Party experts
OCT. 22
25 years ago: 1990
Officials building a civil rights museum on the site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated want to sell 2,000 bricks from the rubble of the Lorraine Motel as souvenirs. The idea, National Civil Rights Museum officials say, is to raise money for the museum. The bricks would go for $100 each. That plan, which the museum board hasn’t yet made public, seems likely to be highly controversial, as has been so much surrounding the museum since it was proposed.
50 years ago: 1965
Shelby United Neighbors got the good news yesterday — that it was entering the last quarter of its campaign right on course with 75 per cent of its $2,725,000 goal pledged. Donald Drinkard, S.U.N. general chairman, said the $2,052,036 reported at a meeting at the Peabody “puts us right on the button. We’re now in the homestretch with two weeks remaining, and if everybody bears down I think we can make it.”
75 years ago: 1940
More than 1,000,000 American workers will have their work week reduced to 40 hours this week under terms of the Wage and Hour Law, William M. Eaves, regional director of the Wage and Hour Division, said here yesterday. Mr. Eaves, in Memphis conferring with Mrs. Amy Brown Miles, state director of the Office of Government Reports, pointed out that the same workers went on a 42-hour work week a year ago.
100 years ago: 1915
A new trouble has developed at the foot of the “Isle of Mud” that threatens to destroy the Memphis wharfage. Heretofore, the main trouble has been at the foot of Monroe but since the last high water the island has been building in from its foot toward the Tennessee shore, creating another bar which has almost stopped traffic to and from the city’s wharves.
125 years ago: 1890
Complaints were made to the police last night on the actions of a gang of bad boys at Bass and Manassas. It is the habit of these bad boys to pelt pedestrians with stones.