The Coolidge examiner., 1932-02-19
Southwest News Items

leo A. and M. College at Las Cruces.
J. w. Strobe, executive secretary
to Governor George w. P. Hunt, re-
ported to police that thieves entered
the Strobe residence in Phoenix and
removed foreign coins and jewelry
valued at $3.50.
DR.. John c. Kendall, director of
music of the Denver public schools,
this summer will be a member of the
faculty of the Arizona State Teachers
College at Flagstaff, Ariz, DR.. Grady
Gamage, president, has announced.
An increase in the popularity of
the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico
is expected with the dedicating re-
Gently of the elevator that will carry
visitors down more than 700 feet to
the main gallery, eliminating a here
tofore long walk.
A patent for a cement made of the
white sands and lava rock found near
Tularosa has been issued to A. L. V.
Nilsson of Tularosa. The new kind
of cement, Nilsson said, is supposed
to equal in quality to Portland ce-
ment, and is especially adaptable to
road work
The Tucumcari, N. NJ, postoffice
made the highest average in the dis
trict on a mail distribution examina-
ton conducted annually by the rail-
way mail service, David Mcknight,
chief clerk railway mail service at
FL Paso, reported.
Trail of Mac (Golney) Seymour, 81
year-old Apache Indian cowboy,
charged with the Staying of Miss Hen
rietta Schmerler, Columbia Univer-
sity anthropology student, has been
postponed from the middle of Feb
ruary to first half of March. Sey-
mour will be tried in Globe.
A three weeks fight in which every
available medical appliance was used
to save the life of Miss Alice Hilliard,
stepdaughter of Robert Bingham,
Louisville, KY, newspaper publisher,
ended in Tucson in the death of the
26-year-old patient. The last seven
days Miss Hilliard lived in an oxygen
chamber rushed here by airplane from
New York
The grand lodge of New Mexico
Masonry will hold its annual session
in Las Cruces March 21 to %, w. l..
Elser, of State College, grand master,
announces. The Grand Royal Lodge
will be in session March "a and the
Grand Commandery and Knights Temp
lars on March 25. The Grand Chapter,
Order of Eastern Star, will also be
in session during the week.
Las Cruces has scored the highest
rated milk supply of any town in New
Mexico, operating under the standard
100 per cent rating for 1881 as op-
posed to SO per cent for 1880, while
raw milk to pasteurizing plants was
rated at 81 per cent in 1881; pasteur-
lied milk at 81 per cent and per cent
of pasteurized milk 20 per cent.
Albert B. Fall lost his last hope of
freedom before the end of his SEN
tence for accepting a 100000 bribe
from E. L. Doheny. The Federal Pa
role Board of two men and a woman
declined to shorten the Imprisonment
Of the former secretary of interior.
Thus the 70-yea~-old Fall must re-
main Prisoner 6,991 in the New Mexi-
co state penitentiary until next May s..
That the high school students of
Arizona can write graphic, concise
and dramatic sports stories is evil
denced by the entries in the first
division of the High School Press AS
sociation contest, DR.. NJ. T. Solve of
the University Of Arizona faculty an
nounced in Tucson. First prize for
sports writing has been awarded to
Ergalo Harmsen of Phoenix Union
High school.
The first issue of the New Mexico
Business Review, joint publication
of the department of economies and
business administration of the Univer.
sity of New Mexico and the New Mex.
leo Bankers Association, made it's ap-
pearance recently. Vernon Sorrell of
the University of New Mexico is edi.
tor, E. M. Brickley of Carrizozo is as.
sociate editor, and Floyd Childress of
Roswell is assistant editor.
Colorado's five-day marriage Law
has been a major factor in the 400
per cent increase in the number oj
marriage licenses issued in Ration, N.
M, thus far in January, a check Of
the records of Mrs. Douglas Wright
Colfax county clerk and recorder, re
veals. In 1881 only ten licenses were
issued up to Jan. 20; this year there
were forty-one, with many of the
couples driving to Ration from Colo
rado cities to avoid the five-day wait
necessary in that state.
The Roswell artesian basin, in
Chaves and Eddy counties, New Mex.
leo, is notable for the fact that about
three-fourths of it's $4,000 acres of
irrigated land is supplied with water
derived directly from artesian wells