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Looking back: April 15, 2013


The Roanoke Times | File 1982


Cab Calloway belts out a song during a performance at The Greenbrier in 1982.

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The Roanoke Times

Monday, April 15, 2013


1988 (25 years ago)

  • “A Pace magazine report on the Roanoke Valley will reach more than 2 million passengers who fly on Piedmont Airlines each month, Mayor Noel Taylor told a meeting of business leaders Wednesday.”
  • “Walter Thomas Taylor Jr., a 21-year-old sailor from Salem who survived the Iraqi missile attack on the USS Stark last May, is incompetent to stand trial on capital murder charges in Florida, a court-appointed psychiatrist says.”
  • “Drills made in Ingersoll-Rand’s Rock Drill Division in Roanoke County are helping mine for gold and build roads in the rugged hills of Alaska.”
  • “Roanoke has been selected as the site for a national study of the effect of the burning of home heating oil on carcinogens in the air.”
  • “Roanoke recently lost bids for four major conventions because the civic center didn’t have enough space to accommodate them or there weren’t enough nearby hotel rooms.”

1963 (50 years ago)

  • “Norfolk and Western Railway President Stuart T. Saunders is one of five nationally known businessmen who advocate a ‘significant tax reduction this year’ plus control of federal expenditures.”
  • “Roanoke City Council agreed Monday to reject Salem’s offer of land for a Valleywide auditorium-coliseum project and proceed with plans to seek a 12-month option on the 22 ½-acre site in the Commonwealth Redevelopment Project.”
  • "Roanoke Valley steel men are ‘nervously watching’ the selective price increases being announced by the leaders of their industry.”
  • “Representatives of five groups Tuesday explored the possibility of creating a Roanoke Valley Fine Arts Council with a permanent home to be shared by them and other organizations.”
  • “They strung a necklace of fire down the ridge and then they hoped. It worked. The back fire on the southern slope of Brushy Mountain stopped the big blaze which had burned about 200 acres.”
  • “A State Department grant for two months of study this summer in Greece has been awarded to an Addison High school history teacher, Miss Mattie W. Claiborne.”
  • “Four Roanoke County men are hopeful they can get land for nine public parks in Roanoke County.”

1938 (75 years ago)

  • “Following the cold snap of the past week, which sent the temperature down to 28, summer came to Roanoke yesterday, pushing the mercury to 82.”
  • “Merchants yesterday had their best day since Christmas as shoppers thronged the stores, making belated purchases to complete their Easter costumes, but the Weather Man sounded a pessimistic note as he warned that milady should carry her umbrella on Easter.”
  • “Professor and Mrs. D. Lamar Sherertz, of Roanoke, arrived safely in Shanghai yesterday after enduring four months of guerilla warfare at Mokanshan, Chekiang province in China, according to an Associated Press dispatch received here. They were accompanied by their four children and Mrs. W. H. Park, mother of Mrs. Sherertz.”
  • “Two bulbous brutes of the wrestling arena will fling themselves at each other with something of abandon, something of power and ferocity, in the main event of the Tuesday night wrestling card at the Roanoke auditorium.”
  • "Equipped with a slaughterhouse, smokehouse, all necessary buildings and pens, and with an abundance of planted fields in which the animals roam and feed, one of the most modern hog farms in this section is being operated at the Veterans Administration Facility just west of Roanoke.”
  • “Cab Calloway, hi-de-ho specialist, and his famous Cotton Club orchestra will return to Roanoke and play for a dance for whites at the Roanoke auditorium Wednesday, April 20.”
  • “Exploding all over Roanoke’s Maroons in two big innings yesterday afternoon at Salem Municipal field, Long Island University scored an easy 17 to 6 victory under perfect baseball conditions.”

1913 (100 years ago)

  • “Several million aerial excursionists paid a spring visit to Roanoke Sunday, and for several hours … pedestrians, business men and street-car passengers in the down-town section were busy keeping a veritable cloud of gnats from out their mouths, eyes ears and noses.”
  • “Business was comparatively dull in Judge Berkeley’s court yesterday and less than half an hour served to clear the docket.”
  • “The sudden fall of what not even the most ardent Highlander would dare call merely a ‘Scotch-mist’ caused the Tigers to retreat to the club house for shelter yesterday in the p.m., after they had donned their unies and begun their usual practice stunts.”
  • “That host of Virginians who very properly belong to the realm of base ball fandom will sit up in bed this morning, rub the cobwebs from their eyes and awake to the reality of the first game of the season.”
  • “Because it was the first of the season and sustained the reputation that last year’s Tigers made in the base ball world, that victory of yesterday was mighty sweet.”
  • “The Roanoke Times Company yesterday, at a meeting of its board of directors, awarded the contract for the construction of its new building, Campbell avenue and Commerce street, to Herringdon and Normoyle at the price of $60,830.00”
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