Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-26
I'm OUR
VALLEY

DALLAS VISITORS spending a
vacation at Point Isabel last week,
while driving on the highway be-
tween there and Los Fresnos, struck
and instantly killed a horse, ac-
cording to the Point Isabel Pilot.
Horses and other livestock on the
road to Point Isabel and the one
to Boca Chica often are a menace
to motorists, after night especially.
Enforcement of a stock law is the
only possible solution.
But while this is being brought
about motorists should bear in mind
they are likely to run onto horse,
donkey or COW at any moment and,
therefore, should keep their ma
chimes under perfect control.
JIM COWBOY" KELLY, one os
the first of long line Of endurance
record making and breaking fliers,
is to spend three days in McAllen
on transforming tour.
Kelly, who with his partner. Reg
gle Robbins, flew the Fort Worth
monoplane for more than 172 hours
only few weeks ago, probably feels
like a veteran at an age-old game.
The record Kelly and Robbins set
has been broken so regularly that
the total time in the air now is
nearing double the hours they re-
manned aloft.
But they are real heroes just the
same.
1t was this pair which demon
strated that a second hand plane
with little preparation could be
made to lower the original refuel-
ling mark set by the United States
aEDy'S Question Mark, tri-motOred
plane which Capt. Ira G. Eaker and
companions piloted for $50 hours at
one sitting.
THE ARMY PLANE was eSpe-
cially constructed for the test and
thousands Of dollars were spent
making every possible preparation
to remain in the air as long as pos
Sible or until the motors fell
apart" as the pilots put it.
Kelly and Robbins, with none too
much experience in the air and
practically no backing, took a Sec
ond hand single-motored ship into
the air and remained up almost
full day longer than the "QueStior
Mark" Since then, any number 2
fliers, encouraged by the feat of tn
Fort Worth pair, have remained
aloft seven days, eight days, ten
days, twelve days and a full two
weeks is in sight.
Kelly, in McAllen to encourage
interest in aviation, has a huge
transport plane which he is using
to take passengers on pleasure
hops"
i BoCA CH1cA BEACH in Canada
would be capitalized for millions.
! It is Brownsville's million dollar
asset.
This is the opinion Of Geo. F.
Walker, who writes from Port
Stanley, Ont.
"Glad to see your editorials and
articles on Boca Chica and the
necessity Of completing the pave
ment to that point" he writes.
I'VE have about nine miles Of
good beach down there that you
can drive on. Up here a beach OF
about a mile or a mile and a half.
that cars cannot use on account Of
there being no tide to make a hard
surface, attracts up to 10000 peo-
pie in day.
Port Stanley has about 600 peo-
pie in winter and from 5000 to
5000 in summer.
"Boca Chica is Brownsvilles mil
lion dollar asset and the million
doHars will come from visitors and
tourists.
But we cannot have quantities
of tourists without a good accessible
beach.
Tourists do not 60 to Corpus
Christi just because it is Corpus
Christi"
When Brownsville citizens get
away and find how poor the attrac-
tions of some famous tourist centers
are compared to the undeveloped
possibilities in the Valley they be-
come enthusiastic for building a
tourist trade here.
A TWO MILE GAP in paving
from Hargill west to the Willacy
county line is a constant thorn in
the side of the Hargill Progress,
live weekly newspaper.
1--WE want every man who is COM
pelled to use this miserable two
mile gap in the fine road between
Hargill and Willacy county line to
take a few minutes Of his time and
write to the county judge at Edin-
burg, urging him to take this mat
ter up with the commissioners
court with the end in view of get
ting such an unsightly and such a
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