The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
SOUTHWEST NEWS

! New Mexico State Poultry ASSocia-
tion meeting which is to be held at
Roswell, N. NJ. Dec. 13.
Marie. 4-year-old daughter of Mr
and Mrs. r. J. Johnstone. Sioux City,
Iowa. died in a Tucson hospital from
burns suffered while playing with a
jack o'lantern at party.
James n. Hall. former assistant
cashier of the Bank of Arizona at
Prescott was found guilty on a charge
of misappropriating bank funds. Hall
| pleaded guilty to specific charge of
misappropriation of $1,136.S0
T. c. Taylor, so, of Roswell. n NJ,
was shot five times and fatally
wounded by A. H. Coleman following
a fist fight in restaurant at Jal. N.
NJ. Coleman was arrested and re-
moved to the county jail at Hobbs.
Bessie Savage. 13 years old, was
struck over the head by man as she
entered the back yard of her home
in Ration. The blow failed to knock
| her unconscious and she staggered
screaming to the door while the man
! fled.
e. L. Miller pleaded guilty to rob-
| berry charges in Phoenix and was
sentenced from two to three years in
the state prison at Florence. He en-
! tered the Charles Sessions home at
Hillside, taking a gold nugget watch
chain and a rifle.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the huge dancing pavilion at
| the Gardens, summer resort in the
Dells six miles from Prescott. The
structure was burned to the ground
with loss of all resort equipment,
which had been stored for the winter.
The Arizona Reserve Officers AS
! sociation has gone on record as op-
posed to the proposed curtailment of
! the nations armed forces. At its
sixth annual convention in Tucson the
organization voiced its objection TO
any reduction of the country's mill
tary forces.
New Mexico is the Sunshine State,
and figures issued by the government
weather bureau seem to substantiate
the claim made by the citizens of the
state. The percentage of possible
sunshine as given by the weather bu.
reau is "A. although there are several
| localities in New Mexico where it is
stated that the percentage is higher
/ ~
Prof. H. o. Carst, head of the De
partment of Civil Engineering at the
New Mexico A. & NJ. College of Las
| Cruces, has been appointed a mem
Der of the committee on sewage and
sanitation, one of the important com
mittees of the American Society of
Municipal improvements. The ap-
pointment was made by John w.
Reed, president of the society.
Thousands of dollars of damages TO
property was revealed in Hobbs, n.
M, following a sandstorm which
swept over that area, bringing oper-
ations in the oil fields to a halt and
tying up traffic on the Texas & New
Mexico railroad. Oil derricks were
twisted, smokestacks were torn loose,
thirty tent houses were leveled and
tile walls of buildings blown down.
San Adams and Donnaleah Smith,
University of Arizona debaters, won
a two to one decision at Flagstaff
over the Arizona State Teachers Col
lege team composed of Olive Mitchell
and Dale Peterson. The question de-
bated was, Resolved, that the United
| States Government should promote
federal labor employing projects in
times of unemployment" The uni
versity team upheld the affirmative
side.
Arizona joins the nationwide cam
paign to remove the blot of illiteracy.
c. O. Case, state superintendent of
public instruction, recently nominated
committee of twenty members which
were appointed by Ray Lyman Will
bur, secretary of the interior, who is
also chairman of the national advisory
committee on illiteracy Arizona
stands And in the list of states in lit
eracy. 1t is one of the few states in
the Union where illiteracy increased
between 1910 and 1920.
Indications at the secretary of
states office in Santa Fe are that the
tobacco tax in addition to it's large
majority favoring the referendum,
likewise poled more than 40 per cent
of the total vote cast. In order for
the vote on referred measure to
be effective. that measure must re-
ceive a vote equal to 40 per cent of
the total vote cast A check is being
made at the secretary of states offs Q
on the tobacco tax as the canvassing
boards sheets and poll books are re-
ceived. Indications are that the total
vote on the tobacco tax will be in ex-
cess of so per cent of the total vote.
The referendum, which kills the to-
bacco. tax. was carried by better than
| four to one.
Counsel for w M. Hines, under