The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-01
Southwestern Briefs


/ batteries in the control rooms.
Kenneth w. Davidson of Kingman
Ariz., was appointed a member of the
State Board of Accountancy by Gov
B. B. Moeur.
/ ]. J. Briscoe of Tucumcari, n. NJ,
has taken over the office of deputy
income tax collector for the Las
/ Cruces district
Charles Florence Dalton, 40, former
cashier of the Bank of Glendale and
the Bank of Peoria, died in Phoenix
after a long illness.
The underpass at the south end OF
Second street in Ration, connecting
with the southern and eastern high
ways, is open to traffic.
The purchase and installation of a
police broadcasting station to cost
$7,S17, has been authorized by the AL,
buquerque city commission.
New Mexicos timber cut during
1882 was approximately % per cent
larger than in 1881. Last years cut
totaled 71,719,000 feet, board measure
The 1881 cut totaled 5S,367OOO feet.
Thomas T. Bowden, Williams. Ariz.,
stockgrower, agreed out of court to
pay the government $772.27 for dam,
ages allegedly done by his cattle when
they trespassed on national forest
area.
With the intention of joining the
United Mine Workers of America, Gal.
lup miners organized in Gallup recent.
/ ly, and authorized sending of an appli.
cation for a charter to the national
union.
c. A. Anderson, 80, of Phoenix, was
killed in collision between his auto
mobile and truck, two miles west
of Mesa. Investigators said they be-
lieyed Anderson went to sleep while
driving
More than 1000 cans of fruit and
vegetables have been put up by volun-
teer women workers of the st. Mary's
and st. Francis Xavier Catholic par
ishes in eighteen working days, in
Phoenix.
Roy Wayland, Arizona state man
ager of the Home Owners Loan Corpo-
ration. returned to Phoenix recently
from statewide tour. Central of
fices of the organization have been
opened in Phoenix.
The Las Vegas-Holman-Tr Ritos-
Taos highway has been completed, al
though the road still is to be graveled.
Contractors finished the work and the
highway engineer accepted the road
and opened it to the public.
Prospects for New Mexico's corn,
wheat and oats crops are not as good
as last years harvest for these crops,
according to the monthly crop report
just released by the New Mexico crop
and livestock reporting service.
In fit of jealous rage, it is alleged
Angel Lares, %, virtually decapitated
his 22-year-old divorced wife, Mrs.
Maria Lares, and then made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to commit suicide, at
her home at Loving. N. M.
The Don Luis, Ariz., postoffice will
be discontinued on August 81 by the
U. S. Postoffice Department, John
Caretto, local postmaster, announced.
Don Luis residents will receive their
mail in Bisbee, Lowell and Warren
after Sept. l.
r. NJ. Cousar, who has been inspec-
tor in charge of the U. S. immigration
bureau at Nogales, AriZ., for the past
thirteen years, has been retired by
the government in conformity with
the governmental program for a re-
duction in personnel.
Construction of three and a half
million dollar sump drain and reser-
voir is asked OF the public works
board in an application directed to
Secretary Ickes by Gov. Arthur Selig-
man of New Mexico, the project to af-
feet Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
Tourist travel through Arizona dur
ing July helped swell the state motor
vehicle departments revenue for that
month to a total of $305, 1851. A net
collection of $256,3S755 was contrib
uted by the state gasoline tax, of
which S8S,16162 was distributed to the
counties.
Senator Carl Hayden advised Gov.
B. B. Moeur the public works admins
tration has approved Arizona's $6,211,-
$50 highway program for the coming
twelve months. Release of this sum
lis expected within the next few
months, to provide employment for
approximately 5000 men.
Bringing federal aid to distressed
home owners OF New Mexico was
started recently by State Manager E.
C. Robertson of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, when he set tenn
porary clerical force to work mailing
application blanks to several hundred
citizens in all parts of the state.
Selection of William Terry Nc
Govern, Tucson, as executive secre-
tary of the Phoenix Chamber of Com.
merce, was announced recently. Mr..