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TWENTY YEARS AGO (2003)

                --Mike Mohler, son of Dale and Rhonda Mohler, was named “Peace Officer of the Year” for the College Station Police Department where he had worked for three years.

                --The annual Texas A&M Aggie Muster was held at the Derrick Farm. Each year the Aggie Muster is held to honor all Aggies who died in the last year.

                --Gatesville Mayor Daren Moore signed a proclamation encouraging citizens to wear a blue ribbon during Child Abuse Prevention Month.

                --The College of State Bar of Texas honored 52^nd Judicial District Judge Phillip Zeigler during an awards luncheon in Dallas.

                --Misti Maxwell Morra of Germania Insurance received her license after attending Dearborn-Leoanard Property and Casualty School in Arlington.

THIRTY YEARS AGO (1993)

                --The Coryell County Museum was sponsoring the “Honor Dawson Cooper Day” at the Coryell Activities Complex. Cooper was a long-time business and civic friend of Gatesville.

                --Fred Rodriquez was named “Lion of the Year” at the Lions Club annual banquet. Rodriquez had been a member of the Gatesville Lions Club for twenty years.

                --Dora Jean Dyson was attending an IRS District Liaison Committee Meeting in El Paso, in which tax practitioner members met with key IRS officials.

                --Jamie Erwin announced his candidacy for Ward 1, Place 3 on the Gatesville City Council. He had just completed one two-year term and the city council.

                --John and Genoa Washburn of Gatesville were celebrating their 60^th wedding anniversary. John Newton Washburn and the former Genoa Cook were married on April 2, 1933, in Gatesville.

FORTY YEARS AGO (1983)

                --Larry C. McDonald, outgoing president of the Gatesville Educators Association, presented a $100 GEA scholarship to Gatesville teacher Tommy Preston.

                --Former Gatesville resident, Dr. Walter L. Brown, was honored by the Arkansas Historical Association for a quarter of a century of service as editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.

                --Hornette senior Suzy Mayhew was preparing for a trip to Austin to conclude the final touch on an illustrious three-year career as one of the state’s premier schoolgirl discus throwers.

                --Larry Hurst was announced to be the new owner and manager of Sonic Drive-In in Gatesville. In his honor, the drive-in was advertising fifty cent hamburgers. To add cheese was an extra twenty cents.

                --The Gatesville Lions Club’s annual mop and broom sale was underway on a vacant lot adjoining Poco Automotive. The products they were selling were made by blind workers with Lighthouse for the Blind.

FIFTY YEARS AGO (1973)

                --The community of Ireland lost their post office which was closed as an economy measure. Paul Blanchard had been clerk in charge of the office since it was made a rural branch in 1967.

                --Beverly Bankhead was named the Gatesville Riding Club sweetheart. She had won a total of 199 trophies competing in Centexas horse shows and play days.

                --Selected for honors as an outstanding nurse at Coryell Memorial Hospital, Ruby Snoddy honored for the work she had done at the hospital in the last five years.

                --Joby Tatum was offering a Barrell Racing School and All Horse Show Events. The school was held two days a week with two-hour sessions for $30 a month.

                --First Lieut. Braxton T. Gilmore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Braxton B. Gilmore, had been awarded his silver wings at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia upon graduation from Air Force pilot training.