The Coolidge examiner., 1931-05-22
Southwest News Items

M. G. Keenan,, secretary of the New
Mexico cattle sanitary board for the
last ten years, has resigned. Walter
Naylor, cattleman of Las Vegas, has
been appointed to succeed keenan,.
The regents of the University Of
New Mexico decided to retain DR..
James F. Zimmerman, president, for
another year. This decision had been
reached before, but no formal action
taken.
Venceslao Lopez of Santa Fe was
killed a mile and half south of Santa
Fe and his brother, Casimiro Lopez,
was seriously injured when they were
struck by car driven by Travis
Stevens of Moriarty.
Glenn A. Appleby, president of the
defunct Glendale Bank of Commerce,
stands acquitted of a charge of will
full misapplication of bank funds. He
was acquitted by directed verdict in
Superior Court in Phoenix, but faces
five more charges of misapplication.
Henry w. Bipf of Tucson was
elected president of the Arizona Post
masters Association in annual con-
vention in Douglas, Ariz. R. H. Gun
ningham of Jerome was chosen vice
president and H. N. Hall of Mesa, Sec
retary-treasurer. Tucson was Sc
lected as next years meeting place.
Four persons were drowned when
small automobile in which they
were riding plunged off a bridge
across Jacks Canyon, near Winslow,
Ariz. The car, occupied by Ramon
Mirabel and Donifacio Lopez and
their wives, dropped thirty-five feet
into fifteen feet of water. 1t is
thought they drowned Immediately.
Four hundred and seventy-eight vol
umes of the New Mexico reports,
worth $2,629, are missing, according
to an audit of the State Supreme
Court, released in Santa Fe by State
Comptroller ]. M. Lujan. The audit,
which covers the period from July 1,
1926, to December 81, 1880, was made
by L. Thormodsgard and A. E. Ro-
nero.
A severe hail storm recently swept
through Belen, N. M, causing dam
age to property estimated at several
thousands of dollars, stripped or
chards and covered the ground with
a layer of hail five to six inches deep.
School authorities placed the damage
to the high school at $4,000 when wa
ter from the melted hail soaked
tering below.
Five hundred mature crappie have
been presented to the New Mexico
State Game Department by Captain
c. Burton Mossman of Roswell, Off
cials Of the State Game Department
announced in Roswell recently. These
fish will be trapped by the department
in lake belonging to Captain Moss
man, near Wagon Mound, and will be
planted in various public waters on
the east side of the state.
United States District Judge Colin
Neblett ordered the creditors of the
White Pine Lumber Company of Ber-
nalillo to file their respective claims
at once through the receivers, ]. S.
Vaught and ]. E. Cox, at Albuquerque.
The claims, the order said, must be
filed before June 80. The White Pine
Lumber Company was recently placed
in the hands of receiver at the re-
quest of A. l. Kaplan of New York,
Plans for a bureau of statistics and
information, to be opened in the New
Mexico State Department Of Educa-
tion, were placed before Mrs. Georgia
Lusk, state superintendent of public
instruction, recently, by Leo Favrot,
representative of the general educa-
tion board. The board plans to give
the department $4,000 for the oper-
alton of the bureau. George R. San
chez of Albuquerque was selected to
have charge of the new bureau when
it is placed in operation.
Normal University at Las Vegas, N.
M, has had its most prosperous year
in the history of the institution inso-
far as it's enrolment is concerned.
Three hundred and fifty-four students
have been enrolled this year; this rep
resents an increase of 28 per cent
over the largest enrolment of prev
ious years. For the year of 1929,
the enrolment was 2O1; for 192S-29,
232; for 1929-30, 276; for 1930-31, 354.
This constitutes an increase in enroll
ment for each year for several years.
Antoine Snyder, superintendent of
the Carlsbad caverns, and Walter At
we'll, national park service engineer,
were nearly overcome by carbon
monoxide gas at the cavern colony.
Snyder and Atwell were overcome by
gas which was escaping from water
heater, and Carroll Miller, chief
ranger, saved both of the mems lives.
Harry Jarret, ex-convict, charged