The Coolidge examiner., 1935-09-27
Southwestern Briefs

Production Credit Corporation AZ the
beginning Of September
The office Of Senator Carl a. Hatch
has been advised o, works progress
approval Of three projects fer New
Mexico Normal University. Icvolving
a total Of y325i6.
Calling for construction OF q mu.
nicipal auditorium. with a seating On.
pacity Of $500 at city park. Prescott.
Ariz. has applied for $4,000 IN works
progress administration funds
The department OF agriculture has
reported excellent haryests OF eight
farm crops that are being grown in
Arizona. They are corn. oats alfalfa
hay. wild hay. beans. potatoes. apples
and pears.
The L. S. bureau Of reclamation has
received an allotment Of $4,000 600
from the public works fund to begir.
construction OF the first unit OF the
ella valley reclamation project in
southwestern Arizona.
Indian service offices at Gallup. y.
NJ have announced that Herman
Eogard. former superintendent OF the
EuCheef Indian school al Sapulpa.
Okla. viii head the Charles +. Burke
Indian school at Fort Wingate this
year
Coltax county livestock men viii
meet in Ration. y. ~ Sept. Is to hear
addresses by James X. Wallace OF
the United States Bureau OF Agricul-
tural Economics. and Dr. W. l.. Black.
extension livestock specialist for New
Mexico.
Two specimens OF the kaibab squir-
rel existent only in the northern Art
zona forest Of that name. have been
presented TO the University OF Arizona
department OF entomology and eco
nomic zoology b. the State Fish and
Game Commission
Or. Elwood Mead. reclamation com
missioner. comforting at Yuma with
officials OF Arizona irrigation projects.
said that work on the Roza division
Of the Yakima valley, Washington.
project. for which s5.000.000 has been
allocated. cannot be started in less
than ninety days.
Initial work on the ella Valley rec
larnation project near Parker. Ariz..
viii be the construction of n connect
Ing nume between the proposed I'm
pcriai dam on the Colorado river and
the main project canal and the begin
ming OF excavations FOR the main canal.
according TO L. 5. reclamation en-
gineers.
Allotments for the various counties
In New Mexico for student aid from
the national youth administration
have been announced by Tom Pope
Joy. assistant director. AZ Albuquer.
que the aid. S. per month. applies to
students from families on relief. and
applications must be made direct to
the school principal
Health budgets already have been
established In twenty-nine Of the thir.
ty-one counties In New Mexico. ac-
cording TO Chief Tax Commissioner
Byron o Beall The total for health
budgets SO far is SiS7.47S The health
budgets have been set up under proyi-
sions OF the health legislation passed
by the last legislature.
4 small valley fair at which prod
ucts OF the Middle Rio Grande Valley
VIII be exhibited will be held in con
junction with the fiesta and rodeo at
socorro. y. NJ. Sept. 2S-2g, II has been
announced. II Is hoped that the small
fair viii be the foundation for a larger
fair next year and possibly a part OF
a state fair al Albuquerque.
Phoenix. Ariz., fan dancers are go
ing 10 wear more clothes or Sheriff
J. r. McFadden is going to put them
in Jail-fans and all. The Maricopa
county sheriff. after touring the night
clubs and casting critical eye on the
emulators OF Sally Rand. announced
that henceforth fan dancers win wear
two-piece costumes or will go 10 Jail.
A large number OF infant and pre-
school clinics are being organized in
the Las Vegas district. according to
DR.. ". w. Johnston. district health OF.
hcer. who stated much OF the alarm
Ing diseases among infants may be
checked through these clinics. Such
clinics will be organized where a coun-
~ nurse or other help is available.
Dr. Johnston said.
Discovery of an underground cere-
monial room. first found in central or
southern Arizona and described as "a
direct ancestor Of the Hopi Kiya," has
been reported by Dr. Byron Cummings
OF the University OF Arizona upon his
return from the Kinishba pueblo, To-
Gated in east-central Arizona on the
Apache Indian reservation. where he
has directed summer excavation ac-
tivities by twenty-six archaeology stu
dents and twenty-seyen Indian helpers.
Old Timers Day on Friday, Oct. 4,
at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair,
to be held at Roswell oct. 2. 3, 4 and
>. will be more spectacular than ever
before. Those whom have been in
New Mexico thirty years or longer.
many OF them dressed as they did
when they came TO the territory, will
ride in the morning parade on chuck