Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-30
I'm OUR
VALLEY

about four miles north from Los
Fresnos school.
They will admit that IL Is better
than a dirt road.
But advance the thought shat in
vet weather il offers complications
10 traffic.
An empty truck travelling north
meets loaded truck travelling south.
. The empty truck. much as its
driver dislikes to do so. must give
right Of way TO the loaded truck.
And chances are, IL he leaves the
pavement under wet weather condi-
ticns, he is likely to get stuck"
The answer, no doubt. will be "side
tracks" Of gravel at intervals along
the road.
HOWEVER that NAV be. the Los
fresnos citizens have such an
amount OF pavement--and are get
ting more-that they are enabled 20
move around quite freely in wet
weather.
Monday night there was 4 meeting
a. Los Fresnos school Of the citizens
to discuss the question Of whether
they preferred to join the Browns
vile navigation district, or the San
Benito district.
A short while before the meeting
vas to be opened doubt was express
ed that many would be unable 70
attend because OF rains early in the
evening.
But before the meeting was we'll
under way, some forty or more per-
sons were present. Included delega-
tions from Brownsville and San Be
nito.
in other days there would have
been no one. Except, perhaps, the
man whose duty IL was to see that
the school building was open and
lighted.
SAN ANT0Ni0'S famous park sys-
TEN was developed largely under IT,
direction OF one man. now gone. who
loved parks for their beauty. His
name was Ray Lambert.
And Mission has its Ray Lambert,
to judge from the Mission Enter
J prise, in the person of Henry Duen-
sing.
Concerning Mr.. Duensing and the
work he Is doing, the Enterprise
says:
Visitors to Mission ard those
who live here have often wondered
AZ the splendid condition of the parks
in the city. They have passed most
favorable comments upon the con-
dition of the lawns, of the care the
flowers had received, of the neatly
trimmed trees, hedges and the pro-
fusion OF gresnery.
THEY HAVE NOT stopped 10
consider the work that such a condi-
tion would necessarily entail. nor
have they stopped to think about
the genius that has made il possible.
Just as Edison potters around in
his laboratory. creating. building. de-
veloping, so does Henry Duensing
potter around in his gardens. Those
same gardens are much more than
man or set Of men would care to call
gardens, too.
with tenejuage and blackberry
trees, with palms and roses, and nu-
merouS other growing plants of all
kinds, with vines and acres OF lawn.
his work is such that ono might
think he would soon tire OF the task
of cutting planting. and trimming
and watering and caring for his huge
family.
- ZONE HUNDRED AND TEN rose
bushes is rather large rose gar
den TO care for, and when that is
heinS constantly augmented from
cuttings that he has grown himself
and has budded, II is more than the
usual thing to note the trim condi-
tion in which they are kept
"For several years he has heen
looking after the city parks. and for
several years they have been we'll
Kept. But it is what would he a
task for the average citizen.
For Henry Duensing il j. plea
sure. for he loves Il.
"Potterirg around with his flow
srs and trees and lawns, Henry
Duensing is happT. and So are hum
dreds OF others. made so ny viewing
the success Of his efforts
~MEFO." writing in the Houston
Press. says:
.The citrus fruit growers of the
Valley are bitterly opposing the
shipping Of that sections wonderful
r,srefruit before IL Is fully ripe.
"Thev are right. T6 send forth
Valley grapefruit when it IS still
-recn. or not fully matured. is
crime. Whenever you get grape
f,yit from Southwest Texas that
r,eds sugar. you may know il Is
a;,hcr spurious article Or ship
,,,s,t that some unwise dealer sent
forth too soon"
SHOWERS fell last night in this
vicinity.
Again Tuesday morning.
cold upper currents Of air. from
~ north. meeting the warm air
currents IN the vicinity Of the coast.
A combination which, physical
raooraphv taught US. makes Tor
eo,dition of moisture.
Ard that's what has been falling.
THE FIRST WATER has been
,...sd into a canal on the Goodwin
80. new development northwest
Of Mission .;.