The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
Southwest News Items

OlIeI SlOLl COuISe lOI pFOSpeClOFS
for gold" May 16.
Employees of the Arizona state
highway department contributed
$251.0S during March to the governors
unemployment relief fund, according
to a report received here.
The University of Arizona will grad
uate 336 students in June. OF these
273 will receive bachelor of arts de-
grees, twenty master of science, thir-
ty-three master of arts, one doctor of
philosophy and four professional.
The Aztec Independent and the
Aztec Review were consolidated on
May /, and the Aztec Publishing Co.,
the newly formed company, will pub
lish the Aztec ndependent-Review
with George Bowra acting as manag-
ing editor.
A Gila county, Ariz., road crew has
completed the surfacing of the mu-
nicip2l airport. The expansive Mid
land City airport is now in fine con-
dition and presents an attractive land
ing field for aviators passing over
this district.
A. ]. Mackey, president of the Flag
staff Game Protective Association,
says a plan will be submitted to the
state game department for dynamiting
portion of Oak Creek below the
falls to clear the water of predatory
fish so that bass and trout can be
planted
Early July will offer many note
worthy features, with the Prescott
Frontier Days and Northern Arizona
State Fair at Prescott July to 4, the
second annual rodeo at Winslow July
2 to 4, and the annual Southwestern
Indian Pow-Wow at Flagstaff July 8
and 4.
Government ward Indians on reser-
vations within the Pacific area will
receive 6,673 barrels of flour now be-
ing distributed by the American Ma
tional Red Cross, arrangements for
the flour having been made by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washing
ton, d. c.
The staffs of the Arizona Bureau
of Mines, the College of Mines and
Engineering, and the Southwest Ex-
pertinent Station of the U. S. Bureau
of Mines cooperated in presenting the
course for prospectors for gold which
was opened on the campus of the
University of Arizona.
The latter part of July will bring
the annual Long Valley Rodeo at Long
Valley, Ariz., while the famed Hopi
snake dances will be held on the Hopi
mesas the latter part of August. Sew
eral other events for late summer are
being planned. but as yet have not
been definitely announced.
The Reverend Marshall Dawson,
pastor Of the Congregational Church
of Ell Paso, will preach the baccalau-
reate sermon at New Mexico State
College on May %. DR.. H. C. Gossard,
president of New Mexico Normal Uni
versity at Las Vegas, will give the
commencement address on May "a.
Agits ton is beginning in some dis
tricts of Arizona to have the state
road tax, which is being levied an
nually in addition to the gasoline tax
repealed, and at the same time turn
over all the gasoline tax revenues to
abolish county departments.
The first distinctive event of state
wide interest this vacation period was
the Red Knolls pageant near Stafford
on May 13, after which Northern Ari-
zona's schedule of nationally-known
tourist attractions will open with the
Smoki ceremonials and snake dance
at Prescott on June u. Holbrook will
follow with it's second annual rodeo
June % and 26.
The appeal of Lloyds America for
permission to do insurance business in
New Mexico was heard before the
state corporation commission. State
Insurance Commissioner Max Fer
nandez rejected the original applica-
tion of the company, maintaining that
it is neither a stock nor mutual plan
company and does not fall within the
provisions of New Mexico laws.
Bank clearings in Prescott, Ariz.,
in April took a squirt ahead of Febru-
ary and March and nearly equaled
checking transactions in January.
when many Christmas bill was paid,
according to information obtained.
Last months total was $1,4O1 ,340.86
for the city's four institutions-the
Bank of Arizona, the Yavapai County
Savings Bank. the Valley Bank and
Trust Company, and the First Ma
tional Bank
Meetings of livestock men of New
Mexico are to be held in various parts
of the state this month for the pur-
pose of considering a plan for setting
up a credit corporation headquarters
in the state to be affiliated with the
Livestock Marketing Association of