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HIGHWAY BOND
VOTE FRIDAY
Senate Likely to Sub
mit Amendment to
People of Texe»
I By 8. RAYMOND BROOKS
AU8T1N, Feb. 13.—The Texas sen
ate is preparing to vote Monday on
tha biggest issue, in terms of dol
lars ana cants, in all tha history of
Taxes, when it takes action toward
shaping a public policy on tha pro
Eosed $176,000,000 statewide highway
oad issue.
The senate will act on Senator
Walter Woodul’s proposal to sub
mit the highway bond issue to ths
voters of tha state.
Tha road bond plan, beforo tha
boost on an adverse committee re
port, will await action in the lower
branch of the legislature until tha
senate has disclosed its attitude on
the plan.
A test vote hss indicated a senate
majority favorable to submission of
the bond progrsm.
Proposal Modified
Tha road bond proposal has been
. twice modified since it wss first
made by Chairmsn R. S. Sterling of
the highway commission. Gov. Dan
Moody’s advisory highway committee
of 31 trimmed the bond total from
$360,000,000 to $226,000,000; then a
sub-committee of the advisory group
again reduced the total to $100,000,
000 for highway construction and
$75,000,000 to repay counties for
money spent In building the present
state system of highways. The coun
ties would use the refunded money
with which to construct their lateral
roads.
The bill In this form is now be
fore the house and senate.
Sen. John W. Hornsby of Travis
county, chairman of the committee
on constitutional amendments which
reported out the bill which will be
considered by the senate Friday, is
individually opposed to the issue, he
has made known.
Lynch Davidson, former lieutenant
governor and former chairman of
Gov. Dan Moody's state “harmony
democrat” campaign organization, it
mahing the most vigorous fight on
the bond plan so far disclosed out
side the legislature. He has brought
extensive tables of statistics and
figures here to present in his con
test against the adoption of the
bond plan.
By virtue of the new state policy
it involves, and the immense sum of
money it calls for, the highway bond
issue has been regarded as the major
item before this session of the leg
islature.
The proposal came before tha leg
islature as an administration meas
ure, after having been recommended
by the advisory commission which
Gov. Dan Moody appointed. Gov.
Moody has made it clear that he was
not committed to a specific kind of
plan or a specific amount from each
of the 31 state senatorial districts
by the senators and representatives
from the district.
If rejected by the regular session,
the proposal for a state bond issue
cannot be revived before the regular
session of 1931. If submitted to the
voters by the legislature, a vigorous
statewide campaign in behalf of adop
tion of the constitutional amendment
is certain to be made by the spon
sors of the bond plan.
Numerous other bills, regulating
and fixing the amount of gasoline
sales taxes, the registration fees on
motor vehicles, and the division be
tween counties and the state of rev
enues, are awaiting outcome of the
highway bond proposal for aetion in
the legislature.
FUERSREACH
39,000 FEET
Not Official Record;
Say Could Not See
The Ground
DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 13.—OP>—
Two army fliers in an old army
plane reached an unofficial altitude
of 39,000 feet from Wright Field yes
terday, and brought down with them
an account of a condition above the
clouds which meteorologists long
have suspected but never have been
able to prove.
The fliers, Lieut. Johnson and
Captain A. W. Stevens, pilot and
photographer, were forced down by
deplenished fuel at Norton Field.
Columbus. Ohio.
The instruments attached to the
plane, used in many teat and altitude
flights, indicated they had reached
an altitude out-reaching the record
of 38.420.5 feet held by Lieut. C. C.
( ah m pi on of the United States navy.
No record was claimed because rules
of the Federation Aeronautique in
ternationale prescribe that the plane
must land at the field from which
it left the earth.
The two pilots blamed their fail- j
ure to establish a record for a two
man plane on another phenomenon
of the air: Excessive visibility.
“The ordinary horizon line when
Dying is between seven and eight
thousand feet," the explained. “Aft
er we got above the clouds of ice we
couldn’t see the ground and the
horizon line above must have been
at least bO.OOO feet—and we didn’t
know where w# were."
Who wants a white
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i Ability counts
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wbo’d rather be a first-rate work
man in overalls than a tenth-rate
man in a white collar job.
