The Coolidge examiner., 1932-06-17
Southwest News Items

Clyde E. Ely has purchased the
Sentinel" afternoon daily newspaper
of Yuma, Ariz.
THE Ash Fork Record" a new pub
lication, has entered the Arizona Jour-
nalistic field.
Sixty men and women were awarded
diplomas at New Mexico State College.
fifty-eight of whom received bache-
lors' degrees, one a masters degree,
and the other doctors degree.
The only college course dealing
with the rich and varied literature of
Arizona will be feature of the sum-
mer session at the Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff.
Plans are under way to hold the
| Fourth Annual meeting of the New
Mexico crop Improvement Association
in connection with Farmers Week, at
New Mexico State College, July 25-29.
Arizona copper mining districts are
rejoicing over the fact that the United
States senate voted approval of a 4
cents per pound tariff on copper. A
! lumber tax was also placed at SO per
thousand feet.
Santa Fe, N. NJ, county and city
school teachers who have had their
contracts renewed for the next year
will not have their salaries reduced,
but new teachers will be paid less
| than heretofore.
Aztec-Cedar Hill federal aid high
way project No. lola has been let by
the state highway commission to the
J. H. Miller Company of Denver, the
low bidder. their bid being approx
mately s226,OOO.
w. c. Joyner, Arizona state game
warden, announces preparations are
being made to plant bass in Pichaco
lake in Pinal county for the benefit
of Tucson, Casa Grande and southern
Arizona fishermen.
At the national P. T. A. convention.
Arizona won highest honors in child
welfare subscriptions and two loving
cups, one for highest percentage of
standard associations and one for SUI
perior associations.
The United States forest service and
the Arizona game department are con-
Quoting a survey of elk and antelope
in this district to determine whether
the ranges are overstocked to a point
that damage is being done.
n'C1nno1I cfo n
nounces a 25 per cent reduction in
the overhead expenses of the highway
department has been effected by the
Arizona highway commission for the
fiscal year beginning July l.
During the twenty years which the
Casa Grande (Ariz.) Dispatch has been
running, approximately 100000 acres
of land in the valley have been brought
to patent, according to records of ].
F. Brown. land commissioner.
The annual Northern New Mexico
and Southern Colorado invitational
golf tournament of the Ration Country
James S. Zukie, chairman of the tour
nament committee, has announced.
Teachers and janitors of the Globe,
Ariz., public school system will be en-
ployed about July 25 Recent economy
measures called by the school board
has necessitated the deferring of the
contracts from spring until the sum-
mer.
During the first ten months of the
1892 fiscal year Al per cent of the
money retained by the Arizona high
way department from the scent gaso-
line tax was paid in Maricopa county
The county paid s1,055, 1854 net of
the total of 5S9,413.8S.
Subject to approval of the postoffice
department, Arizona will have 26-hour
air-mail service to New York within
sixty days, according to the announce
ment of c. r. Smith, vice president
of American Airways and general man
ager of the southwestern division.
w. c. Joyner, state game warden,
issued statement announcing the
opening of several new streams for
trout season, which opened June l and
extends to Sept. 30. He estimated
several hundred thousand trout will
await the anglers hooks during that
| time.
The Verde river irrigation and pow
er district has applied to the U. S.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
for $20,000,00O loan to build its con-
| templated works. Information that
the application had been filed was
revealed in series of letters sent
to the corporation, President Hoover,
Senators Henry F. Ashurst, Carl Hay
den and Representative Lewis w.
Douglas, by Governor Hunt and Burt
H. Clingan, president of the irrigation
| district.
The Board of Regents of State Col
lege, N. NJ, announces the appoint
| ment of Burton p Fleming as dean