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"y'rvyr ar republic bullUog REPUBLIC MAIL Bisbee Starts Fight Against Water Rate Increase By NATALIE DENNEY BISBEE Residents here are angry over a proposed 26 per cent increase in water rates by the Arizona Water Co. A telephone campaign is under way requesting residents to pack the court house Tuesday when a hearing on the proposed rate increase will be held by the Arizona Corporation Commission. Bert Whitehead, president of the Bisbee Chamber of Commerce, sent off a blistering letter to the Bisbee newspaper, which said, in part: "THIS will be the fourth rate increase for this company since it purchased the Bisbee water system (12 years ago) "If the laws of our state are so antiquated that the rights of the people are not taken into consideration, the laws should be changed. "If the Arizona Corporation Commission is interested in the fair treatment of the people, the commission should take into consideration the effects of its action on the people who are so vitally concerned." MAYOR Paul Durrett said the company's water rates were already almost prohibitive. "Last month my water bill was $24," he said.

"If this rate increase is permitted, it will be $30." Many complain that it will be impossible to maintain nice yards if the water rate goes up. A beautification project in the Lowell Traffic Circle, sponsored by the Bisbee Garden Club, stays in financial difficulties because of the present high water rate, the club says. The project includes a water fountain equipped with a recirculation pump. CLYDE Bigelow, manager of the water company's Bisbee office, says the company has made extensive improvements in the water system with the installation of booster pumps along the lines, with the replacement of old mains and with installation of a $25,000 control panel in its local office. The panel, Bigelow says, permits a check on the entire operation for maximum efficiency.

Customers have complained, however, that water pressure and service have not improved appreciably and that on occasion they have found sand in the pipes. COUNCILMAN Art Blunt said he would again encourage the city council to appropriate monies from the public works fund for an engineering survey of the water system as a step toward purchase of the company by the city. Bisbee is not the only community to protest proposed Arizona Water Co. rate increases. Mammoth's town council will be petitioned by citizens to begin condemnation proceedings against the company.

The company has proposed a 61 per cent increase in Mammoth water rates, a 7 per cent increase in San Manuel and a 119 per cent increase in nearby Oracle. IN CASA GRANDE the city council voted Monday to oppose formally any proposed increase in rates. According to a water company report, a 43 per cent increase is proposed for Casa Grande. A city official there said, "I think the stockholders (of the water company) want to get rid of it, so they keep pushing rate increases hoping the communities will buy them out." A Miami citizens group has proposed to the Bisbee Chamber of Commerce that the two join forces to fight rate increases. Corporation Commission hearings started Tuesday in Coolidge.

They will continue in Casa Grande today; Ajo, tomorrow; Sierra Vista, Monday, Bisbee, Sept. 24; San Manuel, Sept. 25; Oracle-Winkleman, Sept. 26; and Superior, Sept. 27.

"WO The Arizona Republic i I 'fyJ Don Dedera Story of Frontier Days Well Worth Reading THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Page 19 Thursday, September 19, 1963 Following a dawn dove hunt in Helen H. safflower field, I stopped by to pay my CASHION Seargeant's Western Buildings Bought TOMBSTONE Three his CD Leaders Find Fallout Defense Poor FLAGSTAFF If America suddenly were subjected 3 respects. She is, by my ungallant calculation, 86 years old. But it is not her antiquity alone that qualifies her as Arizona's Grandma Moses of the printed page. In the same way that with vivid primitives Grandma Moses interpreted Old New England to a fourth generation, so does Helen Seargeant reveal Old Arizona.

Mrs. Seargeant's verbs are as crisp as Grandma Moses' greens; her eye as keen for detail; her prose a canvas for honest and meaningful episodes. toric buildings have been purchased by Detroit businessmen who are organiz to a nuclear attack and Boulder was a Wo. 1 target in ed under the name of His toric Tombstone Adven tures." the Far West, the outer edges of Coconino County could feel the effects of radioactive fallout within an hour after the blast. Mrs.

Sergeant The buildings include Downtown Flagstaff and the entire county, one of the nation's largest, could be completely enveloped in three hours, depending upon the intensity of the weapon. If a county resident did not have a place to find food, the Crystal Palace, one of the most amous bars of the West and Scheffelein Hall, which housed the legitimate theaters in shelter, and water for approxi- I think Mrs. Seargeant is one of Arizona's few great writers. Born in Prescott and brought up tn a Mexican plantation, Helen Humphreys returned to Arizona to become the bride of Jonathan W. Seargeant in 1913.

