Mercedes News-Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1930 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME XVII
NUMBER 40
VALUATIONS MAY NOT SHOW MUCH GAIN
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Local Boy Captain Illinois Gridsters
CORRECTING AN IMPRESSION
TOTAL NOW
ON CAUSE OF
Here November 11
Opening Of Season
$4,208,062.00
DEPRESSION
Mercedes Ranks Second Mrs. Charles Weimer Is
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But-outside of this minor point no mention whatso-
just.
ever was
to
view-
Corpus Christi financier and
before
Rio
Coronation of Valley Fair queen will
col. 1, p. 9
be elaborate affair
City valuations are cut by the board
1
of equalization
p.
Farm income of U. S. shows increase
col. 3, p. 5
of 1929 over 1928
Arrive
col. 1, p. 5
will
Celebration planned for "opening
Benito here today -
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- Highlights -
Of This Issue
358 Cars Of Fruit Annual Red Cross
Leave Valley Since Roll Call To Open
Parent-Teachers
Organize At Local
School Wednesday
The Mercedes Tigers will meet
the powerful San Benito Greyhounds
tempts to apply will reflect
great extent the respective
MERCEDES NEEDS
WIDER BRIDGES
FOR SAFETY AND
ACCESSIBILITY
the
be
cot-
the
Leave
Mercedes
boll weevil
Remedies for depression
with election results ...
Will Attend Retail
Credit Bureau School
at-
a
Reserve Officers Of
Valley Meet Oct. 20
(THE MERCEDES NEWS and MERCEDES TRIBUNE Consolidated)
MERCEDES, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930
ton grower was read
meeting.
“If every banker
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Fine Arts Department
Of Local School Gives
Rotary Club Program
TAX ROLLS ARE
NOT COMPLETED
REMEDY DEPENDS
ON ELECTIONS
Chick Inn Will Be
Remodeled By New
Manager, C. Rodoff
Mrs. Tom Murray Is
Elected President
Of Group
In Total Shipments
With 48 Cars
Legislation Will Reflect
Views Of Party In
Control
Hard Game Will Be
Fought On Home
Field
Appointed Chairman
For Mercedes
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C. P. Owen Attending
Synod At Big Spring
Reductions Expected to
Bring This To
$4,000,000
Blanket Reductions On
Ohio, Esplanade and
Queen City
Tigers Will Meet
Strong San Benito
Greyhounds Today
p. 1
of
p. 1
school teams in the Valley, and have
j defeated both Edinburg and Pharr-
San Juan by large scores. They
were defeated last Friday by Kings-
ville, but the margin was small.
The San Benito team this year is the
best that city has had for several
years and they are trying hard for
Valley championship this season.
The starting lineup for today’s
game has not yet been picked but
the boys who will probably play in
the .game are: Don Murray, John
Trolinger, Juan Avila, Stanley Et-
nire, Corvan Green, Bud Van Berg,
Donald Barton, Philip Lentz, Bob
Keen, De Vere Wilson, Gume Solis,
Alexander Solis, T. J. Mitchell, Bill
Trousdale, Sylvan Golden, John Wil-
helm and Hoyt Hager.
The backing which the town has
shown 'the team at all the games
is greatly appreciated by the coach
as well as by the boys, Coach Sch-
malzried stated in speaking of the
games Thursday.
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Semi-Annual Illinois
Picnic To Be Oct. 28
Reynosa-Monterrey road....col. 2, p. 10
Tigers will play Greyhounds of San
building next year
Citrus shipments . for
now total 350 cars
the next session of Congress
vary
... p. 1
visit
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10:30 A. M—San Antonio 4:05 P.M.
10:30 A. M____________ 7:10 P. M.
10:30 A.MChicago 5:40 A. M.
10:30 A. M___New York 6:43 P. M,
9:00 P. M—New Orleans 1:00 P.M.
9:00 P.M—-=— Atlanta 6. P. M.
9:00 P. M._-__New York 5. A. M.
(Second day)
9:00 P. M.__Big Springs 10:35 A.M.
9:00 P.M______El Paso 12:36 P.M.
9:00 P. M._Los Angeles 7:11 P. M.
Postage is 5 cents for first ounce
and 10 cents for each additional
ounce.
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A number of representative of lo-
cal banks attended the meeting of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley Bank-
ers association which was held at
Reynosa Friday night. A plan for
the stabilization of the price of cot-
ton by a 25 per cent decrease in the
acreage planted was discussed by
those in attendance.
