The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-20
Southwest News Items

dI lue hHAudl SCuOoI uuuSeI meet
ing.
Plans for the voluntary return TO
Old Mexico of 100 Mexican families
to relieve the Gallup unemployment
situation are being made.
The 41st annual convention of the
Arizona State Medical Association
was brought to a successful close at
Globe. Seventy doctors and their
wives attended.
The first summer session in the
history of the Arizona State Teachers
College at Tempe will open June 6,
according to DR.. ]. o. Grimes. director
Of the summer session
Rumors current indicate that the
New Mexico Potash & Chemical Co.
is preparing to start exploration on
large block of acreage west of Low
ing and west of the Pecos river.
Farmers in New Mexico who OBJ
tanned crop loans in 1881 from the st.
Louis Administration office, will be
given a chance to renew them, Carl
Gallagher crop loan supervisor for
New Mexico and Arizona. said.
The Aztec Independent and the
Aztec Review have consolidated and
hereafter the Aztec Publishing Com
pany, the newly formed company will
publish the Aztec Independent-Review
with George BowTa acting as manag-
ing editor.
A new daily newspaper, the "Phoe-
nix Bee" has appeared on the streets
of the capital. 1t is a tabloid. w. B.
Hammer, managing editor, said it
would be issued six days week,
reaching the street before naon each
day.
The Bureau of the Census announces
that, according to returns received,
there were 1875 marriages performed
| in Arizona during the year 1881, as
compared with 7,715 in 1880, repre-
senting a decrease of 140 or Is per
cent.
News dispatches of the week carry
the interesting information that the
remarkable sand dunes of San Luis
valley have been made a National
Monument BY executive order 49,
600 acres have been placed in a ma
tional park for executive purposes.
Payments made to Arizona policy
holders and their beneficiaries by the
New York Life Insurance Company IN
1881 and investments Of the company
in the state during the year amounted
to s550,203 in excess of the total of
premiums collected.
The fifteenth annual cowboys re-
union will be held in Las Vegas, n. M,
July 2 to A it was decid d after pre-
vious decision to discontinue the long
established rodeo and reunion had
been reversed The reunion started
in 1906 as an annual gathering for
cowboys.
John A. Provence of Chicago has
been appointed by the board of re-
gents as assistant professor of an
thropology in the department of arch
aeolcgy at the University of Arizona.
He will work with DR.. Byron Cum
mings, head of the archaeology de-
partment
The Santa Fe 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 superintendent,
said. The total budget outlined by
the school board will cut the present
budget from S150,000 to approximate
ly S13S,00O.
Thirty-six thousand rainbow trout
have been placed in the waters be-
| low Elephant Butte dam down to Will
son wash, a distance of five miles.
the New Mexico Dona Ana county
game protective association has been
advised by the state game depart
ment. The trout ranged in size from
five to nine inches.
All wages at the University Of Ari-
zona will be reduced 10 per cent and
savings of $171,161 will be made
through decrease of maintenance
costs, capital investment, repairs and
replacements The board of regents
advised Governor Hunt total savings
will be 20 per cent. Persons getting
less than $1,000 yearly will not be af-
fected By the reduction.
A sectional airway map showing
some $4,000 square miles of territory
in northern New Mexico and north
western Texas, and indicating air
ways and aids to air navigation as
well as Typographical features within
an area approximately 355 miles from
east to west and $50 miles from north
to south, has been published by the
aeronautics branch of the Depart
ment of Commerce, and is now ready
for distribution.
A Mexican miner at Miami, Ariz.,
who has been suffering from mys-
terious illness, was examined by DR..
Nelson n Rrayton. and it was revealed