The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-22
Southwest News Items

miles northeast of Payson, has been
destroyed by snow slide.
Governor Hunt Of Arizona has reap
pointed Clinton Campbell, Phoenix, as
a member of the Arizona state agri-
culture and horticulture commission.
His new term expires July l, 1888.
Voyle L. Smith of Yuma was elected
commander of the department of Ari-
zona, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, and Mrs. Mildred Car
roll Of Phoenix, department president
of the auxiliary.
DR.. H. F. Stanton, of Phoenix, Ariz.,
is state epidemiologist, and has as
sumed his duties at the state board of
health. He returned recently from
Baltimore where he took a course in
epidemiology at Johns Hopkins.
The Arizona State Fish and Game
Commission has designated Papago
Park as a game refuge. The Maricopa
county board of supervisors was noti-
fled of the action. The park is the
site of the new Hunt bass hatchery.
New Mexico closed its twentieth fis-
cal year with a deficit approximating
100000 and institutions began the
new year with appropriations limited
to available revenues to preclude i'll
creasing the overdraft in the new year.
With but two dissenting votes, the
Arizona highway commissions 1882
'33 budget, carrying an appropriation
of nearly a million dollars for con-
struction of links in U. S. Highway
No. 60, was adopted at meeting in
Phoenix.
The New Mexico Social Hygiene AS
sociation was permanently organized
with DR.. Robert o. Brown of Santa Fe
as president. President H. G. Gossard
of New Mexico Normal University is
vice president, and Clyde Baker of
Santa Fe Is secretary.
Governor George w. P. Hunt in a.
statement to the Democracy of Ari-
zona," announced his candidacy for
the party's nomination for the COVER
1O1 ollIP AO4 II1C AAhIA1 lIIACs I1C mas
been elected seven times and defeated
twice since he first sought the office
in 1911.
Recommendations of the Arizona
State Board of Bar Examiners to make
examinations to practice law more diff
ficult to enter have been approved by
the State Supreme Court. The new
rule requires an entrant to have
three-year study of law and a high
school education or its equivalent.
An initiative measure, proposing an
amendment to the state constitution
of Arizona to limit state and county
expenditures, was filed with Secretary
of State Scott White. The petitions
contained q 900 signatures. Two sep
arate petitions were filed, one seeking
to limit the county expenditures and
the other the state.
Arizona will be visited this fall by
party of the picked contingent of
French veterans of the World War,
who are to make tour of the United
States during their participation in
the Washington Bicentennial. This
was announced in letter received by
the Arizona industrial congress from
Edward B. Meyer OF New York, execu-
tive secretary of the French veterans
visit committee of the American Le-
gion.
Ell Rancho Pihos, dude ranch, oper
ated by E. A. McManus, former New
York magazine and newspaperman,
has been totally destroyed by fire.
Tyrone, N. NJ. MacManus and his staff
were awakened by the smoke and
flames and escaped in their night
clothes. None of the equipment, ex-
pensive furnishings or valuable curios
was saved. The building, obtained as
a concession from the Phelps-Dodge
Corporation, was at one time COM
pany club house.
A shrinkage of more than 100000
Or approximately 25 per cent in the
school apportionment to be made this
summer, is estimated by Deputy State
Treasurer R. L. Ormsbee OF New Mex
leo. Last year the apportionment was
S1,277,77S, but this year Ormsbee es-
Inmates that only about S950,000 will
be available to be apportioned among
the counties. The school census, COM
piled by George 1. Sanchez Of the state
department of education, shows gain
of 2,373 to make total of 143,464.
The apportionment is based on this
census.
Arizona's 1928 highway budget,
appropriating s4,97O,5OO.32 for road
work, is in effect, having been adopted
by the state highway commission. In
connection with the regular budget an
emergency budget Of S2,625 ,365.77 was
approved. 1t is dependent on passage
Of the Wagner-Garner relief measures
in congress. Reversing previous ac-
ton, the commission took into the