100 YEARS AGO…
At their annual meeting, the Fire Boys again discussed the matter of outsiders catching and riding the fire truck in going to and from fires. Such acts greatly interfere with the firemen. If you are a not a fireman, keep off the truck and keep out of the way of the firemen and apparatus at fires. If your assistance is needed, the firemen will call on you. If not called stand back, and let the fire boys, who know how, handle the fire. This means YOU.
Scarbrough and Hicks was advertising a sale on Easter finery with spring hats for $3.99 and two kinds of silk hose for 49 cents and 69 cents.
The Dixie Theater was showing “The Three Musketeers.” All for one and one for all.
40 YEARS AGO…
For the second straight year Rockdale’s Tamara Hebert would be heading to the International Science and Engineering Fair after showing the top project at the Central Texas Regional Science Fair. Miss Hebert project “A Quantitative Analysis of Cancer, It’s Causes and Cures” won seven awards over the weekend at the regional fair including the Sweepstakes Award, given to the top project in the regional fair, held at Baylor University.
Former dentist John Rinn and the late Billy Gest were elected in a landslide in the 1982 school board election.
Dennis Brooks shattered a nine-year-old school record by winning the high jump at the Killeen Ellison Relays. The Tiger senior leaped 6’8” to eclipse the RHS school mark of 6’6” set by set by David Ferrell in 1973.
20 YEARS AGO…
It was a different kind of “world wide web” at work when Spider-Man visited a delighted group of youngsters at Rockdale Elementary school. The visit, which alerted students to the dangers of all forms of child abuse, was sponsored by the Milam County Child Protective Services.
Jeff Easterwood, a junior a Rockdale High School, qualified for the International Science Fair in Louisville, KY. His project “Photometric Measuring of Monosacchrides in Solution” was the sweepstakes winner at the Central Texas Science Fair at Baylor University.
10 YEARS AGO…
A 61-year-old Austin man plummeted to his death Sunday afternoon in Lee County, during a skydiving attempt near Lexington. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Department, John Roznovsky died when he leaped from a plane as part of a jump at Texas Skydiving Center off FM 696.
One-hundred walkers gathered at the muggy Tiger Field track to raise funds and offer hope to teens who might be contemplating suicide. Pam Kaufmann, spokesperson, said the second annual Out of the Darkness Walk raised $3,489 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
The third annual Milam County Nature Festival was set for April 14 at Fair Park “rain or shine,” according to Don Travis, spokesman for the El Camino Real chapter of Texas Master Naturalists, which sponsored the event.
Karl Shiflett and Big Country, the bluegrass group which once included the late Jake Jenkins, a Rockdale native, was set to perform at the old McVoy building, Milam at Main.
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