Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-19

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JUDGE Oscar Dancy Is busily en-
gagged these days In studying
the military highway and from
time to time presents to the county
commissioners and civic leaders his
findings.
One Of the latest is to issue bonds
to the extent Of $3.50 0 which he
points out will keep the tax rate
under the IS cent statute.
With this he proposes to close the
La Faloma gap Of Al and the Los
Indios-Blue Town gap Of So miles
and pave the R~angerville road from
the Arroyo Bridge TO the military
road.
Judge Dancy adds that paving
the two gaps will not only shorten
the distance from La Feria west. 81
miles, but provided q parallel high
way free from congested traffic.
This highway he says In the narrow
est portion will be n foot wiI>r
than the present main highway Of
the Valley.
That the Valley needs another
highway d8t4 bAAC 66Po 4A4C4 III S4AC
military road is q foregone conclus-
ion, not to mention the long-debated
R~angerville road. 1t all must be
done some day. When something
must be done there is no time for
starting like the present. So far il
seems that we have only commenced
to begin to start on this proposition,
although We have long been at 1t.
AFTER searching Texas papers the
~ Editorial Digest OF Houston an
nounces that not a Texas editor
lifted his pen for a moment in sup
port of the Sherman mob in any
way.
Many were the suggestions OF the
state press for the prevention Of such
an outbreak. and the punishment
OF those who took part IN the Sher-
man affair.
Probably the outstanding sug-
gestion was that all those who took
part be forced to work every week
end for at least one year rebuilding
the court house the mob burned.
II they did that and paid the cost
Of material out Of their own pockets
the material loss would be replaced
after SO long a time. but another
debt would still remain. Still. 1t
might have a good effect II a legal
way to do that could be found.
A MINATED Annie says that about
~ the only way in which a loafer
Is OF any service IS to have him
20 point TO as a bad example.
A N oppressive atmosphere the past
~ few days. and storms reported
ove the south. have caused no
little uneasiness. but so far the VAL
ley has escaped with only rains
which were needed.
Many telephone calls were received
Saturday night by The Herald TO
inquire Of reported storms. Early
Sunday night q drendling rain fell
over the Edinburg secion. Mission,
McAllen. Pharr. Weslaco and Mer-
cedes reported a heavy fail for about
thirty minutes.
II vas said TO be especially bene-
fetal to the cotton crop which pro-
misses not TO let other crops Guido
IL this year.
GAN ANTONIO. stili laboring on It's
~ censu count. may not be able to
beat the 100000 reported by
Houston.
linking Of this is given in the
statement recently attributed to the
Alamo City chamber OF commerce
circle to the effect: IF we don't get
the biggest census count in Texas
we're glad 1t will be Houston and
not Dallas that's ahead of us. Hous-
ton and San Antonio have never
been uUfriendly we have to much
In common. Dallas had 100000.
The census is settling many a
chamber Of commerce dispute over
population. and many Valley diff
ferences Of opinion are ending in
one I told you so" for each dis
pute-
n ONG before it was too late to cease
L. firing the Brownsville country
club yesterday had registered SO
city visitors. or non-member visi-
tors.
Not the least OF city assets Is a
good golf course. Harlingen pro-
baby could not do better than to
hurry both her new golf course and
her proposed airport.
Il
FOUND ON THE WIRES
vYTASHINGTON - Representative
wv Ruth Bryan Owen OF Florida
- wants congress to award Glenn
Curtiss q medal for his contribu-
tons to the Development Of citation
and has introduced a bill to that
effect.
NEW YORK - A new record for
mass parachute jumping is on the
books Twenty men bailed out Of
4 huge plane and floated to earth