The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10
Southwestern Briefs

DuouelS, dCCOIuluS 10 census reports
just received.
New Mexico's oil production allow
ance for April is 1900 barrels, ac-
cording to State Land Commissioner
Frank Wesley.
April 16 has been announced as the
date TO rthe annual banquet in Pres
colt of Yavapai county Alumni of Ari-
zona State Teachers College of Tempe
The University of Arizona has re
ported a 16 per cent increase in its
afternoon and night extension classes
in Tucson, Phoenix, Bisbee and Doug.
las.
A $4,000 bid by R. E. Mckee, Ell
Paso contractor, for construction Of
new economics building at State
College in Las Cruces, has been ac-
cepted.
R. W, Ludwig, former county agent
in Harding county, New Mexico, has
arrived at State College to take up
his work as deputy in charge of the
feed and fertilizer control office.
E. A. Mundsen, Phoenix, Ariz., di-
rector of mine safety for the U. S. bu-
reau Of mines, will conduct a two-day
course in Tucson April 10 and IL for
University Of Arizona students.
Work on the new home economics
building at State College in Las
Cruces will be started Immediately
upon receipt of work order from PWA,
according to H. M. Gardner, acting
president.
The appointment of E. R. Fryer as
superintendent of the fifteen-million-
acre Navajo agency, in western New
Mexico and eastern Arizona, has been
announced by Indian Commissioner
John Collier.
Contractors laying gas mains in Las
Cruces assured City Manager Clyde
Dodds that despite some difficulties
in obtaining crews, that the distribu-
tion lines would be ready for gas
about May 25.
Rupert F. Asplund, director of New
Mexico Taxpayers Association, said
analysis of 1885 budgets revealed
total New Mexico state, county, mu-
nicipal and school expenditures may
be estimated at twenty-eight million
dollars.
The Arizona music festival, expect
ed to draw more than 300 students
from eight southern Arizona schools,
will be held in Bisbee April IA. Ben
son, Bisbee, Douglas, Nogales, Patago-
mia, st. David, Tucson and Wilcox
will be represented.
National youth administration prof.
Gets in six southern counties will be
reopened as a result of the approval
of plans by state headquarters, ac-
cording to Robert Cromwell, district
director. Approximately $50 young
men and women will be employed.
Stockmen of south central New
Mexico were the first in the state to
be granted definite range allotments
under the Taylor grazing act. The
district board adjourned after appor-
tioning eighty permanent leases. Only
six ranchmen gave notice of appeal.
Sam Klein, chairman of the Dona
Ana county commissioners, has an
nounced that the FWA application for
$1S2,000 loan for a court house at
Las Cruces had been approved and
was now in the hands of the Federal
Engineering and Legal Departments.
Twenty-Five University of Arizona
engineering students will spend two
days in a detailed study of Boulder
dam during the Easter holiday. James
c.. Clark, professor of electrical engi,
neering at the institution, and Orval
H. Poll, assistant professor, will head
the party.
Dona Ana county will raise $500
towards New Mexico's exhibit at the
Texas Centennial, the Centennial
committee decided at a recent meet
ing with COe Howard. Las Cruces
State College will have charge of the
states agricultural exhibit at the Cen
tennial which will be held in Dallas,
Texas.
February births exceeded deaths in
Arizona IT'S to $50, according to
recent state health department report.
Home economics teachers from high
schools of Silver City, Lordsburg,
Deming, Hatch, Las Cruces, Anthony
and AlamOgordo, recently attended
regional conference at State College
in Las Cruces. Miss Barbara Johnson,
Hatch, presided.
A three hour extension course en-
titled Laboratory in Teaching" will
be offered to Flagstaff city school
teachers during the spring quarter.
Problems of the supervision of student
teachers will be the major point con-
sidered in the course. DR.. Victor H.
Kelley, professor of education and di-
rector of the Arizona State Teachers
College at Flagstaff laboratory school,
will be the course instructor.
Nominations of officers for the AS
sociated Women Students organization
at Arizona State Teachers College at
Flagstaff have been announced by the
nomination committee. For president,
Marjorie Wingfield of Camp Verde