The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1932-01-29
Southwest News Items

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crate an airline between Denver and
Albuquerque, N. M. via Durango.
Fire of undetermined origin caused
approximately $175,OOO damage to the
Manufacturing Stationers' building in
Phoenix. Eight fire companies fought
the blaze as hundreds of persons
! looked on.
Ercil Harmon and Bill Cosgrove,
Flagstaff youths arrested for several
robberies in Flagstaff, Ariz., during
the last six months, were sentenced
to serve from two to five years in
! the Arizona penitentiary.
Announcement that Richard A.
Toomey, U. S. veterans bureau insur-
ance attorney at Denver, has been as
signed to handle all war risk insur-
ance litigation for New Mexico was
made in Denver a few days ago.
The museum at the Petrified For
est National monument near Hol-
brook, Ariz., was moved recently in
to the new building recently COM
pleted as a part of the improvement
program now under way at the monu-
ment.
John B. Crowell of the municipal
aviation committee recently received
word from the department of COM
merce, Washington, D. c., stating
Douglas, Ariz. airport has been
awarded an ALA rating. This is the
highest rating in the U. S. A. for COM
mercial airports.
A machine similar to the type used
in telegraph offices has been installed
in the State Highway Department Of
flee at the New Mexico state capitol
| in Santa Fe. Installation of the ma
chine now makes it possible to relay
messages from the highway office to
the telegraph office and vice versa.
DR.. A. S. Robertson of Mesilla Park
was elected president of the board of
directors of the Elephant Butte irri-
cation district at a meeting held in
Las Cruces, N. NJ. attended by all the
members. Arthur Starr of Hatch was
named vice president and L. E. Kuhn
ley of Donana was chosen secretary.
Chairman C. E. Adams of the Ari-
IONA Highway commission indicated
that immediate steps would be taken
to begin work on the bridge across
the Verde river at Camp Verde. The
act setting aside $65,OOO for that pur-
pose, repassed by the legislature, has
been signed by Governor Hunt.
Henry CAIRNS, 65-year-old merchant
of Dawn, N. NJ, in San Miguel county,
shot and killed his son, Lee CAIRNS,
when the young man attacked him
with a hammer. The young man, the
father said, was demented and had
escaped from the New Mexico State
Insane Asylum at Las Vegas several
months ago.
Construction equipment has been
moved into road camps to begin work
on the $145,000 government highway
project which will be a connecting
link for roads from the north to the
south rim of the Grand Canyon. 1t
will be a part of the Desert View
highway, which, when completed, will
represent an expenditure of 100000
Hugh Williams, New Mexico's vet
eran corporation commissioner, was
elected chairman of the commission
for his eleventh term. Mr. Williams
was first elected chairman in 1912.
Last year Joseph Baca served as
chairman. Mr.. Williams was elected
to serve throughout 1882 at a. COM
mission meeting held in Santa Fe re-
Gently.
There is new railroad station in
Eddy county New Mexico. Officials
of the Santa Fee railroad recently ap-
proved the station of "Sylvine, N. M"
The station is at the mine end of the
United States Potash Company's mar
row gauge line, and is IS miles east
of Carlsbad. 1t is the terminus of
the narrow gauge line from the con-
centrating plant at Loving, N. M.
Federal Judge Colin Neblett in
court in Santa Fe, overrruled mo-
ton for new trial requested by the
DeSoto Motor Corporation which was
recently directed to pay Mrs. VIM
fred Ethel Stewart $4,000 and Mrs.
Bernice Epperson $17,700 as damages
for the deaths of their husbands, Jack
Stewart and Charles Epperson in an
auto wreck near Grants, N. M.
Gasoline tax collections in New
Mexico for 1881 were S7S,97S,O1 less
than the total for 1880, State Case
line Tax Collector Adolph Hill re-
ports. The five cent a gallon tax
during 1881 yielded $2,743, 083.S3 Only
two months exceeded the correspond
ing months for 1880, but August set
a new all-time record for a single
month with total collections of $277,-
574.50, surprising the mark for Sep
TENDER $780,
Mystery of his death unsolved, the
body of A. Ruth, sc, retired govern
ment employee who was found shot
| thru the head was cpnf from phoopiv