Friday, July 27, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/29/1968 to 8/4/1968

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West Rome junior Steve Blad won first place in the Georgie State Science Fair for his project on isolating molds from soil samples to test ...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/22/1968 to 7/28/1968

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Former Chieftain football player Larry Parker joined the West Rome coaching staff this week in 1968. Head Coach Nick Hyder said that Parker ...
Friday, July 13, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/15/1968 to 7/21/1968

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In the aftermath of the prior week's drag race in Summerville Park that resulted in an accident that took out power to a portion of West...
Saturday, July 07, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/8/1968 to 7/14/1968

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Two young men drag racing on Oakwood Road took out power for several hundred West Rome homes when they lost control, hit a tree, then slamme...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/1/1968 to 7/7/1968

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Georgia's economy was doing so well that tax collection was running 2% above the most ambitious estimates for the year, thanks in large ...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 6/24/1968 to 6/30/1968

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Rome set a temperature record on Friday morning, June 28th, with a low of 48 degrees--and this was not just a record low for Rome, but for t...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 6/17/1968 to 6/23/1968

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Coosa Valley Tech announced plans to expand to a four-quarter-per-year day and night operation beginning with the fall quarter of 1968, whic...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 6/10/1968 to 6/16/1968

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Jesse Laseter was tapped as Rome City Schools assistant superintendent at its June 13th meeting. Laseter was scheduled to begin his new job ...
Friday, June 01, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week - 6/3/1968 to 6/9/1968

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Romans awoke on Wednesday morning, June 5th, to the news that Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the leading Democratic candidate for President, had...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Setting the Super Status Quo

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Recently, I was reading through some issues of Superman  and Action Comics from 1953 and 1954. These were books that I had never read befor...