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ROCKDALE. TEXAS78S67. THURSDAY. MAY 25. 1M7
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18 PAGES
NO. 21
PAY-TO-PARK AHEAD
Police. Slate
. • - 1
Monday for
Meter Start'
__________ ___ _ _ : pai
In the three days between, Mopday, May 29, and
Next Monday is “PM-Day" in Rockdale.
That’s the dpy when recently-installed parking
meters go inlojeffeet in downtpwn Rockdale and motor-
ists will start fecdirig permies and mekels iutb the
meters in exchange for the privilege of parking.
— | Thursday, June 1, car own-
ers will have opportunity to
get used to. the idea of
parking maters ail d<also obey-
ing traffic laws of all kinds,
officials said.'
On June 1, the crack-down
by police will start and^ of-
fenders will begin .to receive
tickets.
- Between May 2li and June 1
warnings will be issued.
■fine—0.1- owi-f--narking
will be $1.00, hut motorists
who receive ti(;kets are -urged
to use the courtesy box located
at the city hall, N. E. Alford, ,
city manager, explained.
If the holder of the ticket
goes to tht* city- hall' thu_iUinu>
Rambling...
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WHC
Dirty Rackenbrackenlhl
Western Jubilee,
Homecoming Set
are going
RARXINO nftan |___________.■HVi
---into- operation, sooil «>d I the_ticket is dated, he will
hesitate to mention anything
about such a tender subject
... but if you think you are
against parking meters, consid-
er the case of little Mary Ruth
Sultemcier, 2-year-old daugh-
ter of Rev. and Mrs. Stanley S.
received sweater awards for academic
excellence'during the high school’s annual Awards Day program Friday. They are
(L-R) Delores Lawrence, who also displays an prray of other awards and scholar-
ship certificates She received as valedictorian of the graduating class; Peggy Brocken-
bush and Sue Muston. -{Reporter Photo)
By BILL COOKE
She was walking down the.
street the other day and got
• pretty interested in things
about her, what with so much
going on in the adult down-
town world, and she walked
right Stop-dab into a parking
meter. Well, she actually walk-
ed into a parking meter post,
Knocked a knot on her head,
too.
pay only 25 cents.
Alford also said "that the
city would sell parking permits
for $5 a month I jpg | Awards a.n <1 scholarships
permits will receive a . w,nf \ poured'forth at Fridays annual
shield sticker and carscatng j Awards Day program
ths sticker may be parked a which ho trore d outstanding
any meter without the necessi- sludenK for academlc ach.eve-
ty of putting money in the
meter, he explained
Ruth Lynch has been em-
Top Studenfs^dnd^MrTEd'
Claim Awards Day Honors
Now there's a gal who really
has reason to be against park-
ing- meters! •——- -----
BttTToonT ----
ABOUT 5 p. m. last Thursday
The Reporter started re-
ceiving telephone call* askiim
about a mysterious objept hov-
ering above town toward tine
-cast and not tor fiQlH.Utejmoon
which was clearly visible In the
daylight hours. It was a sort ol'
eerie sight at ■ first glance,
glistening brightly in the blue
sky. But most observers after
a few minutes decided it wus
a weather balloon.
Then Tuesday morning of
this week I received a tele-
phone call about 7 a. m. about
the same thing, only this time
it was more toward the west.
I don't know if it was the same
balloon or another one. For all
I know it could have been
somebody from another planet
spying on Rockdale to 6ee
what makes it such a good
town. If you see a little green
man with antenna coming out
his ears talking to a parking
meter one of these days, think
nothing "of It.
ployed as meter maid for the
city and her duties will begin
June 1.
Alford said that as of June
1 the city police will a bo rtart
enforcing all "traffic laws onr «
n\ore strict basis than in the
past.
“This means observing ol
stop signs and all other traffic
laws and police will Usee
tickets in these breaking the
law,” the city- manager ex-
plains
We would like to take tnis
opportunity to thank the pub-
lic in ~51tvmice for thiir-eo-
operation, and also remind
that, traffic rules-arc designed
for the safe'ty and welfare of
IRe~pubHi in general and
it, is to your own good tl»t
the city is enforcing these
lawk” Alford added.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY
jxncnl but the award that drew
| the biggest Cheer was presented
to a school bus driver.
Ed McCoy, who will roiire
this month after serving be-
hind a school bus - steering-
wheel for 21 yoars, received a
plague as the- Outs landing Bus
Driver in MHam County.
The award was presented by
Sgt. Floyd TlPPrt »f Hcarne,
patrolman with the Safety
Educaton Service of tTic Texas
Highway Patrol.
