Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-26
; LONG May BE |mPEACHED
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living in northern climes, but for
the Valley it is summer.
Indicated by the hundreds of
motorists who drove to Point Isabel
and Boca Chica beaches Sunday.
Many Of the braver souls braved
the cool air and enjoyed swim in
the surf-and found it fine after
the first shock of the water rolling
over them.
Roads to both beaches were in
fine condition and the crowds
merely foreshadowed the thousands
who will be on hand next Sunday
and for many Sundays thereafter.
Some day paved roads are going
to connect the seaside resorts with
other Valley towns and then thou
sands of people will visit the gulf
where hundreds do now. Then
crowds of surf bathers will enjoy
this sport as they do in California,
Florida, Galveston and hundreds Of
other places where the beaches are
easily accessible.
What is finer than swim in the
gulf, picnic supper on the sand
and a moonlight drive home.
THE BROWNSVILLE municipal
airport continues to be Of value to
a wide diversity Of interests and
to provide favorable publicity for
this city and the Valley.
The latest unusual traffic over
the field has been a plane carrying
a professional fighter of oil well
sfires with his equipment bound for
a field in Central America where a
large gusher was blazing.
The fire fighter. with his special
equipment, left Tulsa last Friday
and landed here that afternoon.
He left Saturday morning on a
special plane Of the Mexican Avia-
ton company. BY Saturday night
he should have reached his destina-
ton and have been busy combat
ting the flames.
Ordinarily the trip would have
valuable oil would have been con-
sumed in the meantime.
Events such as these continue to
add proof to the farsightedness of
Brownsville leaders who launched
the move for an airport bond issue
when there appeared to be little
mediate use for such facility.
The port continues to enjoy q
large business in addition to the
regular passenger and mail lines
operating out Of here. Saturday
there were two planes down from
army fields around San Antonio
and three other commercial planes.
In the meantime the Interna-
tional Air Transport company
planes, engaged in hauling in fish
from Soto la Marino, are making
more and more trips. These planes
alone give the local airport as much
business as is enjoyed by the usual
inland port.
Speaking of airports, it appears
that several soon will be under
construction in other parts OF the
Valley. At Mercedes a site has
been inspected by a representative
of the aviation branch OF the de-
partment Of commerce and has
been given his approval.
Harlingen city commissioners an
nounce they will use part OF the
arroyo park site for an airport, II
the sale of that tract eventually is
completed.
At Edinburg they are considering
the advisability of building an air
port.
other Valley towns have dis
cussed the possibility.
THE HERALD receives yet an
other plea for the bluebonnets now
blooming in this section.
1t follows:
NEARLY two decades ago when
woman was hardly recognized IN
our legislative halls, a committee
of women went before the state
legislature of Texas and persuaded
our law makers to legally declare
the bluebonnet or buffalo clover
our state flower In spring time
the blaebonnet is seen blooming on
the broad prairies of Texas from
the Rio Grande river and poets snd
artists have We'd with each other
in painting and making word pic
lures of the beautiful flowers as
find them so effective in mass.
Until the past few seasons very
few bluebonnets were found in the
Rio Grande delta and our friend
and game warden, r. D. Camp, has
planted the seed in many unaccus-
toned places This spring the
nature lovers have admired and to
admire meant to gather. Most of
us are vandals where we admire a
thing and many persons have
gathered promiseuously and have
thrown the seed pods upon which
we must depend for our next
years blossoms on the ground to
wither undeveloped. Allow us 10
appeal to these nature lovers to be
satisfied with watching these flow
ers bloom until we may have them
growing here. in abundance as In