Dedicating Tucson Underpass

Patrol Superintendent Attends Conference on Crime

Representing the State of Arizona at the Interstate Conference on Crime held recently at Trenton, New Jersey, C. R. McDowell, superintendent of the Arizona Highway Patrol, has brought back information dealing with the problem of extradition of criminals which he believes may aid Arizona in enacting a suitable compact to comply with provisions of the Ashurst-Sumner bill, enacted by the last Congress. Foremost in the discussion of crime matters in which Superintendent McDowell participated was the problem of interstate authority. Many states have adopted compacts giving authority to the officers of the enacting state to cross the state line, continue pursuit in the co-operating state, and there arrest a suspected criminal. The compact would also allow Arizona to call upon crime experts of neighboring states to assist in the solution of important crimes without cost to Arizona.

The part Arizona would play, in the event such a compact was adopted, was clearly brought out in the discussion by Colonel Schwarzkopf of New Jersey, who said: "I have in mind at present the problem of the superintendent of the Arizona State Police. His number of experts in Arizona being in an isolated section of the country would necessarily be much more limited than they would be in his neighboring state of California, where they have metropolis and heavy concentrations of population. If a compact was entered into between the State of Arizona and the State of California, whereby they agreed that upon request of the recognized enforcement authority of either state upon the other state for the assignment of experts to function in the investigation of crime, it might smooth the way and facilitate obtaining these men. It is not our situation here in the east that concerns me a bit; we have such an excellent understanding all the way through this section, with both the municipal police and state police that this does not concern me a bit, but I think we may be able to bring these other folks in other sections a real practical service by recommending compacts of this kind and the example that I just mentioned was one which I had particularly in mind. You have a number of states right around California there that are either very mountainous or desert areas, and we have certainly heard a lot about Arizona in the last few days and I think they would welcome compacts of this kind with New Mexico, and Texas and California, the states surrounding them, making their service available to them so that they could feel that as a part of their own outfit they had these experts upon whom they could call if they needed them, and it might help them...."

In addition to the extradition and compact problem, the conference also took up the matter of removal of out-of-state witnesses; parole supervision and joint interstate bureaus. The committee on permanent organization named Superintendent McDowell the Crime Commissioner for Arizona and also elected the Arizonan to the board of directors of State Police Executives. Prior to the round-table crime discussion, the Arizona delegate heard addresses by Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey; Senator Henry W. Toll of New Jersey; Hon. Justin Miller, special assistant attorney general of the United States, and the Hon. Sanford Bates, director of federal prisons.

"It was one of the most instructive conferences I ever attended," McDowell said. "I am positive that our department will profit eventually from the deliberations by the leading criminal experts of the nation."

JANUARY, 1936 MEN WHO BUILD OUR HIGHWAYS

(Continued from Page 3) He was going to work with the Arizona Copper Company as chairman and cost clerk on construction of smelter plants. He join. ed the engineering force of the Arizona Highway Department in 1915 as rodman and time-keeper on force account road construction out of Ft. Thomas. In May 1918, Mr. Grant joined the army, going to Angel Island with the 434th Engineers at Camp Kearney, San Diego, Calif. un til discharged in 1919, when he returned to the Highway Department as resident engineer. Was made district engineer in September, 1927, and now has the northern section of the state under his supervision. Mr. Grant is married and has two daughters.

SWAN A. ERICKSON, one-time bridge design engineer of the Arizona Highway Department, took over the duties of engineer of the State Certification Board and engineer of dams in August, 1933 Born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1901 Mr Erickson was educated in the Bisbee high school and graduated from the University of Arizona in 1925. He was employed by the city of Los Angeles on the Colorado river aqueduct survey and late by A. G. McGregor on design of rails and smelters. He next was employed in successively by the Dwight P. Robinson Construction company on the construction of the smelters at Douglas, by the El Paso Foundry and Machine Co. of fabrication of steel structures, and by the Loveland Engineers on design and construction of irrigation structures for Roosevelt Irrigation District. Coming to the Arizona Highway Department June 4, 1928, he has since been continuously employed in the department on bridges until his elevation to the post of certification board engineer.

R. C. PERKINS, District Engineer in the District No. 3, was born in Carthage Missouri, October 8, 1887. His education was obtained in private and high schools in Carthage, Shattuck Military School in Fairbault, Mo., Kemper Military School in Boonville, Mo., and the University of Missouri and Rolla School of Mines. He has had varied experience in in railroad location and construction work with the Missouri Pacific, St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Ry., Joplin and Pittsburg Ry. After coming to Arizona his experience was varied in city, county and state paving construction. He was chief engineer in charge of the Maricopa

JANUARY, 1936 County eight and a half million dollar road building program, and some of the most spectacular and important construction of the Arizona highway system has been under his supervision. He was engineer in charge of the Grand Canyon Bridge, and both the Salt River and Tempe bridges were constructed under his supervision.

