Monday, November 10, 2008
Looking back: Nov. 10
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Photo courtesy of Bobby Lee Craghead
This 1948 photo shows Miss Walker's first and second grade class at Ogden Elementary School in Roanoke County.
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1998 (10 years ago)
n "Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors decided Monday to ask Blacksburg Town Council to overturn town planners who approved a private development in the middle of the university's campus."
n The Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation issued its list of endangered places and buildings in the Roanoke area.
n "Visitors to Pavel Kushnarov's guest house in Ukraine won't know it, but they'll be staying in a hotel modeled after a landmark thousands of miles away. The inspiration: the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, where Kushnarov has spent the last three weeks studying the American hospitality industry."
1983 (25 years ago)
n "Drawing overwhelming support from Roanoke's black community, Democrat Granger Macfarlane upset state Sen. Ray Garland, disrupting the flamboyant Republican's 16-year legislative career."
n "The first conference center on Smith Mountain Lake is scheduled to open at Bernard's Landing on Dec. 1."
n "Eighty Virginia Tech and Radford University students traded cold hands for warm feelings Saturday as they harvested more than 12 cords of firewood for the Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program."
n "In December, normally a time for red and green decorations, the streets of the Roanoke City Market will be festooned with square blue flags with white circles. The white circle on blue square is the opening motif of Center in the Square."
n "Radford University, in another move to go big time in sports someday, has decided to join the Big South Conference, a new league being formed by five schools smaller than Radford in Georgia and the Carolinas."
n "The Grandin Theater, a former movie house that has been the home of Mill Mountain Playhouse since 1976, has been bought by a coal executive and will be leased to his sons to become a movie theater and concert hall."
1958 (50 years ago)
n "A party of 12 Explorer Scouts and two leaders were trapped for eight hours Saturday in the darkness of a remote mountain cave nine miles west of Catawba Sanatorium."
n "The NCAA doesn't rate Lehigh as a major college, but the amazing Engineers came within a couple of yards and an official's decision of doing something the big-time schools haven't done in two years -- beat VMI."
n "A prankster has been officially blamed for a bomb scare that forced evacuation of Cave Spring High School's 810 students for more than an hour today."
n "A French movie starlet, Christine Carere, landed at Roanoke's Woodrum Field today on her way to Lexington where she is to be the guest of VMI cadets."
n "Automatic voting machines for Roanoke City are to get scrutiny of City Council."
n "A Salem company wants to sell shoes to Khrushchev. It told him so in a cable dispatched today. E.C. Brand, sales manager of the Ortho-Vent Shoe Co., says he was 'appalled' to learn ... that leather shoes in the Soviet Union cost $35 to $50 a pair."
n "Battle plans for the Thanksgiving Day Virginia Tech-Virginia Military Institute football war were drawn up today at the Hotel Patrick Henry."
n "The Roanoke area is able to support a series of concerts by the nation's best musicians, an official of a New York concert organization said here last night."
n "Gene Akers is another Jefferson High graduate who is doing well. At 26 he's official pianist of the United States Marine Band in Washington, D.C. and on the music faculty of Catholic University there."
n "Mrs. Julius Harris of Roanoke today won a trip to Paris on a national television program."
1933 (75 years ago)
n "For the second time this fall the weather man clamped an icy hand around the thermometer bulb and drew the mercury down to 25 early this morning."
n "Boy Scouts going to and from meetings will be exempt from curfew..."
n "Frank Brown's birthday party has been ruined. The refreshments have been confiscated and Frank is in jail in lieu of a $590 fine for possession of a gallon and one quart of whiskey."
n "Pendleton Hogan, young former Roanoker and graduate of Roanoke College, is being feted by the literati of New York."
n "The roar of airplanes in mass formation over the city today will signal the opening of the first air show ever held in Roanoke."
n "Special exercises at the Roanoke auditorium yesterday morning climaxing a huge parade through the downtown section, a minute of silence and immobility at 11 o'clock and a banquet by ex-service men in honor of distinguished guests, marked Roanoke's Armistice Day observance..."
n "For thorough, all-around inconvenience the fire that occurred in the home of Dr. J. T. Strickland... takes the cake. A furnace pipe through his coal bin set fire to a big pile of coal in his basement..."
1908 (100 years ago)
n "The case of the Commonwealth versus Dentist W. S. Gregory, charged with attempted criminal assault upon Miss Theodore Irvine, was called in the corporation court of this city yesterday morning with Judge Woods presiding."
n "The police court yesterday morning resembled a hall deserted, in comparison with the many instructive entertainments given at that seat of justice, but the same odor prevailed, that of 'old corn.' "
n "Roanoke has a police force that is a credit to the city... There is only one thing needed to complete the department and that is a patrol wagon."
n "One of the largest crowds in the history of Roanoke was out last night to attend the exposition shows located on Commerce street. It was on the whole about as hilarious a gathering as could be imagined. Horns tooted, all kinds of sound mechanisms, including the voices of numerous small boys, squawked, squealed, shrieked, whistled, or screamed, as was their nature: everybody was in a merry-making mood, and all joined in the fun."
n "An extension of the telephone line in this part of the city [Southeast] is gladdening the hearts of many in this section."
n "Mr. George E. Patrick, of Salem, has secured a patent for a new system of controlling trains. The system is to be operated entirely with electricity.""
n "Col. A. M. Lochwitzky, formerly an officer in the Russian Imperial Guards, will speak in the Y.M.C.A. Hall this afternoon at the regular men's meeting."
