The Coolidge examiner., 1932-09-16
Southwestern Briefs

school in Tucson, will be principal of
the Phoenix Union Negro High school
the coming year
Any unit plan formulated by oil op-
orators in the Hobbs, N. NJ, pool must
be approved by the federal govern
ment and the state before it can be
placed in operation.
The Ash Fork, AriZ., Boosters Club
has been perfected, with 4. c. Mccoy
as president, w. d. Washington, vice
president; ]. ]. Slamon, secretary, and
o. G. Morrow, treasurer.
First degree murder charges were
filed against George Lancaster, 20,
former Clovis, N. NJ, High school star
athlete, in connection with the slay-
ing of his 35-year-old wife.
bulletin, entitled Arizona Gold
Placers and Placering," published by
the Arizona bureau of mines, Tucson,
is off the press and may be obtained,
without cost, by writing the Univer-
sity of Arizona.
Permits to hunt antelope in New
Mexico during the special permit sea
son, extending from October l to 5
inclusive, will be issued by the game
department until the 900 to be granted
have been issued.
Despite a reduction of 1876 per cent
in the assessed valuation Of school
district No l prescott and Miller
Valley, the board has been able to
effect a reduction of 22.9 per cent in
the special district tax rate.
The Caverns-Cliff Dwelling highway,
stretching diagonally across the state
of New Mexico from Carlsbad to the
northwest corner, has been approved
as federal aid highway by the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washing
ton.
Automobile tourists left within
Arizona approximately S5O,OOO,OOO in
1881. The total number of 1881 auto
mobile visitors ran to 906,553 persons.
BY creating an Arizona interest this
should leave over S100,000,0O0 a year
in Arizona.
The New Mexico State Board of FL
nance agreed to take the state deaf
and dumb school from under the Is
per cent appropriation ruling and per-
NIT the institution to receive it's full
appropriation for the twenty-first
fiscal year.
Six "Pay-a-Bill" committeeman were
named by President Stephen A. Spear
of the Yavapai county (Ariz.) Cham
Der of Commerce to institute a cam
paign to get Yavapai residents to pay
their obligations as a means of stimu-
lating better business.
The next large rail movement from
the Mesilla Valley will be shipments
of cotton which will begin about Sep
tember Is. Shipments of this years
600 and $4,000 bales. Last year 55,-
600 bales were shipped.
Gov. Arthur Seligman of New Mex
leo, warned heads OF the various state
institutions that expenditures for the
twenty-first fiscal year must not ex-
ceed the actual receipts plus the
available institutional balance from
the twentieth fiscal year.
Wickenburg again this year will
hold its record as the only self-sup-
porting incorporated community in
Maricopa county, Ariz. For the past
six years there has been no tax levy
in Wickenburg for town purposes and
this year will be no exception.
Gov Arthur Seligman said that at
the request of the State Board of
Public Welfare he is asking that $4,000
from the federal relief fund be set
aside for the purchase by the Bureau
| of Public Health of Drugs to be used
in the treatment of venereal diseases.
The New Mexico State Corporation
| Commission granted ]. C. Maxwell,
Inc, of Delaware, and the Whaley
Company, Inc, of Texas, oil develop
ment companies, permission to oper-
ate within the state. Both concerns
will maintain headquarters at Ros-
well.
Application for court order to per-
NIT the state bank superintendent to
advance $4,000 a month from funds
Of the defunct Arizona bank to the
Arizona Livestock Company was filed
in Superior Court. The petition states
the livestock company, with principal
offices in Kingman, is owned by the
| bank as the result of mortgage fore
closures, and the money is sought to
defray its monthly operating ex
penses.
Suit for $4,000 damages for the
death of Harry SOFA, killed eleven
miles west of Phoenix, August IA,
when the car in which he was riding
with Mrs. Minnie Prince Curless was
crushed by an oil truck, was filed by
the administrator of his estate against
the Cantlay and Tanzola Oil Com
nanv and GaV1e Hancock Los