The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-29
Southwest News Items

Inc state prison construction pro-
gram at Phoenix, which has been un-
der way for several years, is nearing
completion. The largest unit was the
new cell house at cost of $152,763.15.
Three bills, one of which is already
before Congress. will provide for a
gigantic trade of lands in and about
the Navajo reservation to enlarge the
reservation by 100000 acres or about
400 square miles, Indian officials
said at Gallup, N. NJ.
The board of regents of the State
University of New Mexico has planned
the budget to include a flat ten per
cent cut in salaries of the faculty
members. At the same time bids
were asked for a steel grandstand
for the football field.
Possible savings of from a million
to 100 million dollars to Indians of
the United States through passage Of
bill now before Congress, were re-
vealed by Assistant Commissioner ].
Henry Scattergood at the Navajo
Tribal council in Fort Wingate, n NJ.
Creation of a Petrified Forest Paint
ed Desert national monument is ia
vored by the Navajo county, Arizona,
board of supervisors, Holbrook civic
clubs and the st. Johns Lions Club,
c. ]. Smith, custodian of the Petrified
Forest monument, revealed in Wins
low.
DR.. Paul S. Burgess, dean of the
University College of Agriculture Of
Arizona was designated by President
Hoover and Homer L. Shantz, presi-
dent of the institution to represent it
at the annual convention of the Ari-
zona Wool Growers Association in
Flagstaff.
War on eagles for their depreda-
tions on young livestock is contem-
plated in the Bisbee vicinity. The
great birds with wing spreads of six
to seven feet are causing ranchers
considerable concern by swooping
down and soaring aloft with a young
calf or lamb.
president of New Mexico's worlds fair
commission. Will Keleher of Albuquer--
que, was made vice president and
Mrs. j. d. Atwood, of Roswell, secre-
tary-treasurer. Plans of the commits
sion are not yet completed, according
to the governor.
The state corporation commission
has granted all railroads operating IN
New Mexico permission to place in
effect special weekend summer rates.
to and from points in New Mexico.
The rates will be one fare plus %.
cents. Tickets may be purchased on
Friday and will expire on Tuesday.
A new survey of the damage caused
at Nogales, Arizona, when a four-foot
wall of water poured down off the
mountainsides and swept through this
city and Nogales, Mex, revealed about
100 homeless persons and property
losses approximating 100000, most of
the damage was in the Mexican city.
Miss Margaret Blee of Santa Fe
county, New Mexico, and school health
nurse, has been awarded a scholarship,
given by Vanderbilt University of
Nashville, Tenn, for outstanding work.
Miss Blee will study at the institution
for nine months. She is a graduate
of st. Joseph's hospital, Kansas City.
The wheat harvest is now under way
in eastern New Mexico with the crop.
yielding from 6 to II bushels per acre.
Grain dealers said that the grain is
of good quality, but the percentage
of protein does not exceed 13 per cent.
Hail has damaged the crop in several
sections Of the wheat growing terri
tory.
Non-reservation Indian schools will
buy surplus food stuffs and Navajo,
blankets for their institutions from
Navajo Indian reservations this win
ter. The plan agreed to by superin-
tendents of Albuquerque and Santa
Fe Indian schools, the Burke Navajo
vocational school at Fort Wingate'
and Commissioner Charles ]. RhOads,
will provide Indians with long sought
cash market.
The United States forest service and
the Arizona game department are con-
Quoting survey of elk and antelope.
in the Flagstaff district to determine.
whether the ranges are overstocked
to a point that damage is being done.
Reports from several sources, largely
from cattle and sheep growers, de-
clare the wild animals are encroaching'
on livestock grazing lands and must
be put under control to prevent a re-
currence of the Kaibab forest situa-
ton.
The New Mexico state school fund
has only $940,879 available for appcr-
tionment, the smallest amount for
years, Deputy State Treasurer r. l..
Ormsbee says. Inasmuch as there has
been gain in the school census along