The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
Southwestern Briefs

Felipe Castillo has been named the
IBernalillo, n. M, postmaster.
Supt. c. R. Mcdowell of the Arizona
highway patrol has started a drive
to correct faulty automobile lights.
Arizona has been granted federal
advance of 100000 for unemployment
needs during September an October.
The New Mexico State Agricultural
College opened it's forty-first annual
session recently with the registration
of new students.
The Arizona State Corporation Com
mission granted Mark Dixon and
James Maffeo of Bisbee permission to
operate as contract carriers in that
city.
Under protection of the national
guard, about eighty men returned to
work in the Gallup-American coal
mine which had been closed by
strike.
Lois Bowlin, 16, of Wellington Kan
sas, died in a hospital at Socorro, N.
NJ, from injuries suffered in an auto
accident on the Socorro- -Magdalens
highway eight miles west of Socorro.
Arthur Strawson of the National
tuberculosis Association recently be-
gan a drive to raise funds to finance
a statewide health survey to deter
mine the extent of tuberculosis in
New Mexico.
Struck by an automobile when she
stepped from her husbands car after
it ran out of gasoline on the Apache
Trail, eight miles east of Mesa, Ariz.,
Mrs. Lily Merron, 81, of Beaumont,
Texas, was injured fatally.
Jack Smith, alias Joseph Kelly, 54-
year-old Negro, who, police records
show, had served eight terms in three
penitentiaries since 1908, was shot
and killed by an unidentified assail-
ant during quarrel in Phoenix.
Thomas Alexander Hamilton, 60.
rough rider with Bucky O'Neill, died
in a hospital at Tucson. He was at
one time sergeant at arms in the ter
ritorial legislature. His name is on
the Bucky ONeill monument in Pres
colt.
The Arizona State Tax Commission
announced receipts from the luxury
tax up to and including August 30,
amounted to $83,441.52. The sales tax
for July, records of the commission
showed, amounted to approximately
$4,000.
Twenty-six Las Vegas, N. NJ, motor
lists were stopped on the streets of
the city recently, handed tickets and
ordered into police court to answer
state charges. Two motor patrolmen
handed out the tickets to owners of
cars with improper lights and without
necessary reflectors.
An enrolment of about 400 was
made at the New Mexico Military In
stitute when it opened Sept. IL. The
j. Ross Thomas memorial, which Is
the new post exchange building, has
been completed and is ready for the
opening of school. 1t will be formally
dedicated October 4.
Saturday afternoons in the future
will be devoted by Governor Moeur Of
Arizona to giving medical examina-
tions to veterans of the World war
seeking compensation. The chief ex-
ecutive announced he planned to ex-
anime from six to ten veterans each
Saturday afternoon without charge.
w. T. Haldeman, farmer living two
miles east of Artesia, N. M, brought
in the seasons first bale of cotton a
few days ago. 1t is believed, also, to
be the first in the state. He secured
460 pounds of lint cotton from 1170
pounds of seed cotton. He was offered
cents.
decrease of 1116 per cent in rev.
enue accruing to the New Mexico
state highway department from auto
mobile license plates is shown in a
report of the department to Aug. 81.
Last year the department received
$319,S60 as against the sum of $284,-
16205 this year, a decrease of $685..
$685.
DR.. r. j. Stroud, Republican state
central committee chairman, said he
will not "be rushed into naming the
proposed committee of five to select
a successor to Frank H. Hitchcock of
Tucson as Republican national COM
mitteeman for Arizona Hitchcock
resigned at the last meeting of the
state central committee.
Governor Moeur will confer with
Frank A. Thackery of the federal de-
partment Of agriculture, in connection
with plan to increase agricultural
acreage in Arizona in the growing of
crops not now raised in this state.
The chief executive has suggested
that lines. tobacco and coffee might
be grown successfully in Arizona's 9
climate.