The Coolidge examiner., 1931-02-27
Southwest News Items


city schools and motion picture houses
we're recently closed in Flagstaff, Ariz.
The precautionary measure was TAX
sn after Minnie Alton, IA years old,
high school student, was stricken
with meningitis.
More than two-thirds of the poultry
Matching stock in New Mexico is ac-
credited. This is a result of the work
inaugurated three years ago by the
New Mexico Poultry Association,
which was organized at that time to
improve conditions of the industry
throughout the state.
Three Phoenix men were made de-
PENDANTS in a suit filed in F raj
Court in Santa Fe, N. NJ, by R. E.
Comans, also of Phoenix, seeking $780,
900 for injuries alleged suffered in an
au ~ol le accident twenty-five miles
from Winslow, Ariz. They are c. b.
Watkins, c. C. Ellis and Otelia Ellis.
The Arizona Senate unanimously
passed the joint memorial to Con-
gress, asking immediate cashing, at
face value, of World War veterans
compensation certificates, introduced
in the House by McQuillan of Navajo
and Rosenbaum of Gila. 1t previously
passed the House with one dissenting
! vote.
Z. L. O'Malley, president of the
! Phoenix Baseball Club, said in Phoe-
nix few days ago, Louis Guisto would
| pilot the Senators in the 1881 race for
the state league title. Guisto, 1880
manager, O'Malley said, will report in
Phoenix about April 1. He is at pres
ent coaching baseball at St. Mary's
! College.
Sugar beets have proved a profit
able crop in the vicinity of Las Vegas,
| N. NJ, where they have been grown
for the fourth year, and at several
points in northern New Mexico. More
| than $50 acres were grown in San Mi
| guel county and it is expected that
the acreage will exceed 500 acres for
the coming season.
New Mexico was one of the seven
states, including the District of Co
| lumbia, in which no bank failures were
reported during 1880, State Bank Ex-
aminer Lawrence Tamme stated in
| Santa Fe The states in which no fail
ures were reported were Maine,
Rhode Island, Wyoming, New Mexico,
| Nevada and the District of Columbia.
Nearly dead from loss of blood,
Samuel NJ. Johnson, World War vet
eran of Parks, Ariz., was found in the
Bloody Basin country, near Prescott,
| Ariz., where he had been trapping
| His right arm was badly shattered
when his gun accidentally discharged
| He was brought to the government
hospital at Whipple, where amputa-
| ton was necessary.
Cadet Joseph B. Donnelly, whose
plane crashed thirty-five miles south
west of Roswell, was found by Allen
DOYLE, rancher, twenty miles from the
wrecked plane. The plane crashed
when the motor stalled as Donnelly
attempted to make landing. AS he
neared the ground, the wind direction
! shifted and he landed with his tail in
the wind The plane turned over and
was demolished. Donnelly suffered
only a slight bruise under his right
eye.
The governors of California and
Arizona, for the first time in the his
tory of Arizona as state, clasped
hands on Arizona soil at Phoenix re-
Gently. and exchanged friendly greet
ings. James Rolph, Jr., of California,
broke bread with George w. P. Hunt,
seven-times chief executive OF Arf-
zona, and declared Il want to be
friendly-if for no other reason than
to shake your hand and say hello,
governor!'" 'If there have been mis-
understanding IN the past, Rolph as
sured the Arizona veteran, I'll change
all that. hope you'll pay us a return
visit"
More than 400 delegates attended
the annual convention of the North
ern New Mexico Teachers Associa-
ton. held in Ration Speakers in
cluded DR.. w. D. Armentrout, director
of instruction at Colorado State
Teachers College. Greeley; DR.. j. F.
Zimmerman, president of the Univer-
sity of New Mexico; DIR. A. o. Bowden,
president of the New Mexico State
Teachers College; Frank Caroon, pres
ident of the State Normal University;
Mrs. Georgia Lusk, state superintend-
ent of schools, and Raymond ]. Huff,
president of the State Teachers Asso-
citation.
Progress is being rapidly made in
sinking the elevator shaft at Carlsbad
cavern, near Carlsbad, N. M, which
is being rushed to completion this
spring to house the longest single lift
elevator in the world into the largest
and most spectacular cave of its kind.
The construction work is a most in
teresting engineering feat, unique in
the fact the digging of the shaft is
| haino dona from the hOttOm I'D and