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VICT0RIAADV0CATE.COM HOW TO RACE YOUR BIRD AT Am VICTORIA ADVOCATE 168TH YEAR NO. 156, 32 PAGES, 2013, VICTORIA ADVOCATE PUBLISHING CO. TURKEYFEST 12 PRICE OR $2 OFF LUNCH BUFFET or PIZZA DEAL AT DOUBLE DAVE'S PIZZAWORKS DETAILS, COUPON, A2 7 TRAFFIC SAFETY iff flT AT 19 FATAL West High Wreck locations 2008-13 school (Some dots overlap) 551i6wrecks r4 Guadalupe River fi demled DETAILED HIGHWAY SOURCE: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION JESSICA PRIESTVICAD.COM ROBERT ZAVALARZAVALAVICAD.COM CAUSES From 2008 to Oct. 1 64 wrecks occurred on Loop 463 between U.S. Highway 87 and Farm-to-Market Road 1685.

Three of these wrecks were fatal. CONTRIBUTING CAUSES: Other 'Alcohol, drugs "Some wrecks had more than one contributing cause. WRECKS BY YEAR 2011 15 a 2012 2008 2010 10 10 I 2013 I 2009 9 MASON TRINCAMTRINCAVICAD.COM A tow truck worker clears out the wreckage of a two-car accident that occurred on 1400 Zac Lentz Parkway and Main Street. Victoria resident Jonathon Stithem 21, was killed on Sept. 16.

A woman and two children were injured. Some residents call for safety measures on portion of Loop 463 As of Oct. 1 Source: Texas Department of Transportation JESSICA PRIESTJPRIESTVICAD.COM ROBERT ZAVALARZAVALAVICAD.COM She thinks the bridge should be widened to two lanes on each side. Last week, the Texas Department of Transportation installed traffic buttons and raised pavement markers in that area for $10,300. The prevented if he'd had more wiggle room to avoid the tarp while traveling on the Guadalupe river bridge on Loop 463.

But Stithem moved his black Mazda to the right to avoid the tarp and hit the bridge's rail. The impact sent him careering into oncoming traffic, injuring three other people, said Trooper Gerald Bryant of the Depart ment of Public Safety. The night of Sept. 16 should have been like any other, said Stithem's sister, Kristi. "He had friends in Goliad that he would go visit weekly.

He hung out with them, had dinner and was coming back into town," she said. "It makes me not very happy that is was something as simple as a tarp." A 9-by-12-foot blue tarp blowing across a one-lane highway on a humid September night led to the death of one Victoria man. The family of Jonathon Stithem, the 21-year-old who died in a head-on collision, believes his death could have been SEE LOOP 463, A4 PRESERVATION McCabe Building nearing destruction EDUCATION German students savor taste of American life Exchange program thanks host families for expanding their numbers Moratorium that marks historical nature to expire J.H. MCCABE BUILDING Constructed in 1908 Entered the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 Had an apartment upstairs and a store downstairs ONLINE When he was old enough, Joseph Wearden's parents gave him $10 and a suitcase before sending him off to make something of his life. The year was 1917, and the Columbus native soon found himself at the front door of the McCabe Building, a vast structure in the then northernmost part of Victoria, where he signed a lease for $360 a year and became a grocer.

"You had to make your BY CAROLINA ASTRAIN CASTRAINVICAD.COM The size and number of trucks in Texas left an impression on Leon Hering, a student from the town of Westerburg, Germany. Leon, 15, was one of 14 German high school sophomores hosted by Victoria families while they attended Victoria high schools for about two weeks. "They (the trucks) are bigger than the ones that we have in Germany," See students talk about their favorite Texas memories at VictoriaAdvocate.com. Leon said. "I felt, 'Oh my God, what is It was pretty impressive." During the visit, the students went on several field own way back then," his grandson said.

"Once they settled, they would send the suitcase back for the next child to use." The North Wheeler Street store that helped Wearden declare his emancipation almost 100 years ago now sits abandoned, wasted and awaiting its soon-to-be SEE MCCABE, A6 SARAH GANZHORNSGANZHORNVICAD.COM A 105-year-old building, formerly a grocery store, on Wheeler Street in Victoria is scheduled to be demolished to make way for the expansion of Wholesale Tire Co. Because the building is considered historic, there was a 60-day moratorium on the demolition. The moratorium ends Saturday. SEE STUDENTS, A4 i lim Share your cancer stories In Friday's Advocate Ah, the magnolia. What tree is more quintessentially ei $3.08 mm who sur- sp that kills 1 that kills Most of us know at least one; some Five Point Shop of us, unfortunately, know more.

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