The Coolidge examiner., 1936-02-28
Southwestern Briefs

asked observance of a New Mexico
statute regarding reporting Of auto
accidents by garages as an aid to en-
forcement organizations.
According to recent announce.
ment from the Commerce Department.
technical approval has been given for
airports in New Mexico as follows
Deming, Hot Springs, Las Vegas and
Lordsburg =.
Earl McDaniels, Mosquero school
superintendent, is the new president
of the Northern New Mexico Teach
ers' Association. He was elected at
the associations annual convention,
held in Ration.
The Department of Agriculture re-
ported recently that Arizona livestock
conditions were good. Adequate wa
ter supplies and feed will keep the
winter and spring losses to a mini
mum.
L. E. Foster, Carlsbad IN. NJ ir-
rigation project superintendent, said
improvements at Lake Avalon de-
signed to increase flood protection and
increase the lakes capacity by 500
acre feet, will be completed by April 1.
Students at Winslow high school
are showing with pride a new sound
motion picture machine which they
purchased with money raised through
carnivals and other student activities.
Educational films are to be exhibited
during classes.
The Arizona State Game Depart
ment has released scores of twenty
inch channel catfish into Clear Creek,
near Winslow. Because the creek is
closed this year the channel cat will
increase by thousands to assure splen-
did fishing for 1887, the game depart
ment said.
The first shipment of 1886 baby
chicks for Navajo county has been de-
livered to the Smith-Heywood poultry
farm at Snowflake, Ariz These 500
White Leghorns will be supplemented
by more than 10000 chicks in that
county, according to C. R. Fillerup,
county agent.
The monthly sale Of gas and oil
leases by the New Mexico land COM
mission brought $17,760.3O, State Land
Commissioner Frank Wesley a i d i.
Twenty-three tracts Of tWenty-seven
offered were sold, Wesley said, all in
Lea county. The best price was SO
an acre.
The Arizona state highway patron
established new station at Apache,
in Cochise county. 1t is on U. S. high
way 80. Patrolman George Sheerer of
Douglas was placed in charge and
George Penninger was assigned as a
motor vehicle division clerk at the
station.
Superintendent C. R. Mcdowell of
the Arizona state highway patrol an
nounced that Patrolman Ted Mullen
had been assigned to the accident in
vestigating detail headed by Patrol
man George Ash. Since Jan. 21, Nc
Dowell said, thirty-nine persons in
volved in accidents have been investi-
gated.
Early steps to eradicate Johnson
grass growth should be taken by mid
die valley farmers, according to Ly-
man w. Gleason, New Mexico county
agent. Approach Of summer makes
it imperative that the grass be de-
stroyed because of the impossibility
of stemming it's growth in warmer
weather, Mr.. Gleason said.
White medicine men are ranging the
farm-flung lands of the Navajos, COM
batting with modern methods the
threat of an epidemic. A disease, va
riously described as bronchitis, ton
silitis and influenza, has swept the
length and breadth of the huge reser-
walton, taken at least one life and
menaced the health of more than So
900 Indians.
George A. Mauk, former U. S. mar
shal for Arizona, recently became CO.
receiver of the Arizona assets of the
defunct Intermountain Building and
Loan Association of Utah. He will
serve with H. S. McCluskey, perma-
nent receiver, who recommended Mr..
Mauk's appointment. They will liqui-
date $1,023,OO0 in Arizona assets of the
association.
Approximately 5000 young men and
women in New Mexico are benefiting
from all phases of NYA activities.
Tom L. Popejoy, assistant state di-
rector, said. The program for unem-
ployed youth not in school has en-
ployed 1881 on work projects. High
school aid has been granted 1880 stu
dents, with college aid for 800, Mr..
Popejoy said.
The New Mexico Board of Public
Welfare approved Bureau of Public
Welfare plans for rural child welfare
services in the state and have sub
mitted the plans to Washington. Re-
quest for $15,79 federal funds to carry
on the services was made. The board
made plans to ask the State Relief
and Security Authority for 100000 to
match federal money for crippled
children.
Hopi Indians of the Koenkopi village
in Arizona, held their annual bean