The Coolidge examiner., 1936-01-31
Southwestern Briefs

The state health department re-
ported 1,176 cases of communicable
diseases in Arizona in December.
Nearly twice as many tourists
visited Carlsbad's famous caverns this
January as did last January, recent
figures show.
The federal government has re-
turned $5,S2095 to New Mexico citi-
zens and companies whose taxes for
the fiscal year of 1885 were over
assessed
Stuart Greenawalt of Pittsburgh,
Pa, has been appointed agricultural
teacher at Ration, N M. high, to sue
ceed Zenas R. Brush, recently named
county agent.
Problems of cotton growers of the
Las Cruces, N. M, section will be
threshed out at series of community
meetings conducted by c. E. Hellbush,
county agent.
Albuquerque's board of education
has approved plans for the nineteen
class room high school building major
project in the half million dollar
school expansion program.
More than half of Arizona's budget
ed expenditures last year went to its
schools. Nit Simms, state treasurer,
said the schools received $3,026, 1856 29
out of the $3.50, 9,477.47 budget.
Physicians of Eddy and Lea coun-
ties, at a recent meeting in Hobbs,
N. NJ, chose DR.. J. w. Hillsman of
Carlsbad as their chairman. DR.. c. G.
Stone. Hobbs, was named secretary
treasurer
Maricopa county, Ariz., supervisors
have announced that the county's op-
Grating costs for the first six months
of the fiscal year were 2 per cent un-
der the budget The total expended
was $341 ,04212.
University of Arizona officials have
leased a tract of land from Maricopa
county and will erect $4,000 office
building to house the county farm
agent and agricultural extension serv-
ice representatives
Y. c. White, superintendent OF
banks, announced that deposits in
Arizona's fifteen state and national
banks increased $2,027,233.25 during
November and December. The in
crease for 1885 was almost $10,000.000
Enough seed from the cross between
Egyptian sakel and American Pima
cotton produced by the U. S. govern.
ment at Sacaten to plant 900 acres
is available for this years paintings
The cotton is grown in Maricopa and
Pinal counties in Arizona.
Work has started on the $462, ,000
canal rehabilitation program of the
Roosevelt irrigation district in Ari
zona. L. G. Vinson, contractor, said
it would require four of five months
to improve the fifty miles of canals
between Phoenix and the Hassayampa
river.
Arizorans paid more than $4,000,00O
in excise taxes in 1885, exclusive of
the gasoline tax. The State Tax Com
mission, in making the announcement
said the figures represented a new
high in excise tax collections, due pri-
marily to improved business condi
tions.
New Mexico's gas tax collection plan
will be given other states for study, on
the premise that this states plan pro
duces more results. S. w. Burr. di
rector of this division, said the New
Mexico system was hailed at the re-
gional meeting in Salt Lake City of the
| national gasoline tax officials.
A business census of Arizona has
started under the direction of the U. S
department of commerce. Paul Plum
mer of Prescott, director in district
No. 2, will have charge of the work
in Coconino, Apache, Navajo, Mohave
and Yavapai counties. The remainder
of the counties are under the direction
of d. N. Gillian, of Phoenix.
A. H. Condron, secretary of the
Tucson, AriZ., rodeo committee, has
announced that bids for the construc.
tion Of $40 additional reserved seats
at the Tucson fair grounds south of
IHe ClIy udu D6en dWdIueu W the
Frank o. Putter Construction Com.
pany. Construction Of the new re-
served section has been started.
To obtain more knowledge of the
problem in tests and measurements
in today's schools, the educational
measurements class at Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff. under
the direction of DR.. Baughn c. Wal
lace, head of the education depart
ment, will carry out project of test
ing and measuring in the Flagstaff
school system.
Definite action to prevent recur-
renee of the devastating "black bliz-
yards" in eastern New Mexico's "Dust
Bowl was seen in the establishment
of the new division of the rural reset
tlement administration with headquar-
ters at Amarillo, Texas. At least
three counties, Union, Quay and Cur
ry, are expected to be included il the
ninety-six counties in the five states
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