Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-08
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That was the word which flew
about town about p. m. Sunday.
Harry Num-, manager of Hotel
FL Jardin, had just received tele-
gram from the flier who took off
from the airfield here at 2:45 a. m.
Sunday.
After a nonstop flight, he landed
at Winnipeg, Canada, 1900 miles
away, at 6:45 p. m, exactly 16 hours
later.
And thus he established a world
record for distance of continuous
flight in plane of the type he was
flying, that is. machines weighing
less than TIL pounds.
It was world record and It
started from Brownsville, Texas.
Barney zimmerley, quiet, unas-
Stunning and highly reticent-to the
despair of newspapermen seeking a
story-is the type who are making
aviation history.
While here he won the friend
ship of every person he met and
the best wishes of all Of them flew
with him.
II don't want too much publicity
now," he said. wait until 1 have
done something"
He was confident that he would
be successful. He insisted he would
not start until weather conditions
were right and that when he did,
start he would go through.
THAT thing won't fly" a spec
tator said of his queer little craft
IN the presence of the flier one
a@ternoon at the local field.
Wait until it gets going in this
test and then say that" zim-
merly replied.
Already holder of the altitude
record for planes of this type, this
30-year- veteran Of the air now
holds another world record-and
his bride of ten months at Mar
shall, Mo-, awaiting his return has
reason to be proud of him.
EARLY SUNDAY morning as
small crowd stood in the glare of
a spotlight playing on Barney zirn-
merley's plane just before the take
off on his successful hop to Winni-
peg, a colored youth supplied the
crowd with chuckles with his OBJ
ServationS on aviation.
"Sure is a funny looking ship"
he said as he cast a critical eye
over the tiny, low-winged mono
plane.
why don even see no stabilizer
on it!' he eXpoStulated. The crowd
laughed. Determined to vindicate
himself and prove that he knew
something about it the dusky lad
rushed on to add: "Oh, you know
what I'm talking about. That thing
what the man pushes down to
make the back end STRUT
zimmerly himself, supervising the
installation of a Paragraph in his
plane, got a hearty laugh out of
this.
IKE BOLLACK is qualified to
teach school.
And he has a certificate to that
effect.
The certificate came to light last
week in the office Of the McAllen
Monitor.
Let that paper tell about it:
ike Bollack, Brownsville mer-
chant, can teach school again now
if he wants to. We have sent him
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all corner of the Monitor office the
other day, which one of the boys
inadvertently disturbed while
sweeping the floor, we found Mr..
2@lack'S teachers certificate which
w4s issued to him in 1892, 81 years
ago. from the Sam Houston Normal
Institute. The certificate bears the
signature of j. s. Hogg, governor,
and eX-officio member of the board
Of the normal. We sent the GER
tificate to Mr.. Bollack and have
learned from him that it had been
something like Is years since he
saw it the last time"
ATLEE B. AYERS, San Antonio
architect who has designed some of
the Valleys most imposing Struc-
lures, likes the electric fountain
which has been installed in Wash
ington Park here.
The following is from the San
Antonio Light:
Brownsville, beautiful Rio Grande
city, sets an example in civic pride
and Identification for all south
Texas cities, reports Atlee B. Ayres,
architect, who has just returned
from short visit there. Under the
supervision of Ben Proctor, the city
Of Brownsville has constructed a
beautiful electric fountain in its
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