The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-24
Southwestern Briefs

day Association was held at Portales.
Francis K. Pomeroy has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Mesa, Ariz. He
succeeds Henry Hall, named to the
post eight years ago.
Drivers license sales in Albuquerque
have Increased by more than 700 over
the same period last year, according
to Mrs. Ida Malone, city clerk.
Life insurance written IN Arizona
during 1885 totaled S21,228,362.75,
Chairman Charles R. Howe of the
State Corporation Commission re-
ported.
Doris Moore, formerly with the
North Dakota State Teachers College,
will assume the duties of head libra
rian at the Arizona Teachers College
at Flagstaff.
improvements to grounds and build
ings of the University of Arizona's
date farm, southeast of Phoenix, are
being carried out as a PWA project
at cost of $5,841.
The Arizona Sand and Rock Com
pany, Phoenix, submitted low bid
to the State Highway Department for
grading, draining and oiling of the
Casa Grande-Sacaton highway.
Mrs. Julia M Alder, Tucson, was
elected president of the P. E. o. sis
terhood of Arizona at the annual state
convention in Tempe. Flagstaff was
selected for the 1897 convention city.
Eight buildings involving an evnon-
diture of $1,200,0O0 will be ready for
occupancy at the University Oh Arl-
zona by next September or October,
according to Roy Place, project archi-
tect.
Abundance of water and indications
of improved feed conditions should
result in an unusually good lamb crop
in New Mexico this spring, according
to Tom Smell, secretary of Sheep
Sanitary Board.
Building activity in Phoenix during
the first three months of 1886, set a
five-year record in the value of con-
struction. improvements cost $312,-
843 and the value of construction was
placed at $16S,950.
The University of Arizona anthropol-
ogy class recently made three-day
inspection of the Casa Grande ruins,
prehistoric canals near Phoenix, the
Apache Trail, Tonto ruins and the
Gila pueblo at Globe.
Paul A. F. Walter of Santa Fe, N.
hEy
as delegate to the fortieth annual
meeting of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, to be
held at Philadelphia, April 24-25.
Construction of the Arizona State
Teachers College new $4,000 stadium.
industrial arts building has been
started. The structure is to be COM
pleted by the opening of the inter
collegiate football season in Septem
Der.
With the exception of three persons
who resigned, the entire faculty of the
Arizona State Teachers College have
received reappointments. Mark Mac
Intosh, football coach; DR.. D. R. Har-
mon, director of public relations, and
Ida G. Wilson, librarian, resigned.
Phoenix's new $1,OOO,OOO federal
building will be formally occupied
July l, according to Postmaster
George H. Todd. 1t will house the
postoffice and numerous government
tai agencies. The present postoffice
will be remodeled for other federal di.
visions.
A. l.. Hinckley, junior student at
the University of Arizona, is engaged
in task which will require months
mapping of the native plant growth
areas of the Carnegie desert labora-
tory reserve near here. A record of
the normal variation Of plant growth
from year to year is sought.
Charles H. Collins, Arizona state
president, announced that 1t. Col.
Frank E. Lowe, national president of
the Reserve Officers Association, and
Col. Charles Larsen, eighth corps
area president, will attend the twelfth
annual convention of the state depart
ment, here May and 10.
Plans are now being completed for
a state convention of the Reserve Of
ficers' Association of New Mexico in
Albuquerque late in May, according
to Col. ]. D. Schuster, local president.
1t. Col. Frank E. Lowe, Portland, Me-,
president of the organization,
is expected to attend the meeting, Col.
Schuster said
Seven colleges and universities will
be represented at the mathematics
section of the southwestern division
of the American Association for the
of Science at Flagstaff
April 27 and 2S. They are the Univer-
sity of Colorado, University of New
Mexico, Texas Tech, New Mexico
State College, Arizona Teachers Col
lege at Tempe, Portales, N. M, Junior
College and the Arizona State Teach
ers College of Flagstaff
The Commerce Department reported
recently that February's retail sales
in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico
showed an IS per cent greater dollar
volume than in the same period last
year. Survey of 934 stores in the