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Page 8 VALLEY SUNDAY Sunday, December 24, BR 0 WNSV 1 LE Valley Traffic Problems Surveyed Here SCHOOLS AID gy State Group; Speed, Vehicles Studied SEAL SALES -----Four Men Check All Campaign Success; Travelled Roads Figures Given For Valley CARH 1 TSB 0 'SANTACLAUS OF THE RAILS SEV riding CYCLE for his annual speedy delivery i 11 A yw i fri BROWNSVILLE The Brownsville public schools followed the precedent of other years and gave the 1939 Christmas Seal Sale a bis boost by their united personal ef- forts to make citizens 100 per cent in their supoort of the health charity drive, Mrs. Harbert Davenport, head of the seal sales here, states. The principals and teachers in each school are the real heroes of the occasion who find time in this busy season to supervise the work of the children who have solicited from door to door in their residential districts, Mrs Davenport states. Whether their sales are large or small, the work makes the children community conscious and health conscious, she says. Mrs.

Hirst Active Mrs. Penrose Hirst was school chairman and intiated her campaign by making educational talks in the schools. She arranged a very Christmas Seal playlet which was presented in the junior college auditorium bv high school student5- under the direction of Mrs. J. A Lindaberry.

The play was repeated for the junior high school and also for the El Jardin school, Mrs Hirst has given a great deal of time in planning this school sale which is a complete program in itself. She reports the financial results by schools as follows: Results Listed West Brownsville. Mrs. A. Pussell, principal.

junior high. Mrs. L. Stell, principal. $24 08; grammar school.

Miss Josephine Webb, principal. first ward. Miss Skinner, principal. $19 02; the United English classes in the high srhool. under Mrs.

Kenneth Faxon. $17 50: Los Ebanos school, Mrs. Spikes, principal, $15 88; Victoria Heights. Miss Elizabeth Graham. Resaca school.

Mrs. E. Price, principal. high school library. Mrs.

S. C. Tucker. $4.35: Washington Park. Mrs.

A. S. Pute- gnat principal. $1: fourth ward. Miss Amelia Fernandez, principal.

East Brownsville. Miss Amelia Campbell, principal. $1: Media Luna. Miss Manuela Longoria, principal. $1, and colored school, Miss Mary Hughes.

00 Others The El Jardin school and the Villanueva school which are included in the Brownsville territory, have shown unusual activity also this year. Results are: El Jardin. Bruce Underwood, principal. $8.12: Villanueva, George Wentz, principal, no report yet. This is the first time that the gro public school has participated in the annual Christmas Seal Sale The school had six pupils in attendance on that day and each pupil made a ten-cent sale.

Peaceful Christmas Seen For Palestine BETHLEHEM Palestine prepared Saturday for its first peaceful Christmas in three years Last year 20.000 British soldiers kept an uneasy peace in a land torn by Arab-Jewish strife. This year the war in Europe has submerged at least temporarily Palestine's differences. Sandbags and machinegun emplacements have been removed from the little town. Parent-Teacher Unit Meet Program Set crime prevention, health and educational guidance will be discussed at a Texas congress of Parent-Teachers conference here January 9-10, officials announced Saturdav. By BRAD SMITH detailed study of the speed of traffic and the position that speeding traffic occupies on highways is now being completed on Texas' most elled roads by the Texas Highway Planning Survey and the U.

S. Bureau of Public Roads. A party of four men, representing the two highway bodies and headed by O. J. LaBell, supervisor for the Bureau of Public Roads, is completing several months of work in Texas by a careful survey of Valley highway, chiefly on U.

S. 83. the Valley's 65-miie-long Street." and U. S. 281, only paved highway leading northward from the iev.

The party will complete its work in the Valley area within the next few days. Investigates Speed During recent months, the survey has investigated traffic speed, the number of vehicles using the roads, the position occupied by each vehicle on the road and the type of vehicles using the highways. They are completing studies of traffic flow- and conditions on U. S. 83 between Brownsville and Olmito.

Harlingen and La Feria. Weslaco and Donna, and McAllen and Pharr. They wlil finish their work in Texas after a survey near Falfurrias. The survey party travels in two panel trucks, one of which is parked on each side of the highway to be surveyed. Electric recording machines, operated by a series of 20 switches concealed in heavy cables laid across the highways and connected with the trucks, make a record of the time of the survey, the speed of each vehicle, position of the vehicle on the highway.

