The Coolidge examiner., 1933-03-03
Southwestern Briefs


those of last year.
To halt ravages Of rust, street lamp
posts throughout Globe have been
coated with copper paint.
The building of the American Le-
gion Home at Kingman, Ariz.. will
start soon. The work is to be done
by Legion members.
Arizona, the youngest state in the
Union, recently became of age and
celebrated the twenty-first anniver-
sary of its statehood
The Ration, n. NJ, district shipped
416 head of cattle in January, accord
ing to the report of the cattle sanitary
board. There were 31,262 cattle ship
ped during the month.
At Stafford rehearsals are under way
for this years Red Knobs pageant, to
be known as THE Prince of Egypt"
based on Old Testament tales, to be
presented May s.
Representative from Salt Lake City
will be present at the quarterly con-
ference of the Maricopa stake, Latter
Day Saints church, Of Mesa, Utah
February IS and 10.
Bids are being received at Santa
Fe, N. NJ, for grading and construc-
ton of drainage structures on 1878
miles of road between Santa Rosa and
Cuervo, in Guadalupe county.
The Gallup, N. NJ, Kiwanis club
voted to send a letter to each of the
more than 1900 Kiwanis clubs in the
United States in an endeavor to in
terest their members in buying Nav
ajo blankets.
Miss Frances NJ. Perry, professor of
English at the University of Arizona,
widely known as a teacher of short
story writing and author of four text
books, died at Tucson. She came to
the University of Arizona in 1910.
A youth studying for the ministry
was held in Jail at Las Cruces, n. M,
accused Of stealing a marriage license
and performing his own wedding cere-
mony. He is Douglas Christison of
Hillsboro and he pleaded guilt to a
forgery charge when arraigned.
Trial of Linden Cox. 10 years of
age. of Pine Top, Ariz., and Miss
Molly Johnson, 80, school teacher of
Sulphur, Okla, on charges of robbing
the Hot Springs National Bank last
May, was postponed indefinitely while
officials investigated new evidence.
The Great White Sands area of New
Mexico. recently proclaimed a ma
tional monument by President Hoover.
is one of the largest and most remark
able accumulations of gypsum in the
world. The glistening Sands" depos-
its of wind-blown gypsum, are almost
crystal clear.
To alleviate destitute conditions
among unemployed, the state aided
more than 10000 Arizonans between
September, 1892, and January 81, 1888,
1t was announced by the Arizona Re-
construction Finance Corporation. The
r. 70. c. spent total of 1901, 026.77
during that period.
Forecast of continued increases in
postoffice business for the month of
February is made by Helen McNutt,
postmaster The prediction of better
business was made when Miss McNutt
announced that January business did
as expected and forecast-showed an
increase over January business of the
past five years.
Plans for organizing a colony, where
200 Mckinley county needy families
will be able TO help themselves thru
hard times on idle land of the Zuni
mountains are being made at Gallup,
N. NJ. The colony is to be near Page,
N. NJ, only a few miles from where
Coronado and his conquistadores
crossed the continental divide in 1910.
The state department of education
of Santa Fe, N. NJ, reports that
schools in seven New Mexico counties
are in imminent danger of closing.
- hAOSo AAChCJ AlohC dfdlldOlC oIlOI L
ly with which to meet expenses, the
department said, the public schools in
Sandoval, Guadalupe, Curry, Eddy,
Taos, Rio Arriba and Roosevelt coun-
ties will be prematurely closed.
The Irish potato is three times as
popular crop in New Mexico now as
it was seven years ago, statistics COM
piled by George R. Quesenberry, ex-
tension agronomist at New Mexico
State college, show Quesenberry said
the acreage planted in 1882 was 300
per cent greater than in 1926. "a
much greater acreage can be planted
before the New Mexico supply equals
the demand"
Approximately 43 square miles of
land at the west end of the Grand
Canyon National park, Arizona, have
been set aside as a national monu-
mment, Henry A. Morgan, register of
the United States district land office.
advised M. R. Tillatson. director of
this National park. The area was set