The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-11
Southwest News Items

Money collected for the governors
unemployment relief fund from state
officials of Arizona totaled $7,469.08.
Mrs. Hazel Dunn and her two small
sons were severely burned when a
gasoline lamp exploded in their cabin
at Adamana, Arizona. The three were
rushed to hospital in Gallup, N. NJ,
for treatment.
A tendency to mark time character
ICES business in Arizona during the
month of January, according to the
Arizona Industrial Congress. Quiet
ness prevailed in most wholesale and
retail businesses.
The Arizona Cattle Growers Asso-
citation will meet in Douglas next year
with Dan Mckinney of Elgin as presi-
dent. He was elected at the final ses-
sion of the associations annual con-
vention held in Tucson.
Manslaughter charges were filed in
Yuma, Ariz., against George Blair of
Ell Centro, Cal, driver of the trans
continental stage which crashed into a
stalled oil truck east of Yuma, killing
three persons and injuring sixteen
others.
Range prospects in most sections
of New Mexico were generally good
on the first of February, according to
the monthly livestock report released
/ by Fred Daniels, agricultural statis-
tician at the New Mexico A. and NJ.
College.
Several hogans were reported
washed away in Havasupai canon of
northern Arizona and Supai tribesmen
were forced to move their families
and belongings to higher ground by
flood waters of the Supai river, swol-
! len by storms recently.
DR.. Charles w. Suit, Arizona state
! superintendent of public health, has
been asked to preside at one of the
sessions of the western branch of the
Public Health Associations annual
meeting in Denver, June 9 to II. He
was asked to preside at the confer
ence on bacteriology and immu1ology.
Notwithstanding the lowest average
price of copper since 1850 and the
consequent curtailment in mining op-
erations, more than 100000 was paid
! to Arizona producers and business
! firms last year for Arizona products
and supplies used by the Inspiration
Consolidated Copper Company and as
sociated concerns.
William Durrett, ranchman, was
found dead in a tent camp near Hot
Springs, N. M, lying beside his uncle,
! Bill Watson, who had been clubbed
over the head. A coroners jury re-
turned verdict that Durrett came to
his death by reason of gunshot
wounds inflicted by a rifle in the
hands of an unknown person.
An increase in automobile fire and
theft insurance rates for New Mexico
! became effective February Is. The
entire state, outside of Albuquerque
and Bernalillo county, was raised
from classification B to G, and the
hike on theft insurance ranges from
33 per cent to $50 per cent on the
various makes of automobiles.
Maxwell McNutt of San Francisco
was reelected president of the Rodeo
Association of America at the annual
convention held in Tucson. Other Of
ficials reelected were William G.
Haas, Cheyenne, Wyo., vice president,
and William Hebron, Salinas, Cal,
second vice president. Fred S. Nc
Carter was reappointed secretary.
Thirty-four Navajo Indian boys and
girls from the Leupp, Ariz., Indian
school were brought to Albuquerque
recently and enrolled in the Albuquer-
que Indian school. The move was
part of a general transfer of students
from the Leupp school, which recently
was menaced by floods in the Little
Colorado river, to other United States
schools.
A skidding automobile which
plunged from the highway at curve
and overturned near Stafford, Ariz.,
brought quick death to Otto Matieson,
one of Hollywood's distinguished char
acter actors. Duncan Renaldo, best
known for his role as the young Span
lard in Trader Horn" received minor
brought quick death to Otto Matiesen,
were driving from Hollywood to Albu-
querque.
Miss Hildure Anderson, dean of
women at the New Mexico A. and NJ.
College at Las Cruces, has been re-
lieved of her duties as dean for the
remainder of the year by the execu-
tive committee of the board of re-
gents. Miss Anderson recently sut-
fered a breakdown because of over
work. The committee named Mrs.