1/ you were to ask him his rules fot
success, he'd probably tell you with
a twinkle in his eye, “Same as for
any other job, 1 guess. Hard work.
Steady plugging. And good health.
I've never missed a day s work from
illness. I made sure of that years ago.
Whatever your line of work, take a
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KIWANIS PLAN
FOR VISITORS
Dist. Gov. McDonald
Addresses San Be
nito Meet
(Special to The Herald)
i SAN BENITO, Feb. IS.—Discussion
of plans for the entertainment of a
delegation of Illinois and Iowa Ki
wanians who will visit the Valley
the latter part of this month fea
tured the closing session of the dis
trict Kiwanis convention here Tues- !
day, with District Governor L. A. |
McDonald of Denton, as the principal
speaker.
Attendance at the meeting, light
in the morning on account of the
weather, increased to more than a
hundred at the noon luncheon at the
Stonewall Jackson, and the afternoon
session at the Baptist church audi
torium. The visitors cime from the
section from San Antonio to La
redo on the west and Corpus Christi
on the east, with practically every
! club in the territory represented.
At the banquet at noon Tuesday
I the visitors were welcomed to San
I Benito by J. E. Bell, secretary of
I the San Benito Chamber of Com- '
j merer. He declared that such agen
| cies of builders as the Kiwanis clubs
are responsible for the rapid growth
of cities, and expressed the hope
that more such meetings would be 1
held here.
The principal address at the ban
quet was given by Mr. McDonald.
| The district governor declared that |
Kiwanis must of necessity be a bene- ;
fit, as proved by the fact that a .
hundred thousand busy men all over !
the world are willing to give two ,
hours of their time a week to it. He j
named three of the greatest benefits !
of Kiwsnis as the building of fel- j
lowship, leadership and developing
of latent abilities of the members. |
The district governor in speaking ,
of Kiwanis of the future said that'
its states and accomplishments de- I
pend upon the aims and ideals of
the individusl members. These ideals !
are such, he said, that there can be 1
no question of its growth.
Entertainment at the meeting wac I
furnished by the Kilowatt Four !
quartet, and by Mr*. Fleming New- ;
ton and Miss Dorothy Jackson in a ,
piano and violin duet. W. S. Brock,
president of the Sen Benito club, i
presided, and Rev. Francis M. Davis, I
lieutenant governor of the district, !
wa* in charge of the program.
The afternoon session opened with i
several songs by Miss W’illa Wood
side of Rio Hondo, followed by a 1
discussion of attendance and other i
problems of Kiwanis.
A large part of the afternoon pro
gram was taken up with plans for!
entertainment of the golf tour of
northern Kiwanians later in the
month.
S. P. Offering
Low Rate From
Northern Texas
Hundreds of north end east
Texans are expected to take advan
tage of the “See the Lower Rio
Grande Valley” excursion for which
round trio tickets will b® put on
sal® by th® Southern Pacific Feb
ruary 21, with a final return limit
to February 25.
A round trip rate of 75 per cent
of tho regular one-way rate has
been announced by tha railroad, and
the excursion is being well adver
tised in north and east Texas and
western Louisiana.
The excursion rate will apply as
far west as Del Rio and east to New
Orleans, including Shreveport. Dal
las, Fort Worth. Waco. Austin and
all intermediate points. Valley
points to which tickets will b® sold
include Brownsville. McAllen, Edin
burg and Harlingen.
The Southern Pacific is arranging
to provide several trains for the ex
cursionists. tho first of which will
arrive in the Valley the morning of
Friday, February 22. Holders of
tickets will be permitted to remain
until Sunday night, February 24.
According to reports from the
northern and east parts of the state
th® Valley will b® called upon to
entertain hundreds of visitors who
will have approximately three days
to visit the vsrious sections.
Invite Tourists
Attend All-Day
Prayer Service
The snnual sl-dav prayer service
of the Brownsville church federation
will be held Friday at the Presby
terian church, commencing at 10 a. m.
