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Officials Announce
Rigid Enforcement
Of Fruit Regulations
There is hard going ahead for
those who violate any of the quar
antine regulations calculated to as
sist in eradicating the Morelos fruit
fly or to prevent introduction of
the Mediterranean fruit fly into
the Valley, according to city and
county officials indicated.
* We have no Morelos fruit flies
in citrus orchards in the Brow ns
! ville Vhlnity now and we don't in
[ tend to have,” Mayor A. B. Cole said,
in pledging support to recently
promulgated regulations. County
officials also pledged support to the
state and federal inspectors.
One of the new regulation requires
| that all fruit offered for sale be
screened and another empowers in
spectors to destroy host fruit trees.
Brownsville and Cameron county
1 officials have promised to enact an
■ ordnance providing a penalty for
I violations of either of these reeula
■ tion.v
H The regulation requiring fruit of
■ fered for sale to be screened merely
■ empowers inspectors to destroy fruit
flldolsplayed in violation of the ruling.
■The ordinance will provide a fine
■■and permit destruction of the fruit
P The regulation concerning host
■fruit trees, provides that thev may
He declared a nuisance and mav be
impest roved by the inspectors for the
^fcameron county sheriff to assist
^■n enforcing the regulat’on The
gButy-munty ordinance will provide
|Bfor collecting a fine.
B Tines In both instances nrobablv
H r’ ill range from $10 to $100 for each
■violation
Bj Other cities in the county will be
Btasked to enact similar ordinances
B? This program was discussed at a
■meeting during the week whrh was
■held In the mayor's office George
■r Walker and Calude Macv repie
■sented the growers. Others present
■■included Henry Gordon, city mar
■ket Inspector: O F Wilson, state
Bf department of agriculture Inspector,
and L F Green. United tSates de
i partment of agricultue inspector
The ordinance will be passed dur
ing the present week and will carrv
an emergency clause making It ef
fective immediately, officials said
Tighten Import Ban
B While seeking to enforce the new
regulations, an effort also will be
made to tighten the ban against im
portations of host fruit from Mex
ico.
k "Unless we do stop the smuggling
p ——
of mangoes, oranges and other fruits
from Mexico the Valley faces an
iron clad embargo which will stop
shipment of any citrus fruit from
the Valley," George Walker said.
"The federal government is will
ing to be lenient with us so long
as the laws are obeyed and so long
as it is'apparent we are doing ev
erything possible to eradicate the
Morelos fly, but if they decide we
are not giving full co-operation
then they will take drastic action.
Walker also urged that Valley cit
izens continue to aid in every way
possible to make certain that the
Mediterranean fly do-*s not gain a
foothold in the Valley.
'This pest, which now is destroy
ing the citrus fruit industry of Flor
ida is a menace of such seriousness
to the citrus or the industry of the
Valiev that it canrot be overestimat
ed." he declared.
“It is not enough to make cer
tain that the pest is not introduced
into the Valiev directly from Flor
ida. We must make certain that
it does not reach us by any in
direct method. Once the Mediter
ranean fly reaches Mexico the Val
: ley Is ruined. Therefore we must
urge Mexican offic’als to be on their
| guard for their own nrotection and
! to safeguard th.p Valley.
Another Menace
"Another menace lies in the dan
j ger of other parts of Texas becom
! ing infested. For instance, if the
East Texas peach crop should be
attacked bv the Mediterranean fly.
, it would almost certainly reach us
finally.
"One load of peaches was offered
for sale on the streets of Browns
I ville last week from an open truck
This constituted a real menace.”
Inspector Wilson of the state de
partment made the owner of this
truck load of peaches burn about
15 bushels of rotten fruit on the
! city dump pile and made him screen
the remainder before he continded
! to offer it for sale.
There were some favorable de
velopments in the pest war situation
during the week The Texas legis
lature voted a $15,000 emergency ap
propriation for the state department
of agriculture with which to employ
additional inspectors and also in
creased the annual aporopriation
from $12,500 to $25,000.
