Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
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VALLEY

|i via Brownsville and Matamoros.
H The start had been planned for
? February %.
/. IL now will take place on March Q.
l. Thus two important events will be
M celebrated at the same time.
d One of them the Inauguration of
Ia the mails.
The other Captain Ira Eaker's
dawn to dusk flight from Browns
vile TO the Panama canal.
N The main event will take place on
Saturday. March 0.
II Captain Eaker's flight will take
n place on Saturday. March 10.
III Unless something happens in the
meantime to change these dates.
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Il SUBSCRIBE to other daily
papers, but always read your good
paper first"
A[hst's the eommont Of Lawrence
3sBrooks. Rio Grande City banker,
Iy1k letter to The Herald renewing
his subscription.
lii And it's q compliment that Is very
\ much appreciated by The Herald
and those who work on it.
The Herald is enjoying watching
It's circulation figures go up.
IL IN growing without the assist
ance Of bothersome contests, such
\ as those in which some newspapers
! offer automobiles and other forms
OF prizes that never fail to irk the
4 public.
u The Herald is endeavoring TO give
Il its readers a good newspaper. II
believes the newspaper reading pub
h lie Of the Valley wants that sort
Of newspaper.
THE VALLEY. in May, will enter
tain one Of the most important state
conventions of Texas.
Il That is the annual meeting of the
d Texas Medical association.
IL will start May 20, in Browns
Y vile, with a meeting Of the rail-
y way surgeons section Of the asso-
|. citation.
And will continue through May
%.
More than 1900 physicians. sur
Eeons and specialists will attend the
meeting, and there will be distin-
guished guests from other states.
'ss The sessions will be held In
Brownsville, but the visitors will
have ample opportunity TO visit all
ether sections Of the Valley.
Hotels in other Valley towns will
. be called upon to provide aecommo-
a dations.
~ THE CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER
finds opportunity to comment on a
recent editorial in The Brownsville
4 Herald having to do, among other
things, with the development Of
homo markets for Valley products.
Says the Caller:
ia ~The Brownsville Herald calls at
r tention. in quite timely fashion, TO
the rapid advance Of the canning in
I dustry in the Lower Rio Grands
Valley, estimating that the Valley
|. pack this season will aggregate
close to $50 cars, an increase Of
approximately 100 per cent over last
/ year.
J, "At the same time the Herald
points 70 the necessity for enlarg-
ing the markets for the products Of
the Valley canning plants, citing, as
one Of the reasons for restriction of
the market, inequalities in freight
rates which make wide distribution
toe trcStly.
syhe major markets for the pro-
ducts of Valley canneries have been
developed throughout Texas" the
Herald continues, though the mar
ket for canned grapefruit IS being
extended into practically all states.
The high quality Of the Valley pro-
ducts can win its way into any mar
ket. providing il is given an equal
freight rate, and il Is 20 the interest
OF the entire Valley % cooperate
with the Gamers in securing that
rate.
THAT no doubt would require con-
siderable time. More 10 the point,
IL seems, is the development Of a
demand in the Valley itself for the
yalley-eanned products. The Herald
says that until recently practically
no Valley products appeared on the
shelves Of grocers in that section.
but today, because Valley house
wives are specifying goods canned
in that section, Valley grocers are
stocking heavily.
ca prophet, il Is said. is not
without honor save in his own coun-
try: the same thought might apply
10 products Of local plants. The
first step in developing a market
for any product is to establish a
demand for that product among the
people who profit mes; directly from
r."
THE BROWNSVILLE police de-
partment reports that Sunday was
the quietest in many months.
The short call officers had ample
opportunitv 70 develop their minds
sA1eading magazines and otherwise
AMUSING themselves.
But in Matamoros the situation
was a bit different
Three lives we're lost in shooting
aifrays.
Necessitating unusual activities on
fccntinued On page two.)