The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Southwestern Briefs

Bids for constructing the $4,5O0,000
Bartlett dam on the Verde river will
be opened in Phoenix May 16, it has
been announced.
New Mexico Oversubscribed the Red
Cross flood relief fund by % per cent,
according to information from the ma
tional headquarters.
March exports Of Arizona cattle
amounted to 21,966 head and imports
1856 head, according to the state live
stock sanitary board.
Civic organizations and business
men have united behind "city beau
tiful' campaign for Alamorgordo, spon-
sored by the Maid and Matrons" Club.
In novel departure from using con-
ventiCn routine, members of the New
Mexico Medical Association held their
final days meeting in the big room
of the Carlsbad Caverns.
New MeXico's May oil production
ALLEGATION is $4,000 barrels daily, ac-
cording to State Land Commissioner
Frank Wesley. This is an increase of
1000 barrels day over April.
Robert Dudley, Phoenix high school
student, won the Arizona Cratorical
contest in competition from six other
prep school students. Dudley spoke on
SIS Our Constitution Adequate?"
The Lee Moor Contracting Com
pany, Ell Paso, submitted the low bid
to the Arizon state highway depart
ment for grading and draining three
miles of the Holbrook-St. johns road.
George Virgins Of Union county.
| New Mexico, was appointed by the
governor to the Union county commits
sioners' board, filling the vacancy
caused by the death of Felix E. Good
son.
Skousen Brothers of Albuquerque
submitted the low bid to the Arizona
state highway department for realign-
ment CT U. S. highway so and 60
between Florence Junction and Queen
! Creek.
John Milosevich only %, is coal
miner and has been elected mayor of
Gallup, N. M. He will be the chief
official of city of 1900, and one of
the youngest mayors in the United
States.
An aerial survey of archaeological
sites along the Rio Grande from the
Colorado border to Albuquerque has
been undertaken by Frank C. Hibben
of the Department of Anthropology at:
New Mexico University.
Emilio H. Apodaca, supreme presi--
dent of the Alamo Hispano-Ameri-
cana, announced that the supreme ex-
ecutive council had selected Santa Fe,-
N. NJ, for the fraternal orders trien-
uial convention in April, 1887.
First steps in motorization of the
111th cavalry Of the New Mexico Ma
tional Guard are expected before the
annual field training enc2mpment in
August, according to information re-
ceived by Col. Clyde Earl Ely, COM
manding officer.
| DR.. E. l.. Scott of the University of
Arizona has announced that plans al
ready are under way for the 1887
! Tucson livestock show. All entries
must be in not later than next May TO-
as they Hust be passed upon sixty
days prior to the opening of the show.
The new Santa Fe city council at a
recent meeting named C. R. Mcintosh
as city attorney, replacing Earl Ken
ney. Mcintosh is former assistant dis
trict attorney and is special assistant
attorney general now prosecuting a
number of insurance company refund
suits.
Frank Shufflebarger, Albuquerque.
was named president of the Associated
| Contractors Of New Mexico at its
meeting in Santa Fe. A. M. Spencer
Santa Fe, was chosen vice president;
Sam Sanders, Santa Fe, treasurer;
Gayle Armstrong, Roswell, secretary.
and George M Nell was named man
ager
The summer training period for
| University of Arizona R. o. T. c. stu
dents will be held at Fort Huachuca
from June 1 to July %, according to
Col A. w. Holderness, commandant OF
the university school of military
science and tactics. The Arizona ca
dets in previous years have trained
at Fort Bliss, Tex.
The White mountains are display
| ing two new lakes, created through
construction by the CCC and the Ma
tional Forest service of earth and rock
dams. They were named Big Lake and
! Crescent lake. The former will be
stocked with $4,000 rainbow trout and
400, coo eastern brook trout Crescent
lake will be stocked with 100000 fish.
Additions to four Dona Ana county,
New Mexico, school houses will be
constructed as WPA projects, accord
| ing to Mrs. Gala Eylar, county super-
intendent. Inclusion by the school
budget commission of sufficient funds
| for the county's share will enable the
additions to be built at Mesquite, Tor
tugas, Rincon and Radium Springs, as
we'll as improvements elsewhere.
John Ricca of Kingman was chosen
president of the Arizona State Teach