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Sunday, September 17, 198t
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manager, in the Brownsville Her-
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Guaranteed To Stand-Up In Valley Climate
Additional
Check This Tabulation:
$3.89
1 Gallon Centennial Paste
$2.30
2 Gallons Oil
mer visitors by press and radio.
APFN f°r y°ur inspection
’'■tn Today—2 to 6 p. m.
$6.19
NEW 5 ROOM HOUSE
or $2.07 per Gallon
McALLEN — Mrs w H. Parks.
the commissioner of agriculture to
McKinley Ave.
FINWOOD HEIGHTS—FHA FINANCING
RIO GRANDE HOW
PAYMENTS 122 5g Month (Approximately)
Priced less than S3M*M each
Harold Hendricks
Phone 1040
Harlingen
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Eight-Year-Old Girl
Rescued Unharmed
BROWNSVILLE
TOP BUILDER
Electric Ordinance Is
Passed In Pharr
ladder, making it impossible
prisoners to reach the skylight
Surviving are the husband. Per-
ry Chnstlicb. La Feria; a brother,
the aim of Walker that they will
reach the eyes and ears of thou-
of the little girl, asking her to use
her influence "to call off the offi-
broken rear-view mirror, a taped
steering wheel, and
car
her child to get out of it
connoitering activity.
"We took many prisoners in the
By The Associated Press
Scattered showers Saturday and
for
spared
Their
suburb
one
or plowed
ton plants
HEAR
Jack McLaughlin's
New* Broadcast
Every Evening
6:IS to 6:30 over
RADIO STATION
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HIGH GRADE PAINT for Only
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FORMER SENATOR DIES
DAYTON BEACH. Fla. -OPV-
Lawrcnce Yates Sherman. HO for-
mer United States senator from Il-
linois. died here Friday night. He
had lived here quietly since retir- ,
ing from active life more than five ,
year ago.
Gulf Temperatures
To Be Reported
Staff Of Hospital To
Convene
rushed into the open enclosure, how- ■
Cattle show judging by O V
Tumlinson of Texas A and M. Col-
acting
Brownsville federal
ever, they saw nothing as the men rcau.
had already gone over the wait
Precaution Taken
The sheriff and 1
Temperatures at Del Mar are on
the average one to two degrees low-
plcte their contract by plowing them will make the acreage ineligible
for the plowing payments."
There were only 493 acres of
**r^ *n<’s ®cto.*>er ’bould be done with the type of
material to be used, the fees to be
charged, the penalty for infraction
1 and many other details regulating
all electrical work. The ordinance
is now in effect, and a city inspec-
tor has been employed to enforce
this ordinance pawed by the city
commission recently.
The ordinance contains 3 sections
with many of the sections having
a dozen or more parts.
The ordinance provides that no
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quarter-mile nearer
than the Mills home.
ers were attempting to bring most
of this in compliance. Scattered
showers hindered operations where
I cutting was attempted but helped
where plowing was to be done ex-
cept where the rain was heavy.
The federal program under which
Two official government
mometrrs have been installed near
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YOUR CAR WASHED
AND LUBRICATED
By Expert*
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Pan-American Service
Station
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BROW N8 VILLE
BERLIN-<Sunday)—dpi—An ex-
plosion occurred in the air ministry
headquarters in the Leipzigerstrasse
early Sunday.
Firemen and police closed off an
extensive area around the building.
The propaganda ministry acknowl-
edged there had been an explosion
but no immediate explanation was
forthcoming
It was reported that no one was
Halpin. Raymondville; Muri Wood.
McAllen; A. P. Wright. Mission;
words before the man shot the car
away toward San Benito. Mrs. Mills
gave chase, but lost him as 1
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BROWNSVILLE — The first
meeting of the Mercy hospital staff
since June will be held at the hos-
pital at 12:15 pm. Wcdntsday, with
a host of routine business matters
on the program.
Dr. R. F. Breeden, president of
the staff, said that with th: Wed-
nesday meeting the staff would be-
gin the regular monthly meetings
which have been cancelled during
the summer season.
