Flashback: Track NRV history
1987 (25 years ago)
- Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors voted Tuesday to bring athletic fund-raising efforts under central university control in preparation for campaigns to raise money for Tech’s deficit-ridden athletic department.”
- “The Montgomery County School Board Tuesday accepted a donation of new lights for Blacksburg’s Bill Brown Stadium.”
- “Some of the best of Giles County’s gospel music will be echoing off the limestone cliffs of Eggleston Saturday.”
- “Employment in the New River Valley is easing up, up and up – slowly, but surely.”
1962 (50 years ago)
-“L. B. Dietrick will retire Sept. 30 as dean of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute School of Agriculture and as director of extension. He has been on the VPI faculty for 39 years.”
-“Nine lively young misses, ages seven to nine, from Blacksburg and surrounding communities, are serving as subjects for a nutrition experiment at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.”
-“Any Roanoke-area youngster interested in football should see the Virginia Tech-George Washington game, Sept. 22, at Victory Stadium because he will be admitted free if he can just find an adult ticket holder to accompany him through the gate.”
- “Coach Bob Statzer is in an unusual position. He has no lettermen at all. In fact, there’s not a boy on his team who has ever played football. … The situation is easily explained. Statzer … is the new head coach at the new Floyd County High School.”
1937 (75 years ago)
- “Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith, of this section [Long Shop], have returned from their second ‘See America First’ tour. … Their speedometer showed 7,600 miles covered on the trip.”
-“Buildings were damaged, fruit trees uprooted and livestock killed in a wind, rain and electrical storm that swept over a narrow area of Floyd county Wednesday afternoon.”
-“Two of V. P. I.’s main hopes in baseball next spring are working the horsehide for all its worth here in Roanoke county league this summer.”
-“Pulaski continued to swelter today with thermometers topping 94 during the morning and early afternoon.”
- “Radford college will become the depository for the official collection of mollusks of the Chesapeake Biological laboratory for the Solomon’s Island, Maryland, region.”
-“Manuel Monet, Pembroke CCC junior middleweight, will come out of the woods of Giles county tonight for a six-round boxing bout with Norman Cohen, of Norfolk, at the Roanoke auditorium, the bout being an added attraction to the weekly wrestling card.”
1912 (100 years ago)
-“Mr. J. W. Aldridge, of Floyd county, was on the [Roanoke city] market this morning with a load of produce, among which was a number of heads of cabbage, weighing 10 and 11 pounds each.”
- “The Roanoke Iron Works, Inc., today booked a contract through Mr. J. C. Curtis, general contractor of Denbigh, Va., for all the architectural and structural steel work for the new Radford Normal School now under construction.”
-“Reports reached this city [Bluefield, W. Va.] yesterday of one of the boldest robberies that ever occurred in this section, a band of robbers entering the Norfolk & Western station at Pearisburg some time during Tuesday night or early yesterday morning, blowing open the safe and making good their escape.”
-“Mr. George O’Bryan, of Cambria, who some time since invented a crushing and grinding mill has secured a patent on same. The mill is said to meet with the approval and needs of the best millers in the country.”
-“The canning industry has assumed vast proportions in this county [Montgomery] this summer.”
-Compiled by Roanoke Times librarian Belinda Harris
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