The Shadow
99 Years Ago
May 16, 1923
Harding Wants Party To Take “Dry” Stand
President Harding expects the Republican party to take an uncompromising 100 percent “dry” position in 1924. He will do everything in his power during the remainder of his present term to put over prohibition enforcement, and if re-elected he will make it one of the major items of the program of his second term. Mr. Harding believes in prohibition- not only as a constitutional legal fact but as a great economic moral influence. Prohibition is not a political question, he feels, but if anybody tries to make one of it he will urge, with all the earnestness he can command, that the party stand squarely for enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law until the people order them changed or removed.
60 Years Ago
May 16, 1962
Covington Pilot Missing In Flight Over Maine Bay
Air and surface vessels continued searching Penobscot Bay today for one of two Air Force officers who bailed out of a T33 jet trainer when it ran out of fuel last night. One of the missing men is Major Isaac C. Wagner, 41, of Covington. He is married and the father of two. He is the son of Mrs. I.C. Wagner of Clearwater Park and the late Dr. I.C. Wagner. His sisters are Mrs. Newman Leffel of South Alleghany Avenue and Mrs. Jack Close of Sarasota, Florida. He grew up in Covington and is best known to his friends here as Major “Buddy” Wagner.
35 Years Ago
May 16, 1987
New Library Director Named
Steven Peck has been appointed director of the Charles Pinckney Jones Memorial Library effective May 4. A native of Hazleton, Pa., Peck, 30recently selected for the position by the library’s board of directors. There hasn’t been a director on staff at the library for several years and the position was held by Becky harper. Peck said he is interested in building plans which have been discussed for constructing a L-shaped addition onto the building to add additional space to increase the library’s holdings.
10 Years Ago
May 16, 2012
Warlitner, Maroons Ready For World Series Challenge
Hollee Warlitner is part of a gritty group that has been billed as “The Dirty Dozen.” Here Hollee Warlitner, an Alleghany High School graduate, will be in action at the Division III College World Series at the Moyer Complex in Salem, beginning on Friday. Roanoke College will play against Tufts University in a first-round game at 6:30 p.m.
