The Coolidge examiner., 1935-07-19
Southwestern Briefs


month OF IT'S operation. tie state tax
commission has announced
The army post al Fort Bliss. Texas.
+ is expected 10 secure all its soldierr
from the states OF Arizona. New Mex.
leo and West Texas: an area known
as the Fort Bliss recruiting district.
The state gasoline tax division an
uounccd that gas tax collections In
New Mexico during June totaled S252.
/ if6 s.. an increase Of $2G.l95.lS over
( the 1925. .s5i 50 collected in June. 1884.
The Retail Credit Association Of
Gallup, y. NJ. tops all branches of
4 the National Retail Credit Association
. in the United States for increase iu
membership. according to word re
ceiYed by II. e. Clausuer. secretary.
The new Sl5o.090 highway from No.
gales. Ariz. TO the Santa Cruz river
has been opened for traffic. according
. 20 announcement by the state T. ;hway
department The new road brings the
river within five miles of Nogalcs.
Capt. William Fisk. OF Fort Sam
Houston. Texas, has been appointed
junior instructor OF the Arizona M.
ioual guard. succeeding Capt r. r.
Duff who has been transfer q TO the
army's war college In Washington
4 bit OF Arizona earth from the
Grand Canyon viii be used to help
build memorial mound at Gracow.
Poland. and an earthen jar created
by a Hopi Indian will occupy an hon
ored niche there.
The University OF Arizona board Of
regents had on deposit today In the
Bank OF Arizona at Prescott S20O 00C
worth OF bonds covering the first In
stalIment Of PWA money to be used
in the construction program at the
institution
Presaging the shift to its new $500
900 offices at Nee Alneeng. Ariz.. the
u S Indian service recently besa
moving from its temporary Naval,
agency offices In Gallup. y. NJ. ACCORD
inE 10 Supt. G. 4. Trotter. executiy,
assistant for the new agency
SIX appointments TO the University
OF Arizona faculty have been approved
By the board OF regents. They 90
clude DR. Louise Otis. Elmer Bladlow
DR. Russell e. Ewing. Sara " Luies
A. J Thompson and Joseph Arnold
Requests from forty.six states and
five foreign countries have been ~
eciyed By the Sew Mexico state tour
isi bureau for booklets. IL was an
nounced by Gov Clyde Tingley. Dur
lnR a three weeks period. 21l6 re-
quests were received for literature
hc said.
The New Mexico Cattle Growers As
soclaiion has asked in a resolution
sent the relief administration that al
relief cattle now pastuTing In Mexico
be slaughtered for relief 10 avoid con
fusion over return OF the cattle wear.
ing brands Of many New Mexico
ranches
Arizona viii get S25.S75 as its share
of the SIS 900 900 TO be divided by the
government among the states on a ba.
sls Of farm population TO encourage
tkniffA AAAFF Ak FAAAk4A az FAAEuEAnN
wurk The amount will be Increased
S3.23i annually until the total appro.
9riation for the states reaches $i2..
GOO 600
Crops In the New Mexico irrigated
districts are more promising than us
8al cantnloupes. vegetables and cot
ION IN the southwest cotton, alfalfa,
truii and vegetation In the southeast
head lettuce and other vegetables ~
lhc north. and beans in the Estancia
Apparently there is water enough for
ghe season.
one Of Tombstone's most noted
landmarks. its first posioffice. will
fan before the advance OF modernism.
The building viii be razed TO make
say for a garage. Passing Of the post
office will be mourned by Mrs iona
than Gordon. who in 1898 became the
first postmislTess OF Tombstone. She
gtill lives In Tombstone.
The pony express still rides in Ari.
2oua. The isolated Galluro Noun.
aims OF Southern Arizona. has with
stood the advance OF modern trans
portatlon, and still carries the mail to
Sombrero Butte. Brought to Tucson
By air and train, the mail is sent to
Mammoth by carrier. and from there
70 Copper Greek by motorized stage,
thence by cowboy TO Sombrero Butte.
Marcus Krupp. son of Councilman
and Mrs Maurice Krupp of Miami,
Ariz-. has been appointed anatomy in
structor at Stanford University for
the present summer session, the school
year beginning October l and for the
summer session next summer. A sec
ond year student in the Stanford Med
ical school, the Miami youth is consid-
cred one of the most brilliant students
in the university.
Inspectors have been named for four
New Mexico port of entry stations re-
Gently authorized by the bureau of
revenue. The inspectors: Carlsbad
Stanley W. Barker. Artesia; William
B. Grammer. Carlsbad; George Turner
CarriZozo. Jal: F. W. Love. Loving
ton; Therman Rogers, Hobbs; Mike