders
Richard Kuntz
Frankfurt
Mae Emmett Improves After Hospital Stay
Mae Emmett has been treated at Payson Hospital for a heart problem and is reported to be feeling better with hopes of returning home soon. Her condition was described as improving by Bob, with plans to go home today or tomorrow if there are no setbacks.
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Mae Emmett
Payson Hospital
Bob
Sue Bentsen Heads to California to Visit Father
Sue Bentsen leaves Saturday for Pioce, California, to be with her father undergoing heart treatment. She will meet Pam in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the pair will fly to California for a week’s visit. Meanwhile Wayne and Paul plan a week of batting.
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Sue Bentsen
Pioce
Calif
Pam
Nevada
Las Vegas
California
Wayne
Paul
Georgia Jackman Finishes Recovery From Burst Appendix
Georgia Jackman faced a rough week after an appendix burst but has shown strong recovery and was scheduled to go home today. Family and staff report steady improvement and gratitude for care received.
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Georgia Jackman
Altha DeCastro Returns to Payson for Australia Slides
Former Payson resident Altha DeCastro came back from Australia and shared slides at a KOA gathering with about 30 friends. She founded Payson groups including the First Southern Baptist Church and the Tonto Rim Garden Club, and noted Perth as her daughter's home while praising Payson residents' friendliness.
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Payson
Altha DeCastro
Australia
DeCastro
First Southern Baptist Church
Tonto Rim
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Jimbo Armstrong
Bill Armstrong
Quinteen
Gary Nesbitt
Karen Pyle
Tom and
Twain Connolly
Randy Randall
LaRae Higgins
Peoria
Okinawa
Payson’s Trade Center
Kampgrounds of America
KCA
Belgium
Germany
France
Japan
Canada
Panama Canal Zone
Payson Koa
J.W
Vertielee Floyd
Arizona
Arizona Mining
Presbyterian Church
Tanner
Payson Library
Sue
Altha
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