25 years ago: 1991

Work continued Friday on Memphis’s National Football League expansion application as Mayor Dick Hackett met with prospective team owners William B. Dunavant Jr. and Paul Tudor Jones II. The meeting was held at Memphis-based Dunavant Enterprises Inc., and focused on the city’s application due to the NFL on Sept. 16, and the ownership application that is due Oct. 1. Memphis is competing with about 10 cities for one of the two expansion franchises the NFL is expected to grant in fall 1992 to begin play in ’94. Stokely Carmichael, the militant civil rights leader, be the first person drafted under the Pentagon’s plan for inducting and upgrading certain rejects. “He is obviously a prime candidate for your salvage and rehabilitation program,” Williams said in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Starting Oct. 1, the Defense Department will take in 40,000 men over the next year who are classified 1-Y, a category covering individuals who for mental or physical reasons are not inducted unless manpower demands increase. Williams told McNamara, “Carmichael has apparently been deferred from military service on mental or moral grounds. I would like to recommend he be the first person to be inducted in the military service under your proposal.” indignant Hollywood residents kept police phones busy yesterday with reports that a huge white Swastika had appeared overnight on a Hollywood hill, replacing a big “V” for victory.