The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-28
Southwestern Briefs

IeeI DeIOW, mas Deen WlQeneQ and oil
surfaced. 1t is seven miles in length.
]. A. Greaves was elected president
and w. L. Lindblom, secretary-man.
ager of the reorganized Winslow
Chamber of Commerce at the organ
ization meeting of the new board of
directors.
Indian tom-toms doomed along the
canon walls of Arizona and Sonora,
Mexico, as thousands of Yaqui In
dians held their annual Yaqui rites,
which are held each year during the
Lenten season.
The Rev. Ulysses Sumner Villars,
81, pastor of the Federated Church at
Belen, n. M, died at his home April
s. He formerly had served as a Red
Cross relief officer at Fitzsimons Hos
pital in Denver
Luke Roberts, editor of the Loving
ton, n. NJ, Leader, has filed his pledge
with the secretary of state as candi-
date for rejection of amendment 21,
which would repeal the 18th amend
ment to the nations constitution.
The student body of Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff arose
en- masse to protest Governor Moeurs
proposal to force the states three
higher educational institutions to can
eel out-of-state athletic contests.
George c. Truman of Mesa and
Forrest Doucette of Phoenix have Of
ficially taken office as state super
intendent of public health and execu-
tive secretary of the state health de-
partment, respectively.
Tombstone. the famous old Arizona
mining camp, has ordered its equally
famous Boot Hill cemetery improved
so that the graves of the notorious
desperadoes and the courageous early
day peace officers will be more dis
cernible
The annual field trip of the Univer
sity of Arizona archaeology students
started April Z. Inspections will be
made at the Casa Grande ruins. Phoe-
nix, Roosevelt Dam, Tonto ruins, Su-
perior ruins and the Boyce Thompson
Arboretum.
Superior Judge G. A Rodgers, of
Phoenix, authorized Y. G. White, state
superintendent of banks and ex-officio
receiver of the defunct Arizona bank,
to pay $4,000 of the institutions
funds 10 three Arizona sheep compan-
les for care and preservation of their
stock.
Stockingless goods will be taboo on
the University of Arizona campus this
summer the Spines, secret women's
organization, has decreed. Exposure
of coeds' legs is all right for some
women students, but for most II is
repulsive and suggestive the group
declared.
Announcement has been made that
by May 1st $4,000 sheep from the win
ter ranges in ether parts OF the state
will be roaming through the Coconino
National Forest. approximately 60O,-
900 of the "woClies" are moving to the
summer ranges in the mountains of
northern Arizona.
For the second successive year the
Tovrea Packing Company of Phoenix
has been awarded a contract for sup
plying beef TO United States Army
posts in Hawaii, according to word
received by The local plant recently
from army officials in San Francisco,
where the award was made.
With the state of New Mexico more
than three-qLarters of a million dol
lars overdrawn. as of April /, State
Treasurer Clinton Z. Anderson an
nounced there was a possibility the
state would have to stop appropria-
tions to institutions and refuse to
pay. salaries IN April, May and June.
Old tribesmen of the Zunis protested
to G. A. Trotter, reservation superin-
tendent, and urged him to keep beer
off the Zuni reservation near Gallup,
n. NJ. Zuni religion bans the drink
ing of alcohol in any form Use of
beer on the reservation might arouse
the wrath of the Zuni gods and bring
dire results" the tribesmen told
Trotter.
DR.. o. NJ. Blakeslee, superintendent
of the state training school for mental
detectives at Los Lunas, and seven
other employees have been dis
charged, according to report by Mrs
D. A. MACPHERSON. board secretary.
The board, she said, had no complaint
regarding the superintendent's record,
but felt that he had made too many
enemies to be kept at the head of the
institution.
A group of Papago Indians were
working with construction scraper
near the San Xavier reservation hos
pital at Martinez Hill near Tucson
recently when they noticed the blade
was cutting through buried clay walls.
Excavation of the site is progressing
under the supervision of DR.. Byron
Cummings of the University of Ari-
zona, who announced that the ruins
were those of a pithouse, probably
antedating 1900 A. D.