Brownsville herald. [volume], May 12, 1929, Page FIVE, Image 5

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BUS SERVICE
ADDEDC. M. A.
New Automobile Making 2
Trip* Daily From City
To Airport
A new 14-passenger automobile
85 been purchased by Com pan la
Mexicans de Avlaclon. S. A. to make
rLliS between the downtown office
w the Brownsville airport for the
^convenience of their air passengers
/ new bus has been in use two
* eeks today, it was purchased
through Jesse Dennett, Inc., of this
city.
trips are made to the airport
daily from the office which is locat
ed at Eleventh and Levee streets.
It leaves at 7:30 a. m. and 12:30
p. m.
Until the new vehicle was pur
chased the company furnished taxi
service to their passengers. Trans
portation to the airport in the new
bus is without charge to the pas
. sengers. * v
persons arriving in Browns
ville in the company planes are
conveyed to the city in the bus
Company officials declare that
more passengers are arriving than
»re departing in the planes. The
situation has taken a reversed form
since the establishment of the line.
At first there were more leaving
than coming in.
Baggage and express is also car
ried to and from the port in the
bus.
DEPOT MOVED
The Missouri Pacific Transports
tio ncompany has moved its local
offices to the regular M. P. depot
following the granting of their ap
plication to do so by the railroad
commission. The old depot, estab
lished by the Black Diamond Bus
line, has been discontinued.
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Above is pictured the bus making two trips daily between the Compania Mexlcana de Aviacion. S A.,
local office and the Brownsville Airport. The new bus has been in operation for two weeks. It leaves
^_ the downtown office at 7:30 a. m. and 13:30 p. m.
WESLACC CLASS
SERVICES SET
Commencement Exercises to
Be Held Friday Night,
May 24
WESLACO. May 11—Commence
ment exercises of the local schools
will be held at eight o’clock Friday
evening. May 24. at the high school
auditorium. The program for the
evening exercises has been planned
as follows:
Professional. Mrs. W. F. Powell:
invocation, the Rev. Wm. LeMay,
pastor of Christian church; song by
glee club; salutory. * Miss Sarah
Pinson, piano duet. Mrs. Gaorge H.
Hoeffer and Mrs. F. G. Charlton;
address. Dr. E. P. West, pastor of
Second Baptist church of Houston:
vocal solo. Miss Eu Jean Smith;
valedictory. Orland King; presenta
tion of scholarships and diplomas.
Supt. E. E. Chamness; benediction,
the Rev. E. L. Compere, pastor of
local Baptist church.
Members of the senior class are:
Misses Agnes Avinger, Leona Bruch
miller, Catherine Clark, Verna Mae
Emery. Connie Mae Garrett. Margie
Hartt. Amelia Hunt. Selma Langkop.
Ruth Ludwig. Norma Mauldin. Texie
Nall. Irene Nettles. Elizabeth Nevill,
Sarah Pinson. Ruth Rives. Gladys
Shepperd. Myrtle Smith. Martha
Williams. Mary Jane Yates: Eugene
Best, Jesse Boles. Emmett Clements,
Leo Davis, Glenn Flemming. Wood
row Gound. Dee Ham. Jack Hays.
Lester Hays. Horace Henrickson.
Miller Jordan. Arland King. Virgil
Lehman, Wilburn Montgomery.
Cecil Reid. Boyd Scott. Everett
Smith. Paul Strong. James Sutphen.
Ralph Swanzey and Shell Young.
The class night program for Wed
nesday evening May 22. has not been
completed nor has the program for
the junior high exercises for Thurs
day evening May 23.
The wef’„ of May 19-24 has been
given over for the school activities.
Mrs. W. W. Carrothers, Mrs. F. C.
McConnell. Mrs. A. C. LaDuke. Mrs
Thomas F. Rives and Mrs. C. U
O’Neal are members of the decorat
ing committee for the commence
ment and baccalaureate services;
Mrs. Fred Robinson and Miss Ger
trude Streuer and the girl reserves
for class night.