An address on this subject pre-
pared by J. E. Garrett, prominent
made of the board of equalization. This publi-
cation entertained not the slightest doubt that the board
would do otherwise than act justly and fairly. It never
occurred to us that the United Printing Company and all
other institutions and citizens of this city would receive
anything but the fairest of treatment at the hands of
the board. We wish that thoroughly understood.
In regard to our opinion of the work of the valuation
engineers, however, we not only maintain the stand on
the matter which we took last week but seize this -oppor-
tunity to reaffirm it. A valuation survey is generally con-
sidered to be a desirable step for a municipal government
to take and when it was first announced that such a
survey would be made here this publication was one of
the first to praise it. The result of these engineers’ work
proved to be highly illuminating, however. Instead of the
expert appraisals which had been expected the figures
which were released were instead so far wrong as to be
ridiculous. In fact it is difficult to understand how any-
one could claim to be an expert on valuations and yet make
the enormous mistakes which were made in the case of
the survey which has just come to such an ignominious
end here. That its end is indeed ignominious is certainly
borne out by the actions of the board of equalization,
moreover, for prospects now point to a reduction of the
valuations to a point near last year’s total. If this is so,
and even as the total valuation naw stands, after the board
has reduced most of the valuations, it will be obvious that
. the employment of the engineers was both a waste of
time and of money.
After all it would seem that a great deal better job
of valuation setting could have been done by some repu-
table local of Valley engineer or by the board of equaliza-
tion alone. The members of the board are familiar with
property values in the Valley and Mercedes and it is im-
possible to conceive that it would have made the blunders
which the far-famed valuation engineers succeeded in per-
petrating. - - -
used in many of the most important
games last year.
Al Robinson, M. L. David and Al
l’rince left Mercedes Wednesday to
see the Illinois-Northwestern game
at Champaign tomorrow. This is
doped to be the crucial game of the
Big Ten season, the winner having
an excellent chance for the title.
in the
held at Lake Concepcion, 3 miles
southwest of McAllen, at 1 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, October 26. If
weather is threatening or rainy the
picnic will be postponed' to Sunday,
November 2. A picnic lunch will be
brought by those attending.
More than 200 dozens of butter
rolls were given away at the for-
mal opening of the City Bakery on
Texas avenue last Saturday, ac-
cording to the owner of the plant,
Joe Hauft.
Mr. Hauft, an experienced baker,
has installed modern equipment in
one of the stores in the Wattson
building and is now doing business
in that place.
— col. 5, p. 10
entire Valley
Construction work on the new
Mercedes Garage located just west
of the corner of Missouri avenue
and the Highway is progressing
rapidly and is to be rushed with all
possible speed.
O. J. Schaeffer and John Briscoe,
owners of the Mercedes Garage, have
leased the new Texaco Filling Sta-
tion next to their new garage and
will operate both places. The new
station was formally opened Wed-
nesday and an unusually large num-
ber took advantage of the service
they offered.
The new garage will be of Span-
ish design and will contain all of the
new features found in super-serv-
ice stations, beside the sales room
for Oakland and Pontiac cars, for
which this company are agents.
John C. Jones of Edinburg and | on the local athletic field today at
recently of Mercedes is president of 3:30 o'clock. -The Greyhounds are
the organization. considered one of the strongest high
The Rev. C. P. Owen, pastor of
the local First Presbyterian church,
left Sunday for Big Springs, Tex-
as, where he will -attend the Texas
Synod. While in Big Springs Mr.
Owen will be a guest in the home
of his brother, the Rev. R. L. Owen,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church in that city.
Mr. Owen was accompanied to the
Synod by the Rev. T. H. Pollard of
Falfurrias, formerly, of Mercedes,
and the Rev. R. E. Porterfield of
Edinburg.
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The fine arts department of the
local schools presented the program
at the luncheon of the Rotary club.
Miss Evelyn Smith gave a vocal so-
lo, accompanied at the piano by Miss
Pauline Adams. Miss Mary Nor-
rod gave several readings and C. G.
Wagner gave two violin solos, ac-
companied at the piano by Mrs. H.
E. Hager.
Visiting Rotarians at the lunch-
eon were Miller Armstrong, Charles
Sherrell, Everett Knapp and J. Ball,
all of Weslaco; O. P. Storm of Har-
lingen and Bill Cook of McAllen.
