The Coolidge examiner., 1934-10-19
Southwestern Briefs

John +. Miles. Democratic state
chairman. was reelected at n recent
meeting OF the New Mexico state cen
trail committee.
p. l.. Rapkoch was reelected state
chairman AT a recent meeting OF the
new New Mexico Republican state cen
trail committee.
The Arizona State Highway Com
mission recently awarded contracts
aggregating S352.754.76 for road work
on L. S. Highway 60 and sc.
( Saturday classes have been organ
: ICED at Normal University for the pur-
pose OF accommodating persons who
are unable 10 attend during the week.
/ Establishment OF a temporary patrol
station at Douglas. Arizona. to make
traffic survey Of that section OF U. S.
7 so was ordered by the state highway
department..
The Hardesty Manufacturing Com
pany OF Denver was low bidder for
supplying and installing two steel
slphons for the Fruitland irrigation
+ project near Pennington. ~ NJ.
I The purchase OF cattle under the
federal drought relief program sent
cattle shipments from New Mexico
districts in August TO lG4.3S4. accord.
ing to the State Cattle Sanitary Board
The duck season in New Mexico win
I commence the 18th and 14th OF Oc-
tober. with two days q week. Saturday
and Sunday Of each week, until Janu.
AIRY -. Hunters are urged to put a 81
duck stamp on their license.
The New Mexico State Cattle Grow
ers' Association has been advised by
+ the Interstate Commerce Commission
I that special rates on feed and cattle
shipped to pasture win be reinstated
for the remainder OF the year.
The Nogales. Ariz.. American Legion
drum and bugle corps. which has only
/ been organized sixty days. won fourth
/ place In the state drum and bugle
corps contest In the annual competi-
ton at the state Legion convention in
Tucson.
Pennington. n. n. with a stock
yards. canning factory and meat pack
1 Ing plant, is seeking TO be the center
Of the processing OF Navajo goats and
sheep bought under the range control
and drought relief program. It was
learned recently.
The Arizona Supreme Court in re-
cent open session administered the
oath OF office 10 the ten persons who
passed the state bar examinations last
June. The ten. only ones to pass out
Of class OF forty candidates. all are
graduates Of the University OF Arizona.
Governor b. B. Moeur OF Arizona has
| been notified that the American Min
| ing Congress meeting in San Fran
cisco has adopted a resolution favor
ing "a permanent copper tariff ade-
quate to preserve fully al all times the
domestic copper market for domestic
copper producers"
The New Mexico relief administra-
tion has approved project providing
for the cutting OF wild vegetation to
/ furnish food for cattle In Union coun-
ty this winter. Soap weed, Spanish
dagger. sotol. and bear grass will be
cut and given 10 stockmen in return
for labor on other projects.
The Arizona tax commission fixed
the average tax rate for all purposes
in Arizona at S4.645 for each 500 OF
assessed valuation. The total amount
to be raised for all purposes-state,
county, city and special districts--was
set at s16,576.161. The total assessed
valuation OF the state is S356.7s3, ,6S7.
Achievement tests will be available
TO elementary school pupils after No
vember l, according to Herman K. |
Hendrix. Arizona state superintendent
OF public instruction. The tests are
given for the purpose OF enabling edu |
Gators to outline a better guidance
program for the school and Individual |
pupil.
All AANlt Ds H. CAAcA5t tA94 A@NA
tural agent OF Colfax county. New
Mexico. and interesting pictures of
Colfax county livestock, maintain local /
interest in the twenty-eight page ami
yersary number just published b. /
Western Live Stock" This Is the
annual feeder number, beautifully
done in two colors, and devoted to the
feeders and breeders.
T. r. Swift. supervisor OF the Tonic
national forest in Arizona, has an
nounced there will be plenty of tur
keys in the forest this season. The
dry summer was favorable for the
growth OF the young turkeys, Swift
said. Few of them caught colds TO
which, he said, they are very sus
ceptibIe The turkey season opens on
October Is and continues through to
November Is.
Efforts now are being made to get
the federal government interested in