Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28
I'm OUR
VALLEY

THE POSTOFFICE commission
makes recommendation at Wash
ington for new buildings for Lower
Rio Grande Valley towns.
Proposes that the government
spend about s3z5.o0o for the pur-
I. poses.
/ New buildings would be erected ut
!. San Benito. Harrington and Meal
len. each at a cost OF $55. 900.
The commission proposes that
$4,000 be expended on remodeling,
enlarging and otherwise improving
the federal building in Brownsville.
The government already owns the
site and building in Brownsville.
1 Property would have to be ac-
4 CURED In the other three towns
which would be given buildings.
4 Presumably the cost OF the build
I fngs In those cities other than
brownsville win nave to come out
tcf the total amount asked for.
4 In other words. the less the cost
lQf the sites I'm San Benito. Harlin-
IA and McAllen. the more there
ID be available to put into the
ling.
fOF COURSE, these figures are
III recommendations Approval for
the expenditures viii have to come.
There are some In Brownsville
who believe that this city should
have an entirely new federal build
ing. located on larger site than
that now owned by the government
n Some twelve years ago United
Fsates Senator Morris Sheppard
red for $4,000 for new federal
hiding In Brownsville.
rhe $4,000 recommended for
4modeling and enlarging the
\ Brownsville building naturally
would do very much for the struc-
xture.
I But will II be adequate in the
kgears to Gomez
4 The news OF the Recommendation
came from Representative John ".
hGarner.
1 It follows visit 10 the Valley OF
Iofficials representing the postoffice
department and the treasury de-
Ipartment.
TWO IMPORTANT events CT
"wednesday bear on the opening Of
1.-THE international air mail lines
Through here March Q.
u The first was announcement.
Il from New York and Mexico City
simultaneously. that Colonel Lind
E5ergt would fly the first air mail
plane from Brownsville to Mexico
city.
IL The second. late IN the day. was
| the "mishap" nc Mexico City In
which Colonel Lindbergh. on his
first flACht with his fiance, Miss
Anre Morrow. sustained diSso-
cated shoulder.
II A lost wheel forced the Lone
hgie to bring 70 bear all his fly
Eng skin, to save his fiance and
himself. His machine struck ground
safely. but capsized while taxing
,crcss the field.
Il The colonel was advised to re-
v main ia bed for the present. But
instead OF that he was soon back
i IN the field after the dislocation
lad been reset.
whether that mishap vii. change
his plan to fly the mail Is uncer-
tain today. But good guess Is
that II win not.
i. A RECENT ISSUE OF the Tulsa
lDaily world, Tulsa. Okla. carries a
fun page spread" devoted to a de-
,eription Of the activities in Mata-
,noros OF the international Sports
md Amusement club.
~ illustrated. with photographs
f,4fihg scenes. the MatamoroS
FOG tracf.. of General G. r. Ger
l-era. or r. J. tBob) Allison. owner
n the concessions.
Mr. Allison is q Tulssn. And
,ilsans are always interested IN
r. activities
THE article accompanying the
photograph reproduces letters OF
Generalization from General Ger
yera and from Lie Ernesto Urtusas-
tecui. president OF the Matamoros
Rotary club
And reveals the company's plans
for development Of Matamoros into
an American Monte Carlo" also
FOR the development Of $4,000 acres
nm the soto Ia Marina river. about
$50 miles south Of MatamoroS.
The article was written by knight
p. Douglas. public relations direc-
for for the company.
N soUTHPOrNT housewife. tele-
Mnes in to The Herald offering a
cstion that should be carried
She is called TO her door many
lines q day by persons searching
FOR Colonel Frank Rabb's palm
sruve.
Southpoint Is belond the palm
grove. and Is reached by motorists
after missing the dirt road leading
from the pavement to the grove.
A prominent SIGN placed right
would save visitors to the grove
much time
Likewise. some motorists trying
each Boca Chica after leaving the
H;kNIro astray by defective direc-
from well-lntended folks who
ri them 70 go out Fourteenth
treet and take the paved road TO
he right" These forget that the
Duhmosf road Is reached before
ko pr~ra Chica road.