W. R. HUTCHINS was born at Athens, Georgia, November 16, 1886, where he attended grade and high schools and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1908. He came to Arizona in 1908 to work in the engineering department of the Arizona Copper Co. and the Arizona and New Mexico Railroad; and in 1916 engaged in claim surveying and contracting. From 1921 to 1923 he was engineer for the Graham County Highway Commission and in 1924 district engineer for the Arizona State Highway Department. From 1928 to 1930 he was Office Engineer for the Arizona Highway Department and from that time until the present day he has been District Engineer for District No. 4.

JULLIAN W. POWERS, Engineer of Materials, was born June 25, 1900 in Phoenix. He graduated from grammar and grade schools in Phoenix and entered The University of Arizona in 1918 and was converted to Student Army Training corps under army regulations. He received honorable discharge from the U. S. Army in December, 1918 and graduated from the university in 1922 with Bachelor of Science degree. His first work was with the Maricopa County Highway Commission under the bond issue which paved the Salt River Valley with concrete. At the termination of his work in November, 1923, he entered the services of the Arizona State Highway Department as laboratory helper and was appointed Engineer of Materials January 1, 1926. Mr. Powers is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is married and has two children.

PERCY JONES, Jr., Chief Location Engineer for the Arizona Highway Department, was born at Winchester, Kentucky, November 3, 1888, where he resided until the fall of 1903, at which time he went to Chicago. For two years he lived in Chicago, finishing the senior year of the Armour Scientific Academy and the freshman year of the Armour Institute of Technology. In the fall of 1905 he entered the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colorado, from which he graduated with the degree of Engi-

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neer of Mines in the spring of 1908. After graduating, Mr. Jones came to Arizona and was engaged as instrument man for various branch lines of the Southern Pacific and from then until 1916 his experience covers railroad employment with the Southern Pacific, El Paso and Southwestern and the U. S. Indian Service. In August, 1916 he secured his first position with the Arizona Highway Department as transitman, and in 1917 entered the army. He served with the 16th Engineers in France and was discharged in May, 1919. On returning to Arizona he went to work for the Pinal County Highway Commission as resident engineer, then assistant engineer on Maintenance of Way on the Tucson Division of the Southern Pacific. He was appointed locating engineer with the Highway Department in the spring of 1923 and has been with the department ever since and has been chief locating engineer since July, 1930.

HARRY C. HATCHER, Statistical Engineer, was born in Bedford, Virginia, in 1890. He was educated in the public schools of Bedford and graduated from Fork Union Military Academy. From there he attended the University of Richmond. His first job was with the Norfolk and Western Railroad and in 1911 he came to Arizona in the Indian Service. His first work in the Highway Department was in 1912.

From 1913 to 1915 Mr. Hatcher worked for the city of Phoenix in the Engineering Department and enlisted in the 28th Engineers in 1917. He spent seventeen months overseas. He again entered the services of the Highway Department in 1923 and has served continuously in the capacity of Statistical Engineer.

JAMES STUART MILLS, Estimating Engineer, was born in Scotland and came to America at the age of nine. He received his education in the public schools of New York and the University of Arizona.

He was employed as field engineer by the Empire District Electrical Company of Joplin, Missouri, and the Ambarsen Hydraulic Company of Boston to make a reconnaissance for a dam and power house on White River, Missouri. After completing this assignment he worked on construction of the dam.

He entered the employ of Pima County as instrument man and inspector. In his own words at the end of three or four years he mustered out as assistant county engineer.

Mr. Mills' first employment with the Highway Department was as field draftsman, when he assisted in the location of Vail-Benson and Nogales-Fairbanks highways, and in 1920 entered the Phoenix office, where he has remained ever since. Mr. Mills is an enthusiastic golfer.

RALPH A. HOFFMAN, Bridge Engineer, was born in Linwood, Nebraska, June 21, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of Shawnee, Oklahoma, and entered the engineering college of the University of Oklahoma in 1914.

