Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-02
IN OUR

BY c. Nj. HALL

- BY &. NJ. HALL -
MOTHER nice little plum from
~ the government Is on the way
to Brownsville.
Today r. E. Creaeer very care
fully words an announcement. as
a man in his position should be
careful 70 word one. But take IL
from the engineer OF this column.
Mr. Creager Is not going to wade
out tn way with government sec
rets. unless he pretty well knows
that the development has reached
the detail stage.
Brownsville is to get a labor SER
vice branch. 1t will have charge|
of territory south Of San Antonio!
The Valley Is getting ready Tor big
business in more ways than one.
BAND on top Of it all, oil seems 70
~ be getting nearer and nearer.
Zapata county springs 2 5000
barrel well, which somewhat lines
Up the Texas company's producer
in Starr county. With big OIL in
Starr county and the deep-warer
port and our rich soil. the engineer
OF this column doesn't see how we
will stand IL all. II he gets rich the
first thing he wants Is a new lawn
mower. The one We now have seems
so hard on friend wife.
A MINATED Annie says as it is
il now she has found that she
does not have 70 be a track man
70 run into debt.
from all We can hear. what the
Detroit Better Business Bureau
Is wishing right now Is that G..
G. Richardson. secretary Of the
Brownsville Chamber Of Commerce,
had stayed in Chicago.
The Brownsville secretary irnaug-
urated a battle with the Detroit
bureau over statements made about
Valley land. The Detroit manager
assumed a powerful naughty atti-
tude toward what he supposed was
a little Texas village. Brownsville
fired back through congress. The
Detroit man closed the book. Now
Brownsville has many OF the other
Better Business bureaus laying down
barrages TO bring the Detroit outfit
from behind its embankment OF ST.
lence. MAY have the fun set OF
hearing the Detroit Bureau saw
We were mistaken" which is a
simple truth that would end simple
action-on Its part.
xITHILE this IS the time OF year
wv people are generally advised to
- boil water. state and city Off
cials assure that Brownsville water
these days can be considered pff~e
kv1th reference to chances OF con-
4 racting diseases from Il.
y Just 10 relieve all of any unnec-
cessary fear.
THIEF of the state Sanitary Engi-
neers ". M. Ehlers declares that
the capers the Rio Grande Is
cutting at Brownsville in choosing
a new channel IS a matter Of intense
interest 10 engineers all over the
country.
The Rio Grande Is one OF the
greatest silt carrying streams. for
its size, in the world. II Is said 70
almost equal that Of the Yellow
river in China. The problem now
confronting the engineers with re-
ference to 2 water supply for
brownsville IS not what the river
O doing but what It may do
In The future. II has s1ary ttsr=
q which II may take any whim.
But the city will not suffer.
MYTH rains reported over many
sections OF Louisiana and Texas.
it is said that not only is relief
eing given from the heat which
as been experienced but rains In
1any other sections may follow
While other parts OF Texas have
q weitered this summer. and one /
Heath was reported from Houston
yesterday. the Valley has escaped
bny discomfort.
Rains right now would be Welcom-
{ By cotton growers.
IN ,
FOUND OK THE WIRES
NEWARK. n There's = chance
for another Lindbergh record.
Ted Bubert, five weeks old. has
own with Q. r. Hehert, aviator.
nd Mrs Hehert.
4 We YIN - 14kAA4l8A AE1MAAEa ]
kre 70 frolic Oh golf courses In ma
lures costumes. The National As
1Soc!ation OF Audubon societies IS
ponsoring the movement for the
Erection Of bird baths al golf
Courses which Go not have water
hazards. The idea is to prevent ne
birds from being driven away for
want OF q drink and a shower.
TORTONA, italy - once a teach
lsr OF mathematics and then an army
|%nfficer who distinguished himself
5n African campaigns. Don Carlo
EPelizzi has become a priest az the
ege OF IS. He delayed taking orders
because he was supporting two sis
Eers. now dead.
! DALLAS - Thirty-six a ago
Frank w. Grace got a JOB as a mes
Eenger boy with the Missouri-Kan-
eas-Texas railway. Now he is gem
'eral manager.
HAVANA - The man who sound
ed the charge at San Jzan hill IS
TO blow the same trumpet the same
way on the roof Of his home to-