The Coolidge examiner., 1932-10-07
Southwestern Briefs

Dates for the Willard IN. NJ fair,
held for Torrance county, will be Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct
4, and 6.
The New Mexico State Highway De
partment has decided to center stripe
all oiled highways in the state at dan
gerous points with orange paint
The work of grading, draining and
sub-grade stabiIizing 1914 miles of
the United States highway No. sc on
the Ashfork-Williams (Ariz.) section,
has begun.
Utah Construction Company of Og-
den. Utah, was the low bidder on the
Pine-Winslow (Ariz.) national forest
highway surfacing project. Its fig
ure was S105,670.
An immediate loan of $25O,OOO for
unemployment relief work in Arizona
in September and October has been
authorized by the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation.
Announcement has been made by
S. P. Peterson, director of the U. S.
weather bureau of Albuquerque, of the
removal of the weather bureau office
from Springer to Las Vegas.
Crops and farming conditions on the
New Mexico State hospital farm COM
pare favorably with individually op-
Grated projects, the hospital board
was advised at its meeting recently.
The next Arizona Legislature will
be asked to reduce the governors sal
ary $1,000 per year, it was disclosed
by Gov. Geo. w. P. Hunt. The pres
ent salary of the chief executive is
$500.
DR.. James D. Kennedy, for twenty
five years government physician at
| Toadlena, is recovering from exposure
while lost for two days in the noun
tains of the Crystal district in New
Mexico.
| All indications are pointing to a
permanent recovery in the sheep and
wool industry of Arizona this fall and
winter. Wool values under the tre-
mendous buying pressure have risen
just about 25 per cent.
A small thirty-passenger Pickwick
Greyhound bus was completely de-
stroyed by fire three miles north of
Wagon Mound, N. M. The bus carried
no passengers and was dead-heading
through from the west coast.
Gov. Arthur Seligman of New Mex.
| leo said that the state museum, the
| first institution to submit its revised
| budget for the twenty-first fiscal year,
had complied with his request and had
cut its proposed expenditures 10 per
cent.
A. R. Kleindienst, secretary of the
Winslow Elks lodge No. 531 and broth.
er of the exalted ruler, e. A. Klein.
dienst of the lodge, was appointed to
the post of district deputy grand ex
alted ruler for the northern district
| of Arizona.
Over 300 applications for employ.
ment have been received at the office
OF the San Miguel county IN M
emergency employment committee. II
was noted among the applicants that
but very small percentage of them
are ex-service men.
| Reductions by man and nature have
thinned the Kaibab forest deer herd
in Arizona to 1900 head. The hunt
ing season will be from Oct. 16 to Nov.
| Is, on the west side of the forest only,
with one deer, either buck or doe, al.
lowed each hunter
The New Mexico State Board of Fl.
nance granted the Spanish-American
Normal of Ell Rito an extension of
funds from it's appropriation in order
to permit the institution to continue
operation until the next Legislature
makes an appropriation for it's oper-
alton.
DR.. ]. R. Earp director of the State
Bureau of Public Health, said that 56
contagious diseases were reported to
the bureau for the week ending Sep
tember 10. OF this number, 10 were
tuberculosis cases. 7, diphtheria; 5,
scarlet fever; 5, whooping cough; 3,
| typhoid, and 2, malaria
Dry weather during August caused
agricultural statisticians to revise
downward some of the earlier esti-
mates they made of crop production
in New Mexico. 1t was estimated the
corn production will be 4,043,000 bush
els compared with 5,660,000 year ago
and 3.159,00O the five-year average.
Children of Arizona are going to
have their own history of their state.
The new history, Boys and Girls
Arizona" is written by Miss Dorothy
F. Robinson, instructor in education
and critic in the training school of the
Arizona State Teachers College at
Tempe. The book will be released
soon.
The State Corporation Commission
cancelled the charters of the Musto-