The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-26
Southwest News Items

3O6 students were given degrees.
More than 400 head OF cattle were
! shipped to other states and Mexico
during April from Arizona ranches,
! the State Livestock Board announced
in Phoenix recently.
Grazing lands of ColfaX county, new
Mexico, were reduced to their old
valuation of $3.50 an acre by the coun-
ty commissioners, sitting as board
Of tax equalization, recently.
Governor Hunt has appointed an
Arizona committee to cooperate with
the United States commission for the
celebration of the 2O0th anniversary
of the birth of George Washington.
An alien who has taken out his first
citizenship papers can not hunt in
New Mexico, Attorney General E. X.
Neumann has advised State Game
Warden Elliott Barker. The law does
not apply to fishing.
The body of a man found near the
top of Ration pass on May 25 was
identified in Ration as that of Rich
ard ]. Holden, former Ration filling
station operator, who had been miss
ing since last October.
The New Mexico farmer is ready to
fight the proposed increase in freight
rates on farm products to the "last
ditch" L. E. Freudenthal, president
of the New Mexico farm bureau, said
in Las Cruces recently.
r. V. Miller, Clovis fire chief, was
elected president of the New MeXico's
Volunteer Firemen's Association at
the close Of the ninth annual conven-
tion in Clovis. Ration was selected as
the next convention city.
Officials of the American Legion in
Phoenix estimated more than 1000
men and women of the Arizona de-
partment will attend the thirteenth
annual convention of the organization
in Prescott, July 80 to Aug. 1.
L. c. White, vice president of the
ST. Louis, Rocky Mountain and Pa
cific Company, was elected president
of the Ration Chamber of Commerce,
to fill the uneXpired term of DR.. A. B.
Stewart, who has moved to Las Vegas.
Remember the Buffalo," is the
motto adopted by the New Mexico
Game Protective Association, board
of research and education, according
to an announcement made in Santa Fe
by Fred Sherman. president of the
state association.
Governor George w. P. Hunt of
Arizona has been informed by E. A.
Sherman, acting United States for
ester, in Washington, that Secretary
of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde has
granted the Los Angeles Museum of
History, Science and Art, permit to
carry on an archaeological survey in
the Apache, Crook and Coronado Ma
tional forests of Arizona.
Arizona has made exceptional prog
ress in the last ten years in decreas-
ing illiteracy, it was disclosed by fig
ures obtained by c. o. Case, superin-
tendent Of public instruction. In 1920,
the figures show 1873 per cent of the
states population could not read or
write. The percentage figure at the
present time is 10.1, a decrease Of 81
per cent in ten years.
County rural school supervisors in
New Mexico must possess bachelor
of arts degree or bachelor of science
degree from a standard normal school,
college or university, with major work
in education and must have had three
years of teaching experience in ele-
mentary schools, according to qualifi-
cations established recently by the
State Board of Education.
"The Earth" Santa Fe magazine, in
commenting on New Mexico crops in
this months issue, reports as follows ::
Prospects for all crops in New Mexico
are good, although growth Of some has
been delayed by cool weather. The
moisture situation, both in irrigated
and unirrigated sections, is satisfac-
tory. Winter wheat now is estimated
at 100000 bushels, the largest pro-
duction the state has ever had.
A new high pressure gas line from
Ell Paso to Deming, N. M; Douglas
and Bisbee, Ariz., and Cananea, Mex
leo, was recently tested and put into
service by the Western Gas Company.
Radio station KOB, owned and op-
Grated by the New Mexico A. and M.
College in Las Cruces, N. NJ, has been
voted the most popular and effective
radio station in New Mexico, accord
ing to word received in Las Cruces.
Three Arizona women are awaiting
trial on charges of first degree MUIR
der, for which the maximum penalty,
in the event of conviction, is death by
hanging. Mrs. Jenny Rutledge, 81
years old, was in Jail at Phoenix await
ing trial on charge of beating to
death Mrs. Alice Pyle, her 83-year-old
mother. Mrs. Louise Foucar Marshall,
20 years old, one of Tucson's wealth
lest citizens, was held for trial on