The Coolidge examiner., 1932-09-23
Briefs

started at PHOENIX.
A total OF G,443 persons registered
in Las Vegas for the coming general
election in November.
The Arizona Highway Commission
awarded contracts for S26S,52099 On
two sectors of U. S. highway go.
The New Mexico State Corporation
Commission granted a charter to the
! Mexican Minerals, Inc, of Albuquer-
que.
The University of Arizona will ex-
pend more than $1,OOO,OOO during the
ensuing school year for operation and
salaries of instructors.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company will reduce coal rates be-
tween Walsenburg, Trinidad and Gren-
vile, N. NJ, effective Sept. 27.
F. G. Mitchell, of Indian Wells, Ari-
zona, has just completed publication
of his convenient handbook of the
Navajo language. The publication
has 12S pages.
Either bucks or does, one deer
apiece may be taken from the KaIbab
National forest this fall. The season
on Kaibab deer this fall extends from
Oct. 16 to Nov. s.
Juan N. Vigil, state comptroller,
said that he had instructed the motor
vehicle department to refuse all per-
sonal checks rendered as payment for
automobile license plates.
The Southern Pacific RAILROAD Com
pany has filed application with the
Arizona Corporation Commission,
seeking to close it's stations at Winkel-
man, Rillito, Cochise and pSagoon.
Arizona was one of the fir%t eleven
states to follow the request of the
Home Loan Band Board to grant a
sixty-day suspension on foreclosure
on mortgages held by defuntt banks.
Joe Mishka, merchant police patrol
man of Phoenix. shot himself through
the head as he sat in an automobile
in front Of his home. Mishba's sui
eide was the third in Phoenix in two
days.
The first unit of the Hunt bass
hatchery, projected recreation Il and
game preserve in Papago park, near
Phoenix, was dedicated by Govnrnor
George w. P. Hunt, for whom il was
named.
The Magma Copper Company of
Arizona will carry out all phases of
an agreement made with its men when
it closed last spring, and reopen for
several months of cleanup work,
starting soon.
Paul L. Fickinger, executive secre-
tary of the New Mexico Educational
Association. has resigned his post to
accept an appointment as assistant
superintendent of Haskell Institute at
Lawrence. Kan.
The charter of the Inland Oil Cor
poration of Albuquerque has been can
celled by the State Corporation Com
mission, Hugh Williams, chairman of
the commission, said, for failure to
file the proper reports.
Appointment of a rural school Gu-
pervisor for San Miguel county was
assured by Mrs. Georgia Lusk, who
said the State Board of Education
will have $4,000 available for the
rural school aid fund.
Gov. Arthur Seligman of New Mex
leo said that his son. Otis, who was
indicted in connection with an alleged
shortage of S72,694 from the First Ma
tional bank of Santa Fe, will have
ito take his medicine"
One of the most outstanding south
central Arizona projects in progress
of development is the 10O,0O0-acre
Verde river irrigation and drainage
district. in Paradise and Deer valleys,
north of the Salt river project.
Negotiations are progressing rapid
ly with the Central Arizona Mining
Association taking the leading role,
to secure for highway purposes 1886
miles of abandoned Santa Fe railroad
right-of-way between Cordes and Mid
dleton.
New Mexico, under the federal min
eral leasing lands act, will receive
$44 4,290.66 this year. Last year the
state received S61,287.27 The money
is derived from mineral leases admin
istered by the federal government,
and will be divided between the State
School of Mines and the state rural
aid school funds. The State School
of Mines this year will receive $751;
900 and the rural aid school fund the
balance.
Approximately $530,OOO in new for
est highway projects will be started
by the Arizona national forest service
shortly, in addition to a 100000 pro-
gram of road construction now under
way. The new work, which Is exclu
sive of any State Highway Depart
ment projects, will include grading of
15,44S miles of U. S. highway &c from
| the Yayapai county line to the city