The Coolidge examiner., 1932-04-01
Southwest News Items

NeNJ JuIOuSu IuOeul& IS proposed.
A refining plant to reclaim oils that
have been used in the crankcase of
in Clayton, N. M.
The John Cactus Jack) Garner
presidential boom has opened in Mi
ami, Ariz.. with the organization of
a or-president-club
Storage in the Salt River reservoir
near Phoenix at last reading, was l.
O09,53S acre feet, more than twice as
much as the total for one year ago.
Work on the 19 beacons on the
Transcontinental and Western Air
route between Kingman and Winslow,
Arizona, will be started within the
next ten or fifteen days.
Plans are complete for the Easter
Sunrise Service at Miami, Ariz., which
will be held on March 27 on High
School Hill. At sunrise, 6 AS o'clock,
trumpets will herald the dawn.
Announcement was made that
Maricopa county, Ariz., will be en-
titled to % seats in the House of
Representative of the Eleventh Legis-
lature, if the board of supervisors
creates another district.
Below-freezing weather at Las
Cruces, n. NJ, is believed to have
killed all the apples and most of the
peach crop, Mesilla valley farmers
reported. The temperature dropped
to IA degrees above zero.
Copies of a resolution favoring a
copper tariff, adopted by the directors
and members of the Yavapai county,
Arizona, chamber of commerce, are
being prepared for sending to all
chambers of commerce in the United
States.
The Dona Ana County, N. M. Farm
Bureau is now conducting its annual
membership drive and those members
in charge of the drive report unusual
success considering the financial stu
alton confronting the farmers of the
valley.
Kingman, Ariz., will be host to the
second annual meeting of the U. S.
sc Grand Canyon-Boulder Dam High
way Association March 21 when dele
gates from three states will meet and
make plans for the 1882 exploitation
of the route.
The Arizona Corporation commits
sion was hearing final arguments at
Phoenix, on the petition of the Cen
tury Pacific Airlines for permission
to operate inter-city service in the
state. The application is being con-
tested by the American Airways.
Final plans and extravagant prep
arations have been made for enter
tainment of the annual convention of
the New Mexico Lions Clubs, District
40, which is to be held in Roswell on
May 18th and 18th, when more than
200 delegates and guests will take
part.
The number of ewes in strictly
lambing bands in Arizona was about
25 per cent smaller than last year
The lamb crop saved was good and the
lambs have made good growth and the
quality of the market lambs will be
fairly high. Desert range feed is ex-
cellent.
Fire loss in two Arizona towns was
estimated at $175,O00. At Mesa, sew
enty miles east of Phoenix on the
Apache trail, was the scene of a blaze
which virtually wiped out an entire
business block. City officials in the
foothills mining town estimated losses
at more than 100000.
DR.. Edward L. STAN, state veterinar-
ian, and Dan C. Mckinney, Elgin, pres
ident of the Arizona Cattle Growers
Association were appointed to repre-
sent the state at the 46th annual con-
vention of the Texas and Southwest
ern Cattle Raisers' Association in FL
Paso, March Is to II.
A financial statement of Arizona's
condition shows $3,394,645 of the 1881
80 tax levy amounting to s6,4O9,92S
had been collected. The remainder
$3,015, ,283-is due by the end of the
fiscal year. The treasurer said more
than $2,000,0OO of that amount would
be collected by that time.
Scientists of the Northern Arizona
Museum of Science and Art reported
at Flagstaff, that they have been able,
through tree rings to determine the
approximate date prehistoric inhabi-
tants of the Arizona plateaus were
driven out of their crude underground
huts by eruptions of Sunset Crater.
Travel to the Petrified Forest Monu-
ment in New Mexico continues to
show distinct falling off from last
year. Part of this condition can be
accredited to the disagreeable weather
which kept the Rio Puerco ford closed
the entire month and part to the gen.
eral business depression all over the
country.
Mining interests and activities have