The Coolidge examiner., 1936-01-24
Southwestern Briefs

1885 by Fire Chief John Conrad.
More than 1000 persons received
$67S,95SS4 from 42O WPA projects in
New Mexico for the month of Decem-
Der, according to Lea Rowland. works
progress administrator for the state.
State Comptroller Juan N. Vigil and
A. D. Suazo have been replaced on
the Taos, N. M, Armory board by
Gov. Clyde Tingley, being succeeded
by Stanley hollands and Patrick
O'Hay.
New Mexico has asked "for the linn
it" of federal funds for maternal and
child health work under the social
security act, the state health bureau,
DR.. J. Rosslyn carp, director, has an
nounced
Ralph Metz, Bsbee, Ariz., city eng:-
neer, has succeeded A. NJ Boss as
president of the Bisbee Kiwanis Club.
B. w. Norton, fire chief, was elected
vice president and C. H. Allen, secre-
tary-treasurer.
Prescott's public schools have an
increase of 1919 in average daily at
tendance at this time, in comparison
with a year ago, according to an
nouncement by Don R. Sheldon, city
school superintendent.
Approximately 440 men, heads of
families in their various communities.
are now employed on Ian use Fdjust-
ment and agricultural projects in New
Mexico, the Rural Resettlement Ad-
ministration has announced.
The new Flagstaff, Ariz., training
school building, costing approximate
ly $4,000, has received the approval
of school authorities. The structure,
Of native stone, contains fourteen class
rooms and a spacious auditorium.
Checking transactions by three Pres
colt, Arizona, banks during 1885 eX-
ceeded by more than two and one-half
million dollars that for 1884 and beat
1885 total by more than seven mil
lion dollars, according to recent fig
ures.
The Arizona State Supreme Court
has admitted R. Ralph Barry, South
st. Paul, Mimi, to the state bar. Bar.
ry said he plans to enter the practice
of law at Holbrook with Sidney Sapp,
former Navajo county Superior Court
Judge.
Miss Ruth Thaxton, who has been
teaching in Keenesburg, Colo, has ac-
cepted the position of teacher of math-
matics at the Springer, N. NJ, high
school, filling the vacancy of Miss D.
Higbee, who resigned to take govern
ment position at Albuquerque.
According to Civilian Conservation
Corps officials, Phoenix will lose three
CCC camps in the reduction program
ordered by federal authorities. Five
units, two near Phoenix snd those at
Tempe, Hillside and Grand Canyon
will be transferred to California.
DR.. J. Rosslyn carp, New Mexico
state health director, in a recent re-
port, said that New Mexico was first
in low unit cost and third in produc-
cific regions in sanitation work, con-
struction and installation of privy
units.
George R. Spencer, Carlsbad N. M 81
Eddy county superintendent OF
schools, has announced that bids on
the new school for the Malaga com.
munity probably will be called for in
twenty days because of the 20 to
vote cast by property owners in favor
of a $4,000 bond issue.
New Mexico WPA Administrator
Lea Rowland has announced that a
compilation to show persons at work
in the WPA payroll, administrative
costs and other figures now is in prog
ress. An administrative budget of
about $4,000 monthly had to be re-
duced to about $4,000, he said.
Veterans administrative approval of
rehabilitating the Fort Bayard hos
pital near Silver City, N. NJ, has been
announced, according to Representa-
tive John J. Dempsey. The congress
man said the improvements would in
clude paving the dirt road around the
institution, new heating plant and
recreation room.
Biological survey hunters killed l.
364 coyotes the first nine months of
1885. At the same time last year 1870
were killed. Jerrie w. Lee, secretary
of the Arizona Wool Growers Associa'
ton, said the wild dog packs which
formerly roved through the Salt River
valley, taking huge tolls in night raids
on sheep, are decreasing.
D. C. George, Arizona state entom-
Ologist, has announced that 251 men
are working in the Tucson area to
eliminate the wild cotton plant, host
to the native cotton boil weevil. 1t
grows in large numbers on the Cata-
lima mountains, Santa Rita mountains
and Tortilla hills. The workers have
covered $3.50 acres in the Tortilla
area and have destroyed 46,S58 plants.
Over seventeen million board feet
of timber were cut in the national
forests of New Mexico G'r ng tie fis-
cal year 1885, according to Frank c.
w. Pooler, regional forester. An addi.
tion& tWenty-siX million board feet