The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1940 Page: 4 of 12
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TRADE SHOWS
STEADY GAINS.
HOPKINS SAYS
Unfilled Orders Up
And Consumers Are
Buying; Rise Is Not
Equal to June
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WASHINGTON —i/Fb- Business
cont nued to improve in July. Sec-
retary of Commerce Hopkins said
Thursday but he described the
gain as •moderate compared with
the sharp rise In June."
The general situation he said
**ts well supported at this time by
• large volume of unfilled orders
and active consumer purchasing."
Ni Accumulation
"Although inventories are not
much below’ the peak to which
they were pushed in March by last
fall's buying wave" he added
"there is no further accumulation
of any significance taking place In
total holdings at this time.”
Failure of commodity and secur-
ity prices to responded to the in-
creased volume of trade was traced
by Hopkins to the "international
political and military situat'on.”
He reported a downward trend in
prices of "sensitive commodities.”
Recovery Gw On
But the status of prices is not
due to "any fundamental weakness
in domestic economic condlt'ons.”
he ?aid. "and is no i-ign that busi-
ness recovery is running out ”
"Any expansion of employment
and income result:ng from the na-
tional defense program will push
per capita coT.sumption to new
I*cord levels.” Hopkins observed.
Today’s Radio
Another Battle Royal
Seen Likely Over Cut
In Cameron Tax Rate
Rotarlan Marvin Brown through
the courtesy of John Fanning
manager of the Capitol theater.
Financial Report
The annual financial report of
the Brownsville Rotary club was
made by E. M Bremer.
The luncheon was presided over
bv Arthur C. Hlpp. president with
Frank Davis in charge *■! the pro-
gram. Music was in charge of
Hugh Lamb assisted as the piano
U’ Miss Patsy ClarV
J C Jordan chairman of the
Rotary attendance committee
made an attendance report and
urged members to contact those ab-
sent.
Visitors Included J H York and
Frank C Brunnemann. San Beni-
to; Lloyd H Thompson. Harlingen
and Robert McLealsh. Weslaco.
NEW LEADERS
AT RINGGOLD
8 Officers Arrive For
Duty
RIO GRANDE CITY-New of-
ficers arriving at Fort Ringgold
druing the current week include
two regular and six reserve officers.
On Friday Lt-Col. Frederick R.
Lafferty will arrive from Chemical
Warfare School. Edgewood Arsenal.
Mr where he was assigned as a
student and will assume command
of the 2nd Squadron. Mrs. Laf
I ferty. two damflTters and a son
will arrive atom September 1.
Capt. Chandler P. Robbins. Jr.
arrived at Ringgold on Sunday
!rom a months’ leave following
four years tour of duty at West
Point as a member of the Tactical
Department. Capt. Robbins will
command E Troop on maneuvers
and O Troop on his return. Mrs.
Robbins and three children will
arrive Friday.
Chas. Mack Pattle. 1st Lt. Cav.
Re*. is due to return this week
from Fort Riley Kansas where he
has been taking a months refresh-
er course in Cavalry Tactics.
Dean Dover Barger. 1st Lt. Cav.
Res. of Chattanooga Tenn. ac-
companied by Mrs. Barger arrived
Sunday for one years active duty.
Rob* Rvan Morris lit Lt. Cav.
Res. of Houston and James Rav
Spurrier. 2nd Lt. Cav. Res. of
Tulsa. Ok la. drived Saturday for
i ia days active duty at the local
post.
Homer Sylvester Durden. Jr* 2nd^
Lt Cav. Res of Swamsboro. Oa*
arrived Wednesda\ for a year*
ect've duty.
Carl Louis Schweitzer. 2nd LL
Cav. Res. of Fort Worth arrived
Sunday for a year* active duty.
Other officers expected within
i the next two months are 2nd Lt.
Joseph L. McCroskey. class of 1940.
Wfe*t Point now attending Cavalry#
School at Fort Riley .and 1st Lt.
Harold L. Richey now attending
Advanced Motors course at Fort
Riley. ^
British bombers have reported-
ly blasted a great German port te
Mts What used to he known aa
Hamburg may now be called ham-
burger.
