The Coolidge examiner., 1931-03-20
Southwest News Items

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ately.
From village of two stores, a dance
/ hall and a boxcar which served as a
railroad station, the little city of
Hatch. n. NJ, can now boast of a pop
ulation of approximately 1,200 fifty
business houses. a modern school build
| ing, and several churches. All of this
has taken place in period of twelve
years.
Build Quay County Roads With
Quay County Labor" is the slogan
adopted by the civic organizations of
Tucumcari, n. NJ, who are making
united effort to place Quay county
men at work on the federal emergency
road program in this county. which
will entail an expenditure of approx
mately one-half million dollars.
A gridiron dinner featured the eighth
annual meeting of the Arizona Press
Club, staged in Phoenix. with members
of the Arizona legislature as guests.
Newspaper men from all parts of the
state gathered in the news department
of the Phoenix Republic-Gazette for
discussion of the clubs program for
1881 and election of officers.
Binding his wife to him with a blan.
ket and dragging her to a desolate
spot on the Navajo Reservation, near
Gallup. Frank Livingston. Navajo In
dian, clubbed her to death and then
shot himself. The bodies were found
near Hogback ranch on the reserva-
tion by another Indian. A coroner's
jury returned a verdict of murder and
suicide.
Mrs. Will Ashby, so years old, cred
tied her pet dog, Bob, with saving her
life when she became lost on a noun
tain peak during a binding snow
storm near Globe, Ariz. Nothing but
the warmth of his body kept me alive" 3"
she said. Searchers, on another peak
two miles away. heard the dogs bark
and were directed by it to where Mrs
Ashby lay.
A new method of reading the earths
age by counting certain peculiar layers
in her crust, just as tree rings are read.
is in preparation in Phoenix. The geo.
logical name for the layers are
''varves," thin annual earth deposits
laid down many thousand years ago
by the glaciers. The reader is Prof.
A. E. Douglass, director of Steward
Observatory at the University of Ari-
Zona.
The lax administration of the GER
tificate of title law was held respon-
sible for existence of excessive rates
on fire and other insurance premiums
on motor vehicles, in the Linder Burke
and Stevenson audit of the New Mex
leo motor vehicle department. The re.
port from January l. 1927. to June 80
1880, also said that the larger finance
companies are being replaced by pawn
broker" finance companies.
Operating costs over a three-year
period. 1927 to 1880, in the New Mex
leo state motor vehicle department to-
tailed $192, 2,SS9.44, according to the de-
partment audit just completed by Lin
der, Burke and Stephenson. account
ants. OF this amount $55,244.S0 was
spent in 1928. S52,554.90 in 1929 and
$85 5.0S9.74 in 1880. During the three
year period the department spent S12,
761.04 for office equipments. autos and
audit expenses.
Settlement of the Santa Fe Railroad
100000 tax suit by compromise be-
tween the railroad and the state of
New Mexico and twenty counties af
fected was announced in Santa Fe by
Attorney General E. K. Neumann. The
compromise figure is $54.567 ,033 valu.
| alton for 1880. which represents the
1929 valuation plus $1,360000. Dona
Ana county did not come in on the
compromise and that case will 90 to
trial in federal court.
Death came to the second OF six
bandits who were frustrated by gun.
fire in their attempt to hold up the
Bond-Sargent Co. store at Grants. N
NJ, when Manuel Valencia. of Gallup.
died at an Albuquerque hospital, the
result of bullet wounds Silver
Rucker. said by officers to have been
the bandit leader, was killed at the
time the robbers entered the store,
ambushed by officers who had been
tipped off to the robbery.
Cactus cultivation employs over a
million acres in Arizona. The cactus
| plant is the basis of new and rapidly
growing industry. More than one mil.
lion acres of Arizona sand waste are
under cultivation. supplying a wide
range of products important in manu-.
| falturing. These include drugs. soaps.
cleaners, candy, boiler compound and
water softener Manufacture of boiler
compound is the latest commercial ap-
| plication of the desert plant.
| The Arizona Tax Commission grant
! ed the Gila county board of supervisors
permission to incur emergency liabili.