The Coolidge examiner., 1936-02-07
Southwestern Briefs

building enlargement program at once.
G. N. Amis of Roswell has been
awarded the contract for the construc-
tion of union high school at Captain,
N. NJ, as a PWA project Work will
begin about Feb. Is.
E. M. Gibbons, city engineer of
Portales, n. M, for a number of years,
has resigned to go to Nashville, Tenn,
where he will be connected with an
engineering firm.
Plans are being drawn for the con-
struction of National Guard cavalry
stables. hay barn, blacksmith shop
and caretakers' house, at Silver City,
N. M, under proposed WPA project.
Establishment of CCC district head
quarters at Silver City and beginning
of an enlarged erosion control pro-
gram in that section has helped busi-
ness there, according to Mayor E. W.
Ward.
The NYA program in New Mexico
for unemployed youth not in school
now has sufficient projects to utilize
its $54,500 fund by March Is, accord
ing to report made by Tom l.. Pope
joy, assistant state director.
Secretary Ickes has awarded
$1,132,547 contract to Hallett Con-
struction Company of Crosby, Mimi,
for construction of the Alamogordo
dam on the Carlsbad reclamation prof.
ect in New Mexico.
A survey to determine the feasibil-
ity of organizing a band, drum and
bugle corps, children's band or or
chestra and promoting public concerts
is under way in Las Vegas, N. NJ, by
the New Mexico Federal Music WPA
project
The University of Arizona has an
nounced> that A. H. Mathieson, west
ern field representative of the Hol-
stein-Friesian Association of America,
will start tour of Arizona about Feb.
II. He will address breeders in sew
eral counties while on the tour.
Arizona set new high in 1885 in
the number Of cases of communicable
diseases reported, according to the
state department of health. A sum-
mary made public by Dr. George c.
Truman, superintendent, shows 1869
cases reported in 1885 and 12,254 in
1884.
writer's project sponsored by the
Works Progress Administration has
sent out a plea for unrecorded Ari-
zona history. The information is
sought by Charles M. Morgan, super
visor of the Arizona section of the
American Guide, who has offices in
Phoenix
Cooperation of Santa Fe officials
and organizations has been asked by
Herbert Maier, regional officer of the
New Mexico national park service di-
vision, in tracing and preserving his
toric land marks Of national interest.
Some sites and buildings, he said, were
neglected and in danger of destruc-
tiOn
New Mexico farmers pay their hired
hands we'll above the national scale.
A bureau of agricultural economics
survey during the past three months
shows that New Mexico farm workers
received $22.25 with board and ,$33.75
without board as the monthly ma
tional rate was 1854 with board and
S2S63 without.
The Rural Resettlement Administra-
tion has rendered its assistance to
the Nomadic Navajo Indians. When
Charles Burns, Indian agent at Fort
Defiance. Arizona, reported some of
the Indians are ready to "settle down"
on irrigated or dry farming tracts,
j. A. Waldron, state rehabilitation di-
rector, offered them assistance.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, has re-
duced its total bonded indebtedness of
almost two million dollars to $947,OOO
since the first voting general obliga-
tions and water bonds in 1925, accord
ing to Mayor Charles Lembke The
bonded debt voted totaled $1,75S,OO0,
of which $811O0O has been retired
since 1925, Mr.. Lembke said.
survey conducted by {. R. Filler
up, county agricultural agent, re.
vealed that SO per cent of Navajo
county, New Mexico, farms and
ranches are operated by the owners.
Fillerup reported the entire country
IS prosperous. The ranges, he said,
are stocked with $4,000 head of cattle,
$4,000 sheep, 1000 hogs, and 600
goats.
Steps for the completion of the
huge building program at Arizona
State Teachers College at Flagstaff
have been speeded up since the PWA
officials of Phoenix approved con-
tracts for construction of the new
combination women's dormitory, din
ing hall and cafeteria, and reconstruc-
tion of the power plant. Announce
ment of the contract awards came
from the office of DR.. T. ]. Tormey,
president
Felix Sachs was reelected president
OF the Tucson, Ariz., Merchants Asso-
citation at the annual dinner banquet
of the association. More than eighty
five Tucson merchants attended the
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