Reports of hospital activities dur-
ing the previous month and the
presentation of a paper on some
medical subject b a member of
the hospital staff occupy the pro-
gram at the monthly meetings.
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Austin reported showers
amounting to 65 inch. Olnev had a
drizzling rain for an hour. Showers
were forecast for the south portion
of East Texas.
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thousands of Starr county and Rio The break was discovered when av.'rago lower than those reported office.
Grande Valley residents, and other Torres was spotted on top of the from other Texas gulf points.
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BROWNSVILLE — How Rio
Grande Valiev gulf weather com-
nares with noints north of the Val-
ley will be revealed in a new
inaugurated in
make a final check 1
that these growers need
worried because inspectors will call
on them in a few days and orders
for the payoffs issued as quickly
i as possible.
Officers all over the Valley were
asked to be on the look-out for
the pair, and the FBI was notified,
the sheriff stated
The sher.ff Saturday night was
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issued composite total of $23,395 in
building permits during the week
ending Saturday, with 32 permits
being taken out in all. Ed-nburg. |
with six permits for amounts total-
ing $9,750. had the top figure
Largest permit of the lot was for
a $5(M)0 residence in Brownsville.
D. W. Pipenger taking out the per-
mit. Brownsville’s total f»r the
week was $7,480. with 13 permits
being issued.
Weeks totals for the other Val-
ley cities reporting were: Pharr. $3.-
900; Harlingen. $725; Alamo. $250;
Weslaco. $1 260. and Mission. $30
Officers had no description of
the wanted man, aside from the
opinion he was of medium build
This is not an ordinary Lithaphone
or Lead paste, but made with Tita-
nium Oxide, the greatest covering
paint known.
chief of the
weather bu-
Queen Of Starr County's Celebration
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"The World's Greatest Covering Paint"
the ccastal area Sunday. A small-
craft warning was issued.
Far inland, north Texas got a
cool wave from the northwest giv-
ing Amarillo a low of 57 degrees
early Saturday. In the Dallas area
let out of the car at his home a
•nd home products from all sections cans* nf his broken leg i in favor of the Valley's coast re- |
A wide-spread search immediate-! gions. Walker explained
to ly was begun the sheriff said, with 1
the constable's office, border pa- will telephone the max mum and
Explosion Occurs
Air Ministry Blasted
During Blackout
the McAllen high school band will
play at both presentations, officials
said.
Climaxing the Sunday festivities,
however, will be the Grand Ball
for Queen Araceli Sanchez, w ho has
presided at Rio Grandes annual
Frontier Fiesta since her corona-
tion Thursday night. Grand ball
will be held at the Service Club at
Fort Ringgold, will conclude the
celebration.
San Benito second-grade pupil. i L
The car the officer? searched for jt WM pointed out
of Mission Friday night. She is un-
der treatn ent at Mission. The wo-
man's hu&anu, district manager
for a brush company, suffered cuts
and bruises.
Barrera was being held in Hi-
dalgo county jail at Edinburg Sat- ‘
urday night in default of $1,000 injured.
violations in jurisdiction of justice bond after a charge nf driving while
of peace court* thu* making quick i vacated had been filed against street but the -tf-ct of "the damage
mark.
Members of the board of direc-
tors include Wayne Gobble, presi-
dent: H. L. Hensz, Harlingen, vice '
president; W. M. Darden. Harlin-
gen. secretary-treasurer; W Ray
Smith. San Benito; C. R. Martin
MIm Araceli Sanches, above, has been reigning over Starr County’s Annual Fair anu noaeo ana
Frontier Fiesta Celebration for the past few days in Rio Grande City. She wa* elected over ten other
candidates. The Fiesta will close Sunday night. • Photo by Arthur.)
wa* thought to be a 1929 model
Chevrolet four-door sedan, with a ton stalks was September 15. but it
1 was decided that those who had
a length of SUCCeeded in placing their pla —
urday still searAed this^section^ for cleanup office Saturday. worm by reason of having bloom
This does not apply to the grow- or boll* present on the stalks.
be about 30 years old. who Friday erj whose stalks still have blooms
afternoon attempted criminal as- or grppn bolls but only to those
?U’L°n .eight’y”r^u ‘ll* whose cut stalk* are not capable
2„. 2:.-"- - * - . *2' ■ | Of being host to the piak boll worm.
