The Coolidge examiner., 1932-06-10
Southwest News Items

lSung USED ones are improved.
Lions Clubs of New Mexico, compris-
ing district 40, will hold their 1888 con-
vention in Silver City. The honor
was awarded to the town at the dis
trict convention of the clubs held In
Roswell.
Out-ofstate truckers will find them
selves being assessed heavy fines and
penalties for illegal operation of motor
trucks without a license unless they
purchase Arizona licenses immediate
| ly, 1t was announced by state officials.
Plans are under way to hold the
fourth annual meeting Of the New
Mexico Crop Improvement Association
in connection with Farmers Week in
State College, July 25-29, according to
G. r. Quesenberry of the New Mexico
State College.
An announcement that the United
States biological survey Of Phoenix,
Ariz., would buy twenty-four horned
toads for DR.. Mann, at 25 cents each,
brought more horned toads than Don
A. Gilchrist, regional supervisor, ever
saw collected in one place before.
The once mighty deer herds in the
Kaibab National Forest on the rim
of the Grand Canyon has dwindled
until extinction seems almost a near
possibility, according to an exhaustive
official survey made public. At pres
ent there are only $4,000 deer in the
| forests.
An area of 22,S16 acres in Yavapai
County will be opened to entry under
the homestead and desert land laws
by qualified ex-service men, according
| to advices received from the dis
trict land office in Phoenix. The land
is situated in township fifteen north,
range eight west.
The United States civil service COM
mission has announced that until June
it will accept applications for the
position of farm agent to fill vacan-
cies as they occur in the Indian serv-
ice The register of eligibles for this
| position was established March 8,
| 1881. Forty appointments have been
made from that register.
Efforts on the part of representa-.
tives of Texas, New Mexico and Ari-
zona to obtain $9,000,000 additional
seed and livestock loans for this part
OF the southwest have failed. Cover.
| nor Arthur Seligman said. U. S. sen
ator Sam Bratton has advised the gov
| ernor that the secretary of agriculture
has decided not to allocate any more
/ loan funds.
The New Mexico state game com
mission is considering a plan to per-
NIT the killing of antelope in Catr0n
and Quay counties and possibly part
| Of Socorro, State Game Warden Elliott
| Barker says. 1t will not be an open
season. The commission will deter.
mine how many of the antelope it will
be safe to kill and then issue permits
| for that number.
The twelfth annual Smoki Ceremo-
malls will be staged at Prescott, Ariz.i
June IL, according to an announce
ment by Nainta Na-hastai, chief OF
| the Smoh. The Smoki have recently
completed construction of new pueb'
10, to which they are adding a museum
wing in which will be housed one OF
the finest archaeological collections
in the entire southwest.
The state of Arizona, cooperating
with the federal government, is max
ing one more effort to completely
eradicate the boil weevil found in the
Salt River Valley There at present
exists only few small tracts in iso-
lated localities in the county, one east
and south of Chandler, one near Gil
bert, small patch near Mesa and an
other in the Laveen district.
Heads of the Ganado mission in Ari
zona look forward to opening of the
Indian nurses training school on Sept
l as the next red letter day in their
calendar. Recently the 800 Indians
and mission workers together with
more than 100 visitors, dedicated the
missions new $4,000 nurses nome
making possible opening of the school
The building was completed only thir'
teen hours before its dedication.
The major portion of appropriations
for the Arizona livestock sanitary
board is paid back yearly by cattle
men of the state, according to a com
munication received by the Record
from Mrs. j. NJ. Keith, secretary OF
the Arizona Cattle Growers Associa'
ton. The money is used to pay cattle
inspectors in protecting the cattle in
dustry from thievery and the public
from unwholesome and unclean meat.
The Arizona Industrial congress, es,
Inmates the combined production value
of all producing industries in the state
in 1881 at SS3,OOO,000. This includes
S36,500,0O0 as the value of the state s
metal production, as reported by the
United States bureau of mines; S16,'
100000 as the value Of all crops, as
estimated by the U. S. Bureau OF ag'
ricultural economies; S9,O0O,O0O for