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Sunday, January 8, 1939
VALLEY SUNDAY STAR-MONITOR-HERALD
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Program Announced For Kiwanis Convention
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Cameron Marriages
Set I misual Mark
Volley Tourist Chatter
By J. L. SIBERZ. Wisconsin Tourist
DeMolay Unit Holds
Regular Meeting
BHA PLANNERS
TO MAKE TRIP
Architects Will
To Washington
Citrus Fiesta Will
Offer Feature
Training School Set
For Monday
Band Uniform Fund
To Be Aided
, FLASHES of an early event which will have the entire
Valley talking:
It is really one of the Valleys most colorful
More dope will appear in this column as the time for its
Real Summei
of Commerce i
Deacon;
Steward;
Steward;
Underprivileged
District Un-
Committee
Master i
installed
President
Lieutenant
Felix
Music
If you're bothered with nocturnal icebox raids, here's what to
buy. Gilbert Vidaurri. Brownsville. Is shown inspecting a model
1925 Kelvinator complete with combination lock. When new, it was
fool-proof, refrigerator men say.
Pacific Lines to Austin
January 17, 1939
war
BROWNSVILLE—If those hu-
man termites who are visiting
you creep downstairs in the mid-
dle of the night and clean out
the ice-box. here's what to do.
Buy a refrigerator with a com-
bination lock on it.
Sounds funny, but it so happens
that there used to be such a box
on the market. It was manufac-
Charro Windshield
Stickers Available
BROWNSVILLE- The Chamber
of Commerce has received a supply
RICHRD CRISS BROWNSVILLE DEALER
WILL PRESIDE
OVER PARLEY
Fool-proof Device Was Furnished With 1925
Model Equipment By Firm
One Cent a
Brings $100
visited the St Clair plant the new
Benson Brothers development and
i Hiltons Taxidermy shop.
HARLINGEN — The complete
program for the divisional confer-
ence and training school for Texas
district 2 of Kiwanis International,
to be held in Harlingen Monday.
J January 9, was announced Satur-
A LL tourists in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are not only invited to
send in chatter for this column, but must do so in order to keep it
going and make it a success Mail your contributions to Tourst Chatter
Editor. Valley Morning Star. Harlingen. We expect to visit all tourist
clubs in the Valley next week and will arrange with the various hos-
tesses to install drop boxes in each club room for your further con-
venience.
Cameron (was denied a divorce, and the de-
fendant granted one on a cross ac-
tion. There were 1034 suits i’tled
tn 103rd civil district court during
ner weather signs thst even the enthusiastic Chamber
secretaries have not listed in their advertising pam-
phlets on the Lower Rio Grande Valley include:
Ice cream vendors on their bicycles peddling their wares,
stopping on this corner to sell several children cones and pulling
over to that curb to dish out a few ice cream sandwiches to adults;
School children flocking to the citys various parks to eat their
noonday lunches on benches undrr the shade of the regal palms;
Men bareheaded in shirtsleeves, women attired in mid-summer
dress, wherever yon look, small children at play scantily dressed
and barefooted. Yes, this is indeed real summer weather.
school they are stressing efforts to
make the Brownsville orchestra
one of the best in the state. All
proceeds from the dance will be
used to purchase uniforms and
equipment for the band.
nie'S/i<iqe
zMZT FUAf-TT IVT
Valley 'JUominy
the field has been enlarged an ex-
tra 15 acres, to be used exclusively
for planes to land and take off.
Several announcements made
Saturday by the committee prove
that the entertainment of the crowd
is considered carefully in the stag-
MISS1OIN—Spectators at the Air-
show feature of the Texas Citrus
Fiesta in Mission Friday morning
will see a thrilling duplication of
airplane scenes which have been
shown in some of the late motion i
pictures which have aviation back-
grounds.
The 'dogfight'’ between teams of
airplanes which will climax the air
circus will be a duplication, except
for the ammunition, of the actual
events staged in the World War be-
fighing planes, paired in
The Charro Committee has arranged a special
low round-trip fare of only $7.75 from all Val-
ley points to Austin for the Inauguration Cere-
monies. The Charro special will be equipped
with comfortable reclining chair cars with pil-
lows furnished. One section of the Special will
leave Brownsville 9 P. M. and another section
of special will leave Mission at 7:45 P. M. of
January 16th, to connect with the Charro Spe-
cial at Harlingen, both trains making stops at
all intermediate stations and will concentrate at
Harlingen, leaving Harlingen 10 P. M. January
16. arriving Austin early following morning.
