The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-01
Southwestern Briefs

pOSltlOn.
Roy Goddard will be valedictorian
and Natalia Romero salutatorian at
Las Cruces, New Mex, High COM
mencement exercises.
March gasoline tax revenue in Ari-
zont amounted to $341, ,163.68, an in
crease of $47,42705 over February,
according to the state motor vehicle
division.
j. A. Waldron, Arizona state direc-
tor, has reported that $7S,923 wag
loaned to 166 persons in Arizona by
the rural rehabilitation department
during March.
Miss Elsie Rae Rigney has been
named as valedictorian of the New
Mexico State College 1896 commence,
ment exercises. Ulysses McElyea was
selected as salutatorian.
William Dooley of Artesia, N. M,
has announced prompt steps will be
taken to organize farmers of Chaves
and south Eddy counties into Farm
ers' Protective Association.
The 2,7OO-foot shaft of the Shattuck
Dem mine at Bisbee will be concrete
lined as part Of a development pro-
gram, according to L. G. Shattuck,
president of the corporation.
The Flagstaff, Ariz., water situation
this spring is the best in ten years and
as a consequence the city council
has approved a special low summer
rate to promote gardens and lawns.
Subscriptions totaling $4,000 have
been raised for a fund to provide
scholarships at State College in Las
Cruces, N. NJ, according to F. Carter
Womack, president of the fund COM
mittee.
Directors of the Tucumcari Cham
ber of Commerce have Joined the
Roosevelt county civic organization in
endorsing a proposal for an electric
power project in connection with Con-
chas Dam.
Mrs. ]. T. Murray of Central, Grant
county, was elected president of the
New Mexico Federated Music Clubs,
in convention at Albuquerque. Mrs
George Frenger, Las Cruces, was
elected a vice president.
DR.. Neland Gray of Clayton, N. M.
was appointed by the governor to fill
the vacancy on the State Board OF
Optometry Examiners. The vacancy
1rrhn Of ri
A. Staehlin Of Clayton expired.
The sage hens planted in New Mex
leo from Wyoming are doing well, ac-
cording to State Game Warden Elliott
Barker. He has been informed that
New Mexico turks and scale quail sent
to wyoming in exchange also are
flourishing.
New Mexico plans additional work
on the new Black Range highway, ac-
cording to Burton G. Dwyre, assistant
state highway engineer. He said no
interruption was planned in improve.
ment work on the Silver City-Lords-
burg route.
Admission of Eastern New Mexico
Junior College graduates to regular
four-year colleges with only minor re-
strictions was recommended in a ten
tative and unofficial report made by
a commission which surveyed the jun
ior college at Portales.
For the fourteenth straight year
Charles M. Clark heads the Arizona
Pioneers Association, having been re-
elected at the closing session of the
fifteenth reunion at Phoenix. Sharlot
Hall, Prescott, was reelected vice
president and W. w. Brookner was
renamed secretary.
Results of the first thirty days of
steer feeding experiment at the Uni
versity of Arizona's Salt River Valley
farm show nine pens of yearlings
gained an average of 80 pounds per
head per day, according to DR.. E. L.
Scott, associate professor of animal
husbandry at the university.
Clarence E. Hinkle, Roswell attOr-
ney, will deliver the commencement
address at New Mexico Military Insti-
tute June 2, school officials have an
nounced. Hinkle was graduated from
the institute with the class of 1922.
DR.. A. D. Grille of Roswell will preach
the baccalaureate sermon May 81.
Gathering of data to start a plan of
game management for sOuth-central
New Mexico, has been completed, ac-
cording to Elliott Barker, state game
warden. With o. M. Lee, wild life rep
resentative on the south-central graz
ing district board, Barker spent sew
eral days in travelling over the region.
The New Mexico School of Mines,
starting with the September term, will
add a new course to the schools cur
riculum, petroleum engineering, ac-
cording to an announcement by Presi-
dent e. H. Wells. This new course
will supplement those in mining engi-
neering, metallurgy, mining geology
and petroleum geology.
1t has been reported contracts would
be let soon for a large brick business
building to house a new postoffice and
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