Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-15
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VALLEY

morning on a dawn-to-dusk flight
to Panama, belongs in that claSSi-
fication.
If you question this, ask any of
the hundreds Of Valley residents
who came in contact with the cap
tain on the occasion of his recent
visit to Brownsville to participate
in the opening of the municipal
airport and inauguration of the air
mail service.
Captain Eaker is genial, courte-
Gus, mixer" He knows human
nature, and realizes it cannot be
changed.
Also he has proved his courage,
and his skill and resourcefulness as
an aviator have made him an in
ternational figure.
Captain Eaker has won his niche
in aviation's hall of fame; also he
has won warm regard in the
hearts of Americans, and it is safe
to say he treasures the latter more
than the former.
CAPTAIN EAKER made a brief
address at the banquet rendered
distinguished guests at Hotel Ell
Jardin last Saturday night.
He talked less than five minutes,
but spoke volumes. His frankness
and friendliness made his address
one of the high lights of the occa-
sion, and to say that he won the
friendship of the Valley would be
putting it mildly.
The intrepid flier will take off
Saturday morning on an epocha1
flight which will take him from
Brownsville to Panama, back to
Brownsville and on to Washington,
d. c., distance of 5000 miles, to
be covered in three consecutive
dawn-to-dusk flights.
If he succeeds he will have writ
ten a new chapter in the history
of aviation. If he fails, he will
prove he is "a good sport" smile
ind try again.
s. Asst TEXAS tomato growers
NV 4 ! red from the recent freeze
-s;eir seed beds were practically
destroyed, and they Immediately
apprised the Lower Rio Grande
Valley of their plight.
Over a million tomato plants al
ready have been shipped from the
Valley to replant the east Texas
fields, and more will be forthcom-
ing. if east Texas needs them.
The Valley growers had surplus
of plants. The Valleys acreage had
been set out before the freeze nip
ped the east Texas seed beds, and
the last of the Valleys crops will
have gone onto the market long
before east Texas starts shipments.
POTATOES soon will be compet-
ing with cabbage, beets and car
rots for premier position in the
daily shipping reports.
The crop will be the earliest on
record, growers state.
The first straight car was ship
ped nearly two weeks ago; three
cars were reported in Wednesdays
1oadings.
The heavy movement will start
next week, and potatoes will roll
out in ever-increasing volume until
he peak is reached in April.
Shipments will be from two to
three weeks earlier than any prev
ious season, the first shipments
giving the people of the north an
appetite for the heavier shipments
of the mid-season.
THE FROST SEASON in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley has
passed.
March 10 is usually designated as
the close of the frost period. But
last year cog slipped and the VAL
ley's most destructive frost arrived
on March 18.
No chance for another slip of
that kind this year, growers state.
They point out that the ground
has been warmed by weeks Oh SUM-
shine: that spring is well advanced,
and that any "norther" driving
down from the frigid plains of
Kansas and Oklahoma would have
its teeth removed before reaching
tie Valley.
q,
0E VALLEY is growing faster
thanVy other section of the
South, was the statement of L. d.
johnson. Mississippi banker, who
has spent the past week touring the
various sections Of the lower bor-
der country.
I'm no other part of the South,
and I have covered it thoroughly
in the past six months. can such
activity and progress be found" the
banker said
The Mississippi man was voicing
the same opinion as thousands of
other visitors.
Valley residents have become so
accustomed to rapid development.
that the announcement of a new
irrigation district or other big de-
velopment project is regarded as an
ncident-nothing to get axcited
about.
Thousands of additional acres
are coming under cultivation. many
new homes and business buildings
are under construction, paved roads
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