Charlie Rodoff has returned to
Mercedes and has again taken
charge of his old stand, the Chick
Inn on the east highway. Under
the new managership the interior
of the building is to be completely
remodeled and redecorated and much
new equipment added.
Grande Valley will refuse to make
'fans to farmers unless at least one-
fourth of these farmers’ acreages
are reduced for the next cotton sea
son, 20-cent cotton may be expected
here next year,”' according to Mr.
Garrett.
This reduction campaign is plan-
ned tp be taken into all the cotton
producing areas of this state as well
as in other states of the South.
Guest speaker at the convention
was James B. Shaw of Austin, state
banking commissioner who told of
the results of banking liquidation
and its assets.
Local people attending the meet-
ing were Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Bar-
ton, Mr. and Mrs. James Howze, Mr.
and Mrs. T. Floyd Langford from
the Hidalgo County State Bank and
Trust company and Jack Trolinger,
Robert Miller and Oscar Dube from
the First National Bank of this
city.
The Mercedes postOffice has an-
nounced the following air mail
schedule which went into effect
Wednesday, October 15:
Funeral services were held here
Tuesday afternoon at the Ebenezer
Lutheran church for Mrs. Otto A.
Shulz, 21, of near Edcouch, who
died Friday at the McAllen hospi-
tal, following an illness of about a
month. The Rev. William Durkop,
pastor of the local church, officiat-
ed at the services. Burial was made
in the Ebony Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Schulz is survived by her
husband and baby twin sons, her
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C.
H. Risch, a sister, Miss Anna
Risch, and three brothers, Ralph,
William and Carl Risch. All of
these live near Edcouch with the
exception of Carl Risch, who is in
the United States navy stationed
at San Pedro, Cal.
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“When truth or virtue an af-
front endures
Th’ affront is mine, my friend,
and should be yours.”
The semi-annual picnic of
Valley-Illinois association will
An excellent idea of what the much-heralded valua-
tion expert’s work has really amounted to may be obtained
by reading the story on city valuations which appears on
this front page. As the expert engineers had figured it,
total valuations for Mercedes this year would amount to
$4,500,000. Since the appearance of citizens of this city
before the board of equalization, however, this figure has
been considerably reduced, a further drop in the total
being expected after several blanket reductions have been
decided upon. And mention of the board of equalization
brings us to the main subject of this editorial.
After the appearance in last week’s issue of our com-
ment on the work of the valuation engineers'it became
apparent that several citizens, perhaps quite a few, had
misunderstood our attitude on the board of equalization’s
part in the setting of city valuations. These citizens,
whom we hope were few, appeared to believe that this
publication had criticized the board and its work. Such
was far from the case. The only mention made of the
board in last week’s issue of the News-Tribune was that
it was not holding its meetings where any and every one
could listen in. Members of the board have assured us
that the only object in having each citizen before it sepa-
rately was to avoid the confusion which would be attend-
ant to a public hearing and, knowing the gentlemen who
make up the board as we do, we are sure that this ex-
planation was not only correct but highly reasonable and
The Reserve Officers association
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
will hold its next meeting at the
Reese-Wil-Mond hotel in Harlingen
Monday night, October 20 at 8 o’-
clock. All reserve officers whether
members of this organization or not
are invited to attend.
According to B. E. Meadows, of
Harlingen, secretary-treasurer, the
organization plans to devote half
its meetings to study and half to so-
cial activities.
By Harry L. Sexton
Washington, October 16.—While
the thunder of the big political guns
* " of both major parties are reverbe-
rating along the front in all doubt-
ful states, much speculation is be-
ing indulged in here with respect to
the legislation that will come before
the next session of congress, and
also what efforts will be made by
the party that wins control of con-
gress toward relieving the existing
nation-wide _ depression.
. There are many diverse schools
of thought with respect to the cause
of the depression which has been
manifested in the slowing down of
- business and industry, gradual de-
cline of farm prices and ever-in-
creasing unemployment. President
Hoover, spokesman for the Republi-
can party, contends it is the result
of natural causes, and other repub-
lican leaders attempt to place at
least part of the responsibility upon
the democrats who, they contend, de-
layed the program of the adminis-
tration. On the other hand, Con-
gressman John N. Garner and other
democratic leaders maintain that
. the depression' is largely the result
of artificial causes—the rapid con-
centration of wealth under the re-
publican program of special privi-
. lege—and that the Hawley - Smoot
tariff bill; passed at the last session,
acted as the proverbial “last straw”
and precipitated the- depression upon
the country.
