Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-06
I'm OUR
VALLEY

AIR MAIL Developments continue
at pace which keeps citizens Of
this section fairly gasping.
Announcement that the first plane
from Brownsville to Mexico City
was scheduled TO leave the municipal
airport on Feb. 20, just IS hours
away, was followed few hours later
by purchase of another hangar for
the port by the city commission.
The new structure will be all
pnetsl. 100 by 12O feet; with a IL
foot lesn-to for shops and equip
fnent. It will cost about 5000
completed and will provide for ex-
pected increase of business mt the
port.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the date for
starting the airmail resulted in inn
mediate launching Of plans by the
Brownsville Chamber OF Commerce
10 stage a celebration on a scale in
keeping with the importance Of the
event.
Effort will be made 10 bring more
thazA 100 planes to the airport on
fheD opening day. United States and
ht1ican officials are being invited.
Governor Dan Moody and all his
official family TO be asked.
A monster aerial circus planned
20 provide entertainment for the
thousands Of visitors from all south
Texas.
And the major attraction, Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh. who has pass
ed by Brownsville twice but has yet
to make his first stop.
The flying hero has not said he
would be here. But, Mexican Off
eials, with whom he Is highly friend
ly. are urging him to inaugurate
the route and he has indicated he
is interested.
At any rate. February 23 bids fair
10 be q big day in Brownsville.
THE MISSION TINES In a page
one editorial last week took notice
Of a condition which should be cor
rccted for the benefit Of the entire
Valley.
Spoke about hotels and restau-
rants serving inferior grapefruit
hnd getting top prices. The com
blaint would apply rs fOrcibly to
vegetables.
A tourist was heard 10 bemoan the
act that he had been unable TO
ample Valley vegetables since he
ame to the section, and admitted
is mouth was fairly watering for
good mess OF home-cooked turnip
reens with corn bread.
He had found just that comhina-
;on listed on q bill Of fare, but
when he was served he found the
greens had come out of can. The
corn bread. he admitted, was good.
He still wonders how valley-grown
greens just out Of the fields taste.
And he is entitled to know. Our
visitors are right to expect 70 SAM
pie our wares. That's what they are
here for.
LET EDITOR BRAY Of Mission
tell II. He says:
at Is to weep.
Eyes, copious tears Of shame.
ave walked in a Mission hotel
the othed day, and with our dinner
was served grapefruit. What dis
graceful grapefruit that wasl The
taste was only fair, but the looks
Of the skin and the size were both
pitiful.
ave also went into a Mission res
tsurant. A northern man came in
and with enthusiastic expectation
ordered grapefruit. He was served
a nice half grapefruit. He enjoyed
liz. no doubt, bat when he paid his
cheek. fifteen cents for one-half
rrapt fruit, perhaps he had cause TO
wopdef whether Mission really was
kAe "home Of the grapefruit"
"The point Is, the hotel did not
use good judgment in serving a Gull
grapefruit. for people coming here
hnve q right to expect more than
that. And with the restaurant the
point Is, q charge Of fifteen cents
for half a grapefruit is too much.
for that is thirty cents apiece. and
you can buy them at the best res
taurants anywhere in the country
for that.
~Just little matters, of course; but
aren't they worth eOrreeting7 We
think so.
THE FIRST straight car Of eggs
al from the Lower Rio Grande Valley
4 was shipped Tuesday by the DIESEL
! Boetteher company Of Brownsville.
II IL rather significant that this
firm also shipped the first straight
lear Of Valley grapefruit.
That was way back In 1916. when
fhe Valley was much younger, and
before the fact was generally known
khst the Lower Rio Grande Valley
was in the citrus fruit belt
The fact the Valley has shipped
its first straight car Of eggs will
not cause much excitement In north
ern markets. and probably will not
receive so much publicity as that
4 1frSt car OF kt~PeAtuf1 Dot -
marks the real beginning Of an In
dustry that il growing more rapidly
than the majority OF Valley resi-
dents realize.
kSCQRDING 60 a very conserva-
tive estimate. the hen population OF
the Valley has trebled in two years
and In still growing.
Aud Valley hens perform their