The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-13
Southwest News Items

Prescott's (Ariz.) tax rate for 1882
33 will be $1.25 per $1OO of assessed
valuation.
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite Masons of Arizona will hold
their annual spring reunion at Tue.
son, May Il, II and 13.
Work has begun on the govern
ment's $4,000 project to erect airmail
beacons and emergency landing fields
between Winslow and Kingman, Ariz.
A. N. Grain, director of the Mari,
copa county health unit, has been
elected president of the Arizona Pub
lie Health Association. He will serve
for one year.
H. J. Hagerman, New Mexico spe-
cial commissioner of the Navajos, es-
Inmates that losses of Indian sheep,
due to the winter blizzards, will be
around 100000.
The University of Arizona College
of Mines, at Tucson, announces a
gold discovery of apparently wide
proportions" near Pickett Post noun
tain, six miles south of Superior.
Cleanup Week for Ration, N. M,
has been proclaimed for April 25-May
2, with the city beautiful committee
of the City Federation of Womens
Clubs sponsoring the week.
Reductions averaging 13 per cent
were made in teachers salaries by
State School Auditor R. H. Grissom
at hearing on the Ration municipal
school budget recently.
Osteopathic physicians and sur
geons from New Mexico and south
ern Colorado will meet in Ration May
9 and 10, for two-day convention,
with DR.. H. E. Donovan, DO, acting
as host.
The Santa Fe, N. M, city school
board has voted not to cut teachers
salaries, but to reduce all other items
of the city schools nearly 10 per cent,
Miss Isabel Eccles, city superintend-
ent, said.
Winslow has been chosen conven.
tion city for the Arizona Elks Asso-
citation in 1888, when approximately
200 delegates and partners from va
rious Arizona cities will gather dur
ing the spring.
w. S. Thompson of Kingman was
unanimously elected president of the
Arizona Elks Association. assembled
in annual convention at Nogales,
Ariz., and Winslow was chosen the
1888 convention city.
Mrs. w. C. Haughteling of Yuma
was elected president of the Arizona
Federation of Womens Clubs at Pres
colt, Ariz. She succeeds Mrs. Seth
T. Arkills, Globe, who becomes gen.
eral federation director
Between half a ton and a ton of
rough fish, including carp, gar, buff
falo and hickory shad, are being re-
moved daily from the lower Pecos
and it's tributary streams by the New
Mexico State Game Department.
Maricopa county will have two
more members in the lower House of
the next Arizona Legislature. The
board of supervisors created a new
district, bringing the number of rep
resentatives from this county to TWEEN
ty-two.
Exploration by the geological sur
vey in the Great Permian basin in
Texas and New Mexico has disclosed
supply of potash sufficient to sup
ply the country's needs through any
emergency which may arise in the
future.
Preliminary figures covering U. S.
mercury output in 1881 indicate that
approximately 24,75O TASKS, valued
at $2,162,000, was produced. Among
the principal mercury producing prop
critics in 1881 was the Sunflower mine
in Arizona.
A savings of $4,000 in operating
budget of the Phoenix, Ariz., High
school and the junior college will be
consolidation of positions, and econ
omy in the purchase of equipment
and supplies.
The spring movement of cattle
from the southwest New Mexico and
Texas) this spring will be slightly
less than the very small run of last
year, according to the report of the
United States division of crop and
livestock estimates.
Fifty ex-service men who are draw
ing total disability compensation from
the government, and at the same time
hold state, county or city jobs, were
cited at Tucson, Ariz., by the newly
organized All American Protective
Association. One instance was cited
of a man who draws salary of 1925
per month in addition to $157.50'
from the government.
A 100000 project, involving pur.