The Coolidge examiner., 1933-05-26
Southwestern Briefs

Santa Fe railroad, Las Vegas division,
held two meetings in Las Vegas re-
Gently, with discussion of plans for
better rail service.
w. c. Joyner, state game warden,
has announced $4,000 bass will be
placed in Carl Pleasant Lake near
Phoenix. Six thousand have been
placed in reservoirs in Cochise County.
High winds in the Carlsbad area
have caused considerable damage to
the cotton crop. Farmers report it
will be necessary to replant 20 per
cent of the crop in the Carlsbad prof
ect.
Passengers on railroad trains across
Texas and New Mexico eagerly
await the opening of refrigerators in
dining and club cars when trains
reach the Arizona line that beer
might be served.
The Arizona Supreme Court has
ruled that salary warrants cannot take
preference over other warrants and
as a result State Treasurer w. NJ
Cox does not have to cash warrants
on presentation.
Prohibition officers will deal with
each truckload of beer encountered
in dry" New Mexico on the individ-
ual merits of each case, Charles H.
Stearns, deputy prohibition admins
traitor, has advised.
Major H. T. Arlington, cavalry, Fort
Bliss, will have charge of the New
Mexico forest camps in the civilian
conservation corps. Colonel Apling
ton is inspecting the sites, and making
ready for the camps.
The first referendum petition has
been filed with Mrs. Marguerite P.
Baca, secretary of state of New Mex
leo. 1t seeks submission of the lubri-
eating oil tax to a vote of the people
at the next general election.
The New Mexico State Neuropathic
Association has filed articles of in
Commission. 1t is designed to promote
health, establish schools and other
wise conduct health instruction.
Imports and exports in the Arizona
customs district for April totaled
$1,4S9,499, according to figures re-
leased by James w. Mcdonald, col
lector of customs. The port of No
gales led the list with S1,022,1S0.
The Arizona State Supreme Court
has ruled that the salary of a consti-
tutional state official may be gar
nished for the payment of debts. The
opinion was handed down in connec-
ton with a suit brought by former
Secretary of State Scott White.
Plans are proceeding in Kingman,
Ariz., to open the famous Tom Reed
gold mine for full operation by June
/, according to an official announce
ment. Preliminary work of draining
slopes below the 900 foot level and
re-timbering is under way now.
Las Vegas is to have a water car
nival. one that according to its spon-
sors will make history for such events
in the Southwest. The date is June
25-Sunday; the time all day, the
place, Storrie Lake; the events, boa:
racing, swimming, and water sports.
Stuart Bailey, secretary of the Ari-
zona State Public Welfare Board, has
announced that thirty-three reforesta.
tion army camps will be established
ON Arizona Indian reservations for use
of tribe workers in addition to the
twenty-eight camps proposed for work
ers Of other races.
Figures compiled by the regional
forest office in Albuquerque revealed
that social uses of the southwestern
national forests increased materially
last year. The total number of visit
ors to national forests of New Mexico
and Arizona was estimated at slightly
over 100000 people in 1882.
Reducing operating costs and sal
aries to cope with the 33 per cent cut
in legislative appropriations. the board
of education of the Arizona State
Teachers College has announced that
seven faculty members had been re-
moved and four given leaves of abb
sence" for one-year periods.
The progress made by Normal Uni
versity at Las Vegas during the last
three years was explained to mem
bers of the Kiwanis Club at its regular
meeting, by DR.. H. C. Gossard, presi-
dent of the school. Over 1000 books
have been added to the school library,
more than $1,000 in laboratory equip
ment added 20 the science depart
ment.
The abandoned military post in No
gales, Camp Little, has been offered
by the city of Nogales to the Federal
Government as a site of a Civilian
Conservation camp, it has been an
nounced by the Nogales Chamber of
Commerce. Adequate housing is
available for a thousand men and Of
ficers and the abandoned post could