The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1968 Page: 1 of 15
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ROCKDALE. TEXAS 76567 THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1968
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NO. 34
Rambling.
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Craiy. Manl
|F television has done nothing
else in recent weeks, it has
demonstrated to the United
State public that our system
for electing a president is no-
thing more than a three-nqg
Two of them, in fact The
Republicans had one. Next _
week the Democrats are going |
to throw a thiee-ringer that
will lay the Republican effort
in the shade'.
The Republicans told us how
bad things arc and how wrong
the country is being handled.
Next week all that hog-wash
will be slicked up with Demo
o’il and if you believe what
you hear and see at the conven-
tion you’ll be convinced the
country has never had it so
good. Hot slop!
Most- people got such an I
over-dose during the RepUbli- 1
can fiasco they gave up and
went back to reading, strciig
something interesting like The
Rise and Fall of the Roman
re-!
i.
Remember what Barnum f
once Mid? Is there really a
-suckcr.botn every'minute’* Do
people really enjoy being lllm-
flammed? Is the p bile as gul-
lible as the people managing
political campaigns believe they
arc? It's a sad commentary,
but we well may be.
There’s one ray of hope and
it’s a pretty good glimmer. It
just may be that all this over-
exposure of the Republican
and Democratic circuses wii.
sicken the voters to the point
of demanding a change. .
Finally Did II . . .
^yELL, they finally did it.
The Public Health Service
now estimates that there are
19 million cx-smokers. Since
1964 the number of adults who
smoke cigarettes has been de-
creasing at a rate of one mil-
lion people per year.
The March 26 issue of The
Wall Street Journal stated that
the rhajor cigarette manufac-
turers had reported a decline
in production fbr the last quar-
ter of 1967 and the early part
of 1966.
208 Entries Set
For Youth Rodeo
SEASON'S TICKETS
Grid Ducats Ready
★
Season’s tickets to Tiger home football games went on
sale Tuesday in the high school offices.
Tickets are priced at $1.50 for reserved seats, and, be-
cause of a District' 13AAA ruling, there will be no reduc5
tions for seasons tickets. The season’s tickets package is
welling foe $7.60.
General admission will be $1.25. Student tickets, to be
sold only at the school during the week and not at the gates,
will be 90 cents each.
The five home games are against Brenham on Septem-
ber 13, Cameron on September 20, Lampasas on October 11,
Del Valle on October 25, and Copperas Cove on November 8.
Area Schools
Opening Dates
Performances
Tonight, Friday.
Saturday, 7:30
A total of 208 young per-
formers from 38 cities-and
towns in Texas are enter-
ed in the third annual
Kockdale Yodth Rodeo
which will open a three-
night run tonight at Fair
Park.
A colorful Grand Entry
will start each performance
at 7:30 p. m. The rodeo, spon-
sored by the Rockdale Roping
Cutting Club, is fast growing
into one of the finest youth
rodeos in Central Texas.
• Admission will be ore dollar
for adults and 50 cents for
|. school students, according to
Mrs. Lelan t Garrison secretary
of the sponsoring club.
“This year’s rodeo promises
Superintendents Jim Moor-
man in Rockdale, A. P. Klein-
schmidt at Lexington and R. L.
Porter at Milano have an-
Here is another bird's eye view of Rockdale, as
photographed by Elmer LoQuire durirrg a recent
airplane excursion over the town. These photos
make for interesting study, and this one was.taken
lust east of the business district, looking west above
US Highway 79. To help you get your bearings, a few
locations are numbered: No. 1 is Miller Chevrolet-
ANOTHER BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF ROCKDALE
Buick, Inc.; No. 2 is the shopping center; No. 3 is the
Reel Drive-In Theater; No. 4 is Rockdale High
School; and No. 5 is the Rockdale Elementary and
Junior-High complex. LeQuire has taken a senes
of these aerial photos which The Reporter will pub-
lish from time to time. This is the Second in the
series.
