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The Victoria College. Full-time salaried position with benefits available...
DISTRICT "Champions for Community Wellness" has the following positions...
The Advocate’s account of the Firemen’s Day celebration with additional illustrations - Main Street, parade, three views of the launching of the dredgeboat, etc. - will be issued in pamphlet form next week. These booklets will do much to advertise this city and section, and will be very valuable in later years. They will be sold at 5 cents a copy, and all orders must be received by Thursday noon. The large edition of the Advocate was completely exhausted before many of our subscribers who desired extra copies could be supplied and for their accommodations we are going to issue this pamphlet.
A race for one mile championship of Victoria took place at the Sakting Rink last night, and was won by Francis (Sonny) Sneigr by two laps. Robert Birmingham came second, and Tom King third. Sneigr was awarded with a beautiful gold medal bearing the inscription: “Champion Racer on Skates of Victoria, Texas.”
May 9, 1933
President Roosevelt has great courage. Last night he resisted the temptation to boast of his achievements and to make big promises for the future. As for the remarkable record of the last two months, he simply recounted the facts and let them speak for themselves.
May 9, 1958
A Youth Council was organized Monday to fight juvenile delinquency in Victoria County. Sixty persons turned up at CPL Auditorium for an organizational meeting conducted by County Judge Frank H. Crain. Crain appointed a committee to meet in his office at 10 a.m. Friday and work out a proposed constitution for the Youth Council. Those appointed to the committee were the Rev. W. E. Howard, Alton L. Taylor, Oscar Phillips, G. G. Simmons, Mrs. C. U. Buckford, Mrs. John Stiles, Jim Larsen, and Rev. Ignatius Estes and Mrs. Ray Riggs.
May 9, 1983
Healthy quadruplet, three girls and a boy, were born shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday at DeTar Hospital to give Victoria its first quads ever, and the first in Texas in five years. Parents of the babies are Mr. and Mrs Kenneth Martin of Victoria. Doctors said babies and mother were doing fine Sunday afternoon at a impromptu news conference. The father, doctors and hospital personnel permitted a peek at the new babies. Triplets had been expected, the physicians said, Mrs. Martin had been in virtual daily contact with doctors who feared the infants would be born too early to survive. The babies were delivered by Caesarian section, but Mrs. Martin was already in labor when admitted to the hospital about 6 a.m. Sunday, said Dr. C. Richard Mabray, obstetrician.
Airman Wayne S. Nielsen, son of Scott Nielsen of Beeville has graduated from the U.S. Airforce munitions maintenance course at Lowry AFB, Colo. Nielson will now be at Ramstein Air Base, West Germany, with the 86th Equipment Maintenance Squadron.
Angela Tshirhart, a senior at Victoria High School was honored with a barbecue recently at the hoe of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Tschirhart. There were 43 guests.
Meyersville - Mr s. Viola Metting of Stratton recently visited Mrs. Mariechen Adickes.
“An Evening With the Night Owls,” a combination party and benefit for the Texas Zoo will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the zoo.