The Coolidge examiner., 1935-03-15
Southwestern Briefs

/ BOARD was approved al meeting or
the board in Phoenix.
Roswell will be host to the annual
Growers Association and the New
Mexico Wool Growers Association the
/ latter part OF March.
Polo teams from the Los Angeles
/ Junior Chamber of Commerce and the
/ Hollywood movie colony competed in
the southwestern polo championship
/ tournament. held at Phoenix.
Planting OF 1000 bass and blue gills
in Clear creek. in Arizona, has been
reported by George Wrench. state
game commissioner. The fish were
supplied from the Papago fish hatch
cry.
/ Written into the general appropria
! tion bin after II came out OF the com.
mittee are appropriations OF nearly
/ s250.o00 for the New Mexico state po-
lice, an organization to supplant the
New Mexico motor patrol.
Forest grazing policies. marketing
and truck control legislation will be
among the many problems of interest
to New Mexicos livestock interests
that VIII be discussed at the associa.
tion's annual convention in Roswell
l March %.
The twelfth annual Arizona state
/ DeMolay conclaye was held in Phoe-
nix. with approximately 800 members
in attendance. One of the most i'm
portant items OF business before the
conclaye was the drafting of new
state constitution.
Appointments to two boards of re-
gents OF New Mexico educational in
stitutions were recently confirmed by
the State Senate. The appointments
were TO the board OF regents at New
Mexico teachers school and the New
Mexico military institute.
Miss Janet Koyolscheck. district
supervisor OF social relief work for
New Mexico. who replaced Miss Zoe
Seator as acting social division super
visor OF Dona Ana county, has taken
over her new duties. pending an
nouncement of a permanent appointee.
The University of Arizona expert
mental farms claimed a world record
for high cotton production per acre.
over as bales DR.. Ralph S. Hawkins.
head OF the agronomy department.
said he did not believe there is like
record for the United States or abroad.
The United States government, un.
der its rural rehabilitation program.
Is now engaged in transplanting III
families from marginal lands at Cra-
ter. a few miles west OF Las Cruces.
/ n. ~, TO other regions where they
VIII have better chance to make a
/ living.
ALLEGATION OF $4,000 TO New Mex.
ico and Arizona for additional work on
Indian irrigation projects already un-
der construction. has been reported by
H. e. Neuffer. supervising engineer
for the Indian irrigation service New
/ Mexico projects receive about s72,700
of the total
The new Fred Harvey Bright Angel
hotel. the site of which is on the south
rim OF this national park IN Grand
Canyon village. is now approximately
80 per cent complete, according to re-
ports from Myers Brothers, contrac-
tors erecting the new hostelry for the
Harvey Company.
Full control and management OF the
hydro-electric plant TO be developed
from enlargement of the proposed
/ Caballo dam in New Mexico, should
be vested in the bureau OF reclamation,
Department OF the Interior. irrigation.
reclamation and farm officials, in ses.
sion at Las Cruces. agreed.
With ceremonies OF stately splendor,
the bodies of two Franciscan fathers
who more than century ago built
the mission of San Xavier del Bac.
ten miles south OF Tucson, Ariz., were
transferred forty miles from the
abandoned Tumacacori mission to new
graves in the floor of San Xayier's
chapel.
New Mexico is facing one of the
biggest shortages of good seed in his
tory and some counties have absolute
ly no planting seed of the principal
crops grown locally. says G. r. Que
senberry Of the New Mexico State Col
lege. These conditions make 1t neces-
sary to use the best seed that can be
found in the state.
The Scott's Basin cattle killer, near
Prescott 200-pound mountain lion.
nine feet long-has at last been laid
low by Giles Goswick, predatory ami
NAL hunter, and his pack of hounds.
Sought the last two years, the big
killer was shot from cedar tree after
1t had been tracked more than forty
miles on a three-day hunt.
The Coconino, Ariz., county plan
ming board has sent to Howard s.
Reed of Phoenix, state PWA engineer.
applications for federal aid on approx
mately 81 1925 900 of new projects, COM
prising school improvements, new paw