For further information consult your Missouri
Pacific Lines Agents.
Be sure and send in contributions for this column. So far only one
has been received, but it is still early, this being only the second pub-
lication.
Clubs in Kiwanis district 2 in-
clude: Alice. Beeville. Brownsville.
Corpus Christi, Edinburg. Harlin-
, Mercedes.
HARLINGEN—Newly elected of-
ficers of the Williams chapter of
the Order of De Molay were in-
stalled in a recent meeting of the
chapter, with W. H. Johnson tak-
! office as Master Councilor
Other officers installed were: I
Mn Sam Allen of Dixon. III., will enthusiastically tell you
that the large trout and croaker that she caught more than makes
up for the beautiful sunburn she is sporting. Watch out Sam,
friend wife is two up on you.
Henry C.
Attendance
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Day
a Month
Both Births, Deaths
Drop In Brownsville
BROWNSVILLE—There were
Jew of both births and deaths in
the city of Brownsville during 1938
as compared with the previous year,
figures at the city hall revealed
Saturday.
There were more births
deaths during both years
The 1937 figures are births. 727.
deaths. 404; 1938. births, 691;
deaths, 333.
While at Brownsville the other aft-’-noon one of the boys asked
me if I was letting my whiskers grow for Charro Days. No. Charley.
I not. al.hou<’h I will admit I probably needed a shave. However, j
that 'ives us r.n id"*. Why not start a tourist hirsute club and see who
Big Wisher and Little Fuzz might t? on February 17. Wonder if A. A t
Hargrove. Grand Brush of the Royal Order of Brush would act as our
judge' By the way, all of us who witnessed the Charro Days last year
are anxiously awaiting for February 16 to again roll around. Every
tourist here in the Valley for their first stay will surely not want to
miss this grand fiesta,
spectacles
staging draw's near.
Overheard in the club rooms the last few’ days. "Wasn’t that moon
lovely last night?”—"Did you ever see such bright moonlight anywhere
else before?” etc , etc. etc. — We wonder, did their thoughts go way
back when?
dance, and Mrs. Haney Richards,
ladies committee.
Entrance will be denied you unless so j
I
, , , e I gen. Kerrville. Luling,
I day by N I. Koppel, chairman of
[the Harlingen convention com-
mittee.
Lieutenant Governor E Richard
Criss of Harlingen will preside at
the full day session, which will in-
clude round table business discus-
sions throughout the day, ind be
follow’ed in the evening by a ban-
quet at the Reese-Wil-Mond Hotel
and a dance at the Women s Build-
ing. Eighteen clubs are included in
' district 2
A number of prominent leaders
in Kiwanis work will be heard dur- ,
ing the business sessions Mcnday.
, The morning session begins ?t 9 30
a m and lasts until 12:15 p m . when
luncheon will be served. The af-1
terncon session begins at 1 pm j
and lasts until 4:45 pm. Business >
sessions and luncheon will be held
at the patio of the Reese-Wil-Mond |
Hotel.
Local committee chairmen in-
clude: N. I. Koppel, publicity and
reservations; Walt Linehan, recep-
| tion; Joe Wright, luncheon and
! dinner; David L. Ormesher, music.
entertainment and dance; Glenn
' Glenn Scheupbach and O. R Flinn.
There are 1
rumors of a tourist party to be held in the near future at one of the
Valley Tourist headquarters at which all guests will be expected to
attend in childrens costumes. 1
attired.
A MAMMOTH PARADE will pass the downtown streets of Harlingen
** at 10 a. m. There will be at least 50 different grapefruit contests
for tourists as well as Valley residents to enter. The outdoor Valley
grapefruit bowling champion, the outdoor Valley grapefruit seed pitch-
ing champion as wet* as several others will be crowned.
Of course the day would not be complete w-ithout the crowning of
the Worlds champion grapefruit eater The boys entering this con-
test will be kept under observance and will not be allowed any food or
drinking for 12 hours previous to the time of the contest because the
winner is expected to set a record which will stand for some time.
We will have some of the Valleys best fruit packers show their
skill in front of the grandstand
Will some on* of the civie organizations step forth and volunteer to
set up a stand on the grounds to serve hot and cold sandwiches, fresh
tured in 1925 by Kelvins tor in
large quantities.
Many of the model were sold
without the lock, but not many
of those with lock were pur-
chased
One of the rare models com-
plete with combination lock re-
cently was taken in by John
Hunter. Brownsville refrigerator
man. It is too old to be good for
anything but junk now. he said.
