• Originally published July 25, 2008 at 5:04 p.m., updated July 25, 2008 at 5:04 p.m.

July 26, 1908

Report of the Progressive League Secretary , G.C. Roussel, to the League President and Board of Directors: Gentlemen – I beg you to call your attention to the following report wherein is shown the character and volume of work under taken by the League since March 15, objectively for the purpose of stimulating activity in various lines, and which, if successful, would have made for the betterment of both city and county of Victoria. Such enterprises, as it was believed your city could support have been solicited, and were any encouragement was offered, the correspondence was as followed up with a view of ultimately securing a favorable consideration. In soliciting such enterprises, the work in the main was to: concrete works, 7; canning factories, 13; glove factories, 6; cotton compresses, 5; mattress factories, 9; sewer pipes, 3; coffee roaster, 6; hardwood mills, 5; wire works, 10; potters, 10; preserving plants, 13; machine shops, 2; jumper and overalls, 9; brooms, 13; shipping cranes, 7; candy manufacturers, 3; cotton comforts. 5; brick factories, 7; plumbers, 3. (This report will be concluded in tomorrow’s Advocate).

July 26, 1933

(Advocate files for July 1933 are missing.)

July 26, 1958

A dump truck loaded with sand collided with a fire truck en route to a grass fire at 11:40 a.m. yesterday at Moody and Forrest Streets, injuring one man. “We’re lucky no one was killed,” Police Chief Elmo Anderson said after viewing the damage. The jarring impact overturned the dump truck and left tits driver, Walter Brzozowske, 17, with a laceration on his arm that took 24 stitches to close. The firemen, driver David Volkmer and Bill Rakowitx, escaped with minor bruises, x-rays showed. After the collision, Rakowitz jumped out and ran over to help the driver of the dump truck. It was only then he discovered it was Brzozowske, who also happened to be his nephew.

July 26, 1983

Washington (AP) – The Air Force announced Monday its first successful experiment using high-energy laser beams to knock out missiles traveling nearly 2,000 mph. It said a laser mounted in an airborne laboratory aboard a converted C-135 plane “successfully defeated” five sidewinder air-to-air missiles launched toward it from a A-7 fighter-bomber. Although the flying laboratory is not a prototype weapon system, the completion of this program is a major milestone in the continuing Air Force program to further our understanding of the technical feasibility of laser weapons, the announcement said.

A Victorian was explaining to Steve R. Martin, a visitor, that this really isn’t the nicest season of the year, with most people figuring that the combination of heat and humidity is a bit too much. “This is like the winter where I have been living.” Martin said, noting that he wasn’t uncomfortable at all. Martin, originally from High Wycombe, England, is currently visiting Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Massouh, 129 Berkshire. Mrs. Massouh, a former British subject, is Martin’s second cousin. Martin is on three-month leave from his job as a second secretary with the British Embassy in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman in Southeast Asia. Muscat is located on the Gulf of Oman which links the Persian Gulf with The Arabian Sea.

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