• It is probable that the remedies
A committee to investigate and
make plans for a Valley goodwill
tour to Monterrey sometime in De-
cember was appointed at the meet-
ing of Valley Chamber of Commerce
secretaries held in Harlingen Tues-
day noon.
The trip would take the place of
the recently proposed Harlingen
goodwill trip, it was said, the train
picking up Lower Valley residents
at that point and also stop at Rey-
nosa to receive the upper Valley
residents making the journey.
Members of the committee ap-
pointed were: J. F. Rodgers, presi-
dent of the Harlingen Chamber of
Commerce; S. M. Patterson, secre-
tary of the Weslaco Chamber of
Commerce, and G. C. Richardson
secretary of the Brownsville Cham-
ber of Commerce.
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Construction Started
On Mercedes Garage
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With the time shortening between
now and November 4, election day,
the two parties, democratic and
good government, have made up
their final schedules for mass meet-
ings, the meetings being so arranged
that in only one or two instances
will both parties hold a mass-meet-
ing on the same day.
According to the schedule of the
democratic gatherings released by
Judge J. F. Carl, chairman of the
county democratic executive com-
mittee, the following dates have
been chosen for democratic meet-
ings: Weslaco, Monday, October 20;
Mission, Tuesday, October 21; Mer-
cedes, Thursday, October 23; Ed-
couch, Monday, October 27; Donna,
Wednesday, October 29; and Edin-
burg, Thursday, October 30. As this
is written the speaking date for San
Juan had not yet been decided upon.
The dates for the good govern-
ment league meetings are as fol-
lows: Pharr, October 17; Mercedes,
Tuesday, October 21; Weslaco, Fri-
day, October 31, and Edinburg, Mon-
day, November 3.
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Funeral Services Held
Here Tuesday For Mrs.
Otto Schulz, Edcouch
A total of 358 cars of citrus fruit
had left the Valley up to Thursday
morning since the opening of the
season October" 1. Mercedes with
48 cars was second in total ship-
ments with San. Benito leading with
55 cars and Alamo third with 36.
On the Missouri Pacific lines 255
cars of grapefruit had left the Val-
ley, 37 cars of mixed grapefruit and
oranges and 13 cars of oranges mak-
ing a total of 305 cars. Fifty-three
cars were shipped via Southern Pa-
cific routes.
Six cars of grapefruit and four
cars of oranges left Mercedes this
week up to Thursday morning. In
addition to the fruit shipped by
railroads there is always a large
amount leaving by trucks.
Prices for grapefruit this week
were low with a very unsettled mar-
ket. These poor prices are due to
the fact that the markets are flood-
ed with grapefruit, is the opinion
of Frank Hall, with the California
Vegetable Union, selling agency for
the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Grow-
ers association, here. The contin-
ued warm weather making possible
the use of the fruit grown-in and
near the consuming centers has also
done much to lessen the demand for
citrus fruits up to the present time.
Due to this unsettled market the
local association shipped no grape-
fruit during the past week and is
making only light shipments at the
present time.
The quality of the grapefruit is
far superior to the usual early ship-
ments, Mr. Hall stated, and no com-
plaints of green fruit have been re-
ceived by the association.
Marsh seedless grapefruit was
shipped by the association for the
first time this week. However, this
variety started moving from the
Valley in general last week and
some few shipments the week be-
fore that.
A number of cars of oranges were
shipped by the association last week.
The market for oranges is strong
with the quality at this time fair.
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Local Bankers Attend
Meeting Of Valley
Association Friday
Ellery Robinson, son of Al Rob-
inson of this city, was elected cap-
tain of the University of Illinois
football team at the beginning of the
season this year. Young Robinson
plays fullback, and this is his third
year on the Illini team, and his sec-
ond year as a regular. He was
Guy E. Cage, of Dallas, forn.er-
iy a resident of Mercedes, died at
his home in Dallas Thursday, Octo-
ber 9. Funeral services were held
in Dallas Friday afternoon. Mr
Cage is survived by his wife, two
young Sns, Edwin and William Guy.
and by one brother, Eugene Cage,
of Detroit, Mich.
Mr. and Mrs. Cage lived in Mer-
-edes for a number of years. Mr
Cage is a brother-in-law of H. J.
