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Looking back: Area history, August 19

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The Roanoke Times | File 1979


The Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley was at 1001 Third St. for 14 years.

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The Roanoke Times

Monday, August 19, 2013


1988 (25 years ago)

  • “About the only things revved up Wednesday were air conditioners, fans and water taps as Western Virginians sought relief from the hottest day of the year. Wednesday’s official high in Roanoke was 102 degrees.”
  • “The Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley, crammed into a 90-year-old house for nearly 14 years, has found a spacious new home.”
  • “Jacque Atkins didn’t do it for attention and she didn’t want to make a statement, but the William Byrd junior did establish a first in Roanoke when she went out for the football team this fall.”
  • “After the humidity went down, the baseball went up, up and away at Municipal Field Sunday night. Salem blew a seven-run lead, but snapped a tie in the bottom of the ninth on Junior Vizcaino’s sacrifice fly to outlast Hagerstown 11-10.”
  • “Edward ‘Mop’ Nicholson, one of the original members of the rhythm-and-blues singing band the Chevies and Premiers, died Saturday. He was 50.”
  • “When he received an offer to join the basketball staff at Kansas, Steve Robinson didn’t waste any time before giving an answer to the reigning national champions.”

1963 (50 years ago)

  • “More complete weather information than ever before is now being made available to readers of The Roanoke Times and The Roanoke World-News through use of a direct teletype wire linking the newspapers with the U.S. Weather Bureau at Woodrum Airport.”
  • “Roanoke marksmen who breathe fire and smoke at any plan for making them register their shooting irons may now breathe easier.”
  • “The Giants have done it again. For the ‘umpteenth’ time in the four years the San Francisco club has farmed in Salem, the Giants have called up one of the team’s leading players at a crucial point in the season.”
  • “Roanoke police are testing small two-way radios which enable men walking beats in downtown areas to be in constant contact with headquarters.”
  • “The Sugar Loaf Swim Club has, as do many other swim clubs, a team. But it boasts an asset no other club in the city can claim — a water ballet group composed only of teen-and-pre-teen girls.”
  • “At least one busload of Roanokers will go to Washington next Wednesday for the civil rights march in the nation’s capital, a local official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said Wednesday.”
  • “Seven Americans killed on a lonely mountain slope in the distant Pacific 18 years ago were buried Thursday with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.” One of the men was Staff Sgt. Cecil F. Richardson of Roanoke.
  • “A Roanoke couple, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Ayers, are spending the summer months acting in an outdoor drama in Kentucky.”

1938 (75 years ago)

  • “The city was free of felonious homicides during July, and of the 79 major offenses committed here during the month, 52 were cleared by arrests.”
  • “Work will be launched on the new Wasena bridge Saturday morning.”
  • “Threatened dangerously after taking an apparently safe lead in the early innings, Peacock laundry stemmed the uprising of the Rescue squad in the late innings to take its second straight victory 11 to 10 yesterday in the play-off series for the championship of the Salem softball ‘A’ league.”
  • “More than 30 persons, a mong them Mayor James A. Bear, paid fines of $1 each in traffic court yesterday on charges of overparking in the metered zone.”
  • “Contract for the erection of a new school at Clearbrook was awarded yesterday by the Roanoke county school board to T. E. Coffey and Company, of Roanoke. The bid, lowest of seven, was $78,769.”
  • “Perry Crumley, Roanoke college plunger of whom large things are expected this forthcoming season, made the grade in summer school and will be in there for the Maroons this fall.”
  • “Fred Smith, who served as Roanoke college freshman coach last year, will take over duties as Pete Brewbaker’s successor at William Fleming high school, it was announced yesterday.”
  • “Planting of trees, shrubs and flowers on the grounds of the new Hotel Roanoke, described as ‘an oasis in a center of industry and commerce,’ will begin on September 1 and will be completed by the middle of November, according to A. A. Farnham, landscape architect.”
  • “Complaint against low-flying airplanes over the city with the request that ‘something be done to eliminate such nuisances’ yesterday was made by B. F. Moomaw, secretary of the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce, to City Manager W. P. Hunter.”

1913 (100 years ago)

  • “As a result of agitation started some time ago by citizens of Crystal Spring, the lid was clamped on at Mountain Park Sunday, nailed and sealed. There were no thrill rides, no nicotine balm for the hungry smokers. In fact, nothing but cool breezes and innocent refreshments.”
  • From an ad: “Good night Mr. Bed Bug. Don’t be bothered with bed bugs, fleas or other insects. Use Barnes’ Bed Bug Poison … Full Pint Bottles 25c.”
  • “Roanoke hotels were filled almost to overflowing Tuesday night by the influx of strangers in the city, brought here by the large excursion over the Norfolk and Western from Richmond and Norfolk.”
  • “The Northwest Improvement and Protective Association which is taking an active interest in that growing section of the city, will hold a meeting next Thursday evening. Definite action will be taken regarding the pasturing of cows in the Northwest.”
  • “One would scarcely think so, but weather conditions seem to affect police matinees as well as any other activities. There was a small docket and a smaller crowd at yesterday’s session, and those who remained away missed nothing.”
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