The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-27
Southwestern Briefs

Jill AdNCACSog L llOChiA anu ofd
pal County cattleman, was elected
chairman of the state livestock sani-
tary board. He succeeded John d.
Parks.
H. J. Hagen, Globe, Ariz, contrac-
tor, is to be recommended the con-
tract for construction of 2.S miles of
highway in the Chicicahua National
Monument.
Incorporation of the Arizona Drug
Company at Douglas for a second
twenty-five-year period was granted
by the Corporation Commission. First
incorporation papers were granted in
1908.
Alderman o. A. Smith cast the only
negative vote when the Nogales, Ariz.,
board of aldermen repealed a local
enforcement law, leaving this border
city without. any statute governing
dispensing of liquors.
Warden Ed B. Swope said that he
will recommend to the New Mexico
state penitentiary board the installa-
manufacture of motor vehicle plates
and highway signs.
Almost unanimous sentiment for re-
peal of the prohibition law exists
among at least one-half of the seventy
three legislators who meet in Santa
Fe for the eleventh session of the
New Mexico state legislature.
A Shrine hospital for crippled chill
dren will be built somewhere in the
southwest when business conditions
improve, Earl C. Mills of Des Moines,
Iowa, imperial potentate of the Shrine,
said in Albuquerque.
Effective Feb. /, the Sud Pacifico
de Mexico must employ English speak
ind, reading and writing laborers in
the yards at Nogales, or cease opera
tions in Arizona, the Arizona Corpora
ton commission ruled.
For outstanding work, Henry Ey-
ring of Stafford, Ariz., 32-year-old
Princeton University chemistry pro-
fessor, was awarded the annual 81 900
the Advancement of Science.
A human life was paid for each 262,.
512 tons of coal mined in New Mexico
during the last fiscal year, a report
of State Mine Inspector Warren Brace
well, filed with Governor Arthur Selig-
man. stated. There were four fatal
accidents and 164 non-fatal during the
period.
Abandonment of a flood control
highway project was protested to
Gov. B. B. Moeur, by the city council
Of Nogales. The work already fin
ished Will be destroyed should heavy
rain fall, the protest stated.
Southern Arizona's greatest air
show will be staged at Tucson Febru-
ary 26. under auspices of the Tucson
unit of the National Aeronautic Asso-
citation. More than 100 ships are ex-
pected from Texas, New Mexico and
California.
There were 52,492 head of cattle
shipped from New Mexico in Decem-
Der, compared with 1856 in Decem-
Der, 1881. Most of the cattle went to
Los Angeles, Kansas City and Denver
markets. The Deming district shipped
the greatest number of the various
sections of the state, 1921 head. From
the Silver City district, Ais head
were shipped Alamogordo, 1884; Ros
well, 1886; Las Vegas. 1865; Santa
Fe, 25O. and Portales, 1904.
New Mexico's eleventh state legis-
lature-the only body of bilingual law
makers in the nation-convened in
Santa Fe at noon Tuesday, Jan. TO-,
for a sixty-day session. Because of
the large number of Spanish-American
members who do not speak English,
interpreters are used throughout the
legislative session. All bills, reports
and messages are read in English in
both the senate and the house and
then are repeated in Spanish.
Gus Bruskas. Albuquerque cafe OWE
er, was made defendant in a $25, 900
damage suit filed. as the result of
the death last October of Clair Frank,
university student, killed in an auto
mobile accident. The suit alleged
that Bruskas' wife was responsible
for the accident and that she made a
left-hand turn without giving a signal.
The office of director of vocational
education has been vacated by the
Arizona state board of education. A
saving of $4,000 in salary annually
will be effected, the board said.
Officers in four states were coop
Grating in search for the bandit
who jumped into car driven by DR..
L. S. Hemmings of Bernalillo, N. NJ,
and at the point of revolver forced
him to drive fifteen miles south of
Belen, where the physician was left
stranded. The bandit obtained be-
tween $65 and $40 and took DR.. Hem
ming's new car. The holdup occurred
on one of the downtown business
streets in Albuquerque, where DR..
Hemmings had parked for few min
utes while waiting for a friend. He
was forced to drive forty-five miles
south while the bandit held a gun on