The Coolidge examiner., 1936-03-27
Southwestern Briefs

Cruces grade schools March II.
John R. Franks, young superin-
torney, has resigned his appointment
as United States commissioner at
Prescott.
DIR. L. M. Pultz will join tie Uni
versity of Arizona as assistant profes
sor of botany, according to President
Homer L. Shantz.
Carlsbad will be the meeting city
Of the New Mexico Public Health AS
sociation and New Mexico Medical So
ciety, May to 8, inclusive.
Murry South of the Sweet Potato
Association at Portales. reported
shipments Of twenty carloads of sweet
potatoes from the Portales region.
The ]. A. Casson Company, Phoenix,
submitted the low bid to the Arizona
State Highway Department for con-
struction of an underpass at Douglas.
James T. Manders, Tucson city au-
ditor, announced that Tucson's re-
ceipts the first eight months of the
fiscal year exceeded budget estimates
by $20,O18.
Luther Hudson of Forrest, New
Mex, and Joe Bonem, Tuccumcari,
New Mex, have been appointed school
budget commissioners for Quay county
by the county commission.
Arizona state income tax revenue
has shown an increase of So per cent
compared to figures available for
March, 1885, according to Director
Emmett NJ Barry.
w. ]. Jameson, Arizona WPA ad-
ministrator, has appointed Startling
M. Morse of Mesa as WPA engineer
for ella county. He succeeds Her
man A. Bell of Miami.
The Arizona Tax Commission has
granted the Mohave county board of
supervisors permission to issue an
emergency levy of $4,000 to be used
for the county hospital.
The Arizona Highway Commission
has awarded the contract for three
miles of grading and draining of the
Holbrook-St. Johns route to Lee Moor
Contracting Company of Ell Paso.
A streak of eight-inch high-grade
iron sulphide ore that assays over an
ounce in gold, has been located on
North Star Mountain, near Brecken-
ridge, in the Bemrose- -Boswick placer.
The Hiking Club at the Arizona
State Teachers College has completed
plans for a trip to the Rainbow Nat
ural Bridge. Only members who have
hiked 100 miles will be eligible to
make the long trek.
Governor Tingley has reported that
the New Mexico annual advertising
campaign is under way and first ads
will appear in March magazines. Fifty
thousand dollars has been set aside for
advertising in twenty-one magazines.
Improvements to cost approximately
$1,000 are to be undertaken in the
near future by the First Congrega-
tional Church of Prescott, Arizona,
including the installation of a coal
burning battery of furnaces and in
terror decorations.
An open competitive examination
FOR surveyman, to fill a vacancy in
che position of instrumentman in the
United States Indian service at Trux-
ton Canyon agency, Valentine, Ariz.,
has been announced by the United
States civil service commission.
Y. c. White, state banking superin-
tendent, announced that all preferred
and trust claims allowed by the court
in the Phoenix Farmers State Bank
settlement here have been paid in full
and general creditors have received
80 per cent in dividends.
H. R. Miller, president of the Carls-
bad New Mexico) Chamber of Com
merce, was chosen vice president of
the East-West Highway Association,
and Victor l.. Miller, secretary of the
Carlsbad group, was chosen secretary
of the highway association.
The E. Romero Hose and Fire Com
pany at Las Vegas will organize jun
ior fire department to teach Las We
gas boys the importance of fire pre-
vention. A committee composed of c.
w. Carscallen, Frank Howe, Luis Selva
and M. Booth will handle the organi-
cation.
Albuquerque high school was
awarded first place in the fourth class,
senior high school publications, by the
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
in it's annual session at New York
City. The award came in the group
division of schools with an enrolment
of between 1901 and $500 pupils.
J. A. Waldron, state director of ru-
raj rehabilitation, reported that $S,-
794.45 in loans were made to Arizona
families during the week of March l.
approximately 1000 individuals or
families have been referred to the ru-
raj rehabilitation division by relief
agencies as prospective clients, Wal
dron said.
DR.. Byrn S. Cummings of the Uni
versity OF Arizona archaeology depart
ment has bought forty acres of land
containing an Indian ruin dating back
to 700 A. D., or further. I'VE desired
To got title tO the land So the ruin can