The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27
Southwestern Briefs

vention in Douglas Jan. 25.
Deric Nusbaum of Santa Fe, N. M,
is among the thirty-two Americans
awarded Rhodes scholarships for the
next three years.
During the first ten days of the
present season, Arizona shipped 937
cars of lettuce, according to A. E.
Prugh of the U. S. market news serv-
ice.
The New Mexico works progress
administration has launched a safety
campaign by pictures under the direc-
ton of w. ]. Easton, safety consult
ant for the state.
C. E. Tilford, principal of the Tomb
stone, Ariz., Union high school twen-
ty-two years, has advised the school
board that he would not be candi-
date for reelection.
C. w. Ingham, lawyer, real estate
dealer and prominent farm organiZa-
ton official, has been named to sue
ceed the late John Doan as United
States commissioner at Yuma, Ariz.
New Mexico State Game Warden FL
lott S. Barker has announced that
pike perch would be planted in Ele-
phant Butte lake and fishing of this
type might be expected next summer.
Three Arizona Scottish Rite Masons,
James r. Dunseath, Tucson; Frederick
Shaffer, Globe and Guy A. Ligon,
Phoenix, were given the honorary
thirty-third degree in special cere-
monies at Tucson.
Ross Santee, prominent writer of
Arizona cowboy stories and former
resident of Globe, will become assist
ant director of the WPA writers prof.
ect in Arizona. He will assist Charles
Morgan. director.
The works progress administration
has allotted $92,915 for improvements
at the international airport at Doug
las, Ariz. The project will furnish
employment for an average of 124
for seven months.
Another statement from the New
Mexico tourist bureau said that gaso-
line tax collections for the last fiscal
year increased 17.17 per cent. the
greatest percentage increase in any
state in the Union.
Four CCC camps in Arizona will be
abandoned in 1886, in accordance with
President Roosevelts orders reducing
the corps OO,OO0 men by July /. it
has been announced by Aaron Sitron.
procurement officer.
Enrolment in elementary schools
of New Mexico reached 1896 for the
last fiscal year, a gain over the pre-
vious year, it was announced by State
Superintendent H. R. Rodgers. Last
year the enrolment was 97,196.
Bids for construction work totaling
approximately $22O,OOO were opened
at the State Teachers College in
Tempe. Ariz. The Del E. Webb Con
struction Company of Phoenix SUBJ
mitted the low bid for erection of a
new dormitory.
Receiving their training for teach
ing, fifty students at Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff are as
sisting this quarter in teaching of
classes in the Flagstaff city school
system, under the supervision of the
trained teachers.
Arizonas potato growers will be
permitted to sell $4,000 bushels a year
more under the governments market,
ing control program thar the average
annual sales for the past six years,
according to p H Ross. director Of
the AAA in Arizona.
Twenty-Five WPA projects are now
in progress in Union county, N. NJ,
upon which approximately 72O men
are employed 1t is believed that ap-
proximately 600 more men in Union
county are eligible for work upon
such projects. should these be started.
r. w. Rudolph has been named act
ing director of commodity distribution
of the Works Progress Administration
and each month New Mexico will be
allotted necessary money to supply
food and supplies to the needy who
cannot work. Supplies will be deliv
cred by door to door system.
Dr. w. E. Rowlands Of Phoenix will
head the Hiram International, with
clubs in number of states and north
ern Mexico. the ensuing year. He was
elected master builder at the twelfth
annual convention in Phoenix and
will direct a program of expansion
during his tenure.
On a bid of $S6,32S, the William
Pepper Construction Company Phoe-
nix, was awarded the contract to build
the new Irving school at Mesa, Ariz.
The new building, replacing Mesa's
Oldest schoOlhouse, will be of brick,
one-story in height and will contain
sixteen classrooms. auditorium, of
fices and other quarters.
Eleven fires and twenty-nine false
alarms were answered by the Las
Cruces, N. M. Volunteer Fire Depart
ment from Dec l. 1884, to Nov. 80,
ri