The deadline for destroying cot-
over the area for a considerable
reports—minimum and
Maximin — from the gauges will
be reported b'- Walter Meyen. beach
manager, in the Brownsville Her-
MAKE ESCAPE aid ard through the air via KRGV.
Weslaco.
Through the efforts of George
and a half feet high and about four Walker, president of the Rm Grande
.u_ „/ .uc Valliv Jitney Jungle stores, the . .
. . • . n g°t out of the sedan, the man sped
went over the two-foot tnermometers were install- •
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PHARR—An ordinance has been
passed in the city of Pharr, pro-
| viding for the bonding and iicens-
growers are being paid to make an ing of all type* of electrician*, the
effort to get plants out of the way manner in which all electrical work
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PROFESSOR IS NAMED
BURLINGTON. Vt. — (jpt — Dr.
Hardy A. Kemp. 37. professor of
preventive medicine at Baylor Uni-
versity School of Medicine, Dallas.
Tex.. Friday was named dean of
the University of Vermont * Medi-
cal College. ■
"This means that farmers whose
fields are in this condition will be effective,
eligible for payment for the plow-
ing under of the cotton stalks pro-
vided a workmanlike job of plow-1
ing has been completed by October
1. However, should sprout plants
be allowed to fruit prior to being
plowed under before October I, a
the stage of being host menace from the pink boll worm
metal covering the battery box hole beyond
plants, would be allowed to com- propagation would be created which |
be- : pirtp their contract by plowing them will make the acreage ineligible
under.
A statement by L. F Curl, as-
sistant chief of the pink boll worm untouched cotton left in Camcron
division of the U. S. bureau of en- county at noon Friday and grow-1
Postal Credit Union
Board Holds Meeting
The large carnival has attracted ,hrnugh ,hem- Mar readings, likewise, are on the urday night at Jie Harlingen Pnst-
, when five new members
were accepted, bringing total mem-
of the Lower Valley, officials said
Winners of rodeo contests were
be announced Sunday.
regulations requiring plant* to be
destroyed in infested areas becomes
The state law. instead
of providing pay for the work, pro-
vides penalties if it is not done. H.
B. Edwatds of McAllen is the state
i enforcement officer.
It wa* reported Saturday that a
gnat many grower* who are in
compliance are disturbed because
inspector* have not been around to
It wa* stated (
1 not be J>erson have any fonn of e|ec-
: trie work done unless the person,
firm nr cooperation ha* a master
electrician’s license. The cost is
$2500 for the first year. $1250 for
renewal each year thereafter. The
electrician shall also have a $1,000
b«ind made payable to the ci to
insure against Ins*.
a. O. Riding has been appointed
• city inspector, with his duty to is-
sue all permits and to make all
inspections.
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CITRUS SEASON
TO BEGIN SOON
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with additional regulation? as the
season progresses provided
marketing agreements remain
effect. The present market agree-
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General Offensive
Is Opened By Japs
SHANGHAI —(JPL- Domei (Jap-
anese News Agency) reported SaV
urday Japan*?'* had opened a gei^
cral offensive in Kiangsi province,
I Central China.
feet from the edge of the wall.
When the men
final jump, the sheriff said, they ,h* cooperation of George
set off the alarm. When jailers Carpenter.
With one gallon of this paste for
Prime Coat add two gallons of oil.
For Finish Coat add one and one-
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in the floor board.
The attacker nf the girl wa? _
lieved to be a San Benito resident,
or at least one familiar with its
environs.
Mother Phoned
Friday night an unidentified man
phoned Mr*. Jessie Mills, mother
MRS. DORA CHR1STLIEB
I .A FERIA — I-ast rites will be
held at La Feria Cemetery Sunday
at 5 pm. for Mrs. Dora Christlieb.
70, who died Friday at a Harlin-
gen hospital. Funeral service* will
be under direction of John T.
