Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-07
I'm OUR
VALLEY

1ueI, Is young IN years DuC ne is
old in aviation experience.
He learned to fly when he was
IL, soloed before he had reached
18, spent three years, from 1917 to
1920, in the army flying corps,
transformed for five or six years
and since then has been chief test
pilot and demonStrator for the
Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co., at
Marshall, Mo.
And Barney - like Lindy - dis
likes to tell about himself. He in
tends to fly to Winnipeg without
landing or break something in the
effort, but he fails to see anything
in that desire to excite hero wor-
ship or even special interest.
eff get too much publicity be-
fore the attempt and then for any
reason fail it will just make me
look silly. Wait until I have made
the flight and then write your
stories"
That's the way he feels. The
newspaper boys say he's not good
copy-but they like him immensely
and are pulling for his success.
But the good wishes that Barney
is expecting to pull him through to
success are those Of his bride of
ten months up in Marshall, Mo.
He's not going by that way, but he
knows there will be one person up
there waiting anXiously for news
of the flight. She knows he is go
ing to make it.
$1,000 PER DAY.
That is the present pay roll of
Pan-American Airways, Inc, in
Brownsville.
More than $4,000 per month 60
ing to men whose families live in
spent with "the butcher, the baker
and the candleStick maker" Banks
holding the balance for future need.
Already that places aviation as
the leading industry of Browns
vile, and that is just the beginning.
When the new shops are con-
structed and in operation, when
new hangers are built and when
more lines to the south are oper-
sting that pay roll will be further
increased.
Growth Of the aviation business
crowds The Brownsville Herald into
second place.
For some time The Herald has
boasted the largest pay roll in the
city.
Now the paper can claim only
the second largest. And we are
glad Of it.
This pay roll means a tremend-
Gus force for the future prosperity
Of the city and the Valley.
And the Pan-American is con-
tributing more than pay roll. The
employees are the type of men who
make the best citizens. There are
almost 100 of them and all Of them
are assets to the city.
Other aviation companies are
contributing their bit to make avia-
ton the leading activity Of the CITY.
Corporation Aeronautica de Trans
porteS, operating air mail and pas
senger line to Monterrey, Torreon,
Durango and Mazatlan, on the Pa
cific coast, also has several men
employed and has a considerable
pay roll.
This applies also to Texas Air
Transport, operating the north
bound air mail and passenger lines.
THE GAP in the highway be-
tween Harlingen and Edinburg,
passing through Edcouch and other
towns along the Southern Pacific is
to be closed.
And credit for securing the pave
ment is given by the Edcouch En-
terpriSe, weekly newspaper, to the
Lions club of Santa Rosa.
The road practically complete
save for a bridge across a huge
canal will be open to traffic in a
few weeks, Col. Rufus j. Lakeland
informed the Santa Rosa Lions at
their weekly meet. This was Just
after Col. Lakeland had been in
session with Hidalgo commissioners.
The commissioners had pledged i'm
mediate completion of the road, he
said.
HThe route from Harlingen to
eEdinburg will be shortened about
IA miles by the new highway.
"CAN WOMAN Hide Under Mod
ern Skirt -Four Pounds of Lard, Can
Of Fit and Dozen Eggs?" asks the
Mission Enterprise in two-column
head.
Off hand the answer to that
question appears to be mo, posi-
lively not"
But the story in connection with
the head seems to answer Eyes"
The woman seems to have had the
entire list of groceries under q
modern abbreviated skirt.
T. RALPH WILLIS. director of
the municipal band at San Benito
has launched yo-yo contest to be
staged in the city park there
Thursday.
And now he wants someone to
write a prize essay on the yo-yo.
Spinning OF the yo-yo seems to
have seized adult fancy almost as
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