The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-04
Southwest News Items

the all-western sectional tournament
held at Colorado Springs, Colo.
The New Mexico w. C. T. o., in an
nual convention at Anthony, N. NJ.
voted to petition President Hoover to
set apart a day of prayer for the re-
turn of prosperity. The petition was
forwarded to the White House.
New Mexico state collections were
$16,248, ,68099 for tho nineteenth fiscal
year, according to the annual report
of State Treasurer Warren R. Gra-
ham. Ten years ago the receipts for
a corresponding period of time were
$74S9,134.8O.
Navajo Indians have shipped fifty
! cars of wool and mohair from Gallup,
! n. NJ, this year at an average price
of II cents a pound. The normal clip
amounts to 10 cars. Two large clips
are being held for more favorable
markets, however.
Uniform vaccination against chicken
or bird pox for the hens owned by
/ farm flock cooperators in Arizona has
! been recommended by c. F. Rowe,
poultry specialist with the agricultural
| extension service at the University of
Arizona in Tucson.
Paul Fickenger, superintendent of
schools at Tularosa, N. NJ, has been
chosen as full-time secretary Of the
New Mexico State Educational Asso-
citation, Raymond Huff, president, has
announced. Mr.. Fickenger will make
his headquarters at Santa Fe,
A series of cattle grading demon
strations is being conducted at va
riOus points in New Mexico by the ex-
tension service of the New Mexico A.
e NJ. College at State College, N. NJ,
in cooperation with the United States
bureau of agricultural economics.
Frank E. Farwell, district manager
of the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company, announced in FL
PasO that the company would spend
approximately $1,000 for improve
ment of facilities in the New Mexico
Ell Paso territory.
William ]. Meyers and Frank Ear
of Tampa, Fla, pleaded guilty at
| Flagstaff before United States Com
missioner Tom L. Rees of stealing
money order forms from the postoffice
at Wakulla, Fla, and obtaining $13S
on forged orders in Phoenix and Tue
son.
Two thousand three hundred and
ninety-two units of college work were
completed by 663 students at the Uni
versity of Arizona during the college
year 1930-31 through the university
extension division, according to fig
ures compiled by Max Vosskuhler, di-
rector of the division.
COntending that the appointees did
not meet the requirements previously
set, the New Mexico Board of Educa-
tfon has refused to approve the APP
pointment of Mrs. Edna Rousseau Of
Santa Fe county and Mrs. Antonio
Montana of San Miguel county as
county rural school supervisors.
The body of Ed O'Malley, president
of the Phoenix Club of the Arizona
Texas Baseball League, was found on
the tracks of the Southern Pacific
railroad west of Walton, Ariz., after
he had been reported missing from
passenger train en- route to Los An
geles. 1t is believed he fell from the
observation car and died of injuries.
Aid of the copper industry through
a general demand for copper paint is
seen as a possibility by the Arizona
Industrial Congress, which announces
that satisfactory type of copper
paint has been developed by a coast
concern. The new paint contains a
considerable percentage of copper and
is said to be unexcelled for out-of-
door metal work
The rural population of New Mexi-
co in 1880 was 316,501, comprising
l57,9O6 persons living on farms, and
15S,595 not living on farms, represent
ing as whole an increase of 21.111.
or IL per cent, as compared with the
rural population in 1920 (295, 1900. The
urban population of New Mexico in
1880 was 1O6,S16, representing an in
crease of 41,S56, or GA per cent, since
1920.
Emerson Watts, former New Mexico
state treasurer, was returned to the
Chaves county Jail at Roswell, N. NJ,
when he was unable to raise $4,000
bond set by District Court for appear
ance on the four embezzlement
charges against him in connection
with operation of the Watts-Harrison
brokerage house. Watts for a short
time has been confined at his home,
under guard, recovering from injuries
suffered in an auto accident.
Decision to require the re-recording
Of all cattle brands in New Mexico
during the present year was reached
at a recent meeting of the New Mexi-
co Cattle Sanitary Board, held at AL
buquerque. A charge of 81 will be
made for the recording. There has
hnpn nO ro-recOrdinp of bropdc ciDoo