The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-15
Southwest News Items

will be harvested this winter in the
warm spots of Arizona, giving en-
ployment to $500 men.
! A bond issue of $5,OOO,OOO to be used
largely in relieving unemployment in
Arizona was recommended to a spe-
cial session Of the Tenth Legislature
! by Governor George w. P. Hunt
Seven women occupy seats in the
House of Representatives at the spe-
cial session of the 10th Arizona Leg
islature, compared to five when the
regular session started last January IL.
The program for curtailment of oil
production, designed to stave off
threatening first of the year crude
price reductions, has been extended
to the Hobbs oil producing area of
New Mexico.
Ed Guiterres of Bluewater, N. NJ,
was killed by Jess Hillery, Bluewater
trapper, as the result of a quarrel over
a SO debt. Guiterres, shot thru the
abdomen, was rushed to Gallup, N. M,
but died on the way.
The Barrows furniture store, which
occupied quarter block in the down
town business area of Phoenix, was
destroyed by fire recently. The loss
may reach $15O,000. Origin of the
fire was not determined.
Salaries of officers and members
of the Arizona Fair commission form
but a small part of the deficit of
$12,219 reported by the commission,
A statement issued by the commits
sion lists accounts payable as $685.
1925 with assets of $13,013.02.
The body of Mrs Francis E. Lewis,
32 years old was removed from her
small coupe at the bottom of water
filled gravel pit in the Salt river near
Phoenix. Investigators said the wom-
an was drowned when the machine
rolled into the water while she was
turning it around.
The Rev. Victor Alexander Rule,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Phoenix, will succeed the
Rev. DR.. Ralph w. Lloyd as pasto.
of the Edgewood Presbyterian church
here. DR.. Lloyd resigned. The Rev.
Mr. Rule was voted Arizonas most
useful citizen last year.
The Carlsbad Caverns Coaches have
taken over the operation of the Carls-
bad Cave Tours. R. Rawlins, secre-
tary of the Carlsbad Cavern Tours,
said the Tours company had been
taken over by the Pageway Stages
company and consolidated with the
Carlsbad Caverns Coaches.
Two additional federal agents are
expected to be added to the present
force in New Mexico, l. T. Gregg, as
sistant federal prohibition admins
traitor for the Rocky Mountain dis
trict, announced in Denver. Gregg
said he was "well satisfied" with con-
ditions in New Mexico and Arizona.
New Mexico's deficit has been re-
duced from S555, 5,93S.78 in the appro-
priations account to $200,715.68 dur
ing the past year, Governor Arthur
Seligman said in Santa Fe, even
though the states share Of taxes re-
mitted by county treasurers were be-
tween fifteen and twenty per cent un-
der normal on December 10.
A recent ruling of the Las Cruces,
N. M. school board prohibiting chill
attending the West Side school in the
city is attracting considerable opposi-
tion among parents. For the past
twenty years pupils have been per-
mitted to attend either the East Side
school or the West Side school.
Because several pens entered in the
tenth Arizona egg laying contest suf-
fered from partial molt the produc-
tion for the month of November was
4.12 per cent below the 1880 contest,
1t was revealed in Tucson by Harry
Embleton, supervisor. The two hun
dred birds in the second month Of the
contest laid 2,124 eggs with value
of 1880 points.
The Cleveland Museum of National
History has received 609 specimens
of large and small mammals cap
tured in Arizona. Small mammals
were collected by an expedition in the
San Francisco mountains and three
mule deer were bagged in the Kaibab
plateau north of the Grand Canyon.
The expedition was led by Arthur B.
Fuller, chief preparator of the mu-
scum.
Insects caused considerable damage
to the crops in New Mexico, G. R.
Quesenberry, of the New Mexico A.
and M. college, said at State College
N. M. recently. The grasshopper, he
said, was the chief offender, however,
the other insects such as ants, false
chinch bugs, cotton boil worms, cot
ton leaf worms, false wire worms,
army worms and granary weevils got
in their share.
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