The Coolidge examiner., 1933-08-04
Southwestern Briefs

A total of $4,000 sheep and 10000
cattle now are grazing in the Coco
nino national forest in Arizona.
The so per cent reduction in valu.
alton in Dona Ana county, N. M, will
be reconciled to a 1213 per cent cut
in the budgets.
Arizona will receive more than ten
million dollars of federal funds for
highway construction during the next
year and half
Fire completely destroyed the VII
low Creek lodge at Mogollen, N. M,
recently. The property is owned by
James Taylor of Albuquerque.
Pioneer Day, annual holiday of the
Mormon people and their friend-, GEN.
tered at Snowflake, Ariz., this year
for Navajo county, on July "a and 25.
Arizona State Tax Commission au-
thorities said they were prepared to
prosecute to the fullest extent of the
law" all evaders of the new luxury
tax law.
A touch as velyety as cats paw
but with claws to rake in violators is
the policy of the New Mexico motor
patrol as explained by Capt Homer
Garrison.
Word was received in Magdalena,
N. M, recently, of the death at
JOnesboro, Ark, of Jeffry A. Hough-
ton, 64-year-old Magadalena post.
master.
f. A. Anderson, As, albuquerque
real estate man, was found dead at
his auto camp near Los Lunas, N. NJ.
A coroner's jury returned a verdict
of suicide.
Gov. B. r. Moeur of Arizona said
he would accept the resignation Of
Harry Hill, veteran legislator from
Greenlee county, as president of the
State Senate.
Receipts of $1S9,723 from the Re-
construction Finance Corporation for
unemployment relief in Arizona has
been announced by the State Public
Welfare Board.
W. M. Cox, Arizona state treasurer,
paid $1,204,000 for some 10000 regis.
tered state warrants recently. The
payment included all warrants regis
tered to January 81, this year.
The Arizona Woman's Christian
Temperance Union was honored and
awarded special membership prize
at the national convention, which
closed recently in Milwaukee.
W. S. Ezell, so, believed to be from
San Antonio, Texas. was instantly
killed when the car in which he was
riding plunged off the highway at
Death Curve" on Ration Pass.
Two hundred delegates will repre-
sent the Ladies Auxiliary when the
fifteenth annual convention of the
American Legion convenes at Tucum-
carl, n. NJ, August 3, 4 and 5.
Approximately 1000 applications for
licenses to do business in Arizona,
as required by the privilege sales tax
law, have been received by A L.
Frees, director of the new law.
Acceptance of the cottnn reduction
program by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace was cheered by All farmers
of Arizona, who have signed contracts
agreeing to plow under 1865 acres.
Fred Daniels, federal agricultural
statistician, reported acreage of New
Mexico's important crops showed
decrease of approximately per cent
under the 1892 harvested acreage on
July /.
Deposits of the Valley Bank &
Trust Co of Phoenix, which maintains
nine branches in the state, including
one at Prescott, increased more than
$1,000,000 in the six-month period end.
ing July /
A temporary appointment as deputy
prohibition administrator fer New
Mexico, to last ninety days, has been
offered to George Cook, prominent
Socorro county Democratic leader and
former sheriff.
For the first time in several years,
New Mexico has closed a fiscal year
with balanced budget, it was an
nounced by Deputy State Treasurer r.
L. Ormsbee. All bills and salaries
have been paid.
Fire of an undetermined origin,
which swept through a twostory ware
house at Albuquerque, destroyed $4O,-
600 worth of merchandise owned by
the Skinner Sores and Anchor Gro
Gerry Company.
Low bids for paving and grading
eight and two-thirds miles of the st.
Johns-Springerville highway, westerly
from st. Johns, Ariz., by the Heafey-
Moore Co. of Phoenix, with $685.
1924, the State Highway Department
announced.
The second week term of the New
Mexico Normal University summer
school started recently, with regis.
tration of betYeen $50 and 500 stu
dents, which is about the average fig.