COLUMBIA N-RID N-BLlE
wabr 860 wfaa 800 kfdm 560
km»i 1090 w man 670 krrv 1260
ktrh 1296 mna* 1190 kri* " «
ktfta 5i0 kprc 920 kxvz 1*10
ktul 1H0 ktbs 1*50 wrni 870
kwkh 1100 wbao 890 wji 760
wwl 830 weal 660 wla 8-0
wbbm 770 wlw 700
wsm *Vi
f p m NB—Eaay Aces NR Three
Romeos C -Golden Gate Quart-
et KROV— Birthday Party.
*:15 NR John B Kennedy news C
—Pauli Sultvan Reviews the
News NB-Mr Keen. Tracer of
lost Persons
i:30 NB- Morin S.stera krgv NR-
String Ensemble C—Vox Pop.
5:4‘. NR -H V. Kaltenborn. news
0 00 —NB Travelogue Malcolm La
Prade krg' c A'k-lt-Basket NR
—Concert in Miniature
6:20 KRGV Fish'ng Forecast and
Ba-eball Bcores.
6:30 hR—Aldrich Family NB-Pot o
Gold krgv. C—Strange as It
Seems.
8:55 C Elmer Davis. News
7.00 C—Major Bowe* Amateur Hour
NR -K. aft Music Hall. NB -Sing-
in and Swinging KRGV-Ty
Cobb. Valley Comment.
7:13 KRGV—Dance orch
7:30 NB-Concert orch KRGV—News
and Weather.
7 43 KRGV—To Be Announced.
8:00 NB—News krgv NR Rudy Vallee
program C Glenn M Uer orch
8:13 NR Lei Concerts Svinphoniques
de Montreal krgv. C—Public Af-
fairs.
8:30 NR Grant Park Concert. C—
News of the War.
8:43 C—Buddy Clark songs.
8:00 NR Fred Waring In Pleasure
Tim* C Amos n Andy. NB-
P.av Kinney orch krgv
• 15 C—Lann\ R<v-« tenor NR—Jack
Joy cich NB Rav Kinney orch
• 30 NR- Ted lewis orch NB- -Tom-
mv Dorsey orch krgv C—Xa-
vier Cugat s orch
10 00 NR—News. Johnny Long orch
NB- News. Raymond Scott orch
C—Mitchell A rcs orch. KRGV —
News and Sport-
10 14 NB-Rh- mond Scott orch krgv.
NR—Johnny Long orch. C—Xa-
vier Cugat orch
10:30 NR—Coleman Hawkins orch. NB
Eddv Dtich'.n orch. krgv. C—
News. Rev H"rheck orch
11:00 NR and NB Te-l Fio-Rtto orch
C—The Aristocrat*. KROV--Sign
Off
11 30 NP. NB and C—Dance orch
news
KRGV WESLACO (12601
Frldav—August 9
8 00 Latin American Hour
7 00 B-eakfar Club NBC
7 45 News and Weather
8 00 Foo'note*
8 IS Vagabonds NBC
8 30 Morning Devotional
8 45 Viennese Ensemble NBC
9 00 To Be Announced
9:05 Morning Mr’.odie*
9 45 News and Weather
10:00 Marv McHugh NBC
10:15 Southernalres NBC
10:30 Betts Crocker NBC
10:43 Arnold Grimm ! Daughter
11-00 Variety Time
11:15 Man On the Street
1130 At Home in the World NBC
11 45 News NBC
12 00 Luncheon Dance Music
12 :15 Chuck Wagon Gang L8C
-4:30 New* and Weather
12 45 American Legion Band
1 Just Relax
1:1.’. Ma Perkins NBC
1:30 Kate Hopkins-Angel of Mercy
1:45 Portia Blake Faces Life
2 00 Club Matinee NBC
3 00 News and Weather
3 15 Klttv Keene NBC
3 30 Honorable Archie NBC
3 45 Edward Davies NBC
4 00 Rocky Gordon NBC
4.15 Malcolm Claire NBO
4 23 A. P. News NBC *
4 30 Irene Wicker NBC
4:45 Bud Barton NBC
Tonight’* Movie*
Brownsville The Capitol— Oeorge
Baft. Ann Sheridan and Humphrey
Bogart In ‘They Drive by Night* The
Queen -Jackie Cooper Betty Field and
Otto Kruger In "Seventeen"
San Benito The Rlvoll— Oeorge
B’ent and Virginia Bruce in "The
Man Who Talked Too much"
Harlingen: The Arcadia— Victor Me-
Lag’en. Frances Farmer and John
Rail in "Sou’h of Pago Pago" The
Blalto—Cesar Romero and Evelyn Ven-
able in "Lucky O«co Kid" The Strand
—John Oarfield and Anne Bhtrley in
"Saturday's Children"
Raymondvllle • The Rio—Akim Tam-
lroff and Gladvs Oeorge In "The Wav
Of All Flesh" The Ramon- Madeleine
Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in
"Safari"
Mercedes The State -Cesar Romero
•nd Evelyn Venable in "Lucky Cl*co
Kid"
Weslaco The Rita- Ray Milland
Patricia Morlson and Akim Tamlroff
In "Untamed"
Donna The Plaza—Akim Tamlroff
and Gladys George in The Wav of All
flesh"
McAllen The Palace-Oeorge Raft.
Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bt$art
In "Thev Drive Bv Night"
Edinburg’ The Valley—Margaret Sul
la van. Jame4 Stewart and Robert
Young In "The Mortal Storm" The
Aztec—Edward o Robinson and Fran-
cis Ledrrer in "Confessions of a Na-
tl Bpv.”
Mission: The Ml salon—Jeanette Mac
Donald and Nelson Eddy in "New
Moon.*' /
By the recent cables we note
that Spain'6 attitude toward Chile
hu turned daftnltalv cold.
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Br BILL BREWSTER
The big guns in the annual Cam-
eron county tax battle are being
cleared "or action and the first
. Tew rounds may be fired no later
than Monday when the regular
session of county commissioners'
court comes up
At least two Intra-court skir-
mishes over the tax rate this year
are looming and what part of the
• public at large may take in the
battle as yet is a matter for con-
jecture.
Last year a well-attended bud-
get hearing centered its fire on
the maintenance and operations
budget and tax rate but when the
smoke cleared away the changes
wrought were practically negligible.
Spilt Foreseen
This year indications are the
commissioners may split over both
the maintenance and operations
tax rate and the rate to be assess-
ed to service the county's bonds.
Cameron county last year set its
interest and sinking fund tax rate
at 96 cents to service its bonds
and warrants and set the main-
tenance and operations rate at 45
cents—a total county tax rat^ of
$1 41 per $100 valuations.
County Auditor L. A. Bauer has
recommended that the I. Si S. rate
b? set this year at 94 cents and the
M Si O. rute at 47 cents—which
would shift two cents from I. Si S
to M. * o. but wbuld leave the to-
tal tax rate unchanged.
Contention anticipated as the I.
Si S. rate comes up is in connec-
tion with the rate to be set for
servicing t„e refunded road bond
issue of 1938.
Differences Set Out
Mr Bauer recommends 84 cents
the same as levied last year. Cam-
eron County Judge Oscar C. Dan-
cy. however suggests a slash OT
five or icn cents from that fig-
ure may prove possible. And indi-
cations : re that a considerable
greater slash rr.ay be proposed by
at least one member of the com-
missioners' court.
Camero.i county’s outstanding
bonded indebtedness as of June 1.
1940. totaled *6.823 800 The state
is participating 100 per cent how-
ever. in (.11 road bond issues except
that of the 1938 refund. The states
25 cent remission to the county
from th* sta"’ ad valorem tax gen-
eral fund levy is sufficient to care
for an issue oT 1938 refunding
protection bonds
The county’s large share of par-
ticipation in the refunded ‘road
bond issue its courthouse and jail
bonds and its levee warrants on
June 1. 1940 called for the county
to service only an approximate *3.-
475.582 24
Proposals Set Out
With Cameror county's tax val-
uations e pected to fall close to
the *3*2<>Ou.OOO mar- the county
auditor has proposed a three cent
tax rate for the courthouse and
jail bonds a seven cent rate for
the levee warrants and 84 cents
for the refunded road bonds
The 84 rent tax rate would mean
a levy of about *258800 for the
road bonds over wh ch contention
Is expected more htan enough to
meet the *103.000 the county must
pay on the bonds even if tax col-
lections run only 50 per cent.
