100 YEARS AGO....
The Rockdale City Council appointed Ofc. Tom Robertson to crack down on violations of traffic regulations including driving and turning offenses, illegal parking and use of “cutouts.”
L. W. “Uncle Lush” Miller of Pleasant Hill, who was approaching 90, told The Reporter he had only been ill twice in his life and that he planned on living to be 140. His secret? “No medicine.”
The president of Rosebud First National Bank was stabbed and his wife shot. Both were reported in serious condition. An arrest was made and a motive of “controversy over the institution’s financial affairs” was theorized.
Pearl Fletcher, valedictorian of the Rockdale High School graduating class of 1920, was to speak on “Re-Educating Disabled Soldiers.”
FORTY YEARS AGO....
Rockdale High School’s Big Blue Band was home after a five-day trip to Mexico City, during which the band performed at a music festival and marched before a holiday crowd estimate of 1.5-million in gargantuan Chapultepec Park.
Four persons were killed and two injured in a three-vehicle crash on Texas 36 south of Milano.
Rockdale City Council members approved a plan to pave Old Bushdale Road, the only street serving the new junior-high, and the Rockdale ISD immediately pledged to pay half the $113,365 cost.
Petitions were being circulated at four Rockdale businesses seeking a “slowdown” of gravel trucks coming through town on US 79.
TWENTY YEARS AGO....
Rockdale City Councilman Ray McClain said he supported formation of a groundwater district that linked Milam and Burleson Counties but that he would not support one linking Milam and Lee.
A “carjacked” vehicle, taken from Milam County, was found in Bell County five days after an assailant took it from a North Milam home, tied up the female owner and locked her three-yearold son in a bathroom Police were looking for
Police were looking for a self-styled “psychic” who flew the coop after the received complaints she had fleeced two out-of-town residents—one for $2,000— by offering her services through the mail.
A contractor was to receive a bill from the City of Rockdale after a crew drilled into the city’s largest water transmission line, near the junior-high, causing the loss of about 100,000 gallons and shutting off water service to much of the city’s west side.
TEN YEARS AGO....
Civil trials in Milam County don’t get any bigger. Alcoa vs. Luminant got underway in the 20th District Courtroom and attorneys went right to work calling out their opponents. Alcoa, which had shut down its Rockdale smelter, was seeking $500 million in damages for what it felt was a contract infringement by its power supplier.
Rockdale ISD School Trustees elected Lee Jenkins to replace James Birkhead as board president. Birkhead did not seek re-election after 15 years on the board.
Chad Jones, the first principal at the “new” Rockdale High School, announced he was leaving to accept a superintendent position with the West Hardin County CISD near Beaumont.
LeRaven Clark, RHS discus specialist, finished third in the UIL state meet in Austin with a career best throw of 164-3.
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