The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-08
Southwest News Items

State Bank of Gallup, New Mexico,
of $4,000.
Hal Chase, former major league
star, was treated in a Tucson hospi-
tai for injuries suffered in an auto
mobile accident near Tucson which
took the life of Aaron Gordon of
Houston, Texas.
Michael Curley, general manager
of the Phelps Dodge corporation and
the New Cornelia mines, has assumed
the governorship of the Arizona Min
ing Congress. He succeeds T. H.
O'Brien of Inspiration.
The Arizona legislature was called
into special session to deal primarily
with the state unemployment prob
lens, by Gov. George w. P. Hunt.
The legislature convened Dec. %, and
may remain in session not longer than
sixty days.
Knocking hole in the ceiling of
an unlocked basement vault and break
ing their way thru it into the room
above, robbers entered the cash vault
of the Gallup Merchants Bank at
Gallup, N. M, and obtained $4,000
in silver and currency.
The Arizona state agriculture and
horticulture commission has decided
not to place a regulation on control
and eradication of the pink boil
worm during 1882. 1t was advised
the worm practically had been eradi-
Gated in Arizona.
The Arizona Fair Commission re-
ported a deficit of $12,219 occurred
from the last state fair held in
Phoenix. The statement said the COM
mission had accounts payable total
ing $25,93225, with assets of S13.-
O13.02.
DR.. Andrew E. Douglass OF Tucson.
Ariz., will receive an award of $4,000
presented by the Research Corpora
tion of New York throught the Smith
sonian institute. DR.. Douglass de-
veloped the tree ring method of
prehistoric chronology
Dona Ana county New Mexico farm
women, under the supervision of Miss
Ezra Grimes, county home demonstra-
tion agent, have opened what is be-
lieved to be the first cooperative
store in the southwest and will sell
their homemade products under a
SEAL
The Coronado Gold Mining and Mill
ing Company of Tucson recently filed
articles of incorporation in Phoenix,
listing $3,000,OOO as it's capital stock.
The company plans operations in the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
Directors are Edward L. Morgan and
Frank K Sawyer.
Governor Geo. W. P. Hunt of Ari
zona has named c. E. Adams, chair
man of the Arizona Highway commits
sion, and T. E. O'Connell, Arizona
State Engineer, as delegates to the
28th annual convention of the Amer
ican Road Builders Association in De-
troit Jan. II to Is.
anu MIS. AIIuuI O6IlS-
man, Brigadier General Osborne c.
Wood, Major Herman Baca and Col
onel John Green, of the governors
staff attended the dedication of the
new Clovis National Guard armory
in Clovis. The armory was recently
completed at cost Of 100000.
]. w. (Jim) Poe, indicted for the
murder of Ralph Handy, under-cover
federal prohibition agent in Las Vegas,
N. M. was acquitted by a jury in
Las Vegas court The defendant
summoned before the court for dis
charge, broke down and wept as he
thanked the individual jurors for their
verdict of clearance.
P. G. Spilsbury was reelected presi-
dent of the Arizona Industrial con-
gress at the recent meeting in Phoe-
since it was formed 10 years ago. A.
A. Johns, Prescott, was reelected
first vice-president; J. T. Melczer,
Phoenix, second vice-president, and
w. C. Weiss, Phoenix, treasurer.
Farmers operating 14,O91 farms in
New Mexico during 1880 owned 49,
395 automobiles, according to the
farm machinery report of the bureau
of census announced recently. These
were 44.9 per cent of all farms in
the state which in addition operated
a total of 5,329 trucks on 5,O24 farms.
The report shows that 2,497 tractors
were used on 1927 farms.
The New Mexico department of ed
ucation program for distribution Of
supplemental readers purchased un-
der the Kinney rural aid fund, has
been extended to include the fourth
fifth and sixth grades in rural
schools, Mrs. Grace Corrigan stated
in Santa Fe recently. The original
program included distribution of sup
Elemental readers only in the first
three grades.
New Mexico gasoline tax refund
law will now be appealed to the Unit