-f-
1 could have told the
cigarette manufacturers a long
time ago they were on the
wrong track. First came all the
clamor about smoking and
lung cancer and heart trouble
and for all I know flat feet
and degenerative thinking. So
wbat did the cigarette manu-
facturers do? They started
making the cigarettes longer.
How stupid can you get?
They also stopped advertis-
ing in weekly newspapers. No
wonder sales are dropping off!
BIBLE VERSE
“Jesus answered and said
unto him. Verily, verily, 1 say
unto thee, F.xcept a man be
born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.”—John 3:3
Drivers License
Office to Open
Every Tuesday
Effective September i, the
state dlivers license office will
be open in Rockdale every
Tuesday rather than the first,
third and fifth Thursdays, the
Department of Public Safety
has announced.
Office hours will be 0 a m.
until 5 p. m. each Tuesday,
with written tests to be given
at 9 a. m and 1 p. m.
The drivers license office is
located at the American Legion
Hall. Drivers License Patrol-
men James Wolbrueck and
Charles Clark arc in charge of
the local office.
PARENTS ARE REMINDED
Applicant Deadline Near
■ -------——— ■ .....
For Alcoa Scholarships
Bloodmobile to Visit
Rockdale on Friday
Members of the. Rockdale
ChrisUan Assoc In U on arc
woihing to aid, donor recruit-
ment for the Rfed Cross Blood-
mobile's visit hare Friday at
Mcadowbrook Baptist Church.
Final Event for
Summer Reading
Program Planned -------
A final story hour for pre-
m-I indent and the awarding of
< crhftaatra to members of IHr
Children's Reading Chib will
be held next Thursday. Aug-
ust n. at the Lucy Hill Patter-
son Memorial Lltmar> ,
"nie alor v hr* r for pr»-
s< hooters will start n It a. m
and the reading Hub members
will get their certificate* at II
a. m.
Rftn-hmowU will be arvadi
to all loUowmg the presenta- ]
lion of certificate*. library of
The. BloodmobUc will con-
duct its blood drawing between
12-noon and 6 P- m. In the edu-
cational building which is lo-
cated just east of the Mcadow-
brook sanctuary. Quota for the
drawing will be 71 pints.
The Christian Association,
composed of lay leudert and
ministers, have adopted donor
recruiting fbr the Bloodmobile
as a project and will be woric-
ing through the varioua church
congregations in an attempt t6
attract donors. Rockdale has
been far behind in Us donations
during recent visits of the
Bloodmobile, they explained.
Members or Dm- Oilman
Association, during a meeting
Sunday, discussed several other
gmasIbW pro Juris including
helping to develop a central
theme ft* the Otamber of
Commerce Christmas parade
held annually in early Decern-
Some 30 applications for two
$3,000 Alcoa Foundation
scholarships to be awarded'
next spring have already been
received , at Alcoa’s Rockdale-
Works and many more arc an-
ticipated.
Parents of senior high, school
Students who "will be graduat-
ing next spring and who arc
eligible for the scholarships
should request applications
from their plant supervisor*
as soon as possible, Alcoa of-
ficials have anno need.
Because of a change in the
testing date, all applications
must be filled nut and deliver-
ed to the student's’ school prin-
cipal before September 6.
The principal will then com-
plete foims provided for him
and send them with the appli-
cation tp H D Maxwell of
Rockdale, Milam County fttup-
erinlcr de«t of Schools andi
chairman of the Alcoa Scholar-
ship Selection Board.
Children of employees of
Alcoa's 'Rockdale Works are
eligible to nppiy if the parent
has continuous Alcoa service
sin re January 1, 1964. Tnc
student milst 'be either in the
upper half of his cr her class
and have a C-average or better
at the time of the application;
' In requesting the applica-
tion form, employees should
give the supervisor the full
Milano School
Federal Funds
Total $26,797
A Trtent grnnv in thtf
amount of $26,797, represent-
ing the program for the cur-
TrnA school year, has been ap-
proved for Us1 Milano public
at bools. Suit. R L. Porter an-
nounced this week
The $29,797 is divided as- fol-
low*. he Mid: Tide 1. $:’4,984.