“Each year a-slHillar award
is made in each county honor-
ttI n ir h"til hiii drivitf ” Sgt.
have cycled through the ' local
public schools from grade one
through 12 and McCoy has
known each one of litem, lie.
hits long been a -favorite school
employee, add when the award
was made Friday the cheers
•and applause were long and
hard.
Supt. J. M. Moorman, iri
lauding McCoy's long tenure of
service to the school, said: ‘.‘Mr.
Ed is tetiring oil *he' basb of
'If you need me jyslt call.’
Chances arc, we ll caJl.At's •
ing to be hard to gel along
without him.”
41 Whaalbarrow' Day
Tty remainder of the
Awafds Day program saw
their achievements ai_BHS and
■Delores Lawrence, valedic-
torian. of tlie graduating class,'
could h^vo 11,seel n wheelbarrow
to cart olf her earnings.
Mis* L a w r e n c c received
scholarships to all state-sup-
ported schools In Texas, 'to
church-related schools in the
state, and also to several other
colleges. '
In addition, she js a finalist
j for the Rotary Club acholar-
> ii 11>. was named to t-hd* Who's'! .’.•i"
WIh» •*, .IltlS list, received a ] Rgt'hoJ
Rodeo, Many
Other Events
Due June 2-4
j— In out Ity; weekend,
June 2-4, Roekdate citizens
and former citizens will, be
able to enjoy a Western
[Jubilee Days celebration
featuring rodeo perform-
r-tHi'i" inH —then the citv’a_
! annual homecoming—rail aT
“ -Fair Park. . .... ..^_______
George Lumpkins, chalr-
^ man of the homecoming
- -[-vLrhii'h. will he hold Sunday,
| June 4 beginning at 11 a. m.,
; has issued on invitation to local
• resident v ar.d former residents
[ to come, early for the horne-
: coming and take in the full
wyckund. uf eiiiUUs, ._ '
j Aichie . Graham, general
. h.-in-m.-tii Cm- Jubilee Days, sm-
nounced the following schedule-
__ ' qf '-oils: *-;— ■'
Kee will presefiTa'number. ALONZO A URBAN THURSDAY. JUNE 1
Junior-high school principal, FR. ALONZO A-URBAN # ,n w„Urn lhow and
Enuc l-aurencv w.ill present ■ » > ■'•< n park pavilion, fcatur-
the ccrtificiite, and high schgu LOfirKC ] in. uwrd(hg i Lsfty Fri*-
principal Tom Underwood will *ca u id the Western All-Stars
officially receive the ctoss. Bnrlffla^C Fire!1 FRIDAY. JUNE 2
~hatirenee-listed.thejnnnbei llUtnuuiC V I ll Jr - j ::u p m Trail rides arrive
of the eighth-grade clars a.sj _ . • ■ Ir an L,k 111.■ t• ■ •;. Cameron and
f- Hows: I JIlhAtY PriCCf ■ iriti-r-
' Deborah Alford, *Duuiw .. ,_wtlHiVilV I I Iwl .— t i.-.n.i.-i US TLtftiwa 77 and
AninTI I Johnny Arrostrop 79 )nat east —♦ ■
Janie Sue Backhaus. Lyttette Amnan A 'Lon-.:-- t * <Lexington • -!•• wiili A. C. •
Bayless, Elber t Brown, Joyce HE son ot Di i M ' ^ -p ,1A , -1,.,iT> will leave
Brown, Brendk" Cleveland, Lee Urban of _ jn < k'!,,n : from 'In- auction barn ut 8:3(1
Eighth-Graders
To Be Promoted
Tonight at 7:30
A grand total of 130 local
eighth-grade students are
v-n.Ttnii.fi to: receive their
junior-high diplomas in pro-
n:,.iinnai ,■ v erclics tonight
(Thursday) at p. m. In the
high schoo auditorium.
The program will include
addressed by wmiaffr Rttplua, -■*-
valedictorian of the. class,-arm
i!K-ne 'Bayless, —lutatorian.
Other .students on Xonig+rfs
program ' will be Darn-ll Hirt,
leading trie pledge to the flag;
Darrell Jacob, invocation; Mike
Lankford, benediction; and
Donna Meyers, pianist who
will play for the processional
and recessional.
-—Also (Umiig the program.'the
eight-h-grutlu chorus-,-under t hr ^
direction of Mis. Barbara At.
