Bringing the beauty
25 years ago — 1993
Stonebridge community residents will not vote Tuesday on a proposed annexation by Lakeland, but Lakeland officials said their desire to represent the area has not waned. Mayor William Howick was joined Thursday by Lakeland special attorney Rick Winchester Jr. in telling the Election Commission a vote would be illegal at this time. The commission, meeting in emergency session, voted to “hold the election in abeyance” pending annexation proceedings by Memphis.
50 years ago — 1968
The nonviolent teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday guided 19,000 mourning marchers. They marched silently down Main Street to City Hall, heard his widow challenge them “to see that his spirit never dies” and then dispersed as quietly as they came, without a single incident. They came on foot from north and south Memphis, and by chartered jet from across the nation, north and south. They wore $50-a-pair high heels and mud-coated work shoes, black mourning veils and beatnik sun glasses.
75 years ago — 1943
WASHINGTON — President Roosevelt last night virtually froze all prices in the American economy and tightened barriers against wage increases in a sweeping “hold-the-line” order against inflation. He authorized Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt to forbid anyone to take a new job at higher pay unless the change would directly aid the war effort.
100 years ago — 1918
The City Commission is again in the hands of E.H. Crump, Shelby County political boss. Yesterday newlyelected Fire and Police Commissioner C.B. Quinn cast his lot with Crump forces to give them a 3-to-2 majority on the commission. The new commissioner said he will make no immediate changes in the police department “until I familiarize myself with the work the department is doing. If I make a change,” he said, “it will be for the better.”
125 years ago — 1893
John J. Shea, city secretary, is back from Nashville, grinning broadly now that the legislature has approved the Memphis municipal budget. “All that remains is for the City Council to ratify the $1.75 tax rate,” he said. Memphis will have a new official, street commissioner, Mr. Shea said. The legislature has passed a bill allowing the police commissioner to appoint a street commissioner to serve until the next city election.