MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
Methodist Hospital hopes to lure new customers and sting old competitors with a program that offers inclusive heart procedure packages at fixed prices. The program, launched this week, allows a company or insurer to negotiate directly with the hospital to purchase bypass surgery, angioplasty and other cardiac services for set prices that are at least 25 percent off the hospital’s usual charges, said chief operating officer David Ramsey. The Methodist Hospital Cardiac-Specific HealthCare Program is the only plan of its type in the area.
50 years ago — 1968
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy dramatically upset Senator Robert F. Kennedy in yesterday’s Oregon Democratic primary, possibly derailing Kennedy’s presidential bandwagon. Richard M. Nixon won the Republican primary as expected. McCarthy’s victory gave his campaign the biggest boost it has received since the March New Hampshire balloting. It also gave him 33 of Oregon’s 35 national convention delegates. Nixon won 18 convention votes.
75 years ago — 1943
WASHINGTON — Heckled by a sailor who declared that Congress is still “fighting the Civil War,” the House voted yesterday to let the citizens of seven Southern states vote in national elections without the payment of poll taxes. The bill goes to the Senate where filibusters have killed similar measures in the past. The 21-year-old sailor, who made an impromptu speech to the astonished legislators, admitted that he spoke out of turn, but added, “They were just sitting around wasting their time, anyhow.”
100 years ago — 1918
American Army Headquarters, France – Aged women in the villages of Picardy have each taken on the care of one or more American graves. The affection of the French peasants for the Americans is almost pathetic at times. In villages where American troops are billeted, the soldiers often give the peasants their gas masks when the enemy shells start hitting.
125 years ago — 1893
A good deal of excellent satire has appeared in the press concerning the unwillingness of Chicago World’s Fair managers to exhibit drawings of nudes submitted by students at a Philadelphia art academy. Other things being equal, it hardly behooves Chicago to sit in judgment on the morals of Philadelphia, the latter city has found many a champion among the journalists.