The young engineers handling the machines mark the type of veh.cle on endless graphs which move past the recording needles from the impetus of clock mechanism. When the front wheels of a ve- Above George Combest. one of the men with the survey crew, explains the workings of the recording machines to a Star dent. The machines are counting Valley highway traffic for the survev. (Photo by Brad Smith.) LORENZO GONZALEZ SON Expert Shoe Rebuilding Visit Us Ar Our New Location 828 Elizabeth Brownsville Scout Honored Eagle Award Is Given Eddie Hatfield a small but enthusiastic audience Eddie Hutfield.

member of Boy Scout Troop No. 75, was made an eagle scout Friday night a court of honor conducted by Gordon Griffin, district chairman. The badge was presented to young Hatfield, the first eagle scout in the Kiwanis sponsored troop, by his mother. Mrs. Walter Hatfield.

Also members of troop 75 Bill Rawls and Jack Vessels were presented star scout badges by Wesley Taylor, former district chairman, and George Osborn re- spectivelv. Lutheran Youngsters To Conduct Program McALLEN Approximately 60 children are expected to participate in the program Sunday at 7:30 p. m. given by the youngster's class of the Lutheran Church at the church. In song and story the children review the first Christmas.

Christmas services will be held at. the church at 10:30 a. m. Monday, Rev. John G.

Elser, pastor, said. The sermon will be You Is Born this Day in the City of David, a Savior Which Is Christ the Lord I Young Girl Killed In Texas Car Crash LAMES Kinard. 15-vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.

J. Kinard of Union, Dawson county, was killed in an auto I crash near here Friday night. Nine others were injured. hide pass the first cable, thereby tripping at least two of the 20 switches, the clock mechanism is started. It stops a few moments later when the front wheels of the car cross the second cable, I breaking the contact.

A mathematical equation involving the time required for the front wheels Turkey Flock Gets Loose In Big City was good hunting for Christmas turkey down- town Saturday. J. T. Izard of Hockley reported to police he 53 turkeys from his poultry truck as he drove along a thoroughfare. He retraced the route when he discovered his loss but found only one turkey, victim of a hit-run driver.

CHRISTMAS VISITORS and Mrs. R. C. Wisdom of Wharton will arrive here during the week-end to be the hoi- iday guests of Mrs. Wisdom's mother.

Mrs. A. J. Ross of Edinburg, and family. to cross the two cables and the known distance between the two cables the speed of the car within one mile fast or one mile slow.

A prepared chart gives operators of the mechanism all speeds between 18 and 75 miles per hour. Speeds above 75 miles per hour show on the graph as a series of marks on its margin. Thus, the graph also show-s the number and type of all cars in each speed range between the minimum and maximum limits of the recording mechanism. Between the two timing cables across the highway is laid a third cable. When the vehicle crosses this cable, a separate recorder notes on.

a graph the exact position of the vehicle on the highway, which lane it occupies, and also if the driver is the The survey party now completing the highway study in Texas includes, in addition to Mr. LaBell. its supervisor, through young engineers of the Texas High a Department. Frank Grazier, Ray Jones and Geo. Combest.

Police Seek Driver Of Automobile McALLEN County patrolmen Saturday were searching for the driver of the automobile which struck J. D. Trotti, 11. as he was riding his bicycle along the Pharr- Hidalgo highway Friday noon and drove on without offering aid. Young Trotti, the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles P. Trotti of Hidalgo, narrowly escaping serious injury, was thrown clear of the car whose impact bent his bicycle in half. Constable Tom Bryan said. As the chid was tryng to make his way to a neighboring house he was met by Tomas Perez who carried him to a nearby home.

The physician who attended young Trotti Friday evening in McAllen said the boy was badly shocked and bruised. No information could be given by the boy concerning the car which struck him. He told Bryan he was riding west near the twin canal bridge on the highway as the car which was going east struck him. County Patrolmen Truett Jordan and George Murray were making the investigation with Bryan. A.C.J.M.

Officers Hold Installation of the A. C. J. M. were installed Saturday night at ceremonies held in the Parish Hall of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

Installed were Victorino V. Garcia, president; Mauro Perez, vice president; Manuel Fuentes, secretary and Francisco T. Luna, treas: urer. The association, the Catholic sociation of Mexican Youths, was founded in 1928 by J. M.

Davila of McAllen. At present there are groups in Mission, McAllen, Edinburg. Weslaco, Mercedes, Harlingen, San Benito and Brownsville. FORT Claus of the rails packed his sack and combed his spun-glass fireoroo. whiskers Saturday, all set to bring a touch of Christmas to scores poor folk along the right-of-way.

He will roll his big passenger Season Greetings fe 0 V. fe fe 0 fe 0 fe 0 Ol fe 0'A fe 0 V. fe 0 fe 0 V. fe 0-A fe 0 'A fe fe fe fe fe V- 0 V- 0 fe eat 0 ai With the entire nation happy in the deep joy of Christmas-cime, we wish to add our greetings to the many that are coursing through a multitude of mails, rolling from presses and spoken words best wishes for a Merry, Merry Christmas! fe fe fe tv fe fe TJ0 fe V-J0 fe V- 0 r- 0 fe fe r-a fe V- 0 fe It 0 fe End Year DRESS SALE annual event PRICES REDUCED At Cost Or Below You Had Better Hurry Hertz Style Shop Sports Poem Will Be Read Over Air SAN sports poem by J. C.

