The Coolidge examiner., 1932-06-24
Southwest News Items

valleys, has been reached and danger
therefrom is over.
The historic Indian school at San
Xavier mission, near Tucson, taught
by Catholic sisters for forty years,
again will be in charge of the Fran
ciscan fathers within year, Bishop
Daniel ]. Gercke. of the Tucson do
cese, has announced.
A salary reduction of approximately
10 per cent is in effect in the mines
division of the Copper Queen branch
of the Phelps Dodge Corporation.
Nearly 1000 men are employed. Previ-
GUS wages for miners were $3.50 daily
and $4O0 for muckers.
Mesilla Valley, N. NJ, farmers are
signing up acreages for the growing
of hegari, sorghum crop, r. c. Stock
dale, Dona Ana county agent, has an
nounced. approximately 900 acres for
the production of this crop have been
signed up at 81 ton delivered in Ell
Paso.
Dr. Paul R. Fox and DR.. Mcintyre
have planted Gambusia fish in the
swamps near Espanola, N. NJ, to feed
on MOSQUITO larvae to prevent any pos
sibility of malaria fever These fish,
known as top minnows, are effective
destroyers of the larvae The swamps
near Espanola resulted from recent
high waters in the Rio Grande which
stopped over the dikes.
Lower rates on beans have been
suggested to the Southern Pacific rail
road by the state corporation commits.
sion as a means of meeting intensive
truck line competition between FL
Paso and Roy. N. NJ. The merchants
of Roy have preferred the railroad,
the commission was advised, but as a
matter of economic necessity have
been using the truck lines.
Globe will entertain the next annual
convention of the Arizona Rural Let.
ters Carriers Association, according
to a decision reached at the 1882 con-
vention at Mesa. An invitation for
extended by F. L. Parker, of Rural
Route No. l, Globe, and unanimously
accepted by the delegates. The asso.
citation has never met in that city.
Demand for teachers at Flagstaff,
Ariz., is holding up in spite of the
depression with its consequent exces-
sive competition, according to DR.. A.
c. Repp, who heads the placement
bureau and the department of educa.
tion at the Arizona State Teachers
college at Flagstaff. More than so
per cent of the 1892 graduates of the
Flagstaff college have already been
placed.
Clay Hankins, secretary of the Ari
zona highway commission, announces
that all new road contracts will be
written with view to relieving unem-
ployment in various section of the
state where construction work is under
way. The new contracts call for the
employment of labor from the coun
ties in which the work is being done
Men will be hired from lists of names
supplied the contractors by county re-,
lief units.
The Yaqui Indians, victims of unem-
ployment, have appealed to Governor
They were promptly warned by the
governor that If they make public
charges of themselves they will be
subject to deportation. 1t was the
third time the Yaquis have appealed
to Governor Hunt to settle their diff
culties. On the other two occasions j,
the selection of a chief had caused
trouble
Frontier Days" will be celebrated
as usual this year at Prescott, Ariz.,
the dates for 1882 being July IA The
chutes and corrals have been i'm
proved and the grounds placed in first
class condition. This work is under
the direction of Mike Stuart, who will
handle the arena in 1882. The 18th
annual Northern Arizona state fair
will be held in connection with From
tier Days. There will be numerous
attractions and an impressive list of
prizes.
A not wholly expected flow of tax
money has brought Arizona through
the financial straits of the last few
weeks, State Treasurer Nit Sims an
nounced. The state is Immediately
paying off some $1,3OO,OO0 worth of
suspended warrants, and planning to-
pay S575,000 more within the next
thirty days. AS result of the war
rants being honored out of tax money
instead of through tax anticipation
bonds, the state will save approx
mately $4,000 in interest.
The Arizona office of the U. S. bu-
reau of public roads announces three
highway projects, one calling for ex-
penditure of 100000 on forest road
in the Chiricahua National Monument
have been authorized by the depart
ment of agriculture. They are: Three
miles of forest road to be constructed
% the National Monument, seventy