The Coolidge examiner., 1935-09-13
Southwestern Briefs

resigned a few days ago.
Operations on regular scale will be.
gin at the New Cornelia copper mines
OF the Phelps Dodge Corporation here.
with nearly 1000 men returning 10
work
The contract for the 1886 Arizona
automobile license plates has been
awarded by the state highway commits.
sion TO Grimm Stamp and Badge Com.
pany OF ST. Louis
Clovis. y NJ. has filed an applica-
tion for a PWA loan and grant Of
$4,000 70 construct sewage dis.
posal plant. according 20 Edward II.
oakley. state director OF PWA.
The judgment Of the Maricopa coun-
". Ariz, Superior Court. upholding
the Constitutionality OF the states ST.
100000 luxury tax act. has been ap-
pealed TO the State Supreme Court
Widespread damage to crops and
farms may increase the damage toll
IN the Las Cruces flood TO well over
the half million mark Damage to
farm lands and crops In bona Ana
county is more than $3.50. 600. Dam
The annual Shiprock Indian Fair
viii be held oct. 24 Products Of each
section will be displayed rather than
exhibits by individual traders. The
Shiprock Fair. an annual event In
New Mexico. features Indian sports.
agricultural products and arts and
crafts products
An occupation license may be i'm
posed on a camp ground with receipts
over $1,000 per year in New Mexico.
The city OF Santa Re has filed an
application with the public works ad-
ministration for a city hall and Jail. to
cost 100000 This figure includes
grant and loan.
An application for a loan and grant
Of sss.6 for Eastern New Mexico
Junior College al Portales has been
approved. according to Edward II.
Oakley. state PWA director The
money will be used for an administra'
ton building. S37. .63s OF which viii
be an outright grant and $4,000 a
loan
The Arizona state highway depart.
meut recently purchased a summer re-
sort lodge In the White mountains.
near Alpine. but 1t won't be used for
recreauonal purposes. The lodge. for
which the state paid $4,000. will be
turned into a highway maintenance
camp on State Route 81. the Coronado
Trail.
A six.foot wall OF water. surging re-
lentle8sly from a cloudburst in the
Dragon mountains near WillcoS.
Arir. took the lives OF four persons
and injured three others when II
lifted huge passenger.laden trans
continental bus from the road and
cafeened IL twenty-nine yards into a
telephone pole.
axe TO farm homes. as yet unesti-
mated. Will be added TO this figure.
sherIffs Of New Mexico are not en-
titled TO extra compensation for gaso-
line and oil above the six cents a mile
operating expense even though driy-
ing their own cars. according to an
opinion BY Assistant Attorney Gen
erai Quincy d. Adams.
Before a crowd OF visitors which has
virtually exhausted hotel accommoda.
tions. representatives Of twenty-five
tribes OF Indians. garbed in their col
orful tribal ceremonial regalia. pa
raded in a mile-long column at Gal
lup. y. NJ. as the opening event of
the three-day fourteenth annual inter
tribal ceremonial
ALLEGATIONS amounting TO nearly a
million dollars have been approved by
President Roosevelt from the works
relief funds for nearly half hundred
projects In New Mexico. The projects
provide for carrying out community
sanitation programs in thirty-one
counties. and for drainage and filling
OF swamps and ponds in eleven coun-
ties
A thirteen mile approach road from
Ramah 10 the FL MORO National
Monument in New Mexico is under
consideration OF the L. S. parks and
monuments service. according to John
H. Diehl. park service engineer. The
proposed plan calls for an approach
road TO be built as a relief project,
with dirt construction drainage and
grade.
September viii be designat d d
Street and Highway Safety Month
in conjunction with safety campaigns
being sponsored by the governors of
other states. Gov. Tingley OF New
Mexico announced. He urged that
service clubs and other organizations
sponsor safety programs. Motorists
should exercise special care to pre-
v~ut collisions and should drive with
ext. s.ce care on streets of cities and
in school zones, both in town and on
the highways. said the governor.
Huge weed-burning machines which
emit tongues of flame have been put
into service by the Santa Fe Railroad
TO combat the invasion of arms worms
in the Estancia Valley Disrupting
service when the locomotive wheels
lost traction as they crushed the
I hordes OF worms creeping across the