The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-30
Southwestern Briefs
An Adventure in American south' South

measure as amended by the United
States Senate, T. S. Mcconnell, state
engineer, has been advised.
Appointment of Florence Warren of
Chicago as state director of welfare
relief, has been announced by the
Arizona state board of public welfare.
/ She will coordinate relief work
throughout Arizona, it was said.
Members of the county welfare
board at Prescott, Arizona, balanced
the county's R. F. c. budget, then al
located $12,93O.75 in funds from the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. on three
major work projects in the county.
The United States district attor-
ney's office has received instructions
/ from Washington TO buy site for
proposed post office in Carlsbad, N.
NJ. Suit for quiet title to the land
! has already been filed in Eddy County
/ Court.
! The scheduled tax sale provided for
under senate bill 144, the delinquent
| tax collection law, failed to occur in
nine of the thirty-one counties in New
Mexico because of injunctions or opin-
/ ions handed down by district attor-
neys.
A check for SS5O,OOO will be de-
| posted TO the credit of depositors of
the defunct Arizona Bank Monday and
Immediately checks representing a 40
/ per cent dividend viii be sent them.
Y, c. White, state superintendent of
banks, has announced
The rodeo to be given at Cimarron,
n. NJ, July 4. will include the Cimar-
ron derby this year. The race is a
half mile event open to any horse
! with a S5 entrance fee. The prizes
will be $40, $40 and $40 and all the
entrance fees will be added to the
first prize.
Ancient legends of the southwest
Indians, enfolded in age-old myster-
les, were portrayed recently by the
! Smoki people of Prescott-white busi-
ness men and women who have dedi-
Gated themselves to perpetuation of
the rituals and ceremonies of their
red brothers.
Governor Moeur of Arizona has sent
letter to the state highway commits
| sion declaring that after studying the
| tentative highway budget as outlined
/ for the coming biennium, | feel that
! some grave injustices are being done,
particularly in construction on High
way 90 east in Gila County"
San Miguel County, New Mexico.
offered the property on which taxes
for 1891 and 1882 had not been paid
/ for sale at public auction, although
| county officials were in muddle, not
/ knowing whether TO hold a sale or to
consider senate bill 144, the act pro-
viding for the sale, suspended.
State auto mobiles are being
equipped with reflectors, as required
under a law passed by the eleventh
New Mexico legislature, effective
June 8. The law requires a certified
red reflector on the rear of all We
| hicles TO serve as a warning when
approaching headlights reflect from it.
The Tularosa, N. NJ, quail refuge
and six small refugees, spread over the
| $50 of the prairie chicken country in
the sand hills of southern Roosevelt
and northern Lea Counties, have been
created, State Game Warden Elliot
Barker has announced. These are the
Bowley. Levelland, Williams, Bluitt,
Minselle and Gordon refugees.
Gov B. B. Moeur signed the first
two bills to be presented him by the
special session of the Arizona legis-
lature. The first was the feed" bill.
appropriating $4,000 for legislative
maintenance. The second was a house
joint memorial to President Roose-
welt and congress relating to disability
compensation of veterans.
Charles G. Bell, pioneer miner, has
leased two valuable mining claims
and a milling site at Vanadium, N.
NJ, to eastern capitalists, it has been
announced. The property consists of
forty acres lying between the Ground
hog and San Jose units of the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining Company
and the Nevada Consolidated Copper
Company's property.
United States government engin-
eers, connected with the international
Boundary Commission, are testing the
formation of soil in Nogales, Ariz., in
making a tentative survey for the
proposed half-million dollar reinforced
concrete conduit which is to be in
stalled on the east side of the S. P.
tracks, down Morley avenue, as a por-
tion of the flood control work.
The New Mexico state tax commits
sion has figured its budget itinerary,
but in order to complete it in time
for final approval, the commission
must put two parties in the field. 1t
was likely Donaciano Rodriguez and
Prayer Miller, associate commission
ers, would comprise one party, and
Chief Tax Commissioner Byron O..
Beall and Secretary John Miles would