Their house was adobe, the Buckeye road to California a dirt trail. While the menfolk freed the fertile flats from the grip of mes-qulte, Mrs. Seargeant tried to make a home out of wood smoke, alkali dust and hard water. Living was seldom easy, and never Arizona's pioneer days. It is one of the few two-story adobe build ers who could possibly be caught hundreds of miles from home ings ever constructed.

"when the bell rings." "We would have one heck of an evacuation problem," Mullady Also purchased was a small house at the corner of Fremont mately three days to two weeks, he could be dead within 30 days. The man with these unhappy comments is Tom Taylor, director of training and education for Region 7 Civil Defense. Region 7 includes Arizona, fornia, Utah, Nevada and Ha and Third Streets adjacent to the OK Corral. said, "or else we would have to stuff the people in the tunnel." The tunnel Mullady referred to is the two-mile underground supply line that was built primarily for construction of the dam. Civil Defense leaders in the waii, a i was principal speaker yesterday at a CD Region 7 conference in the Arizona Bank building.

These structures will be authentically restored. Old photographs on file at the Arizona Pioneer Historical Society and in private collections will be used as guides. John Gilchriese, field historian of the University of Arizona and a recognized authority on Tombstone, has been retained as adviser. Republic Photo by Bill Nixon MECHANICAL MARVEL Francis McClintock, Cottonwood mechanic, proudly sits at the wheel of a 10-horsepower car he built with scraps of material. The car weighs 550 pounds, reaches 22 mph.

The man most concerned with Taylor's remarks was Cecil Matthews, CD director for both the City of Flagstaff and Coconino County. border community are currently formulating plans to set aside the tunnel for shelter. Ray Bradshaw, Page school superintendent, and Ed Lonergan, city manager, said that the tunnel could be expanded to accommodate 19,000 people. Presently, it would take care of Matthews noted that while there 22 approved fallout shelters in the county, only eight are com Work was started yesterday on dull. BY 1932 Mrs.

Seargeant found time to begin setting down her interconnected anecdotes. She rewrote her book three times, and lost count of rejection slips before the Naylor Company, San Antonio, accepted it for publication in 1960. "House by the Buckeye Road," she called it. "The ditch water was frequently muddy and had to be settled before using," she wrote, "and there was never enough of it "Of all the hardships pioneers had to put up with, I am sure that old wash tub business was the worst, and the women got the brunt of that. The man had his hard and dirty work in the field, but it was creative work and important business, and he was a big man, and he swelled with pride over a good crop The woman did her big work cleaning the clothes, and the man just took them out and rubbed them in the dirt again.

If she could have saved up her credits for about six months so she could exult over them in a pile, she might have felt that she had accomplished something worth while; but, no, at the end of that six months all she had was the same little old pile of clothes, decidedly worn, and probably dirty again. Heck! Civilization wasn't worth it." There are also passages of slapstick humor, of Arizona cowboys riding nerd on the flocks of ostriches once raised in the Buckeye area, of the drunken well driller, and of the great day when the first Model replaced Old Kate and the buggy. the Crystal Palace where a wood en sidewalk will be laid, wooden awnings replaced and the original 8,000. But, they said there is a possibility 50,000 people could be enjoying recreation facilities pletely stocked with food and water. The stocked shelters are located at.

McClellan's Department second story added. Cottonwood Man Builds Little Car on Lake Powell "when the bell THE INTERIOR of the bar is to be remodeled. Exterior work Tucson Progress Top Election Issue By JAMES E. COOK Republic Tucson Bureau TUCSON Progress, or lack of it, will be the primary issue in rings." Store, Flagstaff Junior High, Emerson Elementary School, the new will be completed before the an "We need some advice," Rang nual Helldorado next month. county jail, three dormitories at Arizona State College and the er Mullady said, "about how to handle the transient population." grade school at Williams.

Flagstaff has a similar problem If Coconino County were forced to combat the fallout problem to Work on the other two structures will follow. Harold O. Love is president of Historic Tombstone Adventures and heads the Archives of American Art. with tourists. Arizona Highway Department traffic figures show that an average of 28,000 cars per city general election campaign that began yesterday and will end at the polls Nov.

5. COTTONWOOD Garage owner Francis McClintock has created his own monster and it has a 10-horse power engine with a one and one-half gallon gas morrow, only 1,481 persons could be properly fed and sheltered, Taylor said. month pass through the city on Republican Mayor Lew Davis will defend his record against a U.S. 66. lively onslaught by attorney Gordon Kipps, the Democratic nominee.

