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Looking back: April 29, 2013

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Courtesy Lutheran Family Services


Children from the Lutheran’s Children’s Home of the South seen in 1935. As a way to save money during the difficult Depression years and also to integrate the children more fully into the community, the Homes’ leaders decided to send all children to public school and purchased a school bus to make the daily trip.

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The Roanoke Times

Monday, April 29, 2013


1988 (25 years ago)

  • “WVTF, Roanoke’s National Public Radio station, has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to install a new transmitter on Calf Mountain near Charlottesville.”
  • “It took a couple of hunger strikes and a lot of badgering, but the Rev. David Hayden has found a new home for his Justice House homeless ministry.”
  • “Thirty years after Bob Bogle, a bricklayer, met Don Wilson, a hod carrier, on a construction job in Tacoma, Wash., the instrumental group they formed is still on the road and bound for Roanoke. The Ventures … will perform Tuesday night beginning a 9 at Paulo’s Restaurant and Lounge in Roanoke.”
  • “The Roanoke Valley History Museum’s first antiques auction netted the organization $23,500.”
  • “Roanoke City Council voted Monday to give the Harrison Heritage and Cultural Center $35,000 in the next fiscal year.”
  • “Teens who choose to work this summer and ignore the tanning index should have no problem finding jobs, and most of these jobs will pay above the minimum wage.”
  • “The Congressional Caucus on Women’s Issues has selected Dominion Bank’s Childhood Development Center as one of the best employer-supported child-care providers in the nation.”

1963 (50 years ago)

  • “Current proposals for a Fine Arts Council and a building to house it point up a burgeoning interest by Roanokers in many facets of ‘culture’ in general.”
  • “Wedgewood dinner-theater, an ambitious dream of three Roanokers and two of their friends from this area [Williamsburg], came to life Saturday night.”
  • “Sea gulls invaded Woodrum Airport in Roanoke Tuesday. Really, they did.”
  • “Roanoke City Council faces at least seven public hearings Monday night with two of them on controversial rezoning matters.”
  • “Roanoke City’s new program of offering work to able-bodied men seeking welfare relief gets under way today if there are any applicants.”
  • “Arbor Day came late — Christmas was early — on the lawn of city hall Thursday. A new permanent Christmas tree … was planted under the auspices of the Hillandale Garden Club, the beautification committee of the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce and the Times-World Corp.”

1938 (75 years ago)

  • “Seventy-five pupils at Melrose school between the ages of 12 and 16 are looking for plots of idle land on which to raise vegetables this summer.”
  • “The new Hotel Roanoke will be fitted with a three-fold amplifying system — the latest thing in radio — it was announced yesterday.”
  • “Clouting a home run in the fifth inning with two teammates on base, Jack Peters, Andrew Lewis second baseman and brother of Russ Peters, Philadelphia Athletics infielder, broke up a close ball game and gave Salem’s Andrew Lewis high school a 6 to 1 victory over William Byrd.”
  • “Electrostatic air cleaning, said to mark the first installation of its kind in any hospital in the world, is one of the many modern features of the new addition to the Lewis-Gale hospital which is soundproof, fireproof and air-conditioned.”
  • “Amid an atmosphere that bespoke of tender mercy, love and care of children more than 100 members of the Roanoke County Public Health association, guests and friends attended the dedication ceremonies of Children’s Memorial cottage at Mercy House west of Salem yesterday afternoon.”
  • “The special committee appointed by City Council to select a site for the proposed amphitheatre recommended yesterday that the play place be situated in Highland park about 600 feet west from the site which was opposed last week by a delegation of citizens.”
  • “A new mark for the season was set yesterday as the mercury climbed to 90, three degrees above the previous high mark for this year.”

1913 (100 years ago)

  • “Since Thursday evening of last week Roanoke undertakers have handled fifteen bodies for burial, eight residents, and seven non-residents.”
  • “The Tigers fielded like major league stars behind Carpenter this afternoon, while luck broke against the Shipbuilders at every turn, and Roanoke had little trouble in administering the tenth successive defeat to Newport News by the score of 4 to 1.”
  • “The first edition of the ‘Boy Scout News,’ an eight page weekly pamphlet, devoted to promoting interest in the widespread movement which has for its primary object the making of manly men, is now in circulation.”
  • “The girls of Virginia College were today received by President Wilson at the white house.”
  • “Some rather sordid cases developed in police court yesterday, resulting in fines higher than ordinary.”
  • “The Rev. Joseph M. Seaton, of Boston, Mass., representing the American Unitarian Association, is in Roanoke looking toward the establishment of a Unitarian church.”
  • “Tough luck! A winning base ball team lands in the midst of a street car strike.”
  • “It was a varied conglomeration of thrills and sensations that wiggled up and down the spinal columns of the goodly bunch of fans that yesterday saw the Roanoke Tigers sharpen their claws on the horny frames of the Petersburg Goobers, 7 to 6.”
  • “In a vicious-looking 45-calibre Colts six-shooter, the authenticity of this history of which the present owner holds, he can maintain against all skeptics, W. E. Allen … is possessor of an interesting relic of the bandit career of the James gang, which terrorized guardians or treasure in all parts of the country for years following the close of the civil war.”
  • “The Palace Bowling Alley, 109-111 Luck avenue, will be opened for the first time Thursday morning.”
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