The Coolidge examiner., 1936-01-17
Southwestern Briefs

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1885 by Fire Chief John Conrad.
Arizona income tax collections for
1885 amounted to $464, ,7722O, accord
ing to State Tax Director Emmett NJ
Barry.
Governor Moeur has reappointed Dr.
R. A. Mccall, Phoenix, a member of
the Arizona state medical board, to
serve five years.
Enlistment quota set for the cav
airy at Ft. Bliss has been filled, ac-
cording to Sergeant Glen Simpson, re-
cruiting officer here.
Indians, as inhabitants of New Mex
leo, will come within the meaning of
the Social Security act, according to
recent ruling by Assistant Attorney
General Modrall.
The New Mexico highway commits
sion will call for bids on several hun
dred Thousand dollars worth of prof.
ects late this month, according to
Grover Conroy, state highway engin-
eer.
Herman E. Hendrix, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, has ap-
pointed Arthur G. Snyder, Phoenix, as
state supervisor of vocational agricul
ture in Arizona. He succeeds L. W.
Otto, resigned.
Ralph Metz, Bisbee, Ariz., city engi-
neer, has succeeded A. M. Boss as
president of the Bisbee Kiwanis Club.
B. w. Norton, fire chief, was elected
vice president and C. H. Allen, secre-
tary-treasurer.
Public Works Administration has
announced $105,45 loan and grant
to Coolidge, Arizona, for construction
of new high school facilities. The al
lotment included an outright grant of
$47,454 and loan of $58,000.
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.
Plans for a $4,000 lime hydrating
plant have been announced by w. A.
Thigpen, Grants, New Mexico, mer-
chant. The plant will be located in
Grants in building, which is being
remodeled in preparation for the in
stallation of the machinery.
Miss Ruth Thaxton, who has been
teaching in Keenesburg, Colo, has ac-
cepted the position of teacher of math-
matics at the Springer, N. M, high
school, filling the yacancyS of Miss d.
Higbee, who resigned to take a govern
ment position at Albuquerque.
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
tion in the Rocky Mountain and Pa
cific regions in sanitation work, con-
struction and installation of privy
units.
Judge Marlin T. Phelps ruled re-
Gently that Arizona newspapers must
pay a sales tax on advertisements.
His decision was made in favor of
the Arizona tax commission in a suit
brought by Giragi Brothers, northern
Arizona publishers, and the Southside
Publishing Company.
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. M, 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, a new heating plant and
recreation room.
Biological survey hunters killed l.
S64 coyotes the first nine months of
1885. At the same time last year 1,27O
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,S5S plants.
Faster and more convenient mail
service out of Grants, New Mexico. to
the DeVargas community is now avail
able. Mail is now sent to DeVargas
by way of Ell MORO, where formerly