By Mick Woodcock

Although Congress approved a gradual expansion of the United States Army and National Guard in 1916, the numbers were very low when war was declared. The Army was at 121,000 men and the National Guard 181,000. This was much less than the target of one million. When voluntary enlistments produced only 73,000 additional servicemen, Congress passed the Selective Service Act of 1917.
 

By Elisabeth F. Ruffner

In the early 1970s, Florence B. “Pat” Yount, MD, a busy pediatrician, found her interest in Prescott history sufficiently strong to attract others to her causes, including Mayor Taylor T. Hicks, Sr., a practicing dentist, whose avocational interest in history matched Dr. Yount’s.  A number of other Prescott professionals and businessmen and women soon began studying the possibilities of historic preservation initiated when Congress provided for a National Register of Historic Places within the Department of the Interior in 1966.
 

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