10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO…
A dear little 10-pound son made his appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Trim Hale and is so well pleased with the warm welcome and surroundings that he announced he had come to stay.
Joe Garrett, small son of T.P. Garrett, suffered a broken shoulder when he was thrown from the back of a pitching burro. They boys had been riding and were some distance from town when the accident happened. Joe was brought to town by a passerby and the fracture attended by a physician. He was getting along fine and would soon be ready to tackle another bucking bronc.
Texas school children would get $12 per capita for the ensuing school year as school money from the state. This is $1 less than last year and would mean a shorter school term for all country schools. At the same time certain school book publishers would get $2,000,000 of the state school fund for textbooks not needed. State Superintendent Marrs had been fighting for the school children of the state against special interest involved in the free text book muddle, but the Board of Education refuse to listen. The “free” text book hoax ought to be done away with.
Col. A.C. Baldwin, head of the Baldwin Printing Co. of Austin, also president of the Austin Petroleum Co., which had a refinery at Tracy, was in Rockdale looking over the situation with a view to extending the company’s interests in the new Rockdale oil field and to expand its plant at Tracy, and possibly remove it to this city.
40 YEARS AGO…
Milam and Bell County officials discovered a “football field size” marijuana greenhouse just inside the Bell County line and confiscated an estimated $1 million in high grade marijuana. Robert Michael Neighbors, 29, of Houston, was arrested in connection with the pot farm and charged with aggravated possession of marijuana. He was in Bell County Jail under $100,000 bond set by Judge Bill Black.
20 YEARS AGO…
A piece of Rockdale history— the three-story “old junior high” building— was beyond repair and had become a liability concern, a consultant told the RISD board of trustees. Eleven years of neglect following a battle between history enthusiasts and a school board that voted for demolition had left the building unstable and unsafe, Dr. Ned Walton, demographer with Walton & Associates, told the board. Walton also gave the board a more detailed look at studies conducted at all three campuses which resulted in “poor” ratings for both the elementary and high school.
10 YEARS AGO…
That “target” which had been on the back of the Rockdale ISD for two years was gone. New state accountability scores, released by the Texas Education Association, showed Rockdale met standards in all four “performance indexes” based on the State of Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (STAAR) tests. Those indexes are student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps and postsecondary readiness.
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