The Coolidge examiner., 1936-02-14
Southwestern Briefs

submitted a low bid for the construc-
tion of approaches to the new bridge
across the Hassayampa at Wicken-
burg, Ariz.
Brigadier General Russell Charlton
announced that armories of New Mex
leo are in excellent condition" after
an inspection trip along the east side
of the state.
Forty of the forty-six junior Cham
bers of Commerce in California, Ne
vada and Arizona will send delegates
to the ninth district conference in
Phoenix Feb. 21 and %.
Consolidation of the Eddy County
News, weekly newspaper published by
Max Thomas, and the Myers Printing
Company, operated by Delma Myers,
was announced recently in Carlsbad.
Oscar Linberg, assistant postmaster
at Las Vegas, N. M, has announced
that there had been 10 per cent in
crease in the outgoing airmail since
the service was inaugurated a year
ago.
John w. Chapman of Santa Fe was
named director of safety for the New
Mexico department of the American
Legion and will outline program for
safe driving in the state, officials an
nounced.
Game Warden Elliott Barker an.
nounced that the state of New Mexico
plans to close the road between
Cowles and Hamilton mesa in upper
Pecos to establish a new primitive
wilderness.
The Arizona WPA reported that 100
teachers are engaged in giving in
struction to 1000 adults in the free
statewide education program. The
project provides for the employment
of 270 teachers.
H. R. Rodgers, New Mexico super
nounced appointment, effective March
l, of Mrs. Jennie Gonzales, Albuquer-
que, assistant superintendent, sue
ceeding Mrs. Aurora Lucero White.
Snow over the White Mountains
has caused aviators to abandon a gov
ernment project until spring. The
fliers encountered temperatures 20 de-
grees below zero at an altitude of
20, 900 feet during the last two weeks.
Wayne Thornburg, Phoenix, has be-
gun a new term as president of the
Arizona Livestock Production Credit
Association. Loans of the organiza
ton last year totaled $1,627 COL, and
the association showed a profit of
$28,OSS.
The institute of irrigation agricul-
ture, meeting in Salt Lake City in
March, has invited DR.. E. P. Smith,
professor Of agriculture irrigation at
the University of Arizona, to discuss
the preferential rights to water and
their relation to agriculture.
DIR. E. ]. Crider, formerly in charge
of the soil conservation. service nur-
series in the Tucson region, has been
named chief of the nursery work
throughout the nation. He will re-
main in Tucson, with headquarters on
the Arizona experiment farm.
Clyde F. Rowe, poultry specialist at
the University Of Arizona, said inter-
est in flock improvements and di-
sease control had greatly reduced
losses to the states pOultrymen. He
said $4,000 birds have been tested for
diseases and that only 1904 reacted.
One hundred men thrown out Of
L, Of bn Io or 10
soil conservation project will be alb
sCrbed in WPA work in Albuquerque,
Dee Donnell, director, has announced.
Others released from conservation
projects also will be given WPA en-
ployment.
The Rural Resettlement Administra-
tion has rendered its assistance to
the Nomadic Navajo Indians. When
Charles Burns, Indian agent at Fort
Defiance, Arizona, reported some OF
the Indians are ready to settle down"
on irrigated or dry farming tracts,
]. A. Waldron, state rehabilitation di-
rector, offered them assistance.
One project of more than quarter
of a million dollars was let by the
New Mexico State Highway Commits
sion in Santa Fe, to be built in Rio
Arriba county. New Mexico Construc-
tion Co. of Albuquerque was low bid
der. The project is 11.100 miles long
and includes grading, minor drainage
structures, fifteen multiple span box
culverts, each over twenty clear span,
two concrete and steel bridges, one
course surfacing and miscellaneous
construction.
Prof. Dick S. Barlow, graduate Of
Oklahoma A. and M. College, has been
appointed instructor in the electrical
engineering department of the New
Mexico University, according to an
nouncement by President j. F. Zin-
norman. An addition to the electrical
engineering department was neces-
sary because of recent death Of Prof.
A. M. Denton. Prof Chester Russell,
who has been on the faculty of the
university since his graduation and
who was assistant to Prof, Denton,
has been promoted to acting head OF