The roads into Crown King reopened to the general public at 6 p.m. as firefighters continued to gain the upper hand on the Tiger Rock Complex fires. The U.S. Forest Service had closed the roads when the fires threatened the community, which is surrounded by the Prescott National Forest about 30 miles south of Prescott.
July 3, 2002:
Lightning started at least two small wild land fires. Prescott National Forest Service spokesman Tobin said the firefighters were extinguishing the two small fires. One blaze burned one-tenth of an acre on Mingus Mountain and another blackened a quarter-acre area on Highway 169 near the Grey Wolf Landfill.
July 3, 1997:
Board member Dana Womack slammed the textbook choice at the Prescott Unified School District board meeting. She labeled two books designated for 7th and 8th grade use as the "Ron Barnes, John Dewey, Willy Wonka method of teaching," citing that the books suggested such teaching methods as cooperative learning, multi-cultural perspectives, multiple intelligence instruction and self-esteem building.
July 3, 1982:
The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors considered a proposed change in medical relief and aid eligibility which would lower the allowable income for one person from $3,400 a year to $2,100. Deputy County Attorney Randy Schurr told the supervisors that by lowering the maximum allowable income, the county would be complying with a Yavapai County Superior Court order.
July 3, 1957:
"The Rough Riders of Phoenix have more than earned their name the past 5-1/2 days. The tough riders, including professional men and women from the capital city, rode into Prescott this noon to take part in the 70th annual Frontier Days Celebration and Rodeo. Accompanying the group is their own chuck wagon, unromantically but conveniently pulled by a Jeep.'"
July 3, 1932:
"Oh, boy, what a community sing program Director Gordon Moore has arranged for tonight, the closing night of the four-day rodeo. It is free to everybody, of course, and is to take place on the north side of the courthouse beginning at eight o'clock. There will be about a dozen songs to be sung by the whole audience and about as many big time acts. Mrs. Lee Roberts promised to present an old-time square dance. "
July 3, 1907:
"The millions of flies which come up on railroad trains from Phoenix to summer in Prescott every year have commenced to arrive. Before railway construction to the south flies were almost unknown in Prescott, mosquitoes a curiosity and fleas unheard of. Prescott, has, however, always been troubled with money bugs and bed bugs."
July 3, 1882:
"To our people in Arizona, the grandest principles of human science are still as a dead letter, but soon the educational advantages which surround it here will crush out the superstitious dogmas which have so long perverted the untrained mind, and when reason shall be admitted as a party to the controversy the, transition from ignorance and superstition to independence of thought, and thence to enlightenment, will be thorough and rapid."
