This Week in White County History, October 1- October 7

1973

• The grand opening of Edd Rogers Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick was held featuring a showing of the line of new 1974 cars.
• White County Junior High School launched a drive to beautify the school’s classrooms and improve the educational program. The school planned to achieve this through participation in the Colgate-Palmolive School Action Plan, in which the company would supply cash in exchange for proofs of purchase of 13 of their products.
• Larry R. Officer, of Sparta, was commissioned a second lieutenant upon completion of the 1973 advanced ROTC summer camp at Fort Bragg, N.C.

1983

• The plan to save the Tullahoma to Sparta railroad hit a snag when Kyle Railroad Co., the proposed operator, pulled out, without explanation.
• The White County High School marching band received three “superior” ratings at the first annual Upper Cumberland Marching Festival in Crossville.
• Cheri L. Lynn and Patrick N. Henry accepted their notifications from White County High School principal Charles Dycus that they placed in the top 5 percent of the more than one million students who participated in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

1993

• White County native Charles Smith, TN education commissioner, was chosen to become the new chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents.
• An antique military ordinance, a 40-millimeter shell from the Vietnam era, was detonated in White County after a resident discovered the shell while cleaning his garage. It had been found in a White County river several years before.
• The Board of White County Commissioners appointed Robert Verble as chairman of the commission.

2003

• The WCHS cafeteria underwent a major transformation including murals and television sets.
• Sparta-White County Rescue Squad rescued two men from the Caney Fork River whose fishing boat overturned near the old iron bridge on Lost Creek Road.
• Construction was underway at Central View Elementary School, with a new addition of five classrooms, a new kitchen and dining room, new restrooms and new office area slated.