Also there were signs of an awak
ened realization of the danger
— -. ~\
among Valley orchardists and others
interested in the citrus industry,
worker in the campaign reported.
Proclamation
The regulation applying to screen
ing cf fruit, which inspectors say
will be rigidly enforced, reads as
follows:
“I. George B Terrell, commis
sioner of agriculture of the state of
Texas do hereby amend the procla
mation by the commissioner of ag
ricultural creating a control zone in
Cameron county. Texas, for the pur
pose of controlling and eradicating
the Mexican fruit worm, and known
as quarantine order No. 15, bearing
date of September 26. 1927, by add
ing the following paragraph after
the words “October bloom.” in the
next to the last paragraph of the
document being amended:
“All citrus fruit or host fruits of
the Mexican fruit fly offered for
sale or held in storage In the con
trol zones herein described, shall be
protected from possible infestation
by the Mexican fruit worm, by be
ing covered with screen not to ex- |
ceed a sixteenth fl-16< inch mesh.
The said fruit shall be completely
and securely covered by a screen or
a mesh adequate to prevent the
entrance of the Mexican fruit fly,
adult, and the said screen shall in
no place come within a distance of
two <2) inches of the covered fruit
I further declare and proclaim that
all host fruits of the Mexican fruit
fly. Including oranges and grape
fruit. which are not protected from
infestation, in a way herein pre
scribed. and which are held in stor
age or offered for sale In the con
trol zone herein described during
the period between March 1 and
October 1. to be a public nuisance,
and it shall be the duty of persons,
firms and corporations owning such
nuisance fruit to comoly with the
screen provisions herein prescribed
or to destroy same.
“In the event any person, firm
or corporation, fails or refuses to
comply with this reeulation or to
destroy such fruit. at‘r -ving been
instructed to do so *'• •*: commis
sioner of agriculture, or his author
ized agent cr representative, then U
shall be the duty of the state com
missioner of agriculture or his au
thorized agent or representative to
abate the nuisance and destroy such
fruit or otherwise render it not a
nuisance, and in carrying out this
provision the commissioner of ag
riculture or his authorized agent or
representative shall call upon the
sheriff of Cameron county for such
assistance in the premises as may
be deemed necessary' by the author
ity seeking to destroy the nuisance."
Regulations
The regulation relating to the de
struction fo host fruit trees reads:
‘ Whereas, the maintenance of the
host-free period is extremely essen
tial and imperative in the eradica
tion program of the Mexican fruit
worm in Cameron county, said:
"Whereas, all peach trees or other
host fruit trees which are permitted
to ripen their fruit interfere with
and break the host-free program
and thereby constitute a serious
menace to the citrus industry of
Cameron county;
Now. I. George B. Terrell, com
missioner of agriculture * the state
of Texas, by virtue of authoritv
vested in me by the laws of Texas,
do hereby amend proclamation by
the commissioner of agriculture cre
ating a control zone in Cameron
county. Texas, for the purpose of
controlling and eradicating the
Mexican fruit worm, and known as
quarantine order No 15. bearing
date of September 26. 1927. by
amending that paragraph dealing
with the declaartion as a nuisance
of host fruit trees, other than grape
fruit and oranges, which are per
mitted to ripen their fruit, so as j
to be read, after the words "or
otherwise rendered them not a nui
sance." at the end of the second to
last paragraph, as follows:
‘ In the event any person, firm or
corporation owning such condemned
fruit trees, shall fail or refuse to de
stroy such trees immediately after
having been instructed to do so by
the commissioner of agriculture, or
his authorized agent or representa
tive. or any inspector working un
der the commissioner of agriculture,
then it shall be the duty of said
commiss:oner of agriculture, of his
authorized agent, or representative,
or the inspector working under the
commissioner of agriculture, to I
abate the nuisance and to forthwith
destroy such trees, or otherwise ren
der them not a nuisance. And in
carrying out this provision, the com
missioner of agriculture, or his au
thorized agent or representative, or
the inspector working under the
commissioner of agriculture, as the
case may be. shall call upon the
sheriff of Cameron county for such
assistance in the premises as may
be deemed necessary bv the person
seeking to destroy such trees. It
shall be *the duty of such sheriff to
co-operate with and assist the said
commissioner of agriculture, or his
authorized agent and representative,
or the inspector working under the j
commissioner of agriculture, in the
destruction of said trees, or the ren
dering of same not a nuisance."
