Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-30
|lN OUR
VALLEY

Brownsville bought a hook and
adder truck for the fire depart
hent.
It's giant piece of fire fighting
quipment, with water towers and
|other paraphernalia.
The cost Of the equipment was
$4,000, exclusive Of freight.
When the. equipment came the city
found 1t had no place to store II.
Placed IL temporarily in the Hink-
ley garage, which happened to have
doors that would permit the truck
to enter.
For some reason the truck has
been removed from the garage.
II now rests in the street, at the
Ieity hall fire station. Covered with
tarpaulin, which is tied down with
&opes.
In the meantime the city has bor-
wed money with which il expects
3 erect a central fire station.
This station should be ready In
wo or three months.
That truck should be under a roof,
omewhere, even If the cost of stor-
ng 1t Is bit excessive. For il will
e but a temporary arrangement.
Nothing serious, perhaps. But il
hoes look a little sad to a finicky
Taxpayer.
.IHOSE VALLEY-ITES who confer
with Col. S. NJ. Gaines, railway
hil superintendent in the Southwest,
federal building Tuesday night,
ere impressed with one thing.
That was that q supplementary ar
ngement for transportation Of
sils in the Valley as a supplement
y service to the present rail SER
&c, promises many intracacies.
Col. Gaines is going TO have 10
I've the detail Of the thing a thor
bgh study.
Every town wants The service. If
Fery town gets it on the exchange
hck arrangement, it means that a
undred or more sacks will have to
&e handled.
Which means that the undertaking
fill be an expensive one.
The demand. insofar as the public
b concerned, seems to be for a spe-
rial truck to do nothing but handle
mails. A truck fitted up much like
. railway mail car.
JEFFERSON STREET. paved 20
As full width and a fine thorough
Ire, is now open 10 the state high
lay.
Paved under the city's fifteen mile
ving program.
Gives a new. paved connection with
Estate highway.
I'm the meantime st. Charles street,
lest side OF the city, is "all set" for
OF stuff.
And work OF building curbs and
butting down gravel base on Levee
ktreet, west side, 10 progressing.
City also has borrowed money
enough 10 connect Palm boulevard
paving between Los Ebanos and JEFF
ferson street.
And If thickly porrlsted West
Brownsville-that section outside OF
the city proper, is annexed there
likely will be n paving bond issue
TO take care of its needs.
MERCEDES is engaged in q cam
paign to stop reckless driving with
in the corporate limits.
Several arrests we're made over
the last week end for violations Of
the traffic laws.
And some citizens are urging the
city 10 employ traffic officers 10 fur
ther reduce speeding.
Brownsville some months ago es-
tablished the boulevard system as to
Elizabeth and Levee streets. Traffic
is required 10 come to a dead halt
before ,entering those streets from
the cross streets.
Stop buttons have been placed at
each corner.
turns, which in turn decreases the
speed. The streets are narrow.
Occasionally car hits n button"
10 the discomfort of the driver and
passengers and sometimes the dam
age Of the car.
But It's his own fault.
At San Benito and Harlingen they
have adopted rubber flaps for stop
signal purposes.
LAMAR GILL. sage Of willacy
,ounty, has been appointed an as
i.istant tally clerk for the democratic
rational convention. a. Houston the
after part of June.
A wise selection.
Judge Gill has sort Of penchant
or seeing things done we'll.
He likes accuracy, enjoys II.
Ihrives on IL.
Z Ard democrats, whether they Ne
'or Smith or against him may rest
assured that the tallyirE that Judge
Gill does will be tallying par ex-
lcellenee.
ALL OVER the Valley they will
ell you that the cotton crop is look
] ng very fine. Although from fifteen
no twenty-five days late.
In addition they will tell YOU that
they can get along without rain.
The good fall Of moisture two
weeks ago has done real service to
cotton. a service that in most sec
Ions promises to carry the plant
Ito the harvest time.
y So the Valley was not really anx-
ious for the moisture that was
threatened BY clouds late Tuesday.