Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28
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VALLEY

Mediterranean lily, dread 1rulL ana
vegetable pest, shall not penetrate
the borders Of Texas, has an
bounced he will declare a strict
quarantine against Florida fruit
and vegetables.
The limited" quarantine already
decreed against Florida by the
United States department Of agrl-
culture evidently fails to satisfy
Commissioner Terrell, although its
terms are said to be the most
drastic ever decreed in a plant
quarantine.
Texas can not afford to trifle
with a pest which constitutes such
a serious menace.
The Mediterranean fly is said to
attack IL fruits and egetables-in-
cluding cotton, which ever that is.
Under the rules and regulations
governing the quarantine in Flor
ida, the state will be divided into
three zones.
The first will be the infested
areas in which all fruits and vege-
tables which are hosts to the fly
will be destroyed.
The second zone will extend nine
miles in every direction from the
limits of the infested zone and will
be known as the protective zone.
Fruit and vegetables from the
protective zone will be permitted
to move in interstate shipments
only after a complete inspection
has determined that no vestgeS of
the pest are in them.
All portions of the state not in
cluded in the infested or protective
zones will fall within the third
zone. This will continue until the
exact area Of infestation has been
accurately determined. Fruit and
vegetables grown in this zone will
be permitted to move outside the
state, but only after rigid inspec-
tion.
EDINBURG CITIZENS, determ-
sned to make their city clean and
bright, even a "SpotlesS Town"
Saturday inaugurated a cleanup
S,npaign in a novel way.
,"ags were sold on the streets all
DE- saturday by members of the
Reserve, the proceeds to be
nS 1--WE paying the cost OF the
cle&>Sv Tags were provided by the
BusiS 4srnd Professional Women's
club.
Saturday night the Edinburg
municipal band played concert on
the court house square and dedi-
Gated it to the campaign.
The band concert was followed
by street dance-calculated to put
everybody in a happy frame OF
mind for the drive.
Then the operations begin in
earnest Monday morning and are
to continue two weeks. Members
of the Business and Professional
Women's club and the Kiwanis club
have decreed that every place in
town, including vacant lots and
alleys, is to be thoroughly cleaned
in that period.
Staging the celebration first is
novel idea. but it should stir up
\ considerable enthusiasm.
S,COUNTY JUDGE o. c. DANCY
was busy Saturday afternoon stag
ing a kind of private celebration
over the attainment of one of his
pet goals-and he has many.
The last concrete was poured on
the Fourteenth street road during
the day, connecting the site Of the
future deep water port with the
city by a paved highway.
But this was only incidental to
Judge Dancy's celebration.
The cause for his "jubilation"
was that completion of the Four
teenth street road put the seventh
spoke in the wheel of highways
coming into Brownsville.
Judge Dancy was busy drawing
a map of the layout for his friends.
Drawing a circle to represent
Brownsville, he. would run a line
east and label it "Southmost road"
A second line heading little more
north represented the FL Jardin
boulevard Then he would travel
on around the circle adding in their
proper order Fourteenth street."
''Old Point Isabel" "Parades Line"
Highway No. -" and Military
Road
The judge was celebrating by lay
ing out number of rims" high
ways which would encircle the city
| and tie the existing roads together
The, most important spoke to be
added TO that wheel, and one
| which will add equally as much. if
not more strength to the whole. is
I the highway to Boca Chica beach.
Brownsville and the Valley never
will begin to realize on her outing
possibilities until that road is built
las important as the other roads
are, Boca Chica beach road
Rikely would earn a larger net re-
Murn than any of them by provid-
lg easy year-'round access to the
ulf-