100 YEARS AGO...
County Agent Banzhaf announced that Col. Clarence Ousley, formerly Assistant Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, would talk in Cameron to discuss the cotton market problem.
May 16, that grand old bird, the stork, visited the home of telephone manager, Mr. and Mrs. R.S. Moore, and left in their keeping, a dear little son.
Ben Loewentstein Jr. was in Dallas and witnessed the “run” on the Security National Bank. He said the Dallas merchants showed splendid “team work” in saving the institution. The “run” was due to a false rumor and all Dallas got in the breach and stopped the trouble.
The Matinee Musical Club met in regular session on May 14 with Miss Louise Hale as hostess. A program of music, song and speech was given.
FORTY YEARS AGO...
There was a “war on drugs” in Rockdale and it was sadly in need of recruits. That’s the word from Elois Alford, Milam County coordinator for the Central Texas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, who said drug abuse among Rockdale’s young people had reached “epidemic” proportions.
A 23-year-old Rockdale man was killed when struck by a train along the Missouri Pacific tracks near Pear Street.
End-of-school activities turned the Rockdale Independent School District campuses into beehives of activities with the annual awards day ceremony among them. There were also final exams, a flutophone concert, senior trip to New Braunfels, small world concert graduations and orientations planned.
Some 150 student athletes were recognized in the junior high commons at the annual RHS All-Sports Banquet, which featured speaker Donald Jay of the Texas High School Coaches Association.
TWENTY YEARS AGO...
Classic Cable was given a 30-day reprieve by Rockdale City Council after several irate citizens showed up at a public hearing before the council meeting to demand better service.
School trustees were to receive a proposal from school officials about a closed campus for freshmen in the fall. Freshmen would not be able to leave campus for lunch if the proposal became policy.
Broadway and a little bit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art came to Rockdale High School as the school hosted its annual Fine Arts Fest.
Baseball season was over for Thorndale, Cameron and Lexington, but Elgin’s baseball and softball teams just keep rolling along. Elgin baseball moved into quarterfinal play, while the softball team would play in semifinal action.
TEN YEARS AGO...
Supt. Dr. Howell Wright told school board members he had some “good news” for them. Wright said the RISD was receiving an additional $845,000 in funding for 2011-2012, money the dis trict badly needed in light of the ongoing statewide education funding crunch.
The ninth annual Relay for Life raised about $30,000 for cancer research and education at the Cameron Junior-High track. This year’s event, renamed Relay For Life of Milam County, was the first one hosted by Cameron. Previous events were held in Rockdale.
The second annual Big Blue Band Reunion was scheduled for June 11, for the Patterson Civic Center, according to ex-director Jim Perry. Perry and former directors Bill Grusendorf and Don Thoede planned to attend. The first reunion, held last August, drew about 450 people.
The Scottish-influenced Roy Kizer Golf Course was not for the faint of heart and the rolling hills took some getting used to. The Rockdale golf team certainly adjusted well, but couldn’t move up as the Tigers placed seventh at the UIL Class 3A state tournament at the par-71, 5,329-yard course.
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