The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-17
Southwestern Briefs

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Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic
honorary society, recently added sew
enteen more University Of Arizona
students to it's membership.
Recent killing frost has virtually
ruined the Middle Rio Grande valleys
chances Of a peach crop this season,
growers agreed after a recent inspec-
ton.
Maj. L. ]. Whitlock, district COM
mander, reported recently that the
strength of CCC camps in Arizona is
being reduced from 200 to 163 en-
rolees.
The Arizona state department of
education will open bids May for
school textbooks, according to H. E.
Hendrix, superintendent of public in
struction.
The New Mexico State Board of Ed
ucation has placed 143 schools on the
accredited list for next year, accord
ing to c. H. Conway, state high school
inspector.
Students at the University of Ari-
zona crowned Edith Mcmahon,
Tucson, Desert Queen" in a student
festival conducted by the university
yearbook Desert"
Postal receipts at the Albuquerque
postoffice showed a SIS per cent In
crease during March over the same
month year ago, according to Roy
L. Cook, postmaster.
Kimball Bannister, Jr., Phoenix
youth, won the Southwestern Gold
Association tournament championship
at Tucson, by defeating Max Clark,
University of Arizona.
The Arizona Livestock Production
Credit Association announced that
livestock producers associations in
Arizona have borrowed $2,576,S66 dur
irg the past six months.
State Bank Examiner Woodlan P.
Saunders expressed optimism for the
future for New Mexicos state banks
which in 1885 had their best year
since the depression, according to
his annual report.
Women on the honor roll outnum-
bered the men on the honor roll for
the winter quarter at Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff, accord
ing to the list published by R. R. Pow
ers, registrar at the college.
A new graduate course at the Uni
versity of Arizona will direct research
into native Arizona designs of ancient
Indian pottery, baskets and rugs. The
work will be done in the Arizona state
museum on the campus.
A. r. Hebenstreit announced recent
ly that he had sold controlling interest
in the radio station KGGM at Albu-
querque to j. Lindsay Num-, former
eastern New Mexico newspaper pub
Usher, and his son, Gilmore Mum.
March revenue from the sales and
luxury taxes and liquor license fees
totaled $364,53O.63, the Arizona state
tax commission has announced. The
sales tax brought in $255, ,43S.01; lux
ury taxes, $1O5 5,042.62, and liquor fees,
$4,O50.
Sales tax collections in Arizona for
the first twenty-three days in March
were $S,355.s1 greater than for the
same period in February, according
to Frank E. Fraser, director of the
sales tax division of the state tax
commission.
A total of $500 in loans has been
made to four Navajo county, Arizona,
farmers by the farm credit admins
tration during the period ending De-
cember 81, 1885, S. A. Spear, state
director of the National Emergency
Council, reported.
Additional n. Y. A. students at the
university have been employed to
help prepare the American Guide an
nual of New Mexico. These students,
working under DR.. Donald D. Brand
Of the anthropology department, will
cover many phases of New Mexico.
One of the largest delegations ever
to attend convention of the New
Mexico State Firemen's Association, is
expected in Albuquerque May lib,
according to Theodore Rosenwald, sec
retary of the association. Each de-
partment is expected to send from
three to twelve delegates.
DR.. A. S. White, head of the Depart
ment of Government of the University
of New Mexico, has recently returned
from Washington, where he conferred
with government officials concerning
his recent appointment as special
representative of the federal employ
ment service in New Mexico.
The fishing season opened April /
in nearly all the warm waters of New
Mexico, including Elephant Butte,
Mcmillan and Bluewater Lakes. On
these waters the season remains open
continuously until Nov. 80. On some
of the smaller lakes, the season will
close during the spawning season,
April Is to June 1.
The University of Arizona appoint
ment office reports a noticeable short
age Of qualified teachers in the fields
Of agriculture and home economics.
More than $50 teachers were placed