The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-26
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SOUTHWEST NEWS
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The annual meeting of the New
Mexico State Poultry Association was
held at Roswell recently.
A superior Court jury exonerated
the Santa Fe Railroad Company in
suit brought by the Dan Fain Live
stock Company to collect SLIGO for
the loss of 100 sheep, killed when
struck by a train in Phoenix last April
Ray Stuart of Roswell, N. M, grad
uate of the University of New Mexico
and at present postgraduate student
for his masters degree at the insti-
tuition, has been chosen as New Mex
ico's candidate for the Rhodes schol-
arship.
Robert Krause, Rocky River, Ohio,
a senior in letters and science at the
University of Arizona, has been named
as a candidate for the Rhodes schol-
arship Altho Arizona could have
chosen two candidates, only one was
selected.
The executive committee of the
New Mexico Educational Association
at a recent meeting in Santa Fe de-
ferred action on the employment of
permanent secretary for the associ-
alton until the next meeting of the
executive committee.
Associated Service Stations Com
pany of Prescott have filed articles
of incorporation In Phoenix. The in
corporators are William w. Head,
Louis H. Bunte and Patsy Perrotti of
Prescott and has an authorized cap
italization Of $4,000.
The Catholic Church and sisters
| quarters at BlancO, fifteen miles east
of Aztec, were destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Efforts to save the buildings
were futile. Fifty dollars worth of
| Christmas gifts intended for the poor
| children of Blanco were burned.
| Almogordo, N. M, under the orders
of District Attorney Benson Newell
in connection with an explosion which
| completely wrecked the rear of pool
| hall and injured six men, one of them,
Robert Lee, 21 years old, seriously.
! Sale of the Corralitos ranch near
Las Cruces, N. NJ, consisting of 200,-
| 900 acres, by the McGregor Land &
Cattle Company, Ell Paso, to Charles
L. Powell, Los Angeles stockman, was
| announced in Ell Paso recently. The
consideration was reported as $780,
900. All the stock, mostly Herefords,
and implements go with the property.
Estill Wood Jr., 10-year-old Phoenix
boy, who shot and killed his father
when the parent quarrelled with his
mother was exonerated in Phoenix
by a coroner's jury composed of six
men who decided he was justified.
The verdict was returned after the
boy calmly told the jury that "If l
hadn't killed father he would have
| killed mother"
Juanita Hansen, 16 years old, farm
girl living in an isolated part of the
Morena Valley, n. M.-out of contact
with the world even by telephone
won second place at the Chicago In
ternational Livestock show with her
exhibit Of canned meats in the All
Club exhibits, it was learned in a
letter from G. R. Quesenberry, agron-
omist of the New Mexico State Col
lege. Miss Hansen's exhibit consisted
of five pint cans of meat, including
fried chicken, rabbit, fish, roast pork
tenderloin and sausage.
Grand Canyon National Park is the
most popular of all the national parks
clared NJ R. Tillotson, superintendent,
recently. Mr. Tillotson has been max
ing tour of Arizona. I'm 1929 Grand
Canyon Park stood seventh in the list
of national parks in point of visitors,
and in 1880 was SIXTH" Mr.. Tillotson
said. This advance was in spite of
the fact that the $4,000 visitors was
a decrease of 6 per cent from 1929"
Gertrude Griffin of Missouri has
filed suit in Superior Court in Phoenix,
Ariz, hoping to prove to the jury the
word mot" is worth $4,000. With her
husband, o. H. Griffin, she alleged a
telegraph company here omitted the
word mot" from a message which
caused her to come to Arizona to seek
a position as a school teacher in Yuma
county, for which she was not eligible.
Mrs Griffin said she received tele-
gram saying she was eligible, and that
she later learned the word not was
in the original copy, but left out.
Maybelle Reybourn, 7, and Florence,
5, have been placed by the New Mex
leo Child Welfare Bureau. Maybelle
will be sent to Lewistown, Mont,
where her father, Royal Spencer, has
arranged for home for her with his
sister, who lives on ranch near
there. Florence will be sent to child
welfare institution in Colorado. Their
mother and step-father, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. C. Reybourn, were asphyxiated by
gas recently in a Denver tourist cabin.