Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
IN OUR
VALLEY

PRACTICAL UNEMPLOYMENT
relief Is that being practiced by s.
w. Mckenzie, Brownsville contrac-
tor now building the new Resaca
school.
Mckenzie IS working two crews
on the school building.
One crew works In the morning.
the second crew takes on in the
afternoon
Two men are getting work In
stead of one.
Fifty men are employed on the
school rather than Is.
Twenty five families are getting
their ~frijoles and corr bread who
perhaps would be doing without.
Folks, that's practical stuff.
Contractor Mckenzie is doing
more TO solve the unemployment
situation in Brownsville than have
Of the politicians whose state
mfnts on this and that are flared
forth in the headlines.
Half a loaf is better than none,
and you know just how glad are
these men who are being put to
work.
BROWNSVILLE school district
bond money is being spent in and
around Brownsville.
School board when II let the
contract stipulated that all posi-
bic material which went into the
sch>ol must be purchased in
Brownsville.
The board will probably make
the same stipulations when it lets
the two remaining school con-
tracts.
Successful bidders on these con-
tracts will 90 well 10 consider the
example set by Contractor McKen-
zie when they hire their labor.
Let's keep just as much Browns
vile money in Brownsville as we
can. let's spread that money out
among just as many families as
we can.
And you readers who live IN
cities other than Brownsville. just
substitute f<essiO7 or McAllen or
your city for Brownsville in the
above paragraph.
ROADS HELD the Valley spot
light in the last few days of the
past week.
Bob Briggs at Pharr not only was
awarded the contract for the Miii-
tary road paving, but also got in
right in outside territory and gain
ed the contract for a bridge over
the Nueces river In Jim Wells and
San Patricio counties.
1 And Judge Dancy and Nat Wetzel
lind Bob Stuart met with the state
highway commission In Austin and
AIDE medicine for the Hug-the-
kast route through Kennedy coun-
".
To say nothing OF the Four Posts
road and a few more that were
given some little attentions by the
commissioners court OF Cameron
county.
While UP in Hidalgo county
County Engineer E. M. Card goes
merrily ahead with road repair
work.
FORMER PUBLISHER Of The
Brownsville Herald j. NJ. Stein tells
San Benito Rotarians that South
Carolina vegetables are being ad-
vertised for their Iodine content
and wants the Valley to do some
thing about II.
If we lust must have iodine in
our Valley carrots, why not follow
the idea recently advanced by Col,
Sam Robertson.
Remember when Col. Sam pro-
posed that our farmers gather up
the seaweed from BraZos and Padre
Islands and use II for fertilizer.
Seaweed has iodine content.
Might impart il TO our vegetables.
At that. we wonder If Stein has
forgotten the days when carloads
OF Valley vegetables were noted for
their tequila content?
SHORT CITRUS crop said TO be
facing Florida.
Same kind OF a crop reported
from California.
Now would seem to be the Valleys
golden opportunity.
We want the top price for ouI
$500 cars.
We want them marketed in the
best possible fashion, we want them
marketed over as long a period as
IS possible.
IA good crop. bringing a good
kee. will do a whole lot toward
kelping us on our merry way.
RESORTERS AT Valley beache:
are considerable OF others.
Watched a succession OF picnic
groups the other night.
Without exception. as they made
ready 10 leave. members OF the var
ious parties gathered UP their de.
brss. made a fire, burned the trash
Sheriff Frank Brown takes hi:
gang of county guests down 10 the
beach every once IN a while.
They can't get down every day
they can't. clean all the beach.
But you and I can do Is those
picnic parties did. clean up our ovr
debris. and maybe 50 others vii
follow suit.
FOUR MERCEDES BOY Scouts
save a life.
And another chapter Is writer
In the hook OF good deeds performed
bv members OF that organization.
Confidence In himself. the klnC
az confidence that enables a toy
to act in ar emergency. Is not ta'
least Of the many good qualities de-
yeioped by the Boy Scout organiza'
ton.
7 Hurt in Wreck
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