Dora
Texas Public Health Associa-
tion Award, received a Read-
er's Digest valedictory award,
Was presented with Student
Council subject awards in
gnmy„ s.tudwt-t—honored tdcj-sTi.ii'thartd’ ancT chemistty, rt-
r~ ■*“ ' ‘ ' i eeived an academic sweater for
Tippit said, "and it gives u* a
lot uf pleasure to present thla
to Mr. McCoy. In All his 21
years of driving, he has been
involved in only one pnlnor
___ident and that one, was an
unavoidable one—and ceralinly
not his fault.” , ,
Two generations of students
Rainfall Totals
2.7 Inches Here
Likewise, if you see a big
red-faccxl man with fire com-
ing out of' Mr-earv, talking
to a parking meter, think
nothing about tbat. either. That
could really happen.
A Big Deal . . .
CPEAKING of men from
- Marra, I read somewhere
the other day that If there are
intelligent beings on Mam and
they start studying the earth
Sec RAMBL1NGS, page «
Rockdale received 2.77 inches
Of rain during the past week, 17.58.
all of it coming on Friday gnd
Saturday.
r The Saturday total was mea-
sured-here by weather observ-
er W. C. Marrs at 2.32, and it
ran the May rainfall total to
Paul Lewis Heads
RHS Honor Society
Paul I-cwta, son of Mr.' and
Mrs. Vaughan Jensen, has
been elected president of the
RHS national honor society
chapter for 1967-68.
Other officers are Debbie
Yezak, vice president; Ann
Henry, secretary; Melissa
Laird, treasurer; and Peggy
Brockenbush, reporter.
531 and the year’s total to
Cool feather aeeompanied
the weekend rains and 1 the
lower temperatures stayed
around through Tuesday when
a week's low of 54 degrees was
recorded. Monday’s highest
temperature was only '59-de-
grees,. __' , ■ ' '
Official weather figures Tor
the week recoided In Rockdale
bv Htm and at Alcoa’s Rock-
dale Works by H. fA. Scmken,
were as follows:
ROCKDALE
porting h scholastic average of
abovV !><) - in each subject
throughout ihe school veal1, ghfl
-Vm --wk-o-OH tlu> -w IiuuTil pex-
t -aiU*ntUmcc UsL ' -
Award!. Scholarship*
Howard F. Chriscb’, maTfagCr
of Alcoa’s Rockdale Works,
Cliyer, Cherry Collier, |
CorUnas, Charles C r i d d 1 c,
Wanda Crocker,. Rosa Cruz,
Leonard Davis, Mary Deary,
William Deweoae, David Doo-
Beverly Doinhocfer,
Evcrage, Lgnhie Fair
Jr., Bill’ Foster, Elbert Free-
man, Lynda Freeman. Dennis
Frock, Bonner Galloway, Celia
Garza, Josephine Garza, Vivian
Gales,-Belinda Gest, Suzaune
Gilleiand.
Also, Gail Ging, John Graves.
William Green, Bennye Grubbs,
Cliff Hamons, Earnest Ham-*
-H-
ordained to the. pdfirthc-od fpr u; m > hay(. lMnvh ,top til
the Catholic Dioce v of Au-tin . Tanglcwood. Cameron— ridet
Saturday. with John Batte as trail boss.
Father- Urban, who is the ; vvill depart from Lamkin store
first priest from Rockdale, will at a rn and lunch at Mjn-
be ordained by the Most Rev. I #rva: Milano-Gau*a ilde, with
Louis.. J. Belcher. Bishop ot ' Gerald Vinton as trail boss,
Austin, trt lu a- in. in St trnve'- (raiw* at S.SU.A. m. grid
< ; •
Lonnie was b -rn In Rockdale
July 8, 104L aUtended Rock-
dale gi ainmai' and high m liuul,
graduating from RHS, in 1959.
After (rwluatidn hi . ntei - -
Mary’s Seminary in'’ll
where, he has completed -his
I.,,I I -,. Ill u : • ' - -
mona^ Gerald Hillipl, 'Ds
tttrt. H+mald HobU^, Nevin 1 ing the pa: i eight year-.
Hoid, Janie Burta. Larry In- Fattu “will offer
See EIGHTH GRADE, page 2 See tTUBAN, .pane
Cook, Lester Win
Rotary Scholarships
Btffy Cook and Kathy lister
were aonoitnced as Winners of Mlsir fx^ler,- end Andy Jackson,
two $250 Rotary, scholarships
following the club luncheon
here Tuesday when six Rock-
dale High School cllizenahlp
awards were presen led.
Winner* of the Rotary cftl-
zcnship awards were Delores
NEXT TUESDAY
HOLIDAY HERE ,
★
Tuesday will be a holiday
In Rockdale In observance of
Memorial Day.