POPiLSllT
LOCAL AIRPORT
Lions Sponsor ‘School Day*;
Junior High Turns Out
In Body
About five hundred junior high
school pupils attended the "school
day" at the Brownsville Municipal
airport Friday afternoon sponsored :
by the Lions club, in cooperation
with school and city officials
The children were transported
from the school to the airport in j
Missouri Pacific Transportation
company buses, Mexican Aviation
company buses and private cars.
The children were acompanied by
members of the Lions club and in
structors.
During the visit, Paul G. Woods. !
maintenance man connected with1
the Pan American Airways, gave a
talk on the care and upkeep of en
gines and planes. Woods explained ,
the workings of the planes thor-,
oughly. The children were inter
ested in the talk and asked numer-!
out questions. The students' ques
tions were pointed and seemed to1
indicate that they had a *rmd con-!
cepticn of the principles of heavier
than-air flight. They made notes
on Woods’ talk.
The pilot and maintenance per-!
sonnel of the Pan-American Lines.!
Corporacion Aeronautics de Trnns
portes. and other onerators. showed
the children around and kept them
interested. Lyle Thro. Pan-Amer
ican pilot, explained the workings
of a tri-motored plane and gave a
short lecture.
Les Mauldin, airport manager,
performed in the air for visitors.
Clyde Spracher. pilot of the T A. T..
held up his deoarture with the
mail north until the children ar
rived.
A plane of the Tex-Mex fisheries
landed at about 3 p. m. followed bv j
the pasenger plane of the T. A. T I
The party returned early in th?
afternoon.
Artificial Larynx
Mav Restore Sneech
To Dallas Woman
—
DALLAS. Texas. May 11.—<JP>—
Mrs. W. R. Wilson. Dallas, today
hoped to regain completely her
speech lost 18 months ago after
oaralysis. An artificial larynx has
been used with success.
S. P Grace, vice president of the
Bell Telephone company, brought
the instrument here this week for
demonstration before the regional
meeting of the American Societv of
Electrical Engineers. Mrs. Wilson
read about it in the paoers. and
wrote to Mr. Grace who took it to
her home and tried it out.
It was so successful Mr. G. acc
said he would send her one. especi
ally adapted to her. from his labor
atories.
A. Continuing For One More Week
Our Account Opening Sale
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HOUSTON GETS
SET FOR MEET
League of Texas Municipal
ities To Gather May
16 and 17
(Special to The Herald'
HOUSTON. May 11—Although
Mayor Walter E. Monteith has been
in ofice less than 30 days and Hous
ton's municipal afairs are occupy
ing a major portion cl his time,
he announces that preparations are
practically complete for entertain
ing the seventeenth annual conven
tion of the League of Texas Muni
cipalities in Houston on May 16 and
17. Business sessions will occupy
most of the two days, but time has
been provided between meetings for
entertainment. Houston's $20,000.
000 ship channed and industries lo
cated along its banks for approxi
mate 20 miles wil be shown visiting
delegates. In addition, the city of
Houston will stage a banquet on
Thursday night. May 16. Gov. Dan
Moody has been invited to deliver
the principal address to the gather
ing.
The program for the meeting car
ries addresses by experts on various
phases of municipal government
Among the matters to be discussed
will be traffic safety, standard unit
system of realty asessment. fire in
surance rates on municipal property,
and co-operation between Texas
municipalities and the state depart
ment of health One of the major
subjects to be discussed will be the
the matter of requirements for a
modem airport and how Texas cities
may acquire title to same. A rep
resentative from the aeronautical
division of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce has been invited to
deliver an address to the convention.
Municipal utilities, especially electric
plants, wil occupy the greater part
of the second public utilities.obiec
of the second day's sessions. Ex
perts on these subjects have accept-;
ed invitations to address the con-,
vention.
Executive Secretary Harvey W.
