The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-08
Southwestern Briefs

The Arizona state land department
sold 3,470 acres in western Maricopa
county recently for $15,910.
The annual convention of the cen
tral district Arizona Federation Of
Women's Clubs was held at Phoenix
April %.
Belen, n. NJ, was selected as the
site of the next knights of Pythias
district convention at the session in
Gallup.
Completion of the south wing of the
south side district hospital at Mesa,
Ariz., as WPA project costing $4,000
has been announced.
The Arizona State Tax Commission
have granted the Maricopa county su-
pervisors permission to levy an emer-
gency tax of $24,35O.50.
City Engineer Abe Morris said that
the $4,000 Soil Conservation project
of reclaiming the Silver City big ditch
may be completed early in July.
Arizona dealers paid $193,373.10 in
federal liquor taxes last year, accord
ing to the United States treasury. This
was an increase of $57,397.47 over
1884.
Arizona's 1886 spring lettuce harvest
netted $1,800,O00, according to valua-
ton computed on an average price of
$1.35 crate. The seasons production
was set in excess of 400 cars.
Covering 5000 square feet, the new
Arizona national guard arsenal under
construction at the Papago Park rifle
range east of Phoenix, is 60 per cent
completed, it has been announced.
New proof that trees in Arizona's
petrified forest grew there and were
not carried in by flood waters was
claimed at Gallup by M. V. Walker,
naturalist of the Petrified Forest Ma
tional Monument.
Officials of the State Teachers Col
lege at Silver City said that half the
rooms in the girls dormitory have
been reserved and that other indica-
tions point toward a large attendance
at summer school.
An electrically-driven lint-testing
machine being perfected by E. H.
Presley, associate professor of plant
breeding at the University Of Arizona
will speed up cotton seed selection
for test planting, it has been an
nounced.
The improved outlook for mineral
development in southern New Mexico
was reflected in the acquisition by
James W. McAlpine, Silver City min
ing man, of an option to purchase
properties of the bankrupt United
States Copper Co.
Thomas ]. Elliott, state director of
the Federal Housing Administration,
announced that building construction
undertaken in Arizona during the first
quarter of the year approximately
trebled the amount of such work start
ed in 1898 and was four times greater
than that of 1884.
Jawbone, teeth and bones believed
to be part of skeleton of some prehis-
toric animal were found recently in
Elephant Butte Lake, near Hot
Springs. N. NJ, by Floyd Rigdon and
Haskell Bingham, Carlsbad. The men
were fishing when the find was made
Rigdon is owner and publisher of
Carlsbad Current-Argus.
Varbara Dittman, Tucson Jig h
school senior, won the annual one-act
play writing contest at the Arizona
State Teachers College at Tempe. Her
play, Shadows of the Superstitions,"
is drama of Indian life. Robert Cla-
borne. Douglas High School, took Sec
ond place with I'm the Shadow of the
Eagle also an Indian play.
A grant Of approximately 100000
to New Mexico for assistance to aged,
dependent children and the blind, has
been announced by the social security
board. The allowance included $S3,396
for the aged, $13,86S for blind and
$24,327 for children. The funds will
cover April, May and June and will
be matched by state moneys.
DR.. l.. w. Skinner of Tucson was
elected president of the Arizona Asso-
citation of Optometrists at the annual
convention of the organization in
Phoenix. DR.. J. R. Fryklund, Nogales,
was chosen vice president and DR.. C.
c. Gates, Tucson, was reelected secre-
tary-treasurer. Plans also were made
to hold next years convention in
northern Arizona, probably in Pres
colt.
Mrs. G. L. Bissinger of Peoria was
elected president of the Arizona Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs at their
meeting in Tempe. She succeeds Mrs.
Charles H. Prather, Casa Grande, Mrs.
W. n Timerhoff, Prescott, was chosen
first vice president; Mrs. B. L. Muir
ply, Globe, second vice president; !;
Mrs. E. A. Snider, Yuma, treasurer;
Mrs. c. S. Fox, Benson, recording sec
retary.
P. H. Ross, director of the UntVer-
sity of Arizona agricultural extension
service, has announced that payment
Of 1919 cents a bushel on farm allot'
ments will be made to Arizona wheat
farmers who applied for contracts and
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