The Coolidge examiner., 1934-01-26
Southwestern Briefs

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lege. Miss Ashby is a graduate of
Grinnell College, Iowa, and has mas
ter's degree from the University of
Arizona
More than half of the registered
unemployed in Mohave county have
been given work through the federal
re-empioyment agency in Kingman,
Ariz., and opening of additional fed
eral projects in this district is ex-
pected to- further deplete the unem-
ployed rolls.
Chiropractors from all parts of Ari-
zOna attended the eleventh annual
convention of the Arizona Chiroprac-
tic Association, Inc, which was held
recently in Phoenix. The convention
was addressed by several widely
known men of the profession from
other states.
That at least one project under the
c w A public works of art fund will be
assigned to the Ration public library
was indicated in newspaper stories in
Santa Fe papers recently, listing the
Ration library in the buildings which
are to be embellished and stating that
!. Charles Berninghaus had been as
signed to the work here.
Following a careful survey of the
situation with a representative of the
New Mexico State Board of Liquor
U Control tpin
Truder issued a general order to the
sheriff and chief of police, closing all
! places where beer and other bever-
ages are now sold without application
1 for license being made.
| The Toyrea Packing Company. re-
Gently given the contract to supply
the Federal Surplus Relief Corpora
tion with 100000 pounds of cooked
and canned roast beef, is now buying
cattle all over the state of Arizona
for this purpose. Thirty-five hundred
/ head of cattle between the ages of
/ two and five are needed.
The New Mexico State Supreme
/ Court has upheld constitutionality of
the oil severance tax. Referendum
action on the measure, the decision
said, was not effective since the tax
was placed in immediate effect by an
/ emergency clause. The high court
also found that the tax was an Eek
cise' and not a property tax.
! F. NJ. Arker, supervisor in charge
of Indian emergency conservation
work in the sixth area, charged in
Santa Fe recently that Indians are
/ being openly sold liquor at Gallup in
| violation of federal law, and said il
/ the citizens, officials and operators of
/ drinking places in Gallup do not clear
up the situation Gallup will not be-
come capital of the Navajo reserva-
/ tions.
approximately $500 livestock men
/ from all parts of the West attended
what was probably the most impor-
| tant convention in the history of the
American National Livestock Associ
alton in Albuquerque last week. Prob
lens of cyerproduction and how to
raise cattle prices that are not meet
/ ing the growers cost of production
were among the most important topics
of discussion.
c. Z. Mauldin, business manager OF
| the State Highway Department, re
Gently reported to the State Highway
/ 4 1fccf ion Ir he
department to a $1,25O, 100 budget for
! 1884, or a sum within it's income
Mauldin's resignation as business
manager was before the commission
but had not been acted on. R. l.
Ormsbee, former deputy treasurer
has taken over Mauldin's duties.
Loans and grants totaling $735,OOC
were made recently by the public
works administration to Phoenix
Ariz.. for sanitary and storm sewers
Action at Gallup, N. M, might well
be followed throughout the state, ac
cording to E. X. Neumann, state at
| torney general, and members of the
| State Liquor Control Board, in that
the legal liquor dealers of that town
have formed an association to combat
the bootlegger.
High commendation for the work
being done at the state penitentiary
/ by Warden A G. Walker, was made
in report to Gov. B. B. Moeur by
the special legislative investigating
committee. Aside from recommend
ing the construction of juvenile peni
Tertiary within the walls of the "big
house." and a few minor changes in
the prison hospital, the committee re
port stated that institution was found
to be in very good condition
Lettuce growers and shippers of the
Yuma, Ariz., section will cooperate
with Imperial valley growers in a
campaign of production curtailment
to be launched with view to increas
ing prices. While the local shippers
will not be a party to the Imperial
agreement, which calls for reducing
| shipments to just the amount required
by the eastern market, they will CO