Thompson Mortuary. Harlingen.
Pallbearers will be Clyde Jor-
lie** *-***’****!*'^
and ordinarily dressed.
Attack Resisted
June told her people that she
had been taken to a side road
north of San Benito, and that the
man tried to attack her. He started
the car and moved on twice, as
two automobiles passed on the road
where he was parked with the girl,
ther- ' He then came back to San Benito
for some reason and had stopped
to turn around when Mrs. Mills
blocked his progress and recovered
her daughter.
She said she asked him what he
thought he was trying to do. and
that he answered he had not mean*
to harm the girl, but had offered
her a ride home, and then had taken
her for a ride. When the child had
by Meyen to Walker were 77 and He’ntz. Harlingen and I. B Dodd I
R6 degrees Additional tempera- Donna.
tures for each day will be carried
daijv in the Brownsville Herald and
by KRGV.
The Del Mar temperature read-
ings will not be included m the
weather reports from the federal
bureau in Brownsville, but it is
un | planning to have the iron ladder
’ leading to the ^ylight removed sand, of proapective Vallev sum-
He said in the future jailer* ad- j
j justing the light could take in a
for
pected. and the proposed new agree- A .
ments not placed in effect if grow- ^ut could not find anything
ers oppose the program in a ref- lo^,',n5_ hk<‘„ th* e^api.'?,,.pair’
•rendum to be held some time soon.
L. E. Pratt of Harlingen, super-
visor of the maturity division of
the state department of agriculture,
announced recently that testing of
fruit would not begin officially
til about October 1 and that this
announcement had met with gene-
ral approval. La*t season testing
started September 12 with a resul-
tant rush on the part of growers
who demanded daily tests until
their fruit met requirement*. In ... . ,,
spite of this anxiety, less than a Visitor IO Valley
hundred cars of fruit were shipped I U *. I L
from Texas last September. It slurt In VTatn
A new law which would enable
the commissioner of agriculture to
bar citrus fruits of other states Victoria suffered serious intem-
because of pests and plant diseases *d injuries in a collision between
will become effective Tuesday as ,he Parks car and another driven
will a new law requiring certain by Fidel Barrera a half mile north
safe-guards for the color added
process for oranges. An amendment
to the citrus bonding and licensing
law also will become effective at
that time, according to C. E. Mc-
Cormick. supervisor. The amend-
ments require licenses but not
bonds of cash buyer* and place*
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cer*.” since the little girl had not.
been harmed, "and he hadn't meant
any harm anyway.” She said she
told the man to call back in half
an hour, but he apparently grew
wary and nothing more had been
heard from him Saturday, officers
jaid northwesterly winds forecast
June wa* recovered by Mrs Mill? Sunday prompted Texans to expect
just north of San Benito several cooler weather the remainder of
hours after the girl was^ rnl^sp^i- the summer, ending officially at
6:30 p m. <CST> next Saturday
w» - -— ,he R,,rne time, it was recalled
the’highway ’’Mr* Miil» «hot her that , the hottest dav of th- year
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She had October 1 when a 100-degree mark
' —an all-time record for that
month
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RIO GRANDE CITY Even larger
crowds swarmed Rio Grande City
streets Saturday as the second an- dan. perry Bond. D. S. Knight. J. O.
nual Starr County Fair and Rndeo Durham, C. C. Buck, E. D. Lind-
entered its final day Sunday. Three berg D n c . j
thousand vnutor, wore mated to -- Bm.Mv.lle Saturday,
have visited the fair grounds.
Rodeos were presented during the Charles Baidcl. Erie. Mtch.; a sis- the bath hou*e rt D-l Mar beach
afternoon and night, and Sunday, ter, Mrs. Emma Gvldi. also of Erie, and dailv
WARSAW DEFIES
GERMAN ORDER
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piled with wreckage created by
bombs and shells dropping into
“nearly every block of the city."
"All day Warsaw has been under
heavy fire,” said the announcer.
“Air raids destroyed the Protes-
tant Church while service was be-
ing held and the roof collapsed,
killing one hundred persons.
