The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-21
Southwestern Briefs

automobile.
With freight increases totaling as
much as "a per cent Santa Fe rail
road officials announced the return to
work of thirty-two brakemen and TWEEN
ty firemen at Winslow, Ariz.
The body of Bert Gilbert, 3S, former
ly of Silver City, N. NJ, was found by
police in a Chicago roominghouse with
bullet wounds through his head, ac-
cording TO word received in Silver
City.
DR.. E. F. Morton of Hurley, N. NJ,
was elected president of the State
Dental Society at the twenty-sixth an
nual convention at Albuquerque. He
succeeds DR.. Daniel P. Noting of Al
buQuerque.
DR.. George c. Truman, state super
has been appointed a member of the
legislative and appropriation commit
tees of the American Public Health
Association.
State Game Warden S. L. Lewis re-
ceived the approval of the United
States forestry service officials at AL
buquerque, n. NJ, of regulations for
deer hunting in the Kaibab national
forest this fall.
Clifton Matthews, United States at
torney for the Arizona district, an
nounced appointment by the United
States attorney general of Frank E.
Flynn of Prescott as assistant federal
district attorney.
Superintendent J. E. Balmer, Tuba
City, Ariz., who is working out final
details of the Indian conservation
corps program, said that 100000
would be spent in improvements on
western Navajo jurisdiction.
Because of the Shell Petroleum
Company's recent purchase of 1000
barrels of crude per day from the
Hobbs pool, Lea county, southeastern
New Mexico, the allowable schedule
has been increased to 33,502 barrels
per day.
House bill 90, of the regular session
of the Eleventh Legislature, requiring
licensing of insurance agents in Ari-
zona, was held constitutional in an
opinion given the corporation commits
sion by Arthur T. LaPrade, attorney
general.
City school superintendents and
high school principals from various
parts of the state will open a two-day
conference at the University of New
Mexico, July q, on Articulation of
/ Secondary Education With Higher
Education"
c. D. Lebert, Arizona state inspec-
tor of grasshopper eradication, said
the insects were being killed at the
rate of seventy per square yard. The
deaths are being caused by poison,
and in some instances turkeys are aid.
ing in the elimination.
A cash dole of SO a week for hus-
band and wife, plus rs cents for each
child, regardless of whether they work
for it, is the demand to be made in a
hunger march in Roswell, n. NJ, July
10 by members of the Chaves county
unemployed organization.
A fist fight on a main street in Ia
tium, n NJ, between a 53-year-old man
and 19-year-old farmland, culmi-
mated in the death of Oscar Adams,
prominent Tatum cattleman, and the
arrest Of J. H. Simpson, Lee county
commissioner, and A B. Hart, Simp-
sons youthful employee.
The Sedgwick forest camp in west
Iern Valencia county, N. NJ, keeps it's
meat on ice but depends neither on
electric refrigeration nor on manufac-
tured ice. Meat for the civilian con
Iservation corps camp is stored in the
natural ice cave near Paxton Springs
and about ten miles south of the camp.
Students and faculty members of
Arizona State Teachers College at
Flagstaff petitioned the college board
for permission to name the new IL
brary building "Gammage Library" in
commemOration of the seven-year ad-
ministration of DR. Grady Gammage,
president. DR.. Gammage resigned
July l, TO become president of Arizona
State Teachers College at Tempe
The Houston fresh egg standardiza-
tion law was signed by Gov. B. B.
Moeur of Arizona, and filed with Sec
retary Of State James H. Kerby. 9th.
er measures signed by the executive
Appropriating $4,000 for the state tax
commission for operation of the reve-
INCREASING bills passed bv the first
special session of the Eleventh Legis-
lature. Providing a license fee of $50
for commission merchants and dealers
of agricultural and horticultural prod
ucts.
Carl F. Wells, war veteran, whom
a jury found guilty of robbing the Val
ley bank branch office at Globe, Ariz.,
of $4,000 last April 25, was sentenced
to serve five to ten years in the state
prison by Superior Judge Dave Ling
of Greenlee county. His brother,
Harry, an Arlington rancher, who