Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-19
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In Detroit. Mich, this week when
the Chevrolet automobile dealers OF
the nation were guests Of the
manufacturers at a banquet.
And the flowers were fresh and
In condition to do justice 70 the
section where they were grown.
They we're shipped by air mail
Wednesday morning from Browns
vile by George White to Tom Stev-
enson, local Chevrolet dealer.
1t was the first time such a
shipment had been attempted from
here.
White received the following wire
Saturday from Stevenson:
Flowers arrived in excellent
shape and were arranged on speak
erS' table at banquet. The speaker
OF the evening announced that
wanted to show that we had some
thing besides grapefruit in Browns
vile. After the banquet the presi-
dent OF the Chevrolet company took
part OF them home and the re-
mainder were displayed in the
LOBBY of the hotel"
The flowers left Brownsville on a
mail plane Wednesday afternoon.
The banquet was Thursday night.
THE WRITER of the column
called Think" in the San Antonio
Express prints some interesting
comment on highway which soon
IS to be built shortening the road
between that city and Brownsville.
He says:
"Atascosa county would like
Bexar to match its own efforts
by providing a 100-foot right-of-
way on the Pleasanton road, TO
meet the steadily growing traffic
demands when this road eventually
shall be completed through Atas-
'oSa, Live Oak and part of Jim
idlells to make continuous, practi-
nesly airline highway from San
n fonio to the Lower Rio Grande
= aey. The present road Is en-
ally too narrow for a pavement
WAAAGAA TsgVU VI OsUQV G0A0 Will
Tel daily within two years"
DC writer or that column has
~ ight idea about main travelled
49, and II the Valley continues
10 attract the attention OF the ma
tion, as 1t is sure to do, Is, IS and
24-foot pavements such as are be-
ing put down at present soon will
prove entirhy inadequate.
The time Is coming in the not far
distant future when highways So
feet wide will be demanded In the
name Of safety. Rights-of- 100
feet wide should be secured now on
main arteries OF travel.
This Is the age of travel and with
n nation OF 125,000,O00 on wheels
old wagon roads will not serve.
1 AERIAL HISTORY Is 70 be writ
ten in Mercedes Sunday.
Five planes are to sly from the
municipal airport at Brownsville
and land on a recently cleared field
there.
The planes will include two ships
belonging to the Corporation Aero
nautica de Transportes, S. A..
which flies the air mail and pas
senger route from here to Mazat-
Ian. and three ships of the Inter-
national Air Transport Co, which
carries fish from Soto la Marinc to
Brownsville.
The ships will be greeted at the
field there by citizens and the
pilots, headed by Major Bernard A.
Law and Capt. Ralph Stone. will
be given lunch and shown several
sites under consideration for an
airport. e
The purpose OF the trip is to stir
enthusiasm in Mercedes for a mu-
nicipal airport. Was promoted by
John Phelan. chamber of com
merce secretary there.
Several thousand letters written
by school children to children in
cities on the route OF the c. A. r.
will be brought back to Brownsville
hy the ships in the afternoon and
sent out over the regular air mail
route from here.
q THOUGHT had seen them
all" said the visitor. Atlantic CITY
Miami, Coronado. but had 10
come to Brownsville TO see the best
scheme OF drying bathing suits
Coming in on the Point Isabel road
q family party with the OF bus
and all decked out with the swim
duds. paws on the hood. quite evi-
IDENTIFY maw's stuffing up the radi-
ator. NAV Is a little inclined TO
embonpoint. you see-and then the
three smaller suits. all coIors. all
tied along the side. And all OF
them perhaps good and dry in the
wind coming back to town. Quite
some schemel"
THE BROWNSVILLE Lions Club.
headed by Bascom Cox. finds A fer
tile field Of work in promoting in
ternational relations.
Recently the club sponsored the
exchange of hundreds OF letters be-
tweA8 children Of the Brownsville
schools and those Of Monterrey.
Mexico.
Now the club has a :.ew idea.
It proposes to have as its guests
the enforct ment officers OF both
Brownsville and Matamoros.
There viii be exchanges OF opin-
ION as to how the officials OF the
two sides Of the river may cooper
ate to advantage.
Possibly the outgrowth Of the