The winner will serve the city THERE ARE 48,000 people in the county. McClintock designed and built a four-wheel open air "car" that first four-year term as mayor. Col. Holloway explained that surveys are being conducted, or will be conducted, to aid areas that could possibly have their million larger than that of the previous government, has been blends well with the warm-weath' The conference was conducted primarily on a panel basis, with Davis won the GOP nomination merely "caretaking" until "they er conditions of the beautiful several experts answering ques oegan paving streets at election for re-election Tuesday, compiling an unofficial 6,536 votes to 4,513 for advertising man Arnold Jef- Verde Valley. tions on "how to stay alive." time.

fallout shelters overrun. Roadblocks would be established by law enforcement agencies and motorists would be sent on William Murray, head of the Utica, N.Y. Art League and a retired businessman, is vice president. Wallace Clayton of the J. Walter Thompson Co.

advertising agency and secretary of the Detroit Art Commission is secretary of HTA. Lawrence Fleischman, well known art collector and president of the Detroit Art Commission, is treasurer of HTA. The men were Taylor, Col. Ed Highway safety experts would fers who also lost to Davis in Kipps charged that the city has applaud McClintock's effort. The the 1961 Republican primary.

not aggressively annexed adjoin ward H. Wilkie, coordinator for the University of Arizona's con 550-pound car has a top speed of ing territory. KIPPS SMASHED his primary their way once danger areas were known. tinuing education division and only 22 mph. opponent, Joseph I.

Brown, 5,715 "Got most of the parts out of State Civil Defense Director Col. J. G. Holloway. DAVIS SAID the council's biggest job is coping with explosive to 2,599.

Despite its rare values, the book has had but a modest sale. And more's the pity. Newcomers to Arizona, desiring the lore of their chosen land, accept as gospel and history all the epic accounts of cold-blooded bushwhackers, demented thieves and slavering bullies that spring from the pulpwriter's commercial mind. YET A SPRITELY but accurate work like Mrs. Seargeant's is overlooked.

This has not been a good year for Mrs. Seargeant. She is still weak after a long illness in the hospital. It has been impossible for her to promote her book. Here, then, is an undisguised plug: "House by the Buckeye Road" can be ordered through most Arizona bookstores, or directly, for $4.50, from Mrs.

Seargeant at P.O. Box 383, Cashion, Ariz. Honesty? Her vision is dim, and her weight is down to 75 pounds, but she autographs every copy. Furthermore, she insists on leafing through every book and correcting every minor typographical error with her own pen. the junk yard, he said.

The Briggs-Stratton engine will The town of Page at Glen Can About 30 per cent of registered Tucson voters cast ballots Tues growth, including "annexation of the denser areas as they become urbanized, in keeping with our ability to provide the services These men, all lovers of the Old yon Dam would present a major problem in a nuclear attack. provide at least 40 miles to the day. Forty five per cent of eligi Paving Bill West and believers in the preser gallon. The 19-inch wheels came ble Republicans and 25 per cent vation of Americana, toured the promised to them and to which off a motorcycle and an avail of registered Democrats voted. John Mullady, chief ranger for the National Park Service at country and visited Tombstone they are entitled by virtue of be tble bicycle.

It's propelled by hill The heavy GOP vote was attributed to the brisk contest between ing taxed for them upon annexa Lake Powell, is concerned about climber chains connected to the several times before deciding to purchase the buildings. tion. Davis and Jeffers. the thousands of recreation seek "rear-power" engine. Davis said yesterday he thinks Clayton said that Tombstone was selected because it had pre the bread and butter issue that served many of its buildings.

Plans won the primary was his adminis Given Okay Republic Washington Bureau WASHINGTON A hourse judiciary subcommittee yesterday approved a bill by Rep. George F. Senner to pay a paving bill for the City of Winslow. The sum represents the part of follow the Tombstone restoration tration's record of harmony and zoning ordinance. progress during nearly two years in office.

He said he believes the general election will hinge on "promises that might be kept Troubled Hassay Northern Lights Prescott City Hall Dedication Dec. 29 Ideal Time for Barry's Announcement ampa versus promises that were kept. Yuma Birchers Against Treaty YUMA (AP)-The Yuma chap the paving job which Winslow officials contend a federal officer Hotel's Fate Debated mi "IF I WERE to point to one item of personal strength, it would be that I have listened to people when they talked and they have listened to me," Davis said. "You ter of the John Birch Society went on record yesterday against the By BILL NIXON Northern Arizona Bureau can't get anything done at bona agreed to pay. The paving involved was adjac-cent to the Emmons Indian 'Boarding School at Winslow.

