Baseball baggage
25 years ago — 1993
A 12-year-old girl brought a gun to school last month because she was afraid of some fellow students who were harassing her. She was caught with the gun and suspended for the rest of the school year. Though the girl has been transferred twice and she often gets in fights, school officials say the girl shows potential. So four weeks ago, school officials assigned her to the city’s alternative school — known formally as the Comprehensive Pupil Service Center — a place where troubled students can deal with the problems that got them there. But instead of being in school the girl has been on the streets. The alternative school was full. Until recently the alternative school served 45 students. Some students waited up to a year to get in. And once admitted students were offered little to turn their behavior around. But things are changing. Last month school officials began phasing in an expanded program that will be offered to about 100 students. The teaching staff will grow; services will be improved.
50 years ago — 1968
Attorneys representing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. go before United States Dist. Judge Bailey Brown at 9:30 this morning to challenge a temporary restraining order against any mass march here. Dr. King and others planning a Monday march in support of striking sanitation workers yesterday appeared headed toward a possible clash with the order — if it remains in force. “We are not going to be stopped by Mace or injunctions,” said Dr. King. But United States Attorney Thomas Robinson said the temporary order will be enforced even if it means calling in federal troops.
75 years ago — 1943
As the senior victim of Japanese aggression, blockaded China is increasingly resentful of what she considers United Nations neglect. Many things have contributed in this — delay in reopening the Burma Road, greater attention to other Allied fronts, the failure of China to obtain full equality on Allied war councils, and above all the deterioration of China’s economic condition. But for Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, compromise with the enemy is unthinkable and his popularity seems greater now than ever before.
100 years ago — 1918
The German offensive has been smashed after eight days of furious fighting with the British. The great reserve armies of the Allies, in which American soldiers are carrying the Stars and Stripes into history’s most momentous battle, are in motion. The plan is to drive a wedge in the German line in a great flanking movement. Strength of the Franco-American reserve army is estimated at 800,000.
25 years ago — 1893
Henry Luehrmann held the grand opening of his new hotel yesterday in the Friedman Building, Main and Madison. His old hotel, which was opened shortly after the Civil War, at Main and Monroe, was the grandest thing in Memphis. It burned last year. The new hotel promises to be just as sumptuous.