The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-14
Southwestern Briefs

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the communities air enthusiasts.
The New Mexico motor license law
now conforms to those of neighboring
states relative to fees charged travel
! ing statesmen from outside the state.
The full rate license will no longer be
charged. The new rate is S5 per year
The Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration at Washington has approved
relief loans of s2O1, ,453 to Arizona.
Arizona will meet emergency needs
in fourteen counties during April with
the money made available to that
state.
! Contracts for five road construction
projects were awarded few days ago
! by the State Highway Department.
They were: Oiling eight miles on the
! Prescott-Phoenix road just south of
Prescott-Arizona Sand and Rock
Company, $7S,615.01.
Exceeding last years average price
by SIS, total of 12O head of regis
tered Hereford bulls and heifers
brought $10,93250 in the second an
nual sale of the Eastern New Mexico
Hereford Breeders Association at
Roswell, March 2Sth.
Richard st. Barbe Baker, interna-
tionally known author and founder of
the society of THE Men of the Trees, y
has gone to the University of Arizona
/ - ~ chn hnrf
time under DR.. A. E. Douglas, tree
ring theory originator.
The Geronimo Trail, new highway
running from Douglas, Ariz., to Clover.
dale, N. M, through the Peloncillo
mountains. was dedicated Sunday
April 2, the ceremony occurring on
| the state line near the spot where the
Apache chief surrendered to General
Miles years ago.
The Nogales-Tucson highway is
nearing completion and the entire 6S
miles stretch of road between Nogales
and Tucson will be completely sur
faced in few days. The last mile
of oiling is done and all that remains
section of the highway.
Augustine Young, 80, Papago Indian
was arrested ten miles south of Casa
Grande for the Staying of John Walk
er. Sheriff's officers said the Indian
admitted he killed the 54-year-old COW
boy during a fight. Walkers body
was found near his desert cabin three
miles south of Casa Grande.
Red Cross distribution of flour in
| Arizona will cease after June l, Gov
ernor B. B. Moeur was notified by A
/. Schafer, Pacific coast manager OF
/ the organization. Twenty branches
have been distributing relief articles
of needy in the state. Exhaustion OF
supply has caused this move.
Gov. Arthur Seligman of New Mex
leo states he is getting offers from
legislators and employees of the last
session to serve without pay if a spe
cial session is necessary. He did not
make public any names. 1t was gen
! orally agreed the governor would call
a special session only as last resort
Governor Arthur Seligman of New
Mexico has proclaimed Nov. as the
day constitutional convention dele
gates will meet in Santa Fe to adopt
or reject amendment twenty-one to
| the U. S. constitution, which repeals
the eighteenth amendment II adopted
Delegates are to be elected at a spe
cial election Sept 10.
There were 109,525 pupils in New
Mexico schools from the kindergarten
through the senior high schools in
the 1882 school fiscal year, taugh,
at an average cost of 1921 by 1916
instructors, principals and superin.
| tendents, according to figures made
public by the state superintendent OF
| public instruction. The total cost OF
the schools in the state was shown as
$7,S63,612.
Repatriation of $4,000 Mexican resi-
dent of Colorado and Wyoming with
in the last three years, Y. M. Vasquez
Mexican consul at Denver, believes
has solved through international CO
operation one of the most serious un-
employment problems in the West
| The value to Mexico by the return OF
the 1900 Mexicans versed in ways OF
American agriculture is unlimited
Vasquez said.
What is believed to be a new low
for cooperative dormitory costs has
been set for the first month of the
Pima hall cooperative dormitory at
the University of Arizona. The aver.
age cost per girl was $14.70. Twenty.
! five girls were fed during the month
at a cost of $8.55 each and statistics
taken daily at the dormitory revealed
an average gain cf three and a halt
pounds a girl in weight
Chief Ika-Nash-Nil and his council
of eight, fixed Sunday afternoon, June
II, as the time for their annual cere-
monial dances at Prescott, Ariz. They
also decided to call together all the
braves from the Enchanted Mesa for
a big feast in the pueblo Monday