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This article is a date listing important or significant events that happened for the year 1942
Events
- May 28 – first Paul Goodloe McIntire Day. [1]
- June 9 – Charlottesville voters trickled to the polling places to elect Roscoe Adams and Samuel A. Morris to the City Council. Adams and Morris won the Democratic nominations in the primaries and the Republican party made no effort to provide any opposition.[2]
- September 1 – The City Council elected J. Emmett Gleason as new Mayor of Charlottesville, succeeding Dr. W. Dan Haden, whose three terms in that office expired Monday. Mr. Gleason, wholesale and retail grocer, is a holdover member of the five-man council. The other old members are George T. Huff and Prof. Charles Nash, the latter of the university faculty. New members are Roscoe Adams and Samuel A. Morris. The new council also re-elected Seth Burnley as city manager, Maurice Graver as police chief and James E. Bowen as city auditor and clerk of council.[3]
- September 18 – University of Virginia President John L. Newcomb tells incoming first-year students that their time is to be spent preparing to win the war and warned against fun as usual. [4]
- September 21 – Charlottesville City Council approves the scrapping of 300 tons of iron rails from trolley lines for the war effort. [5]
- September 22 – According to the Evening Star (Washington D.C.), a bird from Friendship Loft won the National Capital Racing Pigeon Concourse’s 100-mile race from Charlottesville. The winner averaged 1,212.58 yards per minute.[6]
- November 24 – The public learns of a socio-economic study of the region around Charlottesville including reports for each locality. In addition to the city, the work is to extend to Albemarle, Buckingam, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison, and Nelson. [7]
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References
- ↑ https://www.albemarle.org/upload/images/Forms_Center/Departments/Board_of_Supervisors/Forms/Agenda/2010Files/0512/McIntireResolution.pdf
- ↑ Web. Trickle Of Votes At Polls Of City, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, Daily Progress, Tuesday June 9, 1942
- ↑ Web. Charlottesville Elects Gleason as Mayor, By the Associated Press., Evening star. (Washington, D.C.) Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress., 02 Sept. 1942, retrieved October 20, 2022.
- ↑ Web. Newcomb Advises Students This Is No Time For Fun, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, September 19, 1942, retrieved September 18, 2022. Print. September 19, 1942 page 2.
- ↑ Web. City Approves Rail Salvage as Women and High School Students Join Scrap Drive, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, September 23, 1942, retrieved September 24, 2022. Print. September 23, 1942 page 1.
- ↑ Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1942-09-22/ed-1/seq-13/
- ↑ Web. Survey Underway, O'Neill Announces, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1942, retrieved November 24, 2022. Print. November 24, 1942 page 1.