19 years ago

(1990)

Harold Blankenship, a Macon County teacher and principal for 44 years, was scheduled to be Grand Marshal of the annual Christmas Parade.

Rocky V was showing at Lafayette Cinema Theatre.

The tour of active duty for members of the 1175th Quartermaster Company of Lafayette and Carthage had been extended from 90 to 180 days. The unit had been activated Sept. 20 by President George Bush as part of Operation Desert Shield.

Winners from the Red Boiling Springs Fire Department Beauty Pageant included April Harris, Tina Gregory, Rebecca Nicole Garrison, Kimberly Michele Graham and Amy Adriane Moore.

Lafayette Police had few leads as to who robbed Russell’s Jewelers a couple weeks back. The thieves netted some $100,000 in cash and valuables.

Kevin Blankenship was the reporter for Mrs. Dana Carter’s fifth grade 4-H class.

The Tennessee Health Care Association honored Carlis Evans Jr. with the 1990 Volunteer of the Year award for his work at Heritage Manor in Red Boiling Springs.

There were 81 entries on the lineup for the Christmas Parade, including No. 23 Miss Central Holly Cothron, No. 40 Westside Jr. Beta Club and No. 71 King Kyle Mason and Queen Amy Hire of Enon kindergarten.

35 years ago

(1974)

Red Boiling Springs Mayor Willis Knight presided over a regular session meeting of the City Council with the following Councilmen present: Ray Bilbrey, Larry Tucker, James Slate, Jr. Smith, Fred Smith and Roy Cook.

The Board of Trustees of Tri-County Electric decided at a regularly-scheduled Dec. 6 meeting not to add the Temporary Energy Surcharge to the electric rates.

Prices for Western Flyer Tricycles from Western Auto Store in Lafayette ranged from $12.99 (10 inch) to $22.45 (20 inch).

Roger Overton had recently killed an 8-point, 117-pound deer on the Wardean Overton farm near Bethpage.

The Garden Club met Dec. 4 for a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Cleone Grant.

Macon County Schools Superintendent Doyle Gaines, along with Donna Loftis and Dean Walrond, attended a TASBO-sponsored workshop Dec. 4-6 at the Ramada Inn in Chattanooga.

U.S. Senator Howard Baker had recently presented the city of Lafayette with an American flag that had previously flown over the nation’s capital in Washington. Pictured with the flag at City Hall were Mayor Page Durham, Recorder Ruby Flowers, Guy Carter, Charles Jenkins, Barbara Goodall, Opal Johnson and Patricia Ferguson.

48 years ago

(1961)

Lafayette City Council formally accepted a $53,037.60 federal grant to be applied on the city’s sewer collection and treatment system.

Joan Smith, age 17, was Macon County High School’s head majorette for the season.

J.W. Taylor, county savings bonds chairman, announced that Macon Countians invested $5,857 in U.S. Savings Bonds during October.

Lafayette Quarterback Club President Boone Cluck asked all members to attend a December 4 meeting in the Macon County High School library.

Macon High’s share of the proceeds of the Strawberry Bowl game at Portland last month was $590, announced principal Charles Sarver.

The Red Boiling Springs Modern Woodman juniors were scheduled to hold a Christmas party December 8 at Red Boiling Springs High School, according to junior director Aileen Chitwood.

Times editor Leonard Gregory wrote that he was told by Lafayette’s W.H. Cook that the first telephone in the county was installed at the Wesley Tucker residence and connected to a second phone a half mile away at the home of his son, Dink Tucker.

Mrs. Clyde Driver of Lafayette had recently been in Nashville to see a physician.