Menton of this city.
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Large Crowd Attends
Opening Of The City
Bakery On Saturday
Houston October 25 ---------- col. 4, p. 2
Parent-Teachers’ association in local
schools is revived P- 1
High school dramatic club will pre-
sent first play Nov. 25 — col. 3, p. 3
San Benito may get $125,000 federal
Newest cruiser of navy will
The 'membership roll call of the
Hidalgo County Red Cross chapter
will begin here November 11. Rev.
J. S. Budlong of McAllen, chapter
chairman, has announced. Workers
will visit people at their homes and
places of business to extend a per-
sonal invitation to join the organiza-
tion for the coming year, he ex-
plained, and called attention to the
fact that the Red Cross roll call is
an annual event occupying the time
between Armistice day and Thanks-
giving day, emphasized by presiden-
tial proclamation and governors’
statements. Last year’s roll call
resulted in 4,130,966 members in the
United States and its insular pos-
sessions.
Because Red Cross chapters are
democratic in character, roll call is
of great public significance. Mem-
bership carries a vote in chapter af-
fairs, and signifies personal parti-
cipation in local, national and in-
ternational services. The long his-
tory of roll calls has proved beyond
question that the .opportunity of
joining the Red Cross is one of the
most highly regarded privileges.
Red Cross memberships are: an-
nual, $1; contributing, $5; sustain-
ing, $10, and supporting, $25. Only
50c of each of these goes to support
the work done in the name of all
chapters by the national organiza-
tion. The balance remains for local
service.
While retaining the general chair-
manship of the roll call, Rev. Mr.
Budlong has appointed the following
branch chairman: McAllen, Rev.
Brooks I. Dickey, D. D.; Mission,
E. E. Marburger; Edinburg, May-
or Abney; Pharr, Mayor Fleming;
San Juan, Rev. J. M. Janes; Donna,
Rev. Herbert McDermott; Weslaco,
Mayor Kirgan, and Mercedes, Mrs.
C. B. Weimer; Alamo, Mrs. C. H.
Swallow. Chairmen for Elsa, Ed-
couch and Hidalgo are yet to be ap-
pointed.
The above branch chairmen will
organize their respective communi-
ties by appointing captains and
workers for a house to house can-
vass, and for group enrollment of
clubs, societies, factories, etc., that
may wish to subscribe 100 per cent,
thereby securing the 100 per cent
poster for their own display.
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G. G. L., Demos Set
Dates For Meetings
Before The Election
TENTATIVE
A Hallowe’en dance is being plan-
ned to be given for the members
and guests of the Llano Grande
country club on the night of Octo-
ber 30.
Mrs. Wimberly McLeod of Har-
lingen, chairman of the social com-
mittee of the ladies’ organization,
has charge of the dance and has
named Mrs. Frank Hadden, Mrs.
John Phelan and Mrs. Harry Law-
son, all of Mercedes, and Mrs. R.
N. Waters of Weslaco, on an assist-
ing committee.
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The Parent-Teachers association
in the local schools was revived at
on organization meeting held in the
Junior High school auditorium Wed-
nesday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock,
under the leadership of Mrs. M. B.
Lackland of Harlingen, 5th vice-
president of the 10th district, state
P.-T. A.
Officers elected for the new or-
ganization are as follows: Mrs. Tom
Murray, president; Mrs. H. T. Stot-
ler, vice president Mrs. H. T. Tid-
more, recording secretary; and Mrs.
Gertie Smith, treasurer.
The new president announced that
an executive meeting will be called
in the near future at which time
chairmen will be appointed for the
committees in charge of the various
phases of Parent-Teachers work.
The organization will hold general
meetings of all the members on the
fourth Thursday afternoon of each
month.
Mrs. Lackland presided at the or-
ganization meeting and gave a short
talk telling of the benefits to be
derived by the parents, the teachers,
the students and the schools from
the organization of such a group
as was being formed.
Mrs. J. Witherspoon and Mrs. W.
Aycock, presidents of Parent-Teach-
ers associations in Harlingen also
gave talks on the work being done
by the various groups of this nature
in that and other Valley cities.
