Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-06
I'm OUR
VALLEY

AIR MAIL developments continue
at a pace which keeps citizens Of
this section fairly gasping.
Announcement that the first plane
from Brownsville to Mexico City
was scheduled TO leave the municipal
airport on Feb. %, just 1s hours
away, was followed a few hours later
by purchase of another hangar for
the port by the city commission.
The new structure will be all
metal, 100 by 12O feet; with a IL
foot lean-to for shops and equip
ment. IL will cost about S25.000
completed and will provide for ex-
peeted increase Of business at the
port.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the date for
starting the airmail resulted in i'm
rnediate launching Of plans by the
Brownsville Chamber Of Commerce
10 stage a celebration on a scale in
keeping with the Importance Of the
event.
N Effort will be made to bring more
100 planes to the airport or
Appening day. United States and
can officials are being invited.
Governor Dan Moody and all his
official family to be asked.
A monster aerial circus planned
. TO provide entertainment for the
! thousands OF visitors from all south
i Texas.
And the major attraction, Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, who has pass
ed by Brownsville twice but has yet
to make his first stop.
The flying hero has not said he
would be here. But, Mexican Off
cials, with whom he is highly friend
iy, are urging him to inaugurate
the route and he has indicated he
Is interested.
At any rate. February % bids fair
10 be a big day in Brownsville.
THE MISSION TINES in a page
one editorial last week took notice
OF n condition which should be cor
rected for Che benefit or the entire
Valley.
Spoke about hotels and restau-
rants serving inferior grapefruit
and getting top prices. The COM
plant would apply as forcibly to
vegetables.
A tourist was heard to bemosn the
fact that he had been unable to
sample Valley vegetables since he
came to the section. and admitted
his mouth was fairly watering for
good mess Of home-cooked turnip
greens with corn bread.
He had found just that combina-
tion listed on a bill of fare, but
when he was served he found the
1greens had come out of e can. The
corn bread, he admitted, was good.
He still wonders how Valley-grown
greens just out of the fields taste.
And he is entitled to know. Our
visitors are right to expect TO SAM
pie our wares. That's what they are
here for.
LET EDITOR BRAY Of Mission
tell il. He says:
cit is to weep.
"Yes, copious tears Of shame.
awe walked in a Mission hotel
the othed day, and with our dinner
was served grapefruit. What dis
graceful grapefruit that was! The
taste was only fair, but the looks
OF the skin and the size were both
pitiful.
"We also went into Mission res
taurant. A northern man came in
snd with enthusiastic expectation
ordered grapefruit. He was served
nice half grapefruit. He enjoyed
it. no doubt, but when he paid his
check fifteen cents for one-half
grarlefruit, perhaps he had cause to
woRrtrr whether Mission really was
she "home of the grapefruit"
THE point is, the hotel did not
use good judgment in serving a Gull
grapefruit, for people coming here
Rave a right to expect more than
that. And with the restaurant the
point a VI IGuAo
for half a grapefruit is too much
for that is thirty cents apiece, and
you can buy them at the best res
taurants anywhere in the country
for that.
'Just little matters, Of course; but
aren't they worth correcting? We
think 50.
THE FIRST straight car OF eggs
from the Lower Rio Grande Valley
was shipped Tuesday BY the DIESEL
Eoettcher company Of Brownsville.
II is rather significant that this
firm also shipped the first straight
car Of Valley grapefruit.
That was way back in 1916, when
the Valley was much younger, and
before the fact was generally known
that the Lower Rio Grande Valley
was in the citrus fruit belt.
The fact the Valley has shipped
its first straight car CT eggs will
not cause much excitement in north
ern markets. and probably will not
receive SO much publicity as tha;
first car of grapefruit. But II
marks the real beginning of an in
dustry that is growing more rapidly
than the majority of Valley resi-
dents realize.
AR0RDING to a very conserva-
tive estimate, the hen population Of
the Valley has trebled in two years
and is still growing.
And Valley hens perform their
duty nobfv az IL evidenced hv the