The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-08
Southwestern Briefs

manufacture of automobile license
plates and road signs at the new plant
at the state penitentiary.
The second term of the University
of Arizona summer session ended
few days ago. with 16S students com
pleting their examinations.
Indigents receiving aid from the AS
sociated Charities at Nogales, Ariz.,
must reimburse their benefactors by
work, the city council ordered.
Residents were asked to furnish
Arizona c. c. c. camps with old pa
pe1s, books and magazines by Fred
Winn, Colorado National Forest super
visor.
Taos county, New Mexico. will ap-
ply TO the public works board for
money to complete it's courthouse, ac-
cording to Chief Tax Commissioner
Byron o. Beall.
+. NJ Taylor of Denver, an investi-
gator in the Colorado prohibition Of
flee, arrived in Albuquerque recently
to take charge of the New Mexico
office temporarily.
Naco exceeded all other border
ports of entry in imports and exports
during July, it was reported. Goods
totaling $31O.637 passed through the
local customs office.
Small coal mine operators, dealers
and transfer men organized at Gallup
and adopted a code of fair competition
and uniform prices in conformity with
the NRA coal code.
Because of the reported spreading
of gangsters from metropolitan areas
to smaller cities, the city council at
Clovis, y. NJ, has equipped its police
force with tear gas bombs.
The state board of health reported
seventy-five persons were killed in
Arizona automobile accidents-thir-
teen of them during July-in the sew
en-month period ended July 81.
It is quite likely that a call for
local option election in Colfax County,
New Mexico, will be issued simultane-
ously with the proclamation for the
special state election to be held Sep
tember 10.
Cochise county's re-employment
headquarters was officially opened In
Bisbee, Ariz., where every man in the
district without job will be permitted
to register for the federal govern
ment's public works program.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in Phoenix for the Fredonia Power &
Light Co.. with a capitalization Of
$4,000. The incorporators are Lorum
Pratt. Sr., his son, Wilfred Brooksley.
Thomas Jensen. Sr,, and his son.
An organization known as Highway
70 Association, having for its primary
purpose improvement of highway 79
between Flagstaff and Prescott by
way of Oak Creek canyon, and, in gen
eral, greater development of northern
Arizona, has been formed at Flagstaff
William Hunter, 2S, of Buffalo, was
killed and Jane Mclean, Santa Fe
dancer, was critically hurt when their
automobile crashed into a 1,000-foot
deep canon after Hunter was blinded
by lights of an approaching car. The
accident occurred about fifteen miles
south of Taos, N. NJ.
Death on the gallows was the sen.
tence imposed at Nogales, Ariz., upon
George J. Shaughnessy, confessed
slayer of Lon Blankenship, Tucson
automobile dealer and insurance bro
ker, by Superior Court Judge Charles
L. Hardy. Friday, october 27, next.
was set as the date Of execution.
State Senator Floyd Lee of New
Mexico announced a request will be
made to the federal public works ad-
visory board for funds to construct
the San Mateo reservoir. The state
already has appropriated $4,000 for the
project and it is hoped an equal
amount may be obtained from the gov
ernment. About 500 persons living in
the area would be served by the prof.
ect.
For the first time in New Mexico
the elk is included this year in big
game animals to be hunted. The state
game commission has authorized a
special elk permit, elk season extend
ing from Nov. to Is, inclusive, in an
area of approximately 12O square miles
near the headwaters of the Pecos riv
er. The limit authorized by each per-
NIT is one bull elk with at least three
points on each antler. Only 100 per
mits are to be issued, according to
the ruling of the commission.
Members of the New Mexico tax
commission were in Taos recently. dis
cussing with county commissioners
the county budget. The commission
ers are attempting to raise funds to
complete construction of their new
court house. The contract was let
at S10,S0O, 1t was said, but with the
building nearly completed, $4,000 to
$4,000 more Is needed. The building
is said to be first class, two stories
b;ob GO hu 1En foot apd DorpnoIIu