The Coolidge examiner., 1936-03-13
Southwestern Briefs

will be held in Bisbee, May Is, II
and 49,
The U. S. Census Bureau advised
the state vital statistics bureau that
Arizona's population has increased
from 435,573 in 1880 to $4,000 on July
1, 1884.
The annual convention of Arizona
chapters of the Future Farmers of
| America will be held at the Univer-
sity of Arizona in Tucson April 8
and 4.
j. ]. Clark, secretary of the Arizona
Education Association, was appointed
consultant ex-officio of the educational
policies commission of the National
Education Association.
The University of Arizona will open
a week later this fall than in previ-
GUS years if schedule being prepared
by the registrars office is adopted by
the board of regents.
Arizona's 1913 births in 1885 set a
new record for the state, health de-
partment officials announced. The to.
tai was an increase of 657 over 1884
births, and more than 1000 over 1888
Robert Cromwell has succeeded Hal
Warnock as district supervisor of the
National Youth Administration in
southern Arizona. Warnock resigned
to join the ST. Louis Browns spring
training camp.
Emergency relief and welfare ac-
tivities financed directly from the
Maricopa county, Arizona, treasury,
cost taxpayers $244,S76.63 during 1885,
James E. DeSouza, clerk of the super
visors, reported recently.
G. J. Wood, superintendent of the
160-acre University of Arizona expert
mental farm west of Mesa, has re-
signed effective June 80. He has held
the position since the farm was es-
tablished twenty years ago.
DR.. Jay Edward Caster, associate
professor of psychology, has resigned
from the University of Arizona faculty
to join the staff of Scripps College,
Claremont, Calf. He will set up a
survey course in biology and psy-
chology there.
Motorists operating on New Mexico
roads since 1919 through 1884 paid
$20,056,293 in gasoline taxes, according
to the American Petroleum Industries
committee report. The tax was levied
in 1919. 1t was estimated that $685.
600 was collected in 1895, the report
said.
A. G. Bryant Of Clovis is the new
master councillor of the New Mexico
DeMolays. Robert Finkie, Las Cruces,
senior councillor; Frank Young, Jr.,
Gallup, deputy master councillor;
George Thorne, Albuquerque, junior
councillor, and Sherman Bennett, Ra-
ton, treasurer.
E. T. Cusick was elected president
of the Pima County Bar Association
at recent meeting in Tucson. Other
officers elected were B. G. Thompson,
vice president; William Spaid, secre-
tary and treasurer. Jones, John C.
Haynes and Paul Celia were elected as
members of the executive committee.
Five persons seek the appointment
as postmaster at Flagstaff effective
June 1. They are George Babbitt, Mrs.
Anna Carron, E. A. Mcnamara, ] F.
Davis and Graves M. O'Reilly. The
office pays salary of $4,000 year.
Walter Runke is serving his second
four-year term.
New Mexico produced more than g.
100000 pounds of copper during 1885,
according to Ira L. Wright, general
manager of the Black Hawk Consol-
dated Mines. Wright's statement was
made to correct an impression that no
copper had been produced since the
Chino mines closed down.
The Works Progress Administration
ordered reduction of 1,764 workers
on Arizona projects, effective as of
March 1. w. ]. Jameson, state adj
ministrator, said there were 14,764
men on the WPA. 1t is the hope of
WPA officials, he said, that those
NAOppCu w III US ny private
industry.
P. H. Ross, director of the Univer-
sity of Arizona extension service, has
announced that the AAA field auditors
office has been combined with the
State Cotton Administration office
Carl Teeter, formerly executive secre-
tary of the State Cotton Board, will be
in charge. Roger c. Butts will con-
tinue as field auditor.
The Phoenix, Ariz., real estate board
resolved at recent meeting to request
that five highways be added to the
state highway system on the same
basis as the STEMS Pass route was
designated. The roads are the ella
Bend-Ajo road, Black Canyon highway,
Bush highway, Horse Thief Basin road.
and the Ease Line road.
Harlow Akers, Phoenix attorney, an
nOunced receipt of appointment as
special counsel for the United States
Indian service to aid northern Arizona
Indians to recover approximately 4OO.-
600 acres of disputed land from the
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