The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-16
Southwestern Briefs

! JSb,UUV III CONSTRUCTION WOTh Oh lHe
| Z per cent system.
| Arizona State Game Warden S. l..
Lewis has announced the appointment
of Guy Rencher as deputy state game
warden, to succeed R. w. Belts,
Springerville, who resigned.
Members of the Arizona state high
way patrol are to be deputized as
quarantine inspectors by the State
Board of Agriculture and Horticul-
/ ture, it was announced a few days
! ago.
| Santa Fe, Madrid, Las Vegas and
Bernalillo have formed the Central
| New Mexico Baseball League. A split
| season, with nine games in each half,
opened May 2S, and will close Sep
tember 10.
State Criminologist ]. F. Mcdonald
has reported that crime in Arizona
| has shown a 6.73 per cent decrease
for the first ten months of the pres
ent fiscal year as compared to a
similar period in 1892.
The program for an $S,000,000 flood
/ control project, as a means of allevi-
ating unemployment in Arizona, has
been presented to Gov. b. B. Moeur
and Stuart Bailey, secretary of the
State Public Welfare Board.
The present faculty of the Univer-
sity of New Mexico will continue in
tact next year with one exception.
DR.. E. j. Workman has been engaged
to take the position of DR.. r. S. Rock
wood. whose death occurred last fall.
Milton j. Helmick's decision allow
ing sale of 3.2 beer as a legal bever-
age IN New Mexico, won't affect Gal
lup's thirst, but it may serve to bring
the city additional revenue in the
form of licenses. NJ. X. Clark, federal
prohibition agent, believes.
Appointments by county boards of
supervisors for Arizona to fill vacan.
cies in the Eleventh Legislature since
adjournment of the regular session OF
that body, were held invalid in an
opinion delivered to Gov. Moeur by
Attorney General Arthur T. LaPrade
Receipts of the state land office
from gas and oil fees and rentals in
April exceeded the same period a
year ago by nearly fourth, Frank
Vesseley, state land commissioner, an
nounced. Last year the receipts were
$45.411 and this year are $10,012 ahead
of that figure.
Three hundred and fifty men, bound
for civilian conservation camps, re-
Gently arrived in Santa Fe, n. M. They
were assigned to two camps near the
capital city. The contingent was
composed mostly of men from Texas,
the first workers from outside the
state to reach that section.
An election during 1888, to name a
successor TO former Congressman
Lewis W. Douglas, is impossible un-
der existing statutes or those which
will become operative June 13, 1888,
Arthur T. LaPrade, attorney general
of Arizona. ruled recently in an opin-
ion to Governor Moeur.
Roswell won the New Mexico Rifle
League championship by one point
from the Grant County Rifle Club.
Teams participating in the league
shooting. which has been held for the
last two months, were Roswell, Grant
Country Gun Club, White Signal, Ala
mogordo and Lordsburg.
The chief of the New Mexico state
highway motorcycle patrol and the
nine patrolmen TO be selected out of
the host of applicants, will be put
through a thirty-day course of train
ing at st. Michael's. College to fit them
for their work. The school is to be
conducted either by the head of the
Texas or the California patrol.
Possibility that 10000 acres OF pine
timber in the Prescott, Ariz., national
forest will be laid waste by a blight
now sweeping it, unless emergency ac-
tion is taken, has been voiced by
Frank Grubb, supervisor of the local
service. The disease is known as
''twig blight and works on the pine
needle punches, causing them to be-
come yellow, die, ultimately killing
the tree.
San Miguel county, N. M, taxpay-
ers, through representatives of the
Federated Taxpayers Association,
will lend support to Curry county tax.
payers in appealing to the State Su.
preme Court in an effort to prevent
the fulfillment of Senate bill 144, the
measure providing for the sale of de-
linquent tax property June II, C. w.
G. Ward. secretary of the federation,
has announced.
Ruth Hanna Simms, Albert G..
Simms and Bartlett H. Kinney, presi.
dent of the New Mexico City Products
Company, have offered to subscribe
100000 in capital stock to effect a re-
organization of the insolvent First Ma.
tional bank of Albuquerque. This
would only leave $4,000 needed for
the complete reorganization. 1t is pro-
posed to call the new bank the Ma.