Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-04
i'm OUR
VALLEY

~f4 give brownsville taxpayers q
quite agreeable Christmas present.
Even though Christmas be a few
weeks away.
They reduce tho tax rate from 81
20 $i-50-without any more discus
sion than that, apparently.
A lcp off city tax rate in that
amount Is probably a record for any
city In the state the size of Browns
Vile or larger.
That cut means that taxpayers
will have to pay the city about $685.
600 less than they expected TO.
Doubtless they thought the city
would maintain last years rate,
which was 81 and q reduction of 40
cents a hundred under what it was
before.
In other words, within q years
time, a total Of ninety cents a hun
dred has been taken off.
Valuations have gone up. Have
been raised. But this tax cut GER
tainly should satisfy all.
The valuations are $13,1o0, 900.
II is much better for a city to
have a low tax rate and fair valua-
tions, than low valuations and a
high rate.
When a new industry enters, IL
does not ask. "What are your val
nations 7" Instead. it asks, what is
your tax rate?"
THE CITY COMMISSION, In
formed Of valuations for the year
S13sf00. .000-found that the 81 rate
would give the city more money
than IL actually needed for opera
tions.
Therefore the reduction 10 si.5O,
cutting the income about s65,000. Al
though the budget has not yet been
adopted.
THE HERALD Friday afternoon
issued its first sport pink extra
edition.
II was on the football game be-
twuen Palestine and Brownsville
Junior high school teams.
The extra, on the streets about
ten minutes after the conclusion of
the game. was popular.
The extra was made possible
through cooperation extended The
Herald by District Manager George
II. Tate Of the telephone company.
The Herald asked Friday morn
ing for a telephone line to be run
into the field. This Tate authorized
and Plant Man Cabbage saw that the
line was run. 10 was connected d.
rect into the Herald office. So the
report was telephoned into The Her
aid office play by play. written, the
type ~set up" the page made up,
matrix made. printing plate cast,
and the press started.
SAN BENITO. having disposed Of
Rohst0wn in a surprising game,
considering Robstown's previous rec
ord. will meet Harlingen at Har-
lingen next Friday.
At which time a football question
OF supremacy will be settled for the
benefit Of the Valley.
IL promises 70 be the most hotly
contested game seen in this section
I'm many a day.
No doubt there will be crowds on
crowds.
THE HERALD has received the
following from r. NJ. Eubank Of
Harlingen, which II appreciates very
much:
II am not an official Of the Val
ley Mid-Winter Fair. However, \
am q staunch supporter Of same.
s'I read your good paper daily and
~ one of the boys on the sidelines
wish 10 thank you for the wonder
fui publicity you gave our Valley
fair"
The fairstsslf and all Il. variou.
events affordad. news which The
Herald believes ths people OF the
Valley want
It is the purpose Of TIE Herald to
print all the news that IL can get
that is Of interest to The people Of
che Valley.
THERE HAS BEEN raction to
che visit here recently cfsGeneral w.
w. Atterbury. presidenk aef the
Pennsylvania Lines--his sfifxt and
only visit.
Theodore A. Precht arrivs3 In
Brownsville from San Antonio and
announces that a Valley officetf for
the Pennsylvania lines, TO handle
freight and passenger matters. will
shortly be opened in BrcNssillc.
Eastern lines have heed asked Co
make tourist rates into hesNaiIeT
Perhaps the opening of tkeffiee
Il a step in that direction.
As II is now, eastern tourhtk&eal
not get rates into the Valle% ex-
cert from the Chicago area.
The east II a future operating
section for Valley land development.
SURVEYS BEING made for a new
industrial area for Brownsville. Il
will be in q section of ~ne city
served by three roads-the Mis-
souri Pacific, the Southern Pacific
and the Rio Grarde railroad.
That Rio Grande may not be much
nr q freight handler at this time.
but Il may be a different story
when Braxos Pass has shipping.