The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-22
Southwestern Briefs

ing to Tom Smell, secretary of the
sheep sanitary board.
P. H. Ross, state AAA director, re-
ported that tax exempt potato sales
for Arizona for the year beginning
Dec. 1, total 100000 bushels.
The University of Arizona has ap-
proved six students to appear before
the Arizona state board of selection
for the 1886 Rhodes scholarship in the
southwestern U. S. district.
An ALLEGATION of 100000 for day
school Improvements on the Pima In
dian reservation at Sacaton, Ariz., has
been announced by officials of United
States Indian affairs in Washington.
More than 500 men are working on
PWA projects in six southern Arizona
counties, according to Peter Riley, di-
rector of the district. He said addi-
tional men would be put to work soon.
The Arizona State Tax Commission
has officially announced that Frank
Fraser, chief statistician, has been
named director of the state sales tax
division, succeeding the late A. L.
Frees.
]. A. Waldron, director of rural re-
Mobilization for Arizona, has an
nounced that 2,38S farm families will
be taken from the relief rolls in the
state by the rural resettlement admin
iof, ch
The real estate department of the
Wichita Federal Land Bank sold
twelve New Mexico farms during the
first ten months of this year, accord
ing to George H. Hunker, Las Vegas,
assistant to the vice president.
Work has been started on the con-
struction of a United States fish hatch.
cry in Santa Rosa, N. NJ. Adobes will
be used for the buildings on the site,
and it is understood that about twelve
spawning ponds will be constructed.
Cattle, sheep and ranges in New
Mexico are in as good and better than
the average condition for the past ten
years, and continued to improve dur
ing the month of October, according to
Fred Daniels, agricultural statistician.
New Mexico produced $4,000 bales
Of cotton in the irrigated valley re.
gions, compared with $4,000 bales last
year, tentative figures revealed in the
first comprehensive survey of the
states cotton crop and major crop
conditions
The Tiffany Construction Company,
Flagstaff, submitted a low bid of $685..
115.4S to the State Highway Depart.
ment for construction of one and one
fourth miles of new road on the Phoe.
nix-Yuma section Of U. S. Highway so
near Mohawk.
Delinquent taxes amounting to ap-
proximately $11,5O0 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.
Lea Rowland, works progress admin.
istrator for New Mexico, will have $5,.
1856 in federal funds to spread over
scores Of projects submitted under the
WPA program. Rowland will have to
select from many approved projects
only those which will tit the money
available.
The State Game Department re-.
ported one of the most successful hunt.
ing trips made this season was by four
Phoenicians in the vicinity Of General
Springs. They killed four elk, five
turkeys and two deer. The largest elk
weighed $40 pounds dressed, with a
five-foot antler spread.
The organization Of Independent
Men led the fraternities in scholastic
records Of the University of New Mex
leo for the second semester Of 1934-34,
according to average grades recently
announced. The Independents, with a
membership of 1T, recorded an aver
age Of S5.55. The fraternity grades va
ried from SAB to 1919.
C. E. Adams, state highway COM
missioner, has announced that a fourth
transcontinental highway has been
brought into Phoenix. Henceforth U.
S. 70 will cross through Arizona to Cal
ifornia from Newburn, N. c. The new
route enters the state at Franklin, in
Greenlee county, and joins U. S. 60 at
Globe. 1t covers the route formerly
designated U. S. $50, from Lordsburg
to Globe.
City schools in Bernalillo county
will receive $99,165.91 and county
schools will be allotted $57,84331 in
the current tax distribution, according
to John ]. Tierney, county treasurer
Tax collections last month totaled $751;
003.35; $912.54 was received from the
motor vehicle fund, $4,000 in the coun-
tvs share of the school fund appor-
tionment and sales tax distribution
netted the county $65,152.50.
At least six Winslow men would like
to be the man in charge of the new
postoffice, which will be ready for oc-
cupancy by the first of the year. The
appointment Of the new postmaster
will be announced soon by Mrs. Isa-