This is the first Flashback Friday to feature an issue of The Lexington Gazette!
The News-Gazette office has bound archives of The Rockbridge County News and The News-Gazette, but we don't have any physical archives of The Lexington Gazette. Continuing our foray into the Lexington Library's microfilm collection, this week we have The Lexington Gazette, May 20, 1959. Now, please remember that these are scans of microfilm. The quality is only as good as when it was first photographed. We've done our best with the editing.
Some of the front page stories are:
- Mental Health Drive lead by Reverend Douglas C. Chase with the Rockbridge Chamber Mental Health Association.
- The Rockbridge Concert Series opens for the season with ballet dancers from the New York City Opera Company.
- Lexington City budget is proposed, with no tax increases.
- Students at Lexington High School showcase their work in home economics and workshop classes.
An editorial about getting used to inflation was placed with "Old News Taken From Our Files" which is also known as "Out of The Past." This issue gives snippets of news from 100 years prior, 75, 50, and 25 years as well.
The local Girl Scout troop received merit badges at their final Court of Awards, with some gaining the highest rank in intermediate girl scouting. The segment "This and That..." has little tidbits of local news, and the department store Adair-Hutton was having a Fair Weather Fair sale.
