The Coolidge examiner., 1936-01-10

ton, D. C. They are at Topock, the
Pinal mountains near Globe, and in
the South mountains near Phoenix.
Reduction of about 10 per cent in
administrative personnel of works
progress administration in New Mex
leo will be absorbed by that number
being employed on projects. it was
explained at PWA offices in Santa Fe.
DR.. Lewis w. Bealer, instructor in
political science and history at the
University of Arizona, will deliver a
series of lectures at the Seminar con-
ference on Hispanic-American affairs
next year at George Washington Uni
versity.
John H. Greer, manager of the Nebo
Electric Light and Power Company of
St. Johns, Ariz., has negotiated with
the Fairbanks-Morse Company for the
delivery of large diesel power and
| generator equipment to be installed
right after the first of January.
Work has been resumed on the low
stone wall being erected around the
University of Arizona The project
involves expenditure of $4,000. Large
! iron gates, duplicates of present
! campus gates presented some years
ago by Prescott civic groups. will be
set in the new gateways of the wall.
Sale of the Pratt Barndollar ranch
property in the Magdalena, n M,
area was reported by Arthur Gibson.
ranger of the Cibola forest. Pratt
! Barndollar operated the ranch for
nearly score of years and was wide
| ly known throughout the southwest.
He will return to Kansas, Mr. Gibson
said
Mrs. Dora E. Oakley of Tempe
Ariz, has been named assistant home
demonstration agent for Maricopa
county by P. H. Ross, director of the
agricultural extension service at the
| University of Arizona. Harvey f.
Tate was appointed extension horti-
culturist and John McLernon, county
! dSI IlCuIluld dl agent at AdISS.
About 1000 men are at work on
| Conchas dam, according to Gov. Clyde
| Tingley on his return from a recent
| trip to the dam Preliminary work
is progressing rapidly, he said. a town
site has been laid out and buildings
| are going up, engineering crews are
| hard at work on surveys, diamond
drill tests and like preliminary work.
Arizona State Engineer T. S. O'Con-
nell has notified the counties that
additional federal funds may be avail
able soon to improve county rural
roads not in the state highway sys-
| tenn. He requested the highway de-
| partment be given information on the
road systems of the county. This will
be sent to the U. S. bureau of public
roads.
! The Douglas, Ariz., postoffice will
return to first class rating in 1886 be-
cause of large increase in revenue
this year. Receipts reached the
amount for first class rating Dec 20
| Designation of the Douglas office as
| first class will result in increased sal
aries for Postmaster Caleb o. Rice
and w. J. Jackson, assistant. A su-
| perintendent of mails may be added.
! Museum of Northern Arizona sci
entists will capture thousands of MI
gratOry birds in an experiment to de-
! termine the amount of obnoxious weed
seeds destroyed annually. IF we are
able to determine the average number
of birds which range over an area of
a certain size, together with normal
amounts of food eaten, we will be
more than satisfied" said Lyndon l..
Hargrave, museum director
The United States bureau of mines
| experiment station at the University
of Arizona the coming year will at
tempt to solve two major mining prob
lens The first will be investigation
| of a possible process for recovery of
manganese from deposits not eco
nomically workable under present
| covery of sulphur from smelter fumes,
so far economically unfeasible.
DR.. D. D. Jackson, associate profess
sor education at Texas Tech and
formerly a member of the New Mexi
co State College faculty, is among the
list of prominent men listed in "Who's
Who Among Young Men of America" :"
DR.. Jackson, known as the "Flying
Professor of Texas Tech" was rec
commended by the Carnegie Institute
| in Washington and rated as an educa-
tor and a curriculum specialist in the
publication.
Construction by the Arizona Power
Corporation of 44,000-volt high ten
sion line from Octave to Wickenburg,
a distance of 1876 miles, is under way
under the supervision of J. w. White
of Casa Grande, to whom the contract
was awarded. February l is the date
set for this $4,000 project, including
the installation of a steel outdoor sub
station at Wickenburg, to be COM
pleted and in service. Wickenburg's
present municipal plant will cease oD-