The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-01
Southwestern Briefs


Eloy district
The department OF agriculture has
estimated that Arizona's 1885 hay crop
viii average rs tons per acre and will
total $4,000 tons
United States Senator Carl Hayden
has opened an office Ia Phoenix. He
viii remain In Phoenix unta after
Christmas. when he will 20 20 Wash.
ington for the opening ot Congress
January I.
According 10 Gilbert r. r. Howell
assistant chief engineer OF the soil
erosion control project on the Navajo
reservation In northern Arizona. 1000
men are engaged in soil conservation
in the southwest.
Total enrolment at the University
Of New Mexico is now 1885. accord
ing to Mrs Alice o. Greiner. registrar.
This Is i26 more students than were
registered at the end of the first
semester last year
Although the state relief act pro-
vided 100000 year for the bureau
ot child welfare in New Mexico. the
bureau has a budget OF only s27.50O a
year. according to Mrs. Irene Farm
ham Conrad. director
More than 10000 sheep have been
sent from northern Arizona ranges to
the salt River valley TO be fattened
for the 1886 market. according to Jer-
rie W Lee. secretary OF the Arizona
Wool Growers Association.
Isidro Sandoyal. wealthy Albuquer-
que sheepman. recently decided real
estate valued at $50 600 to Archbishop
Rudolph A. Gcrkin OF the Santa Re
diocese Of the Catholic church. records
Of the Bernalillo county clerks office
reveal
The New Mexico Works Progress
Administration has announced appoint
ment OF Mrs. Ina Cassidy. Santa re
writer and lecturer. as state director
OF the writer's division. professional
and service projects section of the
WPA.
Facing the Nov deadline when
the government will leave direct relief
business. New Mexico has been given
a quota OF $4,000 relief workers who
must be employed at that time. State
WPA Director Lea Rowland has an.
nounced.
Carl +. Moore Of Clovis was named
grand master OF the |. o. o. r. Grand
Lodge OF New Mexico. and Mrs Leona
Lucas Of Elida was chosen president
% the Rebekah assembly In the clos.
Ing sessions OF the annual meeting OF
the order in Clovis.
Veterans Of Foreign Wars and Amer
icau Legion are making plans for a
big Armisticc Day celebration in Ala
mogoFdo Nov. II. which will feature
a free barbecue and general picnic
with program dedicated 10 the pur.
pose Of the days eommemmoration.
Checking transactions for eleven
principal cities in Arizona in Septem-
Der amounted TO S40.9i9.st9. a gain OF
more than 81 900 900 over the total in
September. 1884. The figure also rep
resented an increase OF more than
1900 900 over transactions in August.
II. +. Anderson. formerly OF Wash.
ington. ID. c.. has been transferred 10
the Phoenix office OF the department
OF justice. according TO Cbapmon
Is the seventh agent assigned 10 the
local office since II opened last sum
mer.
With necessary funds appropriated
by the U. S. Indian service. bids will
be called soon for the not yet con-
structed structures OF the Navajo ma
tional capital near Fort Defiance on
the Arizona-New Mexico border. The
$500 900 project Is now more than two
thirds finished.
Appointment OF Charles NJ. Nor
gan. Arizona newspaper writer. as
state director OF the writer's division
OF the works progress administration.
has been announced. Under his direc-
tion Arizona data viii be complied for
an encyclopedia publication entitled
The American Guide
Regulations for Arizonas first elk
hunt. to be held in Sitgreaves National
Forest from Nov. ] TO 10. win be the
same as those applying TO big game
except that 70 rifle which propels
bullet weighing less than $50 grains
viii be permitted. State Game War
den S. l.. Lewis has announced.
The Taxpayers Association of New
Mexico has made certain compilations
OF statistics taken from the certificates
OF the state tax commission. Accord
ing to these compilations the 1895
taxes amount to s7.355.240 as COM
pared with S7,152,99O for 1934-an in
crease Of S202.250. or 2.3 per cent.
The New Mexico works progress
administration has advised Governor
Clyde Tingley that more than seventy
rural school projects now are under
way-the work including construction
Of from one to several new schools,
additions, improvements, school
ground and recreation facilities. One
project is construction of 1900 school
dauEc bts+ of IA Co.