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Mercedes Post Office
Announces Air Mail
Schedule in Effect
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Hallowe’en Dance To
Be Given At Llano
Grande County Club
Home economic clubs of "Valley form
central organization --------- col. 5, p. 3
Sections growing only one crop worst
hurt by depression — col. 1, p. 2
Annual roll call of the Red Cross will
be started soon ----------——-D. 1
Home demonstration clubs outline
program for 1931 work — col. .6, p. 2
Dr. John Ashton speaks on “Our
Treatment of Foreigner” — col. 1, p. 3
Planting list of flowers for October
' is given -________________________- col. 1, P- 19
Harlingen team defeats Mercedes Tig-
ers in hard-fought games - col. 7, p. 3
New amendments will make for great-
er efficiency ________________________ col. 1, p. 8
Society and personals --------. pp. 6 and 7
Farmers should continue fight on the
The prospective property value
raise in Mercedes of $500,000 seems
to be slowly fading away, accord-
ing to preliminary totals, following
the completion of the work of the
equalization board. The total value
is now $4,208,062 but reductions
made by the equalization board at
the last minute will materially low-
er this figure.
“We expect the total to be $4,-
000,000, or maybe a little more,”
was the statement of L. M. Henry,
city, clerk, made Wednesday morn-
ing. “However, it is impossible at
this time to reach the correct total
until the blanket reductions on some
property has been figured out.”
The reductions referred to are in
Queen City Annex, on South Ohio
Avenue and Esplanade between 10th
and 14th streets and Ebony Heights.
A blanket reduction of 33 1-3 per
cent has been made on all land in
Queen City annex, including East
Liberty drive, while on West Lib-
erty drive all land was reduced 50
per cent. Other blanket reductions
were made on property on South
Ohio avenue and esplanade and on
Ebony Heights.
The total figure as first an-
nounced for the year, 1929 was just
in excess of $4,000,000, but later by
action of the city council redue-
tions amounting to some $13,000
was made, lowering the tax rolls to
$3,988,200.
City officials had estimated the
increase for this year to be about
$500,000, after the preliminary work
of the valuation engineers was com-
pleted. However, the equalization
board heard scores of citizens ask-
ing for reducations and materially
lowered this figure.
It was thought that the full val-
uations of the new Central Power
and Light Company ice plant would
go in on this year’s total, but as
the plant was not fully completed
at the first of the year, and not in
operation, this only added $37,000
to the total tax roll. Another of
the larger items that was reduced
was the Alford ice plant, which was
not in full operation at the begin-
ning of last year, and only figures
in for a partial rendition on the
1930 tax rolls.
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Former Resident Of
Mercedes Dies At
Home In Dallas
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Two Parties Reach Dif-
ferent Diagnosis Of
Basic Fault
points as to the cause. Both par-
ties having reached a different diag-
nosis of the cause of our national
ills, it is hardly presumable that the
party that controls the next con-
gress will fail to prescribe remedies
based upon that diagnosis.
Let Nature Take Its Course
It is very probable that if the ad-
ministration controls the next con-
gress, legislative remedies will not
be offered in any great abundance.
- The president having declared that
the depression is the result of natu-
ral causes, it is presumed he will
prefer to let nature takes its course
and trust to time to work out the
remedy. The statements of repub-
lican spokesmen indicate that they
are. firm believers in the “faith
cure/’ and that they would make
this the national doctrine. When it
first became apparent over a year
ago that the industries and busi-
. ness of the country were entering
a period of depression they called
upon the people to retain their faith
in the party leaders to solve the ec-
onomic problems." Notwithstanding
the cloud of depression has spread
and become more dense with each
. passing month they are still admon-
ishing the people to have faith; that
(See SPECULATION, page 7)
SPECULATION
Mrs. H. E. Sugg, secretary of the
local Retail Merchants Association,
and Mrs. J. L. Johnson, assistant in
the local Association office, will
leave Sunday for San Antonio where
they will attend a Retail Credit
Bureau school of instruction to be
held October 20-21. A large num-
ber of Valley secretaries are plan-
ning to attend this school. Those
accompanying Mrs. Sugg and Mrs.
Johnson are Miss Alma Moses of
Weslaco, Mrs. Mary Combes of Mc-
Allen, and Harry Eagleston of Har-
lingen.
Mrs. Sugg will go from San An-
tonio to Dallas where she will spend
about ten days visiting her sisters,
Mrs. Harry Whitaker and Mrs.
Mertie Wright. The others expect
to retun to the Valley Wednesday
of next week.
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Valley Chambers Plan
A Good Will Tour To
Monterrey In December
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