When the reTundmr was made
however the county pledged it
would set a tax rate each year
sufficient to mrke a levy of *300.-
000
Bondholders made no objection
1 to the 84-cent levy the past year
and with state money received un-
der the state road bond assump-
tion bill Cameron county has got-
ten ahead oi the refunding agree-
ment's bond retirement schedule
The county auditor prefers that
ROTARY HEARS
SCOOT LEADER
*
Plans to Double Boys
In Work Here
Plan* to double the number of
Boy Scout troop# here by the end
of the year were told by Ralph Cis-
sne. new Boy Sc-ut field executive
In Cameron county. In a talk be-
fore the Rotary club Wednesday
afternoon at the Hotel El Jardin
Citing the great opportunities for
scouting in Brownsville. Mr Cis-
sne declared that Cameron county
has the lowest county per capita
Scout enrolment in the United
States.
However he praised the type of
Brownsville men who are now
pushing the Scout movement here
bv stating that they are -young in
ideals.”
Praises Movement
The Boy Scouts of America is
the greatest youth movement in
the United States. Mr Cissne con-
tinued. It is a movement that
stresses character building and
citizen hip training It ha* more
than two million boys enroled.
Mr Cissne asserted that the Bov
Scout movement has a very defin-
ite program in connection with na-
tional defense by preparing for
any eventuality. -Be Prepared” is
the Scout motto he said
The new field executive has
opened office In the old city hall
here
The Rotarians were shown a col-
ored motion picture of the 1940
Charro Days fiesta that was tak-
en by the state highway depart-
ment. The picture was shown by
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r the county keep ahead of It* re-
tirement schedule and fears that
. too low a tax rate tf for some
reason state fund* were not up to
the amount expected might send
the county into default drag It into
federal court and result in a tax
rate even higher than 14 cent*.
The second possible fight within
the ranks of the '•ommissloners’
court would be over a proposed
five cent Increase in the MAO
tax rate to provide funds neces-
sary if the county is to participate
in sponsors' contributions for sew-
ing rooms at Brownsville. San
Benito end Harlingen
The WPA has asked an Increase
in the sponsors' participation from
seven or nine per cent to about 2C1
per cent. Heretofore the cities have
been bee ing the large part of the
sewing room expense with the
county contributing only $25 a
month to each.
Fbr the county to meet half the
sponsors' expense in each of the
three cities would cost some 9.000
it Is estimated
Opposition Registered
Judge Dancy is in favor of coun-
ty participation in order to keep
the sewing room opnen after Sep-
tember 1. and it is he who pro-
posed the M. A O tax rate hike
lor that purpose pointing out that
should the nation'- preparedness
program make such relief unneces-
sary in the near future the coun-
ty's money could be used to buv
bonds.
Commissioners Kinder and Mor-
ris have registered stiff opposition
to county participation to that ex-
tent. and probably will oppose th«
M A O. tax increase for that pur-
pose.
The county commissioners meet
Monday in regular session in the
county courtroom of the courthousi
at Brownsville and at least prelim-
inary discussion of the tax rates l.«
anticipated The date for the pub-
lic budget -Iso may be set at the
Monday meeting.
Judge Dancy said Thursday ir
connection with the coming tax rate
procedure that school district* in
the county will set for 1940 the
same rate as last year.
San Benito Kiwanis
To Assist Children
SAN BENITO — Preparatory to
the opening of the local schools
September 3. the San Benito Ki-
wanis club is making arrangement*
for a number of tonsilectomies tc
be performed on school children
during August. The open*; ions
perfoimed at the Valley Baptisl
hospital in Harlingen are part ol
the club's program for aiding un-
derprivileged children.
20-30 Hears Vickers
WESLACO—Paul Vickers. McAl-
len manager spoke on Whv a
Chamber of Commerce" when the
20-30 club met at the Cortez Hotel
Tuesday night for the week's din-
ner program.
An open forum followed the talk
Archie Taylor president was in
charge of the business session when
it was announced that member*
would go to Edinburg Wednesday
night Augus. 14. to have the don-
ors blood tested at the hospital
Guest* were present from Har-
lingen and Edinburg.
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