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It is with pleasure that the Advocate announces that the Valley View Hospital was re-opened to the public today. Dr. E. A. Malsch, the lessee, is one of South Texas’ foremost physicians, and is to be congratulated upon his enterprise. While a comparatively young man, Dr. Malsch has been remarkably successful and has earned an enviable reputation. Dr. Malsch has chosen Miss Irene Sims, who was formerly connected with the institution, as superintendent, and Miss Kate Angerstein of Thomaston, and Miss Viola Brown as nurses. A Training school will be conducted in connection with the hospital with the following well know physicians as lecturers and demonstrators: Dr. R. R. Hopkins, O. S. McMullen, W. A. Rape, D. H. Braman, J. L. Smith and E. A. Malsch.
May 1, 1933
Under a new ruling received by Chairman J. J. Woodhouse of the Victoria County Unemployment Relief Committee, the committee can receive applications for service in the national forests from unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25 who are either on the committee’s relief rolls or who are numbered among dependents of persons who have registered for relief. The county’s first quota for the tree army is 41 and under a new ruling many more young men than that number will be available for enlistment. The committee began receiving applications today and had received only ten early this afternoon.
May 1, 1958
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the final leg of the Victoria Barge Canal will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. May 17 at the Union Carbide loading dock, local authorities announced Wednesday. The Kenyon Dredging Co. of New Orleans, which last week won the contract to dig the first portion of the final leg to Victoria, will be ready to proceed at the time of the ceremonies.
Victoria could add a chicken thief to its list of criminals Wednesday. He got away with 75 plump whit Leghorn Cockerels fro the FFA chicken house at Patti Welder Junior High School. Roland Beard and Tommy Potter were the owners and losers.
May 1, 1983
Mike Gregory and Roy Bush of St. Joseph High School were senior division winners in Saturday’s International Computer Problem Solving Contest held at Victoria College. Jody McCord was named first place winner in the junior division of the computer problem solving contest at Victoria College. Richard Hall, won first place in the elementary division. McCord is a student of Victoria High, and Hall is a student at Crain Intermediate School.
Use of a computer language known as BASIC will be demonstrated during the 7 p.m. Thursday meeting of the Crossroads Computer Club at the University of Houston at Victoria Library, room 101. Rusty Sinclair, a club member, will demonstrate “Searching and Sorting Techniques in BASIC,” and a slide presentation featuring the language also will be shown.
Chicago (AP) - Muddy Waters the blues singer and guitarist who brought his brand of music from the Mississippi Delta to the urban north and to worldwide popularity, died Saturday at age 68.