The Coolidge examiner., 1936-02-21
Southwestern Briefs

10. F. A. Michel, state secretary, has
announced.
The Arizona State Tax Commission,
through its liquor division, licensed
1882 establishments in 1885, for a
total revenue of $124,937.50.
A gain of 263 students in rural
schools Of Eddy county, New Mexico,
was reported by c. E. Spencer, coan-
ty superintendent.
John c. Hull, who drove the last
stage coach between Denver and
Santa Fe before the iron horse came
in, died at Albuquerque at the age
of a.
The new building for the New Mex
leo Educational Association, $4,000
WPA project, will be placed on Marcy
street, in Santa Fe, northeast of the
city hall.
The Rocky Mountain Electrical AS
sociation of Wyoming, Colorado and
New Mexico will have it's annual
meeting in Santa Fe about the middle
of September.
The attorney generals office ruled
that interest received from bonds of
the Home Owners Loan Corporation
is not taxable under the New Mexico
income tax act.
Gov. B. B. Moeur has appointed Maj.
Gen. Alexander M. Tuthill as adjutant
general Of the Arizona National Guard
to succeed Brig. Gen. Oscar F. Temple,
who died recently.
Oscar Linberg, assistant postmaster
at Las Vegas, N. NJ, has announced
that there had been a 10 per cent in
crease in the outgoing airmail since
the service was inaugurated a year
ago.
Sponsors of Casa Grande's first an
nual Cowboy Days celebration report
success with the first show. They re-
ported an attendance of more than
5000, and proceeds of more than
$4,000.
The New Mexico State Oil Conser-
vation Commission will hold an impor-
tant hearing on February 25 when
matters pertaining to the Monument,
Cooper and Maljamar-Grayburg fields
will be discussed.
The Bureau Of Internal Revenue re-
ported an increase of $10,265 during
1885 in documentary stamp taxes col
lected in the Rocky Mountain states.
The increase was over the 1884 col
lections in New Mexico.
Major Carl E. Byrd, formerly sta
toned at Fort Bliss, Texas, has be-
sion of the CCC. He succeeds Holmes
J. Paullin, who is returning to regular
army service at Fort Bliss.
Richard Summers, English professor
nounced that his first novel, Dark
Madonna" with a Tucson setting, will
be published this fall. Summers is the
author of several western stories.
John j. Emmons, a prominent fig
ure in Mckinley county, N. M, bank
ing. circles for the past twenty-five
years, resigned the presidency of the
First State Bank at Gallup and will
engage in livestock and wool business.
Hugh L. Harrell, president of the
Wichita Land Bank, announced that
farm sales in New Mexico totalled
S11,82S.06 in January and $214,331.13
for the district. He said the percent
age gain for 1885 was 265 over 1884
for the district.
Determinations in the earth's crust in
Arizona will be studied by Eldred Will
son, state bureau of mines geologist
at the University of Arizona, who has
been appointed a member of the Ma
tionaI Resource Councils committee
of eight on techtonics.
Because northern Arizona hi g h
schools showed little response, the
Arizona State Teachers College an
nounced the annual debate tourna-
ment has been cancelled. Seligman
and Snowflake were the only schools
entering.
Secretary of State James H. Kerby
announced the Arizona primaries will
be held September s, and warned that
nomination papers and petitions for
names on the state ticket must be
filed not less than forty days nor more
than ninety days prior to that date.
The Arizona State Tax Commission
levied against 241 mechanical devices
in January for total of $1,21O. OF a
total revenue of $101 ,9S5.42, spirituous
liquors paid $4O,696.4O; tobaccos, $780,
1864; wines, $7,11S.44; beer, $9,-
$500; cosmetics, $3.214.5O; and sport
ing goods, $634.64.
The University of Arizona extension
service added correspondence courses
in the history of education IN the
United States, the Hispanic-Amerlcan
colonies, the Hispanic-Amerlcan re
publics, and two courses in the prln-
ciples of augmentation and debate
with the publication of its 1886 cata-
logue.
The office of GOV. Clyde Tingley has
announced that despite winter months,
tourist traffic in New Mexico IS hold
ing up remarkably we'll" The state
ment was based on a count made by