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Looking back: June 24, 2013

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The Roanoke Times | File 1963


Johnny Weissmuller signs autographs for Larry Miller (left) and Scott Gregory.

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The Roanoke Times | 981-3340

Monday, June 24, 2013


1988 (25 years ago)

  • “Forget ice cream. Forget the pools. The best way to beat Wednesday’s heat was to sit still inside an air-conditioned room.”
  • “With new faces showing up everywhere, Salem [Bucs] hardly missed a beat Friday as it continued its winning trend.”
  • “There are few certainties in the world: We all must live, we all must die, we all must pay taxes and Rodney Jenkins will win the Grand Prix to climax the Roanoke Valley Horse Show.”
  • “Roanoke County’s next appointment to the Roanoke Valley Regional Solid Waste Management Board probably will be a Fort Lewis school bus driver who’s a longtime member of Greenpeace, the international environmental group.”
  • “Under a new state program that begins Friday, Roanoke Valley governments will provide one of five regional teams around Virginia to mop up spills of hazardous materials.”
  • “Roanoke County has become only the second county in the state to start a pension plan for its fire, rescue and Sheriff’s Department volunteers.”
  • “Barbara Bush, wife of Vice President George Bush, will campaign in downtown Roanoke today for her husband’s presidential bid.”

1963 (50 years ago)

  • “Dr. Perry F. Kendig, 52, was elected as 7th president of Roanoke College Saturday.”
  • “The Motor Inn of the Hotel Roanoke will be open for business Monday.”
  • “A secret, voluntary biracial committee has begun negotiations in Roanoke, the Rev. R.R. Wilkinson, president of the Roanoke Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), disclosed Saturday night.”
  • “Salem’s Rebels opened their season with a bang! They exploded a nine-run, first-inning bomb on Wytheville and went on to wipe out the Twins, 19-3 Monday night.”
  • “The big, dark-haired man stepped off a Piedmont plane at Woodrum Airport Tuesday night, posed for photographers, amiably began signing his name to pieces of paper. The man was Johnny Weissmuller, best known swimmer of the first half of the 20th century, who attained more renown as Tarzan.”
  • “Roanoke’s Stuart T. Saunders will take over the top post at the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation’s largest, on Oct. 1.”

1938 (75 years ago)

  • “Whether the city of Roanoke will take advantage of the new federal spending program by seeking allotments for several needed public improvements will be decided within the near future.”
  • “By unanimous vote, City Council passed the lengthy parking meter ordinance yesterday after dispensing with the second reading.”
  • “The colored spectators in front of The Times-World building were not very talkative before the fight started last night. But there was a rousing celebration on Henry street after the champion [Joe Louis] had knocked out [Max] Schmeling in the first round.”
  • “While cool June winds blew in from the mountains the pioneers challenged before Roanoke county was born, the revealing hand of history swept its pageantry across College field, Salem, last night to lift the veil from the last 100 years.”
  • “Widespread need for free lunches, milk, and clothing among Roanoke school children was revealed by D.E. McQuilkin, superintendent of schools, following a survey made by his department at the request of the general committee of free lunches.”
  • “Without weeping, prediction, or fanfare, little 13-year-old Dean Johnson boarded a Norfolk and Western train at 6:30 last night bound with K. Mark Cowen, city recreational director, for the national marbles tournament at Wildwood, N.J.”
  • “During the eight-month period which closed last month 94,772 meals were served school children in 16 county schools under the hot-lunch program of the Works Progress Administration.”
  • “Plain old tummy ache in a big way was in prospect last night for a man who called a friend’s bet of a dollar that he couldn’t eat half a dozen sundaes within 45 minutes.”
  • “With a score of 118 for three nine-hole rounds, LeRoy McDaniel defeated Curtis Moran 8 holes up and 7 to play for the Wiley cup championship at the Salem Sand Green Golf course Sunday.”

1913 (100 years ago)

  • “The usual Monday morning dullness characterized conditions on the local produce market yesterday.”
  • “After the heavy deluge, which took place just about the time the ball game was scheduled to start, the Tigers and the Colts went through thirteen luscious innings; runless ones at that.”
  • “At the Academy of Music all next week ‘From the Manger to the Cross,’ declared to be the greatest moving picture film ever made, will be shown.”
  • “Yesterday was a field day for plain drunks in police court, five being fined $2.50 and locked up when they failed to pay, one being held to sober up.”
  • “Work of remodeling the Terry building at the corner of Campbell avenue and Jefferson began yesterday and when finished a marked change will be noted on this well known property which recently was purchased by the Colonial Bank.”
  • “The past week probably has been one of the hottest that Roanoke has had the pleasure of enduring this summer.”
  • “The roster of the Confederate veterans of Roanoke who will leave for Gettysburg has been completed.”
  • “Judge Berkeley was ‘on the job’ in police court yesterday morning, looking tan and fit after a week at seashore and the rather limited docket was disposed of with snap and dispatch.”
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