(Editor's Note: This column is to be published weekly in the
Star-Monitor-Herald primarily for the reading glasses of our
winter visitors through efforts of J. L. Siberz of Barabou, Wisconsin,
vAio is spending his second winter in the Valley.)
of the
Past
BROWNSVILLE—At least two of
the three architects who have
drawn plans for the proposed
Brownsville Housing Authority pro-
ject probably will leave for Wash-
ington, January 15. according to
•.-rd received by Kenneth Faxon.
'--.-I counsel for the Brownsville
This will be necessary for e eon-
*?rence with the United States
Housing Authority before final ap-
proval of the project to build low-
rental houses and clear out slum
sections will be given.
Faxon may possibly find it ne-
cessary to accompany them, but so
far is not certain that it will be.
Anproval of the designation of
the First National Bank of Browns-
ville as a depository for the funds
of the Housing Authority has been
received, and persons close to the
project are certain of its final ap-
proval.
Texas Schools Get
Per Capita Money
AUSTIN. -Release to pub-
lic schools of an additional $1 per
by
of
MISSION MAPS
HAS ANCIENT ICEBOX SAFETY PLANS
I ing
Bridge will be played Wednesday and Friday afternoon of each . ~ . t e
from S.n Benno wdl pUv a. each ,ab.,__cZ“ S‘n‘Or
events will be staged continuously,
follow ing each other in rapid order
without long delays. Announce-
ments of the events wull be made
on a loud speaker system by Wal-
ter McAllister of McAllen. At least
3C visiting civilian planes and
about the same number of army
planes will be in the show. Pilots
have been invited from all Valley
i cities, as well as Alice, Corpus
Christi and San Antonio.
No admission will be charged and
programs will be presented to every
member of the audience. The show
iopens promptly at 10 a m. Friday
and will continue through several
hours of thrilling stunts, including
bomb dropping race for high pow-
ered planes, race for light planes,
"pants’ races for both heavy and
light planes, balloon bursting, and
paper cutting for all of which cash
awards are to be presented, includ-
ing also smoke-writing, demonstra-
tions of dusting, and similar thrills
An additional feature of the day
will be the air maneuvers drills,
and formations by the thirty army
planes who are to be guests for the
day.
Sidney Kring has assured us the use of the Valley Mid-Winter Fair
Park at Harlingen for this spectacular event.
King grapefruit will reign supreme on this day. Some of the Val-
ley artists have signified their willingness to paint our window adver-
tising posters for us.
Those in the know believe it will be possible for us to have several
of the best Valley high school bands with us for the day. We are go-
ing to stage some very unusual entertainment such as a real snow ball
fight between the North and the South Oranges will sene as am-
munition and the barricades will be made of catton.
One of the most amusing races will be a bicycle race in which there
will be eight entrants One tourist from each of the following towns.
Brownsville. San Benito. Harlingen. Mercedes. Weslaco, Pharr. McAllen
and Mission. In this race it will be necessary for the contestants to
dismount their racers three times around the track. At the first stop
they will be required to eat a fully prepared half grapefruit to the
satisfaction of the judges stationed there before they can peddle on to
the second stop. There they will be required to pack a half bushel of
fruit ready for shipping After finishing this task they will be on their
way to stop number three where each rider will have a good sized
pile (no two piles will contain exactly the same number) of grape-
fruit to count. After completing this they will again peddle, or if too
tired, carry their bikes to the judges' stand in front of the grandstand
where they will receive applause of the crowd as their reward together
with prizes for first, second and third place winners.
Staging the above acts and several others just as unusual and as
Interesting will enable us to get Pathe News here to take shots for
their weekly news reel.
by
were:
Deacon; Jarrell Mayfield,
Douglas Place,
Charlie Duncan.
E J. Ashcraft.
The windshield stickers are avail- Olympics will net be shown in this
able to any who wish them ‘ country.
tween
teams.
The event, as well as 10 which
precede it will be staged in full
THE staff photographer of the Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald
1 will be on deck to snap the most interesting events for their
paper. Mats of some of the best pictures appearing in Valley news-
papers together with a short story hitting the high spots of the day’s
events will be sent to the home newspaper of each tourist visiting in
the Valley for publication.
The papers have agreed to furnish these mats free of charge ex-
cept for actual cost of material used After the cost of getting these
mats out is deducted from admission fees collected the balance will
be put in a permanent fund to perpetuate this day throughout the years
to come. Every grove owner, merchant, property owner and every
resident of the Valley should get behind this event and make it so suc-
cessful that the entire nation will be reading about it for weeks.
