The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-18
Southwest News Items

pays the highest prices for electricity
of any towns yet mentioned in sur
veys of electric light prices in New
Mexico. The rate there is % cents
k. W. h. for the first 25 k. W. b.
The New Mexico Public Service Co.
recently asked the town board to sus-
pend temporarily that part of the
electric service ordinance referring to
inspection charges, until economic
conditions change, so as not to work
hardship on poor families who move
their place of residence.
Governor Arthur Seligman of New
Mexico, has ordered an investigation
into the disappearance of Henry p.
Taylor, well-known western New Mex
leo stockman, it was learned here
Wednesday. Taylor left Aztec Jan. 27
for old Mexico to inspect mining prop
erty. A group of men he was to have
met near the border never saw him.
! ]. A. Reich, who has visited the
Holbrook territory for the past six
years in the interests of Armour 4
Co., maintaining his headquarters in
Gallup, has made his last trip to this
city. Mr.. Reich has been promoted to
the position of manager of the Colo
RADIO Springs branch of Armour &
Co., as reward for his good work in
| this region during the past years.
In a running gun battle with an al
| legged holdup at Miami, Ariz. Sheriff
Byrne was shot twice, one bullet en-
tering his left hand ard the other
his rihgt thigh. Despite the fact
that he was wounded Sheriff Byrpe
with the aid of Undersheriff Ellie Ow-
en-, continued the battle until he "got
his right thigh. Despite the fact
Van Meter, who was shot through both
! legs.
Phil Schenck, San Juan county's
| largest apple grower, who has made
his brand of apples, famous over
the southwest, has returned from fiji
teen day visit to Arizona and Cali
! fornia where he made a careful study
! of fruit marketing conditions. He
was successful in making a contract
with a large fruit wholesale house in
! Arizona to handle his next crop of
apples.
T. Inouye, Japanese of Torrance,
California, recognized among his peo-
pie as an agricultural expert, has ar
rived in Deming and expects to make
his home here. He is planting seeds
of mixed vegetables in hot beds at the
! Nick VOcale farm on the LOrdsburg
road When these plants are ready
for transplating to larger area about
dozen other Japanese families are
coming here to locate.
Appointment of the Relief Commits
sion for New Mexico by Governor Ar
thur Seligman, a group made up of
Jan Van Houten of Ration, J. o. Seth
of Santa Fe, and Guy Rogers of AL
! buquerque with Levi A. Hughes of
| Santa Fe, as consultant, has been fol
lowed with prompt action to obtain
from the federal government all bene-
fits possible for the state under the
new congressional legislation.
The Inter-term opens at the New
Mexico Normal University at Las
Vegas on April IS. Since so many
| schools are closing with a seven
months term, the Normal is offering
a complete list of beginning courses
at this inter-term. Some fifty sub
jects have been chosen from the fol-
lowing departments; Education, Eng
lish, Speech, Physical Education, Fine
Arts, Psychology, Social Science, and
Vocational Education.
Superintendent S. F. Stacher of the
Navajo reservation estimates that the
I Indians lost total of 35 per cent of
all their sheep in the great SHOWS and
billiards which devastated that section
of the state a few weeks ago. TO be-
gin with, the Indians owned 150,532
head of the animals, Stacher says, and
his estimate of losses was made fol-
lowing a survey during which Mr..
Stacher and A. C. Cooley, a director
of agricultural extension work among
the Indians, visited many point on the
reservation.
The entire New Mexico congression-
al delegation is working for the pro-
posed Crown Point-Pueblo
Bonito-Otis camp highway to be con-
structed by the Indian Bureau and
National Park Service. Letters re-
ceived by the Pennington chamber of
commerce from Senators Sam Bratton
and Bronson Cutting and Represents
tive Dennis Chavez were read at c.
of C. meeting recently and show that
all three men strongly favor the pro-
ject and are making determined ef-
forts to put it across.
"The dominating factor in the ag-
ricultural outlook for 1882 is the gen.
eral business situation and the gen.
eral price level" This is the opening
statement made in the Agricultural
outlook for New Mexico, prepared by
the New Mexico Agricultural College
for the year 1892 which continues as