The Coolidge examiner., 1933-08-18
Southwestern Briefs

Robert NJ. Robbins of Prescott,
Ariz., was appointed Yavapai county
sheriff by the county board of super
visors.
! Indians not wards Of the govern
ment are eligible for old-age pensions,
the attorney generals office ruled in
Arizona.
Twenty-eight automobiles, used to
smuggle goods, were seized during the
fiscal year just ended by the U. s..
customs at Tucson.
Margaret Boyd of Phoenix was de-
clared Miss Arizona in the annual
state bathing beauty contest finals
conducted at Phoenix theater.
There now are SIS prisoners at
liberty on paroles from the peniten-
tiary at Florence, Ariz., it was re-
ported by Thad Frazier, parole clerk.
Mesilla valley IN. NJ cantaloupe
growers report over twenty-five loads
Of cantaloupes have been shipped
from the valley during the past few
| days
A drought condition exceeding that
Of the dry years of 1923, 1895 and 1885,
existed in Tucson, Ariz., during the
first half of 1888, the weather bureau
reported.
The First National Bank of Artesia,
n. NJ, closed since the bank holiday
last March. opened its doors a few
| days ago, to resume normal business
operations.
Wcrkmen now are removing rails
and ties of the Southern Pacific
branch between Cochise and Douglas,
Ariz,. abandonment of which was au-
thorized recently.
Joe Traps, dam supervision engineer
of the State Highway Department, sub
mitted his resignation to become as
sociated with the Beardsley irrigation
project, west of Phoenix.
Earl E. Irish, AZ, former Ration dis
trict Scout leader, now superintend-
ent of the Boys New Mexico Training
| school at Los Lunas, has been named
chief of the New Mexico patrol.
George J. Tropser, 45, former engi-
neer at the Arizona state hosL.t cal for
| insane at Phoenix, was killed when
his automobile overturned at the juno
ton of the Globe-Florence highways.
Postal savings deposits dropped
more than $95.O0O during the past
month, releasing more money into
trade channels and into banks, Col.
James H. McClintock, postmaster at
Phoenix, announced.
Albuquerque has returned to stand.
ard time. The return from daylight
saving time to standard time, the city
commission explained, was made to
enable employers to comply with the
National Recovery Act.
Biological survey hunters working
in New Mexico during the last fiscal
year, killed 2.628 coyotes. Their kill
included 264 bobcats, 81 mountain
lions, 10 wolves, seven wild dogs, and
ATT miscellaneous animals.
Efforts to locate Jack Layman, 25,
ex-convict, sought for the murder of
William Meador, Terrence county, N.
NJ, deputy sheriff, recently, appeared
to have run into blind alley, as the
posse was called in and dismissed.
Julia Valdez was chosen in the
KiMo contest at Albuquerque to rep
resent New Mexico in the Atlantic
City pageant of beauty, Sept. to 8.
Travel to the Grand Canyon has
shown an increase over 1882 so far
this year
New Mexico and Texas will be
asked to join Colorado in filing appli-
cations with the secretary of interior
requesting federal construction of the
San Luis Valley, Colo, sump drain
and the state line reservoir on the
Rio Grande.
One of the biggest drives against
crime and criminals in the history of
eastern New Mexico started recently.
as thirty-eight Texas and New Mexi-
co peace officers joined forces to fer
ret out the hiding places of alleged
gunmen in the northeastern part of
Lincoln county, N. M.
Dudley Cornell, Albuquerque attor-
ney and secretary Of the New Mexico
petroleum industries committee, be-
lieves if the new state motor patrol
does its work properly the state can
collect 100000 annually in gas taxes
from gasoline which is now being
bootlegged into the state.
Garage, camp ground and service
station operators at Las Cruces, N.
M, through their chairman, A. L.
Means, announced they opposed the
allotment of any more New Mexico
road funds to the Ell Paso-Alamor-
gordo highway until the road from
Las Cruces to Alamogordo has been
completed.
New Mexico State Land Commits
sioner Frank Wesley said he had can
celled several state grazing leases and
had then renewed them at greatly
increased price. Some time ago Vese-