It Is the first holiday of
the year n* Hated by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Other holidays will be
Independence Day on Tuea
day, July 4; Labor Day,
Monday. Sapk 4; Tfcknksgt
Ing Day, Thursday, fft’V *1;
and Christmas Day and New
Year's, both falling on Mon-
days.
Lawrence, Peggy Melcher, and
Tim Hanke and Cook. Egoh
fti.dent spoke briefly at the
luncheon, telling about school
activities and plans for the
future.
Following the meeting Ro-
tarlana voted on the two schol-
arship winners, basing their da-
cirtoni on lhd iKtlVltk.s of the
students during their high
school years, and their presen-
tations.
Cook is the son of Mr. and
Mrs Byron F. Cook of 339
Green St., and Mitt Lister I*
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
JcSse R. lister of 709 Vogel.
T*he prbjjfriW wnrtntiurtuiod
by Earl Voskamp and Don Wil-
liams Introduced the alx atu-
Ncholarshtps sflll be made It
the annual Rotary Club Ladies
Night program in June, accord-
ing te dim Qa4ayf praasdant.
High
Low
Rain
Thursday
88
58...
Friday
89
M
T45
Saturday
71
64
2.32
Sunday
68 -
58
Monday
' 59
57
Tuesday
82
Wednesday
Total
. 87
ALCOA
58
2.77
High
Low
Rain
Thursday -.
88
55
Krtdny
88
63 ,
.03
Saturday
72
60
145
Sunday
- 87
52
Monday
76
54
Tuesday
84
> 52
Wednesday
_ 88 ^
56
ToUl
TT6
--- WALTER FUNK
Library Friends
Elect Rev Funk
Hew President
pri -A-iiieil a Midi.' i uh' from the -
Texas Cbamioal Council to
RHS senior Biffy Cook. .The
award is an annual one and
goes to the student, selected by
.in* faculty as the schopl’s out-
standing senior n science
Chrisco also recognized the
1967 Alcoa Foundation Scholar-
ship winners, both RHS
seniors. The winners of the
$3,ooo grants are Suren Curtis
and Mai shall Enqulst.
Principal Tom - Underwood
announced—in behalf of the
"Rockdale Rotary Club that six
T1rtaHrt8 air in Hte-rumao# tor
the- Rotary's annual scholar-
ships. One boy and one girl
will each receive a $250 schol-
arship. Finalists are Andy
Jackson, Biffy Cook, Tim
Hanke, Mis- Lawrence. Kathy
Lrrtrr and Peggy Melcher. —
Dan Fischer was recognized
as winner of a four-year, tally-
paid Army ROTC college
RHS Graduation
Friday at 8 p. m.
E'ChotBTVtbp. Bttfy Cook,' salu-- f+ie proeetsiomil and Ihe i'(‘r('Y-
Schlueter Buys
Bryan Pharmacy
Virgil Schlueter, pharmacist
•U'TrtWIU Di og Stine—bAie
since April 1. 1964, ha* pur-
chased the Twin-City Phar-
macy tn Bryan.
He and hia'wite Norma and
their two children, Frank. V,
and Greta, 5, will move to
Bryan this weekend.
WhiU in P/m-legale, Sciiluet-
er has served two years as
secretary of the Lions Club,
was chairman of the Chamber
trCantirece
The Rev. Walter Funk has
iericrt - president of the
Friends of the Library here,
succeeding Mrs- Eugene Ben-
nett who has headed the or-
ganizatibn during the past
year.
Election of new officer* wan
a feature of the annual general |
membership meeting of
Friends. The meeting was
held Friday evening and
featured a talk by,Dan Kubiak,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John T.
Kubiak tif i Rockdale. Dan is-
the author of a new book on
Texas history and heritage,
"Ten Tall Texan*-”
In addition, to Rev. Funk,
other new officers arc Mrs.
George Wait, first vice-presi-
dent; Mr. and Mr*. Clay Cool
sacoud ..vice-presidents; and
Mr*. James Hupy, aecretary-
treawrer.
Pool Opening Set
Here for Saturday
tatorian of the graduating
class, received scholarships to
all c hdreli-rekited school* in
Texas. ,
Joe Wayne Cleveland was
announced as tlie recipient of
the annual SfMrtsmanship
Award from the- Rockdale
Lion# Club. Doug Smith, prert-
Ste AWAHDS-DAY, page 6
Cntrnrirni-ement exercises for
the 95-member RHS senior
class will be held at Tiger
Field at 8" p. m. Friday, wtth
Delores I^iwrence and Biffy
Cook to deliver the valedictory
and salutatory addresses.