Wouldn't it be nice if a grapefruit holiday could be declared from
one end of the Valley to the other and every one of the thousands of
residents could be here for at least part of the day.
The date finally chosen for our frolic will not conflict with the date
of any other fiestas or celebrations now scheduled in the Valley.
Boone. pastor First
Church. Harlingen.
9.45 Welcome. A
Councilor and J. R Cowart. Scribe
The officers were elected at the
December 29 meeting of the chap-
ter.
Appointive officers of the chap-
ter. named by the new Master
Councilor, were: Halladay King,
Senior
Junior
S< mor
Junior
Chaplain; Mac McClendon. Marsh-
al; W B Ramsey. Standard Bearer;
Daniel Oliver and Robert Tarwater.
Almoners, and Junior Howie, Sen-
* uneL
I view of the crowd Safety, however,
has been the watchword of the com-
mittee in planning for the crowd
j and every precaution has been tak-
s en to see that none is exposed to
! danger As an added safety measure.
IVELL. Well among others look who is back:
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schall of Oak Park. Ill., arrived for another
winters stay in the Valley. You couldn't keep Mr. Schaller out of the
Valley after what its climate did for his health last winter.
capita from the available school
fund was announced Saturday
I A. Woods. sup -intendent
■ public instruction.
than Jack Slaughter runs a barber
.-hop in the county court house at
Robbinsville. N. C, the only wood-
en county courthouse remaining in
I the state.
Oh’ Oh! Must immediately check through my wardrobe for an
old pair of trousers that can be sawed off at the knees
Over One Million Six Hundred
Thousand Dollars in cash benefits
have already been paid to one-cent-
a-day policyholders by National
Protective Insurance Co, the old-
est and largest company of its kind.
Their new policy pay* maximum
Princ:pal Sum benefits of 54.000. in-
creasing to $6,000. Maximum month-
ly benefits of $100 are payable up
to 24 months Large cash sums are
paid immediately for fractures, dis-
locations. etc. Also liberal benefits
are paid for any and every accident.
Same old price—just one cent a day.
Age limits for policy—men. women
and children—ages 7 to 80 years.
Send No Money
For to day*' free inspection or policy,
simply send name. age. address bene-
ficiary * name and relationship. No
application to fill out not medical eaatr-
inat on After reading policy, which will
be railed to you either roturn it or
send S3 St which pays you up for a whole
year- 365 day*. Write National Protec-
tive Insurance Co. 567 Fiekwuk Bld*.
Kansas City Mo. today while offer la
still open —'Adv ■
Attention. San Benito winter visitors. Election of officers will be
held at the visitors headquarters Monday at 8 p. m . followed by cards
and entertainment Let's all be there
BROW NS VILLE-A benefd
dance, with proceeds to be used to
I purchase uniforms for the Browns-
ville high school band, will be
held Saturday night. January 14 at
the Brownsville country club. The
dance is sponsored by the Band
Mothers Association.
Music is to be furnished by the
Southern Swingsters A floor show
will be presented by pupils of the
Francis Leighton Dashiell dance
classes
I Admission for the affair will be
$1 10 per couple.
Officials of the Band Mothers
group announced that since a full
time musical director has been ap-
pointed in the Brownsville high
grapefruit and orange juice? Free coffee will be served on the grounds
to anyone.
All of the Valley Chambers of Commerce secretaries will be invited
to serve that day as announcers, starters, judges, etc.
What is it going to cost us to see all this? I^ell. listen, each tourist
will be admitted for three grapefruits or oranges and each Valley
resident for ten cents.
Tourists Are Treated
To Sightseeing Tour
Junior' McALLEN — Tourists visiting
in McAllen were treated to a sight-
seeing trip over parts of the Upper
| Valley Friday afternoon following
a picnic in Archer Park when ap-
proximately 150 tourists dedicated
the newly painted park benches.
Miss Fanny Wynn and C. E. Kern
headed a committee from the re-
cently organized W. W. B M club
serving chilled grapefruit juice
furnished by the St. Clair Foods
Co.
Following the picnic the group
BROWNSVILLE
county people are getting married fondant granted one on a crow ac-
. _____ .... tion. There were 1034 suit* filed
at a much greater rate than they . - — .
are getting unhitched, if courhouse 193g,'or an average of three and
records are any indicaion. one third per working day.