An invitation is extended to all
tourists and visitors in th* city to
attend, and arrangements have been
mad* to serve luncheon from 12 to
1:30, no charge to be mad*. All ar
rangements for th* service have been
completed by Mrs. W. J. Veptrees,
president, and Mrs J. K. Bull, stere
tary of th* federation.
"We extend a cordial invitation to
all tourists and visitors in th* city
to attend this service,” Mrs. Bull
said. "Th* al-day prayer service is
observed by the church federation*
throughout the United States. It is
undenominational, and vr* urge all
denominations to attend.
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Four Jolly Musicians
In N. Y. Quartet To
Play Programs Here
Four extremely jolly musicians
are the members of the New York
String Quartet, which play in
Brownsville on February 22, at the
Junior college auditorium. They are
the Messrs. Cadek. Siskovsky, Yaska
and Schwab, and although they have
been in one another’s company since
the founding of the quartet in 1919,
they are the best of friends, har
monizing off stage as a ell as on the
platform.
The youngest is Cadek, the first
violin. This blond young man from
Chattanooga has become a matinee
idol, not only for his attractive per
sonality, but also for his charming
playing. Alhtough he is a most se
rious young musician, he is a fine
dancer and a capable athlete.
Siskovsky, formerly an A. E. F.
bandmaster, is the tennis champion
of the quartet, and were there more
time at his disposal, he might enter
some of the larger tournaments. Mr.
Siskovsky is also the hero of the
quartet, for he injured one eye- seri
ously a few days before an important
concert in New York. He practically
memorized the taxing music and
played as brilliantly as ever—with
no announcements of the handicap
under which he was appearing.
Schwab is the musical pundit and
Rrogram annotator of the quartet.
[e has composed many songs, and
transscribed some of the quartet’s
most successful encores. He also is
a dry humorist, whose drolleries,
deliveerd with solemn mien, enliven
the quartet’s travels.
Vaska is an energetic fisherman
and soft-hearted huntsman. Scarcely
a day passes during the quartet’s so
journ at its summer camp in Ver
mont that does not see him with his
rod in a boat, or following his little
fox terrior “iBela” as she chases
wood-chucks and wood-pussies in
the forest.
Tickets are on sale at McCleary’s
Music Store. Seat reservations may
be made from February 18.
PLAN DRY ICE
VALLEYPLANT
Propose Factory To
Supply Refrigerant
For Section
Erection of a dry ice plant, with
a capacity of 30 tons daily, to cost
approximately $180,000, is proposed
by Charles Mathews of San Antonio,
representative of the Dry Ice Cor
poration of America, who arrived in
the Valley last week to interest
Valley people in the project.
Dry ice, which is carbon dioxide
gas solidified under hydraulic pres
sure, is being use* extensi.ely for
domestic and car refrigeration in
the east and north, 'lne company
now has plants in New York, Elisa
bethtown, N. J., and Chicago, and
has 17 under construction in other
maior cities.
The substance has a temperature
of 130 degrees below zero, Fahren
heit, and will last ten to fifteen
times as long as natural or artifi
cial ice, Mathews said. The cost is
apptoximately 10 rents per pound,
but recent improvements in manufac
ture are expected to reduce this.
The gas, which is secured from
combustion of coke, is first liqui
fied. and then solidified under pres
sure.
Utilization of dry ice for car re
frigeration is increasing rapidly in
the east, where practically all fish
and meats are now shipped under
this form of refrigeration. Mathews
said. Standard refrigerator cart are
used, but to get the best results the
cars are piped to carry the refrig
erating vapors from the dry ice to
all parts of the car. Over 300 cars
have been equipped in this manner,
he said.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley
uses more refrigeration in proper
tion to its population than any
other section of the United States,
and I am confident a dry ice plant
would revolutionize refrigeration
here,” Mathews said. “We have
demonstrated that dry ice is more
efficient and as cheap as natural
ice or other means of refrigeration,
and the convenience of ita use is
a factor that will add to Hs popular
ity, both for domestic use and car
refrigeration.”
The Dry Ice Corporation of
America holds all the patents, and
the plants operate on a franchisa
granted by that corporation.