Elstner of San Benito will be read at 8:15 Sunday over the Colum- bia system sports program, according to word received here Saturday. The poem is entitled I Sportsman's The poem will be read by Ann Elstner, daughter of the writer and former San Benito resident, who has been a radio actress for a number of years, being especially known for her lead role in the Stella Dallas program. HERE FOR FUNERAL those who were in McAllen to attend funeral services of Mrs. J. D.

Head Friday morning were M. S. Blanche Hammon. Corpus Christi: Mrs. Z.

Foster, Ruth Foster, Mrs. Sid Knight and Mrs. Sid McCraw. Kingsville; Mr and Mrs. C.

E. Head. Alice: Mrs Sam S. Taylor, San Saba and Mrs. Louise Casparis.

Johnson City. train northward toward Oklahoma Sunday, the cab of his engine piled high with gifts of candy, fruit, toys. For 38 years Joe Gerard, 71, oldest active engineer on the Santa Fe Lines, has assumed the role of Santa for many families who live along the tracks between Fort Worth and Purcell, Okla. But for him. many of these folks wouldn't have a Santa Claus.

Alongside the rails for 200 he tosses gifts on the fly, to his waiting friends. All ihe packages he loads into the engine, gaily wrapped and tied, are padded so they won't be damaged when he throws them to the waiting children and grown-ups along the way. Gerard knows each family and he where each will be waiting Sunday. He leaves here at 8 a. m.

Gerard receives ters from most of these friends, some of tpil he is t'e only St. Nick their children know. Gerard buys the gifts with his own money. H. R.

Knickerbocker Slated At Mercedes R. Knickerbocker, well-known foreign correspondent. will be presented at Mercedes high school auditorium Januarv 4 at 8:15 p. under auspices of Cultural Arts. Incoroorated.

and Edinburg junior college, officials announced Saturday. Knickerbocker, who has visited in the Lower Vaalley. will discuss the warring future of the world in the first of the season's lectures, the Ringside of January 4 at Mercedes high school audi- i torium. Vi Vu ViVu ViViViViViVi 7 Dies Group Given Praise By Senator SANTA FE. N.

work of the Dies Committee investigating un-American activities the Saturday received the okeh of Rep. J. J. Dempsey (D-ND). Saying he would vote for its continuance, Dempsey, often a critic of the committee's procedure, declared the group had some mistakes that could have been but been doing a good job generally and a necessary We ould like to tell our greetings to you in person but it seems that we are not able.

So we will try to extend our best wishes for a Merry Christmas on a piece ot paper with a flock of ink. Kirkland's JEWELRY STORE Harlingen wmmwwmwm RRV The spirit of Christmas calls us to a better appreciation of old associations and the value of old friendships. May you have a Christmas replete with all the joys life can muster. CHRISTMAS Goodyear Service Stores Harlingen 50 Plaza Hotel Coffee Shop Special Sunday and Christmas Dinner Shrimp Cocktail, Orange, Tomato or Grapefruit Juict Creamed Chicken Soup with Rice Chef's Special Salad Choice Of: Roast Turkey, Oyster Dressing, Cranberry Sauce Baked Long Island Duck. Apple Jelly Fried Spring Chicken, Cream Gravy Broiled Lamb Chops On Toast, Mint Jelly Grilled Baby Veal T-Bone Steak Snowflake Potatoes Choice of: Cauliflower, June Peas or Com Hot Home Made Rolls Fruit Cake, Pumpkin Pie or Ice Cream Coffee, Tea or Milk UNDER MANAGEMENT OF BILL VESMIROVSKY AND BILL ROMINE ANNOUNCES A NEW DEALER FOR THIS CITY KELLY AUTO SALES CO.

504 ASH McALLEN OFFERING THREE OLDSMOBILES AND COMPLETE FACILITIES FOR SERVICE LDSMOBILE is pleased to announce a new dealer for this territory to specialize in the sales and service of the bigger and better Oldsmobiles for 1940. You are cordially invited to get acquainted with your new Oldsmobile dealer see and drive the beautiful new Oldsmobiles he has on display, and to inspect his facilities for service. find a well-equipped, modem service department and an efficient, courteous staff prepared to service Oldsmobiles and all other makes of cars. Factory-approved tools, factory-trained mechanics and a stock of genuine Oldsmobile parts assure the highest type of service work at reasonable rates. AMERICA'S BIGGEST find, also, that the three stunning Oldsmobile low-priced Olds Sixty, the popular-priced Olds Seventy and the medium-priced Custom 8 have the smart, modem appearance that marks them the standout cars.

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