The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-10
Southwestern Briefs

Jumbo frogs would be classified as
game fish and protected under a
bill patterned after an Idaho law and
introduced in the Arizona House.
The Texas Louisiana Power Co. will
reduce electric light rates at Silver
City and Lordsburg, N. NJ, from Is
cents to IA cents per kilowat hour.
Gordon Sawyer, Tucson banker, was
named by Governor B. b. Moeur to
replace T. N. McCauley as a member
of the Arizona r. f. C. commission.
Lieut.. Col. Clyde Ely has been
named as the new commanding Off
Ger of the 111th cavalry, succeeding
Col. Norman King, who died recently
in Santa Fe.
Three members of the Arizona In
dustrial Commission are awaiting
trial on Feb. 16 on charges of en-
bezzlement and misapplication of pub
lie money.
Fish imports from the Gulf of Cali
fornia through the port of Aio have
been steadily increasing and during
the month of December totaled / ,639
pounds, it was reported.
Thirty-five men were employed by
the Consolidated Gold Mines, Inc, at
Pinos Altos, N. M, and the same crew
will continue its work there in repair
ing and restoring the Gillette mill.
A review of crops and the amount
of revenue they brought to farmers
of San Miguel county, N NJ, last year,
shows that sugar beets paid the larg-
est proportionate cash return of any
crop.
1t is announced by Harry V. Far
rior, county assessor of Santa Cruz
county, Ariz., that on and after Feb.
l, automobile and truck license plates
will cost $3.50, or just twice as much
as now.
University and college fraternities
and sororities in New Mexico would
be abolished under provisions OF a
measure contemplated for introduc-
tion by Senator Juan A. A. Sedillo,
Santa Fe.
Mining operations at the Empire
Zinc Company property at Kelly, N.
NJ, will be increased and between
forty and fifty men will be employed
during the year, Kenneth Hughes of
Kelly announced.
Former Assistant Comptroller ]. A.
McNabb, in report to the governor
at Santa Fe, n. M, said the office of
comptroller should show a substantial
cash balance Feb. /, excepting the
public auditing section.
A petition seeking state legislation
for construction of a $4,000 armory
building in Prescott, Ariz., to be
turned over to Company M, 158th in
fantry, Arizona National Guard, is be-
ing circulated in the city.
Deliveries of L. s. mail have been
extended to include approximately $50
families in Las Vegas who previously
had been receiving their mail through
general delivery, o. Linberg. assist
dhl
Arthur ]. Kline, city engineer of
Prescott, Ariz.. applied for Twenty R.
f. c. workmen to aid in clearing at
the Banning Creek dam, at the same
time expressing his appreciation for
the help the r. F. c. has extended
to us this winter"
An army of transients drifting
southwark has created acute relief
problems in New Mexico and Arizona,
two witnesses told the U. S. Senate
committee as they appeared in behalf
of the Cutting bill for fifteen million
dollars relief fund
Accusations that some volunteer
game wardens are bootlegging whis-
ky and renting saddle horses to hunt
ers at Gallup, N. NJ, are under inves-
tigation by Elliott Barker, state game
warden. Barker promised members
of the Game Protective Association,
who made the complaints, that there
will be a wholesale shakeup among
the volunteers If the charges are true.
William Wallace Bass, famous ex-
plorer and guide of the Grand Canyon,
died at his home in Wickenburg, Ariz.
He was 20 years old. Bass lived at
the Grand Canyon, one of the seven
wonders of the world, for thirty-six
years. During that time he explored
many of the little known recesses of
the canyon, built trains and served as
guide for visitors.
The Santa Fe railroad soon will
start shipping steel rails from the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company mills
at Pueblo, Colo, for use on the Santa
Fe coast lines, officials announced.
New 110-pound rails will replace the
so and 9O-pound ones near Gallup, N.
NJ, and west of Needles. Calf, Off
cial said.
Guaranteeing future employment to
number of county unemployed,
check in the amount of SAL ,268 was
received at Prescott, Ariz., from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
in Washington through the state ad.