The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-09
Southwestern Briefs

board announced recently.
James w. Mcdonald, United States
collector of customs for Arizona, re-
ported more than $4,000 in duties on
Mexican beer has been received at
the port of Douglas.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Arizona State Board of Nurse Exam
liners will be held at Tucson June 2
and 3, it was announced by Minnie c.
Benson, secretary-treasule of the or
ganization.
The Tovrea Packing Company. an
Arizona corporation with headquarters
in Phoenix. invaded the head of the
Los Angeles meat packing industry
recently by purchasing the National
Packing Company plant there.
The internal revenue bureau in Al
buquerque has issued sixty-five stamps
for sale of 80 beer in New MEXICO and
has about five others ready to issue
as soon as applications, sent back for
proper signatures, have been returned
The Arizona State Tax Commission
has been asked by the state health
department to cooperate in seeing
that health and sanitary laws are en-
forced in connection with the new
liquor regulations effective midnight.
June II.
Swarms of grasshoppers swept over
fertile farms near Mesa recently,
threatening to devastate central Ari-
zona's agricultural region unless farm
ers successfully combat the plague.
Desperate efforts TO kill the swarm
ing grasshoppers are being made.
A passenger and express stage line
from Phoenix TO Boulder City via
Kingman, has started operation The
line, which will operate out of Phoe-
nix three times a week, will give a
thirteen and one-half hour service be-
tween Phoenix and Boulder City.
Plans were under way recently by
| Governor Moeur of Arizona for the
relief of approximately 5000 Pima In
dians on the Sacation reservation
whose means of support has been cut
| off by the government in stopping the
clearing of lands on the reservation.
Cibicue, a small settlement seventy
five miles south of Holbrook, scene
of one Of the southwest's most bloody
/ Indian massacres, has been deprived
of its postoffice. Discontinuance of
the postoffice, effective May IS. was
ordered as part of the federal econ
omy program.
At Silver City there was exhibited
a few days ago a 400-pound specimen
believed to be a part of the meteor
which roared over the state March
"a. Alfred Roos dug it up from a
depth of eighteen feet, about a mile
from his farm home. The specimen
was all solid metal, principally nickel
| and iron.
4 tight grip is to be kept on the
strings of New Mexico's nearly flat
purse, according to letter sent out
by State Auditor Arsenic Velarde.
The letter asks all institutions and
| departments to exercise the greatest
care in purchases the balance of this
fiscal year and adds that closest scru-
tiny will be given each voucher
sold for $40.7 Thus passed from
the historical picture of Arizona the
old Cochise County Court House at
| Tombstone. The Cochise County
Board CT Supervisors sold the famous
Tombstone. In the old court house
will be placed souvenirs of old memo
ries, for it is going to be museum
Arizona state health department au-
thorities appealed to Gov B. B. Moeur
recently for an emergency appropria-
ton of approximately $4,000 with
which to continue operations of sew
eral branches of the office. The de-
partment, it was said, is facing an
emergency through curtailment of ap-
preparations for its various activities.
Officials at Fort Huachuca, condi.
tioning men for the reforestation
camps in Arizona, recently announced
change in the plans of placing the
workers. Camps will be set up at
Groom Creek and Walnut Creek, near
Prescott; Hart Canyon in the Sit
greaves forest near Flagstaff, and on
the north and south rim of the Grand
Canyon.
Reclassification of Arizona state
lands under lease or to be leased was
discussed at meeting of the state
land board, held in Phoenix. The re-
classification was made under the
terms of Chapter SO of the session
laws of 1888. This bill provides for
reduction in the minimum rental
fee for grazing lands from three to
one cent an acre.
Mayor Clyde Tingle of Albuquerque
announced recently he would appoint
a welcoming committee of Albuquerque
women, both Democratic a Repub-
lican, to represent Albuquerque in
greeting Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
when she arrives at fha oirpOrt tbaro