March 9, 1951
• Federal Judge Richard M. Duncan has given the judgment that the Pacific Employers Insurance Co. and Francis R. Orshek, Inc. are not liable in Atchison County flood damage suits involving claims totaling $44,930. The petitioners charged damage by floods in Atchison County in 1949 were caused by operations of the Orschek firm, which was working on High Creek levees under government contract.
• There’ll be no prouder boy in Rock Port than Tommy Bailey when he gets back from Phoenix, Arizona, where he and his parents and sister were spending vacation and attended the New York Yankees’ training camp. Tom took a baseball behind the dugout and asked for autographs from the players and received signatures from Joe DiMaggio, Casey Stengel, Vic Raschi, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Allie Reynolds, Joe Page, Johnnie Mize, and a host of others.
• A campaign is being made at Watson to collect funds for a jeep fire truck for the protection of the community. The town at present has no equipment for fighting fires in the town.
• Charles Eddy, driver of the bookmobile of the Atchison County Library, left Monday to drive a GMC chassis to Wooster, Ohio, where a bookmobile body will be built on it by the Gerstenschlager Company.
• The Herbert Rolf tobacco and package liquor store was robbed either late Sunday night or very early Monday morning. Four cases of whiskey, a number of cigarette lighters, some car accessories, and $5 in pennies were taken.
March 11, 1976
• Blue Jay Corner: This is the second year for Bachelor Living at Rock Port High School. This year they are making hats, ties, and coats, and learning to cook and how to do laundry.
• Mr. and Mrs. Don Tharp paid $6,700 for the Central Cafe and pool hall at the Beaulah B. Watts estate auction March 6. The cafe, a popular spot in Rock Port for many years, has been closed for over a year.
• Willis Vance Makings, a former resident of Pleasant View Nursing Home, married Mary Jane Rose of Craig, Missouri, in the lounge of the rest home March 5. The couple met through a pen pal club in January and met for the first time six weeks ago.
• The four tracts of land at the J.A. Bailey trust sale March 5 brought $1,108,247 from 1,167 acres. The Garst Bros., Jochim Bros, and Arnold Meyerkorth were the buyers.
March 8, 2001
• Regan Griffin of Rock Port has been selected to participate in the Sophomore Pilgrimage on April 10 in Jefferson City, Missouri.
• The former Oak Grove Inn has now become an official Super 8. Bakul Patel is the owner/general manager and Whitney Saunders is the manager.
• More than 200 people attended an open house held last week for the Law Office of Barrister Zel Fischer and the Atchison County Development Corporation. They now occupy adjoining offices at 105-107 S. Main in Rock Port.
