Monday, November 24, 2008
Looking Back: Nov. 24
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The Roanoke Times | File 1927
Virginia Military and Virginia Polytechnic institutes play football on Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, 1927. VMI won 12-9 at Maher Field.
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1998 (10 years ago)
n "Virginia Tech has pulled out of a $20 million demonstration project for a high-speed magnetically levitated rail system ..."
n "Last week was the busiest week choir director Kimberly Davidson can remember in the dozen-year life of the Roanoke College Children's Choir. ... To start off the week, the choir performed Carmina Burana with the Roanoke Symphony and Choral Society. Last Tuesday, 12 choir members sang with Shania Twain at the Roanoke Civic Center. Thursday, they performed with the U.S. Army Concert Band."
n "The 1998 Virginia football team has been searching for a place in Cavalier sports history, and Saturday it found one. A UVa program more notorious for squandering leads than overcoming them staged the greatest comeback in its history and defeated archrival Virginia Tech 36-32 before a crowd of 53,207 at Lane Stadium."
1983 (25 years ago)
n "Roanoke County Supervisor Gary Minter has proposed that the county study establishing a police department to take over law enforcement duties from the Sheriff's Department."
n "Don Huffman, a lawyer and former chairman of the Roanoke City Republican Party, has the backing of GOP leaders to become the next chairman of the state Republican Party."
n "Sunshine and special prices drew thousands of shoppers to crowded stores and full parking lots in Roanoke Valley and Western Virginia Friday."
n "Six paintings by the late Salem artist Walter Biggs were recently given to Roanoke College."
1958 (50 years ago)
n "A wind-whipped fire raged through and destroyed the H.H. Carter Lumber Co. at 619 Brandon Ave. SW last night."
n "Low-rent public housing is not presently planned in connection with the 455 acres recommended by the Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority for study and planning for possible urban renewal ..."
n "Advance hotel reservations and ticket sales indicate a near-record crowd will converge on Roanoke for the Thanksgiving holiday."
n "How would you like to walk out your back door and cast a line into a lake stocked with bass and bream? Patients at Roanoke Veterans Administration Hospital will be able to have this pleasure before long."
n "The big mystery around City Hall today is how a dozen or so Virginia Tech students slipped past a night watchman into locked Victory Stadium and did some lettering of their own on the football field prior to the Thanksgiving football game."
n "A pre-dawn fire, the third in downtown Pulaski this year, today caused damage estimated at between $80,000 and $100,000."
n "Botetourt County apparently is going to get a prison camp despite the strong opposition of citizens and the County Board of Supervisors."
1933 (75 years ago)
n "Strong high school football teams are scarcer than hen's teeth in these parts, the waning season has emphatically indicated."
n "Lads who delight in setting fire to dead grass in Maher Field, annually endangering fences and stands, will be denied this pleasure at the Thanksgiving Day game between Virginia Tech and V.M.I."
n "A transformation of the Lee highway between Roanoke and Salem from a mere, hard-surfaced road into a seven-mile avenue of beauty will be undertaken under the sponsorship of the Roanoke County Federation of Women's clubs in cooperation with other clubs and civic organizations and the state highway department ..."
n "A new bid for passenger traffic was announced by the Norfolk and Western Railway company yesterday when an official statement said the railway will make a reduction of approximately 44 per cent in the base rate of passenger coach fares ..."
n "For the second consecutive year, the Roanoke Life Saving and First Aid Crew will operate a hospital tent at Maher Field ... during the football game between V.M.I. and V.P.I."
1908 (100 years ago)
n "Another enterprise will be added to the many now in course of construction in this city, in a short while -- that of the Brown abattoir."
n "Mr. O.H. Goad has received a prize of ten dollars from the Saturday Evening Post in recognition of his services as agent for that publication in Roanoke."
n "Ground has been broken for the Acme Match Factory to be erected in Norwich, Roanoke's western suburb."
n "There was a good crowd of lawbreakers before Judge Bryan yesterday morning and all were fined."
n "Mr. R.C. Brent yesterday bought the Star Theatre, on Salem avenue, near the southwest corner of that thoroughfare and Henry street."
n "The prisoners in the city jail were a little disappointed yesterday because they failed to receive a turkey and fruit cake."
n "Dr. J.J. McKanna, discoverer of the three-day liquor cure, is coming to Roanoke early next week to look over the field and may decide to locate an institute here for the cure of inebriates."
n "A genuine, old-fashioned row took place yesterday in the Corporation Court room."