The fall of 1917 found Mr. Hoffman in Arizona, in search of a suitable climate for his invalid mother and in 1918 he secured his first job with the Highway Departments as draftsman. His first experience as bridge engineer was in 1919, under the guidance of R. V. Leeson, who was then consulting engineer for the department, and in 1920 he spent three months as field engineer and designer for the U. S. Government in the construction of the Pastime Veterans' Hospital at Tucson.

Returning to Phoenix in 1921, Mr. Hoffman entered the employ of the Maricopa County Highway Commission in charge of bridge and structure design under Chief Engineer R. C. Perkins and in 1923 he returned to the Arizona Highway Department in the capacity of Bridge Engineer. Mr. Hoffman is married and has two children.

IN THE LAND OF GIANT CANDLES

(Continued from Page 7) typical of this area. It is not unusual for visitors to see the Mexican mule deer, which is found in the lower recesses: of the forest. Occasionally the white-tailed deer is seen on the sun-dappled ranges near the spine of the Rincons. The javalinas or wild hogs dig out the roots of the cacti as a part of their diet, but quit their feeding grounds and scurry off into the distance at the sight of a car. Visitors who wish to complete their tour of the park with a picnic supper will find cleaned areas provided with stone tables and fireplaces. These picnic spots are located on hills that give unobstructed views of the rolling sahuarocovered hills and the mountain ranges in the distance.

At sunset time a great glory illuminates the skies. Reflected pinks and deepening rose kiss the violet-colored peaks. A hush encircles the world broken only by the call of a mourning dove for his mate.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS JANUARY, 1936 Road Projects Under Construction in Arizona DISTRICT NO. 1.

G. B. Shaffer, District Engineer.

F. D. Shufflebarger has contract 76% complete on the Wickenburg-Prescott N. R. M. 31 (1935), Phoenix-Prescott Highway. Joe de Arozena, resident engineer.

State forces have work of grading, draining and surfacing approximately 8.2 miles of road on the Hope-Parker Highway, State Route 72, W.P.S.S. 112C 54% complete. Percy Jones, Sr., resident engineer.

Lee Moor Construction Co., has contract 34% complete for the oil processing by either road mix or plant mix method of 23.6 miles on the Ash Fork-Kingman Highway, extending northeast from Kingman, F. A. P. 80-G. C. S. Benson, resident engineer.

Packard Construction Co., have contract 90% complete for grading and draining approximately 9.3 miles of roadway on the Kingman-Boulder Dam Highway, State Route 69, beginning 40 miles northwest of Kingman and extending northwesterly, W.P.S.S. 102-C. M. D. Glessner, resident engineer.

Skousen Brothers have contract 13% complete for grading, draining and placing aggregate base course on the Ash-fork-Kingman Highway., U. S. 66. Work begins at the eastern boundary of Hual-pai Indian Reservation, about 60 miles northeast of Kingman, and extends south easterly for 10.8 miles. F.A. 80-I. м. Kisselburg, resident engineer.

All Arizona Engineering and Construction Co. have contract 10% complete for grading, draining, placing aggregate base course on 1.8 miles on the Prescott-Jerome Highway, W.P.M.H. 12. J. A. Quigley, resident engineer.

Tiffany Construction Co. have contract 27% complete for grading, draining and oiling of 1½ miles on the Phoenix-Yuma Highway near Mohawk, F.A. 55 2nd Reo. W. T. Keplinger, resident engineer.

F. D. Shufflebarger has contract 4% complete to repair existing bridge and construct two additional spans over Sol's Wash at Wickenburg, Phoenix-Prescott Highway, A.F.E. 2402. Joe De Arozena, resident engineer.

Pearson & Dickerson have been awarded a contract for grading and draining 5.5 miles of roadway beginning about 22 miles N. E. of Prescott, F.A. 96-C, Prescott-Jerome Highway. J. A. Quigley, resident engineer.

complete of grading, draining and placing select material on 8.5 miles of roadway on the Flagstaff-Fredonia Highway, F.A.P. 95-H. The work begins at the Indian Reservation boundary, about 44 miles north of Flagstaff, and extends northerly to Cameron. H. B. Wright, resident engineer.

The Lee Moor Construction Co. have contract 8% complete for placing aggregate base course, shoulder material and cut-back plant mix on 18.2 miles of roadway on the Holbrook-Lupton Highway, F.A.P. 83-D. The work begins at Navajo-Apache County Line, about 21 miles northeast of Holdbrook, and extends northeasterly. A. J. Kerr, resident engineer.

