Monday, September 15, 2008
Looking back: Sept. 15, 2008
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The Roanoke Times
File Andrew Lewis High School opened in 1933. This photo, by George Davis, was taken about 1940.
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1998 (10 years ago)
"The dominator of Roanoke Valley women's golf will put her game on national display this week. Dot Bolling, the straight-hitting 52-year-old from Hidden Valley Country Club, will be among 132 contestants teeing it up today in the 37th USGA Senior Women's Amateur Championship in Williamsburg."
"Roanokers have long considered the old and vacant Norfolk and Western buildings downtown part of city history. Wednesday, the state made it official for three of them. The Historic Resources Board, meeting in Roanoke, listed the General Office Buildings North and South and the passenger station on the Virginia Landmark Register."
"A former student has donated $3 million to Roanoke College -- one of the largest gifts ever received by the Salem school. Former Martinsville Mayor Francis T. West, a Salem native, was on hand Friday for a news conference announcing his gift and the renaming of the Courthouse Academic Building to West Hall in his honor."
1983 (25 years ago)
"Restrooms for handicapped spectators are being installed at the Roanoke Civic Center."
"Roanoke Valley government officials moved to ease water shortage fears Wednesday by tentatively agreeing to build a $38 million dam west of Salem in Roanoke County to store 2 billion gallons of Roanoke River water."
"It took the Martinsville Bulldogs less than two minutes Friday night to put an end to Northside's season-long shutout string."
"Television courses on computers, teaching writing and the Vietnam War will be offered by Virginia Western Community College through its Center for Continuing Education and Advanced Studies."
"Between drought and the deer, agriculture took a beating in Botetourt County this summer."
1958 (50 years ago)
"Miss America of 1959 will be in Roanoke for the Harvest Bowl. ... Brown-haired Mary Ann Mobley of Brandon, Miss., ... will be Harvest Queen for the festival."
"Pogo, that lovable character who lives in a swampland created by Walt Kelly, is quite an impressive fellow with a number of accomplishments to his credit. ... Readers of The Times will be able to join millions of other newspaper readers in their enjoyment of the strip starting Monday."
"The movie, 'Mardi Gras,' featuring VMI activities and starring Pat Boone, will be given a special preview here in Lexington for the VMI Cadet Corps, faculty and staff in mid-November."
"Special rail rates and hotel rates at Hotel Roanoke will be in effect for those attending the VPI-University of Virginia football game Oct. 11 during the Harvest Festival."
"Speeds of 113.35, 112.78 and 115.08 m.p.h. were all that Dave Sanderson needed yesterday to capture top honors in the Eastern State Championship Drag Races at Roanoke Drag Strip."
"It's getting so a fellow has a hard time getting arrested and put in jail around Roanoke. At least this may be the claim of a 48-year-old Christiansburg man who finally landed in the city pokey - but not until he begged police to 'lock me up so I can get something to eat.' "
"Bridge experts are going to be asked to study a proposed interchange at Orange avenue near Second street, NE, to see if the interchange can be built without moving a graveyard. ... The graveyard has about 2,700 graves. About 2,600 of these would have to be moved."
"They have killed the fatted calf in Blacksburg. The prodigal son has returned. Tracy Callis, Mr. Everything at Jefferson High, has definitely decided to enter Virginia Tech. ... He will begin [football] practice today with the Gobbler freshmen."
1933 (75 years ago)
"And now it has been determined that four Roanokers, all of them Norfolk and Western employes were robbed while at the world's fair at one time or another."
"Roanoke College will sally forth to the 1933 football wars bright (if the sun is shining) and early (anyway) tomorrow morning, in the beginning of attempts to wipe close defeats with traditional opponents last year off the books."
"John Powell, recognized by many critics as America's greatest living pianist as well as one of the greatest composers, will give a recital ... in the new Andrew Lewis high school auditorium in Salem."
"Police Court did a landslide business this morning, dealing in such things as alleged drunks, driving drunks, chicken thefts, housebreakers and women who sat on the front porch with a southern exposure."
"Northern Germany is not so loyal to the Hitler regime as the casual observer might suppose, believes Powell Chapman, Jr., Roanoke boy, who made two trips to Hamburg this summer."
1908 (100 years ago)
"Tonight at 8 o'clock in the First Presbyterian church, Mr. Yosif Benyamin, of Assyria, will give an address on the country of Assyria."
"If any person shall allow his or her dog or dogs to run at large in the town of Vinton during the months of September, October and November, 1908, without a proper muzzle to prevent the dog or dogs from biting, a fine of not less than five or more than twenty dollars shall be imposed on the owner of the dog or dogs."
"Many residents of the northwest section of the city are up in arms, it is stated, on account of the sale by two or three property owners of residences in the section near the Jefferson street Baptist church and Hotel Roanoke, to colored people."
"One of the prettiest and most impressive pictures ever seen here will be shown at the Electric Parlor today. It will be 'Samson and Delilah,' a beautiful hand-colored film."
"As the cool September days awake us to the knowledge that winter will soon come on apace, the ice man's lusty bawl is on the wane and the coal solicitor has followed in his wake."
"The third season of the Virginia State League closed Saturday with Richmond the pennant winners, with Danville the runners-up, and the Highlanders, under the management of Charles Shaffer, third placers."
