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Show Payson Progress Viewed by Women In 'Main' Stream r y vl 1 r" " 1 I , 'in t'Wr i y: -aj::- v-A- , ' t , ' vSv - ' 'V.' :: . If. II . , rft.- Mvyy i - Muia . - ' -- k BLEND OF VILLAGE FRIENDLINESS AND MODERN PROGRESS, Payson's Main Street reflects the past, the present and the future. Determined to compete, the business men and women of Main Street are looking toward a "new look" that will also incor the early heritage. por-at- "HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS were just beginning to give way to the automobile when this picture of Payson was taken. The heavy canvas awnings, downtown utility poles and unpaved street are gone, but the transforming spirit of progress is retained. By MADOLINE DIXON PAYSON Payson's Main Street, today and yesterday, has two different faces, and still a third face is in the planning by merchants and citizens of the community. Today's Main Street presents an ocean of. cement on street and sidewalks .divided by irrigation water running in ditches on either side of the street. Buildings are a mixture of the new and the old. Shiny new automobiles and mini skins add to the 1968 picture. Yesterday's Main Street had plank sidewalks, roads with ankle deep dust or mud as the season happened to be, tall wooden poles on each side, proudly holding new electric power with 11 saloons intermixed with the many shops and stores. Some of these had broad porch-lik- e coverings over the fronts. Tomorrow's Main Street is expected to appear somewhat different than that of today or yesterday, but some of the facets of the past are planned to be returned to meld with those of today, to present yet another face on Main Street. Members of the Chamber of Commerce Improvement Committee have evolved ideas that would use present conditions and facilities. They hope to improve what is at hand to create a beautiful city center that would be unusual in its admittedly "smalltown appearance." Leaders would keep the irrigation waters rolling in open ditches through Main Street and construct awnings over store fronts. At present there is a controversy over whether or not to keep the old White Way, installed in 1925, or y traffic, replace it with modern lighting. going south, with parking on either side of the street, is in the planning stages in City Hall. (Continued on Page i;4h l , T t NT" V FROM HER DESK, where she has seen 40 years of changes in the Payson business district, Pearl Bigler discusses real estate sales. A steady growth, with neither boom nor bust, has marked Payson's progress from pioneer village to modern community. One-wa- 1 --- Z l 2-- RECALLING THE DAYS when a woman wnr ft wiir only if the condition of her hair demanded it, Gladys Wilarih compares the way milady today wears a wardrobe of wigs or changes the color 6t her hair to suit whim or Kin moid. i A HOPING TO PARTICIPATE in new changes for the apiwarance of Main Street in ray-Bobusiness women June Dickey, left, and I)awnn Stewart diwuss plans that would create a western or pioneer atmosphere, yet retain the contemporary merchandising to Main Street progress. S n, ' t. ial Aic.MAtlAl. who has !pent L. i)r. UUMI. most of h'.r life in cWe contact with Main Street, tells stories of her mother's millinery nhop, comparing it with the business she now operates in the same huilding, as she nhows an old allium to her daughter. Kath-- rj n Brown, and granddaughter, Sue Taylor, I SUNDAY HERALD, SEPTEMBER 1, 1968 i MJ.M..t vl i. 1.11.-1- 11 i M II ell |