May 30, 1947
• The Rock Port Army Store is advertising U.S.N. Black oxfords made by the best-known makers for only $6.95 a pair. Boys’ blue jeans are $1.39 a pair and men’s good quality khakis shirts are $1.98 each.
• Dr. Louis F. Jaggard, who retired from his work as a missionary doctor in the Belgian Congo in 1944 after spending 36 years in that field as a representative of the Disciples of Christ, will hold a missionary rally at the Rock Port Christian Church Wednesday evening, June 4.
• An occasion of importance to members of the Langdon Lutheran Church will take place Sunday morning, June 1, when a new Hammond organ and echo organ will be dedicated.
• The concrete floor for a large addition to Taylor Bros. service station on North Main Street has been placed and the other work will proceed as quickly as possible. Lloyd Gildersleeve owns the property and the added space will be utilized for a grease and car-washing space.
May 25, 1972
• Blue Jay Corner: Why is there air? by Alan Eddy – Eric Chamberlain – “So it will hold my wings up when I flit around.” Mike Million – “We have to have something to pollute.” Mark Cox – “Well, the stars rotate around the sun which creates friction and there it is!”
• Blue Jay Corner: Mexican Exchange Student visits – “Tarkio’s foreign exchange student from Mexico, Victor Eduardo Fernandez, visited Miss Bergman’s Spanish classes May 2. He entertained each class with Mexican songs and he played the guitar very well. Victor is staying with a family in Westboro. He has had only three months study of English, but speaks it excellently. Victor is also a bullfighter.”
• “Everybody likes lobsters, but who can afford ’em? One reason lobster is so expensive is that even lobsters appreciate the taste of fresh lobster…”
• Jim Hughes, 26, of Rock Port, head lineman for the Board of Public Works, received broken bones and injuries in a fall from a utility pole May 18. Hughes had climbed the utility pole, eight poles west of the Frank Howell home, to install a cross arm for the water line circuit. He had started to shave the pole when his safety belt snapped letting him drop some 30 feet.
• Rock Port Volunteer Firemen were plagued with alarms May 16. The first was a fire back of the Gamble store at 5:30 p.m. Stan Soske was notified by someone that trash was on fire in the alley and when he went to investigate, found the back door on fire. He tried to put out the fire but something exploded, burning his face. The second alarm was a false alarm caused by a freak accident. A visitor at Pleasant View swatted at a wasp and accidently hit the automatic fire alarm. Another alarm occurred at 10:10 p.m. calling firemen to the state highway barns where a man had been burning old car bodies on his property next to the state barn and left the fires burning. They then began to threaten the buildings. At midnight, two weary firemen flushed fuel down the creek following an incident at the Co-op station when someone backed into the pump, breaking it, causing 2,000 gallons of gas to spread over the area.
May 22, 1997
• Oscar Moore made a hole-in-one on the seventh hole at the Rock Port Country Club May 19, 1997.
• An area-wide gospel music sing hosted by the Grace Victors, Inc. (recording artists) of Big Spring, Texas, will be at the Full Gospel Assembly of God in Rock Port Saturday, May 31. This sing is nondenominational in presentation and inter-denominational in participation.
