Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-27
I'm OUR
VALLEY
THIS Is THE DAY.

THIS Is THE DAY.
Today at $50 p. m. Brownsville
first Class A football team will 60
under fire for the first time during
the season.
The field of battle Is at the fair
grounds in Harlingen and 1t should
be classic.
While the game will not affect
Brownsville's standing In the Glass
A conference, both teams are very
anxious to win.
For many reasons.
Ancient and honorable rivalry Is
one good reason.
Harlingen would like to defeat the
only Glass A team In the Valley
another good reason.
M3rownsville would dislike to see
t9liss happen-a third good reason.
It promises to be a game worth
going far to see.
THE DATE-GROWING industry
is not something which viii come TO
the Valley many years from now-it
Is already here.
Harvey Stiles. horticuIturist makes
the claim and cites figures to prove
1t.
The crop this year in the Valley
win be more than one ton, he says.
and the probable production for
1880 Is ten tons.
A large part OF this will come
from the large development south
OF Brownsville managed by Mr..
Stiles known as the Rio Grande
Delta Date Co.
Such q large production viii create
a need for q dehydrating plant. and
there is possibility that it will be
Installed.
In the meantime an intensive
study Of date culture in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley is going on at
the Valley Experimental farm near
Weslaco.
There 1000 palms. imported from
Messopotamia and selected for their
moisture and rain resisting qualities.
are being brought to maturity.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh again
Is proving that he Is some aviator. !.
Flying from Florida down through
Central and South America, he Is
making landings day after day
where a plane is almost unheard OF
and his bride Of a few weeks is
making the trip with him.
While other flierS are having
forced landings all over the United
States; getting blown off their track
by storms and otherwise bringing
to the mind of the more doub.
whether aviation is practicable at
all, Indy flies on schedule.
He flies over territory where a
forced landing would mean almost
certain starvation: he covers thous-
ands Of miles where there would be
almost no hope OF rescue In case
of an accident-and he comes
through-on time.
In certain quarters there has
grown up desire to attack Col
Llndbergh-mostly by persons who
have been denied an opportunity 10
dabble in his private life. who have
politely but firmly been told it was
none or their business.
But not one Of these has dared to
question that Lindbergh is an a
viator-or that he Is man.
OUR CITY COLUMN in the
Houston Chronicle. following the
forced landing Of a Fort Worth aero
cade plane near Soto Ia Marina digs
nm some interesting history on that
obscure village. He writes:
y SOTO LA MARINA. half forgot
~ little Mexican fishing village, is
III the news again. Bert Pidcock,
flving a Texas Company plane In
the aerocade which visited Houston
last week, Is down there with a
crashed ship after battling a trop-
ical storm which blew him far off
his course.
soto Ia Marina has been in the
news before. One hundred and
twelve years ago its dusty streets
and little dwellings held the stage
for a brief moment during the tu-
mulfous years when Mexico was
writhing in its effort 70 throw off
the hand Of distant Spain.