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... the Rev. Ray Lamb. Visitation was 9 a.m. until service time at Roller Funeral Home. He was born Sept. 9, 1925, in Clifton, Ariz., to James and Lola McBride Girdner. He married Elizabeth Ann 'Liz' VonSalden on June 17, 1953. He was a U.S. Navy ...
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Lessons Learned, Smokey Skies, Independence Day
... and meaning can come from tragedy. Smokey Skies As the Hot Air fire burns actively 30 miles north of Clifton, Ariz., we watched the skies turn smokey Tuesday and at this writing, crews were bedded down at the head of the ditch ...
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... Rev. Ray Lamb. Visitation will be 9 a.m. until service time at Roller Funeral Home. He was born Sept. 9, 1925, in Clifton, Ariz., to James and Lola McBride Girdner. He married Elizabeth Ann 'Liz' VonSalden on June 17, 1953. He was a U.S. Navy ...
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University project seeks to preserve rich mining history
... Reed said, never specified that the project had to center around its mines, but the project began in the Clifton-Morenci area. One story that came out of interviews in Clifton, Reed said, involved games with Gila monsters. Miners, he said, when not ...
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... the Rev. Ray Lamb. Visitation will be 9-11 a.m. Thursday at Roller Funeral Home. He was born Sept. 9, 1925, in Clifton, Ariz., to James and Lola McBride Girdner. He married Elizabeth Ann "Liz" VonSalden on June 17, 1953. He was a U.S. Navy ...
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Crinan leaves legacy of compassion
... career in the newspaper industry. She worked at a paper in Illinois and was owner and publisher of the Copper Era in Clifton. A desire for equal rights for women was always something Crinan was passionate about. That passion evolved into wanting ...
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Real Estate by Christie Smythe: Precise data on market aids realty agents
... Realty doesn't have its own market-research program, but it's looking into the possibility of using one, owner Kim Clifton said. Long representatives said the in-depth information is useful in winning over buyers and helping sellers price their ...
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... by the emergency dispatcher that the Duncan Fire Department could not respond. The dispatcher also said she called Clifton and Morenci fire departments. Meanwhile, her dogs were still under attack by the bees. Frantic efforts by friends and ...
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Veterans Journey On Motorcycles To D.C. For Memorial Day
Roger Lanphier, a 70-year-old biker in black-leather chaps, hurtles on his Harley past a craggy red mesa north of the Jemez River, chasing his past into his future.
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Biker-veterans journey to Washington, D.C.
... for a Memorial Day rally with Rolling Thunder, a network of veterans on motorcycles. This year they gathered in Clifton, Ariz. - a little mining town that had more soldiers per capita killed in Vietnam than any other town in the United States - and ...
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The real early days of America
>>> A Voyage Long and Strange Rediscovering the New World By Tony Horwitz Henry Holt and Co. / 445 pages / $27.50 In Clifton, Ariz., an old mining town, Walter Mares, the editor of The Copper Era, sometimes dons a conquistador's helmet and talks to school kids about Francisco Coronado. 'Who are you supposed to be - Columbus?' they ask. 'They have no idea about their own history,' Mares concluded. Descended from Spanish colonists who followed Coronado, he dismisses the Pilgrims as 'boat people, Johnny-come-latelies.' On Thanksgiving, Americans 'should be eating chili, not turkey.' Despite an expensive education at an elite university - as a history major - Tony Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Confederates in the Attic, discovered on a chance visit to Plymouth, Mass., that he, too, 'had a third-grader's grasp of early America.' He decided to do something about it. Horwitz gave himself a crash course in North American history and archaeology. Since, like John Smith, the savior of the Jamestown Colony, he preferred to 'beleeve my own eies, before any mans imagination,' he took a 'pre-Pilgrimage,' making landfall wherever the European explorers had, to 'meet the Natives, mine the past and map its memory in the present.' Instead of beginning his journey at Plymouth Rock, he ended it there. By turns history and travelogue, A Voyage Long and Strange is instructive and charming. Horwitz sure can spin a yarn. He re-creates the wonder - and the horror - of the explorers' encounters with exotic creatures. And his thumbnail sketches of the first-comers are tight and bright. Christopher Columbus, he reveals, was not 'a farsighted modern, battling medieval darkness.' By 1492, even the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged that the earth was round. But cosmographers did not agree about its size. Columbus was 