Monday, September 29, 2008
Looking back: Week of Sept. 29
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The Roanoke Times
File 1963 These are the stones that gave Fairy Stone State Park its name. Land for the park was donated by Junius and Grace Fishburn in 1933. It covered nearly 5,000 acres in Patrick, Henry and Franklin counties.
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1998 (10 years ago)
n "A historic Roanoke home that faced demolition has been saved. At least for now. Historians believe that the log home, at Salem Turnpike and Peters Creek Road, dates back to the late 1700s. They believe it could be the oldest standing structure in Roanoke and one of the oldest in this part of the state."
n "A former pastor of Roanoke's Loudon Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will be installed Sunday as senior pastor of his denomination's national cathedral, National City Christian Church, in Washington, D.C. Alvin Neal Jackson served the Roanoke congregation from 1973 until 1977."
1983 (25 years ago)
n "In a surprise move, the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday night to give its share of the Salem-Roanoke County Civic Center to the city of Salem, and to pay the city about $290,000."
n "Roanoke has replaced Peoria Ill., as a slice of Middle America. Almost. A revised listing of middle-of-the-road, all-American cities used as test markets for new products has bumped Peoria and added Roanoke."
n "The City Library in downtown may not have had a skeleton in its closet but it had bones in the basement. The library recently let the Roanoke Valley Historical Society have a cache of Indian relics and bones on permanent loan."
1958 (50 years ago)
n "Stephen B. Bogese has taken about 200 tons of ice, a few buckets of molasses, several thousand pounds of 'polyethylene' and made almost 52,000 kids happy this month. 'Steve' Bogese makes 'hula-hoops.' At his little factory on Starkey Road, Bogese has a crew of about six men working round the clock turning out the latest fad in playthings."
n "Members of the Roanoke Development Assn. voted yesterday not to trade with two Roanoke business firms because they will not hire Negroes."
n "Grover Earl Lucas was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair for the garden pick murder of his wife by an all-male Hustings Court jury today."
n "A coliseum consisting of three units with a total of 109,000 square feet of floor space would fulfill Roanoke Valley's needs for conventions, sports and some cultural events, the Roanoke Jaycee Coliseum Committee reported today."
n "A two-year- old chicken, now en route to a frying pan, had veteran Roanoke poultry dealers mystified today. When killed and dressed ... this talented hen's gizzard gave up three smoothly worn U. S. dimes."
n "Booming, exuberant and more than half a mile long, the first-in-history United Fund parade wound its colorful way through downtown Roanoke today under a smiling sun."
n "William Fleming has come of age. There will be no more 'little brother' complex ... fans sat in almost stunned amazement as the Colonels cut and slashed their way to a well-deserved 27-20 victory over Jefferson."
1933 (75 years ago)
n "We learned today, thanks to a gasoline trade journal, where Carvin's Cove, big prospective water development north of the city got its name. An eighteenth-century scout, one William Carvin, hotly pursued by savage Indians, leaped from the tall cliff into the foaming pool at the foot of the falls, now the side of a modern dam. Scout Carvin, incidentally, made his escape."
n "A wide steer from the mesquite and mesa land of Texas, went back to the daily grind of being ridden to earth at the New Deal Fair, Lynchburg, today, after a week of freedom in the pine country southwest of Roanoke city."
n "What may be the original letter of General U.S. Grant to General Robert E. Lee, outlining to the southern general at Appomattox the terms of surrender of Confederate forces, is a prized possession of a Roanoke woman who has cherished it along with many other interesting records of the War Between the States."
n "The new Andrew Lewis high school at Salem boasts one of the most modern of school cafeterias."
n "By Play-o-graph and radio, baseball fans of Roanoke and Southwest Virginia will receive play-by-play returns on the World Series starting tomorrow."
n "The swillers can pick their cold beer from a nice assortment, totaling at least 34 different brands here -- and they can drink it in anything from a billiard parlor to a grocery store, from a filling station to a drug store."
n "Nearly 5,000 acres of land in the counties of Patrick, Franklin and Henry were transferred to the State Conservation and Development Commission of Virginia by Junius B. Fishburn and his wife, Mrs. Grace Parker Fishburn, of Roanoke, in a deed signed yesterday. Located on the property is a bed of the famous Virginia fairy stones."
1908 (100 years ago)
n "Mr. Hugh Moomaw, a son of Judge C. B. Moomaw, of Roanoke, is coaching the football team of Washington and Lee University. Mr. Moomaw is a Washington and Lee man."
n "Officer Hancock, of the Roanoke police force ... was called upon ... to arrest a man by the name of Webb, who while under the influence of something that is stronger than water, threatened everybody in his vicinity with sticks of dynamite."
n "Everybody is looking forward to the great game of ball that will be played at the fair grounds tomorrow between Roanoke and Vinton. The team that will represent Roanoke has been given considerable consideration by the amateur authorities, and they feel sure that they will walk over Vinton."
n "The Roanoke High School eleven put the kibosh on the Roanoke Athletic Association by the score of 19 to 0 at the fair grounds."
