Monday, February 09, 2009
Looking back: February 9
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1999 (10 years ago)
n "The man who taught hundreds -- if not thousands -- of Roanoke area residents to play music died Monday. Elmer Ray Ridenhour, who owned Ridenhour Music in Salem, died after 85 years of music, kindness and compassion."
n "Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Virgil Goode couldn't persuade National Park Service officials to allow Columbia TriStar Pictures to film a $30 million movie starring Sandra Bullock and Garth Brooks at the Peaks of Otter Lodge."
1984 (25 years ago)
n "Roanoke Republicans Tuesday night welcomed longtime Democrat Willis M. 'Wick' Anderson as a member of their city committee."
n "Roanoke County's Hidden Valley Junior High School has been chosen as one of the best seven junior high or middle schools in Virginia . . ."
n "The Roanoke Ballet is getting back on its feet with a new name and a benefit performance to help re-establish its academy. Henceforth, it will be the Virginia Ballet of Roanoke . . ."
n "In only its first season in the league, Roanoke Catholic won the Virginia Independent Conference regular-season championship."
1959 (50 years ago)
n "Roanoke faces the task of moving 500 graves if the Roanoke Technical Institute is built on the old City Home property."
n "City Council has agreed unanimously to give Virginia Polytechnic Institute 16 acres of land at the city farm on Colonial avenue to build Roanoke Technical Institute."
n "Crime is a big and expensive business in Roanoke. It's costing each of the Star City's approximately 100,000 residents $11.54 annually and the price is increasing steadily each year."
n "Cindy Saul, nine-year-old Fort Lewis school girl, has signed a contract to make three records with the Columbia Broadcasting Co."
n "The Roanoke PTA Council will ask City Council Monday to take 'creative' action against nuisances created by the city dump . . . The dump is near Addison High School, Lincoln Terrace Elementary School and Booker T. Washington Junior High School."
n "A petition to incorporate an area between Roanoke and Salem as the Town of Nomansland apparently is not being taken too seriously by Town of Salem officials."
n "Buchanan's historic Hotel Botetourt stood almost ruined today as efforts were made to estimate the damage caused by last night's fire."
1934 (75 years ago)
"The mysterious 'gas-thrower' whose activities in various sections of Botetourt county in recent weeks have aroused the countryside ... struck in one of Roanoke's residential sections last night, leaving one person ill ..."
n "Amelia Earhart Putnam, noted aviatrix . . . was believed to have passed through Roanoke yesterday by motor car en route from Atlanta, Ga., northward."
n "Installation at a cost of $800 of an X-ray machine for fitting shoes was announced by Propst-Childress Shoe Company."
n From Ripley's Believe It or Not -- "Pendleton Hogan -- Virginia Author -- was born on Roanoke street in Roanoke city in Roanoke county on Roanoke River."
n "Roanoke's 'rogues gallery' is being supplemented by a visible photograph 'kardex,' in which 3,080 pictures of persons arrested in the various pursuits of crime will be classified and the groups will be open for inspection by victims of perpetrators."
n "When Greek meets Greek they usually start a restaurant but when Jack Ross and Jack Zarnas meet on the padded canvas at the Roanoke auditorium tomorrow night they'll probably start a fight."
1909 (100 years ago)
n "Three regiments of Virginia military will take part in the inaugural parade. The cadet corps of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute will go in a body to the inauguration of Taft as President next month."
n "The contract was closed on yesterday afternoon for the establishing of an institution in Salem which has long been needed, and one which will no doubt prove a great success as well as being a convenience to the people of Salem and vicinity. This institution is a sanitarium . . . "
n "Coal and iron in inexhaustible quantities have been discovered about seven miles west of Fincastle, and extensive examinations are being made by representatives of New York capitalists."