HIS STUFF SUFFICIENT,
McCarthy tells bush
CHICAGO. June 15.—f/P)—Guy
Bush. Cub righthander, is done
with exneriments—by request of
Joe McCarthy, his boss.
In the midst of a winning streak
last year, the "Mississippi Mud cat”
began trying out new curves. The
results were damging.
‘‘Cut out that experimenting, or
you’ll be Bush the busher.’ warn
ed Mac after Guy’s attempts to i
master the knuckle ball had tn
creased the oppositions base hit
total.
Bush began his 1929 season with
four victories.
MERCEDES BUILDING
IS BEING REMODELED
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. June 15. — The
building on Texas avenue, joining
the Borderland Hardware company,
recently vacated by Baum and
Westerman. is being remodeled.
The front is being tom out. The
walls and floor will be refinished
and a new ceiling put In. The
building belongs to the Borderland
Hardware company, which, it is
understood, will utilize the build
ins'
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By ALICE BERNADETTA WALL i
Central Press tSaff Writer
WASHINGTON. June 14—The
west is coming into its own in
Washington, socially as well as po- i
litically.
Politically the fact Is recognized
Socially the old regime is some
what slower to admit it.
The old regime was exotic. Its
"salons" always have been—and
are yet—of the old world, worldly
The new order is American.
Make no mistake—Mrs. Edward
Everett Gann is its leader. Not
that she leads by virtue of any j
claim of her own. She leads by
c mmon acceptance, as truly repre- j
sentative of genuine western culture
a culture without shams, of honest j
geniality and hospitality.
The older orct»*r resents it, but its
"doom is sealed.” Imitations stand
no chance in the long run, against
the real article.
An Individual Salon
The "salon" which Mrs Edward
Everett Gann has created is indi
vidual.
As for other "salons"—having seen
one. one has seen all of them. Mrs
Gann s is different—and delightful.
Even the old worldlings themselves (
are drawn to it. It centers around
a personality so natural—so free
from make-believe—that it regis
ters on each consciousness.
The east has reigned in Washing
ton these many generations.
Its .society has rested upon an
assumption of superiority—of "so
ciar superiority.
In common parlance, it has been
able to "get away with it," because
it never has been challenged. It
would not be correct to say that
Vice President Curtis and his sis
ter. Mrs Gann, have challenged It.
Rather, they are aware of a culture
of their own and have drawn a cir
cle around themselves of those who.
by American heritage with them,
are of it. •
This would be all well but for the
fact that its immediate effect has
been to draw recruits from the older
ranks.
Not that the new group has made
any attempt to attract adherents. It
simply has been steadily grooving up
In Washington with the west's in
The west is coming ’into VuToWn
in Washington, socially as well as
politically.
crease In Influence, and now the
older one has taken the alarm, with
Vice President Curtis’ advent in the
post which tmmemorially has been
considered the capital's ranking so
cial position under the presidency,
accompanied by the continued de
signation of his sister as his official
hostess.
Briefly, the old regime is jealous
The new one simply is oblivious of i
this jealousy—or. if mamfestitations
of it occasionally are forced, willy- ;
nilly. upon the newer order's con
sciousness. the latter merely regards
them, momentarily, with mild aston- I
ishmenU and then proceeds calmly j
with its own affairs, indifferent to
a ferment which it neither under
stands nor is in the least interested i
in.
As for "social competition.” how
can there be competition where.
there is only one competitor?
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