Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-16

I'm OUR
VAL.L.EY

Il CORPUS CHRISTI and Calves
ton, whether Intentionally or not.
are "hogging" a great deal of the
publicity incident to ginning or
first bales Of cotton.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Is
not mentioned in news dispatches
from either town as the section in
which the cotton was grown.
The Corpus Christi story telling
of the bale being forwarded to New
York by airplane does mention that
She cotton was grown at Edcouch.
The Galveston story fails to men
ton the fact that the bale came
from the Valley or any Valley town
"A special train carrying Calves
tons first bale Of cotton Of the 1929
season." is the way the news dis
u patch from that town reads.
The Valley is proud of its abil-
ity to annually produce the first
bale Of cotton IN the United States
In the future it might be a good
idea to see that each first bale" as
IL starts on the race to a cotton
exchange is accompanied by pub
licity agent ito see that our Little
Nell Is done right by"
A Corpus Christi newspaper
woman, as representative Of the
chamber Of commerce there, ac-
companied the bale from her town
on its flight to New York City You
can bet she will see that Corpus
Christi gets the publicity.
MAYOR p. w. McFADDEN Of
Austin. a visitor in Brownsville Fri
day and Saturday inspecting the
international airport. recalled his
last former visit to this border city.
That was 40 years ago, he said,
and he made the trip at that time
aboard Texas pony in company
with another young man. He and
his companion were engaged in the
wool buying business at the time.
Hnere was no wool down here
% buy" he said, but it was a
new place to visit. so we visited It.
"Oh my, no. this isn't the same
town we came to at all. In fact,
/ can't find anything that looks
familiar but the Rio Grande and
even that seems changed. with two
large international bridges and all
the water pumped out for irriga-
ton"
4 had expected to find great
changes" the mayor said. The
DEVELOPMENT is more wonderful
than / had expected" Commits
sioners Leo Mueller and Ed Steck
and CITY Manager A. r. johnson
also expressed delight with their
reception here and with the city.
A LETTER mailed in Brownsville
and read in Chicago that same
day.
Mexico CITY 70 New York City IN
4s hours-including one night spent
in a hotel and one in Pullman
berth ON a fast train.
An Affair trip Brownsville to
New York City in less TRAN "a
hours.
These are some of the aerial
feats to be accomplished when new
lines are put into operation out
of here.
Southern Air Transport to oper-
ate tri-motored Fckker planes be-
tween Brownsville and Houston on
the new mail and passenger route
to be established about July IS.
First of the massive new planes,
povered with three 4l0-horsepower
Wasp engines. promised for delivery
on June II. and others a few DAYS
later. rf-
An aerial survey of the lighted
aerial way between here and Hous-
ten to be completed in two months.
. Also from here TO San Antonio.
Equipment TO be installed in
nine months.
Beacons TO be placed every ten
miles and emergency landing fields
every 30 miles. Directional radio
beams to keep the fast planes di-
rectlv on their course in all kinds
OF weather.
The nation taking to wings and
Brownsville playing an important
part in all Of the wonderful de-
velopments. Feats Of fast travel
to be performed every day which
a quarter of a century ago would
have Kheen considered miracles.
ri
BUTTON BLANKS are being
made from mussel shells in the
Valley-a new industry for the
section.
The plant went into operation al
Mercedes last week and local work.
ers are being trained to operate
the machines.
At last musSels. growing bv hum
dreds Of thousands in irrigation
canals. reSacas and lakes through
out the Valley, are justifying their
existence
Many men are employed in gath
ering the mussels from the va
rious bodies Of water. Girls are
used to operate the machines.
Later finishing machinery TO be
Installed and the finished product
Is to be tried out.
The raw material supply now in
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