Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-01
ii OUR
VALLEY

@s by CHARLES HALL -
once the passage Of the Point
NJ 1Sabel-Brownsville port project
IN the house some few days ago,
nothing has been heard as te the
prccsissie time the omnibus bill will
ne brought up IN the senate.
what Is being heard. however, Is
that Q stiff fight is brewing In the
miodle and north west against the
Erie Canal project, which Is con-
tanned in that bin OF $4,000, 900.
Minnesota newspapers seem to De
al stirred up against the New York
project. Hot editorials are appear
ing declaring that the canal pro-
1ecE Is not entered on its merits.
2 does not offer a way TO the
e q
Senator's are being called upon TO
XIII IL when IL comes TO the D
house. Nothing seems to be said
anywhere else against any Of the
otner projects and present action
only offers q possible delay TO the
valley project. However, it is be-
neved that the bill viii again win
IA the senate, and that the VAL
ley project Is safe, whatever hap
pens.
The quicker it IS introduced and
we'd upon in the Senate the safer
It's passage seems.
DRESS dispatches today tell OF a
new glider plane record. This
time Jack Barstow OF California
NsMUGn Iva the n4~ - No. - -
minutes. but he is not credited with
the championship because he did
not provide himself with q baro-
graph.
elders are now in comparative
infancy and that record Will soon
be broken again. The motOrleSs
ships offer a multitude of imagin-
able possibilities. 1t is expected to
open a club a. an early date in
Brownsville.
It is said that al those who a
ride a bicycle can manipulate the
lighter than air craft. To start, q
mighty pull Is given with ropes and
then IL is up TO the pilot how long
ne stays in action and what he does.
II Is held that even the beginners
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Ten years from now we may speak
Of "ISding' somewhere to spend
4. week end. To the engineer OF
this column one of the greatest re-
deeming features OF a glider is that
there Is never an occasion to have to
get out and crank It, That is
eaid TO be rather -inconvenient when
an airplane Is up.
IF YOU have not had your census
taken, don't be so stingy. Give
1t to somebody.
JUDGE Oscar Dzncy and J. j.
Bishop, county auditor. have ad-
vanced proposed method for
financing an addition TO the county
jail.
This Is 70 issue warrants, which
banks will handle for the county.
There was only n thing that the
engineer OF this column did not
exactly cotton 10 In that statement
That was at the opening OF the an
nouncement where it said: There
is q possibility. although not a great
probability II the possibility"
does not ma~terialize, let's get q
echeme with a probability"
However. l. is known that Judge
Dancy has one or two other ideas
on the matter. He Is for jail relief.
HOWEVER one may feel about
T Cameron's present judge, he is
- probably one Of the hardest
workers who ever held office. Re-
porte-s who call or officials Of the
people day after day get TO know
them ABOUT as well as anybody
Those calling on Judge Dancy report
him continually at work on some
thing. The mar wis continually
plugs along will eventually pass the
high flyer in business, unless the
high flyer Is exceedingly blessed
with luck. Judge Dancy Is known as
F.tle letter writing. road building
nudge and the latter Is not over
looking the splendid support given
BIZ the commissioners.
Some day he IS going 10 work out
n way TO close UP the gaps in the
military road, and then the Valley
viii have two highways to relieve
TIE present congestion. But let's
Get through with this Jail business
first One thing ar a time 70 para
phrase the parrot. You know Polly
got into the field and the crow
gathered AROUND and were picking
out his feathers. "One at a time
gentlemen, don't rush." he squawk-
&C.
rPEAKING Of the congestion on
n the present highway. statistics
from the patrol officials show
there have been 3 deaths since
March d of 1929. Hospitals have
treated =. and p have been given
first aid.
mat mases something like s in
iurics Der month. And many OF these
have been within the past few
months. The state officers have
helped cut a lot. but with the pres
ent traffic o fifteen foot road can
not keep a mass Of cars clear all
the time
FOUND ON THE WIRES
ANEW YORK - It's a delightful
IN May Day for investors IN Amer
~ lean industry. Dividend dis
bursements today by some 500 cor