Draper has received from at least;
three Texas cities notices of their I
intention to invite the 1930 conven-!
lion of the league. Mr. Draper!
slates that there is no reason why
invitations should not be received
from other municipalities to enter
tain the 1930 convention. The con
vention will take to the entertain
taining city between two and three \
hundred municipal aficials. No
states that League membership is1
not a requirement for those enter
taining the League's sessions. Every
municipal oficial in Texas whether ■
or not his duty holds membership1
in the League is invited to atend
the gathering. The League's slogan
is “substituting facts for guesses in
municipal government."
STILL PLANTING
«
Acreage In All Fruits In
crecsrd Ir* 1928 Cc-op
Report Reveals
California this year has 33.123
more acres of hearing fruit trees
than in W28. with additional
planting of 27 269 acres of non
heamg trees having been mad®
during the last 12 months. This
is shown in an official report
made public Monday bv the Cali
fornia cooperative cron reporting
sendee.
Even4 variety of tree fruit shows
an acreage increase with the excep
tion of freestone peaches and
olives, and in those instances th®
decreases were practically negli
gible. There are approximately 307
acres more in chngstone peaches of
bearing peach trees, with 1.425
bringing the total up to 75.717
acres for the state. In addition.
California has 10.565 acres of non
fcearing peach tre.es with 1.425
acres having been set out during
the last year.
The largest increase in be.®ring
acreage was in nears, of which
there now are 69.451 acres com
pared with 62.471 acres a year ago
Prunes also gained heavilv. the to
tal of bearing trees eaimng from
171 94,5 acres to 176 647 acres.
Bearing acreages for other tree
fruits in the state follow:
-Year
1928 1929
Apples . 57 387 57.440
Freestone peaches... 62 138 60.697
Anricots . 80.033 82,301
Phims . 37.061 34 197
Cherries . 17.560 13 26 a
Figs . 42.128 47.393
Olives . 28.863 28 827
Orapefruit . 7R2S 8 097
Lemons . 43 173 43 345
Oranges .187.250 101.327
Almonds . 80 3*4 9t 717
Walnuts . 83.384 91713
Avocados . 1.140 1.827
Pomegranates . 1.570 1 583
Persimmons . 879 1.173
Dates . 704 754
All varieties of crapes with on?
ereepriqn. win® grapes, show* a de
nreaae in acreage compared with
last vear. The report shows an in
crease of nearly l.noo acres In
jui®e crapes.
Market conditions generally de
4ermine the amount of new plant
ings of crops. During th? past
veer. California growers have set
rut 73 acres of raisin granes. 951
acres of table grapes and 4.783
acres of win? grapes. Th? offi
cial.^ cures reveal that California
now has 177141 acres devoted to
*h? growth of bearing wine grapes
against 176.187 acres a year ago
'T'he table grapes a*.'rase during
the year shrank from 138.857 acres
to 131,226 acres in 1929. while th?
acreage of raisin grapes in th?
same period slumped from 338.43)
acres to 329.150 acres.
Of young vines coming Into bear
ing within the next few4 years. 523
acres are of raisin grapes. 2,522 oi
t»ble grapes and 9 989 acres of wine
Trapes.
BATI! HOI SE OPEVED
The Brownsvile Bath house, 414
Twelfth street, was opened for
business Saturday morning. The
establishment, furnishing all types
of baths, rubs and mineral waters,
is operated by J;m Carter. Carter
has had 30 years of experience in
the line.
Map Shows Valley In
Excellent Condition
{SI-SOUTHLAND LITE '
S MONTHLY CHOP REPORT
i April 1929
Hexceuint
Ej ABOVE NORMAL
C NORMAL
C&iiow norm*’
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(Special to The Herald'
DALLAS. May It.—Despite in
roads made by the wind, rein and
hail storms around May 1. crop
conditions in Texas find themselves
better than at this time last year,
according to reports compiled by
the department of public relations
of the Southland Life Insurance
company.
The entire Panhandle appears to
be in unusually good yondition and
small grain crops over the entire
state, except in localities where de
stroyed. are progressing rapidly and
well. It is true, of course, of grain
crops as w’ell as cotton that con
ditions appear spotted over the
state—here excellent, there too dry’
and other places too wet. However,
the aggregate appears especially
good.
