June 30, 1950

• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port:  “When My Baby Smiles At Me” with Betty Grable and Dan Dailey; “Dear Wife” with Joan Caulfield, William Holden, and Billy De Wolfe; and “Free For All” with Robert Cummings, Percy Kilbride, and Ann Blythe.

• Mrs. Mary Warneke, Rock Port community’s oldest resident, reached her 95th birthday Wednesday, June 28. While her activities have been slowed down somewhat, she has until the past year or two been exceptionally well for a woman of her advanced years.

• Lafe Perry, formerly of Rock Port and now living in St. Joseph, can thank the efforts of a patrolman for saving his life Monday after he was struck by lightning while working on a roof in St. Joseph. When Patrolman Forbes arrived, Perry was not breathing and the men with him said they needed the coroner, but Forbes began resuscitation and then more rescuers arrived, and he began breathing again.

• Atchison County Mail Family of the Week: One of the real pioneers in radio and television in this part of the country is Ray O. Wolf of Linden. Few amateurs had a better radio station than the one he built himself long before many persons had commercial outfits. Ray, his wife, Jessie, and son, J.H., live seven miles north of Rock Port. During the last year of the war, both Ray and Jessie worked at the Martin bomber plant in Fort Crook, Nebraska, and Ray won several cash prizes for his ideas used in testing out electrical equipment on the B29s.

June 26, 1975

• Clark Ford-Mercury was broken into during the early morning of June 18 with between $120-$125 in cash stolen and a calculator valued at $50 missing. Entry was gained by breaking a window.

• Fireworks sales will again be allowed this year in Missouri. There are at least 16 fireworks stands in Atchison County including five around the 136/275 junction, four in the I-29/136 junction, three at Phelps City, two at the wye, and two near the state line on US 59.

• Atchison County taxpayers have the opportunity to save $18,000 in taxes by petitioning the judges of the County Court of Atchison County to do away with the county health service. Every farmer who has over 10 acres valued at $100 or more per acre can sign the petition and every businessman who owns his own building or inventory are also allowed to sign.

June 22, 2000

• Rock Port Municipal Utilities held a Customer Appreciation Day Friday, June 16. They fed approximately 240 people between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

• A new slide was installed at the Rock Port Pool. David Lair, Raymond Chastain, and Neal Lansdown set it up.

• Gary L. Frohn of Fairfax, a 36-year employee of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), will retire from the department July 1, 2000. Frohn began his career with MoDOT in 1964. During his three plus decades of service, he worked as an inspector on many construction projects, including I-29 and I-35. He also served as maintenance supervisor in Rock Port and as an inspector of construction at the Maryville Project Office.

• Atchison County Development Corporation held its second annual Business Golf Tournament and Dinner June 12 at the Rock Port Golf and Country Club. Eighty-three golfers competed on 21 teams in the 18-hole, four-person scramble. The team of Bob and Marilyn Alldredge, R. Childers, and H. Nuckolls won the event with a score of 60.