The Coolidge examiner., 1933-12-29
Southwestern Briefs

/ applications to the Arizona Home
Owners Corporation, it was an
nounced by the Winslow Chamber of
Commerce.
The Flagstaff City Council met re-
Gently for further action on the city
paving loan. The public works COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
and the city legal committee are study
ing estimates of the project.
Harking back to memories of pre-
Volsteadian days when the Tombstone
mining camp was the bad boy Of a
West that was literally wild, Tomb
stone is dressing up now that prohibi-
tion repeal has gone into effect.
A record for loans issued in single
day was set Dec. 1st by the Arizona
branch of the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration. w. r. Wayland, head of the
local office, announced twenty-one ap-
plications, totaling $64,371.2S, had been
granted.
Swift action was taken by the New
Mexico finance board recently, to cor
rect errors in the financial conditions
of the State Highway Department
after an audit by Haskin & Sells, New
York auditors, showed the net deficit
1 to be S395,000.
State Senator w. B. Kelly is the new
member of the Arizona public works
/ board, and has served two terms in
the State Legislature from Graham
county. He is publisher and editor
of the Graham County Guardian and
has been prominent in Arizona affairs
for many years.
Negotiations for the governors of
Arizona and New Mexico to make Il
joint application for a $5,O0O,0O0 loan
to be applied on the upper Gila river
flood control project have been COM
pleted, Howard S. Reed of the Ari-
zona advisory board OF the public
works administration announced re-
/ Gently.
| Plans to test the legality of issuance
of $500,000 of highway debentures to
reimburse the highway department for
| S411,O spent for highway construc-
tion, are being drawn, Gov. A. w.
Hockenhull has announced. II the de-
bentures are issued the department
will retire debts of $395,OOO to re-estab-
lish itself on a cash basis.
! Albuquerque will be mecca for ap-
! proximately 1,500 cattlemen from over
| the state and nation Jan. 10, II and
II, when the annual state conventions
of the State Livestock Growers Asso
citation and American National Live.
/ stock Association convene here. The
| New Mexico Cattle and Wool Grow.
ers' Association will meet on Jan. 10
and the American National on Jan. II
and IL.
Charles e. Collins of Kit Carson
Colo, president of the American Ma.
tional Livestock Association, in a
statement issued in Albuquerque re.
Gently, declared things in the cattle
industry are going from bad to worse
and agriculture continues to be the
oASh man Va <AAACA ia . CNOhOIA1AN IOuoC
hold, even though beneficial effects OF
the Presidents recovery program are
being felt in other industries"
Thanksgiving Day for w. s. Van
Dyke, director of the picture, Laugh.
ing Boy" filmed in the Cameron dis
trict, was really day of thanksgiving
The last scene of the picture, starring
Ramon Navarro in the title role and
Lupe Velez as the feminine lead, was
"shot" and the troupe entrained for
Hollywood. The picture was com
pleted soon after the first snow fall OF
the 1893 winter season in Flagstaff
Winter sports in the southwest may
sound strange to some, but neverthe-
less, Albuquerqueans are making
plans for a ski club and a toboggan
slide in the Sandia mountains to the
east of here as soon as the next heavy
snow falls in the mountains. The
Sandia ski Club has already been or
ganized and is preparing two ski
slides and a toboggan slide in the
mountains, about twenty-five miles
from Albuquerque. Both will be &C
cessible by fine mountain roads.
Total property taxes levied in New
Mexico for the present fiscal year
show a decrease of nearly $1,2OO.00O
under the 1882 levy, according to fig,
ures compiled by the State Taxpayers
Association. Their figures show the
levy this year is $9,629,204. Tax com
mission records show the levy last
year was $1O,S18,57O. This decrease
in the total levy for all purposes, in.
Guiding state, county, city and schools
was made despite drop of some $780,.
| 100000 in the total assessed valuation
Of the state.
Gov. A. w. Hockenhull asked people
of New Mexico to observe Dec. 10 as
Statewide Holiday jubilee with in
terchange of speakers between towns
decoration of business districts, selec-
tion of district winners and a more
friendly spirit. With buying and sell.
ing and trading in active force those