The Coolidge examiner., 1932-09-09
Southwestern Briefs


H. NJ. CARRIER, manager of the Head
Hotel Barber shop in Prescott, has
been named as an inspector in the
State Barber Department.
BY November 10, engineers on the
upper Banning creek dam project in
Arizona, estimate the ,000,O0O-gal-
Ion impounding dam is expected to
be completed.
A uniform plan for daily lessons,
or monthly reports to thc New Mexico
State Department of Education and
of certain class room methods, has
been adopted.
A total of 15,047 people m All cars
visited Petrified Forest National
Monument in Arizona during July.
Over $4,000 people have registered at
the park this year.
Warren R. Graham, state treasurer,
awarded a contract for auditing the
accounts of the state treasurer's and
auditors offices to Linder, Burke and
| Stephenson of Albuquerque.
New Mexico is faced with a need
for more efficient gasoline tax law to
prevent bootlegging of gasoline into
the state, Tom Hughes of Albuquer-
que, state senator from Bernalillo
county, said
Gov. Arthur Seligman sent rock
taken from the state capitol grounds
to the George Washington bi-centen-
nial celebration committee of Missouri,
| to be used in a Washington memorial
| fountain beng erected at Sedala, Mo.
Charles Fahy, Santa Fe attorney
who represented Arsenic Velarde,
state auditor, In the gasoline tax re-
fund case, advised Velarde that he
would not file a motion for rehearing
on the case before the State Supreme
Court
There are 1918 tax lien certifi-
Gates outstanding in New Mexico, ].
D. Nell, delinquent tax collector, re-
ported. Nell said the list was not
complete and that between 5000 and
5000 more certificates probably will
be added
The law regarding the employment
of resident labor on New Mexico state
building projects must be closely ad
hered TO, Gov. Arthur Seligman said,
commenting upon a complaint received
from the Albuquerque Building and
Trades Council.
Shipments OF cantaloupes from the
Mesilla valley in New Mexico this
season, have reached over S64 car
loads. There are about $50 carloads
of melons remaining in the fields
which will not be moved because of
poor market conditions, it is said.
The body of a woman killed recent
ly when her small coupe was crushed
against a coicrete culvert by a two
tank oil truck, eleven miles west of
Phoenix, was identified as that Of Mrs.
Minnie Prince Curless of Phoenix.
Killed with her was Harry SOFA, Tolle-
son Mexican.
Compilation of figures by County
Recorder Ed. T. Stewart revealed
total of 1916 residents of ella coun-
ty. Ariz., had qualified by registration
to vote in the primary election of
Sept. 13. This figure was 1862 be-
low that of 1880, when there were g.
29S voters registered.
A warning that when passenger
cars have been converted into trucks.
truck licenses must be secured for
them, has been issued by Diego Sala-
zar, New Mexico motor vehicle COM
missioner. Passenger car plates can
be exchanged for truck plates if the
additional fee is paid.
1t has been deemed necessary by
the San Miguel county board of edu-
cation to reduce the salaries of teach
ers in the rural schools approximate
ly per cent in order to effect a saw
ing of approximately $4,000 and bring
the operating expenses into conform
ity with the budget for the coming
fiscal year.
Jerrie w. Lee, secretary Of the Ari-
zona Wool Growers Association, an
nounced he has received a telegram
from Ralph Cameron, former United
States senator from Arizona, stating
negotiations have been completed for
loan of 100000 by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation to livestock
men of Arizona.
The game and fish commissions of
Arizona and New Mexico have been
united for the specific purpose of
deputizing wardens to prevent law vio-
lations along the state borders. For
est rangers now deputized in one
state would be given commissions in
both states, so they could operate on
either side Of the line as deputy game
wardens.
Depositors committees of the de-
funct Arizona bank, which have been
| considering a plan to open three of
the seven offices which were closed