The Coolidge examiner., 1932-02-05
Southwest News Items

ArDOr Gays IN Arizona.
An exploding stove in a cafe at
Coolidge, Ariz., caused fire which de-
stroyed three business buildings, with
loss estimated at $4,000.
Acting upon an order issued from
the sheriff's office at Prescott, Ariz.,
Deputy McCracken closed all gam
bling in Camp Verde, Ariz.
Arizona Electric Power Company
has been granted permission to build
a power transmission line between
Winslow and Holbrook and install
service in Joseph City.
All tracts offered at the recent bond
land sale at Reserve, N. M, by Pete
Steffian, clerk of the New Mexico
| land office, were sold at the price
asked by the state of New Mexico.
A large oxygen chamber, trans
| ported by airplane from New York
to Tucson for Alice Hilliard pneu-
monia sufferer, was assembled and
installed at the Desert Sanatorium in
/ Tucson.
Mayor NJ. ]. Pilkington of Flagstaff,
Ariz. announced that survey work had
been completed for a S15000O paving
project in Flagstaff. Ballots are be-
ing prepared to submit the issue to
the voters.
Juan Wales, Indian service posse
man, charged with the murder of ADO
linario Lucero of Bernalillo during a
fiesta at the Sandira Indian pueblo
last June, died suddenly in the coun-
ty Jail in Albuquerque a few days
ago.
The annual report released in Phoe-
nix by the state board of health shows
communicable disease in Arizona for
1881 totalled 6,716 cases. The pre-
vailing disease during the year was
measles, 2,415 cases having been re-
ported.
NJ. E. Cassidy has assumed duties
as receiver of the Arizona Edison Com
pany. Cassidy resigned as United
States commissioner and Immediately
was appointed receiver of the utili-
ties company by Federal Judge Fred
C. Jacobs.
Officials of the Old Domino an
nounced in Globe, Ariz. that opera
tions have been stopped because of
the low price of copper. A small
crew of men, however, have been kept
to furnish drinking water to the city
of Globe.
Miss Billie Baker, 27-year-old, was
acquitted by a Superior Court jury
in Phoenix of manslaughter in con-
nection with the death of Elmer Cot
ton, struck down by the woman's au-
tomobile as he alighted from a street
car in Phoenix.
The condition of New Mexico cat
tie has held up well so far this win
ter, Fred Daniels, agricultural sta
tistician at the New Mexico A. and
NJ. College at Las Cruces, said in his
monthly report on range and livestock
conditions in the state.
Several persons were injured when
a section of water-soaked plaster fell
from the ceiling of the Indian room
of the Franciscan hotel in Albuquer-
que during banquet ending the two
day conference of American Legion
auxiliary officers of New Mexico.
The little community of Maple, N.
NJ, south Of Gallup, wants a postof-
flee. A petition signed by % white
rog;1a1+c apJ - Tpdiopc hoe haor eort
to the first assistant postmaster gen
eral requesting the establishment of
the postoffice at Maple School House.
The board of regents of the New
Mexico State Teachers college at Sill
yer City recently voted to withhold 10
per cent of all the teachers and en-
ployees' salaries from January 1, to
June 80, as means of preventing
further increases in the schools
deficit
Arthur Prayer was renamed presi-
dent and all other officers were re-
elected to the board of directors of
the First American at a meeting held
in Albuquerque. Other officers are
Sol Benjamin, vice president; Clinton
P. Anderson, treasurer, and Lawrence
N. Kremer, secretary.
With work already started on some
of the projects in order to assist in
solving the unemployment problem,
the New Mexico state highway de-
partment announced in Santa Fe that
$5,800,0OO would be expended in New
Mexico during 1882 under the states
federal aid road program.
The Gila County Sportsmen Asso-
citation at a meeting held in Globe,
Ariz., suggested the closing of San
Carlos Lake to fishing because of the
size of the fish, violations of regula-
tions by fishermen and difficulty in
obtaining restocking until May 15
The lake, impounded behind Coolidge
Dam, was opened January 1.
The Indian Bureau, with the coop
GRAFTON of the army air corps resorted
TO SirDlanpS tn pnt food to large