TUI* 2, $*$•: testing program.
Till* S $126 vocational agrt-
cm It urs $1,830
Porter. «rtw. said the ap-
proval wa- granted July IS.
name of the student, the home
address and name of the high
school.
The program of four-year
college scholarships for high
school graduates who are sons
or daughters of Alcoa em-
ployees, was established by the
Alcoa F mndatii n In s, j>t» m-
ber, 1953 Since lit"* time the
-number of scholarships grant-
Sec SCHOLARSHIPS, page 2a
this step, and noted the need
of personal committment on
the part cf each church mem-
ber in further endeavors.
“The church is peoptcr** 7nr
said, ‘‘and today the church
must be in the business cf be-
ing peacemakers in the world.
This has f5 begin in the hearts
and minds of individuals.”
He said the role cf the
church today is not to conJ
tribute to strife and violence
but tp, work to ease the ten-
sion* that exist. This work,
he said, is needed at local,
national and international
levels.
Following the mortgage
burning ceremony and dedica-
tion- of the congregation, a re-
ception was held in the church
fellowship hall.
Ground - breaking on the
church was held May }8, 1956
and tire building, which covers
14.418 square feet of floor
space, was dedicated in Janu-
ary of 1959.
Wallace B'rooks was the gen-
eral contractor and members,
at the church contributed
*ntlch of the labor during the
'construction. George Lump-
kins was chairman of the
building committee and other
committee members were Bill
Dessens, Johnny Ralston, Rev.
Brewton, H 0. Maxwell, Tru-
man Haupt, Henry Tyler, Bill
Summers, A1 Goehlcr, Ellis.
Freeman and Claude Robinson.
nounced the student registra-
tion and school opening sche-
dules at their icspective schools i
as follows:
ROCKDALE
August 28-29-30: Faculty
meetings.
September 3: Start of classes.
School buses will begin their
schedules on this day, and •
Tunch room operation w7Tl start j
at .the elementary school and
at RHS
Registration of students is
about complete. However, all
students who will be enrolling
in the Rockdale public schools
for the first time should regis-
ter with elementaty principal
Eldon Ball, junior-high prin-
cipal Ernie Laurence, or RHS
principal Tom Underwood at
their offices,
LEXINGTON
August 2$: Faculty meetings.]
August 30: Registration of
all students, from kindegarte’n
through grade 12, between the
Note Burning
Services Held
At Church Here
About 160 persons attended
note-burning ceremonies a3
First Christian Church here
Sunday afternoon. Tnc church,
dedicated in January of 1959,
paid off its mortage in July.
Rev. Roy Brewton of Corpu 1
^Christi, pastor here during the
church L-ildiug program, was
ti>*: mi** ne
said a church building pro-
gram is only one. step in
C'.unman work ar. j accom-
p’ishment, congratulated the
-IllCdnbl’t ship-Q.h--CSJffifiteliQg. hour? .of & a. m anrl 1 1 n pi [
iK,. .... - 1 • -j j School buses will run for the i
registration period.
September '3: First day of
Classes. Lunch room operation
+and buses will begin norma;,
schedules that day.
• Lexington's complete school
calendar appears this week on
the Lexington page.i
MILANO
August 27: Registration of
high; school students only. Mi-
lano students of grades one
through eight' will register on
the first day of classes. High
school registration will last
only two hours, 9-11 a. m.
August 29: First day of
classes. School buses and lunch-
room operation start this day.
to be the biggest and best in
the brief history of the Rock-
dale event,” she explained. The
208 entries compares to 178
recorded last year.