As to cotton, west central Texas
reports 5 per cent to 60 per cent
planted.
The West Plains will, however,
have some replanting to do because
of dry’ weather and wind damage i
Northeast end north central Texas
report 50 per cent to 100 per cent I
planted with some storm damafe
but nevertheless with an improve
ment over last year. South Texas
reports cotton 85 per rent to loo
per cent plarred. with rhoppins
under way and few weevils and
worms except in the extreme south
IMPOST ED
If you should study gas as we d1*
you would choose rarity tha AM
)re distribute here. Ours Is a
regular patronage. Gaa. <41 and
service must be the beat W#
are net judged for on* day, tan.
lay after day Our trade ts e*
paodlng. Due adMf to dtatrSmt*
J13 the bej&.
Magnolia Gasoline — Magnolene Parafrn Oil
JOHNSON SERVICE STATION
Opposite Post Office Phone &6
East Texas reporta cotton so to SR
per cent planted, and rtaypymg ^
under way but some retansation
because of cool weather.
It Is bettered that reports of' «%»
storm damage around May tit
were exaggerated. At any rate,
practically all of this **—*g* ran
be repaired by replanting
Farmers in general are reported
ts being in good financial shape
although there ts tittle cash, del*
inite Indications of wider diver? »i
catlon are In every report; .and
finally, tremendous Interest is be*
mg shown in the dairying Indus*
try which has grown in Texas by
leaps and bounds during the pert,
eighteen months.
PASTORS CONFER FOR
CHURCH CONVENTION
'Special to The Herald*
SAN JUAN. May 11 - Hex. A A
Hudson, pastor of the Common: tx
church at Rio Hondo, was tn con*
fere nee in San Juan with the Rex.
J. Marshall Janes, of San Juan, atari
the Rev Murray A. Tran* of Al*
arr.r to perfect arrangements for
the Valley Community church con*
vent ton It aaa derided to held tba
convention at Rso Hondo, the date
to be May 31. and a program ar®
be worked out in the near future
CLINIC IWTfPXlD
The regular Saturday moment
clinic a* the city hall was port- j
poned due to the •buenr* of fir.
B M Primer Primer was attend*
mg the health parade at Harhagett, ‘
Performance Counts! I
El
Watch the new Ford |
on the hills, in traffic, I
and on the pen road, I
and you Mill know that I
it is a truly great car I
THE minute you see the new Ford
car you will be delighted with its
low, smart lines and the artistic
color combinations. There, you
will say, is a truly modern car. THE NEW FORD
But a still greater thrill awaits TUDOR SEDAN
you when you slip into the roomy
seat behind the wheel and start
away for your first ride.
You will like the feeling of
power that the new Ford gives you
—the comfortable, prideful feel
ing that comes from having a car
worthy of any occasion and equal
to every emergency.
You will like the flexibility and safety of the new Ford car as you weave
in and out of traffic—its Hashing pick-up as the light turns green and the
sign says "Go.” You will like its smooth, quiet steadiness on the open road
where you can lazy along according to your mood, or do 55 and even
65 miles an hour if you desire. The new Ford has unusual speed—no
doubt of that!
There are still other reasons why the new Ford car is a great car to own
and drive. Three important reasons that mean a great deal to you: reliability
—ea nomy—long life.
NEW FORD The new Ford is made to stand
SPORT COUPE “P “"der «hou“nd> of milt. of
WITH steady running over all kinds of
RUMBLE SEAT rolds> and “v* ’"ou manv dolUr’
in repair bills.
Come in and see this great new
car. Inspect it carefully part by
part. Then know the thrill of driv
ing it. By its performance you will
realize that there is nothing quite
like it anywhere in design, quidity
and price.
$.450 Phaeton, £460 Tudor Sedan, £525 Business Coupe, £525
Coupe, £550 Sport Coupe, with rumble seat, £550 For dor Sedan, £625
(All prices /. o. b. Detroit, plus chorge for freight end delivery. Bumpers end spore tire •****.)
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