• Originally published June 24, 2009 at midnight, updated June 24, 2009 at 1:40 p.m.

1909

June 28 - The roof of the engine room of the electric plant was quite badly damaged at noon by fire, the origin of which has not yet been fully ascertained. The employees had the blaze under control before the arrival of the fire department and, in extinguishing it, the electric light wires were tangled and the engine room flooded with water, putting the plant out of commission for the rest of the day. For this reason, The Advocate is out of power, and is gotten out today in the best shape as possible under the circumstances. Many items had to be left out, and will appear in tomorrow's issue.

July 4 - News reached here yesterday of the marriage of Prof. A.B. Cox, superintendent of the Victoria Public Schools, and Miss May Doris, which occurred at Austin Wednesday. They went to Colorado on their honeymoon, and will make their home here after Aug 1.

1934

June 29 - Yesterday's PWA allotments at Washington on non-federal projects proved fruitful to Victoria and South Texas in general. A $17,000 loan and grant was allotted this city for a city assembly hall of a one-story semi-fireproof building. The new structure will be known as the armory and will house Company E, 111th Engineers, Victoria unit of the Texas National Guard. The approximate cost of labor and material was given at $16,000, of which 30 percent is a grant and the balance a loan secured by general obligation bonds, which were voted by the city on Feb. 6. Three months employment each for 16 men is afforded by the building work.

June 30 - Victoria will soon have one of the largest cheese factories in the country. It will be established by the Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. The thanks of Victoria are due Walter E. Dickerson, director of the Industrial Development Department of the Central Power and Light Company, for this great industry. Mr. Dickerson began his efforts in 1928 to obtain this factory for Victoria, and has had the cooperation of L.M. Levinson, district manager of the company. D.E. Blackburn, vice-president and manager of the Victoria Bank and Trust Company, and the Chamber of Commerce also were of great assistance to Mr. Dickerson in his efforts. The Victoria plant will employ a minimum of 25 people and this number will be increased as the production of the plant increases.

1959

July 1 - Victoria County Judge Frank H. Crain has been appointed to succeed the late Judge Frank W. Martin, it was announced yesterday by Gov. Price Daniel. A spokesman for the governor said Crain will be eligible to take office as soon as routine confirmation is voted today by the Texas Senate. Crain said he will accept the appointment after formally resigning as county judge either this week or next week at a special meeting of Commissioners Court. No names were mentioned in regard to the new county judge who will be appointed by Commissioners Court.

July 3 - Thieves hit a bonanza in meat, shortening and margarine late Wednesday night when they broke a seal on the door of a refrigerated truck and emptied the vehicle of its contests. The truck was parked at the Missouri Pacific Lines warehouse in the 200 block of South Victoria Street. Well over 400 pounds of Armour and Co. products, valued at more than $250, were taken.

1984

June 28 - Some weeks ago when Victoria County officials first began thinking about landscaping for the new jail, county Judge Norman D. Jones was heard to comment that it might not be a bad idea to have a least one area suggestive of a desert scene. "Perhaps we could have a cactus or two, a few lava rocks, something suggestive of South Texas," he said. Now that the jail has been completed, landscaping is one of the last items yet to be completed. And, unless something is done to remedy the problem, Jones' desert scent idea might become a reality. It seems there are no outside water faucets around the entire structure. Sheriff Dalton Meyer said that the only remedy, at least for the present, is "running some long hoses" from the parking garage area under the jail to provide water for the landscaping around the building that sits on the three-quarters of a city block.

A Victoria family which fled Czechoslovakia as refugees 15 years ago is now facing deportation from the homeland they've chosen - Texas. "I don't see there is anything we could do," said a sad Marcella Trubka Wednesday afternoon in between tasks at her bank job. Without relatives in America to sponsor their appeal to stay here and become American citizens, said Mrs. Trubka, she and her husband Mike and two children have little hope left.

June 29 - Victoria businessman Hans Ellman was confident Thursday he could win the freedom to stay in America for Michael and Marcella Trubka, Czech immigrants he did not know the day before. "He's my people," offered Ellman, owner of Hans Radiator Service, 1513 E. North, as explanation for his decision to become a citizenship sponsor for the Trubkas and their two children.

July 1 - With today's issue, the Victoria Advocate is converting its advertising format from eight to six columns, joining over 90 percent of the nation's daily newspapers in changing to one ad standard.

July 2 - Austin (AP) - Willie Nelson's neighbors say it will be anything but a holiday for them when the entertainer stages his Fourth of July Picnic on Wednesday. Nelson is expecting about 30,000 "guests" for the event - a 12-hour package of entertainment on an 11-acre concert site in south Austin. "We are very much against it," said C.L. Fox, a 90-year-old chiropractor who lives next door to the concert site. Fox said he thinks it's "ridiculous" that people would fork over the price to attend the concert - $18 per adult and $9.75 per child.

July 4 - The Fourth of July may be the last taste of American freedom for Michael and Marcella Trubka, the Czech aliens in Victoria for whom U.S. immigration laws are tightly shut.

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