Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-07-29
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VALLEY

If You HAVE avocado trees, il is
not necessary to destory them on
account Of the fruit fly menace.
The avocado is said not be q host
10 the fly. therefore il is not dang
erous to citrus fruits.
The principal fruit trees affected
are the guava and the peach. the
fruit Of both Of which Is host 70
the n.y. Department of Agriculture
men say the fruit Of these trees
must be destroyed; also il is even
desirable TO destroy the tree. How
ever, a peach tree that never bears
need not be disturbed.
About August Is there will be a
decision from the federal horti-
cultural board as to the form Of
quarsntine. if any. that will be
placed.
The cleaner the Valley is of all
menacing host fruits at that time,
the more lenient the order will be.
THIS is A MATTER that depends
entirely upon the cooperation Of cit
izens who went to see the citrus in
dustry in the Lower RIO Grande
Valley flourish.
Should any fail to cooperate.
there is only one alternative inso-
Tar as the federal government is
concerned. That would be a auaran-
tire against citrus fruits from rex
as. which means the Valley.
L.. a a
no doubt act and quarantine the re-
mainder of the state against the
Valley. That would shut our whole
crop in. And we can't consume it.
Certainly no Valley resident wants
to see such a condition merely for
few guavas or peaches.
TWO PENCIL pushers met in
Brownsville the other day. In ma
chine shop.
Both were bent on something Of
the same sort of errand.
One, a newspaperman. was urging
expert machinists along in the mat
ter of turning down a big shaft for
| motor.
The other a novelist. a writer Of
western stories who is sojourning
on the coast, was sitting patiently
by while other expert machinists
were making a shaft for the pro-
peller of his launch, anchored over
at Holly Beach.
Each agreed that it would be rath-
er interesting to have jobs in al
place where steel was used to shave
down and otherwise reduce other
steel.
Neither argued in favor of pencil
pushing as a vocation. The ma
chinists tasks were 50 much more in
teresting.
Later the newspaperman returned
to his task at his office.
The novelist returned TO his
launch to start a fresh story on
western life.
THAT EXCHANGE of benches be-
tween District Judge A. W. Gun
uingham of Cameron and other
coast counties. and Judge j. II. Nc
Lean Of Llano county, was certainly
sensible thing to do.
coast resident yearns for a sea
son in the hills in summer. And
that's where Judge Cunningham has
gone.
The hill country jurist certainly
will appreciate season on the
coast. so Judge McLeOn comes TO
the coast.
The vacation" for each jurist
will last five weeks.
That's a suggestion for others.
Coast preachers might exchange pull
pits for while with hill country
preachers.
Coast editors could look up some
newspapermen in the hill country
ard swap with them for while.
And so on. nd infnitum.
Land operators. however. would
be utterly out Of luck.
Who wants 10 farm "A mountain?
THE HERALD has been urging
the construction of two-Storv apart
ment building in Brownsville.
They are coming right along.
The Nebraska apartment. very
attractive structure. has been built
M Fourteenth and jefferson streets.
Homer L. Fitch is building one in
West Brownsville.
Mrs. c. G.. Green is preparing %
erect still another In Elizabeth
street, in the district where two
rev churches are being built
Brownsville has been slower in
building modern than most Of the
larger towns in the Valley. But II
Is rapidly getting into the apart
rent game.
CAMERON COUNTY commission
esS seem bent on making il diff
cult for newspapers TO gather elec-
t;sa returns.
Now proposed 10 increase the
number Of voting precincts in tke
county from 30 10 30 or sS.
In the old days-if ten or twelve
WARS may be so considered. there
were only twelve or fifteen boxes.
Then they ran them up 60 twenty.
and finally up To thirty.
Newspaper reporters are planning
on petitioning lthe commission 10
nlaee voting boxes M noints con-
verient 20 telephones. II they are
splly decided TO increase the num-
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