March 26, 1943
When a convoy of eighteen huge army trucks and the accompanying group of some forty soldiers stopped overnight in Rock Port last Friday, one thing which caught everyone’s eye was the size of the tires on the ten wheels on each truck. It was a formidable array of equipage which was parked in the Hotel Opp block and on down Main Street. The huge tires (ten on each truck and two spares) caught the speculative fever of those who looked at them, with the result that a local tire dealer figured the approximate value of the rubber, according to civilian standards, at no less than $42,200. One of the men in the group stated that there was enough rubber in each of the truck tires to make six average sized automobile tires.
March 28, 1968
Mike Minter, Rock Port, was appointed by Gov. Warren E. Hearnes to fill the office of county coroner, vacated by Dr. John Wanamaker when he resigned in April of 1967 to become mayor of Rock Port. Minter, a 1960 graduate of Rock Port High School, attended Maryville college for 1 1/2 years and Tarkio college for 1 1/2 years. He received his diploma as a mortician from Dallas Institute, Gupton Jones College of Mortuary Science, Dallas, Texas, February 26, 1965.
March 25, 1993
John Pearce’s Ag. students got a lesson in Floriculture last Friday. Lyndia Schomburg utilized the new greenhouse facility at Northwest Missouri Industries and passed on her years of plant knowledge to the FFA Floriculture team. The girls on the team are: Mandy Oswald, Anna McKenney, Jill Block and Rhonda Lotter.
Mrs. Terri Gray, city council member, visited Mrs. Pam Johnson’s third grade class on Thursday, March 4, to make a presentation on the ins and outs of city government. In preparation for this presentation, the third grade class studied a unit on community government during Social Studies. When asked about the presentation, several students recalled Mrs. Gray’s discussions on how people are hired and fired, various city ordinances and traffic violations.