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The annual celebration of the Victoria Fire Department, combined with the launching of the dredge and snag boat built for the improvement of the Guadalupe River, attracted thousands of people to this city yesterday, a host out of all proportions, in numbers of what had been expected. The day dawned bright and clear, and a fresh, northerly breeze served to keep the air cool and pleasant. At an early hour Victoria was astir, and long before visitors from abroad began to arrive, the streets were alive with people busily engaged in perfecting final preparations. never before had Victoria been so lavishly decorated. Flowers for which this beautiful place is noted, evergreens and national emblems were visible everywhere, and the city presented a grand appearance.
May 7, 1933
In observance of National Music Week, Mrs. Roberta C. Stevens presented her pupils in Pianoforte Recital on Friday evening in her studio on East Commercial Street. In the technique of such musicians as Mrs. Clarence Goldman, Mrs. Grover Roemer, Mrs. W. S. Higgins, Mrs. James Warden, Miss Eleanor Frances Hensley, George Lowery and Clarence Felger, the superior teaching of Mrs. Stevens is exemplified and should be an inspiration to those younger musicians who today are having the wonderful advantage of her superior knowledge and through training, which unfailingly develop in her pupils a sureness and virtuosity of touch and a sympathetic interpretation of the works of master composers.
May 7, 1958
Dr. James E. Bauer was installed as president, succeeding James R. Leis of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc., Victoria chapter, during a ladies night dinner meeting Tuesday. Also installed were Blair Walker, vice-president in charge of programming; O W. Whatley, vice-president in card of membership; Freeman Morrison, secretary and Walter Morrison, treasurer.
May 7, 1983
Adverse economic conditions are taking their toll on families of out-of-work Victorians, according to the Gulf Bend Center Journal. The publication by the regional mental health center states that new client admissions from March and April are up 38 percent from the average for the six-months period ending Feb. 28. New client totals for the two months will be up about 10 percent from the same period a year ago.
A Victoria student Michael Taylor Shelby, has been named winner of the Hildehrand competition at the University of Texas School of Law during the spring term. Shelby, son of Dr. and Mrs. David M. Shelby of Victoria, is a second year law student. Honored for his academic achievements, he also has been chosen to serve as chairman of the board of advocates at the school next year.
Wharton - Jennifer “Sissy” Billups, 19, of Edna recently became the first black to be elected “ Miss WCJC Queen of 1983” at Wharton County Junior College. A 1982 graduate of Ross Sterling High School in Houston, Miss Billups is a WCJC business and communications major. She is the daughter of Ms. Doris Billips of Edna and is a member of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Edna.