The young riding and roping
experts will be competing for
a long line of tre pt i s ?nd
especially for four saddles to
be awarded to the top winrera.
These eaddies will be award-
ed to the high-point Tboy and
girl in two age divipiona; IS
through 18 yeais and 12 and
under.
Sponsoring the saddle awards
are the Roping Club, two sad-
dles, and the Chamber of Com-
merce and Central Texas Trail
Riders, one saddle each.
Trophies will be awarded to
the top three places in each of
15 event*. The trophies are
being sponsored by the fol-
lowing organizations, businesses
and individuals: -
Bryan Production Credit As-
sociation, .vicVoy Grocery &
Feed, OAR Feed Company,
Denzel Owens, Curtis- Foster,
Preston Perry, A-l Cafe, Yoa-
kum Gfoccry, Rockdale Sts^e
Bank, Phillips & Luckey Com-
pany, Montgomery Ward Cata-
log Agency, Sears Catalog
Store. Piggly Wiggly, Lexing-
ton State Bank and Singer’s
Grill
Events in the rodeo will be:
calf riding, age 9-and-under;
breakaway roping, 12 - and -
under and 13-18; girls barrel
race, 12-under and 13-18; boys
and girls stake race, 12-under
and 13-18; girls goat tteing, 12-
under and 13-18; steer riding
10-12; ribbon roping, 12-under
and 13-18; bull riding, 13-15
and 16-18; tiedown roping, 13-
18.
LL Planning Meet
Set Friday at 7:30
A meeting of Rockdale Lit-. gue operation, Alford explain-
tle League officials, parents and
other persons interested in theP ' 1
. *" , .... , Officers for the coming year
League has been scheduled for Wllj, Alford succeeding Rodney
7:30 p. m. Friday at the City I Spince who served two terms
Hall fire station, Bill Alford, | at the helm of the Little Lea-
president, has announced.
Plans for the acquisition of
property' lo locate a complex
of new playing fields will be
discussed, as well as many
Other topic* pertaining to lea-
y
i
V <9
gue program.
J. C. Morgan was re-elected
vice-president and Graham
Young Jr. has succeeded Doyle
Cryer as secretary-treasurer.
Eldon Ball will remain player
agent, and player representa-
tives will be Claude Spence for
the Major League, Louie Edel-
mun lor the Minor League and
a Cub League representative
will be named shortly
The League has held a nura-
’ber of fund-raising activities
this year in hopes of raising
See LITTLE LEAGUE, page 2a
NCVTE-BUHN1NG -Ftmt Christian Church officials
and visitors who took part in the note-burning cere-
monies hold Sunday at the church are <L-R) Rev.
Clyde Nichols, pastorof First Christian Church.
Temple, 1 iMitet wt*ad. «4iait mm -4 U~
chinch board; Henry Tyler who spoke on church
4u4ucy« Haha Bskar, ehairnma ot olUars, Eatal
Johnston, president of the Rockdale Christian As-
sociation; Rev. Allison Joyce, pastor. George Lump-
kins, building, committee cnairman during the
building program; H. D. Maxwell, board chairman
flqd &CV. Roy Rrowtiin p««tm during th» ’
program. Rev. Roy Holt, associate director of the
Texas Ajs'a.
Don Williams
Going to Bryan
With Lone Star
Don Williams, Lone Star
Gas Company manager In
Rnrkdale sine* 1952, will
transfer lu Lr>an September
1.
William* will join a nvw$r*
created Special Services Di-
vision with U>G at Bryan,
tiaining personnel in company
Mir vie* work.
He ta a former ltotary Club
president l.ere. and served aa
.Chamber of Ctanmerre mem-
bership and finance chairmen.
William •. wife Lillian, and
son* Hick, 17, and Sid. 1$. will
mov* to Bryan n*at week.
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Cooke, J. W. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1968, newspaper, August 22, 1968; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth864172/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.