The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-12
Southwest News Items


at approximately S250,000.
The first Thursday in August is the
accepted date for the Old Settlers
picnic, looked forward to by the old
timers of Clayton, N. NJ, and hundreds
of others.
The tentative budget for Gila county.
Arizona, schools, for the coming year
will be reduced approximately S91,-
1871 over last year, according to the
county school superintendent.
The July issue of New Mexico" the
states recreational highway magazine.
carries a new cover design, four
color painting by Gerald Cassidy of
the Sanctuario at Chimayo.
The United States Bureau of Roads
made public a program under which
approximately 100000 will be spent
on road projects in the national for
ests of Arizona during the fiscal year.
Arizona vacation travel is credited
with maintaining tourist traffic at rel
atively high levels in northern and
eastern Arizona, according to bulle-
tin of the Arizona Industrial Congress.
The Phoenix tax rate, as established
by the city commission of the Arizona
capital, will be SLAP per 500 Of valua'
ton for the fiscal year 1932-33-an
increase of 20 cents over the previous
year.
Arizona will seek loan of S45,000,-
000-the maximum amount allowable
to any state or territory-from r. Re-
construction Finance Corporation, I'M
der provisions of the relief measure
adopted by congress.
Six hundred twenty-five thousand,
two hundred fifty-two acres out of
1,O66,439 examined in Yuma county,
Arizona, are irrigable, according to
Porter J. Preston, chairman Of the
Colorado River Planning commission.
The Arizona highway department,
T. S. O'Connell, state engineer, an
nounces, will expend S6,60S,744.97 in
construction and survey of roads dur
ing the present fiscal year, out Of the
regular and emergency budgets and
Oddie-Colton funds.
Information received from the
federal bureau of reclamation in Wash
ington cites the cost of the proposed
canal between the upper and lower
damsites on the Colorado river near
Parker in northern Yuma county as
more than S22,5O0.O00.
Considerable sulphur mining is pre-
dicted for New Mexico with the return
of better business conditions, since the
way has been paved by the passage of
the sulphur permit bill by congress,
which permits the prospecting for sui
phur on government land.
AS temporary adjustment OF
freight rates on oil from the Wichita
Falls and Electra fields, the Santa Fe
railroad has granted substantial re-
duction to New Mexico points. The
rates apply to the Albuquerque, Santa
Fe and Las Vegas territory.
Preliminary plans for setting up
numerous small road projects in the
state, to be financed by the initial
s1,000,000 loan asked by Governor
George w. P. Hunt of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation, have been
made by the Arizona highway depart
ment.
approximately $4,000 acres of desert
land in Yavapai county, Arizona, has
been opened for entry, former service
men and others with preferred rights
having until Oct. 10 to file claims.
The remaining unreserved land will be
opened to the public for entry on
Oct. 10.
Arizona may have, in effect, lieu
tenant governor after the 1884 cleo
tions. States not having lieutenant
governor are in addition to Arizona ::
Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon.
Utah, Tennessee, West Virginia and
Wyoming.
More than one-fourth of the $685.
951.36 spent for child welfare in Ari-
zona during the fiscal year which
ended June 80, was disbursed for
Maricopa County children, according
to the report filed by Mrs. George
Eberle, secretary of the state child
welfare board.
Planning a drive to secure a share
of a million-dollar reservation road ap-
preparation for the continuation of
Highway 666 across Zuni reservation,
meeting of Gallup, St. Johns, Ariz.,
and Zuni representatives will be held
at Gallup, N. M, preceding the Inter
Tribal Indian Ceremonial
The highest death rates in the birth
registration areas of the United States.
according to a survey completed June
20 by the Bureau of Census, Washing
ton, D. c., rate Arizona second with
percentage of 1872. New Mexico leads
all states for its population with a
slightly higher rate 155 per cent