The Coolidge examiner., 1933-10-13
Southwestern Briefs

enueu Sept. 10.
Pascual Barela, 10, son of August
Barela of Tonuco. N. NJ, was drowned
in the Rio Grande near Tonuco while
swimming with his brother.
Governor Moeur announced appoint
ment of Mrs. Kathryn C. Hutchinson
of Bisbee, and Miss Christin Ballman,
of Phoenix, to fill unexpired terms on
the state board of nurse examiners.
The New Mexico state highway de-
partment has approved plans for In
cluding roads to three Indian agencies
near Gallup in the states appropria-
tion for roads under the public works
programs.
Governor Moeur asked cities and
towns in Arizona, which do not now
have planning commissions, to outline
programs which will accomplish the
most good for the greatest number of
people in the community.
Twenty young attorneys were ad.
mitted to practice when they took
their oaths at the Supreme Court in
Arizona. They were the successful
candidates who passed the state bar
examinations in June.
Walter Londagin, 80, of Vado, N
M, was instantly killed when the
steering apparatus on his automobile
broke and permitted his car to plunge
into the Rio Grande River as he was
crossing the bridge at Berino.
University of Arizona enrolment for
the first semester has passed the 14e0
mark. Registration had been com
pleted by 1863 students. This number
exceeds by 200 the corresponding days
registration figure of last year.
Fulton F. Caldwell, 45-year-old ex
service man, charged with murder OF
his wife. Bessie May Caldwell, 35
sought to plead guilty before Supe
rior Court Judge Richard Lamson in
Prescott and asked that he be sen,
fenced to die.
Miss Bess Householder, executive
secretary of the Dona Ana County
New Mexico, Welfare Association for
the past two years, left Las Cruces
for Santa Fe, where she will succeed
Mrs. Ladd Haystead in the state child
welfare bureau.
Drilling of new well in wildcat ter
ritory northeast of Artesia, N. NJ, has
orixr IND hot oil
may be developed. Van C. Welch OF
Artesia has spudded in a well at 1,00C
feet to get a high grade oil running
fifty barrels a day.
The Lee Moor Construction Com
pany of FL Paso, Texas, submitted to
the state highway department a low
bid of $98,553.46 for construction of a
bridge over the Salt River, forty-three
miles northeast of Globe on United
States Highway No. 60.
Justus S. Wardell, of San Francis
co, regional adviser of the federal
public works administration, conferred
with the Arizona public works board
The discussion was devoted chiefly tC
administrative problems as related to
speeding up unemployment.
Over 200 cotton pickers from An
thony, Dona Ana and Las Cruces, N
NJ, paraded the streets of Las Cruces
carrying banners protesting against
the pickers' wage scale of so cents a
hundred pounds. The pickers want
rs cents a hundred on nine cent cot
ton.
Less than half an hour after he had
urged fellow members of the New
Mexico Bankers Association to justify
their existence by giving the utmost
of service to our customers and the
nation" Governor Arthur Seligman OF
New Mexico died in Albuquerque, the
result of sudden heart attack
C. E. Kennemer of Dallas, Texas
general manager of the Western Ice
and Utilities Company, announced
that construction of 100000 brew
cry plant to employ 100 persons would
get under way at Albuquerque within
the next thirty days. The brewery
will have capacity of 1890 gallons
per day.
The recent repeal vote apparently
opened the way to legal sale of medic
inal liquor on doctors prescriptions
in New Mexico. Under the federal
law, physicians are allowed to pre-
scribe as much whisky or other liquor
as they believe their patients need,
in states which do not have laws in
conflict with this federal statute.
The Arizona corporation commits
sion directed the Southern Pacific
Company and the Magma Arizona
Railroad Company, respectively, to
continue operations on the Phoenix
Winheman branch and the Magma
Company's line from Magma to Su-
perior. Both companies had sought
permission to abandon service.
New motor cars being hauled over
the New Mexico state highways in
caravans will have to be licensed, c.
r. Sebastian, chief assistant state
comptroller, asserted. The leading
car in each caravan will have to have