Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-29
I'M OUR
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sible popularity of this route.
Flyers using the Brownsville fly
ing fields more and more frequently.
Newsreel photographers invariably
use this route.
Eventually international air mails
will travel via this route.
Brownsville is the nearest Ameri-
} can city to Mexico City.
Flying time between Brownsville
and Mexico City is from four to five
hours, depending on weather and
speed of machine.
Distance something like $50 miles
as the crow flies.
Mexico City is nearer Brownsville
by a hundred miles than is Dallas.
BROWNSVILLE Municipal Air
port is being developed.
Il will be marked plainly. Appro-
pirate signs for day use. flood and
other lights enclosing the field for
night flyers.
Air travel between the United
States and Mexico will grow rapidly
once the airport facilities become
widely known to flyers.
In the meantime, those flyers VINO
do not use the municipal rport'
or do not know OF it, have available
70 them the Fort Brown flying
field.
II has been reopened by the war
department, upon the recommenaa-
tion Of Col. Eby. acting commanding
officer at Tort Brown.
THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD
and radio station KWWG OF Browns
Vile were three rounds ahead ot al
other stations heard in this territory
IN broadcasting the Tunney- heeney
fight the other night.
That's real fight service over the
radio for readers of The Herald
and listeners-in on KWWG.
Shreveport, La, the only independ-
cnt outside of state station reported
on in this territory, was three
rounds behind KWWG.
And was made possible by close
cooperation between The Herald
and Curtis Strong OF station kWWG'
RI. CAIN was opposed By Paul
r. Dye for justice OF the peace IN
one Of the Brownsville precincts
upon which A. ". Reed, Browns
ville's leading humorist, invented 2
campaign slogan for Dyes opponent
II was:
"Never say Dye"
WEsLACO awards contracts COW
rrinr pavement Of some forty blocks
20 the city streets. Will spend
about $4,000.
outside the town itself, much new
having IS about to be opened for
public use.
These are roads in the Weslaco
road district. one of the first to
be started IN the county under the
district plan.
Pouring Of concrete on roads
north and south Of the city has been
finished.
Three weeks or 50 for seasoning
the roads are built OF concrete
and they will be ready for use.
These roads will give the city all
the-year connection with important
farming districts.
No more waiting for the roads to
dry. Into town any time.
THE MERCEDES NEWS points
ont that Mercedes is growing. As
reflected by new figures on assess
able valuations.
The figures for the year will ex.
ceed s3.500,0O0. the News says,
which is something like million
dollars more than last year.
And IL certain sections are taken
into the city. the figure will rise
70 about s4o00,000.
Included in the list of buildings
erected in the last year are those
of G. X. Watson, the Hidalgo Coun-
~ Bank building and he United
Printing company's new building.
.-l Of them among the most attract
i've structures in the Valley.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made Of the
sale OF the Mercedes Hotel property
And. inevitably. the heaut.sIl
Grounds Of the otel. fronting as
thew do on the principal business
street, will give way 70 a modern
structure of some Kind.
Thick growths OF shrubbery. flow
ers. evergreens. And a spot that
has attracted the admiration OF
thousands on thousands.
WEATHER PERMITTING. Sunday
nromises to prove another crowd
drawing day for the beaches OF
Cameron county.
Last Sunday the largest crowds
m record were attra d to Padre
leland and Boca Chica beaches.
One of these fine days someone
uill find a way 70 develop the near
hv beaches with boardways or other
improvements that will permit cars
~ travel the beaches without fear
of getting stuck in the deep sea
sands.
~ the meantime the cou-' Y has
5o,e much 10 axe the Lea.hes
wore and more attractive to plea
sure seekers.
GOOD MORNING. Did your
candidates come through with flags
a-flyingf