The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Southwest News Items

tie were shipped from Arizona to 9TH
er states and Mexico during 1881.
About seventy-five friends of Karl
Guthman gathered at the Methodist
church in Roy, N. M. to honor the
editor of the Roy Record on his elec-
ton as president of the New Mexico
Press Association.
Despite year of general depres-
sion and the lowest average copper
price since 1850, Arizona last year
produced basic commodities valued at
S62,0O0,000, the Arizona Industrial
Congress estimates.
Creating new markets and urging
the use of home products as a means
of promoting economic development is
the purpose of a newly-formed or
ganization of manufacturers and dis
tributors in Arizona.
Application has been filed with the
Arizona State Corporation commits
sion for a permit to operate passen-
ger air service between Douglas,
Ariz., and Las Vegas, New, by the
Verde Valley Airlines, Inc.
The New Mexico state treasurer's
office in Santa Fe recently made q
distribution of motor vehicle license
revenues of $114,8539O to the coun-
ties for the month ending January 81.
County levy's received $71,783.69 and
county road funds $43,070.21.
In the interests of economy, Uni
versity Week in Tucson, May 6 and 7,
has been cancelled. University Week
heretofore has provided the setting at
the University of Arizona for athletic
and educational contests, participated
in by the leading high schools of the
state.
On August 81, 1881, the end of the
fiscal year the Middle Rio Grande
conservancy district had a balance Of
S219,199.80, according to an audit re-
leased in Albuquerque. Cash dis
bursements for the year totaled ST.
499. 1860 and cash receipts $1,718,-
966.5S.
The tree ring chronology chart by
which prehistoric ruins of the south
west are being accurately dated, has
been extended back 81 years by the
study of a single log, made by Miss
Florence Hawley a member of the
field school faculty of the University
Of New Mexico.
w. H. Finch of Carlsbad, died of
suffocation in the city Jail in Carls-
bad when his bed caught on fire.
Finch, arrested on a charge Of drunk
eness. apparently had fallen asleep
while smoking and in his stupor in
hailed the smoke. His body was bad
ly burned by the fire.
A certificate of incorporation was is
sued by the Arizona Corporation Com
mission in Phoenix recently to the
Verde Valley Air Lines, Inc. Of Jer-
ONE. The company is capitalized at
$50,O0O Marcus E. Rawlins, Clemen-
ceau; w. A. Clark III, Clarkdale and
NJ. L. Wheeler, Clarkdale.
The E. Romero Hose and Fire COM
pany, Las Vegas unique volunteer fire
department, celebrated its fiftieth an
niversary and George Washington's
birthday, Feb. %, with a jubilee ball
The fire department, which has grown
from a man-drawn hose cart outfit to
an efficient truck and electric alarm
system, has never received money
from the city.
Temple No. of the Masonic lodge
of Albuquerque has filed suit to en-
join the county treasurer Of Bernalll-
10 county New Mexico from levying a
tax on the lodges property. The suit
is the first of a series of test suits
expected to follow as the result of an
order recently issued requiring the
assessing of all lodge, fraternity and
sorority property as well as hospital
property owned by churches.
Herbert j. Hagerman of New Mexi.
co. special federal commissioner for
Indians in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah
and Colorado, was charged with neg
lect of duty in a subcommittee report
filed with the United States senate in
Washington. The subcommittee said
Hagerman was unfit for the position
1t recommended that the office be
abolished by refusal of congress to
appropriate funds for Hagerman's
salary.
James P. White of Roswell has
brought suit in Federal Court in San,
ia Fe against Tom L. Green and the
American Employers Insurance Com
pany, Inc. Of Boston asking that he
be awarded compensation for total
and permanent disability under the
New Mexico workmen's compensation
law. He represents that his injuries
were received when he was trapped
by an earthslide while building con.
crete forms.
Billie Adkins, held in Tucson in the
kidnapping of Gordon Sawyer, wealthy
Tucson bank executive, has been
freed, Justice of the Peace c. V. Bud
long having ruled there was insuffi-