'the most wrong-headed of them all.' Buttressing his argument by citing the scriptural passage indicating that six-sevenths of the world is land, Columbus convinced Ferdinand and Isabella that he could reach India 'in a few days with a fair wind.' An incompetent administrator, Columbus died in 1506, 'alone, desolate, infirm.' In the ultimate irony, Horwitz writes, two continents were named for his fellow Italian, Amerigo Vespucci, a self-promoter whose claim to have reached South America in 1497, a year before Columbus arrived there, was almost certainly spurious. Horwitz's account of the legacy left by the Spanish adventurers - Coronado, de Soto and de Leon - is more likely to 'affright than delight.' After all, they cut a devastating swath through the ancient civilizations of the 'New World.' At Mavila, an Indian village along the Alabama River, on Oct. 18, 1540, de Soto's men killed about 2,500 natives and torched their houses. The long-forgotten massacre, Horwitz observes, rivals the battle of Antietam as the deadliest day of combat ever recorded on 'American' soil. Mesmerized by the 'gilded hopes' of gold and an Orient express, Horwitz implies, the conquistadores never learned that 'America's true promise' lay in timber, game, fish and fertile land. The settlements the Spaniards established in North America, from Ponce de Leon's 'discovery' of Florida in 1513 until the English arrived at Jamestown in 1607, were precarious outposts, 'beset by mutinies, pirate raids, plague, fires, Indian hostility, and other woes.' They remain dreary destinations. Following the Mississippi flood of 1927, Arkansas City, which may have been the place where de Soto died, is barely a city at all, with no commercial establishments except a liquor store, laundromat and grocery. 'History's all we got left,' an old man tells Horwitz as he sits by the levee. And not much history at that. No coffin with de Soto's remains has ever been found. 'Young man, I do believe you've been led on,' declares 95 year-old Dorothy Moore. 'Just like those Spanish, always chasing their gold.' Glenn C. Altschuler is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin professor of American studies at Cornell University.
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... and appreciation for their service to our country. Upcoming Events May 10th Sat, 2nd Annual Run for the Bluff, Clifton AZ Meet at NE corner of Power Rd and Baseline, departs 0530am. POC: Oscar Urrea 602-677-6835/ Bob Chacon 602-377-3704. May 10th , ...
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Day Of Prayer; Fires Muddy Skies; Fire Department News
... Skies I have received a news release from the U.S. Forest Service this morning on the Chitty Fire near Clifton, Ariz. As you are seeing and smelling smoke during the day, that's where it's coming in from. There are about 4,000 acres ...
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Neto's Tucson by Ernesto Portillo Jr. : Railroad clerk saw Tucson transform
... made up the majority of the baseball teams that represented Tucson in games against teams from Nogales, Douglas, Clifton-Morenci and other Southern Arizona towns for decades. The Southern Pacific reduced fares to ball games, bull fights and rodeos, ...
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Neto's Tucson by Ernesto Portillo Jr.: Railroad clerk saw Tucson transform
... made up the majority of the baseball teams that represented Tucson in games against teams from Nogales, Douglas, Clifton-Morenci and other Southern Arizona towns for decades. The Southern Pacific reduced fares to ball games, bull fights and rodeos, ...
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... housing for miners and their families. Phelps Dodge has provided trailers rent-free for miners in Morenci and Clifton, and families living in the trailers have complained of the same types of ailments that have sickened Gulf Coast trailer occupants. ...
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Opinion by Bonnie Henry : Badge of honor
... also are credited - ' or criticized, depending upon your point of view - ' for helping put down miner unrest in the Clifton-Morenci area in 1903, as well as in Cananea, Sonora, in 1906 - ' the latter at the invitation of Sonora's governor. ...
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Clifton, Duncan have flood scare
Sunday's rainfall results in the Gila and San Francisco rivers in Duncan and Clifton rising dramatically Monday.
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... 330 PM MST Monday for small streams in central Greenlee County... At 911 am MST... the Blue River upstream from Clifton continued to rise. The river was over 4 feet out of its banks about 17 miles upstream from Clifton with an estimated flow over ...
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The Salsa Trail was only the beginning
... such as Roper Lake State Park, Discovery Park and restaurants on the trail. "The best-kept secret for hikers is the Clifton Ranger District," Maxa said. A tamale pie recipe from retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be included ...
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