The Reporter had heard complaints for the past year from subscribers who claim they don’t get their paper. These complaints come almost entirely from our subscribers on the Rockdale city list, subscribers who have combination lock boxes.
We have been quietly investigating these complaints, and we find that they are due to an almost systematic weekly post office robbery by parties who do not subscribe to The Reporter themselves, but who go to the post office lobby on Thursday evenings, open other people’s boxes and take out their Reporter.
We realize this is a serious charge and we have refrained from making it until we were sure of our ground.
The parties who are guilty of this form of felony are no natural thieves. They would not and do not, as far as we know, take out any other form of mail except The Reporter. Nevertheless, every time one of these parties opens another man’s box and removes therefrom that subscribers copy of The Reporter, he is guilty of a felony which would put him in federal prison if the complaint were pushed. If a post office inspector should catch a man opening another man’s mailbox, an arrest would immediately follow.
The Reporter does not want to go to such lengths. But we feel that we have stood this paper theft practice as long as we are justifi ed in so doing, and if it is not stopped, we serve notice right now that somebody is going to get in trouble with Uncle Sam.
The Reporter and Postmaster Talley are tired of this practice and have decided that is must stop.
40 YEARS AGO… Rockdale Fair Park’s brand-new main pavilion—a project of the Rockdale Fair Association—was the site of a dance on Aug. 17. The dance, sponsored by the Fair Association, featured the music of The New Innovations, according to John Shoemake, RFA President.
One of the largest building projects ever for the Rockdale Parent Teacher Organization was visible on the Rockdale Elementary School campus—the product of some $1,300 in materials and more than 300 volunteered man-hours. It was a “playscape” and, according to PTO project coordinator Hilda Chesney, it would be around for 30 years for youngsters to climb up, slide down and enjoy in literally dozens of other ways.
20 YEARS AGO… Three people were airlifted to a Temple hospital after a car plowed through a brick and glass wall and into the Dairy Queen’s dining room. There were no fatalities and all of the injured were expected to recover.
10 YEARS AGO… Rockdale Municipal Development District (MDD) Executive Director Tom Manskey was planning to ask the MDD to pursue acquisition of 170 acres in the Rockdale Business Park. Manskey said he planned to ask the board to allow him to negotiate with the City of Rockdale and Rockdale Chamber of Commerce to “gain control through lease, purchase or gift” of the land, located north of Rockdale off FM 487.
(Editor’s note: This is the land that will now be host to a new 660-home subdivision as reported two weeks ago.)
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