The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-28
Southwestern Briefs


Mexico state corporation commission.
Captain Garrison, ranking captain
of the Texas highway police, arrived
in Santa Fe, N. M, recently to take
charge of the New Mexico highway
patrol school.
| One of the largest local cattle pur-
chases in Nogales, Ariz., in months
was consummated when Roy Gill of
Exeter, Calf, bought 5000 steers for
fall delivery.
Contracts for more than forty tons
Of Arizona sausage for army and navy
consumption were announced by Phil
e. Tovrea, of the Tovrea Packing
| Company, Phoenix.
Efforts are being made by the Girls
Welfare Home Board to get $4,000 to
build kitchen and dining room at
the Albuquerque institution, says a
report by E. A. Baca, auditor.
Tucumcari, N. NJ, is working in
harmony with the presidents recovery
program. The city council has grant
ed 10 per cent increase in salary for
all its employees effective July /.
Residents of Williams, Ariz., have
no taxes to pay to maintain their To-
cal government because a municipal
/ light plant and water works earn
enough money to defray such expense.
The departments of public instruc-
tion and vocational education of Ari-
zona announced they had turned back
! $70,029.9S of their appropriations for
the last biennium to the general fund.
A thirty-day term in the county
Jail at Mesa, Ariz, was imposed on
J. Lloyd, Miami, Fla, tourist, charged
with reckless driving in connection
with the alleged killing of ten sheep
on the Apache Trail east of Mesa.
Increased railroad business has
aided employees of the Santa Fe rail.
road shops at Albuquerque. The loco
motive department Of the shops have
gone on four-day week. Nearly 400
men are affected by the extra days
work.
Miss Marguerite P. Baca asked the
New Mexico finance board for funds
to hold the special election Sept. 10
at which prohibition repeal and four
other constitutional amendments will
be put up. She estimated the cost
at $4,000.
paul Cantz cournopdar of +ba Nau,
Mexico department of the American
Legion, said the twelfth annual con-
vention of the department at Tucum-
carl August 3, and 5, promises to
be the largest in the history of the
organization in the state.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the Arizona corporation commits
sion by the Northern Trust Co. of
Prescott, an investment company. W.
E. Patterson, r. S. Candit and M. E.
Darrow, all of Prescott, were incor-
porators. Capital stock is $15O,00O.
Santa Fe railroad officials an
nounced that rates on wool shipments
from Albuquerque TO Boston by rail
and water viii be cut July II from
to II cents hundred pounds. The
new rates will be effective at stations
east of Belen and also Estancia and
Moriarity.
Appointment of c. M. Stauffar,
Flagstaff business man, to the board
Of education of the Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff was an
nounced by Gov. B. b. Moeur. Stauf-
far was named after w. II. SwitZer,
also of Flagstaff, was forced to de-
cline the post.
George j. Shaughnessy, IS, was
charged with the murder of Lon
Blankenship, Tucson automobile deal
er and insurance broker, whose body
was found concealed in the under
brush of lonely canon twelve miles
north of Nogales, Ariz. Officers said
he confessed he killed Blankenship.
The Arizona tax commission ruled
that restaurants, cafes and hotel din
| ing rooms cannot charge patrons a
| tax on meals under provisions of the
privilege sales tax. These establish
ments are consumers of the products
and pay the tax when they purchase
| food materials, the commission ex-
! planned.
Tentative agreements whereby the
Indian service will construct and
maintain nearly all of the roads to
nearby Indian agencies through extep-
sion of reservation boup5aties to
within a few miles of Gallup, N. M,
were announced by Frank S. Law
renee, president of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Red man to govern red man is the
goal established by John Collier, new
Indian commissioner. Collier, attend
ing the Navajo tribal council sessions
at Fort Wingate, N. M, told the In
dians he hoped to see the time when
all employees Of the Indian service
even to the Indian commissioner
would be composed of red men. His
program, he said, was aimed at decen-
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