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  • Originally published June 30, 2008 at 2:19 p.m., updated June 30, 2008 at 2:19 p.m.

July 1, 1908

Austin: Judge Claude Pollard, office assistant attorney general, today filed in the Third Court of Civil Appeals, preparatory to transmission and filing in the Supreme Court, a application for writ of error in the case of the Railroad Commission vs. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company. This is the case wherein the courts sustained the railroads in their pleading against the order of the commission ordering a second train each way daily to put on the Victoria division of the Southern Pacific between San Antonio and Houston.

July 1, 1933

Advocate files for July, 1933 are missing.

July 1, 1958

Taking along its familiar “‘Prosperity” sign, which is now just around the corner from the fourth-floor elevator landing, the Chamber of Commerce opened for business yesterday in its new temporary quarters in the Victoria National Bank building. ousted from its old location on the mezzanine owing to the bank’s expansion project, the chamber staff will occupy Room 415 until Sept. 1, at which time it will move to its new permanent offices on the ground floor of the South Texas Savings Assn. building now under construction at Navarro and Rio Grande.

The city board of equalization will hold public hearings July 15-16, it was announced yesterday by Tom L. Davis, city tax officer. The board will meet in the council chamber at city hall from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2 to 5 p.m. each. Members of the board, which functions to make adjustments where justified in property valuations, are Ed Brinkman, Ardie Harrison and C.M. Ferguson.

July 1, 1983

Houston – Tiny month-old Melissa Michelle Maurer, a premature infant whose fight for ife has attracted widespread attention, was listed in critical condition Thursday at Houston’s Hermann Hospital intensive care nursery. The child’s condition has continued to decline since Tuesday, when she was listed in “ serious but stable” condition follow a brain hemorrhage.

School board members Thursday directed Superintendent Roger Gee to begin looking at alternatives to promoting Victoria Independent School District students toto the next grade when they have not mastered required skills. But no changes will be made in the promotion policy for the upcoming school year. Trustee Dave Hill, embarking on a campaign to raise standards in the VISD, received unanimous support from other board members for a motion at Thursday’s meeting stating the board was not in favor of social promotion.

American Field Service student Bobby Johnston, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Johnston of Victoria, is spending the summer in Colombia. While in Colombia Johnston will live with the Hernando Villeges family in Perceira, a city located in the Andes mountains. Johnson will return to Victoria in August.

Thomas Ashley, 20 from Edna, has become the second person to be arrested on misdemeanor theft charges from Central Power and Light Co., by placing a “jumper” in a meter box. Ashley posted a $500 bond Wednesday at the sheriff’s office where he had been taken into custody by Detective Jack Mullins.


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