The Coolidge examiner., 1934-07-13
Southwestern Briefs

county treasurer's office at Fort Sum
uer.
Buying OF cattle by the agricultural
adjustment administration has started
In southern Arizona. according TO DR..
George W. Barr. acting director in the
state
The government has allotted an ad-
diuonal 800 900 to Arizona for relief
OF farmers. Florence NJ. Warner. Ari-
zoua federal emergency relief admin.
istrator. has been advised.
An exhaustive statistical investiga-
ton is being made OF the labor and
unemployment condition in Mckinley
county upon instructions OF the Nc
Kinley County Welfare Association.
Tax collections remltted to the state
treasury for the month OF May totaled
approximately sl0S.000. which is below
average collections. According to re-
ports reaching the statehouse. June
collections will be unusually heavy.
The Arizona highway patrol heads
the list OF states in excellent work
during the past year. according TO
word received by Gov. y. r. Moeur
from c. +. Cline. Los Angeles. special
agent OF the national automobile theft
bureau.
Miss Emma butcher Of Prescott,
Ariz.. was named chairman for 1884
35 OF the west central region OF the
National Federation OF Business and
Professional Womens Club in Joint
convention at Yellowstone Park with
the western region.
The Navajo Indian exhibit from New
Mexico at the Century of Progress con
sists OF a rug weaver. silversmith and
a sand painter who left recently for
Chicago in charge OF Col. B. l. Staples
Of Coolidge. president OF the Indian
Traders Association
For the first time In many years,
ella county. Arizona. heads have been
able 10 return money to the general
fund v c. Murphy. clerk of the
board Of supervisors. said S7,i00.95 has
been returned To the general fund
from the I933-34 budget
Threat OF the Indians at Isleta to
dam one Of the big conseryaney drain
age bitches 10 obtain water for the
parched crops on the west side OF the
Rio Grande was averted when con
,.,-,.rr...- ,,ffIof.Eg ..oraaI 20 t,arr,,ff fba
indians to take water from the ditch.
Edward l. Sweeney. Phoenix. Ariz-,
consulting mining engineer. said re
bently that enactment OF the initiative
constitutional amendment TO place q
production tar on copper mined in the
state viii result In cessation OF copper
mining In Arizona and force other
classes Of property 10 bear "A heavier
tar burden.
Levy on cattle and horses for the
is34-s5 fiscal year. beginning July l,
was cut to four mills from four and
one-half mills by the New Mexico state
cattle sanitary board. The board also
I elected ". A. Atkinson OF Corona as
/ president TO succeed the late Tom p.
Tale OF vermijo Park.
After strenuous work, farmers com.
+ pleted a big ditch across the Rio
/ GFande just north OF the old Albu.
7 querque bridge. and had water from
I the east side conservancy drain flow.
I ing toward their parched crops. The
I 200 men. striving 10 beat drouth. per
formed an almost superhuman job in
record time.
Drouth conditions in New Mexico
counties are much worse than reports
carried in newspapers. according to
Homer Powers. state and regional
\ FERA director. Powers recently made
a checkup OF conditions which resulted
in addition OF Torrance county &c
emergency relief designations by the
federal government
Gov b. b. Moeur received a telegram
from members Of the Arizona congres.
sional delegation saying early consid.
Grafton Of joint application OF Cover.
nor Moeur and Governor Hockenhull
OF New Mexico. for establishment OF
a federal erosion control project on
the ella river in Arizona and New Mex.
leo has been promised
Five unemployed Arizona teachers
were named to take the workers edu.
cation teacher-training course at Occi.
dental college. Los Angeles, in July
under the joint auspices OF the ERA
and the state department OF education.
Florence NJ. Warner, Arizona fed.
eral emergency relief administrator,
has announced that the government
has allotted an additional 100000 TO
Arizona for relief OF farmers, as dis
tinguished from cattlemen.
The following hostesses have been
named TO serve one month each, with
out salary. at New Mexico's exhibit at
the Century Of Progress in Chicago /:
Mrs. Grace George of Tucumcari; Mrs.
Manor d. MCGEE of Las Cruces Miss
Betty Hensley Of Portales; Miss vir-
ginia Woods Of Artesia, and Miss Mary
Pollard OF Ration. Wilson Pollard of