The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-02
Southwestern Briefs

Clubs.
Wind which blew almost continu.
ously for three weeks in western New
Mexico took a heavy toll among
Navajo lamb flocks.
Election of AL TidweI, Scottsdale,
as student body president at Arizona
State Teachers College of Flagstaff,
has been announced.
The corporation commission de-
clared twenty-tour Arizona concerns
legally dead for failure to answer
a citation to appear before the COM
mission and for failure to pay annual
fees.
The city of Tempe. Ariz., went wet"
by a vote of 403 to 234, citizens bal.
loting for rejection of an ordinance
prohibiting sale of spirituous liquors.
The ordinance had been passed by the
City Council.
The Arizona State Corporation Com
mission has granted the Southern Pa
cific authority to discontinue operation
of train service between Phoenix and
Winkelman, and Benson, Tombstone
and Patagonia.
Several Albuquerque merchants
have requested the city to pass an
eight-hour law covering Albuquerque
business houses in conjunction with
the state eight-hour law which will
go into effect June Is.
r. B. (Uncle Dick) Anderson, pro-
bate judge of Curry county, N. NJ, has
erected a sign outside the door of his
office in the courthouse. 1t reads:
"R. B. Anderson, probate judge. This
is the place to get married"
From twenty to twenty-five tons of
ore daily are being handled at the
Consolidated Gold Mines, Inc, mill at
Pinos Altos. n. M. The mill has been
in steady operation for two weeks and
is furnishing employment for forty
five men.
United States bureau of public roads
officials completed survey of 5000 feet
of the proposed Mt. Lennon highway
in the Santa Catalina mountains in
Arizona. Federal prisoners will be
used in constructing the highway,
which is to cost more than $1,000 900.
A person maintaining from three to
fifteen COWS on his premises and ad.
vertising the sale of milk from the
premises, must take out a producers
permit and a license TO distribute
dairy products, Arthur T. LaPrade, at
torney general of Arizona, ruled re-
Gently.
Lynn Lockhart. chairman of the
Arizona Fish and Game Commission,
announced the appointment of S. L.
Lewis of Flagstaff as state game war
den. He succeeds w. c. Joyner. Lewis
said one of his first endeavors would
be to build up the hunting and fishing
industry in southern Arizona.
Telephone service between Chama
and TERRA Aramilla, n. NJ, discon-
tinued last fall, has been ordered re-
sumed by June 10, in instruction to T.
d. Burns. Jr., from the State Corpo-
ration commission. The same service
was ordered renewed as existed when
the line was discontinued Sept. II, the
order said.
The Nevada Consolidated Copper
Company has resumed operations at
its mine at Santa Rita and mill at
Hurley, n. NJ. Operations at the Peru
mine at Hanover and the mill at Dem
ing have been suspended and eighty
men laid off at the mine. d. NJ.
Stranahan. superintendent, said work
probably will be resumed within thirty
days.
Two bags of peanuts for a marriage
ceremony proved to be a satisfactory
medium of exchange at Alamogordo,
N. NJ, recently. Miss Hula May
Armstrong of Portales, n. M. and J.
G. Guyton of Clovis. N NJ, wanted to
get married but they were low on
cash. They did have, however, a
truckload of peanuts from Portales
which they had been marketing. They
prevailed upon Justice of the Peace
D. NJ. Barringer to take two sacks of
peanuts for his fee.
Farmers in the Carlsbad and Ar
tesla districts of New Mexico may be
induced to grow sugar beets. G. M.
Drummond of Colorado Springs, presi-
dent. and T. E. Gardner, manager of
the southern division of the Holly
Sugar Beet Company. have completed
an inspection trip into this area with
view to starting a sugar beet prof.
ect. Both men expressed the belief
the beets can be grown the year around
and will be valuable in supplying seed
for Colorado farmers.
Several geologists and engineers
from the United States geological sur.
vey are making a detailed study of
the Shiprock district in northwestern
New Mexico. The areas receiving the
most attention now are east of the
Mancos creek and west of the hog
back and north of the San Juan river
and south of the Colorado state line.
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