The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-25
Southwest News Items

| department became million dollar
banking organization recently, when
deposits reached $1,OO0,O5725.
! To care for a deficit of $80O,OOO,
arising from unpaid taxes, the state
of Arizona will offer for sale in New
York $1,50O,OOO in tax anticipation
bonds, it is announced.
A drive for funds to support the ac-
tivities of Mesa district Boy Scouts
will be launched in Mesa, Ariz., May
l, it was decided at meeting of the
Mesa Scout executive committee.
Improvements totaling $4,000 will
be installed at Fort Alexander NJ. Tut
hill, Arizona's National Guard en-
campment, if appropriation bills are
passed by Congress
Despite increases in their burdens
of more than 64 per cent, Gallup, N.
M, public schools have held expendi-
lures to an increase of only 445 per
cent IN the last ten years.
The Weicker Transportation Co.
has asked the Public Utilities Com
mission for a certificate to haul inter
state shipments between Denver and
the Kansas and New Mexico state
lines
At NOga!es, Ariz., eight shots were
fired when L. S. officials were placing
sixty-five Chinese, who had fled from
Sonora, aboard a train for deporta-
ton by way of San Francisco. for
China
The 20 per cent wage cut put into
effect by the Albuquerque, N. M, Con-
tractors Association has been ac-
cepted by the Plasterers' Union. The
plasterers scale, formerly S11 a day,
will now be $3.50.
Preliminary surveying of highway
3S5, near Grandview, n M, for paw
ing, has been begun-exactly four
teen days after the $36O,OOO road pro-
gram was authorized by an almost
four to one vote on February II.
Senators Sam G. Bratton, Bronson
Cutting and Congressman Dennis
Chavez of New Mexico and Senator
Ashurst of Arizona, have pledged sup
port for the $250,O0O road appropria-
tion request as an aid for storm-hit In
dians
Production of food stuff will re-
ceive greater attention this year than
ever before among the Indians, as one
means of combating unemployment,
with the hope of improving the eco
nomiC situation among the Navajo
people.
Pleading not guilty to a charge of
numbering Miss Henrietta Schmerler,
Columbia University anthropology
student, Mac (Golney) Seymour,
Apache Indian herdsman of the White
River reservation, will go to trial
March IA, at Globe.
Arizona's mining industry employs
more than $4,000 men and digs each
year 675,O0O,O0O pounds of copper,
17,500000 pounds of lead, 100000
ounces of silver, and $5,OOO,OO0 in gold
The annual mineral output sells for
more than $1OO,000,0OO
Southern Arizona's famed fair
weather may prove a tremendous
boom to air mail development Of lines
flying from Los Angeles to the coast,
S. A. Cisler, one of the nations five
assistant superintendent of air mail,
said in Phoenix a few days ago.
Word has been received from the
Department of Indian Affairs that,
since the last rampage of the Little
Colorado river, it is thought unwise
to longer expose the children of the
Leupp Indian school to possible dan
ger, and new site will be found
After successful operation for for
ty-five years, application has been
made by the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company to the Arizona Corpo-
ration Commission, for permission to
discontinue running the train from
Phoenix, through Maricopa to Tucson.
Formal notice of appeal to the State
Supreme Court has automatically
stayed execution of Mrs Winnie Ruth
Judd, convicted trunk" murderess,
which had been set for May II. Un-
der Arizona law, an appeal is manda-
tory in all cases where the death pen
atty is set.
At Monticello, n M, assays of ore
taken from the Pankey mine ranged
from 1892 in gold to 1882 in gold per
ton, Joe Pankey of Pankey's Mine and
Ranch Company, said recently. Three
assays were made by smelters at El
Paso and Denver. Thirty men now
are employed at the mine.
Latter Day Saint Wards of Mari
copa stake will select a "Senorita
Mia" to preside as queen at a Span
ish spring fiesta which will be held
in MeZona, Ariz., auditorium April 29,
according to announcement by mem
bers of the stake Mutual Improve
ment Association board
Gov. George W. P. Hunt of Arizona
is seeking aid of administrative pow
ers in two western states in opposi-
ton to the DroDOsal presented to Con-