The Coolidge examiner., 1933-05-19
Southwestern Briefs

nave increased the value of the Ari-
iona crop by 100000.
The Maricopa, Ariz, farm bureau
purse seed committee has reported
10000 acres of Maricopa land will be
devoted to growing cotton this year.
Dr. Harold M. Mortimer, formerly
of Albuquerque and Chicago, has
been appointed assistant medical d.
rector of the New Mexico insane asy-
lum.
r. r. Powers, registrar, announced
recently 80 per cent of the students
enrolled at the Arizona State Teach
ers College here are residents of Ari-
IONA.
Frank Carroon, former president of
the New Mexico Normal University,
has been re-employed as a member of
the faculty, to assume charge of col
lege extension work
The Arizona State Tax Commission
has authorized the Yuma county
board of supervisors TO issue an emer-
gency tax levy of $4,000 for the coun-
ty health department.
NJ, A. Murphy, chairman of the Ari-
IONA State Tax Commission, has an
nounced the 1888 National Tax Asso-
citation conference will be held in
Phoenix Oct 16 and 20.
The Central Arizona chapter, Amer
lean Red Cross, has opened an office
in Phoenix to provide information to
veterans in connection with the new
regulations governing benefits.
The Tucumcari City Council re-
pealed the city's prohibition ordinance
after deciding the city's power of en-
forcement was so limited it was vir-
tually useless to continue the ordi-
nance on the city records.
Governor Moeur of Arizona has ap-
pealed to President Roosevelt to in
corporate in his public works bond
issue program section calling for
federal aid ALLEGATIONS to the various
states for highway construction.
Governor Arthur Seligman ap-
pointed A. W. Hockenhull, lieutenant
governor, and Paul A. F. Walter of
Santa Fe. TO the State Board of FL
nance, to fill vacancies caused by fail
ure of other appointees to accept
A geological expedition from the
Arizona State Teachers College at
Flagstaff, on a trip to the bottom of
the Grand Canyon, uncovered Chi
noids, fern plants and fossilized re
mains of trilobites, oldest known form
of animal life.
The board of supervisors of Mari
copa county has petitioned the Ari-
IONA State Tax Commission for per
mission to create an emergency in
debtedness of $3.4S1 10 operate the
Maricopa county farm during the rest
Of the fiscal year.
Colfax county is one of five counties
in New Mexico that have been ap-
proved by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture as a modified T. B. tested
area for cattle. This means that the
county is given high rating as grow
ing cattle free from tuberculosis.
Glover and Boyington, Pampa,
Texas, contractors, have submitted a
bid of SS5,3S6 for construction of a
new postoffice at Silver City, N. M.
The bid was the lowest submitted
and came within the limits of the ap-
preparation made for the building.
Complete authority for regulating
the use of highway owned cars placed
in the hands of New Mexico State
Highway Engineer G. d. Macy by the
State Legislature, has resulted in a
new set of regulations strictly ruling
on the use of the highway cars.
Members of the New Mexico Farm
Holiday Association, under the provi-
sions of their new associations con-
stitutiOn, will not work, operate or
care for any farm or farm property
which has been taken from the origi
nal owner by foreclosure sale since
May, 1892.
Seven northern Arizona commun-
tiles along transcontinental highway
~NO" w hofO eAAAOhhNO0 t4CAA AAbCh
ton of asking the Arizona Highway
Commission to include appropriations
for approximately $50 miles of addi-
tional oiled and paved roads in the
state between New Mexico and Cali
fornia.
Attorneys have advised the New
Mexico State Farm Bureau that un-
der provisions of Senate bill IA, pro-
viding for the sale of property for de-
linquent taxes, the purchaser of tax
lien is not entitled to entry into or
possession of property sold for taxes
until the twoyear period of redemp-
ton has expired.
Gallup, N. NJ, was the shipping
point for more than million pounds
of freight for Indian agencies of this
area, according to figures announced
by the Indian service. Figures were
compiled to show what Gallup will
lose if the Southern Navajo agency
switches its shipping point to San
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