The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Southwest News Items

JlOu OIL lUe NEW MSAlCO uueEdlD IIeC-
ton of the New Mexico Funeral Direc-
lup recently.
Nine hundred carloads of canta-
loupes will be shipped from Mesilla
valley points this season if weather
conditions continue favorable.
Numerals on Arizona's copper auto
mobile license plates for 1882 will be
black or white, according to tests of
ground.
Glenn Blake of Clayton, and Claude
Brister of Plainview, Texas, were
hurled to death at Clayton, n. M, by
a dynamite charge in municipal
ditch.
Excitement was high in Nogales as
a result of the discovery of a gold
vein assaying approximately 100000
to the ton in the old Victoria mine
south of Nogales.
State Comptroller ]. M. Lujan plans
to ask all cities and towns in New
Mexico to pass ordinance requiring the
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and steering equipment.
Deposits in the state and national
banks in Arizona were $71,93S, ,363.11
at the close of business June 80, ac-
cording to James B. Butler, Arizona
state superintendent of banks.
Clifford I. Welch pleaded guilty be-
fore a justice of the peace in Roswell,
N. M, to a charge of first degree muir
der for killing Deputy Sheriff Rufe
Dunnahoo of Chaves county, on farm
south of Roswell.
The University of Arizona at Tue
son has a robot mechanical eye that
solves in few minutes problems over
which a mathematician would labor for
hours. The eye is a combination of
mirrors and lenses.
The Justice Department announced
in Washington, D. c., that it was TAX
ing action in the form of legal COM
| plant against wild horses reported to
be trespassing on the Shoshone Indian
reservation in Wyoming.
The motor vehicle division of the
Arizona State Highway Department
issued an order recently that all mo-
tor vehicles operating on public roads
must have brakes sufficient to stop
within prescribed distances at various
speeds.
The will of the late Guy Griffin, ho-
! tel operator and owner of Tucson and
! Nogales, leaves the bulk of 100000
estate to his sister, Mrs. Bertha Grif.
fin Crowell of Litchfield, N. H, and a
brother, Carl Parker Griffin of Law.
renee, Mass.
Charging that the city gasoline tax
was "levied for revenue purposes and
not for the purposes of regulating bust
ness of distribution or using gasoline. u
the Texas Company has asked an in.
junction in Federal Court in Albuquer-
| que against the city of Albuquerque.
New Mexico will show between $685..
100000 and $329,O0O,OOO in property
subject to taxation when all county
tax rolls have been received by the
state tax commission, Rupert F. Asp
lund, director of the New Mexico Tax
Payers Association stated in Santa
| Fe.
Under blazing sun far out in the
wastes of the Arizona desertland
chieftains of the mesa-dwelling Hopi
| Indians snake clans are turning their
| attention toward the most savage OF
southwestern Indian rituals Hopi
! Snake Dance. The rites are held in
| August.
Emerson Watts, former New Mexico
! state treasurer and vice-president OF
the defunct Watts-Harrison brokerage
! house of Roswell, was held for action
| by the grand jury in Roswell under a
charge Of embezzlement filed by ]
Louis Keel. His bond was set at
| $4,000.
Arizona leads thirty-two states i'll
| number of airports, according to a re-
! port here from the aeronautics branch
of the Department Of the Interior. The
! which nineteen are municipal, five
commercial, two intermediate, nine
auxiliary and one army
Arizona's exports of merchandise
during 1880 were valued at $8,849, 1872
as compared with exports amounting
to S14,43S,S6S in 1929, according to
statistics issued by the Department of
Commerce in Washington, D. G. I'm.
manufactured cotton ranked first
among exports from this great copper
producing state.
Statistics complied by Cecil Foff-
man, employment secretary, at the
University of Arizona in Tucson, re,
vealed that a total of $12,500.60 was
earned by students working their way
through the university last year This
figure includes only the students who
secured their work through the univer-
sity student employment bureau.
Coach j. F. McKale, who for
eighteen years has handled the foot