The Coolidge examiner., 1941-05-09

PHOENIX, May 9-Plans are
afoot to jolt some political groups
in Arizona as seeds for an all out
agricultural movement are being
planted.
A determined effort will be
made, this column was told, to
unite farm and livestock inter
ests behind candidate for COVER
nor and a selected group of legis-
lators.
Maricopa county will be the
base of major operations which
are expected to spread to other
sections of the state through i'm
petus given by the Arizona Farm
Bureau federation. Earl Maharg,
energetic secretary of the farm
group and a comparatively recent
arrival from California, is credit
ed with being the master mind
behind the movement
Cecil Miller, farm bureau presl-
dent, is said to have been decided
upon as the standard bearer for
the movement. President of the
Miller Cattle company with extern
sive interests in Coconino county,
Mr.. Miller is expected to bring the
cattlemen into the fold despite
the farm bureaus opposition to
legislation sponsored by the cow
men in the last legislature.
Some farm bureau members are
of the opinion Gov. Sidney P. Os-
born let the agricultural interests
down during the last legislative
session by not forcing the issue
on their pet measure designed TO
set up a department of agricul
ture.
Mr.. Miller's sponsors insist that
his ardent advocacy of WILKES g
candidacy for the presidency will
not be a serious handicap to gu
bernatorial ambitions in view of
the large number of prominent
Democrats who rode the Willkie
bandwagon last year.
The farm group is said to be
highly dissatisfied" with a ma
jority of members in both hous-
es of the 18th legislature. They
cite Governor Osborn's inability
or unwillingness, to "get along
with the legislators" as further
evidence of the futility of expect
ing anything worth while from
state government in which the ex-
ecutive and legislative branches
are antagonistic."
Seventeen u. S. senators have
pledged their support to Sen. Er-
nest w. Mcfarland for passage
of the class mining loan bill,
according to w. ]. Graham, secre-
tary of the Arizona Small Mine
Owners association. The bill
would permit federal loans up TO
$1,000 to prospectors with real
showings" of pay dirt.
Senator Mcfarland is showing
an indefatigable interest in behalf
of small mine operators" Mr.. Ora
ham told the Watchtower. He is
being given the able assistance of
u. S. Sen. Carl Hayden in what
Mr.. Graham describes as zone OF
the most beneficial pieces of leg
islation proposed for the expan-
sion of Arizona's mining indus,
try"
Some politicos expressed sur
prise at the advice given members
of the Arizona Educational council
in Tucson last week by Harvey
Taylor, principal of the Mesa Un
ion high school.
Anomalous to the demand
which has been made for years
to keep" the schools out of poll
tics, Mr.. Taylor advised education
al colleagues to get into the po
litical arena. Educators should
take an active part in government
sitting on the city council and ev
en- taking the office of mayor
the Associated Press reported Mr.
Taylor as saying.
No little embarrassment was
suffered by the governor an6
members of the University o.
Arizona board of regents by dis
closure of the plan to purchase
$4,000 residence in Tucson fol
the university's president. Th'
deal, which was discussed at
meeting of the board attended b!
the governor, was kept secret un
til the story was exploded b!
William Turnbow, the Phoeni'
Gazette's capitol domer.