Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-14

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WALES

men Lnlnk Well OF tnelr business
and social relations with business
men and leading citizens of Mexico.
A large part OF the commerce Of
Laredo is with these Mexican bus
mess men.
To make 1t easy for leaders Of
Monterrey and other Mexican cities
to visit in Laredo for either bus
inesS or pleasure, the Laredo Cham
Der OF Commerce has secured ar
rangementS whereby lot Of pass
port red tape will be eliminated.
The favored Mexican citizens arc
to receive cards which will permit
them to cross the border into La
redo without any further COM
pliance with immigration regula-
tions.
Those holding these cards merely
drive to the border, show their cards
and enter the United States.
1t would be wen for Brownsville
and other Valley chambers Of COM
merce to look into this matter.
Such courtesy cards should be is
sued to Mexican business men de-
string to visit in Brownsville or Nc
Allen or other cities in the Valley.
Eventually Brownsville Is going TO
develop a trade with Mexican bus
iness men which will be important
in the business life Of the city.
Laredo might be able to give this
city some valuable lessons in couT-
tesy and thoughtfulness for our
friends across the Rio Grande.
IN THIS CONNECTION, the La
redo Times announces work will be
started Immediately on the Mexican
highway which will extend from
Monterrey to Mexico City and that
The stretch from Monterrey to the
border at Nuevo Laredo, already
completed, will be topped imme-
diately.
This is on authority of Javier
Eanchez Mejorada, secretary Of
communications, Antonio Madrazo,
president of national highways, and
Governor Aaron Saenz, Of the state
OF Nuevo Leon. The officials made
the announcement while on a tour
Of inspection which carried them TO
Laredo.
The Times expresses the belief
completion of this highway will
bring thousands of tourists through
there enroute to the Mexican cap
ital.
What has become of the highway
which was to be paved from Mata-
moros to Monterrey and OF the one
from Matamoros to Tampico? These
highways would mean much 70
Brownsville and to the Mexican
cities they would serve.
Wonder IL anything could be done
to speed Inauguration Of work on
these roads?
HARL1NoEN has an aviation
school.
San Benito citizens are busy Sc
curing title to a tract Of land which
As TO become an emergency landing
field under government regulation.
Raymondville is to have an
emergency landing field.
San Benito and Raymondville
fields both to be lighted for night
fyahg and to be linked in the air.
waySKh hich will connect the interna-
tlonal airport here with San An
tonio and Houston.
Which is by way of proving that
the Valley is airminded. Airplanes
are used by Valley business men al
most daily.
What a contrast with Dallas.
That north Texas city has been
ON air mail routes much longer than
the Valley. Air fields are not new
to Oallasites.
Yet when the aviation committee
of the chamber of commerce the
other day sought to organize an
aerocade to visit Sweetwater on the
occasion OF an airport opening only
one Dallas business man volunteer
ed to make the trip in a tri-motored
plane which had been placed at the
disposal Of the chamber.
A dozen tri-motored planes could
have been filled in Brownsville and
other Valley towns.
4. w. ARCHER. Lyford merchant,
visited Boca Chica beach Sunday.
NOW he Is anxious to have prop
ertv he owns in Brownsville taxed
for construction Of paved highway
10 that outing spot.
he writes In Our Valley:
III visited Boca Chica and was
trprissd to find such a beach.
vi have been at Atlantic City ano
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