The Coolidge examiner., 1932-10-21
Southwestern Briefs

by a wind and hailstorm recently.
Charges of smuggling hacksaw
blades into the county Jail to aid a
prisoner to escape are on file against
Sam James, 81, an Albuquerque car
penter.
Mrs. Bertha s. Kennedy, principal
of the Emerson school at Flagstaff
since 1918, and a teacher in Arizona
schools for thirty-two years, has re-
tired on her state pension.
Plain Bill Rogers is the name pre-
ferred by William Rogers, Jr., son of
Americas eminent humorist. who has
enrolled as a sophomore student at
the University of Arizona.
Phoenix will become host to approx
imately 1000 grade and high school
teachers Oct. 28 and 20, when the an
nual convention of the Arizona Edu-
cational Association is held.
The New Mexico state land office,
during the month of September,
turned over a total of $4,000 to the
state treasurer as the Offices revenue
from leases and other sources.
A change in the rules and regula-
tions for the apiary department of
the Arizona state fair will permit bee
keepers of northern Arizona to enter
competition for premiums this year.
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board
announced the appointment of r. H.
McCune of Roswell as one of the nine
directors in charge of home financing.
McCune is in charge of loans for New
Mexico.
New Mexico, for the first time since
statehood, will have six separate tick
cts on it's election ballot in November.
Progressive, Socialist, Communist and
Liberty parties.
The plague locusts of Biblical fame
swooped down into Arizona this year,
but instead of growing fat on the land
in the northern part of the state, mil
lions met death through starvation,
drought and poison.
Two hundred and fifty varieties of
poultry, including checks, pigeons,
ducks, geese, turkeys, bantams and
several other classifications, will be
on exhibit at the Arizona state fair at
Phoenix Oct. "a to 80.
An average decrease for 1892 Of
$3.50 in taxes per thousand dollar
valuation for Colfax county, N. M,
over taxes for 1881 is shown in a COM
parative statement of the Colfax Coun-
ty Taxpayers Association.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
withdrawn its order cancelling Sun
day service on the Dawson-Tucum-
carl branch until the complaints
against the discontinuance of the
service have been investigated.
Motor vehicle registrations in Ari-
zona for the first six months of the
current year numbered 88,181. The
fees paid for registration amounted to
highway fund for road purposes.
At a meeting of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, held in Phoenix,
preliminary apportionments were
made for Arizona counties and regula-
tions were formulated governing the
body. The state allotment is $125,000.
Over 500 applications for highway
work have been received by the San
Miguel county IN. NJ emergency en-
ployment committee, and additional
applicants are applying daily. OF the
applicants thus far, 100 have been ex-
service men.
Announcement of a statewide or
ganization to be known as the Ari-
zona Health League, was made by
cap" A. C. Taylor, well known busi-
ness man of Phoenix and former Sec
retary of the Arizona Good Roads AS
sociation, who will be it's president.
Eduardo Trujillo, former bookkeep-
er at the First National bank of Santa
Fe, convicted on one of twelve counts
charging him with conspiracy to vio-
] IdIc udllOndl UdAhlAS SlfCh
the maximum sentence of two years
in prison by Federal Judge Colin Neb-
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The first white woman ever to in
wade the land of the head hunters of
Venezuela will lead a University Of
Arizona ethnology expedition into the
treacherous wilds of the Andes noun
tains this winter Mrs. Ana Mae Nc
Grath plans to spend several months
among three savage tribes.
Leo Frost of Snowflake was the low
bidder on the Globe-Holbrook (Ariz.)
national forest highway project, with
figure of $38,446.95. Two other bids
were submitted. Lewis Bros. of Wins
low submitted bid of $40,599.30 and
H. ]. Hagen of Globe, $41,642.30. The
engineers estimate was $35,OS1.95.
The New Mexico State Corporation
| Commission forwarded to the Santa