The Coolidge examiner., 1933-11-24
Southwestern Briefs

alumni.
The Ration branch office Of the fed
eral Home Owners Loan Corporation
was officially opened Nov. 6, with w.
H. Blaine of Ration as district man
ager. Robert Morrow has been
named Colfax county counsel.
Maintenance of a seven-cent tariff
on long staple cotton was urged by
Gov. B. B. Moeur in kilograms to Sen
ator Carl Hayden and Congresswom-
an Isabella Greenway before they at
tended the u. S. tariff commission
meeting.
Telephone connections in New Mex
leo showed net gains in August und
September of this year, the first
months to show increases since 1881,
G. f. Specify, manager of the Noun
tain States Telephone and Telegraph
Company, reported.
Weymouth Crowell Company of Los
Angeles was low bidder for construct
ing three miles of the Kingman-Boul-
der Dam highway, with its offer of
$176,345.5S, the local office of the bu-
reau of Arizona public roads has
learned from San Francisco.
The 1894 convention of the New
Mexico Educational Association will
| be held in Santa Fe. BY a vote of
563 the teachers selected the state
capital as their meeting place for
next year, rejecting invitations sub
mitted by Clovis and Albuquerque.
The New Mexico State Game De-
partment is sending game expert ].
Stokely Ligon to Wyoming to trap
fifty sage hens, which will be trans
planted to Rio Arriba and Taos coun-
ties in an effort to restore this spe-
cies, Game Warden Elliott Barker an
nounced
! The national deposit guaranty law
and easy credit were attacked by
speakers at the opening session of the
annual convention of the Arizona
Bankers Association in Phoenix. al
though one expressed himself Gin
favor of the principle behind gov
ernment guaranty on bank deposits. "
Reductions ranging from 10 to 28
| per cent in rates charged by the Ari-
zona Edison Company in Yuma have
been ordered by the Arizona Corpora
tion Commission. effective Nov. Is.
The commission also ordered a slight
reduction of water charges. but took
no action on an application for low
cred gas rates.
The Arizona advisory has for.
warded to Washington an application
of the Arizona State Teachers Col
| lege at Tempe for loan of $3.50. 900
/ from the federal public works fund,
/ to be used to construct and furnish a
new dormitory, for library and equip
ment, heating plant, and repairs to
other buildings.
I'VE have too many unintelligent
teachers in America" DR.. George VIII
lard Frasier, president of the Colo
rado State Teachers College, told
teachers attending the New Mexico
Educational Association convention In
Albuquerque. Intelligence. he said, is
primary requisite for the teacher
who teaches children character. His
subject was 1.-THE Education of the
! Spirit"
The New York auditing firm of Has
kins and Sells have started work on
the New Mexico Highway Department
audit. Gov. A. w. Hockenhull is anx
ious to establish the exact financial
status of the department. its receipts
sources of income. the total amount
of its debts, which is admittedly S408,
900, and it's operating costs. From
this information he hopes to work out
plan to put the department on q
cash basis.
The Gallup strike zone is gradual
ly settling back to its pre-riot status
with approximately 200 pickets in line
at the north city limits under close
watch of National Guardsmen armed
with hickory sticks. A total Of 32C
miners went to work recently in three
strike-affected mines and the two
mines operating under agreements
with the strikers reported normal
crews to bring the total well over 45C
men at work
Roy Wayland, Arizona manager OF
the Federal Home Loan Corporation
has announced, I'VE will put upwards
of $1,000,000 into Arizona during No
vember and December. Putting of this
money into Arizona during the next
two months" he said, will be done
through refinancing of existing mort
cages for long period. This will
relieve the present mortgages. put
more money into circulation, and
make more ready cash for invest
ments."
Efforts are being made to liquidate
Arizona's treasury deficit of more
than $2,500,000 by sale of tax antici
patton bonds, State Treasurer vii
liam Cox disclosed recently. Pro
ceeds to tax anticipation bonds would
be used to pay off registered state
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