The Coolidge examiner., 1935-03-01
Southwestern Briefs

ItffA Term OF kNf tAtf - n. ttafp per 4.
who died Jan q.
The FERA Galliuas river work prof.
&C, az Las Vegas has been halted
temporarily by local authorities due
10 lack Of funds In the budget
Bids are being advertised for cou.
struction OF new gymnasium for
Wickenburg. Ariz. Il viii be built at
an approximate cost Of Si2.500
Officials Of the First National bank
OF Roy. y. n have announced that
the accounts OF the bank would be
lIquIdatcd and the bank closed by
March 80
The Las Vegas city councilman
have authorized Mayor T. V Truder
20 make application to the federal gov.
. eminent for a loan to build a munici-
pal water plant.
S. A. Spear. state director Of the
federal housing administration. said
recently that nearly $1,000 600 has
been expended in modernizlug and re.
pairing Arizona homes
jerrio Lee. secretary OF the Arizona
Wool Growers Association. has an
nounced that clipping OF Arizona's
wool viii be delayed thirty days be-
+ cause OF statewide rains
Students at the Indian school at Al
buquerque prefer books about. or by
indians 70 any other type OF reading.
. according to Hazel Smith. Librarian of
the school Next in popularity come
mystery stories
Medicineman Becenu. who enjoyed
the title Of Judge as an honor among
his Navajo brethren in New Mexico.
much aE Kentuckians hold the title OF
colonel. is dead after a reputed life
time OF f02 years.
Framed photographs Of the ten men
who have served as presidents OF the
New Mexico State College win soop
b. placed In the Young library, ac.
cordinE to plans announced by the
Alumni Association.
The Arizona Retail Liquor Dealers
Association has re-organized into the
Arizona Enforcement Association
I Charles A. MattinEly was named pres
ident. PIN Torrey. secretary. and
I Jack Creech. treasurer.
Frank x. Goodman OF Winslow was
reelected president OF the Arizona
Z Good Roads Association at its meeting
In Phoenix Several resolutions hay.
INK important bearing on the future
I OF the state road system were passed.
Miss Adelaide Gee. who was recent.
~ made head OF the San Miguel coun-
I ~ FERA social service division. has
been transferred TO the child welfare
organization in Santa Fe. according
10 J A. Garner. acting field supervisor
( for FERA
Resolutions urging additional fed.
eral funds for highway construction
/ In Arizona and asking the Legislature
TO turn back TO the counties that por.
/ ton Of the state gasoline tar appropri.
ated for relief purposes. has been
adopted BY the Arizona Good Roads
I Association.
Arizona county school superintend.
I ents held a three-day conference in
| Phoenix last week The County School
Superiutendents' Association had a
/ one-day meeting and the rest OF the
[ time the superintendents spent in con.
/ ference with officials Of the State De
I partment Of Education.
Z With the passage by the Legislature
I of Senate bill 81. New Mexico may
start preparations for its greatest na.
7 lional. and even international. celebra
I tion-the 400th anniversary OF the ar.
rival in New Mexico OF Francisco Vas
quez de Coronado. Governor Clyde
I Tingley has announced
1 Plans are being formulated al Por
I tales for the erection OF a new city
hall. comprising a fire department
I city jail. police court, county circulat
I ing library and museum. officials have
announced The city is TO supply
/ funds to the exte4lt Of S25,000, the
FERA to furnish the necessary labor.
Things are looking up for farmers
and liyestockmen in the Rio Grande
\ Valley. A CHEEKY note is sounded in
report OF the L. S. weather bureau,
Albuquerque. for the upper Rio Grande
watershed, showing the January fall
/ TO be about normal and the total snow.
fall in the higher elevations about
twice that OF last year
/ Contributions to science in 1894 by
I three professors Of the University OF
/ Arizona are recognized in the World
Almanac for 1885. The men honored
are: DR.. A. Z. Douglass, head of the
department of astronomy; DR.. Edwin
f. Carpenter. associate professor OF
astronomy, and DR.. Ansel F. Hemen.
way, professor of botany.
p. H. Ross, director of the agricul.
tural extension service Of the Univer.
/ sity OF Arizona, has issued statement
clarifying the position OF Pima cotton
under the cotton acreage reduction
program Of the government. DR.. Ross
said it should be distinctly understood
that under the adjustment program,
Pima cotton is in the same class ex.
/ octIy ghor4 ootfop