REMEMBER WHEN FROM THE PAST--PAYSON POLICE RESERVE

REMEMBER WHEN
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Kenna Holm
  
Payson Police Auxiliary

    At DUP meeting a while back Sue Ellsworth Jolley said to me "Hey, I've got some neat pictures of the old Payson Police Auxiliary when my dad was in it." Of course right away I was interested. I thought it would be fun to look back to those days when we had a Police Reserve.
It was organized in 1955 under the direction of Police Chief Dick Chapple. The Justice of Peacewas Eugene Hillman (Russell Hillman and Marianne H Evans father). He swore them in on a Saturday morning. At that time Howard Ellsworth (father of Sue Jolley and Randy Ellsworth) was the first Captain.

First Auxillary Police group: (front l-r) Hyrum Jensen, Sgt Cornell Binks, Sec/Treasurer Howard Ellsworth, Cpt. Joe Jackson, (back l-r) Blaine Wilson, Shirley Bjarnson, Wandle Francom, Reed Argyle.  Absent: Harold Jones,2Lt; and Bernell McAffee

    The members worked on a volunteer basis, except when working as extra policemen , like during Onion Days.  They set up by- laws and it stated in the by-laws that each man had to give at least four hours a month under a regular police officer. In talking to Joe Jackson, he said theyalways enjoyed that. Therewere 4 police officers at the time. Page Peery (Shirlene P. Wood and Lynn 'Sam' Peery's father), Bob Cartwright, (father of Dona Cartwright) By Montague (Jerilyn Sorenson's father) and of course Dick Chapple.

Formal Photo (front l-r) Hyrum Jensen, Joe Jackson, Howard Ellsworth, Harold E. Jones, Cornell Binks. (2nd row l-r) Wandle Francom, Bernell McAffee, Unknown, Reed Argyle.  (3rd row l-r) Blaine Wilson, Red Partridge, Shirley Bjarnson
 
 These men all bought there own uniforms and anything else they needed.  They purchased their own hand-cuffs, radios, and other equipment. This was done through donations of members and also the amount they were paid when they filled in for regular members of the police department. They started out with 13 members and it stayed around that many all the time.
    I remember they looked really sharp in their uniforms.  It was the beginning of some of the men’s occupation like Joe Jackson who went on to work in the Sheriff's Dept; Blaine Wilson (Steve's dad and Colleen's husband) went on to become Police Chief here in Payson and later a Highway Patrolman. A lot of different men were in that auxiliary at one time or another.

Payson Police Auxillary in 1967.  (L-r)Howard Ellsworth, Nick Paige, Richard Murdoch, Harold Jones, Hyrum Jensen, Clifford Herbert, and Dale Black.  Not present were Shirley Bjarnson and Duane Jewett.
    Isn't it so nice to have dedicated people who are willing to give of their time and means to help others. Isalute all those have been in this auxiliaryand worked for each of us even though they are no longer an organization it's fun to take time and remember when....