Scottish Rite
Holds Meeting
The international Scottish Rite
meat at Montarrey Friday, Satur
day and Sunday, was well attended
by representatives from San An
tonio and other sections of south
Texas, was the report of George
Mansur, president of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Scottish Rite club,
who represented that organization
at the Monterrey meeting.
The Mexican states represented
included Durango. Coahuila, Nuevo
Leon and Tamaulipas. An invita
tion was extended to the Monterrey
consistory to attend the .iext meet
ing of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley club.
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STOPSPAPER
Weslaco Outlook In
junction Brings New
Publication
(Special to The Herald)
WESLACO, Feb, 13.—Publication
of the Weslaco Outlook, or any sue- j
cessor to the Outlook by Warren T. j
Kingsbury, who purchased the good ;
will, circulation list and some other
assets, mainly intangible, of the pa
per, is restrained by a temporary
injunction issued by the district
civil court on petition of Stanford :
Hardy, publisher of the Weslaco
News.
The injunction was asked and se
cured two days before the first is
sue of the Outlook was scheduled to '
appear. Mr. Kingsbury, who came {
here recently from Missouri, has
been publishing the Weslaco Stand
ard. a new paper, since that time, j
and no petition has yet been filed ■
for dissolution of the injunction, ae- (
cording to Charles E. Thompson, at- I
! torney for Hardy. If no such peti
j tion is filed, the case will probably
i be heard at the regular term of dis
I trict court in March at Edinburg.
The injunction was based on the
I claim that Mr. Hardy's contract for
purchase of the Weslaco News from
1 Edmund I*. Williams stipulated that
: the Outlook, which had also been
purchased by Mr. Williams, would
not be published in Weslaco, and no j
i legal successor to it would be pub-1
j lished for a period of three years,
j The Outlook had been published
| previously for a period of more than
a year, and as auch was entitled to
publish legal notices of the city of
Weslaco, or other legal notices.
Mr. Kingsbury purchased the vol-1
ume number, good will, circulation
list, and other assets of tho Out
look, and was preparing to publish
tho paper, according to Mr. Thomp
son. when the injunction was se
cured restraining him from publish
ing it.
Mr. Williams, former owner of the
Outlook and tho Newt, it now pub
Hshing a weekly newspaper at San
Benito, called the San Benito News.
‘Big Poy’ Thrives
Under Influence |
Valiev Sunshine
.
The Lower Kio Grande Valley cli- :
mate is as favorabla for apes as for j
humans, is the assertion of W. A. i
(Snake) King, who declares that i
agers of biological gardens in New 1
to tho Valley about a year ago, is
growing rapidly and appears as
healthy as in his native habitat—
the jungles of Africa.
When tho huge ape was brought
to this country by King, he was
informed by naturalists and man
agers of boological gardens in New
York and Philadelphia, that tha ani
mal would not live a year.
“I told them they did r.ot know
tho climate of tho Lower Rio
Grande Valley,” King said. “They
insisted there was no place in th«
United States where ‘Big Boy’ would
| live more than a few months.”
The ape, one of the largest aver
captured, has thrived under tho in
fluence of the Valley eunshine.
Warm quarters are provided when
tho occasional “norther” sweeps
down, but there are few days of the
year whan “Big Boy” cannot have
his sun bath.
A larger cage is being cons'-.ucted
by King at Snakaville, where the
apo is now on exhibition. He will he
kept there until late spring when
ho will be taken north for exhibi
tion purposes.
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BISHOP HAY TO SPEAK ,
AT COMMENCEMENT1
MERCEDES. Feb. 13 — According
to Superintendent E. H. Poteet of th®
Mercedes schools, Bishop Sam B|
Hay of Houston, has been chosen »<#
deliver the senior high school com
mencement address for the graduate
ing clas of 1929.
Dr. Hay is bishop of the twelftW
district of the Methodist Episcopal
church South, which includes thjfl
Northwestern Pacific, Ari*onaATjf
as, and North Texas conference* gj
DUVAL WEST IS FATHER;
HARLINGEN, Feb. 13.—Duaal
West. Jr., of this city is thaj
father of a baby girl, born Mon4a)j
night. The girl weighed seven ana
a half pounds Mother and daugh I]
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