Flashback: Tracking NRV history

“Habitat for Humanity is preparing this house in Radford for the needy.” The Roanoke Times File

1987 (25 years ago)
- “The Virginia Employment Commission will be accepting applications next week for the restaffing of the former Virginia Maid hosiery plant [in Pulaski], which was purchased by a North Carolina sock manufacturer last year.”
- “A movement to eliminate substandard housing is gaining momentum in the New River Valley. Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization, has finished helping one low-income family build a house. Now it has plans for at least three more houses.”
- “Virginia Tech officials are facing a scheduling nightmare because a Roanoke architectural firm will be late in delivering building plans for the $10 million renovation of Squires Student Center.”

1962 (50 years ago)
- “The latest in dairying equipment and methods was spotlighted in a tour of Montgomery County dairy farms.”
- “Virginia’s outstanding high school football player announced Sunday he has chosen to attend Virginia Military Institute. Dan Phlegar, Narrows High’s 6-foot-4, 210-pound end, ended months of speculation with the announcement Sunday…”
- “Virginia Tech, getting better than point-a-minute scoring from Bucky Keller, crushed pitiful William and Mary Monday night, 104-65, for the Gobblers’ 34th straight home court win.”
- “A new weekly newspaper, The Radford Messenger, will make its debut Feb. 28.”
- “Camp Ottari will be the name of the new Boy Scout camp on the Blue Ridge Scout Reservation in Pulaski County.”

1937 (75 years ago)
- “Cadets entitled to wear gold stars and ribbons for maintaining certain academic standing during the fall quarter have been announced by Col. C. H. Tenney, commandants of cadets at Virginia Tech.”
- “Merger of the Lincoln and Dalton theatre interests of Marion and Pulaski to operate a chain of movie houses in Virginia was announced here today by Sexton Dalton.”
- “The Radford high school Bobcats were forced into an extra period to defeat the William Byrd high school Terriers, 33 to 31, in a thrill-packed game played on the Vinton court last night.”
- “It was reported [at the Auburn Parent-Teacher association meeting] that three radios had recently been purchased for classrooms in the grades and that new records had been purchased for victrolas in some of the rooms.”
- “The almost impossibility of any personal contact with the outside world, due to the condition of the roads, makes that the topic of conversation these days [in Floyd].”

1912 (100 years ago)
- “For the first time in the history of the college [V. P. I.] an interest is being taken in things political and the weekly paper contains a call for the formation of a Woodrow Wilson Club among the students.”
- “Mr. Edward Black, senior member of the family for whom the town of Blacksburg was named, died at his home here Monday night…”
n “The opening and developing of zinc mines on Clapboard branch, near Linkous Ferry, is not far distant according to reports which came the Times’ way yesterday.”
- “Interest in the excellent work now being done by the two [V. P. I.] literary societies, the Lee and the Maury, has greatly increased…”
- “The Valentine supper at the [Christiansburg] High School on the night of the 12th was largely attended, and was also a success financially, the proceeds going toward the school library.”
- “Mr. E. F. Lamberth, who is making a 25,000 mile walk, arrived here [Radford] Wednesday, after having made 10,355 [miles] since he left Seattle, January 1, 1911…”

– Compiled by Roanoke Times librarian Belinda Harris

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