The Coolidge examiner., 1936-03-06
Southwestern Briefs

The Artesia, New Mexico, high
school has organized a chapter of the
National Scholastic Honor Society.
Fifteen students are eligible for mem
bership.
The State Agricultural and Horticul-
ture Commission has begun tent fumi-
| cation of 10000 citrus trees in the
Salt River Valley in drive against
red scale infestation.
c. Thomas Closson of Santa Fe has
been appointed to the rank of colonel
in the cadet corps of New Mexico Mil
itary Institute. This is the highest
rank in the corps of cadets.
The Arizona land department auc-
toned a section of public land re-
Gently for $36,000-the highest price
since 1929. The section is twenty-five
miles west of Phoenix.
Tucson, Yuma and Flagstaff, Ari-
zona, received ratings of 80 per cent
by the U. S. public health service for
milk sold, according to DR.. A. H.
Regents of New Mexico State Col
| lege will seek additional funds to con-
struct an economics building on the
campus at a conference of PWA Of
ficials in Santa Fe soon
The New Mexico State College re-
gents elected Russell w. Ludwick as
| successor to the late F. E. Oakes as
director of the feed and fertilizer con-
troll for New Mexico.
Approximately $500 hunters killed
255 deer, IS elk, Is bear and 275 tur-
keys in the Coconino National Forest
last year, according to Lloyd Wall, as
sistant supervisor.
The field office of the Farm Credit
Administration unit in Phoenix will
| be closed and other agencies will han
die its affairs, according to Frank R..
! Hodgson, vice president and secretary
The per capita fire loss in Socorro
last year was 8 cents, according to
! Chief P. d. Miller. The chief said that
| SocCrro Hose Company No. 1 an
swered eight alarms during 1935-two
were false.
Modernization loans under the fed
eral housing administration in Las
Cruces have reached 5000, according
to P. w. KaItenbavh, chairman of the
FILA committee and manager of the
chamber of commerce.
CARRIED in the gay regalia of the
western cowboy and cowgirl, Tucson
celebrated it's twelfth annual La
Fiesta de Los Vaqueros," Tucson's
midwinter rodeo, which attacts cow
boy performers of nationwide per-
! formance.
Three Yuma, Arizona, chess players
are among the 1000 Americans who
will engage a like number from Eng
land in an international correspond
erce tournament. They are William
H. Westover, DR.. George Hupp and
James H. Gordon.
Coe Howard, of Portales, New Mex
| leo, appointed as a member of the
states commission on the Texas Cen
| tennial, has announced he plans to
open an office in the statehouse in the
near future to make arrangements for
| New Mexico's exhibit at Dallas.
The Arizona horticulture and agri-
culture commission has announced
that $4,000 automobile loads of tourists
were checked through border stations
in January. Travel from the east was
1876 per cent over January, 1885, and
29.9 per cent greater from the west.
The Guadalupe County Teachers
Association chose Mrs. A. P. Grzelach-
owski, Pastura grade school principal,
president at it's meeting in Vaughn, N.
M. Speakers included President Don
aid MacKay of the Eastern New Mex
leo Junior College, H. R. Rodgers,
state superintendent of schools, and
S. P. Nanninga of the University of
New Mexico.
The Southwestern All-Indian Pow
Wow, to be held at Flagstaff, Arizona,
July 3, and 5, will attract 1000 In
dians from every tribe in the South
west, according to announcement by
the board of directors. Robert Lewis,
Indian leader, representing the Zunis
of New Mexico, has completed ar
rangements for presentation of dances
by tribesmen from the Pueblo.
The Bernalillo County, New Mexico,
Improvement Association has been
formed with a group of officers headed
by Henry Summerford. The purpose
of the association as explained by Tom
improve quality of crops grown in the
Reid, State College agronomist, is to
Middle Rio Grande Valley. The asso
citation will be affiliated with the New
Mexico Crop improvement Associa-
ton.
A novel contest calculated to instill
interest in government in young men
and women who have reached voting
age since the last presidential election
is being sponsored by the Las Vegas
Business and Professional Womens
Club. Contest entrants will write a
summary of not more than 1000 words
on "If l Were City Mayor" A $5 prize
will be awarded the writer of the