The Coolidge examiner., 1934-04-27
Southwestern Briefs


riod ended March 81. totaled $685.
+s742. a gain OF $i27.4sI.71 over the
preceding nine months.
Or. Hoyt C. Graham has been elected
president OF the New Mexico State
Teachers College by the board OF re-
gents. DR.. Grahams present contract
expires in September. At the same
time the board elected Ira l.. Wright
as board president.
l. +. Prudential. state president
Of the New Mexico state farm bureau.
announced the bureau is forming a
dairy council at the request OF dairy
men over the state ". z. Thorpe OF
Dona Ana has been named chairman:
James Bezemek, Albuquerque, vice
chairman. and James Poe. state dairy
commissioner. secretary.
March receipts Of the Arizona cor
poration commission amounted TO
S96. .2s3.i0. Il has been disclosed. bring
ing the total for the fiscal year TO
SlG6.773.55. During March the incor-
poraung division collected s3.s0350:
investment department $1,000; insur-
auce department S92.i4656. Re-de-
posits amounted to s23I54.
A supply OF sweet potato. cabbage.
egg plant. tomato. and bell-pepper.
plants. for subsistence gardens. was
received at Phoenix recently by the
Yavapai county welfare board and
was shipped TO the Verde Valley for
planting. The plants could not be
planted in Prescott or locality because
OF prevailing weather conditions.
Donald w. Mackay. former superin-
tendent of schools at Ration and now
state supervisor OF rural education.
has been named president Of the East
ern New Mexico Normal College at
Portales. Floyd D. Golden. superin-
tendent Of schools at Portales. was
appointed dean OF the college. He
will remain as head Of the Portales
school sysiem.
Arizonas first educational guidance
conference called by Herman f. Hen
dirk. state superintendent OF public
instruction. was held in Phoenix re-
Gently. All the conferences were pre-
sided over by r. W. Montgomery, su-
perintendent OF the Phoenix High
School. and were held in the house
chambers at the capitol. Educators
from all parts Of the state attended.
Officials OF the Elephant Butte irri.
cation district ia New Mexico, who
recently asked for a conference in
Washington TO discuss plans for a
three million dollar hydro-electric
power development project at Ele-
phRnt Butte and Caballo dams. have
been advised by reclamation officials
that Il is not advisable to have a con.
I ference on the proposals at this time.
DR.. Byron Cummings. University OF
/ Arizona professor OF archaeology. who
returned from an expedition into Mex.
leo. is convinced that prehistoric In
dians Of Northwest Chihuahua were
related to the Pueblo Indians Of Ari.
xona and New Mexico. DR.. Cummings
was accompanied by group of seven.
teen graduate students In archaeology
on the survey trip and covered $50
miles.
DR.. Fred ". Emerson, head Of the
botany department OF the New Mexico
Normal University. has spent some
time recently studying plant life OF
the white sands DIR. Emerson said
be was especially interested In the
growth which some OF the plants have
made TO keep their heads above the
creeping sands. He is interested in
the entire growth and expects TO re.
turn later for further study.
Deposits in state and national banks
In Arizona during the first two months
OF 1884 increased s2.sI4.3O1 over De-
cember 81. 1888. II has been revealed
by Y. c. White. state bank inspector.
Game department deputies may not
go onto an Indian reservation and
arrest either white men or Indians
for violation OF state game laws, the
Arizona attorney generals office has
I advised State Game Warden S. L.
Lewis
Selecting a site which lies in the
hollow OF a natural bowl surrounded
by huge red Navajo sandstone" cliffs.
Uncle Sam will soon begin the con-
struction Of a s950,00O capital city
for his wards, the Navajo Indians OF
northwestern New Mexico and north.
eastern Arizona This site is about
twenty-seyen miles north OF Gallup,
New Mexico. The city will be known
as Nee Alneeing." or Center of the
Navajo World"
Two important wildcat tests have
been located in eastern central New
Mexico in territory which has re-
ceived a great deal of acreage play
recently. but has had little or no active
development work. The Conquista-
dores Oil Company has located No. 1
Good. NWA SEA NEA Section 32-
5N-30E. in Roosevelt county. 1t is
understood Shell Petroleum Company
has taken up 176 leases in this county.
some Of which contain over 1000
acres