The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Southwest News Items


mOnwealth fund of New York, Guada-
lupe county alone was unwilling to
continue nursing service, Dr. !. R
carp, state health director, said in
Santa Fe.
approximately 22,527 cattle were
shipped from New Mexico during May,
according to figures compiled by Wal
ter Naylor, secretary of the cattle
sanitary board. Most of the cattle
went to grazing areas in Colorado,
Kansas and Oklahoma.
The Albuquerque Natural Gas Com
pany's assessment has been reduced
from $1,1OS,425 to $796,126 by the New
Mexico tax commission as the result
of a rehearing. The company has been
known previously as the Southern
Union Gas Company.
Three persons were dead in Clovis
and a fourth was not expected to live
as the result of a fire which destroyed
the home of E. w. Williams. The
dead; Bruce Williams, 18-months-old
son; E. w. Williams, father; Louise
Williams, daughter.
A discrepancy of only thirteen Ii
censes was found by Manuel L. Ar
milo, New Mexico state auditor, in his
examination of the state game depart
ment for the year ending March 81,
1881. In view of the fact that the
total number of licenses handled was
$4,000, the discrepancy is regarded as
trivial
The motor vehicle division of the
state highway department reported
99,473 automobiles were registered in
Arizona since January /. The report
shows 83,272 pleasure cars, 11,349
commercial vehicles, including $50 IL
censed as busses or taxis, and 1904,
trailers and semi-trailers. Motorcycles
numbered 279.
Construction involving an expendi-
ture of $4,000 is to start soon on
new museum and three residences for
the Grand Canyon National Park. The
museum, to be erected "a miles east
of Grand Canyon on the Cameron
Grand Canyon road, will cost $4,000.
The old administrs tion building will
be remodeled.
State Superintendent of Banks
James B. Button took charge of the
Arizona Southwest Bank of Tucson,
and placed deputy examiners in charge
OF the institutions branches in Doug
las, Casa Grande and Coolidge for the
announced purpose of protecting de-
positors from loss, because of de-
pleted reserves.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad and it's subsidiary, the Elk
hart & Santa Fe, has asked permission
from the interstate commerce commits
sion in Washington to extend the line
of the latter seventeen miles from
Clayton, ~ NJ, to Mount Dora. The
extension is a portion of a 110-mile
line proposed to be built from Felt,
Ohld.s W OOilutl, N NJ.
More than $2,OO0,OOO was collected
by the Arizona highway department in
gas tax revenue during the first eleven
months of the fiscal year ending July
1. Refunds allowed on gasoline not
used in motor vehicles on highways,
but on which tax was collected at the
time of purchase totaled S2S4,967.14,
leaving a net collection of taxes for
the period of 1851 ,O53.SS.
Mrs. Al Hollinger is charged with
the Staying of her 60-year-old husband
they were seeking a motive behind the
killing other than that advanced by
the woman that a series of trivial
quarrels over a three-month period
eliminated in the shooting when her
husband refused to take a slip for
groceries to be brought back from
town.
Jean Drake, serving sixty years for
completely in the murder of a night
watchman at Deming, N. NJ, made
deathbed statement to Warden Ed
Swope that it was she and not John
Ball, who was convicted. who killed
the man. She told Swope she was was
running a small restaurant, Ball was
bOotlegging, using her restaurant as
his base, and the night marshal was
interested in her"
More than 1000 pieces of New Mex
leo school work, including exhibits
from the Indian schools were dis
played at the National Education As
sociation convention last month in
Los Angeles. Mrs. H. F. Brock. for
mer county superintendent of schools
of Mckinley County, and state director
for New Mexico in the National Edu-
cation Association, assembled the In
dian collection in Gallup.
Fora Neal Ross, found guilty in
Prescott of manslaughter in connec-
tion with the fatal stabbing of Earl
Martin Hyde, world war veteran and
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