The Coolidge examiner., 1935-04-26
Southwestern Briefs

of Great Britain. was n Santa Fe
visitor recently.
A S55 900 bond issue for the con-
struction OF municipal hospital at
Silver City. n. NJ. was voted in the
city election. f. w. Ward was re-
elected mayor.
s. L. Lewis. state game warden. an
nounced recently that more than 600.-
600 fish have been planted in the
lakes and streams OF Arizona since
last September.
The fourth annual New Mexico Unit
yersiiy banquet will be held April &c,
according 10 Or. H. c. Gossard. presi.
dent OF the institution. The affair this
year is TO be given In honor OF Dean
T. G. Rogers.
The Dona Ana County Relief Admin
istrution at Las Cruces. y. NJ, has
completed moving into its addition. the
building to which the finishing touches
have been put. adjacent to the Bran
nigan Memorial Library.
Figures have been released on gaso-
line and land revenues for New Mex.
lco. each showing an increase for
March. Gasoline tax collections this
March were $3.50, ,26IO9 as against
Si79,242 80 last year.
approximately Ss,546.OOO will be
available to Arizona for road construc.
ton and grade crossing elimination
under President Roosevelt's work re-
lief measure. II was estimated by state
highway officials
The Arizona state board OF educa-
tion ruled that examinations on the
constitutions of Arizona and ths
United States for applicants for teach
ers' certificates will be offered only
twice a year in the future.
According to State Land Commits.
sioner Frank vesely the states income
from oil and gas rentals win pass the
million dollar mark for the current
fiscal year. For the last year they
totalled SSlosi217. he said.
Any program the Department OF the
Interior has for expansion OF federal
irrigated projects will receive the co.
operation OF Governor Moeur. of
Arizona. he said in a telegram to In
terror Secretary Harold l.. Ickes.
Albert Gonzales. blind student at the
New Mexico A. & NJ. college at Las
Cruces. this spring will achieve his
ambition-a college education. He
win be the first blind student ever
issued a certificate OF graduation at
the college.
The New Mexico state police force
will be increased TO twenty-five mem
bers. Gov Clyde Tingley has an
nounced. A larger police force, he
said. would eliminate necessity for
calling out the national guard In local
disturbances.
The Future Farmers OF America
held their state convention at the Uni
yerslty OF Arizona in Tucson. April 5
and 6. representatives OF seventeen
Arizona chapters gathered from high
schools In the state where vocational
agriculture is taught.
Arlzona's first two shipments OF
spring lambs TO the Kansas City mar.
kets brought top prices for the season
this week. A flock OF 539 lambs. aver
aging eighty-seyen pounds each, was
sold by the Ryan Sheep Company of
Phoenix for 50 per hundredweight.
Led by Attorney General Frank H.
Patton. axe swinging state police
smashed gambling equipment in eight
clubs and pool rooms at Gallup, N. NJ.
recently. The attorney general. armed
with an axe. joined in chopping up slot
machines and sundry gaming devices.
Albuquerque will be host to the New
Mexico Nurses Association at their
state convention May 2, and T. Ma.
| tional speakers will be Miss Ethel
Swope OF the American Nursing Asso-
citation. and Miss Evelyn Davis OF the
National Public Health Nursing Asso-
citation.
Selling OF firearms and ammunition
to Indians Is unlawful, John L. Sulli.
van, attorney general, has advised
George Wrench, president of the Wins.
low Ariz., Game Protective Associa.
ton. Wrench asked the attorney gen.
eral for an opinion as to whether il
was lawful to sell Indians who are
wards of the government firearms or
ammunition.
Gov. Il. B. Moeur wouldn't have the
governorship of Arizona two years
hence even II the state was thrown in
TO boot he told delegates to the Ari-
zona encampment of the United
Spanish War veterans in Phoenix. "If
my friend Mayor Jenckes (Joseph S.
Jenckes of Phoenix) is in that race, be
won't find me in his way the gov
ernor said in declaring he would not
seek third term.
Gov. Clyde Tingley said he would
hang out the welcome sign, pointed
Hollywood way. "The movies are wei.
come to set up shop in New Mexico, -
/ he said. IF they decide to move east