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The Roanoke Times | File 1960
Lincoln Terrace Elementary School opened in Roanoke in 1958.
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1998 (10 years ago)
n "France's highest national honor, the Legion of Honor, has been awarded to some of America's most noted soldiers. ... In a rented parlor of the Salem Civic Center Sunday, a French diplomat pinned the Legion of Honor on the lapel of 102-year-old World War I veteran Hayden Via."
n "Surprise, surprise. Look who's starting in the NFL. ... Ronde [Barber] has emerged as the biggest surprise of Tampa Bay's season. He made his fifth straight start Saturday in Tampa's 20-16 loss at Washington, his eighth start in nine games.
1983 (25 years ago)
n "A Virginia Tech professor's computer analysis of photographs of the Shroud of Turin ... offers significant evidence linking the cloth to the time of the Crucifixion, a theology professor says."
n "Mill Mountain Theater, under intense deadline pressure, opened its first show at Center in the Square Tuesday with a festive champagne buffet and a near-flawless production." The opening show was "Camelot."
n "In the well-known area soap opera 'The Atlantic Coast Hockey League,' it's not uncommon for the presumably dead to return to life. ACHL reincarnation in the Roanoke Valley takes place at the Salem Civic Center at 7:30 tonight."
n "The Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame has organized an invitational junior tournament in honor of Scott Robertson, a promising young golfer who died in the summer of 1982."
n "With Coach George 'Killer' Miller's piercing eyes watching their every move, the William Fleming Colonel wrestlers knew they had better leave Vinton Saturday night lugging another Big Orange Tournament championship trophy. ... The Colonels didn't let their man down."
n "Poplar Forest, the summer home Jefferson built in Bedford County in the early 1800s, will be sold to a group of business and civic leaders who hope to renovate it and open it to the public."
n "The Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salem has yielded to pressure from veterans' groups and agreed to set up a special unit to treat veterans suffering from delayed-stress syndrome."
1958 (50 years ago)
n "Open corridors, decentralized classrooms and a furnished clinic room are among the modern features of school construction on display today at Lincoln Terrace School's open house."
n "Roanoke will get two decentralized high schools under recommendations of the school superintendent approved by the school board last night."
n "A judge's chambers is no place to pick a fight, two businessmen learned yesterday. The lesson cost each $25 fines on contempt of court charges."
n "Ice is reported more than six inches thick at Huff Pond on Bent Mountain."
n "Santa Claus is a worried man. The North Pole resident ... feels his popularity might be slipping in Roanoke. ... Santa says his local fan mail has dropped off to a mere trickle."
n "The seniors at Roanoke Catholic High School plan to revive an old custom on Christmas night. With Father Vincent L. Campi, priest at Our Lady of Nazareth Church, they plan to go Christmas caroling in downtown Roanoke."
n "Virginia Tech athletics enjoyed a surplus of $21,320 during 1957-58."
1933 (75 years ago)
n "If any more children of former governors of South Carolina move to Roanoke, it is entirely possible that an alumni association or some such organization will be formed here."
n " 'The peanut has no end of possible uses,' declared Dr. George Washington Carver, negro scientist of Tuskegee Ala., who spoke last night at the First Baptist church."
n "Complaints have come to police on several occasions about boys riding bicycles on the streets at night without lights."
n "The office of issuing justice is to be abolished by City Council and the work consolidated with that of the civil and police justice in 1934 as an economy measure."
n "Unless someone steps up and claims them, the Police Department will be well supplied with chickens this Christmas. They found 30 in a vacant house in the West End section today."
n "Gregory (colored) school led in attendance percentage for the second period of the 1933-34 session. "
n "The beautiful decorations in stores, cheerful looking people carrying bundles, the Salvation Army kettles on the boil, people seemingly in a hurry -- such things make people realize that the time grows short before Christmas and that exactly a week from tomorrow people will be going from house to house extending season's greetings."
n "Continuing its policy of bringing an outstanding team to Roanoke each year, Roanoke college has scheduled a game with the Haskell Indians, of Lawrence Kansas, for November 24, 1934."
n "Police let it be known today that when they say it is against the law to shoot firecrackers in the city they mean it."
n "In the first four hours the parcel post window was open at the postoffice clerks mailed packages to every State except Oregon and Nevada, and in addition to Scotland, China, Hawaii and Canada."
1908 (100 years ago)
n "The Virginia Brewing Company has just put out its special Christmas Brew beer."
n "Prices Forks, Va., a small country village of two hundred inhabitants a few miles from Blacksburg, has a new school building."
n "A difficulty occurred in the pool room of C. L Reynolds on Jefferson street yesterday afternoon, between two well-known citizens, each one of whom received a slight bruise."
n "Six miles an hour is the speed limit for automobiles in Roanoke."
n "If anybody doubts the popularity of the moving picture show in Roanoke all doubt will be quickly removed by standing in the neighborhood of the Electric Parlor, the Lyric Theatre, the Star Theatre, or the Gaiety Theatre, these afternoons and evenings and watching the happy-faced throngs of men, women and children going in and coming out of these four leading motion-picture places."
n "The organ recital given at St. Andrew's church last evening proved to be one of the most delightful musical treats ever given in this city."
