The Coolidge examiner., 1933-12-01
Briefs

Gently, and nearly all qualified men
have been placed at work.
! With traders and wholesalers re-
porting Navajo blanket and rug stocks
unusually low and southern dealers
| expecting a pickup in demand this
winter, the famed Navajo weavers
face a new prosperity.
Governor A. w. Hockenhull desig-
mated Armistice Day, Nov. II, as For
get Me Not Day on which disabled
veterans of the world war conducted
a flower sale, proceeds of which went
to help the disabled veterans.
Zuni Indians near Zuni, N. NJ, are
casting about for a way to preserve
mountain of grasshOppers they cap
tured last summer. With the supply
Of hoppers the tribesmen think they
/ have feed enough for their turkey
flocks for years if it can be saved.
If lode and placer miners will take
advantage of the present low cost of
| labor and equipment, a reasonable
profit may be derived from gold min
/ ing, in some Arizona placer regions,
DR.. G. NJ. Butler, dean of the Univer.
! sity of Arizona bureau of mines, said
recently.
Gov. B. b. Moeur recently announced
| the appointment of Harold A. Elliott,
| Phoenix attorney, to succeed C.. c.
Cragin as a member of the Arizona
Colorado River Commission. Cragin
submitted his resignation to Governor
MOeur last August and it was ac-
cepted five days later, but was not
made public until now.
Attempt to obtain 100000 federal
| funds for a new state building in Santa
Fe to house the Supreme Court, the
law library and the attorney general
will probably be made, it has been
| learned. Byron o. Beall, chief tax
commissioner, stated that he was go
| ing TO take the matter up with the
state finance board at its next session.
Total revenue collected from various
New Mexico highway law violators
| for plates and licenses amounted to
approximately $4,000 during the first
three months the patrol was in opera
/ tion. compared with $4,000 salary and
expense for the patrol. These collec-
tions are incidental and not the chief
| function of the patrol, it was pointed
out.
! j. p. Grand, Phoenix engineer, has
/ completed a survey of the proposed
pipe line from the McLaws artesian
well. three miles west of Holbrook,
Ariz., from which it is proposed by
/ the town council to furnish water for
domestic purposes. The survey and
compilation of data will complete
formal application for a government
| loan.
Father and Son Week brought Harry
Theabold of Gallup, n. NJ, and his
son, Harry, Jr., 81, together again in
Oklahoma City after eighteen years.
The son prepared to accompany his
father back to Gallup. The son had
believed his father dead. The father
had left here, separating from the
boys mother. when the son was 3
years old.
His ship a mass of flames, Harlan
| Hull of Kansas City, air mail pilot,
saved his life by the use of his para
chute near Albuquerque recently, but
the plane was totally wrecked. Hull
was alone in the plane. The plane
carried 1S6 pounds of mail, all of
which was recovered except one pouch
for Winslow, Ariz. The Albuquerque
pouch was damaged.
A huge fireball which hurtled
through space at a speed of unknown
thousands of miles an hour centuries
ago to unearth near Winslow. Ariz.,
the largest crater of its kind in the
world is believed to have been To-
Gated, it was announced recently by
Robert z. Heineman. research inves-
tigator for the Arizona bureau of
mines at the University of Arizona.
For some unaccountable reasons,
foreign corporations are not required
to pay income tax under the income
tax law passed by the last New Mex
leo legislature. Foreign corporations
were included in the original bill, but
were dropped from the enrolled and
engrossed bill, which the governor
signed, it was learned recently. appar
emily without legislative sanction.
Twenty-seven reserve officers of the
409th Infantry of Arizona and the 410th
of New Mexico have been ordered to
active duty for a period of fourteen
days at Fort Huachuca, starting De-
| cember 3. In the group are three
Cochise county men, including Major
James T. Gentry, Bisbee attorney.
Fourteen of the twenty-seven officers
are members of the 4O9th Infantry
of Arizona.
Lieut. George Sutherland of the
Eighth United States Cavalry, Ell Paso,
serving as Gila county paymaster for
the civilian conservation corps, shot
himself through the head in Miami