The Coolidge examiner., 1932-04-15
Southwest News Items

Ond prizes at the Panhandle music
! festival
Registration for the Miami Ariz.,
primary election began March %, and
will continue up to and including Mon
| day, April II.
Pratt-Gilbert Hardware Co. of Phoe-
nix, Ariz., received 1886 contract for
installation of chlorinating equipment
at city reservoir.
Byron o. Beall, tax commissioner
of New Mexico, put his state on rec
ord as wishing to acquire and admin
lister all it's public lands.
Operating expenses of the New Mex
leo state bank examiner, John Bing-
ham, for 1881, were approximately
! $2,500 less than for 1880.
The faculty ofthe Miami, Ariz., pub
lie schools and the student body of
Miami High school are petitioning
Congress for copper tariff.
An examination at Globe, Ariz., for
the position of chief ranger for the
reclamation service, has been an
nounced by the United States Civil
Service Commission.
Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming,
Montana and Colorado are firmly
| aligned against the plan to hand over
to each state the public lands with
out the mineral rights.
The Gold Dust mines, twenty-five
miles west of Hot Springs, N. NJ,
which had been closed down for sew
eral years, have been reopened to
placer operations, with thirty men en-
ployed.
The Arizona Publishing Company,
publisher of the Phoenix Gazette, was
named defendant in a $4,000 suit, al
leging libel, brought by DR.. William
c.. Judd, husband of Winnie Ruth
Judd.
Total expenditures for public ele-
mentary and high schools for the year
ending June 80, 1881, were $780,
9O2.26, Rupert E. Asplund, director of
the New Mexico Taxpayers Associa-
tion, said.
1t is expected that bids will be
called for construction of the $780,
600 Indian sanitarium in Winslow,
Ariz., sometime early in April, accord
ing to information reaching this city
from Washington.
The U. S. Senate has approved the
amendment of Senator Frazier of
South Dakota to cut from the Indian
bureau funds the salary of H. J.
Hagerman of Santa Fe, special com
missioner of the Navajos.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
applied for appeal to the State Su-
preme Court from the order of the
New Mexico Corporation Commission
denying it permission to close its
agency at Taylor, N. M.
A district judge has no power to
extend the time for payment of taxes,
the New Mexico Supreme Court holds,
making absolute an alternate writ of
prohibition against Judge G. A. Rich
ardson of Roswell and Mrs. w. c. Hol-
land, treasurer of Chaves county.
The State Supreme Court upheld
the validity of the law requiring per-
sons slaughtering and selling meat
to obtain licenses. The opinion,
handed down affirmed the conviction
of Porter Morris, Sr., of Douglas, Ariz.,
on two counts. Morris was fined $25
on each.
The New Mexico Highway Commits
sion approved the action of the New
Mexico State Board of Finance in ac-
cepting the joint offer of four bond
houses to buy $1,OOO,OOO worth of
highway debentures. The bonds were
ordered printed and will be ready for
sale within two weeks.
A four-point Trade at Home" plan
of local business firms is Casa
Grande's 1892 contribution to the
TRADE at Home-Use Arizona Prod
ucts-Buy in Arizona" movement,
conducted for the last ten years by
Chamber of Commerce of the state in
cooperation with the Arizona Indus
trial Congress, in the interests of
maintaining business and employment
and furthering community develop
ment.
The Middle Rio Grande conserv-
ancy district will receive flood warn
ings daily by wire, should an emer-
gency arise, from points along the Rio
Grande in Colorado and from Embudo
and Espanola, under arrangements
just completed by conservancy dis
trict officials. An increase in the
stream flow is expected this spring
because of the snowfall this winter,
but it cannot be determined at this
time whether the river will reach
flood stage. However, plans have
been made to meet any emergency.
Governor Hunt, in statement just
issued from the executive office in
Phoenix, is asking state employees to
contribute a days pay during April
for the unemployed. On Dec. II last,
he said, Il announced that this pro-
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