The Coolidge examiner., 1933-05-12
Southwestern Briefs

at Springer, N. M.
The state board of education has
announced free texts are to be fur
nished to New Mexico schools next
year, starting with the primer.
DR.. c. W. Adams of Globe has been
appointed to the Arizona state board
of medical examiners, it was an
nounced recently by Gov. B. B. Moeur
Members of the Lions Clubs of the
twenty-first district, which includes all
of Arizona, and Needles, Calf, gath
cred in Winslow recently for the open
ing of the fifth annual convention,
with the Winslow Club as hosts.
A meeting of veterans to organize
a veterans council was held in Albu-
querque recently, to present united
front in opposition to the Roosevelt
economy program insofar as it con-
Germs veterans, by presenting it's facts.
Winnie Ruth Judd, who eighteen
months ago killed Agnes Ann Leroi
and Hedvig Samuelson in a quarrel
over ]. ]. Halloran, wealthy Phoenix
playboy, won her fight to escape the
gallows recently when a jury here
adjudged her insane.
Gov. B. 3. Moeur has announced
that proclamations calling a special
election to choose delegates to a state
convention to act on proposed repeal
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name a congressman from Arizona,
were being prepared.
Brisk bidding accompanied the sale
Of 10000 pounds of wool in Roswell,
n. NJ, at prices ranging from 11%
to 1874 cents a pound The seven
clips went to four western buyers and
brought to 100000 pounds the total
amount of wool sold here this season.
Roswell, N. NJ, has been selected
as the 1884 convention city for the
forty-second district of Rotary Inter
national. The meeting probably will
be held some time between April Is
and May Is of next year. The district
is composed of clubs in New Mexico
and west Texas.
The burned bodies of C. L. Giragi,
publisher of the Winslow Daily Mail,
and Jack Irish, airplane pilot, who
had been missing for several days,
were found in the charred wreckage
of their plane April % on West Sun
set mountain, eighteen miles south
west of Winslow.
The state corporation commission
has started preparations of all public
utilities in Arizona for the purpose
Of possible reduction Of rates. All
public utilities-electric light and
power companies; gas and water CON-
panies included-will come under the
survey to be made.
Every effort is being exerted to Sc
cure continued operation of veterans
hospitals at Fort Bayard and Albu-
querque, N. NJ Retention of these
two hospitals is of major importance
in efforts to salvage a part of the
wreck which has been wrought in
veterans benefits by enactment of
the recent economy bill.
The Santa Fe Railway Co. at Gal
lup paid its total last half taxes of
$56,773.37 and paved the way for pay.
ment by the county of obligations
piled up since Jan. Is. The payment
was made fifty-three days before it
could be demanded under the law and
was rendered in advance in order to
relieve the county and schools f.
nance situation.
Stuart Bailey, secretary of the Ari-
Zona public welfare board, has re-
ceived details of the governments re-
forestation program and has forward
ed them to county chairmen of the
board. More than 5000 single men in
Arizona are eligible for enrolment in
the conservation army. Twenty-eight
camps, each with a personnel of 200
men, will be established in the state.
Victim of one of the rarest maladies
known to medical science, Arthur M.
opACSs 90 L AAOCl4lA QlSu AQIll
20, without having regained conscious
ness, into which he lapsed under an
anesthetic in a dentists chair twenty
six days ago. Physicians in charge of
the case said it was the fourth fatality
Of its kind on record in American med
ical history, so far as they could
learn.
Doom of the national guard was the
ominous forecast of a telegram re-
ceived by the governor of New Mexico
from Claude Burkhead of Texas, presi-
dent of the National Guard Associa-
ton. Contemplated economies by the
Roosevelt administration will reduce
the guard from forty-eight drills to
twenty-four and wreck the whole
guard" and this calls for immediate
action"
Commanders have been named and
agents selected in President Roose-
velt's reforestation program. Three
officers will be in charge of each
camp, one captain and two leuten-