May 11, 1950
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Bandits Of Eldorado” with Charles Starrett, “Cover Up” starring W. Bendix and D. O’Keefe, and “Bride For Sale” with Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, and George Brent.
• “Mother’s Day Gifts That Mean More” at Simon Gift Shop in Rock Port: Fiesta ware, mirrors, Libby water sets, Farber and Revere stainless steel pans, Cambridge crystalware, Bibles and bookends, Haeger, Roseville, and Red Wing pottery, and a varied assortment of other items.
• Beatrice Straight, graduating member of the Rock Port High School Class of 1950, was crowned as this year’s Apple Blossom Festival Queen in St. Joseph, Missouri.
• Atchison County joined much of the Midwest in reporting inumerable damages by last Friday’s high wind, which tore off roofs, destroyed small buildings, knocked down trees, and put transmission lines out of commission.
May 8, 1975
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre: Roger Moore as James Bond 007 in “The Man With The Golden Gun,” Clint Eastwood in “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,” and “Moonrunners.”
• Atchison County has four girls who completed a one or two-year secretarial program at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. One-year certificates were issued to Emily Walter of Rock Port and Sheree Meier of Westboro. Two-year certificates were issued to Diana Shineflew of Rock Port and Donna Hanrath of Tarkio.
• Cox’s Conglomerations: “Now that phone calls are 20 cents, at least when someone doesn’t answer, you feel like you are getting more back.
• On May 5 at approximately 1:15 p.m., there was considerable damage done to a trench digger and the trailer that transported it, plus 600 feet of 4-inch plastic pipe belonging to Don Lininger (Rock Port Plumbing) in a fire caused by an unattended trash burner behind the Missouri University Extension Office.
May 4, 2000
• The high school peer counselors, students from the speech II and composition classes, Mrs. Gaines, and Mrs. Kemerling traveled to the Cameron Department of Corrections Facility April 28. The trip gave students the chance to learn about prison from the experiences that four of the inmates have gone through.
• Rock Port Country Club Clubhouse Manager Ann Schoonover and Rock Port Telephone Company Director Stanley Griffin raised a new American flag Griffin donated to the golf course. The flag was obtained when he attended the National Telephone Cooperative Association’s legislative conference in Washington, D.C.
• Chats: The contractors on the city’s streets made plans to not cut the entrance to the Rock Port Golf and Country Club, but no one mentioned it to St. Joseph Light and Power. They had it totally cut off rerouting gas lines (it was reopened as of Tuesday). The city found a water main that they didn’t know existed, so all in all, it was a Monday! The old Jays Nest has been converted into a laundromat by owner Eric Nelson of Maryville.
• On April 29, the United Methodist Church in Rock Port sponsored a bicycle safety program at the Rock Port City Park. This year’s event drew in 60 children. There were three play gas stations used for repairs and five obstacle courses.
