At a joint meeting of the American Legion, Chamber of Commerce and City Council committees, final plans were worked out for the big all-day holiday street working which Rockdale was to pull off on March 7 under the auspices of the American Legion. The committee to enlist the businessmen reported a 100 percent spirit of cooperation and all stores would be closed all day.
R.C. Allen, chairman of the tree planting committee of the Rockdale Chamber of Commerce, asked The Reporter to say to all who have spoken for free trees for planting, that as soon as the roads were in good condition he will bring the trees in from the river bottom. For the past six weeks the river bottoms were so wet as to make it impossible to get the trees out. Mr. Allen thought there was plenty of time yet for planting and would get the trees to town at the earliest possible date.
With assurance that the Tigers would have available funds to buy new baseball uniforms, the team had begun active practice and although nothing but the battery men were working out regularly, the following Monday would find all candidates out tossing and slamming the ol’ apple around.
40 YEARS AGO…
State Rep. Dan Kubiak of Rockdale was named the state’s top legislator at the Texas Classroom Teachers Association in Austin. Kubiak received the “Friend of Education Award” presented annually to the state’s outstanding leader in the field of public education from association president Betty Pyle of Odessa.
Mayor Bill Averett signed a proclamation declaring March 6-13 as Girl Scout Week in Rockdale.
20 YEARS AGO…
School trustees learned of the approaching retirement of high school Principal Ramon Puente and also hired consultants for facility and demographic studies. Puente said he had received “an offer he couldn’t refuse,” and would begin working at the newly- opened Rockdale Regional Juvenile Justice Center on July 7. He was to serve through June 30 at the high school.
Like they say, if you don’t like the weather in Texas, stick around for 10 minutes and it’ll change. Rockdale had an extreme weather week, even for Texas, starting with flooding, mellowing out with a gorgeous weekend where temperatures reached the high 70s, then ending with a full-fledged ice storm.
10 YEARS AGO…
Rockdale now had five police patrol cars with the state-ofthe- art COPsync computer system. Training was starting and, as soon as Rockdale’s officers were up to speed, they would be able to turn their patrol cars virtually into rolling versions of the dispatch office at the police station.
“It had been a long time since I was nervous at a fire, but I don’t mind telling you I got nervous at this one.” That was veteran firefighter Ward Roddam, Rockdale VFD fire chief, after a quick spreading brush fire—fueled by 50-mile-per-hour winds—roared through a wooded area north of Allday Street.
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