Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-08
TEXAS filters WING|NG TO TOKYO
in OUR
VALLEY

VALLEY CITIES are finding that
charters framed back some ten or
fifteen years ago are decidedly out
OF date.
Brownsville has framed, through
a charter commission. a number Of
amendments to It's city charter on
which the voters will pass judgment
on August y.
In Hidalgo County the city Of
Mercedes has a charter commission
which has finished its work.
Within a short time the voters
Of that city will have the same OPP
p~ortunity as Is given the people Of
Brownsville, that Of bringing the
rules and regulations which govern
its municipality up to date.
Since the charters OF most of cur
9aIley cities were first adopted. the
legislature has met many times.
State laws on which many OF our
municipal rules and regulations are
based have gone by the way In many
instances.
New privileges have been granted
cities.
We should bring our city regula-
tons UP 70 date, or, as IS the case
with the city of Mercedes, revise
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MERCEDES NEwS-TRIBUNE in
It's last weeks issue pictured with
we'll deserved pride the A. H. elo
cup recently awarded that paper for
being adjudged the best weekly
newspaper In Texas.
The Brownsville Herald has said
Dnce, and says again, that the honors
bestowed upon the News-Tribune
and the Mission Times reflect Gre
dit not only on those papers, the
communities in which they are pub
llshed, but on the entire Valley.
The reading public outside OF your
own community gains It's impress
sions OF your community by its
newspapers. and the Valley may rest
easy, represented as II IS by the
newspapers which carry its message
10 the four corners Of the globe.
TOOK THE VAIL Ely a long time
TO attempt to capitalize on its
beaches.
How the attempted capitalization
has taken may be seen by figures
released by the Brownsville Cham
Der OF Commerce showing that over
$1,000 persons visited Boca Chica
on Saturday and Sunday.
And by estimates from Port Isa-
bel telling OF additional thousands
who played in the surf at Padre
Island on the same days.
Now comes news Of another pro-
iected development on the coast.
Surely everybody in the Valley vii
give the glad hand Of welcome tc
II. Z. Lamar of San Antonio and
wish him luck in his plans for q
rehabilitation of the old Buena vista
tract.
Our beaches are a decided asset
-aAnvbody who helps in their de-
ve&01nent is welcome and more
than welcome.
BANK DEPOSITS IN Browns
Vile took a hike Of s334,0O0 in The
three months between March rs anc
June 80.
Casting all joking aside about vol
and / not having any Of the increase
that's good news.
No community whose bank de-
posts show an increase and whose
postal receipts are on the up and *
has any cause for worry.
Don't ask us wis, especially wher
we personally have nothing to 81 v
for it but 1t Is 50.
Statisticians have figured II out
and who are we to doubt the wore
OF one of those fellows.
BOB STOREY OF Dallas. prince
OF good fellows. standard bearer il
his profession. was honored by Val
lev Kiwanians meeting in Browns
Vile at the festive board last night
Governor of the Texas-O Oklahoma
District of Kiwanis, that servic'
club honored Itself by placing Bol