The Coolidge examiner., 1936-01-03

zona.
The works progress administration
has allotted $92,915 for improvements
at the international airport at Doug
las, Ariz. The project will furnish
employment for an average of 1874
for seven months.
Another statement from the New
Mexico tourist bureau said that gaso-
line tax collections for the last fiscal
year increased 1917 per cent, the
greatest percentage increase in any
state in the Union.
Four CCC camps in Arizona will be
abandoned in 1886, in accordance with
President Roosevelts orders reducing
the corps 100000 men by July l, it
has been announced by Aaron Sitron,
procurement officer.
Little, if any, loss of range cattle is
expected in Arizona this winter due
to improved condition of ranges and
livestock, according to M. R. Wells,
agricultural statistician of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
Howard S. Reed, PWA administra-
tor, has announced that Arizona was
one of the few states that got under
the wire 100 per cent to meet the
Dec. Is deadline for letting public
work administration contracts"
Enrolment in elementary schools
of New Mexico reached &c. 1896 for the
last fiscal year, gain over the pre-
vious year, it was announced by State
Superintendent H. r. Rodgers. Last
year the enrolment was 97,196.
Winter travel to the Grand Canyon
National park is headed for another
record, officials said in disclosing it
had jumped sc per cent since Oct. l,
over last year, which exceeded by IL
per cent the previous high of 1929
Bids for construction work totaling
approximately $22O,OOO were opened
at the State Teachers College in
Tempe, Ariz. The Del E. Webb Con
struction Company of Phoenix sub
mitted the low bid for erection of a
new dormitory.
Receiving their training for teach
ing, fifty students at Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff are as
sisting this quarter in teaching of
classes in the Flagstaff city school
system, under the supervision of the
trained teachers.
The State Banking Department de-
clared per cent dividend to certifi-
cate holders of the defunct Nogales
Building and Loan Association recent
tly. Y. c. White, superintendent of
banks, said more than 800 checks, to-
falling $4,000, were mailed.
twenty-five WPA projects are now
n progress in Union county, N. NJ,
upon which approximately 720 men
are employed. 1t is believed that ap-
proximately 900 more men in Union
county are eligible for work upon
such projects, should these be started.
DR.. w. E. Rowlands of Phoenix will
head the Hiram International, with
clubs in a number of states and north
ern Mexico, the ensuing year He was
elected master builder at the twelfth
annual convention in Phoenix and
will direct a program of expansion
during his tenure.
Because grain sorghums, which rob
the soil of nitrates, are being planted
more extensively in Arizona, DR.. r. S.
Hawkins, University of Arizona
agronomist, has recommended that
farmers use ammonium sulphate or
barnyard manure or permit the land
to lie idle until spring to avoid dam
aging the soil.
j. A. WaldrOn, director of rural re-
habilitation for Arizona, reported that
approximately 10000 cans of food
have been put up at Snowflake with
200 Navajo county residents partici-
pating in the cannery established by
the division last july. The cost of the
cannery, including goods, buildings
and equipment, was $4,000.
The New Mexico State Board Of
Education has agreed to adopt a series
of language and grammar books fol
the entire group of elementary grades,
text in New Mexico history and gov
ernment, readers for upper grades,
from fourth to eighth, inclusive, and
supplementary readers for the first
three grades, it was announced by
State superintendent H. r. Rodgers
The first home work WPA project
for San Miguel county, N. NJ, has
been started after approval of a grant
for $5,01S.33 was received at the Las
Vegas office. This project includes
the making of comforters in the
homes by women who are the sole
support of families. 1t is expected
that approximately fifty-two women
will be employed in the work by the
time the project gets in full swing
Comforters will be turned over to tbs
district commodity department for
distribution to families rated as un-
empI0v2hles.