The Coolidge examiner., 1931-02-13
Southwest News Items

ISI VI IhS ldIe OullSu OIdCeS OeudIOT
Henry G. Davis, was killed in a COLI
sion on the Mo- tucson highway
"Most useful citizen of 1880" Such
was the title bestowed upon George
Titles, Roswell merchant, by the Ros-
well Women's Club, who recently Sc
lected Mr.. Titles as the most useful
citizen of Roswell during the past
year.
Colonel Jose D Sena, clerk of the
New Mexico Supreme Court for thir-
ty-three years, will be succeeded
March 1 by H. B. Gerhart, present
deputy clerk of United States District
Court, Chief Justice Howard Buckley
announced in Santa Fe.
Some ten thousand one-pound bags
of pinto beans, accompanied by folders
and recipes giving information on how
to cook pinto beans, were sent out
over the country by the business men
of Estancia valley in an extensive ad-
vertising campaign for the New Mex
leo pinto bean.
New Mexico was second in the live
stock judging contest at the Denver
Stock show. Edwin Byers of Hobbs,
N. M, a member of the grand cham
pion team from New Mexico, was
high point individual in all places.
Byers is 16 years old, and has had
eight years club work.
D. L. Lancaster, tax assessor of
Curry county, N. NJ, and mayor of
Clovis, died of pneumonia in a hospital
in Clovis. He had been ill a week.
He had served two years as mayor of
Clovis and recently was elected coun-
ty tax assessor. Formerly he served
as county school superintendent.
Game and bird refugees which have
been established in different parts of
New Mexico are proving successful.
In places the deer have increased un-
til the districts are overstocked. The
State Game Department and the for
est service are trapping deer and TAX
ing them to other sections of the state
where deer are not so plentiful.
Reports of impending further cur
tailments of Arizona's copper mining
industry received a setback with an
nouncement that the Miami Copper
Company had resumed work after
three-day suspension, and definite in
dications that expected orders for
shutdown of the United Verde opera
tions at Jerome will not be forthcom-
ing.
The government, during 1880, in CO.
operation with the state of New Mexi-
co, spent $121S9S9 for the mainten.
ance of Battery "a" 15Sth Field Ar
tillery. OF this amount, the federal
government spent $11,139S9 for arm
ory drill. pay of caretakers, purchase
of supplies and other purposes. The
state of New Mexico spent $1O5O for
repairs on stables, gun shed and for
gas, water and lights.
Topping turkeys" is an industry
growing among farmers of New Mex.
leo, but one which is in decided con-
trast to the cattle industry of twenty
years ago. One farmer near Clovis
bought GOO turkeys in Oklahoma early
last fall and finished them for market
on feed raised on his farm. During
the day the turkeys were herded over
the farm and at night shut in a
woven wire enclosure.
Six suits involving $4,000 in dam
ages asked from the Pickwick Grey
hound Lines, Inc, and the United
States Casualty Company, have been
set for trial in Santa Fe, in the Fed
eral Court, at an early date. The suits
were originally filed in the District
Court, but were recently transferred
to the Federal Court. They were filed
following a wreck Of a Pickwick bus
near Bonell's ranch last September.
How the American Legion is using
the strength and influence of it's or
ganization of more than 8S7 900 World
War veterans in the development of
a higher type Of American citizenship
was described by Russell Cook, ma
tional American director, in an ad-
dress in Santa Fe. The 1881 Ameri
canism program. as outlined by Mr.
Cook, places the promotion of educa-
tion as the legion's first major en-
deavor.
w. W. Lane, state engineer, an
nounced in Phoenix double shift have
been put to work in the Arizona State
Highway Departments engineering Of
fices and drafting rooms to complete
plans for all road work in the 1890
1881 budget. This is being done, Lane
said, to clear the way for procedure
with any emergency work which may
arise under authority of the Arizona
Legislature in connection with federal
aid emergency relief funds.
An Indian runner, arriving at Kay.
enta, Ariz., small desert trading post,
brought first word of the safety of
John Wetherill and Patrick Flattum,
who set out in a small boat on a sur.