The Coolidge examiner., 1933-12-08
Southwestern Briefs

PAOJ W NCoNIClC.
Arizona State Highway Department
officials disclosed that S23,26445 of
the $258,466 collected during Sep
tember as gasoline taxes was appor-
toned to unemployment relief. The
county governments received S61,-
590.12 of the amount and the state,
1927 ,3S1.S6.
A five-million-dollar improvement
program, designed to aid the nomadic
Navajo Indians to become an agricul-
solidated Navajo reservation. The
new reservation is the result Of the
combination of Navajo territories in
Arizona, New Mexico. Utah and Colo
rado.
Helen Hockenhull, IS, daughter Of
A. w. Hockenhull, the new governor
of New Mexico, was winner in an
election to select the most popular
girl at the Colorado Woman's College.
Miss Hockenhull defeated Helen
Holm, president of the student coun-
Gil, by close margin, the returns
disclosed.
Nineteen miles of road construc-
tion through a portion of the Sit
greaves National forest has been COM
pleted by the Hart Canyon Civilian
Conservation Corps, which has now
moved to a new camp site twelve
miles west of Miami. 1t is expected
that further road construction work
will be done by the c. c. c. next sum-
mer
County attorneys of the seven Ari-
zona counties in which banks or cor
porations have brought suits asking
injunctions against collection of taxes
assessed against them, met with AS
sistant Attorney General Charles
Strouss recently, to consider plan OF
action whereby the state hopes to
have the action dismissed. The banks
and corporations charge discrimina-
ton in the tax suits.
Congressman Dennis Chavez has
been elected Democratic national COM
mitteeman from New Mexico to sue
coed the late Gov. Arthur Seligman.
The National Miners Union has
sent coal mine operators affected by
the strike in Gallup an invitation to
negotiate for settlement. 1t was the
| first definite move toward arbitration
since arrival of Maj. John Moore, spe-
cial investigator for the national la
/ Dor board.
The rope and the scaffold as a
means of inflicting death penalties for
first degree murder was relegated to
the ash heap recently, when Governor
Moeur affixed his signature TO proc.
lamation declaring the people by their
vote on Oct had carried a constitu.
tional amendment providing for execu.
tion by lethal gas. At the same time
the governor brought into existence
as state laws the basic science law
and the deficiency judgment law.
The proposed $4,000, 900 Pine River
dam project on the Consolidated Ute
reservation in southwestern Colorado
would benefit white settlers in the
area even more than the Indians, H
/ c. Neuffer, district supervising engi
neer for the Indian irrigation service
said recently. Neuffer said the dam
would store capacity of 100000 acre
feet and during normal flow of the
river would supply sufficient water fer
irrigation of the 10000 acres of ir
rigable reservation land and $4,000
acres OF white settlers land.
Hidden from sight for years and
yet ridden over by scores of persons
prehistoric Indian burial place has
been discovered in the roadbed of the
old Cloudcroft highway in the Sacra
mento mountains near Alamogordo
The discovery was made by party
Of deer hunters who, while following
the old roadway came upon a place
where the summer rains had washed
foot below the surface of the road
bed sat an Indian skeleton, most OF
which had been exposed to full view
by the flood, with a red terra Gotta
bowl over the skull. The bowl bore
an intricate geometrical design made
of five rectangular figures. The fig
ures were so drawn that they formed
one continuous line about the bowl
without break from start to finish.
A letter received recently by Sen
ator Cutting (R), New Mexico, from
the reclamation bureau said an inves
tigation cannot be made at this time
into the proposed diversion of waters
from the San Juan basin in Colorado
to the Chama and Rio Grande rivers
in New Mexico. I'VE have recently
had number of requests to take VI
the investigation of projects in this
class throughout the arid section OF
the United States,' read a letter from
NJ. A. Schnurr, acting reclamation
commissioner, but in all such cases
it has been necessary to reply that, in
view of the large amount of construc
tion work that has come under the
supervision of the bureau of reclama
ton, it has not been possible to as