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Newspaper
Payson Roundup
Location
Payson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1975
Page
4
Payson Volunteer Fire Department and the U.S. Forest Service urge residents to Learn Not To Burn during Oct 5 to Oct 12. They teach fire prevention in schools and clubs to protect property homes forests and lives, noting fire causes extensive damage nationwide and has killed local firefighters in the past 20 years.
In 1975 there were 1,768 daily newspapers publishing 61,887,197 copies daily and 9,396 non daily titles. Newspapers earned one third of U.S. advertising dollars in the prior year, employed 382,300 people, and used 10,206,531 tons of newsprint in 1974, about 41.3 percent of world total.
The piece extols First Amendment protections for a free press while noting they guarantee no guaranteed fairness or responsibility. It cites Benjamin Franklin and stresses that open public discussion of issues preserves liberty, warning against any limits on expression, even for repugnant causes.
A sixth grader at Julia Randall Elementary answered a civ il defense questionnaire listing items to take in an hour evacuatio n and how to find separated family members. The piece concludes with a wry note about a windmill joke and Payson funeral curator Lyle Ferguson planning an underground movement.
A Payson family thanks the Payson Volunteer Fire Dept for a prompt response when an auto burned between homes on Gold Nugget Lane. They credit the Town Council with sustaining fire protection after county cutbacks and extend gratitude to local residents.
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