The Coolidge examiner., 1933-05-05
Southwestern Briefs

S. L. Lewis OF Flagstaff, Ar1Z., has
been named state game warden, re-
placing w. c. Joyner.
Clifton Matthew of Globe, Ariz., has
been appointed by President Roose-
welt, U. S. attorney for Arizona dis
trict.
The First National bank of Albu
querque has been placed in the hands
Of conservator at the request of di-
rectors of the institution.
The new United States immigration
and customs service inspection build
ing at the Mexican border is expected
to be ready for occupancy by May L.
The Arizona Federation of Woman's
Clubs held three-day convention in
Phoenix, April 10, 20 and 81. Mrs.
Grace Morrison Poole, national presi-
dent, of Washington, d. c., was the
guest speaker.
]. D. Jones, public relations chief
for the southwestern forest region,
has announced that thirteen sites for
forest job camps have been selected
in New Mexico and Arizona forests
and thirty-seven others will be chosen.
Under a compromised valuation for
1892, the Magma Copper Company of
Superior, Ariz., will pay $113,9OO in
cash and approximately $4,000 in
state warrants, in settlement of it's
state and Pinal county taxes for that
year.
One hundred and fifty delegates
from all parts of Arizona attended
the fiftieth annual convention of the
grand lodge of Independent Order of
Odd Fellows of Arizona, in Globe,
which started April 16 and lasted
three days.
The cold weather at Artesia, n. NJ,
recently, destroyed virtually all of the
late fruit crops. A few losses oc-
Cured among newly-born lambs,
sheepmen said. The lowest temper
ature reached in this area was 21 de-
grees above.
A low bid of s6,445 has been sub
mitted to the United States bureau OF
public roads by o. Fisher of Phoenix
for subgrade reinforcement of three
and one-half miles of the Cameron
Desert View highway in Grand Can
yon national park.
The Chandler Arizonan, weekly
newspaper published at Chandler, will
change hands May l. P. R. and c. A.
Mitten have sold their interests in
the paper to Britton Diller of Wicken.
burg, a newspaperman with consider.
able experience in coast journalism.
A preliminary training for about
forty candidates for jobs as members
of the state highway patrol has
started in Phoenix. At the end OF
the term eighteen men will be chosen
to complete the patrol personnel, in
creased by action OF the last Legisla-
ture.
Declaring that liquor and narcotics
have caused most of the escapes or
infractions of rules at the Arizona
state prison, Warden A. G. Walker
has issued a warning against posses
sion of intoxicants or narcotics of any
nature on the prison premises at Flor
ence.
Preparations are being made for re-
newal of operations at the Old Nor
man King mine, in the Steeplerock
district of New Mexico, sixteen miles
from Duncan, Ariz. The Norman
King. worked intermittently for many
years, has in it's time produced rich
gold ore.
Gov. B. B. Moeur has been asked by
a delegation of dry-law Supporters to
refrain from calling special election
to name delegates to convention to
ratify or reject the eighteenth amend
ment. The delegation asked the gov
ernor to defer calling the convention
and let the people vote on the propo-
sition at the general election in 1884.
An epidemic of spinal meningitis
in the northern part of Arizona, in
Apache and Navajo counties, is TAX
ing a huge toll of human life, it was
revealed when DIR. Hugh F. Stanton,
state epidemologist, said approximate
ly twenty people had died in White
River and Ft. Apache. The epidemic
developed in these two towns follow.
ing an outbreak at Fort Wingate in
New Mexico.
Hidden away in mountain Businesses
of New Mexico, Los Hermanos de
Penitente (the brothers Of the peni-
tents) Friday, April IA, enacted with
earnest realism the drama of Christ's
crucifixion. While most of the Chris
tian world observed Good Friday with
prayer, fasting and church attendance,
this strange offshoot of Christianity
re-enacted the crucifixion in secret
and under heavy guard.
Banded together to solve the eco
nomic problem, forty people living on
the old Basset ranch near Gila, N. M,
engaged in cooperative colony
project. The organization is interested
chiefly in the economic and social bet