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Newspaper
Payson Roundup
Location
Payson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1976
Page
4
Readers urge the town to rewrite zoning rules after the attorney claimed used car sales could fall under C-2, potentially allowing sale of tractors buses and other motor vehicles near banks and shops. The letter-writers demand immediate exclusion of motor vehicle sales from C-2 zoning.
Officials in Payson and Packard School District pursue non taxpayer funding for major projects. Payson taps Federal Revenue Sharing and seeks a $100000 plus federal grant for a permanent town hall while Packard District aims to fund a Punkin Center school entirely through community contributions. The Bicentennial in Tonto Basin highlighted local fundraising efforts. Both seek easier funding paths to ease taxpayer impact, though gains ultimately come from residents.
A sermon-like critique argues that nature's laws shaped a stable climate but human industry disrupts it. It cites droughts in the midwest, Rhine Valley floods, Japan rains, Mexico floods, and California crop losses totaling five billion dollars as signs of pending catastrophe. Jonas Salk is quoted: Nature always has the last word.
A geologist followed elk tracks to their origin while a reporter scouted the hideout and a promoter rushed to town to sell the head and hide after a weekend in the Payson area. A local janitor arrived ten minutes late and was asked what the Army did then.
An article by Jim Graham discusses a Payson medical controversy with a doctor on probation, a hospital under a temporary restraining order, and board recommendations to fire the administrator. It argues for preventive medicine as a viable, nutrition oriented approach that emphasizes patient responsibility and long term health, contrasting it with defensive, technology heavy practice.
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