The Coolidge examiner., 1932-04-29
Southwest News Items

effect with the beginning of the 1882
1888 school year.
Governor Hunt today denied extra
dition of Lawrence Altmen from Ari-
zona to Los Angeles, where he is
wanted on charge of asserted violat-
ion of the California motor vehicle
act and grand theft.
The Chavez bill to authorize pay
ment to New Mexico Pueblos of funds
due on lands settled by whites was
ruled out of order in the house
! Wednesday and sent back to the In
dian committee because it was not in
proper form.
! The plant of the Yuma County
Farmer and SOmerton Tribune, week
! ly newspaper, has been destroyed by
! fire. D. NJ. and George X. Knapp,
| publisher and editor reported they
narrowly escaped with their lives.
They had lived in the same building.
A site for proposed Indian school
for Navajos and Hopis is being sur
veyed five miles east of Flagstaff by
Herbert ]. Hagerman, special commits
! siOner of the Indian bureau, and Mark
w. Radcliffe, under instructions from
Charles ]. Rhoads, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
| lars worth of free water has flowed
over farm lands of the Verde river
valley in the last four months, Off
cials estimated. They said more than
double the previous record quantity
of free water has been made available
since last November.
Bids for construction work on 1915
miles of the Winslow-Holbrook high
way have been called for The pro-
posals will be opened April 21. .The
work begins approximately eleven
miles east of Winslow and extends
easterly toward Holbrook. It consists
of grading, draining and placing of
subgrade stabilizer. The project is
to be completed by December 81.
Twenty-four hunters of the U. S.
Biological Survey killed 215 predatory
animals in March, according to a
monthly report just released by the
! bureau. OF this number 152 were coy
otes, twenty-nine bobcats, five lions.
one wolf and twenty-eight porcupines
and miscellaneous animals. ]. w. Rut-
ledge was high man for the month
with eighteen coyotes and one bob
cat to his credit.
President Hoover was urged to take
the initiative in advocating legislation
| that would impose a tariff on copper
in petition, signed by governors of
twelve states, mailed to him by Gov.
George w. p Hunt of Arizona. The
petition was drafted by the Arizona
tariff commission and sent to various
! governors by the Arizona executive.
Those signing it included Governor
Seligman of New Mexico.
If House Resolution No. l, intro
duced in a speech before congress by
| Wright Patman of Texas on Feb. IS
becomes a law veterans of the World
War in Gila county will receive $527,.
! 5S216, according to a copy of Con
gressional record received. If all
the adjusted service certificates were
paid in cash, it was pointed out
by Mr. Patman, it would mean $2,2OO,-
100000 would be necessary.
The Welfare Division of Phoenix,
Ariz, which operates on funds sup
E1ied by the Community Chest, cares
for an average of one hundred and
! fifty needy families, or about 500 per-
sons, a month. During December the
office handled 500 cases. Each month,
it supplies 225 quarts of milk to under
nourished children. 1t has also been
instrumental in offering free meals to
the children of ST. Mary's school.
The attorney general of Arizona has
ruled that minors Cor those under 16
years of age) do not have to have a
fishing license, and that if they ac-
company their fathers to San Carlos
| lake, each can legally catch ten fish.
| The law was first interpreted that the
| father and the son could only catch
ten fish on the one license, but now.
according to the latest Interpretation,
they can catch twenty fish between
! them.
The Shamrock" student publica-
tion of the st. Patrick academy, was
ranked third among high school pa
pers of the state at the recent meet
ing of the interscholastic press in San
ia Fe. The Tigers Claw" published
by students of the journalism class of
the Ration high school, was ranked
| fourth in the state. LA Sesalpha, -
Clovis high school paper, took first
place and the Record" Albuquerque
high school, was named second.
Navajo Indians want tractors in
stead of horses to till their fields be-
cause tractors do not eat when not
working. Indian officials were told
that the Navajos, long known as the