Ken Hodgman and Pearson & Dickerson have contract 57% complete for grading and draining roadway, and placing select material and aggregate base course on eleven miles of the Flagstaff Fredonia Highway, F.A.P. 95-F. Work begins at north end of F.A.P. 95-B, about 92 miles north of Flagstaff, and extends northerly. J. M. Hobbs, resident engineer.

E. L. Yeager has contract 87% complete for the removal and salvaging of old pavement, placing select material and paving with cement concrete three-tenths of a mile of paving within the city limits of Holbrook; Holbrook Streets, N.R.M. 40 (1934). A. J. Kerr, resident engineer.

E. L. Yeager has contract 22% complete for the grading, draining and placing of select material, gravel sidewalk, curb and gutter and cut-back plant mix in the city of Winslow; Winslow Streets, F.A. 20 Reo. and 22 Reo. Oscar Maupin, resident engineer.

R. C. Tanner Co. have contract 5% complete to grade, drain and place dust palliative on 5.3 miles of the HolbrookSt. Johns Highway. F.A. 78-G. J. L. Bone, resident engineer.

Packard Construction Co. have been awarded a contract to grade, drain and place aggregate base course on 4.5 miles of the Showlow-Springerville Highway, W.P.H. 105-A.

DISTRICT NO. 2

F. N. Grant, District Engineer State forces have work 99% complete of grading, draining and surfacing approximately 1.6 miles on the EagerSpringerville Highway, W.P.S.S. 117-Α. Howard Shelp, transit man in charge.

R. C. Tanner & Co. have work 52%

DISTRICT NO. 3

R. C. Perkins, District Engineer Lee Moor Contracting Co. has contract 97% complete for the grading and draining of approximately 4½ miles of U. S. Highway 69, beginning approximately 56½ miles northeast of Globe and extending N. E. N.R.H. 99-I (1935). R. D. Canfield, resident engineer.

State forces have work of grading and draining approximately 3.1 miles on the Clifton-Springerville Highway, W.P.S.S. 101-D 75% complete. W. R. Stevens, resident engineer.

O. F. Fisher Construction Co. has contract 20% complete for grading and draining approximately 6.4 miles of roadway on the Globe-Showlow Highway, F. A.P. 99-H. The work begins about 50 miles northeast of Globe and extends northeasterly. A. F. Barth, resident engineer.

Clinton Campbell Contracting Co. has contract 98% complete for the removal of old bridge and construction of new 3-span concrete bridge over Consolidated Canal, approximately 2 miles east of Mesa, F.A.P. 47, Mesa-Superior Highway. Jas. A. Parker, resident engineer.

Lee Moor Contracting Co. has contract 22% complete for grading and draining approximately 4.7 miles of roadway on the Globe-Showlow Highway, F.A.P. 99-J. Work begins about 61 miles northeast of Globe and extends northeasterly. R. D. Canfield, resident engineer.

Phoenix-Tempe Stone Co. has contract 90% complete for the widening of onehalf mile of existing pavement with Portland cement concrete within the city limits of Mesa; F.A. 8-A Reo., TempeMesa Highway. Jas. A. Parker, resident engineer.

State forces have work 25% complete of grading, draining a section of road between Duncan and Clifton, W.P.S.S. 13-A, Duncan-Clifton Highway. W. R. Stevens, resident engineer.

State forces have work on building a bridge at Canyon Lake, N.R.S. 106-A. Apache Trail 64% complete. R. J. Holland, resident engineer.

Borderland Construction Co. has completed contract for widening existing pavement with Portland cement concrete within the town of Safford, F.A. 43Reo. A. W. Newhall, resident engineer.

W. E. Hall Co. have contract 2% complete to grade, drain and oil south on 17th Avenue to Greenhaw Street then to 19th Avenue on the Phoenix-Yuma Highway, W.P.M.H. 30-F. Geo. E. Lang, resident engineer.

Arizona Sand and Rock Co. have contract 2% complete for widening six miles of paving between Six Points and Glendale, Phoenix-Prescott Highway, W. P. M. H. 33. Geo. E. Lang, resident engineer.

Harry Hagen has been awarded a contract for grading and draining 3.2 miles of roadway near the Gila-Navajo County Line, F.A. 105-D, Globe-Springerville Highway, A.F. Rath, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 4

W. R. Hutchins, District Engineer The Pleasant-Hasler Construction Co. have contract 97% complete for the grading, draining, placing of aggregate base course and oil processing by the plant-mix method of approximately 12 2-3 miles of the Ft. Hauchuca-Bisbee Highway, N.R.S. 108-A. A. J. Gilbert, resident engineer.

State forces have work of grading, draining and surfacing approximately