Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-03
FINAL
EDITION
I'm OUR
VALsLEY

TWENTY lhOOHANb o'i'
no sum to be sneered at
It's the bonus given Cameron coun-
" in a sale Of one million dollars
worth of road bonds, which bear i've
per cent interest.
It's more Of bonus, considerably
more, than was received for the MIL
lion dollar issue Immediately pre-
ceding.
That bonus comes, the county
Judge says, because the bond market
has improved since the sale OF tne
last issue.
More money available for bond in
vestment just now.
However that may be, Cameron
county now is ready 70 proceed Win
further highway construction.
San Benito and Harlingen pre-
cincts will start some Of their work
at once.
The Brownsville precinct may not
be able TO do anything in the way
of highway construction until litiga-
tion is settled.
This litigation was projected to /
bring about construction Of the boca \
Chica road-the road TO the coast
before any other road work.
THE BoCA CHICA ROAD has
been graded for some fifteen miles. |
Will be given from ten months 70
year to settle.
In the meantime the county had 4
hoped to begin work On the high
way up the river-the Military road 1
to the precinct line, a distance Of 4
nine miles.
Later il is hoped 10 hook up" .
with San Benito precinct construc-
tion for a continuous, paved road I
from Brownsville 10 the Hidalgo 4
county line near Santa Maria. San /
Benito will also have an outlet In
that direction. also TO La Feria.
Hidalgo county will build from I
Mercedes southeast TO the Cameron /
line at Santa Maria.
When all OF that construction Is /
completed. the distance from 4
Brownsville to Mercedes will be 4
shortened five miles.
And will provide a parallel road
and relieve traffic conditions on the
main highway.
AN INTERESTING news dispatch
from Northampton, England.
Announces that society folk are
patronizing a new health resort adj
vertising a grapefruit cure" for
health.
The cure lasts a month and en-
braces fruit diet. sun and air treat
ment and games.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley will
be glad 10 supply the delicious
grapefruit 10 provide the juices that
will be used for the health cure.
IF YOU were travelling. via auto
or train. bent on a holiday in the
Yellowstone park. or n California or
some other place, would you enjoy
learning from the natives that you
we're a portion Of a tourist crop"
and that they were waiting to make
q harvest Of you?
Probably not.
The San Benito Light and the
Corpus Christi Caller have up . dis
cussion on this point
"The Crows Nest" in the Caller.
quotes from the Light
"'The Crows Nest. = new front
page column in the Corpus Christi
Caller, heartily endorsing the policy
Of courtesy which Cameron county
commissioners have adopted II tour
lists, but raises an objection to the
county attorneys reference 70 'har-
vesting the tourist cror
Perhaps the writer is rigt. How
ever, Mr.. Halls meaning was that
the tourist traffic u one or the
county's greatest assets. and conse-
quently should Re shown every couT-
tesy by traffic officers on the high
ways as well as by chamber Of COM
merce officials and others The term
tourist crop has been frequently
used in the Valley during the past 1
few years. Possibly Il T. objection
able. After All. no one would like
being harvested
And Grows Nest" comments fur.
ther:
Those who live in cities fire.
quented by tourists know the mean
ing of the term harvesting the tour
ist crop. To them Il has no un-
pleasant connotation. perhaps. But
10 the tourist ~ may bring up IN
pleasant pictures. The importance
of the tourist a. an asset 70 South
Texas cannot be minimized. Surely
he deserves little more considera-
tion than the opprobrium expressed
in the thought that he IS being 'har-
vested"
Let's not cali EN- "crops"; let's not
"harvest" them.
Let's just refer - them as our visi-
tors. our guests-and treat 'em as
such.
They'll like H. It'll sell them the
country and the people. And best
Of all they'll come back.
We invest lots of money. collect
lively. in getting these visitors. No
harm to 20 out of our way, II neces-
sary, to make them feel entirely az
home.
And that's whats being done.
AGED MINISTER DIES