Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-08
I'm OUR
VALLEY

THE HERALD Is the only news
paper that has told the people OF
the Valley what they most wanted
70 know about the proposed tariff
bill.
Other papers told about the
sugar tariff and similar tariffs
affecting the nation as a whole.
The Herald told its readers that
the bill proposed a three cents
pound tariff on tomatoes. on beans,
on peppers. cucumbers ana egg
plant: one and three-fourths cents
a pound on onions. fifty cents a
hundred on potatoes, one and one
half cents a pound on grapefruit;
one cent on oranges, two cents on
lines and lemons.
Commented one man:
IF that list goes through as Is.
we'll have TO station men with
sticks at entrances 10 the Valley,
to keep out a rush Of new set
tiers"
or course. the measure viii have
10 run the gauntlet Of both houses.
But Representative John N. Gar
ner knows what will please the VAL
lev people In this respect. and he
may be depended on TO do his
durndest" fer them.
"IS MARY GOLD DEAD?"
Goodness. we don't know. Four
teen telephone calls about II We'd
nesday morning. and here's a let
ter from Helen Gum. Geraldine
Cooper and Martha Riddiford Of
San Benito:
we have heard a lot Of COM
plants about Mary Colds death.
Please find some way to have her
come alive"
Dear readers. you may depend
upon this columns cooperation In
this really serious matter.
Mary Gold Is too sweet to per-
nit her passing. Sidney Smith Is
bombarded with protests
a& the heartless way with which
he is handling this thing.
We are for bringing Mary Gold
back 20 her public. Sending wire
about II today.
SOMEONE has ordered that a
gate be constructed across the
American side Of the international
bridge.
Presumably the gate will be
closed only during the hours the
bridge Is closed: that is. from mid
night to 6 a. m.
Even so. it's too bad. Unless the
gate Is not visible during the day.
light hours.
Somehow a gate seems to convey
that someone Is being shut out
from somewhere.
For many years traffic has
flowed easily between Matamoros
and Brownsville. just as 1t does
between any two cities anywhere
that are separated by stream.
There have been no gates in all
those years.
Now We are to have one.
BROWNSVILLE Is TO have two
new school buildings: or rather.
one new building and one rebuilt
structure.
The old grammar school. aban-
doned year ago. will be cut TO
cne story and rebuilt.
A new school building will serve
a new community, in Alta Vista, on
Harrison street. between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth. East.
Which will give the system nine
buildings within the city limits.
Twelve years ago there were two
buildings, the high school and the
recently abandoned grammar
school
CHARLES THERKILDSEN was
In Brownsville thiSswee
Charles Therkildsen formerIv
lived in Brownsville. some thirteen
years ago.
Newer fields beckoned him. He
went TO McAllen. then small
community and growing.
AAAS bdSliCSS WdS-dnQ lS-tnat Of
laying concrete sidewalks.
He prospered. He became widely
known as Concrete Charlie
Then. four years ago. misfortune
befell him. He lost his elesieht
But he is still Concrete Char
lie" He still pursues the business
OF taking contracts for laying side
walks.
SightleSS. he continues 10 make
measurements. prepare estimates
md bid for work just as alwavs
E7ELIEvE 1T OR NOT. Browns
DID have a telephone ex-
nge back In the eighties.
a time when telephone ex-
ages were quite a novelty In anv
=, jill city in the United States
XThe fact was revealed through
Statement in The Herald regarding
the first international telephone
conversation. between Matamoros
and Brownsville. back in 1888.
There was oniv the one l-a 70
Matamoros to the custom house
there.