When the city acceded to a long-standing nuclear test-ban treaty. election time, or any other time, unless the people are kept In By CLAIBORNE NUCKOLLS PRESCOTT The destiny of Prescott's Hassayampa Hotel, a 40-year landmark, remained undecided late yesterday following a stockholders' meeting to consider its sale. A recent report by the hotel's directors called attention to financial difficulties facing the hotel which has for some time been running lot ever mapped in the city, and was the location for the original Goldwater family enterprise in Helen E. Gilmore, leader of the society unit and a Yuma real estate saleswoman, said the treaty is immoral and stupid. formed all the way through." Kipps questioned yesterday public demand to pave the street, central Arizona.

whether Davis' administration is it sought federal assistance and THESE FACTS have historical and sentimental responsive to the desires of the value to the senator. believed the school had agreed to pay a share of the cost. people in general rather than the desires of a few. It was in Prescott, known by historians as the HAE SOMEONE LEAN OUT THE U.S. SEN.

Barry Goldwater, has stated that on New Year's Day he will announce to his nationwide constituents the biggest decision of his political life. The senator has established Jan. 1 as the day to say whether he intends to seek the Republican presidential nomination. But let's backtrack a few days from that holiday to see where Senator Goldwater will spend his time. On Dec.

29 he won't be in Washington or flying somewhere for a GOP rally, and he won't be at his Phoenix home. After the paving was completed. "Basically, mv issues will be cradle of Arizona history, that Senator Goldwater first announced his plans to seek a federal office. and the city's bill presented, the A FML OF WATER ON THE 006- deep in the red. The report also cited costs of renovation and remodeling as being "almost prohibitive." However following yesterday's meeting, some stockholders voiced a strong sentiment in favor of continuing the Hassayampa even to the point of costly remodeling or even complete rebuilding.

Interior Department rejected It the lack of progress by the cur-1 rent administration in relation to Tucson," he said. "There have In addition, he has many close friends, political on grounds no authority existed allies and ex-school chums in the town. iiUKUlH HERE'S ATIPT j' ONHOUTOCWE A DOG OF tu- mi Ms for making such a oayment. been many things significant to II ri Tin I Magazine writers, news columnists and com the community which the current When Sen. Carl Hayden, D- administration has not taken care mentators have written and stated that Gold-water has a flair for the dramatic.

So, wouldn't it attempted to obtain such of." authority in an Interior Department appropriations bill, the Item One stockholder said, "It would be appropriate for him to jump the gun by a few days and announce his decision at Prescott on HE CITED URBAN renewal, 1 which he said "just seemed to was knocked out by a senator's objection that it attempted to be a shame and a loss to the community to lose the Hassayampa. It has been a landmark so long that it is part of the heart He will be taking part in an historically important event in Prescott. On the surface, of a new city hall would hold little significance for Goldwater. BUT WHEN IT comes to Prescott, that's a different thing. The senator will be the main speaker at the legislate in a money measure.

Dec. 29? WHERE COULD he find a better place or time for his day of decision? The night before he dedicates the city hall, the I WONDER IF THAT disappear" when Davis took office, and the council's failure to respond to public demands for a leash law. "Public housing is primarily be KfcALLY WORKS Senner then submitted a claim bill in the House for the $15,875 senator wil mingle with Arizonans at the territorial costume ball, which kicks off the beginning plus interest. Both the Interior dedication on Dec. 29, the 100th anniversary of the ing taken care of by private en Department and the Budget Bu establishment of government and politics in Ari of Prescott centennial celebration.

terprise," Kipps said, "but if It reau agreed to the measure. can't be handled in this manner, of Prescott." 1 The possibility of remodeling the physical plant to modernize it was discussed. Also discussed were the possibilities of razing the existing building and starting a new one. Spokesmen said the only other alternative would be outright sale oflne property. zona.

It was Dec. 29, 1863, that John N. Goodwin took the oath of office as first territorial governor 4 which now will go before the full Judiciary Committee and then I think available federal funds A national television audience is assured for Goldwater's presence in Prescott on Dec. 28-29. Murray Fromson, CBS-TV production executive should be sought out." at remote Navajo Springs in northeastern Ari zona.

for the West Coast, will have cameras. poised and will become eligible to be placed on the calendar of private (claim) bills in the House. Kipps charged that the present council, which has a budget $6 loaded with film. The new Prescott City Hall stands in thelirst hMMan i mmm aa-.