The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-15
Southwestern Briefs

Wien 6SF6Idl EdIS0 PSTullS were IS
sued.
Relief allotments to states for No
vember, announced by Relief Admins.
traitor Harry Hopkins, included New
Mexico, 100000.
Building permits issued by the city
of Phoenix so far this year more than
treble permits issued for the same pc
riod year ago, according to Thomas
j. Elliott, state director of the federal
housing administration.
Harold Collins, Tucson postmaster.
has been appointed member of the
State Fair Commission by Governor
Moeur. Collins will succeed the late
Nose Drachman of Tucson. His term
will end in January, 1886.
Increase in gasoline tax collections
in New Mexico during the last fiscal
year is approximately three times the
increase throughout the entire nation,
according to figures being compiled by
the state tourist bureau.
Fay Guthrie of Tucumcari has been
appointed as state administrator of
the relief and social security author
ity. Guthrie, district WPA admin
istrator at Deming, formerly was in
charge of the Quay county relief ad.
ministratiOn.
Sales a1lotments will be issued TO
Arizona potato growers, beginning
next month, as a part of the national
AAA control program, it was an
nounced by A. B. Ballantyne, sociolo-
gist for the University of Arizona agri-
cultural extension service.
The election of Mrs. Ruth L. Gordon
of Yuma as president for the coming
year and selection of Prescott as the
meeting place in 1886, the Arizona
State Nurses Association brought its
two-day seventeenth annual state
convention to a close in Globe.
President Roosevelt has approved
ALLEGATION of $150,000 for construction
of National Guard armories in five
Arizona cities, Adj. Gen. Oscar +. TEN
pie has announced. The armories will
be constructed at Prescott, Yuma,
Chandler, Tempe and Buckeye.
Delinquent taxes amounting to ap-
proximately $11,50 have been. collect.
ed by the City of Prescott, Arizona,
within the last three months. The col
lections represent about one-third OF
the city's overdue taxes, according to
Charles H. Hayes, deputy collector.
Work has been started on the ST.,
600 improvements on the Nogales,
Ariz., high school grounds, which In
cludes the transformation cf the hill
near the high school building into a
large concrete stadium, the building
of road and the control Of drainage
Revenue from sales tax in Arizona
on September business, collected il
October, amounted to $209,372.5S, OF
SIS, ,S9S.S9 more than was collected on
August sales, it has been announced
Sales tax collected since May l, when
the new law went into effect, totals
S1,OO1, ,76O.47.
Three new members have been ap
pointed to the staff of the metallurgi.
cal division of the United States bu
reau of mines southwest experiment
station at the University of Arizona
They are G. w. Marks, assistant chem
list; p. NJ. Ambrose, junior chemist,
and a. H. Robertson, junior chemist.
New Mexico has more clients under
the. rural rehabilitation program than
have California, Utah, Arizona and
Nevada combined and almost as many
as all of these plus Colorado. There
are about $500 clients in the state
now and under the presidents order,
if funds are made available, 10000
more will be added to the rolls.
The debating teams of the State
Teachers College at Flagstaff have
been selected for this year. The first
four ranking debaters were Arman Pc
tersoh, Flagstaff; Reed Freeman,
Snowflake; Olga Kulinovich. Bisbee,
and Jeanne Larson, Lakeside. Peter
son and Freeman will compete in the
Western States tourney at San Fran
cisco.
Apparently no one wants to con-
struct a gymnasium and Two class
rooms as an addition to the Fredonia
school at Flagstaff. Trustees of the
district have advertised three times
for bids on the work, for which $14,'
900 has been set up. The first time
the lowest bid was $4,000 and on the
other two occasions no bids were re-
ceived. Believing the approach of
winter has discouraged contractors,
the trustees have asked permission to
delay the project until next spring.
Appointment of several assistants in
rural resettlement work at Tucson
have been announced by ]. A. Wal
dron, director Of the rehabilitation di-
vision of the rural resettlement ad-
ministratiOn for Arizona. Appoint
ments We're: w. E. Webb of Globe,
assistant director; John A. Malone,
Phoenix, farm management super
visor; Mrs. Marion Burns, Tucson,