"The Lithuanian legation
destroyed by air bombs.
"AU day airplanes have bombed
and machine-gunned every inch of
the city.
"German planes flying low over
buildings tossed incendiary bombs.
The capital now is almost a flam-
1 ing torch.
“Shells crashed into houses and
they in turn crashed into heaps
of ruins with terrible detonations.
‘The fire department is racing
helplessly all over town for there
have been more than 400 separate
fires Saturday.
"Women and children and old
men—all the rest are fighting the
invaders—are trying to extinguish
the blazes with sand and the little
; water that can be spared from
the drinking supply. Their faces
are blackened by soot and pitifully
lined by fatigue."
The announcer said new posters
signed * “Smigly - Rydz" (Marshal
Edward Smigly-Rydz. commander-
in-chief of the Polish army) had
been plastered on “those wall* still
left standing.’’ calling upon men.
women and children to "defend
Warsaw tn the last drop of blood,
for the honor of Poland demands
it We must fight the barbarian
invaders in every field in every
manner with every weapon "
rapidly Shortly after 9 p. m. Warsaw’;
luiiitai, vtntllliai uvl , vrcilTTSfll
said over the microphone “from the l
east the German artillery is bom-
barding the capital.
"In Wola (western suburb of
Warsaw) we captured one tank
and one machine gun. To the east
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quirements that the stalks be cut
under so that no cot- i
are left in the field
HARLINGEN — Growers whose ■ tomology and plant quarantine, was
in such condition Saturday as follows:
"More than 97 per cent of the
farmers in the Valley have placed
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when she saw the top of her head
and the hair ribbon in a car which
was attempting to make a turn on !
in front of the sedan, and urged j in the Dallas area
all-time record
time only for a first few scathing set
A squallv condition. 200 to 250
he miles off the Texas coast, was e«-
tuVned'ofYsam Hous'ton"boulevard. Peeto.i to cause fresh eart and north-
She said she was too frightened
to remember the license number.
Chum Sounds Alarm
June said she and Daryin Hart,
a school chum, were walking home
from school, when a strange man
offered them a ride. Darvin was scat*ere<j showers also tempered the
San Benito
He had car-
ried June’s shoes in the hip pockets
of his overalls, overlooking to re-
turn them to June. He walked to
the Mills house and found June
had not come home.
M. D. Young, grandfather of the
girl, telephoned Mrs Mills at San
Benito, who notified police and
started toward home. While she
was en route she met the stranger
with her daughter. She said he had
attempted to push the girl's head
UNIDENTIFIED COTTON GROWERS STILL HAVE TIME NEW RULING
MAN SOUGHT
BY OFFICERS i
, cotton stalk* are
as not to be capable of propagating
the pink boll worm may still com-' t'heir cotton fields in a condition of
plete their contract with the fed-
eral government by plowing them
under by October 1 and receive
SAN BENITO—Officer* late Sat- pay for the work, it was announced capable” o7 sustaining the pink boll
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worm 1
an unidentified white man said to
thousands nf Starr county and Rio
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exhibits have attracted handicraft second story, unable to move be- dicating a cooler temperature much bership to 100 Directors announced
that fifth year of union operation
r , finds shares increasing I .
Each afternoon at 4 p. m Meyen with total assets nearing to $7,000 military commander. General Czum.
tee a—* _ *t __ ____ _ — -a *_ e * i/4 mum**b ♦ h a *• t vw* • 1%».
trolmen, the sheriff's department minimum readings for the day to
and others cooperating. I the Brownsville chamber of com-
Shcnff Goolsby discounted the merce. which in turn will notify the
theory that a meeting with an es- Brownsville Herald and the Weslaco
j cape car had been pre-arranged, radii station Meven and the
raying it was more likely that a Brownsville chamber of commerce
passing motorist had given them »re dividing the costs of the phone
a lift expense. Walker revealed.
- - j The maximum and minimum tem-
Lm 'Mauldin f?r *•’urday a* phoned i Ray McWhorter, Edinburg; A. E.
men? wb'l be^Tncelled."^ "**«* i Brownsville pilot, flew
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