This week's R«bbrUr T*
the arpiual RHS graduation
isaua and contain* photo-_,
graph* of mort than 90 cla**1- ■ 1 ^ "
members. We regreat that
photos ol Pat Buetow, Tim
Goabler, Wayne Solomon
and Charles Servantez ware
notaYailabta.------
The RHS bond will play for
lumhes ftt Milano.)
5 p. m—Downtown Jubilee,
Dfiys parade of {rail riders and
.other entries. Local area busi-
nesses' atid clubs invited to cn.
ter' floats. —— ■ ... - ,
5:30 o. m.—Barbecue at Fair
Park, free to all irail riders
and* open to the public.
11 TFT ~ -Tni:lit iodee
hi-' •-nrrfiiimiiiiiu. u-ilii introdaction
qu%en conlefctanls.
it).. p. m —Daru,e in park
vilion. ~ “• --7-—
SATURDAY. JUNE 3
••• -i »e---Pony repress Race
„f E ..ii I1.ok track, featuring
teams of rider* from Milano,
j Heai ne, Caldwell and Rockdale,
j 1,eland Garrison, chairman,
j— i 1 a. iu. Kid* Dog Show at
Fair Park pavilion. Entry
j liluiiks will be available at lo-
: cal grocery stores. Every entry
ouo , t ... -w)H receive prize, and ribbon
RHS PtindpM Tom i .>;• made to top
W.-.-1 v.ui I",", w .......ptoere tw each u Uu • 1
K::,
, ihi* 1 • shiMK ii. dog. best-train-
wBl-asWal. .....j------------nddnrt
m,) n — " Hud.dijg with longest tail.
anft clu s vie. president -Mike
Rek, benediction.
Und"M""it ..... _ ", j Gianrl an'd ri i rve-champibril
.anking ... ,cn,U.* s, fmm class win-
the senior class are Miss Law-. s (;ha,rniiU, „ Monroe
rence, Lynctt c Simpson,1
Cook, Peggi Me lclier,
Fischer, Misti Lester,
stonal. 1« addition, to Mis*
Lawrence and Cook, other
senior clast, members on the
program are Dan Kudwr,
president of the National Hon-
or Society, who will give the
preSHtpnCs address; senior elks*
secretary Kathy Letter, invo-
cation; Class treasurer Mike
Brannam, Scripture reading;
Dan - Jimgmann, und sponsor is the
LUdiard 1<al'tlin Puxina Comiiany.
Ho»». Ow Nill-Mms: mw- ....... nn.l ,«Wi lirrtimh
‘■3nnr*nW**H««i ito k- ,m ",*“7,177
graduation, ,w-
’ * -m—a <)ii«pn r-untestapt. To eO-
BIJBLE VERSE ' Lcg call Chamber of Commerce
"As you have many members | office, HI 6-2030.)
in one phyipcwl body jind ibose j 10 p. m.-— Dance
m< M,t„ i (i ■ -+>■ ■ ! ' rt
iri ’ rp.uk-'
tions, so we, though many in
number, compose One body in.
Christ and arg alt membcrs-oT
one another."
Boys
Rusty
11 ».
starring "Giles and
SUNDAY, JUNE 4
m. — Rockdale hom*-
—Roma nr 124-5 i coming. Fair Park pavilion.
[
*
committer Ud sear, erwi b*Ur
he and Mrs Schlueter hiivc
held offlees in the Friends of
the Library organisation
RlRTtftBlP * rnnn ici pw l-wwre
mlng pool will open Saturday,
pool manager Ernie Laurence
has announced.
Hours Saturday will be 2-7
p. m. and the Sunday hour*
will he 2-8 p. m. Beginning
Jine 1, the regular hours of
2-9 p, m. Mondays through
Saturday s and 2-6 p. m r«a
Sunday* will start.
Registration for the first
event* three-week swimming course,
' *
#
fM.
f .X
y'tl
tp start, ,N»n4n¥r will be taken
at the pool, cxwl wUI be $11A0
per student, and age minimum !
t* e years, Laurence said. I
MR. ED’ HONORED—Ed McCoy, local nchool bus
ciriYfir.fvr the ^ast 21 years, will retire this spring
and was honorwf«
driver of the ¥•
program at RHS.
Floyd Tippit (left) of Hie TPXSS
"Mr. Ed, a favorite personality with
ilren iiare for two decades,
ovation whon his awjrff was
vdSm
Highway fHrtml.
oritn Khool chil-
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