April 30, 1948
• The body of Ray Noah of Phelps City, who disappeared March 29 in the waters of the Missouri River with his brother, Ed Noah of Langdon, was recovered Sunday morning near Rulo, Nebraska. Thus far, there has been no trace of Ed’s body.
• Rock Port will soon have increased bus service, both north and south. The new schedule includes an added bus for both directions.
• A recent issue of the Daily Nebraskan, published by the University of Nebraska, carried two pictures and a short story having to do with the interviewing of two U.S. Presidential candidates by Lewis Hunter of Rock Port, who is attending the university. Hunter interviewed Harold Stassen of Minnesota and Thomas Dewey of New York.
• Two people from Atchison County are working for the Florence Messenger newspaper in Florence, California. Wesley P. McDonald, formerly of Fairfax, is the publisher and Jack Boettner of Rock Port is the managing editor.
• A funeral service was held Wednesday at the Memorial Building for Ezra Hugh Hayes, the son of Hugh and Mina Hayes of Rock Port. Ezra is the first of this community’s war dead to be returned home for burial. He was wounded in action and then died the next day, October 2, 1944, near Aachen, Germany. He was 20.
April 26, 1973
• Atchison County has had flood damage of $561,000, according to information collected and turned into the federal agencies as part of the restoration program. The county was declared a “Major Disaster Area” as a result of the recent floods and excessive rains.
• New bright yellow and black signs designate two bridges on U.S. 59 between Rock Port and Hamburg as being “narrow bridges.” The bridges are J-222, seven miles north of Rock Port, and J-221, eight and one-half miles north.
• Bridge lumber and radio equipment were purchased by the judges of the Atchison County Court. Motorola received the contract for $3,553.30 to furnish a 110 watt base unit, remote control, mobile, and receivers for the Sheriff’s Office. Keystone Supply of Kansas City was awarded the contract for 35,000 board feet of bridge lumber at $390 per 1,000 board feet.
• Severe winds up to 75 miles per hour hit Atchison County late Thursday, April 19. Damage to property ran into thousands of dollars, most of it being farm buildings.
• Mrs. Herbert (Betty) Salfrank, teacher for 31 years in Atchison County, 24 of those in the Rock Port R-II School District, is retiring at the end of this school year. She began her teaching career at the Wolfe rural school east of Fairfax. She also taught at Westboro, the Milton rural school south of Fairfax, and the Mount Pleasant country school east of Rock Port before coming to Rock Port R-II.
April 23, 1998
• The 33rd annual Blue Jay Relays were held Tuesday, April 14, at Blue Jay Stadium in Rock Port. The Rock Port boys’ team placed 2nd with 109 points and the girls placed 5th with 37 points.
• James Schaffner of Rock Port, Missouri, a baritone soloist, will tour Brazil with the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir.
• Max Anderson, a third grader at Rock Port Elementary, was awarded second place in his age group in the Junior Duck Stamp Contest sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
