The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-09
Southwestern Briefs

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alton of Ration, has been elected presi-
dent of the New Mexico Building and
Loan Association League.
The New Mexico State Highway
Commission prepared recently to
make plans for another highway let
ting as part of it's 100000 federal
aid emergency highway program.
A suicide note directed members of
the family of Frank Fleming, 53-year.
old rancher, Silver City, n NJ, to
spot near his home where his body
was found, bullet hole through the
head.
George I. Sanchez, head of the sta
tistical bureau of the state depart
ment of education in New Mexico,
said that common school budgets were
reduced 1880 per cent under last
years figures.
Joe Baca, young Gallup, N. NJ, elec-
tion eve slayer, was sentenced to 10
to 80 years imprisonment by District
Judge Otero. Baca pleaded guilty to
the second degree murder Of his
uncle, Juan M. Baca.
A United States District Court jury
at Phoenix returned a verdict award
ing about $4,000 to Herbert w. Hodg-
kins and his wife, Wanita, in their
$4,000 damage suit against the Inde-
pendent Stage Company.
James G. Sayres OF Phoenix was
endorsed unanimously for speaker of
the house of representatives of the
next session of the Arizona legisla-
ture at a meeting of Maricopa countys
delegation in the house.
New Mexico will not cast its three
electoral votes for Governor Franklin
d. Roosevelt until January 16, 1882,
at which time the three electors on
the Democratic ticket will meet at
Sata Fe and cast their ballots.
A suicide motive prompted Mrs.
Lowell Robinson, 27-year-old school
teacher, to drive her car spectacularly
from the bank into thirty feet Of
water at Deep Lake, near Roswell,
n. NJ, according to authorities.
The United States Bureau of Agri-
culture reports $4,000 bales of cotton
had been ginned in Arizona up to No
vember l. The estimated yield is
$4,000 bales, or 356 pounds to the
acre, as compared with 313 last year
The Arizona State Supreme Court
reversed the judgment of the Pinal
County Superior Court ordering $780,
620.55 in excess taxes be refunded to
the Magma Copper Company and the
companys assessed valuation reduced
s5,2S8,OO0.
S. c. Kincade, 80, assistant petrole-
um engineer for the Humble Oil Com
panys pipe line at Hobbs and at
Wink. Texas, was instantly killed and
U. F. Jackson, an employee of the
firm. was seriously injured in a gas
explosion at A-3 well in the Hobbs
field
Representative Harry ]. Valentine
OF Superior, Ariz., filed with Governor
George w. P. Hunt two more applica-
tions for permission to sell liquors in
Pinal county. The applications filed
were on behalf of George C. Curtis.
service station owner, and Pablo j.
Salcido, who operates a store in Su-
perior.
Attorney General-elect Arthur T. La
Prade OF Arizona announced that P.
T. Brooks, Tucson lawyer, will be
added to the present attorney gen.
erals staff when he takes office Janu-
airy 2. La Prada said other members
of his staff would be Charles L.
Strouss, Riney B. Salmon and James
R. McDougall, all incumbents. Brooks
is a graduate of the University OF
Arizona and formerly lived in Wins
low.
The Allied Brewing Corporation has
filed articles of incorporation in the
county recorders office at Phoenix.
It was the second organization of it's
kind to file incorporation papers re-
Gently, apparently in anticipation of
modification or repeal of the national
prohibition laws. Directors of Allied
Brewing Corporation were named as
Peter Stofsky, Mary Friedman and
Herbert Hoffnung, all of New York
City.
Governor George w. P. Hunt of
Arizona received word from the re-
gional headquarters of the Red Cross
at San Francisco that 26,S29 barrels
of flour had been distributed to needy
persons in various sections of Arizona
up to October 81. The San Francisco
office also reported that 306,056 yards
of cotton cloth to be used in making
clothing had been sent into the state
and that 1,949 dozen garments had
been distributed to the needy.
Complete arrangements have been
made for registration for the winter
quarter at the New Mexico Normal
University on Monday Decemher