During 1938. divorces and annul-
ments granted Bere only 27 3 per
cent of marriage licenses issued
Divorces and annulments totaled
196. a total of 715 marriage licenses
were issued.
The ratio of divorces to marriages
may be higher than this of course.
There is no way of knowing how
many of the happy prospective
bridegrooms used the licenses after
they bought them
In Judge A M. Kent's 103rd ci-
vil district court, there were 179
divorces and four annulments
Judge George C- Westervelt of the
criminal district court granted 12
divorces and one annul.nent.
Each judge denied on? divorce ab-
solutely. although there were sev-
eral instances where the plaintiff
VALLEY PUBLICIZED
McALLEN -Publicity about
Rio Grande Valley was printed in
the current issue of "Postal Rec-
ord.” United States postal em-
ployes official magazine The arti-
cle was prepared by Jess Cum-
mins, local post office employe,
and the McAllen Chamber of
Commerce.
ing of the event. The senes of
The duties of a column writer must be getting me down as I over-
slept and missed the fishing excursion Wednesday morning However,
konwing my own weaknesses, I provided for such an emergency and
had a spy among the crows.
Judging from all reports from those who made the trip on the
cruiser "Columbia'' fishing was fair, but the day was ideal and many
will be on deck uhen the "Columbia" »;ain shoves off into coastal
waters next Wednesday.
9 50 Inspirational Address. Koger
Robinson, Past Lieutenant Gover-
nor. Raymondville.
10:05 District Objectives for 1939.
G. Curtis Clark. District Governor I
Corpus C'.iristi.
10:20 The Relation between the
Lieutenant Governor and th* Club.
Clinton R. Holomon. Pastor Lieut-
ant Governor, Corpus Christi
Texas.
10:30 Music. David L. Ormesher
10:40 Duties
Robin M. Pate.
Governor. Brownsville.
11:00 Duties of the
Greydon S Mayfield. Member Dis-
trict Business Standard Committee.
Kerrville.
11:20 Club Financing. Harrr Rat-
1 ff. Past Lieutenant Governor.
V«al ■
11:45 Announcements.
12:15 Luncheon — Patio
Wil-Mond Hotel
Afternoon Business Session
Reese-Wil-Mand Hotel Patio
2:00 Group Singing, David
Ormesher.
2:10 The Club Program.
" ' n. M< mber District Attendance
C'‘~i’nttee.
' 3.1 The School Boy Patrol. Joe
V. r I t. Member District Com-
-e Boys and Girls Work. Har-
*^en.
2 45 Achievement Reports. Joe
Naylor, Past District Governor, San
Antonio.
3:00 Music. David L. Ormesher.
3:10 Kiwanis and the Farmer
Morgan. Finley, Past President
San Benito.
3:30 Vocational Guidance.
McDonald. Member District
Club. Edinburg.
3 50 The
Gaston Wiley, Member
derprivileged Child
McAllen.
4:15 Club Activities.
Kyle. Member District
Committee, San Marcos.
4:40 Announcements.
4:45 THE EYES OF
David L. Ormesher.
7:00 Dinner
Mond Hotel.
9:30 Dance
Mond Hotel
AULD LANG SYNE
McAllen. North Beach club of Cor-
pus Christi. Raymondville. San
Antonio. San Benito. San Marcos, •
Sinton, Weslaco and Pharr
The complete program follows: I
W. RICHARD CRISS.
Lieutenant Governor
Division No. 2—Presiding
Morning Business Session
Reese-Wil-Mond Hotel Patio
9 30 Group Singing. America. '
David L Ormesher. Member Dis-
. 1 trict Music Committee. Harlingen I
A DVANCE FLASHES of an early event which will have the entire J 9 40 Invocation> Rev BoIton
Valley talking: . ~ I
The writer with the help of all the tourists in the Valley will stage
(date to be announced soon* their first Tourist Mid-Winter grapefruit | 9 45 Welcome. A A Thompson..
. ...... .... . i President Harlingen.
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9 j0 Inspirational Address. Koger
RIEFENSTAHL DEPARTS
HOLLYWOOD —(/Pi- Lem Rie-
fenstahl, often called “Hitler s girl
friend.' who was given a chilly
greeting by the motion picture col-
ony when the arrived here five
weeks agn. prepared to leave Sat-
iurday and announced that because
of auto stickers advertising Charro of the industry - attitude toward
Days, it was announced Saturday. , Geiman policies, films of the 1936
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